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Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: tatertot on December 21, 2005, 11:06:18 PM: THE REAL QUESTION IS THIS i learned of this game from a fellow employee,about 4 yrs agoWhat do you do all day until you get your flight plan(real life ocupation)

i AM A LEAD AUTO TECH IN A 15 BAY INDEPENDENT GARAGE

CERTIFIED IN ELECTRICAL,AC,ALIGN,BRAKES,ENGINE REPAIR,AND ENGINE PERFORMANCE,BASICALY WHAT THIS MEANS IS I PULL MY HAIR OUT LISTENING TO WHINING MECHANICS WHO CAN FIX CRAP UNTIL I RECIEVE FLIGHT PLAN TO CLEAR MY MIND

WHATS ON YOUR DESK????????????????
Title: I think you're asking what we do for a living.....?
Post by: REP0MAN on December 21, 2005, 11:52:59 PM: I am a Field Agent for one of the largest Repossession and Investigations companies in the United States. I do everything from multi-level fraud investigations (auto, boat, motorized toys only), State to State skip tracing (professional people finding) and stealing cars....legally. Great job, great pay, not so great working conditions but 2 outta 3 ain't bad.

AH is a great way for me to unwind and get my mind off of my work. It can be frusterating, fun and scary all at the same time.

Think YOU can hide? :noid
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Post by: jaxxo on December 21, 2005, 11:54:56 PM: IM an unemployed jet mech with 10 years background in avionics who cant find a job paying more than 20 bux an hour...industry gone to watermelon :(
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Golfer on December 22, 2005, 12:03:38 AM: Flight Instructor and Contract Pilot. Fly small airplanes and some even smaller airplanes. Favorite is a Cirrus SR22 as a traveling machine. "neatest" was a Focke Wulf P-149D. The one I want in my hangar is a Pitts S1C with various modifications...I suppose I could just say it I want an S1S really :)
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Post by: hubsonfire on December 22, 2005, 12:12:29 AM: I knock off qwik E marts, and work as a handyman in the meantime. I don't wear my AH hat, nor do I wear anything that could easily give me away.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Zazen13 on December 22, 2005, 12:18:16 AM: I'm a test subject for invasive Psychiatric experiments. It doesn't pay very well, but I get alot of job perks, like free electro-shock therapy and meds. It's helping alot too. I hardly ever play with my myself until I pass out in a viscous puddle of my own bodily fluids from dehydration and over-exertion anymore. :huh

Zazen
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Post by: x0847Marine on December 22, 2005, 12:28:35 AM: Basic training MRCD San Deigo
0847 MOS trained @ Ft.Sill, OK
Los Angeles Sheriffs academy class 261 ('North' academy whoorahh!), I have a P.O.S.T, advanced P.O.S.T, 9 or 10 P.O.S.T related certs for advanced training in DUI, gangs, forgeries, Police Sniper & vice.

Most fun I had was the LA Riots.. I'm currently retired from injuries and a career A-hole.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: tatertot on December 22, 2005, 12:32:53 AM: wow 3 replys and 4th is all it took really hub what do you really do .besides auto reply on the bbs;)
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 22, 2005, 12:34:59 AM: gigolo;)
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on December 22, 2005, 12:58:56 AM: I dont have a AH hat. I have a AW hat though. I dont wear it at work, but I do on the weekends. I wanted something nice, all I got was a stinking hat. I blame Dose, it was his fault.
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Post by: thndregg on December 22, 2005, 01:22:49 AM: I was a foreman for a tree trimming crew contracted with the local power company here until I came down with an inner ear infection (Labrynthitis). They don't want a dizzy arborist. So I'm currently staying home raising my three boys ages 1, 4, and 6. Wife had to take on the job front as a care provider at a hospice.
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Post by: Bear76 on December 22, 2005, 01:41:17 AM: Damn..mines not as ineresting as some above. I'm just stinking rich:aok
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: thrila on December 22, 2005, 06:45:03 AM: i'm student so unfortunately i don't have any time to work.:D i'm studying microbiology so i get to play with bacteria, fungi and viruses several times a week instead.

I'm proud of my geekiness and all my housemates know of AH. We had a secret santa and someone bought me a model me109 to build. :)
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Post by: Ghosth on December 22, 2005, 06:53:41 AM: Unemployed Jack of all trades with health issues here, so I don't go to work.

