Post #84,686
2/27/03 5:22:04 PM
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Alternative careers
Hi, all,
Have you ever considered an alternative career, however briefly, however outlandish?
Thanx,
- pdmoderator
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Post #84,693
2/27/03 5:44:44 PM
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OTR Owner Operator
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Post #84,694
2/27/03 5:46:26 PM
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There are easier ways to get away from that 18 yr old. :-)
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Post #84,696
2/27/03 5:48:42 PM
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I like long drives, have driven tractors before.
Actually discussed with wife for when the youngest one moves out. Other retiree's buy a Motor Home, I would make some side money by doing the same thing.
thanx,
bill
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Post #84,701
2/27/03 6:44:17 PM
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I could live with that
Kinda like Star Trek in the Big Rig Enterprise.
-drl
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Post #84,706
2/27/03 7:12:32 PM
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Yep
Current plan is to save cash from doing this road warrior gig I'm currently on, and then use the money saved to open up a SCUBA shop.
-YendorMike
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Post #84,710
2/27/03 7:31:50 PM
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??? in napierville?
diving the creek or frozen diving in Michegan?
thanx,
bill
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Post #84,714
2/27/03 7:38:39 PM
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Why not?
There are divers wot live here. Lotsa great wrecks in Michigan. Ice diving is a specialty, as is dry suit diving. Besides...vacations that I can write off when I go to the Caribbean can't be all bad!
-YendorMike
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Post #84,718
2/27/03 7:59:46 PM
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True enough, like the dive shop in Anchorage
had to keep the shop open by inspecting commercial boats. That would be way more interesting than IT. Good luck to ya.
thanx,
bill
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Post #84,715
2/27/03 7:50:05 PM
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Wet suits...
Lots of people from Chicago-way come up to Michigan in the summer.
Lake Michigan is rather cold until about August or so... I myself have a wetsuit that I used for water skiing.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #84,719
2/27/03 8:00:49 PM
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you gonna spend anytime under the water a dry suit would be
better. It gets cold in the GLakes
thanx,
bill
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Post #84,722
2/27/03 8:06:07 PM
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Note: wa-ter ski-ing
Implies not much time spent in the water, let alone under it. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #84,797
2/28/03 9:20:39 AM
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Not for me
I pissed off my instructer by refusing to be whipped.
He make a fist indicating he was about to whip and I'd shake my head. He'd insist, and I'd drop the line.
So he didn't warn me, took it REALLY tight and fast. As I was skipping over the water like a stone, I lost it. Did a couple of cartwheels, and then landed sideways. Continued to roll over the water. Ripped my shorts right off my body and I lost them.
I got a little wet after that.
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Post #84,805
2/28/03 9:45:31 AM
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Instructor? do you get an instructor for lap dances too?
latest fun thing in Alaska according to one of my buds. Get a Heavy equipment innertube, strap some canvas to it. Load it with drunks, attach a jetboat with a chevvy 455 motor and a long rope to the front. Go like hell and see how fast you can ditch the drunks.
thanx,
bill
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Post #84,941
2/28/03 4:39:50 PM
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Pulling wings off flies needs less equipment.
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Post #85,013
2/28/03 10:53:05 PM
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Re: Instructor? do you get an instructor for lap dances too?
I dunno.
Was I getting lap dances at camp at age 10?
That was when I was water skiing.
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Post #85,017
2/28/03 10:58:46 PM
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my apologies, at 10yo I was instructed by pop's friend
put the rope between the ski's and hang on tight. What seemed like 2 minutes at 50 mph being drug under the water they stopped the boat and said "oh yeah, when the boat start forward pull yerself up then hang on tight." worked fine then.
thanx,
bill
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Post #85,024
2/28/03 11:12:34 PM
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Sounds like my experience.
But I never was given the instruction about pulling up. :-/
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #84,856
2/28/03 11:38:19 AM
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Does Berry Scuba still exist?
They used to have a couple of stores in the south suburbs and in Lombard near Yorktown mall. If they do, then it might be tough to compete against them. There was a place on 59 one half mile north of I-88 that went out of business several years ago. I took lessons from a guy that had a shop behind the Glen theater in Glen Ellyn back when I was young.
Never saw a scuba shop in Naperville, but with Naperville and Aurora combining for over 1/4 million people, that's a lot of potential customers.
lincoln
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Post #84,866
2/28/03 11:55:24 AM
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Yep
They used to have a couple of stores in the south suburbs and in Lombard near Yorktown mall. Yep, they're still around. If they do, then it might be tough to compete against them. I dunno. I've been to two of their stores and I was thoroughly not impressed. Most of the stores I've been to in Austin and NJ seemed much better in terms of selection and service... There was a place on 59 one half mile north of I-88 that went out of business several years ago. Nope. That one is still there. I was in that shop in October looking for a work-for-free job. Offered my services completely free. Got turned down. He said he didn't need any help. Whatever... Never saw a scuba shop in Naperville, but with Naperville and Aurora combining for over 1/4 million people, that's a lot of potential customers. That's rather my exact point. Lots and lots and lots of people here. There's gotta be a market somewhere! -YendorMike
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Post #84,736
2/27/03 9:27:32 PM
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A couple
Game theory specialist.
Police officer.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #84,754
2/27/03 11:40:16 PM
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Oh... here it comes...
Philosopher.
Professional Model Builder.
