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Old 09-21-2021, 11:52 PM   #321
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Old 05-10-2023, 04:51 PM   #322
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I’m a pretty seasoned automotive mechanical engineer. I’ve been involved in some truly incredible machinery- from jaguar luxo barges to sports cars, to Indian motorcycles, to Navistar trucks to Honda/Acura Indy race car engines. I’m involved in the design and development - making them last and produce lire power and efficiency. I’m also pretty hands on.
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Old 05-26-2023, 02:55 PM   #323
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Old 07-20-2023, 10:42 AM   #324
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Old 08-02-2023, 08:16 PM   #325
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I work remotely doing graphic design for a sports marketing company. It lets me travel full-time and take work with me. But I also have a business buying and selling real estate that I'm hoping to scale to the point where I can live off of it in the near future.
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Old 10-19-2023, 04:40 AM   #326
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Same here! I choose to work remotely, so I can travel wherever and whenever I want. Next year I'm planning to go to Chile in South America. I am starting to do my research, I already have a guide/itinerary https://gowithguide.com/chile/puerto-varas/guides however for my accommodation I am still choosing if https://www.airbnb.com/ or https://www.booking.com/ anyway I still have 2 months. PS. If anyone has a suggestion, it will be much appreciated.
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Old 10-25-2023, 06:15 PM   #327
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Along with Composer/Actor/Voiceover artist.

Done too many things in my life...
Now skoolie converting has my attention.
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Old 10-25-2023, 11:41 PM   #328
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I was an outside electrical contractor for Whole Foods Market, 18 years. before that I was a commercial electrician, as well as around 15 years in various refineries. Recently the company was purchased by Jeff Bezos. There were a lot of change to operations right away and recently they narrowed the list of approved contractors. They never said a word to me about it, one of the store managers told me my name was missing from the list. I sent out a couple of well worded emails and to this day, nobody has returned emails or called me. So...I'm moving into my bus by the end of the year
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Old 10-25-2023, 11:54 PM   #329
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Boy I can relate. Sorry to hear.
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Old 10-27-2023, 06:18 AM   #330
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Old 10-27-2023, 01:13 PM   #331
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I'm a tech geek. Also a Famous Playstation 3 Hacker who broke the console security and put Linux back on the PS3's after Sony removed them. Legally of course. You can see a lot of my work open sourced at psdevwiki.com (Linux was an advertised feature on the PS3 and I don't tolerate it when corporations take features away from good people after people pay for them). Sony lost in court over it and here we are today, building buses lol.
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Old 10-27-2023, 01:18 PM   #332
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OK, you are so far beyond my capabilities... thanks

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Old 10-27-2023, 06:02 PM   #333
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what do I do. LOL What will you pay me to do? I have a wide variety of skills but no career nor proper lable. when left to my own devices I take sheep fleeces and turn them into garments. Or I make other things with other materials. Not always garment related. If I had to hang a lable on me, it'd be "maker of things." I make things because I can't buy them, or because I hope someone might buy them off me. Not that this actually happens. I'm hoping to pick up casual work to supplement my disability stipend which is insufficient for even groceries, much less housing and whatnot.
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Old 10-27-2023, 08:22 PM   #334
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That sucks... this country is so screwed up.
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Old 11-06-2023, 08:17 PM   #335
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Old 11-06-2023, 09:33 PM   #336
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Thanks. You can drop me a line.
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Old 11-16-2023, 10:29 AM   #337
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My wife and I were full-time YouTubers 2018-this year. We formed a van & bus conversion company this year outside of Nashville and now do client builds in the shop we had built on our property. We still YouTube as well, but it's no longer our sole income or total priority.
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Old 11-16-2023, 10:39 AM   #338
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I am Hoping to follow in your footsteps; best of luck.
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Old 02-07-2024, 11:12 AM   #339
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I wonder whether it's weird to reply to posts 17 years old but well, I just read through the thread for the first time.
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and flew helicopters for the next 20 years."
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I love to fly...but I just don't trust any airplane that has wings that go round & round (Sorry Flyboy) I'll take a little Pitts S1A any day!
Both helicopters and biplanes sound fun! I'm currently working on getting my PPL for fixed wing SEL and would love to branch out into quite a few aircraft types... if I can find the time and money.
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I only like World of Warcraft. [...] discovered free private servers to play older versions instead. We thoroughly enjoyed creating content for developers to add for TurtleWoW.
Due to lack of income, free private servers are the only place I ever played WoW, when I was into that back in Wrath of the Lich King days. Thanks for contributing to the community! (Even though I wasn't ever on that particular server.)

For work, I've: washed dishes and cooked at a restaurant, driven 18-wheeler, held various positions at a custom cabinet manufacturer, packed and cooked meat, mooched (not proud of that one), worked in the back room and behind the counter at a thrift store, plumbed manufactured houses (stay away if you have the money to buy something else: our company built "to last a generation" = only 20 years, and to RV specs), been a cashier at Walmart, done general remodelling/construction (briefly). Currently, I'm driving truck again.
I've never found anything I've really enjoyed, though most of those had their benefits. I'm currently hoping to either find the money to convert a bus and either look outside my immediate area for work (online postings have never done much for me), or live in it while I get A&P schooling. We'll see.
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Old 02-08-2024, 09:27 AM   #340
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I've never found anything I've really enjoyed, though most of those had their benefits. I'm currently hoping to either find the money to convert a bus and either look outside my immediate area for work (online postings have never done much for me), or live in it while I get A&P schooling. We'll see.[/QUOTE]


I spent 8 years in Naval aviation working on aircraft, got my Collateral Duty Inspector (CDI) in the Airframe Shop.
When I got out, I didn't have my A & P, but was hired as an inspector at a aircraft repair station in Everett, WA
I got my A & P within a year, and for the most part, enjoyed the work, but the pay was crap.
Got hired out of that place by America West Airlines as an inspector, and moved to Phoenix. Living in the desert where they built a city was not for me....and when AmWest filed for Ch11, I took the lay-off and never looked back at working on planes. (I went back to skool and got me my paramedic cert and joined the fire dept life....much better retirement and pay....and tremendous job satisfaction!)

But.....if you're wanting to work on aircraft and pursue your A & P at the same time, I'd recommend looking at getting hired on with a Part 145 Aircraft Repair Station and working under their repair cert to get some experience and possibly their even paying for your A&P cert!

Shop around though, some are better than others....well established and consistent work/partnerships with airlines.

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After what I saw and experienced (albeit several years ago)
I'd fly on UPS aircraft any day!
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