What do you do in real life?

I've done warehouse work most my life but after a torn bicep, that ended. I currently work at a Board Game store.

I use to be a smallish youtuber for NERF and other foam weapons, so that's why both rediscovering my love for Hot Wheels and Racing on the interwebs brought me back to the Tube.

Cooper

I'm the proverbial jack of all trades. Started out as a short order cook, then shipping n receiving clerk. Went to broadcast school & was a DJ for a short while. Then learned shipfitting, & worked in the shipyards for 6 years building n repairing steel ships & barges until I destroyed my right wrist. Became a truck driver for 10 years until an accident jacked my back up. Got a degree in digital interactive media (web design+) where I also learned video editing & graphic design. Was a project manager for a construction company for two years until the 2008 crash. Then worked for 7 years as a maintenance director in an assisted living facility. After that I got a contractors license & became a handyman. I'm about to let my license go, am now semi retired & looking to get on disability. Now I make tiny race cars & shoot video of races on my track. I love it, I've finally arrived! :)

I am a level creator for a video game company.

I am a retired soldier of 24 years in the US Army/ARNG, and I just retired from our local tech college as a Facility Manager. I am currently working part time cutting hay at a local farm. Just enjoying my wife and my life!

Fun topic and so interesting to read about different work backgrounds! My educational background is in Landscape Architecture and have been working as a City Planner & Urban Designer for 26 years.

Wow! This has been a fun read from the top. What a great idea! 

I'm an aerospace engineer.  My specific discipline is aircraft stability and control.  I worked at Boeing for 16.5 years, then Beechcraft and Bombardier, and a couple of others for shorter time periods.  Today I work at Textron Aviation Defense in Wichita, which is where we raised our kids.  Textron owns Beechcraft, Cessna, Bell helicopter, and many other companies.

My most exciting day at work was in 1999.  We were flight testing a Boeing 767-400ERX doing stalls.  Following one stall, we dropped a wing and went knife edge (89° bank) before recovering.  BTW, we stalled at 11,000 feet and recovered at 5500 feet.  It was never scary, just surreal.  The average passenger will never know how much engineering goes into the design and systems that keep us safe in the event of an emergency.  You're odds are better at winning the lottery than crashing in a jet. -Mark H.

You guys are some interesting mofos!

I worked in the funeral industry for more than 20 years as an embalmer, funeral director, and manager. I got out of that business because of being on call all the time and working holidays and weekends. I worked for one of the conglomerates, so there was no opportunity for me to get into ownership. 

So, I have been working for State Government for about the past 3 years. I sit at a desk and stare at a computer screen all day. But, I now have all the weekends, holidays, and evenings off I can handle - so much so that I had to find a new hobby to take up some of this spare time I've found myself with.

Any guesses on what that new hobby is?

Serial Entrepreneur

Currently..

Founder/CEO - Wandering Weddings

Wife and I are photographers for the last 13 years (9 together) - Nick Plus Danée

Working on launching anther SaaS business in the photography space as we speak.

oh and Tiny Track Cars just got into the partner program.. Look out 3d!! ;) 

Retired from Army after 20 yrs, now drive bus on military base moving troops around. During most breaks im watching die cast races or on the lookout for the next diecast to modify.

How Awesome is this! I have wondered at Guys age and backgrounds.

Too much of a Rebel as a young man,no High school Diploma. School of Hard knocks, I did Graduate from top of the Class! Logged as a kid, Have been a LongShoreman, Loaded and unloaded everything except Aircraft and a Hurse. Drove Fuel truck for a Short time. U.S. Army Reserve 83' to 89' Combat Enginner. Built Commercial fishing Nets and  anything you can imagine with netting. Ships Carptender, Ships weilder, Commercial fished for 12 years. Ran a Concrete forming yard for 8 years Was injured in 2012 on Boat. ended up disabled / Retired, Had my Butt kicked twice by cancer now 6 years clear. Have had two businesses Home Repair,  Have been making Native American Leather Bags with Bead work for over 30 years, Colonial Reenactor/ Fur Trade era.

Lots of vets!  Thatks for all you've done!

What an amazing diverse bunch!   So cool to be part of this community!

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Yeah, this was a good idea to show how diverse people in this community are. But  we have all the same hobby! Verry cool to read all this from the beginning right true to the last post.

For my part, i'm an electrical engineering technician but i only worked short time in this busines. I prefered to make my childhood dream true. And it worked out. I'm since 15 years now firefighter and paramedic. 
I came to this hobby because i tryed to repair a few castings from my daughter and here friends. And i stumbled over a few channels. After i had repaired a few cars i thought it would be fun to make a few modified cars and build a track. Since that moment the track is still under construction but a few cars made their way around the world. ;) I hope a few more can follow them!