Or move to Texas where there are jobs.

BTW, I was born in Ohio and witnessed the utter destruction of the economy up there in the late-70s/early-80s. Depressing thing to see.

youngstown area, or toledo area?

Born in Cleveland, went to High School in the Akron area. Dad worked for Goodrich. Between 4 years old and HS, mostly lived overseas. After HS, went straight into the Navy and kept on moving.

I seem settled into TX now though. Not a bad place to be.

Sounds about right; rubber and steel went overseas or elsewhere because unions cost too much.

unions. helping forgien communities prosper, one industry at a time.

BS in computer science. I am a network, mainframe, unix/linux, windows, whatever is broke support engineer. Oncall 24x7, at least it pays the bills.

Actually, I think unions have their place as a bargaining power equalizer. Currently, their proper place would be in Mexico and China.

Same for environmental regulations.

If China had US-equivalent labor and environmental laws, we'd be kicking their teeth in.

I dont want my employees to have power.

Today’s widespread unemployment is the result of organized labor’s privileges. Unions support measures and welfare legislation, in the belief that the costs would be paid by taxes imposed on the rich.

The growth of inflation has shown that the major victim of government spending and of taxation is the middle class. Organized labor is part of the middle class—and the actual value of labor’s forced “social gains” is now being wiped out.

He who lives by a legalized sword, will perish by a legalized sword.

Inflation is just a much more agonizing way of reducing federal minimum wage.

What an interesting thread!!! For a while now I have thought that car stuff is really geeky and this confirms it.





I graduated HS with a 1.5gpa and then failed out of college in my second year because I didnt give a shit.



For money I am a beltway bandit / pentagon pirate and corporate champion.

You callin' me a geek Fae? :squint:

Biology major at USF, but never finished and continued my landscape operation that I started in highschool.

In 2005 I formed a new company that uses indigenous plants. I design and build all native landscapes, and dable in some habitat restoration.

Graduated HS with ok-ish GPA, went to a state school in KY where I thought I wanted to get a BS in Criminal Justice until I decided that I didn't want to be a cop because I don't want to give out speeding tickets, this waisted much time/$. Then I thought I wanted to be a Psychologist because I'm interested in how people think & why people do the shit they do. Now I'm board with school, so I'm planning on joining the Marine Corps after this semester is over.

Seems like you've got lots of college, enough to join as an officer?

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^ It has been a few years now. Miss it sometimes.

Hi backatcha :wavey:

We are few and far between and with the recession and rocketing gold price, there's even fewer still working:cry:
Last few months in the UK have been really tough in the trade side of things, government need to give back some more money to the people so they'll spend it.
Too much jewellery has been scrapped for cash, which has earned scrap companies millions, but leaves so few pieces to be repaired which is the bulk of my daily work load. Fingers crossed for after Easter that trade will pick up.:x:

P.s. Heres my website:
http://www.newmans-studio.co.uk

BS Mechanical Engineering w/Aero concentration.

Currently an Air Force officer doing stuff with things. Hoping to get back to flight test at some point.

It seems more than it really is. I have my AA and have taken other classes for fun, mostly higher level mathematics. For the last year I have been trying to move and have run into problem after problem and I am just getting tired of it.

I would have to join ROTC and finish my degree at UCF, then I would be an Officer.

What I'm thinking about now is enlisting and them submitting my package to return to school after a year or two. Since I already have my AA and what not it would be a lot easier to make it happen. Plus I would have already started my stint in the Army and have full tuition and living.

But I am still not sure yet. I like school but I really need a break and I want to get over seas before we pull out.

I graduated highschool bottom 50% of my class, I joined the Marine Corps right after did my time, came back went to Elgin Community College left with a 1.35 GPA to Iraq on a DoD Contract doing private security contracting. I did that for awhile now I am back in college, hopefully going to Border Patrol Academy in the next few months.

I am educated and licensed to be a High School History teacher.

I am a tech at a place that specializes in Subaru/Mazda/Nissan Repair and Performance.

Yes, you are big dork.

Come on, you were a pilot and a lawyer. I know you are not dumb nice try.

Getting to this thread late...

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. I work for a large (3000+ personnel) San Antonio R&D not-for-profit that specializes in most anything in Science and Engineering you can think of, including cars. I've been here since soon after I graduated.

I started off doing R&D work for the Military, primarily Air Force aircraft and development of a large Army tactical system. I eventually left that group and moved to a new group in the same company. Now I am working with high-end Space Physicists developing science instruments for NASA Science missions. Basically the scientists come up with crazy science mission ideas, and the Engineers (us) design, build, test, and fly the instruments that do the science.

