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im a shape shifter and currently i am cat girls utility belt!
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I throw people off trains for a living.
OK no I don't but I have a weekly quota! It keeps me happy! I'm a Guard for a train company. I know over the pond it has a different name, but I can never remember what it is.
I'm responsible for the safety of everyone on the train, their customer service, whether they have a ticket (normally the main reason I throw them off - cos they don't) and drink lots of dodgy coffee.
lil 'm' does a similar thing, but she does freight trains... I don't. She hates passenger trains, so do I sometimes... especially at 3 in the morning.
Gina
03 America - Pretty stock - except the TBS wheel... 
06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
09 America - It's very blue....
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U.S. Army Aviation (U-21, C-12)
General Aviation Technician (Cessna 150-Large turbine)
Corporate Aircraft Tech
Aviation Technical School Instructor
Currently working as Senior Maintenance Supervisor, Airtran Airways, Atlanta-Hartsfield.
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I throw people off trains for a living .... I'm responsible for the safety of everyone on the train ....
What the ... ?
You mean the safety of everyone except for the ones you hurl off?
Ok, I suppose now you're going to give me some crap about 'company policy' not letting you chuck 'em off while the train is moving.
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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Nah... creates too much paperwork to throw them off a moving train!
Gina
03 America - Pretty stock - except the TBS wheel...
06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel...
09 America - It's very blue....
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Worn Saddle
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Nah... creates too much paperwork to throw them off a moving train!
If you have complaints about being thrown off, maybe you haven't waited long enough for the train to build up enough speed!  (And I think over here , your job name would be "Conductor")
Fidelis et Fortis
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Pretzel eating, Bikram Yoga Instructor,
dog walker and sometimes, dog sitter.
Can't get the Fig Newton song out of my head.
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I build powerlines. Member of IBEW l.u. 304, Topeka, KS.  This is me a few years ago doing restoration in New Orleans after Katrina.
God give me work, until my life shall end
And life, until my work is done.
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My father spent 39 years with the old Wisconsin Power & Light Co. He started out in 1949 as a journeyman lineman and had stories of setting poles by hand. He was a magician with a length of rope and a few pulleys. While his son struggled properly tieing shoe strings or a dry fly to a line. Fortunately he taught me a few knots and nots Stay safe. jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Pretzel eating, Bikram Yoga Instructor,
dog walker and sometimes, dog sitter.
I get lost without a walker and I get in trouble without a sitter.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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im a shape shifter and currently i am cat girls utility belt!
I thought catgirl looked like she'd put on a pretty hefty beer belly over the winter, now I know it was just her belt....
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Pretzel eating, Bikram Yoga Instructor,
dog walker and sometimes, dog sitter.
I get lost without a walker and I get in trouble without a sitter.
That is EXACTLY why there are Walkers and Sitters.
Can't get the Fig Newton song out of my head.
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In order:
Paperboy
Tpewriter(!) store cleaner (after I wrecked my mother's VW at 14 and had to pay for the damages - the driving age in Pa. was 16 at the time)
Diner carhop and dishwasher
Carpet installer
Warehouseman
Waiter in a HoJos (still can't eat at one)
Gift store stockboy
Purchasing department expediter
(I moved back and forth between my mother in Pa and my father in NJ in these years)
Graduated high school
House painter (for 3 days, until the Harley Rapido -anybody remembr them?- accident and the resultant broken wrist put a stop to that!)
Book store stockboy
Gas station attendent
Graduated college and got married
Gas station supervisor (for 3 months until OPEC turned off the oil in November '73) in the Pittsburgh area
Industrial chemicals salesman in Michigan
Got divorced; moved to New Jersey
Field serviceman
Domestic salesman for metal melting furnaces
Today - VP International Sales
'Was scheduled to retire this January - - now, who knows?
This time last year I had enough to retire; now???
Black 04 TBA, AI gone, Freak, soft bags, summer screen, sissy w/rack
I was once on safari and some fiend lost the corkscrew. We were forced to subsist on food and water for many days - W C Fields
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Learned Hand
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 Navy Hospital Corpsman aboard USS Albany CG-10 and USMC four years Paramedic on the streets from 1980-1997   Flight Paramedic on a helicopter 1997 to present Started a business in 2005 an I enjoy that a great deal.
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