No need for a Subaru, I have a Honda Ridgeline. My wife's Odessey can't even get out of the driveway. (our garage is around back, below the house.) Keeps her from going shopping during the snow days.

Later

 

In Australia we have 3 levels of government
Federal-look after major infrastructure

State-stand around beating their chests and taxing the *** off everyone and anything that moves, and telling everyone how mch they do

Local Government-Provide water, roads, essential services, community facilities and emergency responses.

I work for Local Government, we have a huge area of road networks, 17 medium to small communities essential srvices and a staff of only 140ish.
The local government area is governed by 8 elected councillors who set the "big picture" stuff and then senior find out ways of actually doing it, then the feild blokes and blokettes get the unenviable tasks of actually doing.

In my local government area (Kyogle-right on the border of northern NSW & Queensland) I am the senior Risk & safety Coordinator, I answer to the General manger and the Mayor directly.. the irony of this whole career I have "fallen" into is that I ride competitive Off-road and roadbikes, and before going into white collar work was a timber feller and sawyer in the most hazardous industry in the country for 26 years... however after burying one of my old mentors after a workplace accident I wanted out and took up something that may help others.

I look after all liability and risk issues, personal injury/death or public, road incidents due to our activities, staff health and safety, and media exposure.
lately I've been doing human resources stuff as well just xause i like it, it is a good way of legitimately rewarding those who deserve it.

I love my work and can honestly see myself retiring from this poisition in a few decades.

On a related to our shared passion the area I work in is a mecca for off-road and road bike riders, an average of 2 thousand pass through every weeknd, in my staff of 140 I have..
The Mayor rides a big ole harley and owns a few dirtbikes
The GM has dirtbikes
The HR manager owns a GTR1000 and a KLR650
The IT manager has a=owned a duke 750gts since 1980 and also has a daily ridden bandit 1250
Our director of planning and environment owns several dirtbikes and is as keen as as a born again biker
My Works supervisor owns a WLA harley and sidecar, a 1972 BMW, and a 2010 K1200, a husky 450, a husky 2502t and his wife has a zzr6
various lads in the works crews ride harleys, jappas are involved in MX clubs and my new depot support officer is the secretary of the local MX club, and her hubby and I used to race each other as juniors.
Then there is me, kids ride dirtbikes, young fella is pretty quick on the track these days, and I've got the VTR and a '03 Yz250wr 2T registred for road use as well.

in my spare minutes at work I have been given the brief for preparing a recreational motorcycle mangement plan, when we are done and dusted with the communities involvement we should be the first government body anywhere in Australia to legitimise and give formal acknowledgement to recreational riders and promote ourselves as a destination for all discliplines of riders.


so that's what i do... and what's more they actually pay me, beats the hell out of lugging a chainsaw round in 40 degree celcius heat and rainforest humidity cutting down 50 tonne trees or pushing timber through a sawbench in a tin shed in the Australian heat.......

Bruce Cee

 

interesting thread.. guess I'll chime in.

I'm a Heavy Construction Equipment Operator for the US Army National Guard.
My job is to play with big Tonka Trucks!



I also work at target..



I am also taking EMT courses in hopes of one day becoming a Fire Fighter!

 

maybe you could use that thing to build a motocross track during your lunch hour.