A lot of the cool stuff NASA 'does' is not done by NASA. It is done by NASA contractors like us. I hope NASA keeps going because I will kill myself if I ever have to leave this job. I love it.

Thats what I'm doin, tired of school and I don't know what I want for a career. So why not let do something that'll benifet me for the rest of my life and then Uncle Sam pay the bill for school?

Besides, I want the pink mist :crx:

BS in Materials Science and Engineering and now I work for Honda R&D America as a Materials Engineer. Specifically I work in all things metals, basically I work as a metallurgist. And I'm not supposed to talk about my job on the interwebz...

BS in Business.

I clean Windows for a living. (IT Network Admin.)

AAS in Auto, diesel, and Hipo technology

about 3/4 of the way finished with my 2nd AAS in the ADN program to become an RN. Will then move on to the BSN program so I don't rot away as a floor nurse.

I found it to be a quick way to HATE your hobby. Blood is also far easier to wash off your hands then oil.

"Oil pans to bed pans, and everything in between"

You and Curly need to get into the Nursing program BIGTIME if you plan to stay in this field. UAP's and CNA's don't make squat compared to the RN's and work twice as hard. I thought about the LPN program, but around here, an LPN is used as a tech, and paid the same (aka, a waste of a year).

Breaking: Honda employs engineers and works with metals.

Now the secret is out.

I have a BS in Industrial Technology. Worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for 5 years a at smaller company (~300 employees) which manufactured industrial storage devices (carts, workbenches, cabinets, heavy duty racking, etc). I now work as a Process Engineer at Lenox Tools in their auto finishing department (paint, print, pack) Love it there, Newell Rubbermaid really takes care of their employees! Next time you go to buy some tools or some recip blades for your sawsall, remember me and buy some LENOX stuff, lol.

Did the Army thing for 4 years as a generator mechanic which led me to getting a BA in Microbiology from SIUC after (hence the screen name GeneSplicer) did research in molecular bio for 4 years, left the bench and have been fixing/selling the lab equipment for the past 9 years as a contractor, mostly ultra-low low refrigeration/cryogenic systems. Funny where a degree gets you... and I get paid 3x more doing this than playing with pipettes in a tissue culture hood.

My "machinist" directs the UAB machince shop where they also build a butt load of cool things for NASA. Lately, cryogenic coolers of some sort...

Have my BA and MS in accounting. Also passed all 4 parts of the CPA exam, only a few more months before I become licensed (there's a 2 year experience requirement in CT). I wouldnt mind going for my PhD in a couple years, there's good pay for professors w/ accounting PhD's.

I work at a big 4 accounting firm

Working on MEd (Masters in Education in Administration) about another year and 1/2 left

BBA in Management Information Systems.
6th grade math/science teacher (6 years now). Yeah we are underpaid, under respected, overworked (here is a clue if you give a damn you really don't have down time in the summer). But its fun to see a kid smile and learn.

This is why im going to try the mech engineer thing. I don't want to start hating my hobby.

Yeah, the economic issues have killed a big portion of my business over the last 4 years as well, basically eliminating any work that might have been commissioned on a whim. But I'm having the best Spring since '07 so maybe people are breaking out of their money misery a bit. My "bread and butter" is custom wedding bands, and people don't stop getting married (for better or worse), they just spend less to have bands made, so I've had a relative baseline upon which I can mostly rely.

Nice, clean work you do there! And I imagine there's at least a bit of camaraderie/commiseration working in a jewelry center. I'm surrounded by psychologists in my building, but at least I can gripe to someone who'll listen!

Here's my site: www.MatthewDesigns.com

Man, great work. I've had a design in mind similar to this for my wife. What are the chances of modifying this design with smaller bridges for holding the diamond
http://www.matthewdesigns.com/images...rybody_002.jpg

Then making more of a bowl around the suspended diamond. Inlay square diamonds in the bowl at the appropriate angle such that the index of refraction i redirects the incident light from directly above the ring into the bottom the the suspended diamond. My idea is out now.

Man, send me a price list of the stuff on your site. Your work is amazing. I'm keeping you in mind for my 10yr anniversary next yr. It's a big one, and diamond earrings have been the plan.

Lots of ME's here, that's good when I need a job. Hopefully someone will have a connection, right? tehehe.

