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I thought I would start something new here.
What do you do?
What do you like about it?
What don't you like about it?
Would you change if you could?

I am in the Home Mortgage business. A loan officer for Ameritech Mortgage. Great hours. Come and go as I please. My wife does marketing with Real Estate agents for me. Money is good if your good.

One thing I don't like is: Alot of people in the business of including Escrow, Title ect.. that are lazy and slow down your closing dates. You try everything to meet deadlines but someone always seems to try to through a wrench in it.

Just changed carreers this year. I was a parts dept. director for five automotinve franchises. 17 years in the business and decided it was too much work and stress. Good money though.

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Well it took me 20 years from sweeping floors and cleaning bathrooms. But now I'm a BIG SHOT !!!! I'm the TOP BURGER FLIPPER at the local burger joint.!!!!!! :evilb:

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New Home Sales for a BIG builder in WI.

4 day work week, about 30hrs, some weekends but not bad. I like my job.

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Just sold my landscape contracting business after 13 yrs. Too much overhead, too many problems, too much competition, too dependant on weather.

Anyone hiring??? :D

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;)

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burned out salesman - work for Satan.

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whatever, where ever, for what ever,,,, :D

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VP & Senior Financial Advisor (Stockbroker) for large Wall Street Firm. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I freaking hate it.

Thanks,
Ken

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Chris I'm looking for some good "WHATEVER". How much do you have ?? AND HOW MUCH ?????? :D

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I'm a mechanical design engineer for a packaging machine builder.
The job is OK so long as the boss leaves me alone... :rolleyes:
$$, not enough for me to buy a new Y2K... :(
Do I need a change? Maybe in 2006... :cool:

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Mechanical Engineer, .
Likes: new challenges, flex time so I can take time off when I want it. Decent money but not great.

Dislikes: Engineers by nature are dorky and not very social. Slightly too much travel lately. About .0001% population is attractive women while in school and now in work place. :-)

Changes if possible: Would make it more portable, i.e. my wife is in health care and can move anywhere and get a job, my situation is more limited .

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I sell to the AEC market, some/most engineers not only dorky but lack a sense of humor, only architects are worse to deal with.

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Mechanical Engineer in downtown NYC.

I came across this 1977 24' Super on ebay guy says it does 95+ with a 468 BBC & Gal Banks. What do you guys think ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/25-foot-Superboa...QQcmdZViewItem

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Wow a lot more engineering types here then I woulda expected. You are right Chris about the lack of humor, the movie "office space" is truly scary close to a cubical farm. I almost went into HVAC and the HVAC guys joked that the architects were not creative enough to be artists and couldn't do enough math for engineering.

Thayes, I looked at the auction, looks like deal, 95+ seems fast but I don't have enough knowledge to say for sure. What is up with the goofy straps on the drive? Surely nobody would be ina boat that fast with trim issues?

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Not to get off the subject of income, but the Gale Banks Turbo ??? Didn't that go the way of the Air Research Turbo ( Buick Grand National ) ?????..........GONE........PARTS??????

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Im a Salesmanager at a car dealership and a Wholesale Sales manager for the three family owned dealerships....
I enjoy sales but the hours are long and require Saturdays and occasional Sundays. They treat me good here but I produce so enough said....
I'd love to have a Monday-Friday gig to be a part of more boating related activities though..

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OH-ZONE,
I know about the hours your talking about. The sales guys at the dealer I was at where ther often after midnight, even though they got to work at 9am.

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mneal: I was in HVAC as a Product Specialist for York Htg & AC for 10 years before I became a mechanical Engineer. NY'er usally have a dry sence of humor anyway.

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I am a ... Head Hunter :eek:

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computer geek for an oil company in oklahoma.

love it.

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I'm an Acquisition Logistics Consultant for the Department of Defense. I like it, but i too wish it were more mobile. You can't live too far from the pentagon.

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Well... SuperGary is now in the Virgin Islands. How doe's he afford all these vacations, you might ask. He he he. He's the infamous " Toms River Gigilo " LOL

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Quick, somebody call the cops. He stole Reggy Fountains necklace. :D

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Noooooo, Reggi's is alot bigger !

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I'm an Operating Engineer with the N.Y.C Department of Enviromental Protection. In laymans terms " I dig holes" for the city water dept. I have every kids dream job and the pay is pretty good too!!!

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You dig using a shovel or heavy equipment?

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Heavy Equipment!

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No more manual labor for me (hopefully) :evilb:

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Come one, it keeps you in shape! :D

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I'm a Mechanical Engineer by education and worked as one for almost 10yrs for a heavy construction equipment OEM.

Just started a new job today as a Business Unit Manager for a company that supply components to Aircraft and Military industry.

Engineering is a fun career most of the time and it pays pretty well. But, there is no real potential for huge income unless you go out on your own and manufacture something.

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Construction Management for Centex Construction doing Military Housing. Love it - Everyday is different, other than all archs are a pain.

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ECEPTOR, You shure get around! :D

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Around career wise or around the forums??? :snide:

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The web! :drink: You buy a boat yet?

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Ahh, I see!

I already have a boat (my Chaparral Villain) , but no new boat yet. I might be shopping late next year. But it won't be for a Y2K just yet (unless I win the lottery!), rather a stair step into something like this Scarab 29'er.

As for the web, I only spend time anymore on 2 sites - OSO and Hotboat. I keep up with the Superboats since I hope someday to be the proud owner of a Y2K! You just happened to have pretty much build the boat I've dreamed of building - my preview of things (hopefully!) to come, so to speak...

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Commercial loan officer.

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I had forgot you had the Chaparral.

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How do you like commercial? Did you start with residential ?

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Started as Branch Manager and always did well with the smaller business and sent alot of referrals to the commercial guy here at the time. He treated me and some of the referrals like crap. He's gone now and I'm in. I really like it.

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IT work. System administration, database administration, networking. I work on a gov't contract at the Pentagon.

I don't work real hard, don't get dirty, pay is OK, REAL flexible schedule. I work from home about 50% of the time.

One thing I don't like is the job location. Traffic sucks. Fortunately, I was not there on 9/11 but that looms in the back of my mind. What if...... :eek: