Cool Jorge, Scott. It is really neat reading what everyone does, a couple of us we knew what maybe one or two did, sort of. I knew Jorge was in paper packaging and that Larry was involved in buying and selling surplus. Jorge is looking at some new equipment that I don't understand but find interesting. Scott I maybe should have kown but didn't that you are involved in fire fighting, very cool , now going on the instruct others, even cooler.

speakerman1, you are doing our dream, we all wish you the best of luck, it was interesting reading the journey you took to arrive where you are. I am sorry to here of your disablilty, I hope it does not hinder you to much and allows you to still enjoy life.

Alvaro, my son is currently finishing up in trade school for HVAC, he just passed his EPA -*test*-('")s and passed with flying colors, having passed that he will be allowed to work with any refrigerants in the US, he still has a couple of other -*test*-('")s before he approaches the job market.

kelly, very cool, motorcycle parts design, I checked out your site, the Australian Safari I will show to my son, he rides a KTM for dirt riding, he is rebuilding the top end on his right now, he scored his piston and cylinder last fall.

It looks like most here have in one way or another made there own oportunities and successes, there is fate, but I believe that conciously or unconcioulsy we make our own oportunities.

Keep'em coming, the response has been great!

Jim

Good idea and great read. There seems to be a few here that may understand my MIDI controlled BAS (building automation system from the early/mid 90's.

I got kicked out of any High School I 'visited', great party's in the early 70's, so ended up with no formal education, but picked up a few courses and diplomas of interest over the years.

Fortunately for me anyways, I never get bored of music, either making or as now listening. I ended up with my own Building Services type Engineering firm. (yup, they gave me a licence to practise (always thought that was a hilarous term, practise) engineering in Canada.

So my engineering gigs paid for my recording studios and other musical adventures. Canada is a tough place to make a living in music, hopefully GF will change that !!!, I still haven't paid myself a dime in over a year from it, everything being re-invested back. Trying to make music for a living helped give me 2 ex-wives.

I've jumped around a lot, have worked with seriously talented and brilliant people. In engineering my favourite gig was always being on site working with the trades to help make things right and of course the after hour meetings in the watering hole, which is where the projects really got completed.

Lived in Romania, Dubai, China and almost half of Canada. There is a resume (bragg sheet on my personal site listed in my signature. That describes my engineering side of things. I never created an audio/music resume.

Ian

Great idea. Thanks. What can I say. Grew up in the 1960's and 1970's and was your basic hippie. Got into audio at an early age cause I figured since listening to music was one of my favorite pastimes, I should listen to it through the best system I could afford. Still have some of those early pieces, and have always found my ears to be partial to the bozak/sansui combination.

As to my career, I'm a forester for the Forest Service. My forte has been economic and community development through natural resources, working with small rural communities throughout Oregon and Washington. Right now specializing in utilizing biomass and biofuels. Became a forester because of my love for the woods and thought the perfect job would be to work all the time in the forest. As my career has progressed, I spend most of my time at a desk or in meetings with communities and partners. Funny how life is. Still manage to get out and enjoy the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Love living here.

Well, I started out as poor black child, then I decided to become white, just kidding, that quote is from Steve Martin. Anyway, I grew up in a small logging town in Oregon, was pretty athletic, and actually a decent football player, "for our overseas folks, the real football not soccer," again just having fun here.

Anyway went to college for a while, got hurt in the first game and didnt go to class, well that should tell you what happened, I went back home and being a mill town, everyone works at the mill, I decided I did not want to be a slave to the mill like my dad and brother were, so I joined the Air Force, and was trained as a Firefighter, hence I work with dingus, "not really a blessing in disquise".

Anyway, I did my debt to society, 7 years, 9 month 14 days and some hours, in the Air force, been to Guam, England, Germany, just to play football for a week, we got our asses kicked by the way. I got out of AF in Denver, got married, moved to seattle, because that is where the job was at, been here at Boeing for 16 years.

I have alway liked listening to music, what intrigued me when i was younger and in the AF, the stereo systems that were cranked up to 11 and you couldnt yell and have a conversation, but then somebody had the system cranked to 11 but you could talk in just a raised voice, it was crisp clear and great sounding, and that is my quest so to speak. fricking dingus has it, and I want that sound, i'm gonna get there.

Anyway, last year I found out that I didnt like my wife's boyfriend too much, so I got a divorce after 17 years of marriage, and what is strange about it is, I am a much happier person, kinda a revival, except i am not religeous. Single with 2 boys age 13 and 10, if I could only remember all the funny things they have done over the years, i'm sure everybody's kids have mad fun stories. and now I am at present sitting here making you read this, btw, I probably wont ever write as much as I have here. take care, great thread btw.

elroy

I really am a thread killer

Hell Elroy I'll bail you out here.

I was a machinist for 7 years and my then Boss asked me if I wanted to work at a dam. He had a friend who was Chief of Maintenance at John Day Dam. So being in love with machinery I took the job.

I worked for the Corpse of Engineers for 26 years and with my 4 years of Navy service bailed out with 30 years in 2000. Anybody who has dealt with government service knows the gov. has no clue on how to manage people. They let the fun out of life so I retired as soon as possible.

