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I’m still doing the same thing since this is my 41st year in the classroom teaching. Still hoping for a job as Jack Black’s older brother in a movie. FA4705FF-56CF-4F2F-B6B7-4DDEF87F8FDD.jpeg

Still look like his new photos.
 
Blessed to work from my home in rural NC 96% of the time as an IT nerd supporting SMB's from end user support to network, server and cloud implementation & design.
For fun & occasional profit, raise chickens, turkeys, hogs and ducks and a garden, photography, & woodworking
 
I am a hospice nurse for a not for profit company. Great job at a great place.

I have 10 years in the Army, 10 years in law-enforcement. I have worked in the telecom industry (splicer and inside plant+operations management + design work). I have also done building automation installation and was a commercial estimator for a medium sized AC company. I have also been a farm kid and managed a chicken farm at 17 too.

Heck, I’ve had a crazy life.


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My father actually worked at Comanche peak for a few years in his younger days, worked with the reactors in some way, don’t remember exactly what

What was his name, I was an operator probably have an idea who he is, nuclear industry is a very small world.
 
I should add in that while being retired and back to farming/ranching, I married up as Tourmiester stated in a different post.

I’m old fashioned and met my wife in second grade. Just friends and went separate ways till I saw her one day when she was a cashier at a store. Dated, married and we put her through skool to get her masters. Now she’s got a big wheel job to help buy my toys. Will be 30 years married this year.

Hopefully everyone adds in a bit about their better half to give a lil more about who we are. 😀
 
I should add in that while being retired and back to farming/ranching, I married up as Tourmiester stated in a different post.

I’m old fashioned and met my wife in second grade. Just friends and went separate ways till I saw her one day when she was a cashier at a store. Dated, married and we put her through skool to get her masters. Now she’s got a big wheel job to help buy my toys. Will be 30 years married this year.

Hopefully everyone adds in a bit about their better half to give a lil more about who we are. 😀


My wife is a medical doctor. I play the role of Trophy Husband. :) Its a pretty good gig!
 
Ok, since talking about wives...I've only had one and I met mine when she was a freshman and I a junior in high school. Our first date was a tour thru a haunted house on Halloween, 1975. We just celebrated our 37th this last Wednesday.
 
Ok, since talking about wives...I've only had one and I met mine when she was a freshman and I a junior in high school. Our first date was a tour thru a haunted house on Halloween, 1975. We just celebrated our 37th this last Wednesday.

congrats and kudos for sticking with it through better and worse.
The woman I currently live with is my wife of 31 years.
 
congrats and kudos for sticking with it through better and worse.
The woman I currently live with is my wife of 31 years.

Ha! Thankfully, mostly “better”, with a little “worse” splashed in once in a while:box::box:
 
Rolling up on 26years of marriage, Have known my wife since High School when we all ran around to dances and just general teenage tomfoolery. We went on with our lives for years and met back up at the Austin County Fair. Since then besides doing an amazing job of raising our daughter while I traveled for work she I assume spends most of her time wondering what she got into everytime I bring another motorcycle or some other I just had to have thing home
 
I've worked in many different aspects of pest control... killing bugs, selling services, managing the customer support center... I am now the accounts manager. Mostly I crunch numbers, listen to customer complaints, and create policy and procedures that make us the best locally owned pest company in Austin. Lots of friendly people to work with.
 
It will be 6 years of marriage on the 1st

Long story short, we've been through alot. Now that my act is "together" we're alot better.
 
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I work for a small tech company with big clients. I'm one of a two man IT team, but I don't do as much hands on server management as I used to. I'm more tied into all our web security and data privacy issues. And I'm ready to be done with tech honestly. If I knew what I really wanted to do, I'd be looking for a job doing it. Enjoying the heck out of photography these days, but have little interest in making it a job. Probably some sort of teaching since I always seem to gravitate towards passing on what I know.
 
I'm retired. It's my current dream job, been at it since April 2008, no plans to look for anything different.

Funded by a career in civil engineering fields. Took a 'summer' job with an Austin consulting civil/environmental engineering firm the semester before I graduated from UT School of Architecture in 1978 that ended up lasting 13 years. Worked from the drafting board (pre-CAD era) to senior jobsite construction oversight. In 1990 moved to the TX Water Commission to manage Federal Superfund Projects (EPA-funded hazardous waste cleanup projects, mostly involving large-scale treatment systems). Lots of challenges, lots of variety, worked with lots of great people both public and private sector (and a few pricks in both), mostly satisfying project results, almost always stimulating. For me the key was never hesitating to say when I was 'bored' and my managers responding by finding some new and less-than-boring frying-pan to throw me into, lol. Had a few very high-stress stretches but I'm very fortunate to have tremendously enjoyed the vast majority of my working career.

Fortunate again that, when I realized I wasn't having nearly as much fun in my last frying-pan managing other Project Managers and Programs as I'd had when I was managing Projects in the field myself, I was able to retire young at 55. Wish I could claim it was all the result of some sort of well-laid plan on my part ..... more a matter of luck and circumstance (karma ??) methinks.
 
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I continue to work as an engineering manager for a well-known data center and wireless company. The company has merged and split several times and I somehow survived it all. I am lucky. My wife of 20 years is a systems architect for an IT department. We try not to talk shop, but when we do, she does the talking and I do the patient listening :-) We are both first generation "aliens" and education gave us a ride into a good life. We are grateful for that. Plan to retire together in a couple of years and dedicate more time to things we enjoy.
 
It’s Joe Bagley sir

I remember the name, can't place the face. Ask if he remembers Doug Basinger, I was a Reactor Operator in the Control Room. I was on watch when we did the initial start up of Unit one reactor. Don't be surprised if he didn't like me. I was hard headed and impatient in the old days. I tried to be nice but youth and inexperience challenged that on a regular basis.
 
I'm retired which means that I'm the household electrician, plumber, carpenter, landscaper, mechanic, Irrigation specialist, construction manager, finance manager and hopefully soon - travel planner.

All that is funded from my having been a C141A crew chief, cable installer, glorified delivery boy, car care center/service station manager, a C-130H crew chief, aircraft maintenance manger/supervisor, landscape maintainer and air conditioning supply house manager. Apparently my favorite position was as a C-130 Crew Chief. Although I haven't worked the flight line in over 18 years, I instantly feel at home when I have the chance to visit. It's as if I never left. The C-130 was the perfect size airplane for a guy like me to manage.
 
For folks who've worked closely on the flight line. The smell of JP5 jet fuel can stop you in your tracks for a look-see what's going on.

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Wifey info... Together 37 years, married 35 years. We met while working at the same retail store in Tucson, although we had lived about 1 mile apart from each other when our dads were stationed at Westover AFB, MA back in the early 60s. She's also an IBA member and as my pillion we established the Atomic 1000 SaddleSore. She's retired from work.
 
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