Whatta y'all do for a living?

Squatch said:
LOL Update? Riiiight! To put my electronic abilities into perspective for you, what I am doing here...using this forum...may quite honestly be the most advanced thing I've ever done! I truly get lost with all this stuff. Sometimes I feel I am "ultimum dinosaurum" (that's Latin for "the last dinosaur"). Got one foot in the tar pit, man! I admire the hell out of you guys that can grasp that stuff, but I just don't get it. It just doesn't click for me. I guess it just isn't greasy enough, or something... :rolleyes:
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I'm mechanical. I use tools. Tools are easy. They work or they don't. If it doesn't move when it should, get a bigger better or different tool. If it moves when it shouldn't, get better glue, fasteners, more nails, more weld, or a bigger better tool.

If I pull the trigger on the power tool and it doesn't work, I can diagnose why quickly. If my god damn computer fucks up, there is no it either works or it doesn't. It is corrupted, woke up grumpy, just decided it doesn't like you that day, won't turn off, won't turn on, and the folks that write programs for the average person are not average people so they have no clue how we need it to function and they understand it because, they aren't average people and their brains do not work the same. Stand on one foot, left hand in the air, only index finger extended, whistle Dixie out your butthole while wearing your hat bassackwards and you might get it to behave. Oh, you want me to pair it? I tried, I tossed them both in the same box, comfy couch, put on some romantic music, little nice cocktail, left them alone all night, came back in the morning and no, fuck you, no pairing, I don't even think they like each other much less want to pair.
 
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Well... All this geek stuff, not sure I should let everyone know I make my living in old fashioned manufacturing. :)

Started as a manufacturing engineer, have built many processes and designed many machines for machining steel, injection molding, assembly of all manner of parts, and material handling. Chances are pretty good that ALL of you have had some experience with a part or two that I worked with while at Delphi (lash adjusters and lifters) or Magna International (outside rearview mirror, door handles).

For the last decade or so, I've been with a smallish private company. It's been pretty rewarding to me as I get to wear a lot of hats. Technically, I'm the Operation Director, but I have quite a bit of pull in the engineering and product development side too. We are committed to "made in USA" and are vertically integrated. We do almost all of our own design, R&D, marketing, sales, etc. We have an in house tool room and injection molding department. It's a neat company with a really good culture that I'm proud to say I've helped build.
 
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I'm an industrial lift systems field technician in Raleigh, so I go to all manner of businesses and repair and maintain forklifts, man lifts and boom lifts. Almost every company owns a forklift of some kind, so there's no shortage of work. I've been everywhere from small shops to large manufacturing plants, food processing plants, private hangars, tech companies, and even stopped by Eaton once.
As a hobby I have a website/blog called www.carolinaoutdoordad.com where I share my interests in hiking and outdoors in general. I say that because if any of you tech guys have tips on how to better my SEO, I'd really appreciate it.
 
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sgtjdgelinas said:
I'm an industrial lift systems field technician in Raleigh, so I go to all manner of businesses and repair and maintain forklifts, man lifts and boom lifts. Almost every company owns a forklift of some kind, so there's no shortage of work. I've been everywhere from small shops to large manufacturing plants, food processing plants, private hangars, tech companies, and even stopped by Eaton once.
As a hobby I have a website/blog called www.carolinaoutdoordad.com where I share my interests in hiking and outdoors in general. I say that because if any of you tech guys have tips on how to better my SEO, I'd really appreciate it.
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I have done organic (Google) SEO professionally over the years, it is all about common sense relevancy. It starts with identifying the top level keywords / key phrase that is relevant to your website.

Your domain should contain at least the primary keyword (or short key phrase).

Your top level / home / index page should contain the primary keywords and key phrases, explaining what the site's content is about in one or two relatively brief paragraphs.

The website should have a section dedicated for ongoing content publishing (a news or blog section). This is where a lotnof people will hire a copyrighter / content editor (an English Lit major type), but it can be anyone. The idea is to add information to the site that is relevant and informative. The entries should be dated, content management systems will typically do this by default. The bittom line here is that Google wants to see that the site has a pulse, but do not be too spammy here!

The last thing you'd want is quality backlinks. Google will give you bonus points for Google ad campaigns. I have found though that this is not as important as ad agencies would have you believe, it does kind if matter if you are trying to get numerous pages (like prodduct pages) listed in search results.

Also, make aure you arw serving your entire site over HTTPS, or Google will penalize you.The search engine algos change often, Google's ranking requirements do ot change as much though (they publish the requirements on their webmaster docs) - but for organic purposes, it all circles back to common sense.