I went to work for a farmer working 3 times as hard for 1/3 the money after I retired. I just couldn't sit around or afford to

Then Hurricane Katrina presented me with a chance to work for the Corps again only as a temporary that didn't affect my retirement.

Anyway, after spending 8 months in New Orleans I returned home and went to work installing and servicing GPS autosteering equipment for tractors, combines and other farm equipment.

Since the work involves equipment I'm just as happy as if I had good sense. I enjoy dirt bike riding (slower now ) and Elk hunting with my boys.

Probably more than you wanted to know but there it is.

Mike

I graduated from High School in 1977. I worked in restaurants for a couple of years, then I got a job as a structural steel detailer. That's fancy talk for a draftsman/draughtsman for the steel columns and beams for building construction.

I moved to Canada in 1980, ran my own little computer software business writing and selling programs for TI 99/4A's. After that, I got a job working in a waterbed heater plant. Most of the time I just cut sheets of aluminum foil (by hand!) for heat spreaders, but actually I got called on to do all sorts of other jobs: inventory clerk, shipping, receiving, materials handling, forklift driving, even quality control. I loved that place. Too bad they moved to Mexico within weeks of NAFTA being signed in 1989. I wasn't invited to go with them. Good thing; they closed for good just two weeks after moving. Seems someone had sabotaged some of the tooling that got shipped down there (no it wasn't me).

I moved back to the states in 1990, and got a job for a short time in an envelope plant. That lasted three days... restaurant work had already showed me what a sweatshop was. After a few years of being out of work thanks to the 1990 recession (which parts of New England never recovered from), I started working as a PCA. Personal Care Assistant.
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This is, by far, the hardest job I've ever had in my entire life.

And here I am.

Running two businesses. Home remodeling (kitchens and baths) and a graphics and printing business. Been doing those for a number of years. I started out as a biology major but had the chance to do something with construction. Kept up with school and picked up degrees in construction, welding, liberal arts, advertising and marketing plus studies in numerous other fields (nearly 300 units). I have two house payments left so the thought of returning to biology has crossed my mind but after I take care of some ongoing medical needs I will probably spend a few months with a friend in the northern part of the state. Maybe travel some. That is, if I don't start on a room addition.

M Gibson, worked with an engineering contractor that did a lot of government work. Scary

Hi People...

Well... I left school at 15... got a job learning to repair tv's & radio's... done that for a while then worked in a large electronic components shop selling all sorts of goodies to the Amateur Radio community...then...Test and calibration engineer for a couple of years...then...got involved with -*test*-('")ing Pro Satellite tv gear...then I worked for Roksan Engineering, done psu's, dac, pre and power amps, phono stage etc, etc for them...

Then.... started my own company and designed the Superclock...and various regulator replacements etc...

Now I have Vertex AQ and I work part time as a cook in our local hospital...

40yrs in electronics.....HELP ME!!!!

Regards

JC

whats the superclock?

elroy

Well it all started in the early 70's. Had a part time job after school of installing CB radio's in Semi tractors (18 wheelers) . Started repairing CB's,SSB,Business radio and amatuer Radio's for my fathers home business. Also worked for a local RCA TV repair shop.Repairing TV's and audio equipment.Took electronics courses all three years of High school and a year of electronics at a local community college.
Joined the USAF in 1978 . Spent 20 years repairing,modifing,calibrating the F-15 electronic warfare systems as well as all the other onboard avionics.Utilizing automated and manual -*test*-('") equipment.
Retired from the Force in 1998. First civilian job was field service for Carolina Handling LLC out of Tucker Ga. ( Narrow aisle forklift repair and maintenance).My father started having health issues.So I relocated back to my home town.Where I am now employed as a multi-skilled maint. Tech. for Fort Dodge Animal Health a division of Wyeth.
In my spare time I do vintage audio repair work and domestic maintenance.

Spent the frist 20 years of "adult" life in the US Navy mostly as a propulsion system engineer. After retiring, I had the basic 'tweener job, and have finally settled into a job with the State of Alaska writing Air Permits for major stationary sources permitted under the Clean Air Act and doing power plant inspections.

After 96 hours of higher education I found myself in the bakery business. I was the "Twinkie Man". I proceeded to work my way up and down the corporate ladder on two occasions and for the past 10 years I have been delivering bread for Sara Lee/Earthgrains in Georgia. I married well and reproduced often and I have watched 3 of my 5 kids grow up. Not being in management(enslavement) has allowed me some family time. My audio obsession has been financed by frequent visits to Goodwill, Salvation Army and other various thrift stores. Ebay has been good to me. My finds have included the following......a pair of Magnepan 10QR, Kenwood KR3500, Fisher RS 2015, Two Pioneer PL112 turntables, Shure V15 type 5 cartridge, and a pair of Cerwin Vega RS100s. The most I paid was $20 for the maggies and everything else was under $10. I am a speaker nut and I am in the process of building a TL using a Vifa 8 and A Morel MDT 30. This is almost complete and I will move on to a fullrange speaker next. I am leaning toward the Audio Nirvana Super 12 and I found this forum by "Yahooing" the AV12. I have three priorities in my life and they are God,Wife and family, and my audio obsession. Any ?

Glad you found us.
Keep us posted about your speaker project.

glad you found us Doug, keep us posted on how the speaker project comes along.