OT: What do you do for a living?, are you happy? |
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OT: What do you do for a living?, are you happy? |
Aaron Cox |
Oct 31 2004, 02:05 PM
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Professional Lawn Dart Group: Retired Admin Posts: 24,541 Joined: 1-February 03 From: OC Member No.: 219 Region Association: Southern California |
hey guys, what do you all do for a living?
-what education did you go through? - do you enjoy your job? help me find a good career (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) by giving me info about yours (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
skline |
Nov 1 2004, 01:21 AM
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Born to Drive Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California |
Well, since everyone is talking about what they do, I guess I will tell you about me. I went to college to be a Doctor of Radiology, I was in my first year of internship at North Kansas City memorial Hospital when I realized that is not what I was meant to do. So I left that and went into meaningless jobs building custom van conversion, then from that I became an Orange County Sheriff for about a year and and a half and realized that wasnt for me either, the jails suck. Then I went into car stereos and alarms for car dealers and high end audio shops, that was going nowhere. So I opened my own company called All Vehicle Security and did much better till I got divorced from the second wife, she took it all. A friend of mine had a computer and said I should get one too, so I built my first 286-10 MHz computer with 4 meg of ram and an MFM and an RLL hard drives, turned out that was my calling. The computers made perfect sense to me so I started schools to learn all about them. Got a scholarship from the Southern California Microsoft Solution Providers for my MCSE. Finished that in about 4 months and was working for Geac Computers out of Canada but down here in So Cal. Turned out I was a natural at anything to do with computers. Went to work on a contract to Sealand down at the port of Long Beach. I was an instant hit with everyone down there because I made their system run about 60% faster with no hardware upgrades. Their system was all misconfigured. All I did was setup and configre DNS and optimized the memory in the servers. To make a long story short, MCI Worldcom came in to take over and since I knew the system, they hired me full time. I stayed with MCI for 3 years and decided I could not go any higher in the company and was being held down by them. I left and went out on my own. Been that way pretty much since then. Oh, MCI lost the contract when I left and is no longer doing the support down there. Aint life grand. I work with Joe and together we can just about fix anything. I put in for the Longshore position they recently had a draw for and am waiting my turn to go to work down there as a casual. I will continue working on computers on my own and with Joe since we have some great clients and almost enough work. I seem to stay busy but the Longshore job will give me benefits and retirement. Things I dont have now. I will work all I can while I can. The cars are a fun hobby and I think I will always be doing something on them. There ya go, thats all about me in a nutshell. Oh, and I am a nice guy.
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