Hey What Does Everyone Here Do For A Living??

[Nelson F]

I am a Stagehand!! IATSE & Teamster"

[Scott64]

I live with my parents

[guildx700~]

Plant manager in a Spice/Seasonings factory.

[davepaf]

Im a shepherd.
no, wait....
Im a carpenter.:D

[Nelson F]

Ed R i'm waiting for you!!! Come on tell all"

[Ed Rafalko]

I am your worst nigthmare. I leech the very energy of life from all I come in contact with. I am always looking for something for nothing. I am all about the Free Lunch. I don't pay my dues, don't pay my bills, and don't feed my pets. Unless I catch yours. Then I feed them to MY pets.
I kill plants out of sheer spite, I destroy carpeting like it's going out of style, I hold out my hand and fully expect you to fill it with money and when you don't I get bitter.
I tell you lies, and when confronted I deny culpability and assign YOU the blame for getting suckered in. I manipulate the environment to my OWN advantage, cheat the system for my own profit. I rob, cheat, lie, steal, and blackmail at will, and I kill for the jollies.
I'm the guy that cuts you off in trffic three times in less than half mile, and then flips you off for being in my way. I'm the guy that throws his trash in your yard when you aren't looking. The guy that takes five handfuls of free stuff and puts it on eBay for a huge markup? THat's me. I will talk bad about your family, friends, pets, habits, hobbies, and YOU.

Don't piss me off.

[davepaf]

Its nice to see youve changed into a better person than you used to be Ed.:lol2

[Nelson F]

Ok can you please repeat that!! you sound familiar!!

[Ed Rafalko]

OH ll right. I'm a freeloader.

[Lily]

Me too. I'm a worthless freeloader.

[Nelson F]

Oh why did i start this Thread?

[Gazza]

I work for a heavy machinery dealer.:)

[stxrus]

i get to sit on a beach every day, play my guitar when times are slow, save coutless tourist lives from being a tourist, apply sunblock to young nubile females (don't want that firm thigh skin showing premature signs of sun degredation), i also am a SCUBA instructor, do underwater video/still work, & in my spare time design/build/maintain web sites. i also get to gig every once -n- a while.
i shamelessly own a SG and an old (but not too old) princeton reverb amp. a couple of acoustics round out the stable.
i am known on another forum as the "ultimate beach bum". a title i srtive everyday to uphold.
aand if chosen as the recepient of the marshall amp (surely i will win) i promise to cary the honor................. geez what shit!!
:stxrus
steve

[Ed Rafalko]

Oh, poor, deluded Steve-o. Gotta tell you, just so you have a few months to get used to the idea, that it's going to be ME who wins that amp. That's just the way it's going to be.;)
Lily, you're even mroe of a freeloader than I am- but at least you don't poison houseplants or pull wings off flys.;)

[Lily]

How do you know I don't.

[Nelson F]

Originally posted by Lily
How do you know I don't.

Ha?

[davepaf]

:rspin :rspin :rspin

[stxrus]

Originally posted by Ed Rafalko
Oh, poor, deluded Steve-o. Gotta tell you, just so you have a few months to get used to the idea, that it's going to be ME who wins that amp. That's just the way it's going to be.;)


maybe it's just working out inthe tropical sun every day, but that amp is mine!! damnit, it's gonna be mine!! with that i coulda been a contender. i coulda been somebody.....

steve
(to the spoiled goes victory)
;)

my typing sucks after a few "boat drinks"

[TBoneDeluxe]

I own a little retail music store. Nothing major, just the basics...Fender, Marshall, Roccaforte, DW, Pearl, etc.


:trio


TBD

[Nelson F]

Originally posted by TBoneDeluxe
I own a little retail music store. Nothing major, just the basics...Fender, Marshall, Roccaforte, DW, Pearl, etc.


:trio


TBD

I Like that you got the back room to make Pasta for the Boy's??
If you like i'll send you 50 gallons of home made wine""

[Nelson F]

Originally posted by TBoneDeluxe
I own a little retail music store. Nothing major, just the basics...Fender, Marshall, Roccaforte, DW, Pearl, etc.


:trio


TBD

Is the Tatallia Family behind you?

[SteveK]

Boring old IT hack. It says "technical consultant" on my business card, but that really means: jack of all trades, general dogsbody and chief poppleskew[1]

- Steve K

1) One who exists in an organisation to be the subject of blame. Why else do you think they employ expatriates? ;)

[jimi's bolero]

I'm a bum..... :)

[TBoneDeluxe]

Originally posted by Nelson F


Is the Tatallia Family behind you?

I thought we talked about this before...during the meeting with the heads of the 5 families. You were there. The offer was made. I asked, "Why do I deserve this generosity?" Then it was dropped. I remain independent from the Tatallia family. They can keep control from 48th street east. We thought about a deal, but when the subject of Rio Grande pickups came up...it was over. I won't deal that kind of stuff to the kids.

