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Air Traffic Controller
Cop Career Coach/Trainer Veteran's Service Rep Finance Department Drone (bored, fish out of water flopping on the shore) Retired 3 years ago at 62. Played about half that time (on and off since 1975) in various rock/pop/blues cover bands on the side for a quick adrenaline hit (and cover the bar tab). Never nervous. Totally excited, tingling, vividly alive playing strong rock tunes and watching people dance. Presently figuring out solo acoustic takes on some of my favorites from this past half-century, really wishing I could find a decent local singer who can chunk some chords. Last edited by tinnitus; 07-31-2020 at 07:35 AM. |
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Occupation, or providence?
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Graduated H.S. and went into family business - 15 years doing concrete curbs (as in streets and parking lots), sidewalks, some large pads, some commercial and residential Belgium block curbs. I was a semi skilled laborer - concrete finisher, back hoe operator. A lot of manual digging and grading. Did I mention a lot of digging?
Saw the light at the end of the tunnel (my father was on his 3rd hernia) so I started going to college at night towards a B.S. in accounting with a concentration in computers. Took 6.5 years, some during the day, but most classes at night part time. Found a job in accounting in late 1988 and I'm still with the same firm 30+ years later. I'm also the office geeky guy who gets the computers "unfrozen" and printers printing, tax returns e-filed and fun stuff like that....
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Barry Sad Moments {Marianne Vedral cover}: My SoundCloud page Some steel strings, some nylon. |
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You're really pretty awesome, Jim. You should start a thread about your favorite 18th/19th century British novel. I hope it will be Dickens, because he is great. No joke, I love that stuff.
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Retired from the Navy, retired from DoD, retired from auto racing.
So I do what I want when I want.
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Phil Playing guitar badly since 1964. Some Taylor guitars. Three Kala ukuleles (one on tour with the Box Tops). A 1937 A-style mandolin. |
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Dickens
Well, Morgan, Dickens is pretty far up on my list. When I was in undergraduate school, I took a class on the 19th-C novel from a really fine professor who was an enthusiastic Dickens scholar. That enthusiasm rubbed off on me.
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Peace, Jimmy Optima dies, prima fugit For Sale: Larrivee P 01Khttps://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...49#post7433849 |
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Downwardly mobile trucker.
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Goodall, Martin, Wingert |
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Slothead. ....Derry twp
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Embedded C++ software engineer working on cellular repeaters for large venues like stadiums, arenas and large office complexes. Slinging code..
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Phase 1:
Racing engine development/test engineer Racecar engineer OEM engine calibration engineer OEM engine diagnostics (OBD) calibration/development engineer Phase 2: Force sensor design/development engineer/Small business owner/operator/manager |
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Programming used to be my hobby. Basic, Quickbasic, Turbo Pascal, very little C and enough assembler to crash my pc all the time, lol. Fun stuff. I miss it. Windows ruined everything, lol.
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Barry Sad Moments {Marianne Vedral cover}: My SoundCloud page Some steel strings, some nylon. |
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Gainfully retired, although due to health more than age. Was librarian and teacher in a jurvenile "prison" (called a training school). Had to retire when my health wouldn't allow me to do the mandatory self defense training.
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Guild F212: 1964 (Hoboken), Guild Mark V: 1975 (Westerly), Guild Artist Award: 1975 (Westerly), Guild F50: 1976 (Westerly), Guild F512: 2010 (New Hartford), Pawless Mesquite Special: 2012, 90s Epi HR Custom (Samick), 2014 Guild OOO 12-fret Orpheum (New Hartford), 2013 12 fret Orpheum Dread (New Hartford), Guild BT258E, 8 string baritone, 1994 Guild D55, Westerly, 2023 Cordoba GK Negra Pro. |
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Retired letter carrier now owned by two dogs.
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Construction surveyor. Started out in local civil works & then later following slipform pavers & tunnelling machines on major roadworks both highways & metro.
Moved onto commercial & residential building, mainly urban & have found my way back to bulk earthworks tied into major energy infrastructure (Snowy Hydro). Current work is not too intense but long hours, funnelling what I can into my superannuation, looking to retire in next 5-6 years.
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Mick Martin D-28 Maton EA808 Australian Maton EBG808 Performer Cole Clark FL2-12 Suzuki Kiso J200 |
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What are the Acoustic Forumers' occupation?
Forest Ranger for ten years, then studied marine biology and did a year working in a virology laboratory and have worked in fisheries research ever since. Did a mid-life PhD on estuarine ecology to keep my chops up. My guitar playing is pretty amateur but it helps to keep me sane.
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