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What does everyone do for the almight $?
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Wow ... that's some variety.
I spend a few days a week traveling in sales of printing/publishing; I have a relatively fixed block of clients and a regular routine. Although the "ink on paper" business is becoming more and more "bits and bytes on a server," I'm learning to adapt.
Printing and publishing is not my formal training, but in the early 80s I was struggling to find a permanent position in business management, teaching or engineering, so I sort of found my way back into the newspaper business that I grew up learning. (I was always going to be a photojournalist! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ) Knight Ridder hired me as part of their central purchasing division and a few years later, I was faced with a choice 'to move' or be downsized. Thankfully there was severance and so I opted to start a small publishing company wearing the general manager/salesman hat. Our company grew and merged with and advertising agency, I stuck around and I have been there ever since. (yikes ... 19 years now!) Early retirement is beginning to sound good ... although those I work with would accuse me of that already! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
It is interesting to see the diversity of occupation, yet all having a common interest in MGs. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Does anyone have 'other' interesting hobbies besides MGs? (or perhaps that's for another thread?)
I spend a few days a week traveling in sales of printing/publishing; I have a relatively fixed block of clients and a regular routine. Although the "ink on paper" business is becoming more and more "bits and bytes on a server," I'm learning to adapt.
Printing and publishing is not my formal training, but in the early 80s I was struggling to find a permanent position in business management, teaching or engineering, so I sort of found my way back into the newspaper business that I grew up learning. (I was always going to be a photojournalist! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ) Knight Ridder hired me as part of their central purchasing division and a few years later, I was faced with a choice 'to move' or be downsized. Thankfully there was severance and so I opted to start a small publishing company wearing the general manager/salesman hat. Our company grew and merged with and advertising agency, I stuck around and I have been there ever since. (yikes ... 19 years now!) Early retirement is beginning to sound good ... although those I work with would accuse me of that already! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
It is interesting to see the diversity of occupation, yet all having a common interest in MGs. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Does anyone have 'other' interesting hobbies besides MGs? (or perhaps that's for another thread?)
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I run a research facility for LSU Petroleum Engineering
StagByTriumph
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Wow, what a thread!
Self Employed Consultant - Control Systems Engineer and Programmer, and trying to get Bret to buy a Stag and dump his MGB in my spare time ...
BTW Bret, who is that other XRay company you are in competition with in Longmont Colorado? Every week when I go past Ft. Carson I see one of your screening trucks and the competition's permanent installation in operation. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif
Self Employed Consultant - Control Systems Engineer and Programmer, and trying to get Bret to buy a Stag and dump his MGB in my spare time ...
BTW Bret, who is that other XRay company you are in competition with in Longmont Colorado? Every week when I go past Ft. Carson I see one of your screening trucks and the competition's permanent installation in operation. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif
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I'm an sales engineer for mechanical ventilation equipment - fans, duct accessories and air devices (those things that cover the holes in the wall & ceiling where the air comes out or goes in). Before that I served 24 years in the Navy as an officer in surface ships. That what I do buy parts for my cars.
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Hmmm? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Ripple, Boones farm or Mad Dog 20/20?
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Yep, Boones. We introduce new Boones Topical Mango this month. The company discontinued prouction of Ripple a long time ago. MD is someone else
Patton
Hmmm? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Ripple, Boones farm or Mad Dog 20/20?
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Yep, Boones. We introduce new Boones Topical Mango this month. The company discontinued prouction of Ripple a long time ago. MD is someone else
Patton
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I do high-end remodeling. I'm a perfectionist and I have perfectionist clients who like to pay me lots of money to do things right. Million dollar houses on average. I also tutor french and sometimes play music as "jobs" or at least for the almighty dollar!
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Nunyas
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eh... game design is a lot different from game testing. Although, I'm not in game testing anymore my job does not have me using 3DSMax at all, but it could be useful for me to learn. Instead, I recently had to learn Maya (the reason I requested 3-view images/blueprints of MGBs a while back) so I could perform some specific functions within the UnReal Editor. I'm certianly a lot more handy at using 3D level editors (UnReal Editor, dEdit, etc.) than I am with raw 3D modeling suits. However, I've made a couple of 'break throughs' in using Maya recently that allow me to use it more readily. I've a fairly descent model of an MGB now, but it's far from complete. I've gotten the upper body (above the chrome trim line) looking pretty good. I'll be starting on the lower body some time this week.
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Wow, what a thread!
Self Employed Consultant - Control Systems Engineer and Programmer, and trying to get Bret to buy a Stag and dump his MGB in my spare time ..
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Actually I’d considered a Stag at one time. But the ones that where really nice where kind of pricy and the ones that weren’t – where all basket cases. But someday I might get one. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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BTW Bret, who is that other XRay company you are in competition with in Longmont Colorado? Every week when I go past Ft. Carson I see one of your screening trucks and the competition's permanent installation in operation. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif
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Not sure who’s in Longmont but there are a few (very few actually) domestic competitors in the large x-ray screening market. I'll have to look into it.
But it breaks down into two basic categories mobile & fixed sites and there are only two main players in both. My company based in Massachusetts and the one here in Southern California about 10 minutes from my house.