B.S. in Mech. Engineering here. 10 years after graduating and I'm still the lowest on the totem pole where I work. I do simple design & CAD/drawing work on mostly pushrod V8 drag engine valvetrain components. Small privately owned company means not much room for growth or variety in work, but it's still pretty damn cool. For the past 2.75 years I've been at a 32 hour work week so I try to supplement my income building exhaust manifolds for you fine people.

This thread confirms to me that miata lovers tend to have a richer cultural and educational background than many other hotrod demographics.

Maybe I am being prejudice.

Cheers Matt, some really good designs you have and good use of other metals.
Yup, it is nice to have other goldsmiths and trades around me for that vital venting of the spleen. In the UK trade scene, we seem to be the only trade where clients deem it their right to tell us how much to charge for a job. Just so that they still make their 300% profit margin. :nuts::twofinger:cjerk:

I'm working on it. Around here it's near impossible to get into an RN program though. 4.0 with 400+ CNA hours get declined by the hundreds every year. My plan is to get some hospital experience (I start tomorrow morning!) for a while and then attend a PN program. With that I'd wouldn't mind working in long term care for a bit, while I work on getting my RN, as the bridge programs are much much easier to get into.

For now I'm satisfied though, I'm one of the few I've talked to who is satisfied with my job yet still have motivation to advance. Thankfully I'm incredibly good at my job, it would be shitty if I weren't. Literally.

Pharmacy services and prior authorization review for one of the largest health care insurance providers in the country. It allows me to be online 24/7 so I can't complain:)

My wife got this degree and she designs dresses for landa designs. She is currently in china where their factory is located making sure everything is made correctly.

One more semester to finish up my Undergrad for Psych and Interpersonal COM. Hopefully going on for a masters in Family Therapy/Counseling. Rockin' cashier at Lowe's right now though...

3/4 of a history degree (university of new Orleans, Katrina hit and and I still haven't bothered to finish)

I restore muscle cars in southern England.

BA in Psychology and I sell giant Tonka toys for mining, roadbuilding, earthmoving, and am also a traveling vibrator salesman. Business has been bad since July of 2006.

Associates in Network Administration. I'm a solutions consultant for a software company, which is a fancy way of saying I do demonstrations of software.

BS in Healthcare Information Systems.

I'm a Sr. Analyst (tier 2 IT support) for a large insurance company that doesn't sell health insurance!

Would love to find a healthcare/IT gig in the Austin, TX area. I can't take the cold, grey , wetness of central Ohio much longer.

You should look into freestanding radiation oncology centers. There is a huge push to go chartless. Our center is 100% paperless. The interfacing between the treatment machines, mosaiq record and verify system, and just the general network so you an access anything from anywhere is insane. We have a full time IT guy. He has all those fancy certificates fromt the tests where you have to fix some crap that they purposely break. All in a time span of 8 hrs. Apparently it's a big deal.

Sounds interesting. Not familiar with said tests. Sounds like kobayashi maru.

I thought it was generally accepted, as a matter of broad stereotype, that gays as a whole tend to be better educated and more culturally literate than straight men?



I would think that the same would hold true for diagnostic imaging centers as well, no? Seems like those places are springing up everywhere, and many of them are group-owned. Sign one deal and you've got a dozen radiologists on board.

Is this demographic specific to modified miata owners or modified car owners in general??

I'm not so sure this demographic applies to all car crowds e.g., DSM.

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Also jumping on this thread a little late:

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Graduating from law school in ~3 weeks. Working at in-house legal department of corporation (~5000 employees). I am a patent agent soon to be patent attorney.

I would bet that this would apply there as well. We have to have a guy "in-house". We would not be able to function without him.

BS / MIS from a crappy state school. Worked my way through over a 7 year period by cooking at night, going to school during the day.

I've worked in Healthcare Software for 25 years for the same company.

Would you like to buy a vibrator?

You have the most awesome avatar. I'd love to invite it to Tailhook and ask it that very question.

I went to trade school for boilers. I have worked in district heating system servicing the downtown detroit. 42 miles of underground lines and tunnels is very impressive. Very old but ASME landmarks. I currently now work in another plant dealing with large centrifugal compressors, boilers, industrial waste water, and steam turbine chillers providing climate control to a 3 million sq ft facility. Running 4000hp turbine @ 6200rpm is turbo porn non the less.... try and fit that in a miata ha!

I am a $600/hr gigilo and I specialize in daddy issues. My market is the teen pre-college segment and recently, I have expanded my customer base to international models and college strippers due to the economic downturn. I have a BS in Economics from the University of Munich and a MBA from Wharton.

so what's the retirement package look like :jerkit:

Well, you're certainly full of it.