:stone

TBD

[Tonefiend]

By night I work at a cigar box factory. By day I am a woodworker/fixturemaker


Ed you don't happen to have family in So California do you, I run into people like that every day!

[Mike Hansen]

I used to be a chemist, got laid off last year, and almost went to work for the state forensic science lab. I'm going to guitar repair and building school this fall.

How's that for a career change? :D

[hank]

Mike, that's a huge change. Congrats.

hank'sanarchitect

[Mike Hansen]

What kind of architecture, hank? Commercial/residential?

[Rx Tone]

Hey Nelson..What local?
I used to be in Local 60 when I lived in Fla....(Only because they waived the initiation fee)...Did that type of work for a living for about 20 years here in New Orleans and Pensacola. Both La. and Fla. are "right to work" states though.
Then I spent 10 straight years touring as a guitar tech...(well, not "straight" years..heheh..maybe I should say "consecutive" years)
Now I'm retired from the road and have a full time guitar repair business catering mostly to working pro players.

here... check me out if you want.

Backstage Guitar Repair (community.webtv.net/lespaul-59)

Good luck Mike Hansen..it's a great gig...indoor work...cool in the summer and warm in the winter...no heavy lifting...no living in hotels.

:cool:

-edit-...spelling

[Nelson F]

Originally posted by SteveK
Boring old IT hack. It says "technical consultant" on my business card, but that really means: jack of all trades, general dogsbody and chief poppleskew[1]

- Steve K

1) One who exists in an organisation to be the subject of blame. Why else do you think they employ expatriates? ;)

Yes it was the Wah where Chas saw Hendrix!!!!!!

[Ed Rafalko]

Hm... Good Point, Lily- you're a mean one too, Grinchette.;)

[Lily]

Grinchette. Yes, I like it. ;)

[Ed Rafalko]

WEll, anyone that goes out of their way to kill cats on the street, leaves poisoned meat out for the racoons, purposely clogs public toilets, and takes more than 10 items through the 'Express Checkout' lane in the supermarket gets the 'Grinchette' label. Tag, you're it!;)

[Lily]

Okay Ed. I concede, I cannot commit to that level of grinchiness.
I was thinking I could just be grumpy to you once in awhile.

I am now officially OUT of the Grinch business...:lol2

[hank]

Mike, we do most everything EXCEPT residential. hank

[Ed Rafalko]

Originally posted by Lily
Okay Ed. I concede, I cannot commit to that level of grinchiness.
I was thinking I could just be grumpy to you once in awhile.

I am now officially OUT of the Grinch business...:lol2

Oh, no, young lady. You can't escape it THAT easily! Once tagged a Grinchette, ALWAYS tagged a Grinchette. IT's like a tattoo only down to the bone. I think you ought to change your Avatar to a picture of the Grinch, only put lipstick, earrings, and read hair on it.;)

[Nelson F]

Ed i think you are capable of Writing a Book!!!

[davepaf]

Ed, you're dying for a beating arent you.:lol2

[Lily]

But I don't WANT to be a Grinchette!!!! :wah :wah :wah

Forget it! I am going into hiding. Forget you ever knew me. :bh

[Ed Rafalko]

Originally posted by Lily
But I don't WANT to be a Grinchette!!!! :wah :wah :wah

Forget it! I am going into hiding. Forget you ever knew me. :bh

Eep!
Not QUITE the reaction I was expecting...
I'm sorry Lily, you aren't a Grinchette, you're the nicest person I have ever talked to.
How's this- you can be an HONORARY Grinchette. Don't hide!
Id' call you but I don't want to be accused of whining!

[Lily]

heh heh heh

(Ya see that???? There's more than one way to skin a Grinch!) ;)

[Ed Rafalko]

grumblemumblearglebarglefrigginredheadsgrumblemumb le....

[Lily]

:angel

[Ed Rafalko]

That's a rather rakish angle for that halo, Lily....

[brianf]

Treasury/Credit Analyst at a Computer Leasing Company.----boring.


Part time at a retail Golf Store. Not quite as boring.

brianf

[Drumbeater]

Retired

[heinz]

I am an art director for a video game company (http://www.fasastudio.com/) that makes giant robot combat action/simulation games.

[Bobby Lee]

Project Mgr/Software Consultant/System Analyst/Programmer; my card says Project Mgr.

Basically, I make the promises that the salesmen make come true. Titles are free, results buy gear.

[winston]

Originally posted by Bobby Lee
Titles are free, results buy gear.

I like that quote. I'm in wireless communications. My card says Indirect Account Executive.

