What do you do with your life?

...at the moment i am working a temp job for nc workers comp...before that, worked at a cro doing data entry...after 5 years, they cut me to 12 hours a week and screwed me out of 4th of july pay and a 3 week vacation next year....:mad:

on the side i am an artist and would love to do that full time, but no call for it at the moment...........(i do commissions) ;)
also love to go to see bands...other than that...i am at my cats beck and call and they are ALWAYS HUNGRY....:loco:

oopsie...i forgot to mention that my fiance is king lek and he is the reason i left beautiful, sunny california...for nc...(ick) ;)
 
Pyramaze51 said:
I hate my job as of late, as the company i work for is now trying to nickel and dime us out of benefits, just for the sake of the bottom line. Oh yeah, i am a Jr. VP repsonsible for Special Programs and Projects for the #3 defense contractor in the US, we have over 100K employees in 32 countries and all 50 States of the US, and also over 300 in Antartica.
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Ick... which defense contractor? NG, LM, GD, Boeing, Raytheon? I lothe them all (see my bio post).
 
Work:

Work as a research and development engineer for a branch of the military, working with large and small defense contractors (ugh!) on developing new stuff so our guys "over there" can kick some serious ass!! :headbang: :kickass:

Outside of work/hobbies:

Run a number of websites as hobbies: The BBS Corner, Telnet BBS Guide, Telephone World are the major ones. Also run a BBS (remember those?) but now available via the Internet. See the URL in the sig line if you're interested :)

Music:

Grew up listening to hard rock and traditional metal. A friend of mine turned me on to power & progressive metal in 2005. I've been to PP USA twice, third time this coming October.
 
OrbWeaver said:
Yeah, Carbondale. It sure is pretty down here (Yay for Shawnee National Forest!) but damn, I hate the heat and the humidity. Bleh.
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Oh the memories - that's where I met Yippee! It is very pretty down there. I still have a girlfriend in Marion. We need to fly down and do lunch with her sometime soon.

OrbWeaver said:
@Yardley: Hehe, you handle tools! :D
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:D
 
I manage a high end furniture and interior design showroom. Married 12 wonderful years this Monday to a comic book, sci-fi, toy collecting geek, which works well for this concert going, scorpions collector, rock -n- roll geek!! No kids just one whiney old man cat named Aleister.

I collect all things Scorpion (the bug and the band) and other than music and concerts I enjoy spending my days off at the beach rollerblading or just taking a drive around CA. taking pictures.

I look forward to my annual vacation to PP as much as my husband looks forward to Comic-Con and Wonder-Con. I keep telling him he should go to PP if not for the music to hang out with all the other great people I know who have the same hobbies as him.
 
What do i do with my life?

This time of year.....

.....SWEAT........................................A LOT!
 
I'm the "financial coordinator" for a couple of small academic units at a large Big-10 school, which is a fancy name for book keeper, really. Part of my job, despite the title, includes graduate student services for current and future graduate students. That's how I earn my pay.

I'm a cross-stitcher and a knitter and rarely do you find me sitting around, without either in my hands to keep me occupied. It's a great conversation starter when I'm in public, though knitting is pretty popular and I'm pretty much a beginner. :)

This Sunday is my 7th wedding anniversary to a terrific guy, after meeting 10 years ago this year at a Dream Theater show in Boston. We missed ProgPower I, as we were getting ready to move from Boston to Michigan, but I have managed to be at all the rest.

I like to travel as much as my vacation and our money permits us, and I'm lucky my husband is pretty tolerant of my vacation decisions.

Gosh, when written like that, I look terrible boring. See you in October!
 
I'm a full-time student majoring in Management at Georgia Tech...I'm hoping to be able to find a job in the music industry. I also host a metal radio show with Pellaz and mtndewqueen88 and I run sound for bands about once a week. I volunteer at a local music venue with booking/advertising.

Music is my main passion (I pretty much stick with rock, rap, reggae, and some jazz aside from metal, but metal is my main genre) but I also enjoy sports and the outdoors.
 
I am a jack of all trades IT type person. I have been in the IT field for 22+ years, and have had just about every job from tape hanger to System Manager. While the majority of my experience is with OpenVMS, & HP-UX
(HP/Compaq flavor of Unix), the last few years have been spent running MS platforms. I work for a recently bought out financial clearinghouse, & I have been hand picked by the CEO to join his newest venture, and will have a stake in the company. I'd much rather be teching for a touring band, or running my own guitar shop, but for now, the computer geek stuff pays all the bills. Above all, I'd rather be fishing! :)
 
I work in the production department of a school/academic/educational publishing company (textbooks, dictionaries, CDROM, etc.) which I enjoy quite a bit. I just moved from Michigan to Boston so when I'm off work I'm wandering around the city trying to get to know the locale and/or sitting in front of the computer. Of course keeping an eye open for shows and trying to keep a regular practice schedule too.
 
i'm finishing up at Berklee College of Music in Boston (i play guitar) and i work as a stagehand....been on the Berklee stage crew for a bit over a year, and i'm planning on doing freelance and union extras list work as much as possible starting in september (since i won't be able to work on the Berklee stage crew anymore, as it's a student employment job).
 
It's very cool to read such a diverse background and age variation from all of you yet the one common bond is this forum and ProgPower/Music.
As for me I own and operate a small recording studio NW of Chicago, once I move to my new location in approximately a year I plan on it being my full time job.
 
Diamond45 said:
Ick... which defense contractor? NG, LM, GD, Boeing, Raytheon? I lothe them all (see my bio post).
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The fifth one you named, but hey even though I hate it and I am retiring right now it pays for my passion, MUSIC!!!!
 
Well for me, I just graduated from highschool this past May and was working at a grocery store until a few weeks ago when I quit. Right now I'm looking for a better job because in October I plan to start nursing classes because I want to be a pediatric nurse.

All I do now really is spend time with my boyfriend, my friends, and my family. I'm a bookworm so most of the time I have my head stuck in a book. I love going to concerts when I'm able. I love to shop. Interesting life, huh? Lol.
 
Princess Jenna said:
Well for me, I just graduated from highschool this past May and was working at a grocery store until a few weeks ago when I quit. Right now I'm looking for a better job because in October I plan to start nursing classes because I want to be a pediatric nurse.

All I do now really is spend time with my boyfriend, my friends, and my family. I'm a bookworm so most of the time I have my head stuck in a book. I love going to concerts when I'm able. I love to shop. Interesting life, huh? Lol.
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to be honest, you have no idea how lucky you are to be enjoying life that much right now, treasure it.
 
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