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Post by sleepyjim on Aug 14, 2013 16:15:24 GMT -7
Tell what you do for a living or did, what other hobbies you do, just general "Your Life" now thing.....
I will start it:
I was with Lockheed Martin as a defense contractor in the middle east for the last 7 years, now unemployed (position eliminated), which is a good thing as it allowed me to come home and have a month or so with mom before she suddenly passed (June) and to let my cancer foot heal from the surgeries and skin graft......
I had 3 Harleys but now down to 1 (Sold others to pay for treatments), gonna do frame down rebuild on it.....
I am into metal detecting and love it, get out early in the morn and it is nice....Smoke a cigar and detect.
I am trying to decide if I go back to work or not, my unemploy $ is pretty good and if I work it is gone, but If I am not working it looks funny on a resume, but I can get around that, so at crossroads really.....I was offered another position back in the middle east but I think I am finished for now, it was great and thank God for it, as the savings help save my life, but I am tired of being an expat, so for now, no.
I did get asked to return to Lockheed in Texas, I am in final 4 for a really great position, will know in couple weeks, not sure I want to live in Fort Worth, but hey, it is a great position....I am also being considered for a position in Reno with a civilian company, again should hear a=in a couple weeks ish, these are about the only 2 jobs I think I would return to work for right now.....
Well, I think that is my life or lack of it now.....
Jim
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Post by onepyrotec on Aug 14, 2013 16:40:05 GMT -7
I'm just a union carpenter, metal, no wood. Lots of crafts in the trade...We have been nomads for a while going out of state because work has been slow in Nevada and the companies have a hard time finding people who can pass a drug test. Few weeks ago, as our project came to an end in San Fransisco, we came back to Nevada to work a project for an out of state contractor . Yesterday, the project foreman approached my partner and myself and wanted to know if we would like to stay with their company and travel around a bit. We had three other immediate offers that we were trying to decide upon...this made four...it is still up in the air as to what we will do next...but it is looking like we will be taking the latest offer. If any of you FOGs remember 16mm film from school AND drive-ins...I have the old drive-in intermissions printed new in 16mm for what is left of the film collector hobby. My oldest daughter just got married, my youngest daughter is in the jr. division of the Miss America program...she is the current Miss Douglas County Outstanding Teen. My son...he is getting good enough at golf where I told him go find someone else to play with  |
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Post by smokem on Aug 14, 2013 18:01:35 GMT -7
For the last 7 years I was a teaching assistant in an automotive vocational program. Had to resign my potion back in January due to lack of collage credit. Been on unenjoyment since. The money almost helps pay the bills.
I have taken and passed two CLEP test for a total of six collage credits, which should be enough to get my job back. I will then have three more years to get an additional 9 collage credits to reach my permeate certification...NY has f_cked up laws for TA's, which were not in effect when I started.
Since I've been unemployed I've been studying for the tests mostly. Only real thing I've done is sit by the pool on weekends. Even then, my wife was giving me practice tests to take...lol
G-Man(my son)is now 23, and has a very nice job with a local food chane called Price Chopper. He is meat cutter there and loves it. I couldn't be more proud of him! He has a wonderful young lady in his life, who is going to the Rochester School of Pharmacy. She will be out of school next year and I think he might just ask her to marry him then! My wife(Lisa)and I both love her and would be happy to have her in our family.
The rest of my life is boring so I'll stop here.
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Post by sleepyjim on Aug 14, 2013 20:03:31 GMT -7
"Only real thing I've done is sit by the pool on weekends. Even then, my wife was giving me" I read that and said dang Tom is getting nasty..... "practice tests to take...lol" Then I read the end of it.....Shoot!  |
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Post by sleepyjim on Aug 14, 2013 20:05:39 GMT -7
"My son...he is getting good enough at golf where I told him go find someone else to play with " I love golf, I suck at it, but love to play...... |
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Post by cecik on Aug 15, 2013 16:01:18 GMT -7
Taught HS for 15 years & Real Estate Broker for 30. Retiring after this year!  |
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Post by sleepyjim on Aug 20, 2013 8:44:01 GMT -7
Taught HS for 15 years & Real Estate Broker for 30. Retiring after this year! Dang, I would retire after the 15 years teaching......LOL I bet being a broker was nice back in the booming days.... Jim |
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Post by cecik on Aug 20, 2013 13:28:00 GMT -7
..taught 12 great years @ a private school in San Diego (3 in Maine). Yeah, real estate was 'fun' in the beginning. The new rules, regulations & paperwork pretty much killed it. It worked great for both buyer & seller then "they" fixed it!! *T
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Post by DsrtEgl50 on Aug 24, 2013 20:54:06 GMT -7
I are engineer. Been an engineering technician, engineering assistant, junior engineer, design engineer, and senior design engineer. Have a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelors in Computer Engineering. Working on my Doctorate in Electrical Engineering. The University of Tennessee has always paid me to go to school there, and this year the Civil, Environmental, Industrial and Systems Engineering Departments hired me as full time staff with rather nice benefits. Gave me master keys to the new building, and asked me to just make it work. Depending on the day, I work in the machine shop fabricating parts, the electronics shop creating new or repairing old stuff, the classrooms, chem labs and regularly down into the bowels of the internet. I will soon be managing 100GbE lines coming into my building. Currently trying to get a 10GbE test line running smooth so I can get more money thrown in my coffer.
