Oy, our DIL is a child psychologist at a high end district Connecticut. No. Even with lots of money they reneg on contractual obligations etc. Rich kids aren't crazy, but the parents .....
In that environment you open yourself, family, kids, finances, everything up to undocumentable accusations.
I'd rather be a tin roofer in the Mojave.
I have been at the same employer for over 25 years now, in a variety of different technical / customer relations type of positions. Depending on the day of the week, to pass on other opportunities and instead stay in this same one place was either the best choice I have ever made, or a poor one.
einy (Forum Supporter) said:I have been at the same employer for over 25 years now, in a variety of different technical / customer relations type of positions. Depending on the day of the week, to pass on other opportunities and instead stay in this same one place was either the best choice I have ever made, or a poor one.
I literally can't imagine being at the same company 25 years. I am 10 years out of college and on my 4 company.
I had two jobs in 34 years, and only left job one for more money in job two
Well, I went to school to make ships go. US shipping market tanked while I was in school so let’s build nuclear powered submarines. Cool job when you’re in your 20’s but yeah, 1 customer. “Family” business is commercial HVAC so suck it up at 26 and enter into an apprenticeship program to learn the trade. Become surprisingly proficient in the trade, spend 10 years in the field until smart boss man realizes I have a degree and can also speak in complete sentences. Learn sales / project management through the school of hard knocks, deal with much BS but also succeed beyond any wildest dreams. 26 years and counting at the sales / PM gig, it s not for everyone but it’s absolutely paid the bills
All that said I was a really really good ships engineer and I’m still a little pissed I didn’t get a chance to try that for a while. Wouldn’t have made a lifelong career of it but I loved doing it. Oh and I really thought I’d be a pilot when I was 6. 
I wouldn't change a damn thing. I've had the awesomest life.
I was a roadie for Neko Case, Indigo Girls, and GTLO. I've toured Europe with a choir group three times. When I lived for a bit in Paris, my drinking buddies were Jeff Lynne and ELO. I was a bartender at some of the swankiest celebrity bars in L.A. I have been in movies as an extra with Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlie's Angels 2, tons of sitcoms, NYPD blue, King of Queens, and a dozen others. I was Nick Cassavetes assistant for a while on the set of Alpha Dog and The Notebook, acted in CIA training videos until my character got blown up in a car. I lied and said I was a horse handler so I could get some money and the horse ended up dying on the set. A horse died on my watch and they paid me $2700 for it. I was the lead tech building sets for a porn production company. They pay was fair, but the scenery was worth it. I worked for Mercury Charlie, Wil Sakowski, Jesse James, and turned down a job with Hollywood Hot Rods after walking in and telling them to give me an interview. I worked as adjunct staff for the design departments for GM, Saab, and Volvo. When you see how hideously ugly a first-gen Avalanche is, that is partly my fault. Sorry. I have been in a Swiss Jail for blasting a rented Porsche through the Italian-Swiss border. I have done coke with Kiefer in his house. I renovated a house for some folks in Burbank that used to be owned by Jimi Hendrix and we found a picture of him AND Janis AND her porsche in the garage. I've had sex with a former member of the Brazilian government while she was hanging off the balcony of a 27th floor apartment and her husband was watching. I met Chuck Berry and played his guitar. I had to kick Christina Aguillera out of my bar because she kept getting naked. I got to spend two days with Harry Connick Jr and learned SO much. I got to play the pipe organ in Saltzburg Abbey that Mozart himself played. As a CDL driver, I got to drive The Vogues tour bus from Pittsburgh to Cleveland when their driver got sick. One time when I needed a job I interviewed with a huge dealership. When they didn't call back, I just unloaded my tools in the service department. Started grabbing repair orders and no one knew any different. It was almost 2 months later that I finally came clean. I made my living for a while hitting auction sales and buying really cool things cheap and selling them on Ebay. For a few months I was a tambourine man in Costa Rica. I lived in an RV for a long time and just traveled until the money ran out and I got a job wherever I landed. That's how I became a fishing guide in Ontario, a caterer in Austin, a recording artist in Indiana, a contractor in L.A., and briefly a Barista in Montana. That last job I think I got because the mayor/general store owner/coffee shop owner, Stefan, thought I was hot, but I can think of worse way-stations than Cooke City, population 140. What a town.