[hogy]

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[Ed Rafalko]

Hogy we all know the truth about you- you're a wine taster and for a hobby you preserve apples. ;)

[Nelson F]

Ed do u get your fish tank with the wall paper??

[Ed Rafalko]

NO, Nelson, I kept myself kinda busy today and didn't even think about it until after 8 PM, when all the stores were going to be closed before I could get there and make a choice.
I DID buy some stuff today:
2 packs of hot dogs
1 pack of American cheese, pre-sliced
2 3-liter bottles of diet coke
A HUGE bag of styrofoam popcorn
breakfast- a chili and cheese omelette
Last night I dropped by the Guitar Center and asked them for a couple boxes to ship guitars in. Now all I need is some more packing tape and I can say goodbye to the Lopsided V and the Deweyburst.
I woke up early, went to the store, came back, decided I was hungry and went to breakfast.
Then I came home and proceded to destroy a halfsheet of half-inch plywood trying to make some fixtures. Along about 4 PM I abandoned that idea and went ahead and did what I was going to use the fixtures for manually. ( I'm making a couple fingerboards , I'm talking about making the inlay pockets. It's harder than it looks!)

I hope to do something about the TV/Aquarium situation tomorrow or Monday. But I'm being awfully indecisive, which is very unusual for me. Usually I know exactly what I want, where I want it from and how much I want to pay for it, have the transportation/delivery/placement plan all lined up and ready to go, and have three or four budget plans worked up for possible unforeseen expenditures. This time around I haven't done much research. I'm slacking.

I'll get over it. I think it's because I expect this will probably be the last TV I will buy, so it should be built to last a while and have the correct features, and I am not entirely certain what those features should be yet. In the case of the aquarium, I think I'm waffling because I know it's incredibly impractical to set up a huge aquarium in an apartment , even if it's oin the first floor, because my lease only goes for 15 more months and I'll probably have to move it then, PLUS it's HUGE, it would dominate the whole place, and since it would be running at around 80 degrees it would also bump up my power bills, both by its own use of electricity and by the fact that its sheer mass will heat the air around it to its own ambient temperature, thereby forcing the air conditioning to kick in a lot more often.

PLUS, I haven't really decided on what filtration designs I'll be using, and that WILL make a difference on the type of tank I select. I do have a few species of fish picked out that I'd like to keep- but one species is extremely rare ( in the hobby, not in nature) and they only find it in the wild in early summer, so its window of availability for this year has already closed, and a second species I like has just been placed on the 'red list' - the list of endangered species in the wild- and I don't know that I want to have an endangered species in my living room. The fact that the ones that might end up in my tank are born and raised in captivity doesn't mean much. Or does it?

[Nelson F]

It sounds like your getting ready for Arlington when all the BOYZ
come over!

[Ed Rafalko]

Originally posted by Nelson F
It sounds like your getting ready for Arlington when all the BOYZ
come over!
When they come over, the last thing we're doing is watching TV or talking about fish.;)
If I were truly getting ready for the boys, I'd be buying a house.
Which I still can't seem to do- yet.

[GuitarG]

I'm the IT Director for a pharmaceutical distributor. Been with this company for 5 years. Before that I was a full time musician for about 25 years or so. This is my first 'real' job since high school.

[Dave Paetow]

Temporary retirement

[NewOldCokeDave]

Sex Fiend

[Bluenote]

I work for a Major Wireless/Telephone Communication Company up here in CANADA as a Computer Operator Specialist, 3 day 12.5 hrs/shift and off between 4-8 day break.Holidays not counted yet!!! Sweet JOB! Fortunate,Thankful. Glad to be here also!.;)

[Tim C.]

Originally posted by NewOldCokeDave
Sex Fiend

:nocd :bonk :lol

:timc

[Motojunkie]

Man, I wan't NOCD's job!

Actually I'm a Sr. Nuclear Operator.....Think Homer Simpson. ;)

[JoeP]

I'm just a musician.. I have to sit around and play music all the time... Boy,,,, life really sucks...

:play

But, then I also own a recording studio, so I have to deal with musicians on the other hand too... all styles, all genres....

JoeP

[ABBFan1969]

I'm about to be an unemployed banker. Losing my job on Oct 31. After 30 years I need a change. Used to manage credit policy for an $8 billion credit card operation.

Have picked up some good ideas here. Thanks!

[wileyone]

Freelance gynecologist......

[pickdropper]

Originally posted by Mike Hansen
I used to be a chemist, got laid off last year, and almost went to work for the state forensic science lab. I'm going to guitar repair and building school this fall.

How's that for a career change? :D

I can relate to this a bit. Last summer, I quit my job of 9 years as a manager of shipping operations for a Kitchenware wholesaler to go back to school. Currently working on a electrical engineering degree.

Good luck in your endeavors.