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So what does everyone here in the forum do for a living? (just very curious)
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Thus the Lego keeps flowing in :o)
Due to a recent injury my returning to employment has now been put on hold for a year or two, but when I do I'd love to have a stall at local farmers markets etc selling home baked cakes, pastries, breads etc, well that's the dream anyway.
Although I still haven't come across a container full of Lego with the doors open but I did once dump a quarter of a ton of Halloween costumes on the quay when the containers door flew open :)
Also I am a licensed Pharmacy Tech still from what I did before the Army, so when I get out, I can still use that for job hunting lol
I'm currently going to Temple in Philly for Computer Science.
Bricklink shop as of this year. Planning on growing it until it can support me.
Currently going the summers for more work to Southampton, NY.
Not quite true... But I am a chef
On the other hand I do save 10% online which has cost me a lot recently.
Also recently started my own Lego reselling website which is going quite well.
Bricklink shop as of this year. Planning on growing it until it can support me.
Currently going the summers for more work to Southampton, NY.
Where will you be working? Have you been to Southampton before? I live just a town away. If you would like any info, shot me a PM. Glad to help if I can.
I've been writing software since I was 11, and sadly stopped playing with Lego about the same time.
That is a real instrument approach chart in the US.
The five letter blocks are used so that you can easily enter them into a GPS if you need to, and to follow the path on the screen easier. Every waypoint in the world has a unique five letter "name".
That is a real instrument approach chart in the US.
The five letter blocks are used so that you can easily enter them into a GPS if you need to, and to follow the path on the screen easier. Every waypoint in the world has a unique five letter "name".
I worked in the Gulf of Mexico flying to the oil rigs and I've done corporate jet and turboprop flying. I have about 2,000 hours of dual instruction given between airplanes and helicopters and about 4,000 hours total flight time.
Now I am back to what I did before aviation, selling widgets. :) I started my first business in 1996, sold my first item on eBay in 1997 and found over the next few years that it made as much money as my computer networking and web site development business. I flew full time from 2002 to 2009, while still selling part time, then came back to this full time for various reasons.
Haven't flown since 2009, in some ways I miss it, in others I don't. I always used to say that I was never paid to fly. That I'd do for free. I was paid to show up at 6 am at the airport and fly where someone else wanted to go. :)
Frankly, selling widgets pays much better. :)
I'd blame the manager!
And 6 am would be a luxury... I took off at 3 this morning.
Of course, he also had his pilot certificate and was typed in the plane, so he of course wanted to fly and thought that his 500 hours of time was "enough". :)
I was a copilot in it at the time, hired by his full time captain (required by insurance of course) to fly when the boss didn't want to or wasn't around. Pay wasn't all that great and the hours sucked. Such a person expects you to be ready to leave Colorado at 10am on Sunday and if he doesn't show up until 3pm, he wasn't late, we were just really early for him.
Flying corporate jets sounds like fun, until you deal with that stuff. But he has the money, so be it. :) He did take good care of us however, let me use the plane to fly my wife to Colorado for the weekend one time, he paid for our hotel and a 4x4 rental truck to go have fun for the weekend. So the pay and hours suck, but the perks could be really cool.
I'm sure you have some interesting stories to share. What do you fly?
I too am a student, and one of the disciplines I am studying intensively is classics! It's cool that we have something else in common, besides both being student AFOLs!
To answer the original post, I am a student in the U.S., studying mainly languages, classics, and social sciences. I attend a liberal arts college, which affords me freedom to study a variety of subjects. :-) I have been a Lego fan for 14 years and a visitor/member of forums and Lego sites like Brickset for around five years.
Outside of work I've got experience with C#, Java (for Android) and many others. Currently working on myBrickset 1.7.
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