Modern Buddy

ericalm wrote:

bunny wrote:I agree with the going back to college as an adult. It took me fifteen years to finally walk across the stage and be a degreed something or other.

It was worth it every strugging step of the way. I finished two and a half years in two flat and started grad school soon thereafter. I'm scooting along with my eye on December...

I wish I had done that. Instead I goofed off a lot, paid more attention to "extracurricular activities" and let my GPA go down the toilet. (Unfortunately, credits were not available for "I just did something really stupid, but I learned a valuable life lesson," and "I should have listened to my friends; she is crazy.")

I matured into a good student, but was 23 or so by the time that happened. I became a rock star in my major, got a bunch of honors, excelled in my internships, graduated, then went into a totally unrelated field. Oh well!

bunny, you're at UTA, right? School of Social Work?

Sociology, actually. I'm an observant little scooterist! Once I know what scooter you bought, I can tell you what color scooter you bought...

bunny wrote:

ericalm wrote:

bunny wrote:I agree with the going back to college as an adult. It took me fifteen years to finally walk across the stage and be a degreed something or other.

It was worth it every strugging step of the way. I finished two and a half years in two flat and started grad school soon thereafter. I'm scooting along with my eye on December...

I wish I had done that. Instead I goofed off a lot, paid more attention to "extracurricular activities" and let my GPA go down the toilet. (Unfortunately, credits were not available for "I just did something really stupid, but I learned a valuable life lesson," and "I should have listened to my friends; she is crazy.")

I matured into a good student, but was 23 or so by the time that happened. I became a rock star in my major, got a bunch of honors, excelled in my internships, graduated, then went into a totally unrelated field. Oh well!

bunny, you're at UTA, right? School of Social Work?

Sociology, actually. I'm an observant little scooterist! Once I know what scooter you bought, I can tell you what color scooter you bought...

LOL. I almost switched to Sociology (would have been my 3rd or 4th major, I think…) but decided I'd just get my degree and then specialize in public policy or urban studies in grad school. That didn't happen. (But I'm a fairly happy guy for someone working mostly in industries on the brink of extinction. Okay, that didn't sound happy, but it is…)

I'm a Registered Nurse!

Work on scooters all day long.

-install transmission upgrades.
-install exhaust systems
-general maintance
-build GY6 motors (up to 210cc at the moment)

It’s not my job to drive the train,
The whistle I can’t blow.
It’s not my job to say how far
The train’s allowed to go.
It’s not my job to blow the horn,
Nor even clang the bell.
But let the damned thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.

Beamster:

Gandydancer chants?

I just bought my orange buddy 125 yesterday from Big Easy Scooters in New Orleans. I love it. For work, I am a salesman for AGI Industries (www.agiindustries.com) in Lafayette, Louisiana (the best place to live in louisiana). We sell industrial pumps and hydraulics. My dream job would be to be a full-time musician. I only do this on the weekends now.

cheers.

ardour wrote:I just bought my orange buddy 125 yesterday from Big Easy Scooters in New Orleans. I love it. For work, I am a salesman for AGI Industries (www.agiindustries.com) in Lafayette, Louisiana (the best place to live in louisiana). We sell industrial pumps and hydraulics. My dream job would be to be a full-time musician. I only do this on the weekends now.

cheers.

Welcome ardour, I'm sure you'll love your new buddy. They're great!!

I also just (well, about a month ago) purchased my scooter, a 150 Italia from the San Francisco Scooter Centre. I work at a little startup in SF doing software development.

I teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade gifted students. It's a great job!

I work for Seattle Weekly, a free weekly newspaper. I work in circulation getting the paper out to the eager hands of the masses. I went to school for art though so I have no idea how I ended up doing this.

I'm a project manager for a product lifecycle management software company. I specialize in thermal orbital analysis.

(I'm not sure what that means either, but the pay is good.)

Already posted what I did but now I have a picture

a commercial / fine art photographer. The commercial work lets me afford to do the art.

ScooterTrash wrote:Already posted what I did but now I have a picture

You move houses ScooterTrash??? Wow, crazy job

I am a psychiatric Clinical Pharmacist working at a state mental hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mike

I didn't realize we were posing pictures of us at work!

I'm a human interface designer for online apps.

thecarver61 wrote:I'm a railroad engineer for Norfolk Southern.

D&T Limosine still picking you up? I used to work for them many years ago...

ScootStevie wrote:

ScooterTrash wrote:Already posted what I did but now I have a picture

You move houses ScooterTrash??? Wow, crazy job

He doesn't move them, he steals them!

ericalm wrote:

ScootStevie wrote:

ScooterTrash wrote:Already posted what I did but now I have a picture

You move houses ScooterTrash??? Wow, crazy job

He doesn't move them, he steals them!

Yep, very lucrative business

ScooterTrash wrote:

ericalm wrote:

ScootStevie wrote: You move houses ScooterTrash??? Wow, crazy job

He doesn't move them, he steals them!

Yep, very lucrative business

Well I'll never invite you over if you're ever in town. I don't want to come home from work to a hole

charlie55 wrote:Beamster:

Gandydancer chants?

Guess again.

ScootStevie wrote:

ScooterTrash wrote:

ericalm wrote: He doesn't move them, he steals them!

Yep, very lucrative business

Well I'll never invite you over if you're ever in town. I don't want to come home from work to a hole

well, your location is misleading so you're safe

ScooterTrash wrote:Already posted what I did but now I have a picture

How do you know if a building can be moved?

I work part time (semi retired) as a gaurd for a trucking company. I do completely nothing, ride around in a truck on 14 acres, or sit in a little shack and play video games, surf the net. I work night weekends and scoot most the week. One kid of three left at home and come next spring hes on his on, cuz im running away from home...