I do wear my AH 2002 con cap around the house on special occaisions.

Mostly I prefer my Marvin the Martian hat. (lets me get away with more stuff)

However being in the Trainer Corp you could say that AH is the only job I have left. (Which is just too frickin scary don'ta think?)
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Post by: storch on December 22, 2005, 07:27:32 AM: I own a welding and fabrication shop specializing in gates. we also service and install access control devices. I do play at work from time to time but mostly I troll the bbs. that should be wear instead of were
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Post by: Hornet33 on December 22, 2005, 07:30:53 AM: I'm a 1st Class Electronic Technician in the U.S. Coast Guard. I don't have an AH Hat, but I do have a nice golf shirt with my squads (JG44 Night Hawks) logo on it. I wear that into work every now and then when we get to wear civies.

Most everyone I work with knows about the game but they think it s too geeky for them to play. Half of them play war craft or other online games but "A flight sim game online is boring."

If they only knew.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Furball on December 22, 2005, 07:35:58 AM: i am a coastguard F/A-18 pilot.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: hubsonfire on December 22, 2005, 07:53:35 AM: Quote
Originally posted by tatertot
wow 3 replys and 4th is all it took really hub what do you really do .besides auto reply on the bbs;)

I'm entirely serious.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: tatertot on December 22, 2005, 08:03:28 AM: so your a handyman hub??? or a armed robber :confused:

plz dont drink from the slurpy machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Masherbrum on December 22, 2005, 09:25:51 AM: I have mine from the 2003 Con, I wear it semi-regularly. The wife used to roll her eyes, but now she'll get it for me. I wore it to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo and it got me 10 minutes (twice) of Full-Motion Sims (instead of 3mins).

Karaya
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Hornet33 on December 22, 2005, 09:43:58 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Furball
i am a coastguard F/A-18 pilot.

I used to work with a guy who would tell chicks that in the bars and try to pick them up. What was bad is that it actually worked more often than not. Scarry stuff, the chicks he was picking up with that line, they were.

Furball, your name isn't Al by any chance is it?
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Gryphons on December 22, 2005, 10:34:03 AM: Studying aviation managment in college for next 3 years. Hope to investigate air accidents. Don't have an AH hat but i have a warbirds tshirt with an me109 on the back :aok By the way when is Ah going to market some clothing and beer steins? my christmas wishlist would have totaly different ;)
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Post by: Chimmer on December 22, 2005, 10:51:13 AM: I have a Auto body and Refinishing shop. Along with my brother, we handle it all.........No employees!! Don't want them, don't need them.:D
Don't have a AH hat but do have a good luck flying hat. Also, works well when fishing too.
At work I just read the bbs. Keep the flying at home where the sound is better...........And no Fumes!!!:rolleyes:

Chim
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Post by: Wannab on December 22, 2005, 11:34:41 AM: I work on a fire fighting helicopter for the federal government
and when i say work on.......im not saying im a mechanic:)
i or we i should say get transported to the fire via Bell 212hp.

:noid

Wannab
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: reeb on December 22, 2005, 11:52:36 AM: I dont have an AH hat but i am a HVAC tech and plumber...for those that dont know hvac is heating ventalation air conditioning. i dont talk about AH at work dont have the time to talk about anything except what needs to be done in the house im working in. Before i moved to Illinois 3 months ago i was the Lead HVAC tech for a large company in rochester MN, got offered lots of money to move and work for an even larger company. Im also a shade tree mechanic built my 1st engine when i was 16 put a cobra 302 in my mustang bored it, ported and polished it, all on my own it was such a monster that it twisted the car and ended up selling it. Im also 15% disabled vet with an honorable discharge.
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Post by: Stang on December 22, 2005, 12:03:33 PM: I do what Golfer really wished he was doing.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Morpheus on December 22, 2005, 12:07:47 PM: I do nothing. All day long.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Mustaine on December 22, 2005, 12:23:22 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Morpheus
I do nothing. All day long.
is this supposed to be something we all here don't know?
:p
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: *NDM*JohnnyX on December 22, 2005, 12:28:30 PM: Worked in a aircraft refurbishing shop for 18 months straight out of HS. It was a cool job, stripping and repainting planes and choppers (such as Geraldos and the Duke University helicopter, my name is actually on it so look closely at an episode of E.R., and a Texan, that was cool) Then went to the Newburgh Auto Auction, started in the body shop, now I'm basically an insurance adjuster there, I inspect the incoming cars for mechanical problems, frame damage, previous repairs and existing damage.

