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.....be nice if I could make a honest living off this hobby...
Trust me on this one, that would probably be the WORST thing to every happen to you if it did. Iknow first hand about this. I've been involved with computers for over 30 years, most of that as a hobby. But when Igot out of the Army in 1996 Idecided to make a living out of it and opened a computer shop. I've been doing that for 14 years now and trust me when I say this, Iwill get as far away from computers whenever possible. Iwant nothing to do with them whenever Ican get away with it.
When you take your hobby and make it a job it's no longer a ''get away'' for you. Now flying is so great because it's what you WANTto do for fun. But when you start to HAVEto do it for work you attitude will more than likely change about it.
Just my 2¢ worth!!
Ken
I can completely agree with Ken on this one. I was the BIGGEST computer geek, gamer (Team Fortress Classic!), hacker in north central Montana. I played with computers whenever I could. Now that it's a job, (going on 9 years), I just do these forums and email and my billing now. Thank God I discovered model airplanes back in 2002. I don't know what I would've done with my spare time. I probably would've ended up a barfly or taking up something non RC...like golf. I used to do that too, but now if it's nice enough to golf, it's nice to fly, so off to the field I go!
Wow... You guys sound like a mirror image of myself as well! I've been in love with computers since I was a little kid. I overclocked my first Pentium 133 to a 166 when I was 10 years old!!! My dad just about killed me at the time (he spend $5000 on that PC) but to this day it still runs perfectly! lol. I got my Bachelors Degree in computer science but my interests lied on the hardware side, not programming. So what do I do now? We'll of course I'm a desktop technician for our nations largest law firm.
funny thing is, i still absolutley LOVE computers. I love modding and overclocking. My home PC is watercooled for the last 5 years, and I'm now dabbling into liquid nitrogen, phase cooling and peltier coolers so I can ram even more voltage thru these beasts!
Heck,Ihad close to 20 years in when the 133's came out!!!
My first "store bought" computer was a TRS80 Model 1. 4k of memory and a cassette tape drive!!!!Yeah buddy!!!!!!!!
Ken