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03-08-2010, 06:21 PM
#61
Wrench Bender
Squid
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Auburn, CA
Posts: 96
Loserbaby,
If someone is paying you to work on aircraft right now, stick with it. I love what I do, but 12 hour days for Mc Donalds pay is what general aviation is about these days. I went from good money two years ago to...............crickets! On the good side, I don't feel as bad taking time off to go ride!
If someone is paying you to work on aircraft right now, stick with it. I love what I do, but 12 hour days for Mc Donalds pay is what general aviation is about these days. I went from good money two years ago to...............crickets! On the good side, I don't feel as bad taking time off to go ride!
03-09-2010, 12:07 AM
#63
Senior Member
SuperSport
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Rancho Cordova, California
Posts: 677
Well, this turned out to be an interesting thread! Thank you for your service Marquez! Nice to see some here in the States still working and / or back to work. I am an out of work Building Inspector / full time college student. Reinventing myself during this lull in the economy. Degree in Natural Resource conservation in the works.
03-09-2010, 07:56 AM
#66
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Squid
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: essex,uk
Posts: 63
Becky B
My hat's off to you. I can't imagine driving a vehicle that size in London.
I drove a small van into London to return it to the rental agency about 2.5 years ago. My wife was attempting to get directions using a Michelin map. It was Napoleon's revenge.
Street names changed every 3 blocks if you could find a street sign. Most streets went only one way and always in the wrong direction. Some streets weren't streets at all;they were pedestrian malls. Traffic was impossible. I'd rather stick knitting needles into my eyes than drive in London again.
Thanks for joining the forum. We are not worthy.
My hat's off to you. I can't imagine driving a vehicle that size in London.
I drove a small van into London to return it to the rental agency about 2.5 years ago. My wife was attempting to get directions using a Michelin map. It was Napoleon's revenge.
Street names changed every 3 blocks if you could find a street sign. Most streets went only one way and always in the wrong direction. Some streets weren't streets at all;they were pedestrian malls. Traffic was impossible. I'd rather stick knitting needles into my eyes than drive in London again.
Thanks for joining the forum. We are not worthy.
03-09-2010, 10:11 AM
#68
Schnitzel
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Canton, Georgia, USA
Posts: 53
I'm a motorcycle mechanic right now, but also work on cars and computers. Amateur graphic artist and avid video game player. Becky, I tip my hat to anyone who can drive anything larger than a Mini Cooper through the streets of London. I'd love to see what it's like first hand to do it on a daily basis.
Here is my current project for a buddy. A 1963 Triumph Bonneville T120 engine, these are after photos from my cell. Nothing was this clean after sitting for 20 years.
Here is my current project for a buddy. A 1963 Triumph Bonneville T120 engine, these are after photos from my cell. Nothing was this clean after sitting for 20 years.
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03-10-2010, 09:11 AM
#69
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Superstock
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Brooklyn, CT
Posts: 287
03-10-2010, 03:24 PM
#72
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Squid
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Temecula, CA
Posts: 98
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03-10-2010, 06:09 PM
#78
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Squid
Squid
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 68
I'm currently a Lean Manufacturing Manager working for an international manufacturer of electrical products. I had been a Manufacturing Engineer for years prior to my current employment. I've worked for United Technologies Corporation and various others in the Aerospace and Defense industry.
I'm looking to get into Law Enforcement field (CIA, FBI, US Marshal Service...etc.)....something I've always wanted to do since I was a kid but took a different path when I was in college.
Mike
I'm looking to get into Law Enforcement field (CIA, FBI, US Marshal Service...etc.)....something I've always wanted to do since I was a kid but took a different path when I was in college.
Mike
03-11-2010, 08:56 AM
#85
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Back Marker
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: northwest Arkansas
Posts: 242
Well Im not as fancy as some of ya all, I own a small donut shop here in nw arkansas, and I just opened a small 155 acre off road park in southwest Mo. oh and I love to ride, dont matter wut it is, 2, 3, 4, dont matter how many wheels if it goes fast Im on it, or in it, lol I love the dirt, but cant get enough of the street either, If anyone ever gets in this area, holla we can hook it up in the dirt or mud thru a creek or up a hill,
03-11-2010, 12:53 PM
#86
Senior Member
Superstock
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 310
I am the planning and materials manager for Calphalon...we make super premium cookware. i manage our components that go into making pans (handles, covers, rivets al. blanks) Newell Rubbermaid is our parent company.
03-11-2010, 01:18 PM
#87
Junior Member
Squid
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 3
Liaison Engineer....
Thought I'd chime in since I saw a number of aviation folk. Currently working on the 787 up in Everett. I've got pictures, but I'm just not supposed to show people due to proprietary rights and what not. Ohh, and for those who are not familiar with what an LE is... we develop the repairs and tell people how to fix anything and everything. Structural repairs to paper snafu's. So basically I **** people off by telling them they made mistakes and they have to redo their work.
Graduated from CU Boulder with a BSME, emphasis was on vehicle dymanics but I dabbled in composites and started working for a company called Adam Aircraft in south Denver. Been working with composite aircraft since 2005 now. Currently contracting since I could get hired on directly... no complaints, it's good to be employed.
Great shot of the Citation X too... personal favorite
Graduated from CU Boulder with a BSME, emphasis was on vehicle dymanics but I dabbled in composites and started working for a company called Adam Aircraft in south Denver. Been working with composite aircraft since 2005 now. Currently contracting since I could get hired on directly... no complaints, it's good to be employed.
Great shot of the Citation X too... personal favorite
03-12-2010, 06:11 AM
#88
Bytes
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: This side of hell
Posts: 105
Software Engineer. Been doing if for about 30 years. My first program was written on punch cards. For you young whipper snappers program statements used to be typed onto cards, one line per card, and then read into the computer by a card reader. Card readers were probably the coolest mechanical hardware ever. Right now the IT market sucks in my area. I'm still clinging to my job. Most of my colleagues are Harley lovers. I spend a great deal of my day listening to them tell me how hard my SH sucks compared their Sportsters or whatever the hell they ride.
03-14-2010, 01:56 PM
#90
Senior Member
Superstock
Join Date: May 2008
Location: S.Dak USA
Posts: 347
Driving around London will teach you patience and frustrate you all at the same time.I started my trucking career back in the 70's hauling containers into Stratford L.I.F.T. (London international freight terminal) and serving the old east end docks,which I think are all gone.
Do you just haul around the city Becky?
Do you just haul around the city Becky?
