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Very cool everyone....very impressed with the lighting, theater construction and car restorations.....you guys are inspirational!

Me I'm a commercial truck driver....."wheels on my truck go round and round..." :D

Been driving and doing deliveries for these guys for almost 12 years now....been double clutching and grabbing gears for over 20!





I truly love truck driving, and I'm very old school and believe commercial trucks should be "driven", not piloted....but the trucks that are coming along now days are almost all automatic, with stability and traction controls. The computers decide when and how your truck should be driven, and I find every year it's getting harder and harder to keep enjoying what I do....at least in the large corporate enviroment I'm in now. Been thinking of leaving and getting back into a small business owners fleet.
 
That's cool, my parents both drove for Atlas Van Lines in the late seventies. Dad drove for 16 years, mom drove with him for four. She stopped when she had me. Dad stopped a year later and started selling trailers. They were one of the first husband and wife teams in the country. Truck stops had to close the showers so she could use them. They'd come out to fifteen stinky, pissed off truckers waiting in line. They were owner operators of a cabover Kenworth, can't remember the model. They were also Smokey and the Bandit, after the movie came out, they'd fill their belly boxes full of ice and Coors for their state trooper buddies in Ohio. Had to stay as cold as the Rockies, you know..
 
Very cool cows. I see by the company you drive for that you are getting essential goods and services to those of us who need them.

I held my Commercial/Airbrake endorsement for a while. A big part of working with Stage-line mobile stages is getting them to the show site.

http://stageline.com/
 
I too retired. I got tired of the politics and the unfeeling management of the company I worked for. They used to be a people company and then turned to a profit first company. I think that today's management style forgets about the people that got them to where they are and only look at them as an expense on the debit side of the books. I could feel myself sliding downhill health wise and the company management could care less. After being the good employee for 30 years I decided a grave for them was not for me , my health took a quite uphill turn for the better within a short period of time. I felt I had too much to live for. Been retired now almost 5 1/2 years and haven't looked back.
 
Cool thread! Looks like everyone is thriving in their area of expertise. I would share if this were in the private forum, but I'm really not supposed to talk about it or post public pictures :-)
 
I'm maintenance/operations/security for a mid-sized church in Fort Worth. I keep the place functioning during the week and during services. I 'm the guy, with a part-time assistant, that sets up and tears down for special events, holiday productions and other assorted goings on.

I am also a licensed Level IV personal protection officer, basically a body guard, for the pastor. It seems there are certain groups of people that feel that killing a pastor is a badge of honor.

Prior to this I was a contractor, mainly doing rehabs for investors that were snapping up houses, when the economy crashed, to use as rental properties while the market righted itself. Before that I was spinning wrenches in various muffler shops.
 
I'm a geek.

A Sales Engineer for Avaya. Avaya is a leading global provider of next-generation business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, real-time video collaboration, contact center, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.

I design networks and communications solutions for companies and organizations. Places like school boards, Universities, Colleges, hospitals, municipalities, manufacturing companies, and just about any one else that needs to connect computers together within their own organization.

I started with Nortel in 2000, and made it through its drain-swirling exit from existence when Avaya bought the Enterprise business unit in 2009.

My day to day work involves meeting with customers, drawing on a whiteboard, thinking, and then transferring all of that into quotes, proposals and documentation to help support the customer's buying decision.
Then I get to answer technical questions about it all once it's installed. Which is someone else's job, but I'll help to a point and then force a hand off to our support group. It's not that I can't deal with it, but if I do it (to a point), then the company might not see the value of the support team. My job is to help customers buy. I refuse to say that I sell to them because I am more than happy to say they don't need what I've got if it's true.

Anyway, I don't really have any pictures to share, but this video tells a good story of why I don't spend my days licking the window.

[video=youtube;n7yn6YiwQ8Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7yn6YiwQ8Y[/video]

This is exciting stuff for a networking professional. Five or six years ago, a design meeting was pretty much, "How many ports? How fast do you want to go?" and that was it. Everything to make it works was table stakes - it had to be there or there was no point in even talking about it. With Fabric Connect, we can drastically change how networks are implemented and operated - and it's MUCH simpler to do. And simple operation translates into more stability because it means fewer mistakes. I tmeans less complexity in terms of configuration steps.

Did you watch any of the Sochi Olympics? The Vancouver Olympics?
Both of those games ran on our technology. Sochi was the first all IP games. Everything that happened for the games, athletes, media, volunteers, in any of the venues ran over out gear. Even the monster HD displays in the venues were fed with streams of video over our network gear.

We did the communications for the SuperBowl this year, too. I'm not sure what the details are as to what we covered though.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
My day to day work involves meeting with customers, drawing on a whiteboard, thinking, and then transferring all of that into quotes, proposals and documentation to help support the customer's buying decision.
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Don Draper, is that you?
 
In the opening scene of this video, I'm the guy in the red shirt with my back turned.

[video=youtube;igFtbFE9Kio]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFtbFE9Kio[/video]

In this video, I'm the guy at the whiteboard at around the 0:36 mark.

[video=youtube;u0zeet4M8do]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0zeet4M8do[/video]

I also ended up on stage with those two actors at the actual event advertised in these videos.
 
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