I am a network engineer and security analyst, currently working for a mid-sized bank holding company.
I'm a systems analyst working on R&D and proof of concept projects for the government. My wife is a registered nurse working for our local 2300-student high school.
"Anyway folks- if you see Canuck on the road, better give him a wide berth" True, although I would probably cross the street to shake your hand.
I'm Unix systems administrator working for Sun Microsystems (full time professional geek). However, my college degree is a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a Design/Tech emphasis (aka a liberal arts degree, aka a degree in poverty). . My wife is a Workers Compensation Manager working for the State of California and holds a college degree in business administration (A B.A. in B.A.
I deliver meals on wheels here in Florida. I am on my 2nd Prius. In my first life, I was an aviator and owned an insurance agency
I'm a retired nuclear missile silo excavation technician and ex-con. (Yes, the two are intimately related.) Before that, I was a farm hand and (briefly) a bricklayer's assistant and once an assistant to a guy who installed siding on houses, until my father decided to start spreading a bit of his money around. (He was a development contractor: tract houses, condos, commercial property, strip malls.) Then I switched from minimum-wage jobs with no benefits to volunteer work (no pay but very flexible hours). I worked in a homeless shelter and soup kitchen and as a translator in a legal-aid office. I have no employable skills. I'd never have been able to buy a Prius on the money I made when I was getting a paycheck. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ Jun 14 2006, 01:00 PM) [snapback]271310[/snapback]</div> Come on, Dave, this doesn't answer the question.
This is my first post We will be picking up our new Prius next Thursday or Friday! I'm a legal aid attorney and my husband is studying for the bar exam but will also be an attorney for the city we live in.
I don't have a Prius yet. Still saving up for one (not that there isn't a several months long waiting list anyway). Jr. Product Development Engineer for a radio manufacturer. Were any of you Hams in Dayton last month?
Me, Realtor-- Partner, Flight Attendant and Landscape Designer. We also own a 2006 Honda Ridgeline and 2006 Land Rover LR3 V8 HSE. Guess which is our FAVORITE car??
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 15 2006, 06:19 PM) [snapback]271930[/snapback]</div> C'mon, noodly one, you can't leave us hanging with just that much... <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JillGT02 @ Jun 15 2006, 06:23 PM) [snapback]271936[/snapback]</div> Welcome to PriusChat, Jill! Let us know that you got it next week.
Software, software, software. I've done everything from support to implementations of large corporate systems to what I do right now: WRITE IT! (Full time geek-ette!)
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kn6vv @ Jun 14 2006, 11:21 AM) [snapback]271114[/snapback]</div> KN6VV - Check the Audio and Electronics thread for a few posts on HAM radio installations and the like... I'm and Engineering Manager and volunteer firefighter/EMT and my wife is a non-practicing attorney currently filling the role of Domestic Goddess.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ghostofjk @ Jun 15 2006, 11:36 PM) [snapback]272082[/snapback]</div> It is blasphemy to refer to a mere believer as a "noodly one." The Noodly One is the FSM himself. Having seen a need for removing the nuclear missile silos from North Dakota (and elsewhere) I went into the business of missile silo excavation. Of course, all I could afford in the way of equipment was a pick and shovel. And since free trials are a time-tested method for new businesses to get started, I decided to excavate the first silo for free. I had only just begun what was likely to be a several years long project when a misunderstanding arose on the part of certain enlisted members of the Air Force, and after only 2 hours of digging, and the excavation hole only about 3 1/2 feet deep I was threatened at gunpoint and taken to jail. The court, taking my side in the matter, awarded me six months of free room and board, but allowed the Air Force to keep its missile silo. Several years later, however, the 150 Minuteman III missiles controlled by the Grand Forks Air Base were moved to another state, probably in recognition that I was right all along. I was out of the country by then, studying Spanish, so I'm not sure which state the missiles were moved to. I think it was either Montana or Wyoming. North Dakota still has 150 of its original 300 missiles, the remaining ones centered around Minot.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 16 2006, 10:22 AM) [snapback]272179[/snapback]</div> You really spent 6 months in jail for that? I'm impressed. Talk about street cred.
well daniel as far as occupations, i started in a field very like yours. my first real job was as a missile facilities tech working on Titan 2 at McConnell AFB in Wichita, KS. Briefly went to flight controls on a B-52 when the MFT job was phased out for enlisted. decided to rewrite some rules. was over ruled and left the force. then packaged OJ for Sunkist, made windows for GM, laid carpet for Sears, built computers for intel, then decided i didnt like working but liked the money it provided. so spent about 10 years making as much money as i could. most of it seasonal, weyerhaeuser, trident seafoods and what not. made enough to build a few houses, sold them, have been basically living off those investments for the past 4 years. currently i provide customer service support for a company that supports business processes for 13,000 companies world wide. i gross less than $25,000 a year. 30% of my paycheck goes to my 401 K. as you can see, i really CANT Afford to drive anything else.
Former banker, former cellist, currently an opera (and church) singer when I'm not being a caregiver for my mom. Oh, and data entry (telecommuting, so I can do it in my PJ's) for my sister's business when she needs me. We LOVE LOVE LOVE our Prius!!!!!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Jun 16 2006, 07:51 AM) [snapback]272191[/snapback]</div> More precisely, six months in federal prison. A couple of weeks of that was in a jail during transfer. (Transfers can be slow in the federal prison system.) And a few shorter jail stints of a few days each. A very educational experience, that I would not have missed for the world. An experience few white, middle-class boys ever have. I met the men our society chooses to label as "criminals" and I learned first-hand how they are treated. You can't learn this from books, or from talking to cops or lawyers or corrections officers. But this was 15 years ago, and any "street credibility" I may have once had has surely faded by now. I may be remembered in the nuclear resistance community, but I went on to other things, and there are folks who were doing resistance long before I was, who are still doing it now, and have done far more prison time. But I am proud of what I did. And the interesting thing is that I was respected in prison by my fellow inmates, even those who did not agree with my opposition to nukes. Dave: it does not sound like you are the guy taking orders from the janitor! I'll be off-line for a week starting now. See you folks then.