They use that info to set the floor price of the vehicles, I'm a car nut and I get to ride around in everything from Mack trucks, to atv's, anything in between. We've even had a Ferrari from Tommy Hilfigers collection, Lambroghini's etc etc. In my spare time I occasionally do custom paint work like motorcycle helmets and the such.

Best part is we're directly across from Stewart ANG base and Stewart airport, I get to watch low level C-5A and C-130 flights daily, and the occasional fighter or two. Saw a B-17 and B-24 this year, last year I had a birds eye view of the Blue Angels practicing for our airshow for a week straight, and we even had a B-2 come in for a ceremony, officially naming it The Spirit of New York. The place is so big it's a designated Shuttle emergency landing strip.

Sorry for the long post, but it's a great place to work for a car/aircraft buff :aok
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Sketch on December 22, 2005, 12:52:28 PM: I build and inspect bombs/munitions in the Air Force. Got my AH, Squad and Rangoon one sewn on my camel-back when I was deployed the first time to Qatar/Iraq. Alor of questions asked by the by the door gunner on my trip to Balad! :rofl
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Sandman on December 22, 2005, 01:08:27 PM: I don't have an AH hat.

I am a test manager here (http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~pacrange/r1/Land1.htm). We test aircraft and weapons. Up until six months or so, I used to work here (http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~pacrange/r1/Ecr.htm). I've been doing this sort of work for the past 14 years.
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Post by: Gloves on December 22, 2005, 01:13:11 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Stang
I do what Golfer really wished he was doing.

WOW!!! :eek:

I thought Golfer was kidding when he said he wished he could make money looking like Bozo the Clown wearing only a pink thong.

Sheesh, people can make a living at anything! :p

Glove
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: tatertot on December 22, 2005, 02:57:59 PM: how do i post a pic on here i just finished a heater blend door on a f150 whole dash had to come out looked like a bomb went off in cab???/ ill post pic if someone can tell me how thanks
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: JTs on December 22, 2005, 03:14:50 PM: I'm a truckdriver. I drive a truck. AH hats dont come in pink
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: gweibe on December 22, 2005, 03:15:40 PM: I have a AH hat and a shirt but I don't wear them in public :D

In real life I'm a consultant specializing in network and systems management.
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Post by: Wolf14 on December 22, 2005, 03:16:05 PM: I am a master control operator and an overall TV broadcast grunt.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Mustaine on December 22, 2005, 03:16:47 PM: Quote
Originally posted by tatertot
how do i post a pic on here i just finished a heater blend door on a f150 whole dash had to come out looked like a bomb went off in cab???/ ill post pic if someone can tell me how thanks

you have to "host" the picture somewhere on the internet.

there are picture hosting services out there...

once you have uploaded the picture you need the link to it.

you then put [ IMG] http://whereyourpicis.com/whatever/yourpic.jpg [/IMG ]

(but no spaces in the [ img ])

(http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/images/on.gif)

there's an example

qoute this post by me, then look at how it is layed out
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: tatertot on December 22, 2005, 03:23:36 PM: wow to much work for me 73 i could email it to you then you post it lol all that work make my head explode remember all i know how to do is point and click bro :confused:
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: BlueJ1 on December 22, 2005, 03:41:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Furball
i am a coastguard F/A-18 pilot.

I didnt know they had F/A-18s in aircraft meseums yet. :D
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: Wolfala on December 22, 2005, 03:46:18 PM: I restored warbirds after college up in Windsorlocks CT. Couldn't find a decent job other then CFIIMEI crap and construction in NYC for a few years. Got type 1 diabetes before graduation and commissioning. Taught for a year at University of Illinois flying and physics. Moved back home - taught for another year. Got drafted to move out to California back in July 04 by a civi DOD group - started as an analyst - doing PM stuff with off grid power conversion for soldiers and vehicles, and network architecture that's agnostic to the data sourcing. Appointed to be the 'Flag LT' for a 2 star ret RADM w/ 2 gold stars in lieu of promotion former CO of BB-64 USS Wisconson during Gulf War 91.

My boss and 2 co-workers are in my AH squad. He flies 190s - I fly 47s. I have lots of screen shots up on my wall. He was a Hornet Head with a handicap sticker on his tail. I was a rotorhead with TOW's and Hellfires.

