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Offline Lligaf

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #180 on: May 04, 2009, 12:25:27 PM »
Mechanical Supervisor for a plumbing hvac and electrical co. Married 9 years and have 2 girls 16 months and almost 6.
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Offline malpeake

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #181 on: May 04, 2009, 01:59:30 PM »
Machinist, i work for a small company making turbine engine components for a helicopter engine.
I fly Spits because I'm  Brit, It's in our DNA to fly Spits.

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Offline ttflier

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #182 on: May 04, 2009, 05:05:29 PM »
1. Run a small network company.
2. Amateur Luthier
3. Single
4. Still fly like I'm on my two week pass
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Offline smokey23

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #183 on: May 04, 2009, 05:15:56 PM »
Retired landscape business owner.
spend my time building websites for local companies.
1 adult daughter 26yr old.

Offline Tom5572

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #184 on: May 04, 2009, 10:34:55 PM »
Father to a 13 YO son and 9 YO daughter and a ?, find out soon
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Offline MajWoody

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« Reply #185 on: May 04, 2009, 10:55:26 PM »
1.  Family Practice physician
2.  300 acre farm - 10 turkey houses (Cargill), Angus cattle and Holsteins, crop about 170 acres
3.  Real estate development (second major housing development about to come on line)
4.  Collect royalties from Organic Chemistry Flash card set I designed in Medical School and sold to a major publisher who sells to University campus bookstores
5.  Authored and sold the rights to Stanley Kaplan et al a book on applying to Med School...they still use it for their MCAT prep course

Now for you younger laddies...prior to all this I:

1.  Worked at McDonald's
2.  Bagged groceries and took them out for customers at the Air Force commissary
3.  Worked in the campus library stacks refiling books (time never moved so slowly)
4.  Worked drafting organic chemistry models for a college professor's publications
5.  Ran rats through mazes to determine the effect of CCK on their nervous systems
6.  Did western blot analysis on fruit fly DNA (found out later the chemicals i worked with weren't safe...)
7.  Used a corrosive process to make microscopic clips to hold muscle fibers for testing for a Nobel Prize runner up.
8.  Ate popcorn for lunch, top ramen noodles for dinner and saved every penny i could.... :D



I have 4 beautiful kids and a wife who have made it all worthwhile...

So,   What do you do in your spare time?  :)
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Offline 999000

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #186 on: May 04, 2009, 11:41:58 PM »
1. Coach, Started coaching back in 1979  youth football, basketball, and baseball. High school track and field.  Crosscountry. and University of St. Thomas Track.
2. Teacher Masters degree special  education and Coaching ... over 20 years now.... EBD, Autism, Multihandicapped.
3. Active in local goverment: Served as City Councilman,  Served on the Planning and zoning board, and currently City Charter officer.
4. One X-wife...really one's enouph!...... she even thinks she gets the kids on Father's Day!. Like General Patton said "anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger!"
5. 5 Children 21, 17, 13, 10, and baby Sullivan in heaven.
6. Love to spend time in the pole barn restoring anythign with a motor! Restored a bunch of Honda CB160's 1977 MGB and a 1958 Trojan day cruiser wood boat.
7. Someday hope to learn to fly a FIGHTER in Aces High!
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Offline DamnedRen

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #187 on: May 05, 2009, 09:54:40 AM »
I will only say it one time.....

No parent should ever have to outlive their children.

My heart goes out to you guys, guppy and 999000

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Offline lazydog

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« Reply #188 on: May 05, 2009, 10:17:44 AM »
i started working at small printing CO.at the age of 15 cause my father left us (3 brothers 1 sister)to help with the bills
by the age of 19 was a supervisor of 10 guys twice my age of the same CO.running a daily spanish newspaper for new york city(the el dioro)
have 2 great kids and wife by 25 was plant manager for the same CO.for 15 years finally when the kids were old enough i told them i was all done i was ready  for the loony bin your mother and are out of here were going to florida and of course they followed us. god forbid they supported themselves

Offline Borsuk

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« Reply #189 on: May 05, 2009, 10:26:11 AM »
28 years as a ropedragger in the British Merchant Navy.
Currently assigned to an offshore production platform in Brazil.
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Offline CountD90

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #190 on: May 05, 2009, 11:15:48 AM »
Broke college student majoring in Network Administration and I'm a certified life guard during the summer (not all its hyped up to be with girls and such =P).
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Offline 999000

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« Reply #191 on: May 05, 2009, 11:24:27 AM »
Damned Ren.. Thanks Ren, It's been a number of years.... time seems to be good for the healing proccess..I feel horrible for Guppy also.
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Re: JOBS
« Reply #192 on: May 05, 2009, 11:43:27 AM »
Heavy equipment operator

2 kids out of house wait one just came back home do to hard times.

Love hunting

Married 26 years and not 50 yet getting close.
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Offline T24

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #193 on: May 05, 2009, 04:16:57 PM »
I own an aviation company. We lease aircraft to major corporations, with our latest addition being a Gulfstream 650. Man what an airplane. We have 2 Lear (Bombardier) 45's and 2 Challenger 800 series. I keep asking maintenance if they can put some Hispanos on one of em to see what happens lol. I have a wonderful wife, a 12 year old son, 10 and 6 year old daughters. Life is good.
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Offline Steve

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Re: JOBS
« Reply #194 on: May 05, 2009, 04:22:27 PM »

6. Love to spend time in the pole barn restoring anythign with a motor! Restored a bunch of Honda CB160's 1977 MGB and a 1958 Trojan day cruiser wood boat.

Pole barn?   You in Wisconsin?
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