I'm a sound engineer/Musician

Tysonviolin wrote:I'm a sound engineer/Musician

SLO! Are you joining up with us for the ride up to Amerivespa? End of day one we are staying in SLO.

I cut meat in a grocery store.

I work for a videogame developer, where I produce interactive cinematics (mostly where characters interact with each other). Though the hours can be long, I love the work.

Well my background is kinda like a winding road.

I have a degree in Music Performance (Organ major, Piano minor)

Then went back to school and became a lic. Eblamer/Funeral Director.

Then got into business accounting and was the Asst. Corp. Controller for a large automotive retail group.

A victim of the economic downturn, I now am a freelance writer, pilot, and professional daydreamer.

Chasing it.
I was a chemist for a decade then a QA engineer in manufacturing. retired and learning to scoot now.

Love working in my computer composing videos and illustrations.
Decided to post my "Buddy Artwork", nothing much to do today!

i am a quality analyst for FAMIS health insurance. www.famis.org

it's a federal/state funded free health insurance program for children in families that are at 200% or less of the federal poverty level.

it's rewarding in a way but i really wish i could have a job where i could interact more directly with the community.

JasonCT: I can also relate to professionally dreaming!

I work for the largest privately owned employment agency in the country, and I think on the planet, now. (We're always eating other companies- I can't keep track.)
I'm the office manager/ zombie/ recruiter/ babysitter/ nurse/ mom/ HR Generalist/ trainer/ Halloween costume producer/ surplus ketchup retreval engineer/ guinea pig, etc, etc, etc- the lone admin in an office of uuber sales ladies.
Luckily, I have a wall between myself and the voodoo that goes on in thier pit of cold-calling doom.

Deep down inside, I'm a hippie like my Dad. Eh, it's a job. I like it a lot, and most of the time, I actuallly like the sales ladies I work with. ....But I would find a way to like any job- I'm just that way. Money's money. Unfortunately, we all need it. What I do to make money (within reason ) isn't really that important to me, it's all of the other stuff that fills up my time.

I'm a loan office/consultant at a mortgage company. I'm also a Realtor but do not actively sell right now. I'll probably jump back in when the market gets a little better though.

I am the Web Production Manager for a large Networking company here in Silicon Valley. In my spare time - LOL - I'm a musician.

C2

I work as a Dog Stylist at a private salon

I make them dawgs look fancy Right now we (me and two other groomers) are trying to get into creative grooming, which is pretty insane but the owner of the shop has three standerd pooples she let's us do any cut or dye job we want on, so it's pretty much a really fun job.

Here is a dog a did a hair cut on a few days ago...


Allover hand scissor!

I work for a tv station.
Part time on weekends work with nascar, a radio station, and a hockey team, depending on the time of year.

I teach chemistry at a small liberal arts college and at a local community college. I have a mad scientist research program where I'm growing mushrooms (not those mushrooms, silly, shiitakes!)

I'm a Radiologic Technologist (x-ray tech for short). That's where "Bonegirl" came from.

My specialty is Osteoporosis (which makes my name even more appropriate) and I am currently working for Proscan's Pink Ribbon Women's Imaging Center. I do DEXA (bone density) scans to check for low bone mass. I excel in my field and provide patients with as much education as expertise in an area of medicine that is overlooked more and more with each generation.

What would I prefer doing? Not working, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

I oversee the art dept. for an international Numbers, Letters and Signs company. It's not the glorious Illustrator/Graphic designer career I envisioned after art school but, it pays the mortgage.

It is a refreshing view and description. If that is so, I am an expert on waking up to a job I did not train to, have no idea how to do it and is a pain in the neck. On top of that, pays nearly nothing. That is, unemployment.

BoneGirl:

"Not working" is boring, I can tell you. Make your job count in the lives of others and be happy you have one. I am sure you are

Have you seen "Bones"? That is one of my favorite series. It's not the same line of work, but is related to "bones".

walky08 wrote:BoneGirl:

"Not working" is boring, I can tell you. Make your job count in the lives of others and be happy you have one. I am sure you are

Have you seen "Bones"? That is one of my favorite series. It's not the same line of work, but is related to "bones".

I love Bones!

I quit my jobs frequently, to say the least. On a couple occasions I was out of work and I tell folks all the time "You hate your job til you don't have one". I am miserable when not being a paid employee for someone (could be the call of the Mighty Dollar).

I am a sculptor, mostly installation pieces, which means I spend money rather than make it. I teach part-time multiple art courses at Kent State University, at the Stark Campus, including Sculpture, Art Survey, Ceramics, and Drawing.

I have had a variety of other part-time positions over the years to fill in the money, the most recent was working at a Greenhouse, I trained dogs at Petsmart for 4 years before I got tired of being committed to working Sundays forever, and I worked at a picture-framing shop for 8 years.

Now my one part-time job is teaching Ceramics at a Catholic school in town, which happens to be where my husband teaches full time. I only have one class a year there (Spring semester), so I will probably need something else in the fall, especially since we are planning a riding trip next summer.

Part-time teaching doesn't pay well, and there are no benefits, but I am lucky that we have medical through my husbands teaching, and I love my job.

easy wrote:1985 to 1992 USMC. Since then been a trk driver, been in every state except Hawii.

Semper Fi Devil Dog!

I do tech support for a company that provides the computers that run carwashes.

I'm also going back to school in September for IT Management so I can get off the phones.

Otherwise, I'm a husband and father of an 11 y/o little girl.

i sell cell phones. not a good job at all (surprised i didn't see anyone else doing it though). i like sales (well, not really i just like talking to people). i'm going back to school for graphic design, shocker right? it was 9 years after i graduated for computer animation.

looking at everyone elses jobs makes me want to get on careerbuilder.

I am a retired postmaster. All I do now is play golf every day and go back and forth on my Buddy.