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Currently a student, doing ebay sales and am going to start doing stocks maybe next month. Also in the summer I will be having a actual part-time job. The ebay sales arent bringing in cash much as i hoped but as long as im making profit :).

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Currently own 1/3rd of an IT consulting business that has a retail presence for walk-in service.

 

Started as a club DJ during my Sophomore year in high school. I worked at least part time as a club DJ up until 1992. I still do custom mixes for a friends in the business.

 

I got my first degree from MIT in 1981 while working for Stone and Webster Engineering as an NDE Field Quality Assurance Inspector. I hated working at nuclear plants under construction but had fun working on the Trident Sub Ohio during start-up and sea trials. This was my first taste of military contracting.

 

I quit after a year and opened a chain of Video Stores when you could actually make money before the days of Blockbuster and Major Video.

 

My NDE experience got me lots of contracts in the oil field as a hot-shot bottom hole assembly inspector. It sounds dirty and it was. LOL But not "that" kind of dirty.

 

Sold the video stores and started doing military contracts full time. Got sucked into the F/A-117 project when they started having issues with the panels de-laminating.

 

Moved to the F-16XL project testing a way of removing the boundary layer air from the top surface of the wing. Started attending LSU to get my second degree.

 

Worked the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 entry in the ATF competition. As much as I like the F-22 Raptor I think the YF-23 was a better aircraft with more possibilities.

 

I was with Grumman Aerospace when Saddam invaded Kuwait and the E-8C planes we were testing were called up to active duty. We compressed 18 months of testing into three and ferried the planes to the Middle East while still training the techs.

 

Started working on the A-12 Avenger for McDonnell Douglas when they canceled the project in January of 1991. So I went back to school for my Doctorate.

 

Got called back for another series of contracts by IBM Federal Systems. While working for IBM I got called up to work on the Sea Shadow by Lockheed Martin.

 

The casino industry came calling so I got sucked into it for seven years. I opened three casinos in one calendar year which must be some kinda record.

 

I came back down to Biloxi, Mississippi in April of 1998 as a favor to the owner of the Imperial Palace casino to help him get the place open. I stayed until May of 2000 then took almost a year off.

 

I did a friend a favor by helping him setup a wide area network for a medical office and I've been busy ever since.

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nice jobs guys but well........i get paid to talk to women all day boo..hoo.been a hairdresser for 20odd years and straight i put that in for the people WHO just don't get it I TALK TO WOMEN and get paid lucky lucky lucky me

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ExRoadie, your basic job history is something that I would like to follow. For starters, I did not get into computers until June of last year. I am currently in the top 5% of my 300 person sophmore class with an overall grade point average of 3.94. I am also using my districts Secondary Technical Center (STC) to get my certification in both A+ and CISCO networking. I am currently in semester 2 of the 4 semester CISCO course. I have worked for a resturant as a bus boy since last August, but as of June of this year I will be a computer technician for my district, ISD 709. On the side I build computers for friends, family, and other people. I am also planning to take up Visual Basic and C++ this summer. I also have relatively advanced skills working with HTML and JAVA. I have plans to go to MIT for something yet undecided. My parents have enough money put aside for this to be a reality, so I am hoping to do well the rest of my highschool carreer and hopefully get a job which I love.

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Self employed contractor, masonry mostly, with some building and remodeling to break things up a bit. Been in construction 20+ yrs. I also do tree service work with my brother when I have the time. See link under sig.

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Ah, but there's a price to pay for such a career path. I've never been married and never had children!

 

I tried to settle down once but that "settle" part got to me in the end. I figure in the end I'll just hookup with some rich broad so I can have lots of toys.

 

I've been on the Gulf Coast for eight years now so I guess I better start lookin' for Miss Money Bags.

 

It's still very interesting with all of the things going on down here. The recovery from Katrina offers lots of possibilities in rebuilding the cities and infrastructure. The military complex is well represented with Keesler AFB, Naval Station Pascagoula, Northrop Grumman Pascagoula Shipyard, CBC Gulfport(home of the SeaBees) and Stennis Space Center where the Naval Oceanographic office is located and NASA tests all of the rocket engines they use.

 

Additionally, Rolls Royce Naval Marine has a huge foundry where they build screws(propellers) for ships and Rolls Royce is moving their Jet Propulsion Test Center from Great Brittan to Stennis Space Center this year. Talley Defense Systems and Northrop Grumman are building new facilities to manufacture military and civilian drones. Northrop Grumman is also moving some assembly functions of the Global Hawk UAV to the same facility.

 

Mississippi is home to some of the top supercomputers in the world including three in the top 500...

http://www.top500.org/site/1276

 

The word on the street is that a new IBM Blue Gene/L will be installed next year putting NAVOCEANO back in the top 10.

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Ex, I wasn't saying I'll have 6 different jobs, or I don't plan to anyway, but the whole MIT/computer tech thing gets me interested... real interested...:)

 

I am definately planning on starting a family, but not until I get my stuff straightened out and get a good, stable, high paying job. My dad owns the largest body shop in my town of 85,000 so I may one day have that to worry about, still trying to figure that out. I will cross that bridge when it comes. Of course it is impossible to predict one's future, but idealy, this is what I would like. Not to be "rich" but I would like to make six figures by the time I am 30, invest the majority, of course have a nice computer, a nice car (as in a ricer, nothing too extravagent) and a modest, but clean house. We'll see how things work out...

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