In fairness the Brand-X company is huge by our standards. Has deep pockets (capital) and indeed makes a fine product. But where they beat us is in volume and price for the base systems. While our products aren’t cheap, we have special features & added capabilities the others can’t match.
Other than that - the major difference in our base products is that ours is a true x-ray system like you’d see in a hospital with a power supply & a x-ray tube only bigger. While the other company uses a live gamma source in an enclosed lead-lined box with a shutter. In our case when a major component like a tube goes out, you just toss it or have it refurbished and install another one. However when you are dealing with a system that uses live sources – it can be a bit more complicated. Lack of hazardous waste I count that as an advantage for us.
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Wow, what a thread!
Self Employed Consultant - Control Systems Engineer and Programmer, and trying to get Bret to buy a Stag and dump his MGB in my spare time ..
[/ QUOTE ]
Actually I’d considered a Stag at one time. But the ones that where really nice where kind of pricy and the ones that weren’t – where all basket cases. But someday I might get one. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
[ QUOTE ]
BTW Bret, who is that other XRay company you are in competition with in Longmont Colorado? Every week when I go past Ft. Carson I see one of your screening trucks and the competition's permanent installation in operation. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif
[/ QUOTE ]
Not sure who’s in Longmont but there are a few (very few actually) domestic competitors in the large x-ray screening market. I'll have to look into it.
But it breaks down into two basic categories mobile & fixed sites and there are only two main players in both. My company based in Massachusetts and the one here in Southern California about 10 minutes from my house.
In fairness the Brand-X company is huge by our standards. Has deep pockets (capital) and indeed makes a fine product. But where they beat us is in volume and price for the base systems. While our products aren’t cheap, we have special features & added capabilities the others can’t match.
Other than that - the major difference in our base products is that ours is a true x-ray system like you’d see in a hospital with a power supply & a x-ray tube only bigger. While the other company uses a live gamma source in an enclosed lead-lined box with a shutter. In our case when a major component like a tube goes out, you just toss it or have it refurbished and install another one. However when you are dealing with a system that uses live sources – it can be a bit more complicated. Lack of hazardous waste I count that as an advantage for us.
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I'm an environmental consultant and work for the EPA in Washington on the Superfund Program. Prior to living here I lived in Troy, NY and went to college and grad school up there. I worked for several non-profits that dealt with local environmental issues in the Albany region.
I bought my first 'B' in April and thanks to the nice exhaust note, now contribute to noise pollution in my neighborhood. I love setting off car alarms in the parking garage at work just by driving by!
I bought my first 'B' in April and thanks to the nice exhaust note, now contribute to noise pollution in my neighborhood. I love setting off car alarms in the parking garage at work just by driving by!
bmurphy7369
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As little as possible.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
(Which in the current economy, is increasingly difficult...)
I manage rental properties for the family, recently finished supervising a large remodel of an industrial property, the Reeves Pulley Building in Columbus, IN. It had been used as recently as 2002(?) by Dodge Rockwell as a manufacturing facility. The current owner bought the historic building and seperated it into Office, Warehouse, and Retail Zones... the interesting thing to me about the project was that Clesse Cummins, the diesel guy, actually was an employee of Reeves and it is widely believed that he used the facilities to fabricate some of the parts for the first diesel engine he invented. Legend has it that Mr. Reeves rejected the invention and Clesse walked across the tracks to the Irwin family land and became their driver, using his time to perfect the engine, which they eventually funded. Long story made short, one block from the Reeves building now stands the main engine plant for Cummins, Inc....
Now that my work has ended there, I am taking a job as a document specialist for a law firm in downtown Indianapolis, beginning next week. The commute will be a challenge, but the funds will be much more free to speed up the work on the XJ6C... and weekends free to get something accomplished. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif (Good post, Jarrod!)
Brian
(Which in the current economy, is increasingly difficult...)
I manage rental properties for the family, recently finished supervising a large remodel of an industrial property, the Reeves Pulley Building in Columbus, IN. It had been used as recently as 2002(?) by Dodge Rockwell as a manufacturing facility. The current owner bought the historic building and seperated it into Office, Warehouse, and Retail Zones... the interesting thing to me about the project was that Clesse Cummins, the diesel guy, actually was an employee of Reeves and it is widely believed that he used the facilities to fabricate some of the parts for the first diesel engine he invented. Legend has it that Mr. Reeves rejected the invention and Clesse walked across the tracks to the Irwin family land and became their driver, using his time to perfect the engine, which they eventually funded. Long story made short, one block from the Reeves building now stands the main engine plant for Cummins, Inc....
Now that my work has ended there, I am taking a job as a document specialist for a law firm in downtown Indianapolis, beginning next week. The commute will be a challenge, but the funds will be much more free to speed up the work on the XJ6C... and weekends free to get something accomplished. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif (Good post, Jarrod!)
Brian
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I manage the production and distribution division of a mid to high level PEO/BPO outfit, and have a foot in the HR division also. After working in political campaigns (most of which lost) for a decade I started doing HR/AP/Payroll work for some steady income. Borring, I know, but it pays, well almost, the bills.