I've formally studied computer architecture, super computing architecture, networking, systems verification, device physics, quantum computational theory, mixed digital/analog silicon, FPGAs, ASICs, hardware cryptography, dynamically reconfigurable high performance computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning in software and hardware, radio communications, electromagnetics, EW, ECM, the EM side of nuclear reactions (remote detection), microwaves, antennas and am now working on using some/all of that to build precision radar systems for my degree. The project is funded by firms looking to use it for surgical navigation, high value asset tracking and even down to automating video tracking for sporting events - keep the camera on the ball.
Informally? A lot more than that...
I was a licensed firearms manufacturer, designed and built machine guns, supressors and such, sold small arms internationally, and had a lot of fun with it. It stopped being fun, so I stopped doing it.
I stopped making time for cigars a few years ago, but do pick some out for special occasions. And have been trying to make more time for them.
The stuff I do for fun is usually unusual. For example, I have a lot of microwaves left over from the move. So my weekend projects, aside from this years experimental Christmas gifts, may involve magnetrons and directed energy for a while...
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Post by MrsDE on Aug 24, 2013 22:33:42 GMT -7
I was lost after this.  |
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Post by cecik on Aug 25, 2013 6:59:38 GMT -7
I are so therefore I am  |
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Post by sleepyjim on Aug 25, 2013 8:31:41 GMT -7
So my weekend projects, aside from this years experimental Christmas gifts, may involve magnetrons and directed energy for a while... say what? Experimental Christmas gifts? Involving what? Magnetrons and directed energy? Sounds like your making laser guns and I for one sir would like to be on your Christmas list!! Yeah baby can see it now, all the people would be saying "Here comes Jamming Jimmy with his Magnetronic Directed Energy gun!"... The men would smile hiding their envy and all the women would just swoon as I strutted by..... Oh yeah I gots to get on that list!!!!! Jim |
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Post by smokem on Aug 25, 2013 16:43:50 GMT -7
Hey DE...DAMN!
You put anymore in that brain of yours, you head gonna explode!
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Post by DsrtEgl50 on Aug 25, 2013 19:04:58 GMT -7
Experimental Christmas gifts? Involving what? Magnetrons and directed energy? This year's experiments include processing of O-1 tool steel into... stuff. I have an idea, but it's still TBD what it'll end up as. I learned to work the machine shop with aluminum & plastic. Things work a little different when moving on to making the tooling, as I needed to do to make some unique parts for my UWB research. Last year I made magnetic containers with glass windows. They stick to any metal surface and support about 6oz of weight when attached to a vertical surface. Teri put chalkboard vinyl on them so they are useful as spice containers, because they stick to the fridge, you can see the contents, and can write on the label with chalk. The year before that, experiments were done with flavor extraction and ethanol production. 3lbs of vanilla beans made some pretty damned awesome vanilla extract to go with the combustible cherries. Lemon, lime, honey, orange, coffee and some other stuff never made it out of my kitchen. The orange/honey stuff is getting better, sort of tastes like a really floral, slightly sweet white wine with a hint of orange on the back end... I'll get my brother's kids in on the magnetron experiments - like glass contained plasma clouds and exploding eggs. Magnetron + waveguide stuff (directed energy) will be in an anechoic chamber. And none of it will be portable, so no running down the block microwaving cats.  My summer assistant said I give off a strong mad-scientist kinda vibe  |
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Post by DsrtEgl50 on Aug 25, 2013 19:56:07 GMT -7
Oh, and if this is a tale of woes thread... I was in a pretty bad car accident 14 years ago. Broke my pelvic ring in three places, and trashed my 61-day-old car, which was the first one that I ever bought myself. Two years ago I sprained my back pretty bad lifting and twisting a heavy object in an awkward spot. About 8 months ago, I thought I re-sprained my back, but it wasn't getting better after a few weeks of drugs & physical therapy.
A few X-rays and a lot of waiting later, I found out my T12 has a vertical fracture that isn't going to heal. Likely caused by the car accident 14 years ago. All of my lumbar disks have degenerated to the point that there's no fixing it. My options included regular epidural injections (with risk of paralysis), RF rhizotomy (with risk of paralysis), plain old neruosurgery (with risk of paralysis), or lots of PT in the hopes it would get better. So I spent 6 months going to PT twice a week, trying to build my back muscles to the point that they can support my frame, after pretty heavy doses of interferential current through my spine to dull the nerves. Accepting the job at UT changed my eligibility for the physical therapist I was seeing, and because I could see it coming I built my own equipment for generating the interferential current. I've not kept up with my exercises, and need to start back up now that my mad dash to get the new engineering building up for classes is over, and before the mad dash to get the building spotless for the grand opening gala in October starts...
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