What do you do for a living?
11-11-2003, 10:29 PM
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I was a studio musician for 15 years and now I build Street Rods for a living start with frame rails and go from there it was my hobby that got out of hand
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11-12-2003, 01:39 PM
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I'm a video engineer. Mostly live events. Set up cameras, projectors, ect for large venue events such as concerts, trade shows, shareholders meetings. Tech director during the shows.
I am a video editor in the off-season. I should be editing right now instead of surfing rcuniverse.
Upside: can sneak my indoor flyer into some of the largest venues around. Get to walk around with backstage passes and look important. Get paid handsomely to be at the concerts others pay to attend. Get to fly my simulators on 60ft. displays.
Downside: work too many evenings and weekends. On call all the time. Work with famous people with famous egos.
Work is very seasonal and the hours suck. Might work 20 hour days for a week and then work a total of 20 hours the next week.
I spent 2 years working for a Winston Cup champion in Charlotte after dropping out of Aerospace Engineering due to a lack of funds. I decided the hours working in racing sucked for someone wanting to start a family and got into my current field. The hours as a video engineer are just as bad.
When I was majoring in AE I intended on getting into the UAV field.
How does one go back to school with children and a mortgage?
I'm a video engineer. Mostly live events. Set up cameras, projectors, ect for large venue events such as concerts, trade shows, shareholders meetings. Tech director during the shows.
I am a video editor in the off-season. I should be editing right now instead of surfing rcuniverse.
Upside: can sneak my indoor flyer into some of the largest venues around. Get to walk around with backstage passes and look important. Get paid handsomely to be at the concerts others pay to attend. Get to fly my simulators on 60ft. displays.
Downside: work too many evenings and weekends. On call all the time. Work with famous people with famous egos.
Work is very seasonal and the hours suck. Might work 20 hour days for a week and then work a total of 20 hours the next week.
I spent 2 years working for a Winston Cup champion in Charlotte after dropping out of Aerospace Engineering due to a lack of funds. I decided the hours working in racing sucked for someone wanting to start a family and got into my current field. The hours as a video engineer are just as bad.
When I was majoring in AE I intended on getting into the UAV field.
How does one go back to school with children and a mortgage?
Thats gotta rock! I work for a video manufacturer and sometimes I get to take home the projector and play with my G2 on a big screen...just not THAT big!
I can't believe this thread has been going this long! Who woulda thought?
11-13-2003, 04:40 AM
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Airline pilot. Originally from Australia but now working in Japan. Current aircraft is Boeing 737-400 (LHS). Not a bad job; dirty work but somebody has to do it. Back into RC flying after 20+ years of doing other things.
11-14-2003, 05:10 PM
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I'm an AME (Aircraft Maintanence Engineer). Canada's version of an A&P. Or in every day english, aircraft mechanic. I like aircraft, no matter what the size. Love to watch them fly.
11-15-2003, 10:20 AM
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SuperRusty you are my hero..i wish i had a my own busness, that way i could fly when i wanted to..stay in school and learn the math it will help in making planes...cool..spooner
11-16-2003, 10:43 PM
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METAL FORMER FOR GOODRICH. I HELP BUILD THE LANDING GEAR FOR BOEING,757,767,777,747,737.C-17 F-18 B-52 AND THE ALLNEW A-380 AIRBUS.
11-17-2003, 04:40 PM
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ORIGINAL: dynodan
46 + 50 + 72 = 478
(OS 46+ OS 50+ Saito 72) = $478
I'm an Accountant.
46 + 50 + 72 = 478
(OS 46+ OS 50+ Saito 72) = $478
I'm an Accountant.
11-18-2003, 02:12 PM
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Ain't the truth mitchell times suck I was a body man for 19 years and I QUITE now I'm a undeground miner for a lead silver zink gold mine near Juneau Alaska
11-18-2003, 03:08 PM
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This thread has been going on for so long that since I last posted I have:
1. Finished my contract job (July 31)
2. Spent a couple of months looking for a new job before finally giving up and spending most of Ocober flying.
3. Restarted my job 3 months later (in November) back at the same desk, in the same building, doing the same job and reading the same RCU thread!
1. Finished my contract job (July 31)
2. Spent a couple of months looking for a new job before finally giving up and spending most of Ocober flying.
3. Restarted my job 3 months later (in November) back at the same desk, in the same building, doing the same job and reading the same RCU thread!
