63 RECON Posted August 25, 2014 Share #151 Posted August 25, 2014 I'm the Government sales director at a company called Platypus Outdoors In Australia, we are a Government contractor and manufacture and procure various combat clothing and load carriage items for the ADF, UKMOD and in some cases US DoD. I have also been in the Australian Army full time and Reserves on and off for nearly 15 years, Our Reserves get paid tax free which is mostly where my collecting cash comes from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkdown Posted August 31, 2014 Share #152 Posted August 31, 2014 I own a hardware store. It's a great place to meet people and buy militaria. I keep a little sign on the front of my cash registers with my wanted sign. I buy and sell used merchandise, appliances and scrounge scrap metal on the side to get my collecting dough. I rarely sell anything, but am loosing up some now. For some reason I later kick myself for selling stuff. I am in a small town and have met and got to talk to some amazing people. Two men from my hometown were on General MacArthurs staff in Korea, interesting stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim2 Posted August 31, 2014 Share #153 Posted August 31, 2014 18 years as a Corrections Officer, only a few more to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolunteerArmoury Posted September 1, 2014 Share #154 Posted September 1, 2014 I'm a disabled veteran, Wounded Warrior Program alumni (but NOT a Purple Heart recipient) & former Infantry NCO who was medically retired from the Army at 17 years & 13 days. While in service I was in the Tennessee & then Georgia Army National Guards, the Army Reserve, then active duty. Primary MOS was 11C, secondary MOS 19D but Instructor in TRADOC most of my career & Field Historian the last five. I did have time in both OIF & OND. On the civilian side, I had museums, archaeological, museum consultant, historic preservation, textile conservation, cultural anthropologist, historian, pottery, woodworking, & college counselor backgrounds while frequently moonlighting in fine dining. Currently I'm living off my compensation, fighting for the rest of my benefits, more education, fly fishing thanks to Project Healing Waters which provides opportunities for vets, continue to consult museums on a regular basis, & adjusting to civilian life while growing hair out & a beard or rather "letting the inner hippy out." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatz50228 Posted September 1, 2014 Share #155 Posted September 1, 2014 Active Duty Infantry Officer. Just went over the 10 year hump in May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1563621 Posted September 1, 2014 Share #156 Posted September 1, 2014 Had my own const. Co. for 30 years and a Union Stagehand for 34 years. Met and worked with Ali, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Jerry Lewis, Stiller and Meara. Worked rock concerts also, Bruce, Chesney, Stewart, Stage armorer in the 70s. Have a C&R now, collect WW 2, Mostly M1s, 03s, 1911s. My wife made a scrapbook of all the playbills and jobs I worked. Injured on the job and perm. disability now. Hurt @ 54. That pic is my Grandson!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thairborne Posted September 1, 2014 Share #157 Posted September 1, 2014 Retired after 34 years in the military. Do volunteer work now and am selling the "stash" of things I picked up over the past years that no longer git into my collection. That funds new purchases! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ka bar Posted September 1, 2014 Share #158 Posted September 1, 2014 I am a Registered Nurse, specialising in Intensive Care Medicine... Work occasionally in the Emergency Department as well... Get to meet veterans on occasion ( if they survive their illness) I am sure I was put on this earth to help my fellow human... I have had to say goodbye to some beautiful people as they leave this world for the next chapter of their lives... Suicides can be hard to deal with... I implore you all to tell your loved ones each and everyday just how much you love them.... I am also a semi/professional drummer... I also make a bit of money selling militaria I no longer wish to keep to get the things I WANT to keep... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellasilva Posted November 6, 2014 Share #159 Posted November 6, 2014 Spent a short time in the NY ANG in 2005-2006, and for the past 10 years have been in security, currently working at a college campus for the last 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Herd Posted November 6, 2014 Share #160 Posted November 6, 2014 Currently I'm a retired widower and can't spend much at times, sometime I need to get rid of duplicates. I had a ton of stuff and my mom did not want my dad to go up and down stairs so he gave me a couple of tons more stuff, more to my sisters and other relatives and after he died there was an auction. It will take time sorting and research before I start selling off some stuff. I started bugging dad to buy me stuff in the early 1950's, then an allowance and kid jobs until the Air Force (1968-1972). Good paying factory jobs, Army National Guard and some picking for an antique dealer to trade for military. I drove a city bus for 25-years before I retired, yes I have stopped the bus and ran up to a garage sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikemilitaria Posted November 27, 2014 Share #161 Posted November 27, 2014 Kind of new around this forum, but have been enjoying it since I found it. After college, I spent 23yrs working in heavy industrial maintenance, mainly manufacturing. Left that 8yrs ago and since then I have been working at a local community college overseeing that maintenance department there. Thinking about retiring, or semi-retiring and getting my class 01 FFL (have a C&R FFL last 13yrs) and opening up a shop to buy/sell/trade firearms and militaria items along with that in the shop. Not sure if it is time yet for this in my life, but it is on my radar. Been picking up guns/knives/militaria for 3 decades now...kinda been building up some inventory so to speak, to have something to open up with, even if it is only working shows and flea markets. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turmanator Posted December 2, 2014 Share #162 Posted December 2, 2014 I actually use the skills I learned as a Jarhead (and I capitalized that because it is a proper noun - and damn proud of it).I went throghh the Navy Digital Data Systems Technician school at Mare Island from 79-81. Basically a mainframe computer technician. So here I Am 31 years later working for Kinder Morgan as a Server Engineer. And always had a good job so thank you Uncle Sam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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