Whatta y'all do for a living?
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in the printing and promotional product (silk screen, embroidery and other give away items)
@Squatch and
As a very recently retired community college adjunct instructor (18 years Econ and CompSci) and IT professional (30 years web, SQL, cyber security), your "old fashioned manufacturing" is high on my respect list. You see, I have no 'hand' skills; all head skills. This is a bit of a regret of my working years.
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.
As a very recently retired community college adjunct instructor (18 years Econ and CompSci) and IT professional (30 years web, SQL, cyber security), your "old fashioned manufacturing" is high on my respect list. You see, I have no 'hand' skills; all head skills. This is a bit of a regret of my working years.
Interesting the diversity of professional backgrounds we have around here.
I know that if somebody told me I had to do it all over again, but choose a different profession than the one I have had (banking), it would be one of these:
Car salesman/General Manager (cars/trucks/Jeeps are one of the only products I am passionate about to be able to sell)
Working in an auto manufacturing plant (if it were 50+ years ago - for one of the big 3)
Mechanical Engineering (think it, create it)
Electrical Engineering (again, dream it, create it)
IT (I was employed a programmer in the DOS days for a while - life took me in a different direction)
Banking has been good to me. And I do count my blessings. But to say I am passionate about the products a bank sells would be a stretch...
I know that if somebody told me I had to do it all over again, but choose a different profession than the one I have had (banking), it would be one of these:
Car salesman/General Manager (cars/trucks/Jeeps are one of the only products I am passionate about to be able to sell)
Working in an auto manufacturing plant (if it were 50+ years ago - for one of the big 3)
Mechanical Engineering (think it, create it)
Electrical Engineering (again, dream it, create it)
IT (I was employed a programmer in the DOS days for a while - life took me in a different direction)
Banking has been good to me. And I do count my blessings. But to say I am passionate about the products a bank sells would be a stretch...
Around here car sales is a brutal, back stabbing business...I would not want to do that on a bet.
I would have used the opportunity presented to me when I graduated college and was offered the Union electrician job in NYC...great pay and pension.
or been a technology teacher (shop) was really in demand when I was in college and teaching around here is a six figure job with retirement pension and healthcare.
I would have used the opportunity presented to me when I graduated college and was offered the Union electrician job in NYC...great pay and pension.
or been a technology teacher (shop) was really in demand when I was in college and teaching around here is a six figure job with retirement pension and healthcare.
Chemotherapy IV Pharmacy Technician. I am one of the guys in the basement of a hospital usually working in a sterile glass box mixing drugs and hazardous materials for IV administration.
If I had to do it all over again knowing what I know now, I would have gotten into Forensic Computer Science. Not that I don't like to do what I do now, but that is seriously interesting to me. I like figuring out the unfigurable.
I would agree with you on this one. Back in the day, I was quite the wheeler dealer (personally have owned over 300 cars). I've even sold two cars, sight unseen, based on my reputation for being honest with people. One was a Pinto wagon, of all things. Got the cash for them, and delivered the cars that night. I've owned cars for as little as ten minutes before flippin' them for double the money. And one car I sold as a middleman, never even having laid eyes on the car. Made $300 off it, and everyone was happy. So yeah, I could be a car salesman. I'd do that.
Erik V
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If I could do it over again I would of hit the Lottery and lived happily ever after, lol
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A Pinto Wagon!!! Awesome. I owned 3 Pintos. A 79 beater that I loved. I got into an accident with it in 92. My fault. Rear ended a line of stopped traffic. It was a blind curve lined by bushes...a freeway on ramp. Damage to 5 cars in front of me. First two ended up totaled. I had liability only insurance. I fixed that Pinto myself with $120 in junkyard parts and $75 to a guy that pulled the frame straight.
My second Pinto was a 71 I bought in 1996 with 31k miles. It was that ugly yellow they had back then. It had the 2.0 engine. I put a cam in it but otherwise it was all original. I sold it in 2000 for 4x what I paid for it.
Third Pinto was my stock car. Have you ever heard of the mini stock class at your local oval asphalt track? I bought, built (with help) and raced that Pinto for 3 years from 92-95. #83. Won a good share of races. Nearly won the track championship for that class in 94. But crashed out both final weeks and finished 3rd in points. The guy that won the championship that year was racing a Pinto wagon.
I don’t care what anyone says. Pintos are cool!! Simple, good looking and are very modable.
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If I could do it over again I'd invent something like an online social media and social networking service company and call it ummmmm Bookhead..no, no how about Bookface...no no :thinking: hang on,..awww crap already been done.
How about being a brain surgeon :bash:
How about being a brain surgeon :bash:
My wagon was also a '79. The guy I sold it to drove it for years, and loved it. I also owned a yellow '76 MPG. Only 64,000 miles on it. Almost bought a hot-rodded Pinto Cruising Wagon, but we couldn't get our schedules aligned for the purchase. Love those things! A guy across the street from where I work drove a 390 powered (Yes, an FE motor!) '71 trunk model for 4 years. Now that's dedication!
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40 years as a dairy, wheat, corn, asparagus farmer. Leased the farm, past 17 years as a maintenance manager for a public transit system. Gasoline, diesel, compressed natural gas and soon full battery electric. Hope to retire in two years, have many old tractors I want to restore, and get back on some hillsides helping friends during busy times. Representative photo.
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My neck of the woods, er, Columbia Basin/Palouse. One thing we have is amazing ag and wines. Farmers markets here are not to be missed. My mouth is watering just thinking of what is coming up soon. We have already been enjoying asparagus.
A tip of the hat to you, sir.
I was the program services director at an ICFMR for about 10 months before I got my current job. I loved the people, but I came from community based service provision and struggled with the institutional model of care. I’m back in community services where I belong.