WHAT WAS YOUR JOB BEFORE YOU BECAME A PUMP OPERATOR? MASTER AT EVERYTHING JOURNEYMEN OF NONE!

Concrete Pumping was my first Real job. I washed dishes in high school and did some painting but my first full time job after high school was Runing a Mayco C30 back in the early 80s

i was an over the road truck driver.. thought pumping would give me more home time .. haha joke was on me.. untill recently that is lots of home time in this economy

I was a scaffolding erector for plastering companies. It is so slow now in the concrete industry, I am thinking of going back to it on my days off. Maybe then I can get 40 hours a week.

Lets see, drove ready mix for 8 years then ready mix dispatch for 1 then operations manager for 3 all at the same company. Then through a wonderful restructure they decided to get rid of anybody that knew anything and then this job fell in my lap and I've been here pumping concrete 5 years. And still love it.

In  high school i used to frame homes inthe summer time. In college i worked in an aluminium anodizing plant.  Started framing fulltime after college{better money}. Then in 2000 my framing mentor started pumping.Iwas soon asked to come on boardand run the second string boom pump.  Itwas a vintage   (1978) schwing 3 section.  Ididn't know any better at the time. But it was enough to seduce me in to sticking around ! 

Drove Ready Mix for 8 yr. bought a old pump co. out in 1977. My son runs the pump co. now. to get out of his hair I went and got a Job. now I sell the DANN things.

I drove mixer for 15 years along with running a Schwing trailer mount and Reed truck mount line pumps, loaders, dump trucks, transfers and some dispatching. I was turned on to running a boom by a company that was parking at the batch plant for a few months, needless to say, it ticked off the management that I was leaving, but leaving to run a boom pump. I've been boom pumping for over 4 years now.

I was a foreman for a concrete contractor, then had my own concrete business that failed. Went back to work for the same contractor who was getting out of pouring concrete and getting in to pumping concrete. Learned the ropes there. Moved to another city (for love) and finally found a company that would train me on a boom. The rest, as they say, is history.... lol

Drove mixer truck for 12 years for our company, then started running one of our pumps back in 2003 and I like the pumping alot!

two days out of high school. VERY LONG STORY. Thank you mike

i worked security at target then a month after i graduated high school got a job pumping.

Certified HVAC Technician, Gas fitter II, was my last gig, although I still do the odd side job for friends and a few others, just to keep up on things like certification updates and such.

peagravel for 4.5 years i like to think i earned my way to a boom .

well lets see i was a pipefitter crane operator 89-94 worked for the steamfitters union off&on for a couple years 3years off&on instaling fireplace inserts,pellet stoves,gas stoves pretty much what ever it took to pay the bills

industrial carpenter,concrete cutter,been pumping since 89 still havent figured out why

prepd and poured footin, piles, walls, slabs.  did a job with a pump for the first time after five years of bein a grunt and my body told me im at the wrong end of the boom.  drove trucks for 2 years waiting for an opening at a pump outfit and never looked back.