Introductions What do you do for work and for fun?

psdubl07 · March 08, 2005, 06:53:04 PM

Wife and I are both Business Analysts for wireless companies, and I also work part-time for a local winery. Married for 5 1/2 years w/ a 15 month old daughter. I love anything involving flyfishing, food&wine (and beer!), and am a basketball junky. I play in a rec league and at lunch, so usually 3-4 times a week. Also will be taking off the 17th and 18th for March Madness babyyyyy! [8D]

JJC · March 09, 2005, 03:22:12 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by MallardWacker
 I deal with the human gene pool issues, the self correcting type. I work in a small engineering firm dealing accident reconstruction, mainly truck-tractor, train wrecks(site obstruction and braking), and car vs. anything.
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MW, you're a stitch [:D][:D][:D]!

John
Newton MA

Bassman · March 09, 2005, 04:45:32 PM

Computer Specialist for a School District.My wife and I are empty nesters,Love fishing,boating,cooking & smoking.

Jack

Kummok · March 09, 2005, 06:04:28 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bassman
 ....My wife and I are empty nesters......
Jack
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Hope ya got Grandkids to fill that void, Jack[;)] We're also empty nesters...it sucks, but the grandkids are DEFINITELY God's reward for not strangling your own children[:D][;)][:D]

35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA

tsquared · March 10, 2005, 02:51:10 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I deal with the human gene pool issues, the self correcting type. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Sounds like you are a fan of the Darwin Awards, Mallard Whacker. Me too! I click on them every few months or so to see the latest. My current favourite is the guy who killed himself by putting his lava lamp in the microwave.[:D]Whoops, I just checked--he put it directly on the stove and turned up the flame--dead with shrapnel to the heart when it exploded. (In Kent, Manxman. Another mad Englishman!) For those who want a laugh here is the post. http://www.darwinawards.com/
I am a teacher/vice-principal at a school here on Vancouver Island, although I have been off on leave for 3 months.(My partner was diagnosed with cancer in November.)Her nibs works in the court system but is on medical leave. I love to fish--fly fish and troll --on the saltchuck and in freshwater. Other hobbies include kayak surfing, skiing and camping--all available on our island.(although skiing was a total bust this year--the local mountain should have 20-25 ft. of snow by now and they're not even open-no snow.)Last but not least, I love to cook, smoke and enjoy good food and thus this forum is an excellent place to hang.
Cheers,
Tom

BigRed · March 11, 2005, 03:02:51 AM

Where do I start. Married to the same beauty for 35 years with two boys.29 and 32 yrs old.One that will be married in April. We hope to have grand kids soon so they can dribble on us before we dribble on them. I have been in the pharmaceutical business for 38 years going from a detailman, to a district manager, a regioanl manager and now to the current position of Manager of the National Account Group. I call on the corporate offices of Walgreens, Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite-Aid and the old Eckerds. We do managed care contracting and deal with the State agencies for Medicare and Medicaid I call on all the major drug wholesalers like Cardinal Health, McKesson and ABC. I have 22 months to go before I hang it up and start restoring a 72 VW convertible that has been in the garage for the last 12 years. I sit on the Board of Directors for a very unique organization called the Dallas Cup. It is the biggest international youth soccer tournament in the world. We bring teams from far away as Japan, Russia, Germany, England, AFrica and South America. We are bring the peace team from Iraq that is half muslem and half jewish this year. The tournament runs from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday every year. We have 152 teams in 6 age groups. I love to smoke on the BS and some day will understand just how to use the raptor and guru.

BigRED

Fuzzybear · March 12, 2005, 04:12:00 PM

Fuzz works for the 2nd largest insurance company in the world. He's an agency manager in personal lines (that's your home and auto and toys) versus commercial (like Old's carpet biz). Territory is everthing east of the Cascades, north to Canada, south to the Columbia river for the state of Washington. He also covers the entire state of Idaho (weather permitting!) Empty nester like some others here, no prospective grandkids in the making but the kids do visit on occassion. Been doing the insurance stuff for 31 years (6 months in personal, all the rest in commercial) Opened up the 5th wheel after 8 months of hibernation to clean it up, hopefully we'll catch some camping this year - going out today to Lake Roosevelt (lake created by the Grand Coulee dam) to check out a campground. I have a wonderful wife, two Boston Terriers (Terrors?) and a nice new log home way out away from the city. Yeah, it don't get much better than this except maybe if I had a pond/lake/river on the property to do my fishing!

"A mans got to know his limitations"
Chattaroy, WA - USA!

owrstrich · March 12, 2005, 05:44:00 PM

owrstrich... 44swmiso20somethingbifemalesforshortternrelationships...
micki... 35swfiso20somethingbifemalesforshortternrelationships...

micki was a stock broker when we met... after 10 yreas as a broker in the sears tower she was ready to move to indy to live with me...

thats when it got interesting...

i spent 20 years in hvac... the last 5 as an owner operator of a small hvac commerical service business... sold business to take care of my alzheimers father and dabble in indoor go kart racing... when that ended i had been unenemployed in hvac for 5 years with absolutely no opportunties in my field... at the time unemployement was 10% in indy and i had not worked for 5 years... it was badddddddddddddddddddddd...

thats when it got interesting...

micki and i decided to take a job doing industrial health conservation which required selling everything we owned and travel continously doing sound level tests... hearing tests... vision tests... pulminary function tests and respirator tests...

we have a f550 and a 34' mobile health services trailer we haul around for our job... we live in hotels and only go back to indy once a year for the indy 500... we startd in the midwest... ohio indiana illinois... were transfered to the north east... new york city to bangor maine to buffalo to pittsburgh to philly... we were transfered to the west coast 2 years ago and now go from san diego to seattle...

our main intersts are live rock n roll and live auto racing... we enjoy exploring from the beaches to the deserts to the mountains...

we really enjoy the mobile lifestyle and plan on doing the mobile health services job for many more years or until we hit the powerball...