So, career? I wouldn't call it that. More like busking in about 30 different professions. I'm the happiest 47-year-old low income fool you've ever met. If you look up Hedonist in the dictionary, my picture is probably beside it.
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
In for a copy of your memoir. I’m not brave enough to do half of that! Well done and there’s a lot more to go...
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
0_0. You. Win.
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Hey John. I saw your post regarding purchasing cars from IAAI a few years back - I'm new here so I cant send you a PM. Please message me when you get a chance!
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:I wouldn't change a damn thing. I've had the awesomest life.
I was a roadie for Neko Case, Indigo Girls, and GTLO. I've toured Europe with a choir group three times. When I lived for a bit in Paris, my drinking buddies were Jeff Lynne and ELO. I was a bartender at some of the swankiest celebrity bars in L.A. I have been in movies as an extra with Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlie's Angels 2, tons of sitcoms, NYPD blue, King of Queens, and a dozen others. I was Nick Cassavetes assistant for a while on the set of Alpha Dog and The Notebook, acted in CIA training videos until my character got blown up in a car. I lied and said I was a horse handler so I could get some money and the horse ended up dying on the set. A horse died on my watch and they paid me $2700 for it. I was the lead tech building sets for a porn production company. They pay was fair, but the scenery was worth it. I worked for Mercury Charlie, Wil Sakowski, Jesse James, and turned down a job with Hollywood Hot Rods after walking in and telling them to give me an interview. I worked as adjunct staff for the design departments for GM, Saab, and Volvo. When you see how hideously ugly a first-gen Avalanche is, that is partly my fault. Sorry. I have been in a Swiss Jail for blasting a rented Porsche through the Italian-Swiss border. I have done coke with Kiefer in his house. I renovated a house for some folks in Burbank that used to be owned by Jimi Hendrix and we found a picture of him AND Janis AND her porsche in the garage. I've had sex with a former member of the Brazilian government while she was hanging off the balcony of a 27th floor apartment and her husband was watching. I met Chuck Berry and played his guitar. I had to kick Christina Aguillera out of my bar because she kept getting naked. I got to spend two days with Harry Connick Jr and learned SO much. I got to play the pipe organ in Saltzburg Abbey that Mozart himself played. As a CDL driver, I got to drive The Vogues tour bus from Pittsburgh to Cleveland when their driver got sick. One time when I needed a job I interviewed with a huge dealership. When they didn't call back, I just unloaded my tools in the service department. Started grabbing repair orders and no one knew any different. It was almost 2 months later that I finally came clean. I made my living for a while hitting auction sales and buying really cool things cheap and selling them on Ebay. For a few months I was a tambourine man in Costa Rica. I lived in an RV for a long time and just traveled until the money ran out and I got a job wherever I landed. That's how I became a fishing guide in Ontario, a caterer in Austin, a recording artist in Indiana, a contractor in L.A., and briefly a Barista in Montana. That last job I think I got because the mayor/general store owner/coffee shop owner, Stefan, thought I was hot, but I can think of worse way-stations than Cooke City, population 140. What a town.
So, career? I wouldn't call it that. More like busking in about 30 different professions. I'm the happiest 47-year-old low income fool you've ever met. If you look up Hedonist in the dictionary, my picture is probably beside it.
I am truly honored to have made your acquaintance......
How much can I change?
I would probably have gone the extra two years and gotten my BSEET.
or
Gone into aerospace engineering instead.
or..............
Curtis is a god among mere mortals.
Curtis, who'd you want to play you in the "Tales of Curtis"?
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
Curtis FTW
LOL, thank you for the short story, I am in for the memoir.
Curtis raises a good point,
Sometimes we wish not for a different daily life, but a more interesting life story. You can work the most mundane jobs around, but if you meet interesting people and go fun places, that might be better than the most awesome job staying in one place and amassing a fortune.
I wasted 8 years out of highschool not knowing what I wanted to do. During those 8 years I could've traveled, done more interesting odd jobs, and still ended up at exactly the same spot.
