Essential Personnel

I work in health care but in an outpatient setting, and our patient volumes have been significantly reduced. Staffing levels have consequently been reduced so I have fewer hours to work. So while I am “essential” I am working less. Filling the time with spring house projects. Gun related, will do some shooting and reloading, organizing of supplies, and updating records and log books.

Having been retired for 11 years, I'm ahead of the curve in staying home. lol

While I'd prefer to be out more, i.e, restaurants, shopping, interacting more with people, etc., I'm content with dog walks and starting yard work.

At this point, my wife being in a dangerous demographic, I'm avoiding any stores and have started buying groceries through a home delivery service. Unfortunately, commercial ranges are out at the moment.

I'm a garbage truck mechanic, so we're still at work. It's business as usual. I try to get some cases processed before shift then if the weather holds out unload them on the weekend.

I am essential personnel but I’ve switched my hours to minimize contact with people and to allow me to be home to school my son since his school is closed. This means I have very little time for firearms related activities. I have a revolver returning next week from warranty repair and I plan to be at an outdoor range at first light to put it through its paces.

I sell parts in a diesel repair shop. Truckers are keeping this country running, and get no appreciation for it. On breaks at work, I have time to browse the internet for deals on ammo and components, check up on 2A news, etc, and share with my shooting buddies at work. Also, I may or may not hit up THR.

I’m a professional forester in a low infection state. Going to the woods makes it low risk. Being in my office, which is unavoidable, will eventually make it high risk. I’m still working as normal but a shutdown is coming eventually. I’m going to be expected to telework. Should be interesting since I do not pay for internet at home.

I work with law enforcement officers and they will be deemed essential. They carry all the time. Glock something or other.....

I imagine if loggers are allowed to continue harvesting that our timber sale administrators will be deemed essential. Only our LEOs get to carry firearms though.

I work for a non profit that helps people with a certain disease. While we aren't essential by definition for many areas, my county included a category that puts in that list. Thankfully I can do 90% of my job remotely. There are still a few functions that do require me to be at the office.

Even with the limited traffic flow here I still do carry when I head there. While at home i'm looking up my next purchase and figuring out which variation I will go with by reading reviews and watching youtube vids. Pretty much already have the stimulus plan $ spent, since i figured what better way to use goverment funding then on 2A items. . That and some light cleaning today, tomorrow I will probably be working on the sights and a bunch of dry firing practice

I'm essential working at a tire and lube shop. We take care of the local police and sheriff's vehicle's. Work has slowed, but still steady.

Working at a tire shop has its benefits, as I get plenty of lead. So with free bullets, and plenty of powder and primers, my shooting habits haven't changed at all.

I always carry a small p32 in my back pocket just in case. Iv never really read up on policies though, but would carry just the same either way.

I work in auto repair as well. I have had a coupe of days off, but otherwise business as usual. It's a little slow, but enough to keep the doors open. I pocket carry a mouse gun at work (NAA Sidewinder or Taurus TCP), and the boss encourages employees to obtain concealed weapons permits.

We are in for some interesting times, our suppliers have told us to expect shortages in some product categories.

Backup power. So yep.

Please stay out of the fast lane and leave some extra room for work trucks. Quit parking next to things. Powerlines, dumpsters, doors, ramps, boxes, whatever. If you can park at the back of the lot and walk, do so. Retirement home nurses are the most moronic car parkers in the entire world. Fatties need mandatory parking areas far far away.

Honestly, most of this social distancing, and reduced shopping and traffic congestion, should be something we consider every flu season.

Life is almost normal here. People are enjoying time not stuck in traffic shopping for stupidity they don't need, or should have combined with other trips.

LGS's have curb side carry out now. Lol.

Maintenance for a school district. Even tho there is no school and no teaching staff is allowed in the buildings, the buildings still must be maintained and checked. I work minimal hours every day and there is only one of us allowed in most buildings at a time. Exceptions are administration and their assistants. I'm considered being "on call" the rest of the time and still receive my salary. Wish more folks would take this seriously. If it wasn't raining here today, I'd be out shooting.