I'm still a poor 25 year old with a loving wife. But I still think Aces High and Twizzlers are more addictive then crack.

Cest la vi.
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Post by: Lye-El on December 22, 2005, 03:51:26 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Masherbrum
I wore it to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo and it got me 10 minutes (twice) of Full-Motion Sims (instead of 3mins).

Karaya

I wonder if you could hook up one to Aces High? Those were pretty fun. Shuttle Sim was pretty cool also.
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Post by: Heretik on December 22, 2005, 03:54:04 PM: I'm occasionally a lighting technician. Working my way through school so I can become.... something else.
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Post by: Mustaine on December 22, 2005, 04:20:11 PM: Quote
Originally posted by tatertot
wow to much work for me 73 i could email it to you then you post it lol all that work make my head explode remember all i know how to do is point and click bro :confused:
sure i can try tomorrow.

email it to dmray_1@yahoo.com
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Post by: wetrat on December 22, 2005, 10:28:16 PM: I'm a student with no legit income... was a hockey ref until my cert expired last week. Now all I've got is poker (NOONE in college knows how to play... it's like racing a dude with an artificial leg in the 100 metres) and other shady business :furious
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Post by: Ack-Ack on December 22, 2005, 10:36:08 PM: I work for a major gaming company that puts out MMOs and other related online games. Basically just one of the cogs in a vast machine.

ack-ack
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Post by: NUKE on December 22, 2005, 10:48:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ack-Ack
I work for a major gaming company that puts out MMOs and other related online games. Basically just one of the cogs in a vast machine.

ack-ack

what do you do?
Title: what I do....
Post by: SIM on December 22, 2005, 11:00:43 PM: I'm a distribution service tech for Duke Power. I've just finished working the 2005 ice storm here in the Carolinas. I've just spent 7 days working 16+ hours each. It's time for bed and I find myself reading posts on this board. Can this be considered an addiction?
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Post by: Ack-Ack on December 22, 2005, 11:06:51 PM: Quote
Originally posted by NUKE
what do you do?

Hehe some will find this rather ironic but community relations for one of the games the company I work for has.

ack-ack
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Post by: Zazen13 on December 22, 2005, 11:49:28 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Hehe some will find this rather ironic but community relations for one of the games the company I work for has.

ack-ack

Haha! Well that explains why you are always so grumpy to us! You're sick of having to be nice to people all day! :rofl

Zazen
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Post by: Pooh21 on December 23, 2005, 12:03:07 AM: actually his job would rock, play AH all day, get liquored up. and get andoffice and pay to boot. Since that game has no community relations.

:rofl

me

FedEx Home Delivery Driver.
Title: do you were your ah hat at work???
Post by: culero on December 23, 2005, 07:11:18 AM: Quote
Originally posted by tatertot
how do i post a pic on here i just finished a heater blend door on a f150 whole dash had to come out looked like a bomb went off in cab???/ ill post pic if someone can tell me how thanks

Ford HVAC stuff is teh suck, ain't it? Crap like this and evap cores on Escorts/Tempos/Tauruses, etc etc etc was a big part of me deciding to hang the wrenches up a few years ago. I constantly wanted to find an auto design engineer and castrate the bastard....grrrr.

When I quit that I was (well, the certs are still current, so I guess I still am) an ASE Master auto tech, self-employed as a shop owner/operator for 18 years with about 6 years of dealership service management experience before that.

Then I decided my life needed change. After a couple of years of floundering around trying a couple or three different things, I ended up going to wotk for the local newspaper, where I now manage retail sales. Its a real grind but a great company to work for with people I can actually like and respect both up and down the chain of command from me. If having to have a job is a given, that's not a bad place to be.

The only thing I can think of that I'd rather do is teach school, but I don't know if I'd be willing to take the pay cut to do it - that's a bridge that will have to be examined if the opportunity comes up :)

culero
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Post by: tatertot on December 23, 2005, 07:25:46 AM: culero you said it everytime i do a dash i wanna walk out.On the flip side of the designs of them it must take those geeks months to figure the patterns out still doesnt make them right does it.ive been doing it for 20 yrs was a plumber before that keeped getting laidoff dad worked at this shop rest is history now i cant get out

between the vehicles,mgr,and being flat rate it all suxs
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Post by: Slash27 on December 23, 2005, 07:29:45 AM: Firefighter/Parmedic.

