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Posted by Aran
Not one myself, but I've heard that pizza delivery and uber drivers are both jobs that can make it easier to find abandoned locations, by sheer virtue of the amount of ground you cover just in a day's work.
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I found some pretty cool locations while delivering pizza back in the day. Also good for scouting places that are about to be abandoned when people are doing a hasty move-out.
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EMT/ Dispatcher
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Posted by bandi
I found some pretty cool locations while delivering pizza back in the day. Also good for scouting places that are about to be abandoned when people are doing a hasty move-out.
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This. but I pickup electric rental scooters in a dually transit van all night. I've found so many places sometimes find scooters parked in front I'll get a picture next time for the parked out front thread haha
Prohobo in training.
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Got my GED in 2014. Been working one piece of shit job after the other since! Most of my experience is in the restaurant industry. Currently I take orders at my job and prepare bean and rice bowls. Minimum wage plus average 3 dollars an hour in tips  . Its quite fascinating how it seems the majority of Urban Explorers are highly intelligent and or highly educated. Majority of them I have met have legit careers most often in engineering and computers related sorts! However I am not one of them,I think I am still pretty good at exploring /photography at least. Neither "so called" talents though have helped me make money or get laid. Rather probably the exact opposite. I have prioritized though the last 8 years my knack for photography and exploring over everything else, including relationships and a career.
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Posted by Thinklikefreak
Its quite fascinating how it seems the majority of Urban Explorers are highly intelligent and or highly educated. Majority of them I have met have legit careers most often in engineering and computers related sorts!
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I wouldn't say the majority of urban explorers are college educated- in my experience we come from all walks of life. Most explorers I've met are either in the service industry, blue collar workers, or college educated careers- but I've met explorers ranging from college professors to freight hopping hobos.
That's why I love the urbex community- where else can you get so many people from so many different walks of life together around a bonfire with a beer in hand and common ground to talk about?
"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.
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Posted by Thinklikefreak
Got my GED in 2014. Been working one piece of shit job after the other since! Most of my experience is in the restaurant industry. Currently I take orders at my job and prepare bean and rice bowls. Minimum wage plus average 3 dollars an hour in tips . Its quite fascinating how it seems the majority of Urban Explorers are highly intelligent and or highly educated. Majority of them I have met have legit careers most often in engineering and computers related sorts! However I am not one of them,I think I am still pretty good at exploring /photography at least. Neither "so called" talents though have helped me make money or get laid. Rather probably the exact opposite. I have prioritized though the last 8 years my knack for photography and exploring over everything else, including relationships and a career.
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The mine exploring community is similarly diverse. No one cares about your educational background, although I agree that most of us are reasonably intelligent (which is completely apart from educated). There are those who seem to explore just for the adventure, but most are genuinely interested in history, geology, and engineering of mines and their supporting infrastructure.
abby normal
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When I lived in Nashville I did Uber/Lyft. I loved it so much. the freedom and flexible hours and they pay was pretty decent since the city has a joke of a transit system and its a college town/tourist trap. Some crap happened and I moved to NYC where I was in retail for a bit, hated it but it paid enough to look around here and there. Between jobs now and working on getting my existing photos into galleries to try and set up a second income.
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I like to think that the urbex community is reasonably intelligent by natural selection. 
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I back up trailers.
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student + army reserves + window washer
Into the Fray. https://www.ninjalobster.com/ |
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I work with kids with autism and intense problem behavior (high-magnitude aggression, self-injury, etc).
I'm about to get my Master's degree come December. It's been what's keeping me from posting. Theoretically, I'll be able to get back to exploring once it's over.
IG: fleet.in.being
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I'm under a strict NDA. I can have a Linkedin account, but I'm not allowed to say what I do or even who I work for.
Online, I usually use something like an obscure reference that sounds plausible, but on investigation, reveals that it's BS. Elsewhere in this thread I wrote: "Executive Producer for the Howard Beale Show". It's reference to a 1970s movie called Network. It's also a double entendre because I have to maintain a Cisco certification for my current job. I've never had to calculate subnets except to pass the test. Most of the time, I'm just fixing other peoples' blunders.
I suspect I am on a government shit list. Maybe that's why every time they try to get me a security clearance, it comes back as "DENIED". The events that would have landed me on such a list give me street creds in some circles, but otherwise just makes my life difficult.
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i'm a fabricator for haunted house prop making company. pretty cool year round gig! been doing it for about 6 years now.
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I work full time at a University and in return they pay for my tuition. I'm studying Electrical Engineering but have interest in studying other majors since they pay for it. I've been there for about three years now. I work a couple other side jobs in real estate and janitor work for extra money.
Exploring has been the thing keeping me going and sane while doing all this. It's hard to find time sometimes but I will never give it up. The University has a diverse amount of people from all over. You meet a lot of interesting people and with that, many stories they have to tell. It's a nice way to learn about the history of so many different places.
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Domestic surveillance for the CIA.
I mean..
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Urban planner consultant
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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I'm a radio comms specialist for a telecommunications engineering firm. Our engineers are hired to design a communications system for a stadium, airport, hospital, underground mine, subway system, shopping mall, hotel, office tower, prison or government facility, I fly out to the site and work with contractors to have it built, once it's built I turn it on and configure it. If somebody's radio system goes down they hire us to find out why, I fly out and fix it.
My love of exploration and my professional life began as two completely different worlds that I never imagined would meet, I spent my 1st few years working in the lab every day. It wasn't until ~2015 or so that I realized the potential for them to co-exist and feed off of each other, so I started volunteering for every single remote implementation that came up. Nowadays a huge portion of my job is travel hours so I plan almost all of my exploration in parallel. As long as I fix a few systems along the way my employer stays happy and I get to meander my way around the country sticking my nose where it doesn't belong.
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I started out thinking I was a free spirit and did a lot of traveling picking up jobs here and there as a waitress and bartender. I've worked assembly lines, fast food & security.
Once I settled down I decided to go back to school and get serious about life. So I got a degree in Tax Law and Theory which grew into more education and now I work in Tax Law and Representation. My position allows me to work really hard half the year, the only work part time the rest.
I just happened to be in the right place at the right time which led me to my employer who had just purchased an 1882 Victorian 3 story home in desperate need of renovation in downtown Sacramento. I had the exploring bug before I met her, but helping her renovate that beautiful Victorian was such a privilege. I now run a full work staff in that building and it never gets old when people see it for the first time inside and out.
My employer is now my best friend and partner. We search for distressed properties to buy and renovate. Life is Good right now.
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I’m not really sure where my life is leading me so I’m going with the flow but right now I’m a customer service rep for Home Depot aka home sh*thole
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Posted by Rachel49
I’m not really sure where my life is leading me so I’m going with the flow but right now I’m a customer service rep for Home Depot aka home sh*thole
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i worked for home depot in williston, vermont for two weeks... my tenure there did not end well.
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