Good luck :cool:
 
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I'm an industrial lift systems field technician in Raleigh, so I go to all manner of businesses and repair and maintain forklifts, man lifts and boom lifts. Almost every company owns a forklift of some kind, so there's no shortage of work. I've been everywhere from small shops to large manufacturing plants, food processing plants, private hangars, tech companies, and even stopped by Eaton once.
As a hobby I have a website/blog called www.carolinaoutdoordad.com where I share my interests in hiking and outdoors in general. I say that because if any of you tech guys have tips on how to better my SEO, I'd really appreciate it.
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You've probably heard of my Company, if you are in Lift Truck Maintenance...We make SPW systems.
 
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Graphics (printing) teacher at a two-year technical college. Teach everything from vehicle wraps to screen printing shirts, packaging, embroidery & laser cutting. Our industry has changed a lot.


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Tell me about it...I have a trade as s Signwriter (sign painter) old school using a brush and paint...now its all computer generated stickers...I can see the advantages, but its a shame that skill is fading.
 
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Tell me about it...I have a trade as s Signwriter (sign painter) old school using a brush and paint...now its all computer generated stickers...I can see the advantages, but its a shame that skill is fading.
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So many of the old ways are dying off. It's like languages that no one speaks anymore...
 
JeepNWilly said:
I have worked on Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX and Windows oh and dable on MAC OS which is basically UNIX.
One of the things I hate the most is that damn VI Editor. I am sure some of you Linux guys love it but man It drives me nuts.

I started in IT as a Visual Basic developer and was basically a Windows guy up until 10 years ago. I started supporting application that ran on Sun Solaris then Linux. I have also done some Mainframe JCL etc.. Because PeopleSoft runs on all platforms I still work on Windows, Linux and AIX.

At home I often play around with different flavors of Linux. The beauty of virtualization allows me to quickly spawn up any Linux box.
I frequent https://distrowatch.com/ often to see what new Linux distros are out there.
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I wouldn't know what to do without VI. It is the only think I edit in. I am a hard core command line tech. I can do anything without a mouse. I don't use the on one on my laptop so that makes it a quick viable editor for my use, plus it comes in all *nix distros. In fact, I get just as aggravated with nano/pico as you do with vi. It is hard to do everything in nano without a mouse. I get aggravated with ubuntu because visudo defaults to nano, so much so, that the first thing I do when if I install ubuntu is 'sudo apt-get remove nano'. Then visudo defaults to vi (vi is in the name) That is really why I like Debian over Ubuntu. It is more pure in my mind.

Thanks for the bio, I like to debate over what we use as Linux guys, at the end of the day use whatever you feel comfortable with. There is no skin off of my back in what ever you use as long as you know that I am right and you are wrong! ;)

You got me with the windows stuff and VB. I have been lucky enough to not have to ever support windows in my career so far. *knocks on wood!
 
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I wouldn't know what to do without VI. It is the only think I edit in. I am a hard core command line tech. I can do anything without a mouse. I don't use the on one on my laptop so that makes it a quick viable editor for my use, plus it comes in all *nix distros. In fact, I get just as aggravated with nano/pico as you do with vi. It is hard to do everything in nano without a mouse. I get aggravated with ubuntu because visudo defaults to nano, so much so, that the first thing I do when if I install ubuntu is 'sudo apt-get remove nano'. Then visudo defaults to vi (vi is in the name) That is really why I like Debian over Ubuntu. It is more pure in my mind.

Thanks for the bio, I like to debate over what we use as Linux guys, at the end of the day use whatever you feel comfortable with. There is no skin off of my back in what ever you use as long as you know that I am right and you are wrong! ;)

You got me with the windows stuff and VB. I have been lucky enough to not have to ever support windows in my career so far. *knocks on wood!
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It makes sense in your case since you have never had to support Windows. I was 1st a windows guy before I ever knew what Linux or UNIX was. I guess I did the IT thing backwards LOL DOS and Windows to Mainframe to Sun Solaris to LINUX and AIX LOL. I guess because of that order using the mouse is second nature to me. After editing VB code in VB IDE or VB Script, Java Script, HTML etc.. in notepad for many years is the reason VI drives me nuts lol I actually FTP into Ultraedit anything I need to do lots of changes to. I tend to only use VI for small changes as well as crontab changes.

Before ever getting into IT I was an Electronics repairman and had my own shop where I fixed TV's VCR, Camcorders and DVD player.
 
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