I wore my AH2004 con t-shirt the other day.
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Post by: Nwbie on December 23, 2005, 07:44:57 AM: Im an operations manager for a precious metals recycling company, we take your garbage and make a few, ok quite a few pennies off it :)

http://www.ramrecycling.com

Thinking hub's job is way more interesting

:O

NwBie
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Post by: CHECKERS on December 23, 2005, 07:46:19 AM: Nope, retired here.... hung up the helmet in 1995, raced AMA Dirttrack & SCORE off road, AMA offroad, 30+ years.. ( motorcycles) 4 years SS/B Dragracing (Plymouth) 1966/1969. member U.S. Marine Raider Association Inc.
Spend my days building and playing with my streetrods '32 Ford 3 window Coupe, and my '32 Ford roadster ( both HiBoys ) .. Member of The Over The Hill Gang Car Club .... Lousey AH pilot .....

~~CHECKERS~~
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Post by: Jackal1 on December 23, 2005, 08:22:11 AM: Inventor, owner and president of ChiggerflickerOmatic Inc.
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Post by: Saintaw on December 23, 2005, 08:34:41 AM: I'm an IT contractor/developer... I'm here (on this planet) to steal your money and make you work for it :o
Another translation would be: I am here to fix problems you didn't know you had.
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Post by: Max on December 23, 2005, 08:39:04 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Morpheus
I do nothing. All day long.

Then perhaps you can PM them puter specs you mentioned the other day :furious

MaX
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Post by: midnight Target on December 23, 2005, 09:03:40 AM: Trailer Trash
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Post by: shegotya on December 23, 2005, 09:21:04 AM: I have been away from my job for a few months now. Debating if I am going back to the same clinic or not. I am a Veterinary Technician. Was nice to stay home for the most of the summer and real nice not to have to drive everyday in this cold/snow. Come spring if I am not back at the clinic I spent the last five years I will be at a closer local clinic. Although I could do this homemaker thing for a while ... heh eh!! I do not own a AH hat yet. I did buy one for the hubby when I used to be wife ack and he wears his in the summer not to burn his precious bald head ... :)
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Post by: betty on December 23, 2005, 10:46:13 AM: wow...yall have some really interesting jobs. mine is boring but easy. we do modular home finish sets. modulars come in 2 boxes, when they r put together on the foundation, we go in and finish the "marriage" line. that is where both boxes meet. we do drywall, paint, trim and sometimes siding facia, soffit, and the crossover betweeb the boxes. i have 36 modular home dealers that i work with in michigan. been kinda slow this year, but it will get better here shortly. i have sub contractors that work for me, i set up the job, they go do it.

i have a saying " works smart not hard "

~betty~
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Post by: Max on December 23, 2005, 11:30:58 AM: Trailer Trash redux

MaX
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Post by: batdog on December 23, 2005, 11:53:16 AM: Porn Star :aok

Back to reality....

IT/Telecom=Microwave,PBX's,Fiber Optic, DACS, 800MHZ radio system, servers, some routers and switchs, PC's... and all the transport and smaller items in between.
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Post by: ColKLink on December 23, 2005, 12:24:14 PM: I pay fat chicks phone bills, that dont have a job,and live at home. But i have recently retired from that, for good.
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Post by: Silat on December 23, 2005, 12:42:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Zazen13
I'm a test subject for invasive Psychiatric experiments. It doesn't pay very well, but I get alot of job perks, like free electro-shock therapy and meds. It's helping alot too. I hardly ever play with my myself until I pass out in a viscous puddle of my own bodily fluids from dehydration and over-exertion anymore. :huh

Zazen

Are there any job openings?
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Post by: Zazen13 on December 23, 2005, 12:46:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Silat
Are there any job openings?

Always Silat, the 'burn-out' rate is very high. ;)

Zazen
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Post by: eskimo2 on December 23, 2005, 02:01:33 PM: I have a AH hat from the 2000 con but have never worn it.
I have probably the lowest paying job that requires a coat and tie; I’m a Catholic school teacher. I work with a bunch of women and kids; no real chance to discuss things like AH at work. I did wear-out my tee shirt around the house though. I have talked up AH to dozens of people that I have met and known. I’m only sure of 3 or 4 that I definitely recruited.

eskimo