Looking back now, 20 years later, I have a better idea of what has made me happy and what I've been good at.
Had I done it all over, I would've stayed at VoTech (I left and went back to Senior High after not liking the Automotive Program) and I would've instead gone for Drafting. I had a buddy who did and he got offered a $20/hr job before he graduated highschool in 2003.
After highschool I'd either pursue a Design or Architecture degree, or....
Joined the Coast Guard. It's always been the only branch of service I've been interested in. Maybe from Coast Guard I could've jumped to Foriegn Service. I've loved foreign policy and geopolitics since I got involved in Iraq War protests after 9/11. I wrote a paper my freshman year of Community College on Just War Theory that my professor said was worthy of being extended to a PhD thesis.
I think the Coast Guard would have been a good way of me learning real quick to keep my mouth shut, as well as see a bit more of the world.
If not the Coastguard, the Foriegn Service, or an Architectural Degree, even just going to college for something more technical would have better jived with my personality and working habits.
93EXCivic said:einy (Forum Supporter) said:I have been at the same employer for over 25 years now, in a variety of different technical / customer relations type of positions. Depending on the day of the week, to pass on other opportunities and instead stay in this same one place was either the best choice I have ever made, or a poor one.
I literally can't imagine being at the same company 25 years. I am 10 years out of college and on my 4 company.
Same here. I'm 15 years out of college and I'm on my 7th company. Two weeks will be 4 years at the current gig, but I have no plans on leaving anytime soon.
I am 14 years out, and on # 5-7 depending on how you count it. But I've been with this one for over 8 years and I am in no rush to leave.
Once you have been with a company that treats you well for a while you might want to stay. Also, if you have kids or other life crap going on, the stability is nice. I'm not trying to climb the ladder, I'm trying to enjoy life.
I appreciate the responses, but it was not my intention to sound like I was better than anyone else. I apologize if it seemed that way. My "career choice" has come with significant hardships. I remember being in Florida trying to sell a watch to a pawn shop to get gas so I could find a job and ended up having to sell the truck instead. I had to buy a WalMart bike and get a job flipping burgers and stayed there for longer than I wanted until I could afford a $3000 truck to pull the camper to the next destination.
My point was more that I have had an eclectic and rewarding career path FOR ME. People like me are called Scanners. Our attention isn't held for long. We go hardcore into an interest until we have explored what we want to explore and then it's time to do something else. That's why I'm 47, single, and making a tiny salary.
But I wouldn't change it.
759NRNG (Forum Partidario) said:Curtis, who'd you want to play you in the "Tales of Curtis"?
Barney the dinosaur, but only because I want to see him snort coke and smash a Porsche through a Swiss border
Geez....I thought the time I ran into Jenny McCarthy in Vegas was cool. I'll go back to working now.
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
When you say "smash" you mean breaking a barricade and all that? Or just zooming through a checkpoint?
And for those who don't know who Neko Case is:
1988RedT2 said:In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
When you say "smash" you mean breaking a barricade and all that? Or just zooming through a checkpoint?
I mean 120 kph on the rev limiter, sideways, airborne, screaming like a girl, and turning the gate into toothpicks.
.... having forgotten my passport at the hotel in Cortina.
I spent a nice afternoon and evening in the holding cell (a chair in the corner with a knee-high gate) in an 8 x 8' hut on top of the alps chatting with the Grenzwachtkorps dude while my car mates drove back to Cortina to get my passport. Nice guy. Two daughters, lovely wife who he said can't cook, but good in bed. Once my friends returned, he didn't even look at the passport, he just smiled and let me go.
Placemotorsports said:Geez....I thought the time I ran into Jenny McCarthy in Vegas was cool. I'll go back to working now.
I would cuddle her so hard...
Curtis is the stuff that Netflix series are made of!
Fueled by Caffeine said:PMRacing said:
I think I would have gone to a welding/fabrication trade school instead and have my own business working on racecars.
Alot of engineers I speak with have the same desire.. I'm toying with the idea of buying a shop of some sort. Boomers are retiring fast and selling their businesses.. 2% business loans right now.
I'd just like to you to know that your link has now cost me at least 3 or 4 hours of sleep...
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