And he also owns stock in Baja

 

Hasn't this question already been asked many times?

 

Perhaps, but most of the people in the thread seem to be enjoying it. Sorry it doesn't work for you.

Me, too, although I do some consulting work for spending money since I’m doing so poorly on Wall Street! Took early retirement a year ago despite my wife’s protestations!

She says it wasn’t part of her contract when we got married 38 years ago that I would be home for lunch seven days a week. Maybe I’ll start going to McD’s on Wednesdays. Only problem is I’m never sure which day is Wednesday any more.

After four years in the USAF, the career I retired from was newspaper journalism. I covered sports, natural disasters, killings, education, politics, government, people and issues, ending up as editor and president of a mid-sized Southern daily. What you say about news being run by the liberals may be true in network TV, some cable TV outlets and some newspapers.

The majority of the editors and publishers I knew during my 35-year career were pretty conservative. When someone in the community would describe the newspaper I worked at as being liberal, I’d always ask what they meant by that. Invariably they’d say, “Well, not so much any more, but your newspaper was the one that supported integration of schools in the ‘60s.” More often, we'd be accused of being too conservative.

My sentiments exactly. My job was so much fun, I couldn’t believe they paid me to do it. Saw a lot of history in the making and met a lot of interesting people. I figured eventually I’d grow up and have to get a real job. Fortunately, I never had to. When it got to the point it wasn’t as much fun, I retired.

I can relate. F/8 and be there! I’ve still got a closet full of film cameras and lenses I never use because it’s so much easier to use my Olympus C-765. When I retired, I told people that I was the only one left who knew how to “follow focus.”

Not sure how I missed this thread previously. There’s an interesting microcosm of folks in our little Corvette family. Best wishes to each of you for many more miles of smiles in the cars we fell in love with when they were a lot newer and we were, too.

 

I'm a RN in the recovery room. I wake people up for a living.

 

I didnt get to thank my last recovery RN cause I was, well, not all there.

So thanks. You all do a great job.

 

Naval Aviator... hence the handle...

 

Owner/Operator

 

Owner of a small control panel company (20 people).
We design and build control systems for large manufacturing companies.
Industries served include Life sciences, Food and beverage, Chemical, Wastewater, Machine control, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals,etc.
We have systems in just about every country in the world and all over the US.
Just celebrated our 25th year in business.

Our web site is:
www.control7.com

Very interesting thread.

Mark

 

Looking over your safety when your are flying in Europe.
ATC (airtraffic control) CFMU (Central Flow Mangement Unit) Eurocontrol.
Simular organisation like the FAA in the States.

Ray

 

I recall toys that hurt, batteries that blow up, and a turkey fryer or two.

 

Me too. Owner/Operator auto transport company.

 

As a young buck just back from university, I worked for IBM in the Montreal IBM Product Center selling the just launched PC.
I remember a dentist buying one for his kids, he was afraid they were going to be left in the technological dust.
16K ram with upgrade to 64K, twin double sided 5 1/4 floppies (pre hard drive XT), monochrome monitor and driver card, Epson dot matrix printer, CPM86 and DOS 1.0 (who knew? ), Wordstar and Visicalc. All of this cost the good dentist a mere $12000.00! Yes that is twelve thousand 1980~81 dollars! A new Corvette cost about the same here at that time!

For the past twenty years I've worked in industrial electronics, technical sales and then global account/program management for a US multinational.



Paul

 

I manage a family owned retail florist in a suburb of Kansas City. Kind of a stretch it seems I know from Flowers to cars but if it wasnt a family thing I probably would have been a Mechanic, body man, or machinist. If you saw my work shop you see what I mean.

 

I am retired Navy guy who is now working as a law enforcement officer in Abilene Texas.

 

Retired plant engineer at Wire Rope Corp. of America. They make wire rope (plaese don't call it cable ).

Most of the production machinery was new back in the '30s and '50s. Our department motto: "Today we raise the dead, tomorrow we walk on water". Got very good at reverse engineering. Learned to use AutoCad just about the time my eyesight got too bad to draw pencil lines.

Seems most forum members represent the service end of business and hardly any in manufacturing. Not much Made in USA anymore.

 

Pilot for UPS. Hense the nick name heavyjetpilot.

Cheers,
Craig

 

I am a sales Rep for a Automotive Refinish Manufactor.

 

I'm an architect. At least I was until last Friday when I lost my job. If anyone is looking for an unregistered, but good, project architect in the Silver Spring/Columbia MD area, let me know.

 

After college I worked for 15 years as a Civilian at DoD Ft. Meade, Maryland......, then I took an "early out" and for 5 LONG years owned a Heavy Towing and Recovery business (I wanted to try something different and found a bank crazy enough to loan me money to buy a towing business..... I don't know what I was thinking), and for the last 7 years I've been back with the Government working for the NAVY in Southern Maryland. I bought my '66 roadster back in the summer of '88 and love driving it. I've been married to the same woman since '86 and have two sons (15 and 18 years) and a Golden Retriever who's been known to ride shot gun in the Corvette !!

 

WOW! Am I the only pop guy here? I sell Pepsi... have been doing it for over 40 years. I can't get you out of trouble, put out a fire, or program a computer, but if you need refreshments (non-alcoholic), call me... they're on me!
-Dave