Mrs Rembrandt's a nurse and I'm still working. We are defined as essential.....currently working on some cutting edge ventilator designs with 3D printing.

I work for the Dept. of Army as a mil analyst, but not what they deem as "essential" (out of 87 of us, "zero" mission critical folks). DA is pretty strict with the MC label as it means you can't be furloughed, deployed, etc. and most of us are deployable.

I spent the last couple weeks preparing along with the IT guys that work for me to transition the majority of our folks off post. As of Thursday the last of us (DACs) went on Telework. We've got 7 mil and 1 DAC still in our BLDG and they notify us when we've got to come in. So now I spend an inordinate amount of time sending and receiving Emails, replying to CHAT subjects and video conferencing. Luckily I've got evals on my guys to complete and some reports due, so I'm busy. My wife even realizes that though at home I am working...

As for personal stuff, I live on 80 acres in farm country, so "social distancing" is pretty much the norm. Soon as the weather gets decent I'll probably be shooting a lot more, since most of my matches have been cancelled.

I am essential, I don't believe my wife's position is but our city has not shut us down yet so we are both working while trying to figure out how to take care of the little one since the schools have closed and our pre-k is included in that. Since we are both still expected to work, my off days are not here at the house reading about reloading, new firearms, planning and dreaming of what I will get to do once this all settles down.

Trying to get reloading components, designing a bench, looking at the new PC Charger from Ruger, planning a couple of new AR builds since I found some parts that need a home.

I am currently considered essential. Most of the companies business is centered on defense, aerospace, pharma, food, and ag.

Most of us engineers are not real busy right now but we have do do service calls pretty regularly to get equipment back up and running at other essential places.

The term essential is being applied pretty loosely right now and probably stays that way as long as it is not abused. OTOH, the state of Illinois has declared pot to be an essential industry and it appears like home pot deliveries might become legal.

I don't carry at work or anywhere else. Don't have the near useless Illinois permit. Miss going shooting though.

I've retired twice so I can't get laid off from that, so I guess that makes my job essential. I also work in a hospital a few days a week cleaning the ER, OR, and patient rooms. Good thing that is an essential job. Otherwise how would I pay for my C Sharps that I ordered?

jjadurbin said:

I'm a go-getter. My wife works all day ...and then I go get her.

Now , that's cute.

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My last day shooting a firearm was this past Tuesday during a lunch break. Then the county lock down happened shortly thereafter.

So, I'm left shooting air guns in the garage, since I'm a suburbanite.

As far as carrying a handgun, I'm doing the same as I have for years. Which means a gun is on me everywhere it's legal to carry, and my boss has a carry license so . . .

As a machine repairman, we are open for business for those that run essential businesses. I also get to work at home when I have a lot of computer work to do. The trouble is much of my customer base is either public school ISDs, and other businesses that are so slow that they've furloughed staff. I'm actually getting behind in work because I have many maintenance service calls to do, but the essential businesses aren't letting service techs on site unless a machine is down.

So, I had one service call last Monday, and I have one service call lined up for this coming Monday. It doesn't pay the company bills and we've been told all employees will have to sacrifice during these times. AKA pay cuts or furloughs. My wife got furloughed this past Tuesday, by the way.

I move freight by rail so I don't get any days off!

They've had other rails come up positive for the coronavirus in other locations, had to quarantine a bunch. Not going to be good if it hits my area and they have to quarantine 50 or more people at the same time.

With this going on it doesn't help my already limited time to go shooting, reloading...

My library is down to a skeleton crew. Our primary purpose is to act as the city's info desk and as a location to hand out free lunches for the kids.
I've only gone in to deliver critical paperwork.
I've been spending a bit of time re-arranging the safes and getting my old clothes and other stuff ready for donating to various charities.
The ranges are closed.