What Do/Did you all do for a Living.

[laatsch55]

Thanks so much for asking Joe. I got pretty sick last year and retired from work. Healthy now and ready for projects. Have a room I'm converting into a workshop with finish out in early January.

Things that Fred built are worth seeing....

 

[nakdoc]

BA in Geology, 1975. Then moved to nashville and was an electronics tech for two different stores. I learned about high end video repairing Advent videobeams. learned audio from Yamaha. After 6 years as a tech I went independent and owned Hi tech Service. We repaired everything, which contributed to my being a self proclaimed "Know-it-all". I guess I'm also an audio forum rat

 

[VSAT88]

Jeez Mark...that reads like 3 lifetimes! Busy guy, and you ac complished a lot!

I was like Holy Shit on that one too Lee! I may have met him while I was in San Diego working in Point Loma by the NTC base and never even knew it. HA!

 

[laatsch55]

Probably hung in different bars is all....

 

[VSAT88]

BA in Geology, 1975. Then moved to nashville and was an electronics tech for two different stores. I learned about high end video repairing Advent videobeams. learned audio from Yamaha. After 6 years as a tech I went independent and owned Hi tech Service. We repaired everything, which contributed to my being a self proclaimed "Know-it-all". I guess I'm also an audio forum rat

LOL! Sound familiar. I think I "know a guy". Like as in me. I DO know it all... Just ask me! HA!

 

[VSAT88]

Probably hung in different bars is all....

I don't know. I hung out at the one almost directly across from the base gates Lee. They called it the Sub Bar around the neighborhood. My store was basically next door. Naw, I cant fuckin draw!

 

[laatsch55]

See, we were all in close proximity at one time, i lived in Riverside between 62 and 72....

 

[laatsch55]

I don't know. I hung out at the one almost directly across from the base gates Lee. They called it the Sub Bar around the neighborhood. My store was basically next door. Naw, I cant fuckin draw!

Drawing takes the ..same gene as wood working....

 

[mlucitt]

They called it the Sub Bar around the neighborhood.

I know that place. And I used to get the best submarine sandwiches right down the street at Surf Side Deli, in the corner by Regatta Men's Wear.



I actually had a consultant client out on Point Loma on Woodward Road. It was the Navy Training data center for Undersea Warfare. The whole building was a SCIF and shielded with fine metal mesh around all the doors. They discussed some serious shit in that L-shaped building. The small square building with the white roof was the cafeteria.

 

[Sunnbobb]

Union Drywall Finisher in Seattle high-rises until I finished my BS in Landscape Architecture.
20 years as an Urban Planner
5 years as Regulatory and Safety Engineer for A hazardous waste management company
13 years as owner of a Construction Company specializing in greenhouses.
Sold company and retired.
Hobbies throughout were restoring/riding Vintage Motorcycles, later fixing/tinkering with Audio gear.
Now I buy estates and flip the contents, which is why I have been a bit scarce, I had to work through 2 large purchases of Audio gear and the test equipment of a EE. The audio gear is pretty much gone, but the test equipment and associated electronic parts is underway. (If any body needs any resistors, mosfets, wire, yada yada let me know LOL)

 

[skipshot]

Order of timeline...

While in H.S. worked as a grocery bagger & stock boy @ Publix Supermarket in Titusville, FL.
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace right after H.S. as a Micro Modular Solderer on the Dragon Missile System Titusville.
Army Helicopter Powertrain Mechanic, Transmissions, Main Rotors, Driveshafts & Tail Rotors... Hueys, Sky Cranes, Shit Hooks & Cobra's.
BCC College for Computer Science... lasted a year and a half. Way above this dirtbag's head!
L&S Electric Appr. Electrician @ Kennedy Space Center. Conversion of Apollo to Shuttle Programs @ LCC, LCC Firing Rooms, MLP & VAB.
Florida Power & Light Helper, Truck Driver Helper, WTO, Apprentice Lineman, Journeyman Lineman & Foreman.
Idaho Falls Power Lineman. Opened a Bar/Restaurant in Idaho Falls while @ IFP called the Frosty Gator. Sold & still in business.
Utah Power, Pacific Power & Rocky Mountain Power Lineman then District Line Foreman, retired in Laramie 2017.

 

[Sunnbobb]

Order of timeline...

While in H.S. worked as a grocery bagger & stock boy @ Publix Supermarket in Titusville, FL.
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace right after H.S. as a Micro Modular Solderer on the Dragon Missile System Titusville.
Army Helicopter Powertrain Mechanic, Transmissions, Main Rotors, Driveshafts & Tail Rotors... Hueys, Sky Cranes, Shit Hooks & Cobra's.
BCC College for Computer Science... lasted a year and a half. Way above this dirtbag's head!
L&S Electric Appr. Electrician @ Kennedy Space Center. Conversion of Apollo to Shuttle Programs @ LCC, LCC Firing Rooms, MLP & VAB.
Florida Power & Light Helper, Truck Driver Helper, WTO, Apprentice Lineman, Journeyman Lineman & Foreman.
Idaho Falls Power Lineman. Opened a Bar/Restaurant in Idaho Falls while @ IFP called the Frosty Gator. Sold & still in business.
Utah Power, Pacific Power & Rocky Mountain Power Lineman then District Line Foreman, retired in Laramie 2017.

No way! I had lunch there with a good buddy of mine from down there several years back. His name is Joe Herrick, he was the director of the local economic development council down there for years. The Frosty rules!

 

[skipshot]

Small world.

My Apprentice @ Idaho Falls Power was an amateur artist, he drew up our Frosty Gator Logo you saw outside on the signs.
Also Painted the Gator's Logo inside on that curved wall between the Bar & the kitchen.

Heard it had gone down after we sold it. Loy's of our regulars no longer go.
Was it ok when you went.

When had a Grand Opening in Feb 8th in 1998. All the city Council & Mayor were there to cut the ribbon.
BBB was there to, wonder if I met your friend? Name isn't familiar.

Skip

 

[Mohawk]

Very long career of Engineering Design and Manufacturing Operations, largely enterprise computer related
Control Data - Engineer
Digi-Data - Engineering Director
Advanced Peripheral Technology - CEO/Owner
Alloy Computer Products - VP Engineering
Microcom - VP Operations
Data General - Operations Director
EMC - Sr. Director Engineering
Dell - Sustainability Expert/Architect (current position)
White Oak Audio Design - One man band (current position)

Impressive!