Auto Restifier (Restorer/Modifier), I like my cars better than they were back then... but still look the part. (i.e.: Wilwood 4 piston Disc brakes vs. OEM Drum, Stainless Exhaust vs Coldrolled pipe, etc...)
Professional High School 1on1 Tutor.
Quantum Physics Systems Engineer... (the person that develops the plans for the PAs and some such things)
Last but not least, Underwater Welder... best left unsaid.
b4k4^2
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Post #84,773
2/28/03 2:40:39 AM
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Your third one is a long-time dream of mine, too.
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Post #85,125
3/1/03 9:19:28 PM
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I do that one...
...in my "spare-time" and "spare-money". As of late I haven't been into alot of spare money.
That actually was my first career choice... but when I had to choose, there wasn't a single one around here in GR.
b4k4^2
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Post #84,789
2/28/03 8:55:31 AM
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number 6 also sat? you are not a helium breather are you?
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Post #84,794
2/28/03 9:15:47 AM
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Underwater welder
I went to some state sponsered job training when I was about 18. Fresh out of rehab. Things like how to behave in a interview.
When they asked what type of job training you wanted to get, I told them underwater welder. They were not amused.
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Post #85,124
3/1/03 8:44:55 PM
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Re: Underwater Welder
[link|http://www.graydiving.com.au/gd1.htm|They do it in Oz], but I wouldn't get fired up over it. :)
Alex
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Post #85,127
3/1/03 9:25:25 PM
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do a lot of it in the gulf of mexico also
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Post #84,761
2/27/03 11:56:44 PM
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Re: Alternative careers
A few I considered:
Mattress Factory Matress Tester
Video Game Beta Tester
Stand up comedian
Big and Tall men's clothes model
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Post #84,787
2/28/03 8:46:42 AM
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Walter Mitty got nuthin on me
Tracker
Gunsmith
Silversmith
Operate wolf rescue/preserve
Own and operate vacation cottages
Plus a bunch of technology careers that are off my current track.
- pdmoderator
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Post #84,859
2/28/03 11:45:53 AM
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my choices
Secret agent (like James Bond) - why not? He's got it all: guns, gadgets, and girls.
Official Taster at a German brewery - to get the best stuff.
Hit man for the Chicago mob - they've always set the standard.
Airline pilot - love their paychecks and hours worked per month ratio.
Oh - you meant ones we actually had a shot at achieving? Then I'll go for Database Administrator, since I've bought a test prep book to start on my MCDBA.
lincoln
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Post #85,212
3/2/03 6:26:05 PM
3/2/03 6:30:23 PM
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Ignore
Rant deleted. Good luck.
Cheers,
- pdmoderator
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Post #85,247
3/3/03 1:01:11 AM
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Manufacturing
In a past life, I was a Quality Manager. Worked my up from a mechanical inspector in a machine shop, to a quality engineer, and then on to Quality Systems Manager.
Been thinking about going back to that. In fact, I got a call back on a resume I sent out a few weeks ago, ned to return the call monday.
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Steve
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Post #85,687
3/5/03 5:22:01 AM
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Nearly took up IT Education, once.
I gave a few small courses (of approx 90 minutes, about SAS) to groups of people at work - and it was fun. Figured that ultimately the money wouldn't be as good as sticking with programming. Also realised later what it's like being a student in a course where the instructor is just teaching from the book and has no idea what he's teaching - I figured I'd not be able to know every subject I'd probably end up teaching, and wasn't at all keen on that.
Apart from that, international pop stardom still awaits :)
John. Busy lad.
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Post #86,075
3/6/03 12:18:24 PM
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downsides
The problem with IT teaching is that most of your "customers" are going to live in India over time. The same forces that are drying up IT jobs will also dry up the local demand for IT education, leaving a glut of IT teachers.
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Post #99,317
4/29/03 3:36:52 PM
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Well, I'm working in a costume shop at the moment
And I was an Owner/Operator for a courier company for a while.
Both involve negative pay.
But the costume shop may go positive soon.
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Whatever
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Post #99,321
4/29/03 3:53:20 PM
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Gas station here. Yay.
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Post #99,329
4/29/03 4:32:52 PM
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And I'm running a nonprofit
Seasonal theatre, public participation. I won't say there are *no* IT aspects, but it's not IT-specific.
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Post #99,368
4/29/03 7:06:12 PM
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Hola! Mike..
Hey.. the 'World' Needs your wry summary of Its Folly -- tiempo a tempo.
The inmates are not merely running the asylum; they're remodelling it at our expense - and jailing the better accountants ;-)
moi
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Post #99,575
5/1/03 12:57:24 AM
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Hey, I'd love to be here more
But Self Employed doesn't mean a long break so much as working my ass off 20 hours a day.
Things are getting saner, though, and I'm getting more organized, so I might be able to spend a bit more time here. Maybe I'll post the saga of the Morasco's Building soon. Right now, though, I'm preparing to move the store out of its current location by May 31. We don't know where we will be moving into, though.
One thing I have been doing lately is participating on the advisory board for Carving Magazine. And the editor says she's interested in my writing an article on how to write instructions. Could be fun. I seem to be well on the way to becomming a famous carver without actually damaging a lot of wood.
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Whatever
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Post #99,587
5/1/03 4:11:51 AM
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'Wood Butchers' Deli' ? :-\ufffd
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