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I maintained (a few) MRP & ERP systems, mainly dealing with Bills Of Materials.. BOM technician..
I maintained (a few) MRP & ERP systems, mainly dealing with Bills Of Materials.. BOM technician..
The Postal Service allows that?Mail prostitute
Small package or bulk rate?Mail prostitute
As I understand it spend an entire career at the Post Office and I heard they had a pretty good retirement plan. The rest of us have 401k's.Mail prostitute
I think when you fell in the lens grinder, you made a spectacle of yourself!Considering optometry school, I started in an optical surfacing lab in ‘93, and have been in the optical business since. Lab grunt, lab manager, new office opener, GM, licensed optician, etc. Practice manager is what HR says I am now.
i guess I did forget some of the short-term jobs that I did as when the recession hit in 74, as the job that I was working at which was cutting aluminum siding for an installation crew. we all got laid off and then after looking for jobs I ended up getting a job at a discount store which I considered to be one of the worst jobs I ever had as you had to go do all of the terrible jobs like cleaning up after some little 3-year-old kid pooped his pants and tracked it all up and down the aisles and picking up dirty diapers out of the parking lots in the morning.................But, I did meet my wife there.and did short stints in a dept. store
Andy: thanks for the pictures It's nice to hear of someone who really loved what they did for living while serving your country.I was a 19 Echo then a 19 Kilo, from the M60 Patton, to the A1, A3 then the XM1, M1 M1IP and when I got off of them we were on the latest version of the M1A1. I never could believe, still can't, that I would get paid to do this. It's hell on your back, knees and hearing, but I wouldn't have traded it for the world. View attachment 630672View attachment 630673View attachment 630675View attachment 630676View attachment 630677View attachment 630678
I miss it every day Marty. Not the bullshit, but the people. There is no feeling of power that compares to standing 10 feet off the ground, going very fast with a cannon that will defeat anything.Andy: thanks for the pictures It's nice to hear of someone who really loved what they did for living while serving your country.
Should have included more beautiful pictures of the tanks you were in! Very cool machines.I was a 19 Echo then a 19 Kilo, from the M60 Patton, to the A1, A3 then the XM1, M1 M1IP and when I got off of them we were on the latest version of the M1A1. I never could believe, still can't, that I would get paid to do this. It's hell on your back, knees and hearing, but I wouldn't have traded it for the world.
you went from driving a trash truck to a CEO?drove a trash truck
Opened my own office with others, became CEO and purchased several other practices
What was it?Indie software developer (#1 game in the App Store back in the day!)
yes. I can say I truly lived the American Dream. Not too many leave home as a teenager and get PhD's either, but I believe that with hard work and determination there is no limits as to what you can accomplish in a field you have true talent in.you went from driving a trash truck to a CEO?
Air Hockey. I had a few others in the App Store top 10 & also had a game bundled with the HTC Vive VR headset after it launched. Good times!What was it?
WOWBussed tables at the local steak house…
Loaded plates at the local steak house…
Cooked steaks at the local steak house…
Painted Barns around where I grew up…
Worked on a framing crew where I learned things about houses that I still use today as a homeowner…
Drove a freight truck between my Dad’s two toy stores…
Repaired early IBM PCs at a University…
Spliced fiber-optic cables across the eastern seaboard…
Oh, and got an Electrical Engineering Degree from Duke while doing all that stuff.
Then got a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
Worked for 15 years in various engineering jobs on the east coast…building systems for the Navy.
Moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build spaceships.
Built / Developed Software / Tested / Delivered 20 Scientific GPS Receivers (sub-cm accuracy)
Built hardware that’s now roving around on Mars
Started watching people work…
Led a team that built a communications testbed on the ISS…
Led a team that built and flew the most accurate Atomic Clock to ever fly in space…
Led a team that is completing a mission to survey the entire universe in 100 channels of IR light…
“Retired” from leading space missions due to stress and heart rhythm issues…
Now formulating new technology demonstration spaceflights for future NASA missions.
You would be surprised how much I use lessons that I learned in the first eight items in this list when doing the last few items of the list…
Good luck in your future engineering journey…NTP will be a growth field in the future, if we can afford it.
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