11-18-2003, 03:26 PM
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im a fricken student that works construction warehouse management and logistics.
next to drinking (my other hobby) this is the most expensive...
next to drinking (my other hobby) this is the most expensive...
11-19-2003, 07:58 PM
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auto mechanic, work in a junk yard keeping everythin ( and everyone) working.
I'm an expert at fixing something without any parts or tools. Just a welder and a torch,maybe a visegrip if I'm lucky.
Used to build hotrods at my house but discovered R/C is more fun-I'm sitting down out of the rain- and usually not bleeding.LOL!
I'm an expert at fixing something without any parts or tools. Just a welder and a torch,maybe a visegrip if I'm lucky.
Used to build hotrods at my house but discovered R/C is more fun-I'm sitting down out of the rain- and usually not bleeding.LOL!
11-20-2003, 01:45 AM
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Aviation Support Equipment Electrician in the USMC (MOS 6073) for the past twenty years. Have worked off and on in Quality Assurance for 5 of those years. Currently assigned to a Navy inspection team evaluating aviation intermediate maintenance activities both ashore and afloat. Area of responsibilities, west of the Missisippi River to Germany. Most of my assignments are away from home.
How do I afford this hobby? It is impossible for me to spend all my per diem on food!
6 more days until I retire and have to find a real job.[:'(] But, no more travelling![8D]
How do I afford this hobby? It is impossible for me to spend all my per diem on food!
6 more days until I retire and have to find a real job.[:'(] But, no more travelling![8D]
11-20-2003, 09:15 AM
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RE: What do you do for a living?
Minnflyer:
If you were a graphic artist for a telephone marketing company, you would have lots of time to fly. I can hear it now:
Telemarketer: "Yes Ma'am. And if you could see this really great illustration here you would notice that..."
I manage the Systems Analysis and Design Group at the Federal Election Commission. I am responsible for the campaign finance disclosure database, electronic filing and web presence for the commission as well. Sounds like a lot and I guess it is but I still find time to build and fly!
If you were a graphic artist for a telephone marketing company, you would have lots of time to fly. I can hear it now:
Telemarketer: "Yes Ma'am. And if you could see this really great illustration here you would notice that..."
I manage the Systems Analysis and Design Group at the Federal Election Commission. I am responsible for the campaign finance disclosure database, electronic filing and web presence for the commission as well. Sounds like a lot and I guess it is but I still find time to build and fly!
11-20-2003, 04:51 PM
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Thats gotta rock! I work for a video manufacturer and sometimes I get to take home the projector and play with my G2 on a big screen...just not THAT big!
I can't believe this thread has been going this long! Who woulda thought?
ORIGINAL: JasonS
I'm a video engineer. Mostly live events. Set up cameras, projectors, ect for large venue events such as concerts, trade shows, shareholders meetings. Tech director during the shows.
I am a video editor in the off-season. I should be editing right now instead of surfing rcuniverse.
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I'm a video engineer. Mostly live events. Set up cameras, projectors, ect for large venue events such as concerts, trade shows, shareholders meetings. Tech director during the shows.
I am a video editor in the off-season. I should be editing right now instead of surfing rcuniverse.
.
Thats gotta rock! I work for a video manufacturer and sometimes I get to take home the projector and play with my G2 on a big screen...just not THAT big!
I can't believe this thread has been going this long! Who woulda thought?
The events I have to work ALWAYS fall on the days with nice flying weather. They plan it that way. There really is something to that farmers almanac weather prediction.
I need an occupation that only works when the weather is bad!
11-21-2003, 01:24 AM
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electronics tech fixing/repairing, rebuilding "pin pads" thats those things that read your plastic cards at the shops etc, smart cards too?in the past ive been in electro mechanical business machines, also in heartbreak corner in the r/c trade, plus manager of 2 shops here in perth, my hobbie apaert from the models is the r/c,along with a workshop i have a r/c museum , i like to restore & bring back the old stuff as they come in.iam due a russian 2 channel set from romania soon.oh /. my original trade was "machine tool fitter & turner. so i have my own made antique guns too, used to collect them to when i still lived in u.k.so/ what did you do?? regards brian, westralia.
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I an operation supervisor for the 3rd largest natural gas distributor in the United States. Better described as chief, cook, and bottle washer!