Let's see. . . 6 years in retailing, the past 25 years in ag & commercial finance with a part time Muzzleloading Gun business in my basement
( past 20 yrs.) I was fortunate enough to get gas & maintenance money for the cub by "pick'en & grin'en" on weekends. Did that for 30+ yrs. Stoped as couldn't stay out all night & fly early in the morning anymore. It must be that over 50 thing.
I'm one of those high-level computer geeks right now but I am seriously entertaining the idea of getting my A&P and working on cubs and other taildraggers at some point in the future.
87-89 Alumni Relations Flunky
89-92 Grad Student
92-96 Lawyer (defense)
96-97 Aviation Consultant and Recovering Lawyer
98-P Full-time Daddy Dictator and Domestic/International Air Service Development Analyst and Marketing Dude
Apprentice Engineer with an aerospace company.
Freelance Electronic Design Engineer for a good few years.
For the last 16 or so years I have been a partner in an electronic design and manufacturing company. I started off as a design engineer, now I hire smarter people than me to do that job. Currently do mainly Waffle and Twaddle (sometimes called marketing and business development). With periods of looking out of the window, and coming up with good excuses to go flying.
A Childhood of Auto Body ans Paint (Dad owned business)
4 years of Wild Life management (Managed a 17k acres wild life refuge with 2 other techs)
3 years of Trasportation and coustmer service (Valet at a casino)
Asositet Degree in Diesel Auto Mechanics
3 years Dodge Diesel Tech
3 years with Les Schwabs
Head Squeege sharpener at AK Bushwheel.
Future.......... UNKNOWN
Got my pilot ratings in the 60's after highschool.
Flight Instructed and worked as a carpenter to keep the wolf away.
Flew Piper Pawnees and Cessna Agtrucks in the 70's.
Operated my own construction company late 70,s earley 80's.
Operated a big game hunting outfitting business for 10 years, hunting elk in central Idaho. (this was great but tried to make a small fortune out of a larger one.)
Now I am a building inspector doing code compliance inspections.
Like to design, build and fly airplanes both big and little. I have an experimental version of an Alaska Bushmaster that I built and fly. Also enjoy the models.
I don't want to sound like a patronizing SOB, but you guys might want to racall that anything you reveal about yourselves in an open forum makes you that much more vulnerable. And, yes, I am pathalogically paranoid. But keep in mind that you're not just posting for decent SC fans: Anyone with internet access can read what you write here.
Just a caring reality check, mates. Take it for what's it's worth.
In school, I was a lifeguard on the beach. Basically a babysitter.
Later in school, I babysat flyfishermen.
Now I'm a dentist. I babysit the girls, who do 90% of the actual work.
Ken