wetbiker7
Extreme Android User
Lmao! I haven't heard that 1 in a while.
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Lmao! I haven't heard that 1 in a while.
johnny424
Android Expert
i aprenticed under my father...boy oh boy was that rough..everytime i see him now he calls me a sissy and tells me he can bend a drive ear with one arm faster then me.and how in his day there were no cordless drills..real men use a punch and a nut driver.hes been doing sheetmetal sense the late 60's
wetbiker7
Extreme Android User
LOL ! Oh yeah . Not only did I work for and with my father , I worked with my mom too until they retired . Even after they retired , my dad still spent a lot of time at the store . Working for family can be tuff at times . I will say this though , I'm very thankful because my father taught me much more about owning and operating a retail business than any classroom could .
johnny424
Android Expert
lol yeah im glad i learned from my dad..he could be a pain in the but to work for..hope i become half the mech. that crazy old dude is lol
new optimus
Android Expert
Before I became a stay at home I have worked school janitor, summer job when I was 14
Hated it.
convenience store clerk, worked at a small saw mill doing odd jobs ranging from helping operators to driving bobcat, then to climbing telegraph poles and removing the wire that one was interesting and sliding 60 feet down the pole sucks and gets interesting splinters.
went into the Air Force at 18 only did 2 years worked as a diesel tech and moved equipment on and off the flight line Job was fine but had problems with authority figures. got a general under honorable discharge I basically told the bosses their way sucked they didnt like it.
after that I became a security guard got so boring I could not stand it. One major problem I have always have if I get bored with something I have to move on, Computers and smartphones are one area that has not and probably wont ever happen.
I worked as a CNA in a long term care hospital/old folks home. I liked helping people but hated to see them suffer so that didnt last that long, worked construction and cleanup after a major flood was temp work but then got into carpet cleaning/steem cleaning also boring, worked several pizza cook and delivery jobs worked for building maintenance was going to be assistant manager but family things got in the way and ended up moving to another town. Worked in a potato processing plant, made mcdonalds fries among other things. Also oreda products. Got into it with a shift super, I was working lots of overtime because one guy failed to come in or came in late on many occasions, and he was evidently the supers pet so one day I told him I am not staying I have a appointment and I cant cancel. Told him about this doc appointment a week before so he could make sure to have it covered. He said I leave dont come back I gathered my stuff.
worked a dairy for a short time wow do they smell, worked at a manufacturing plant, grinding excess cast off of things like trailer hitches and what not. got very bored with that.
In and around all this time I worked auto mechanics, basically my entire life I have worked with cars and pickups. I then worked for a auto dealer doing light auto mechanics, since I never got certified there isnt a lot they will hire me for though.
Did many odd jobs from labor to managing that didnt amount to much. In 2000 I had a friend with a gateway computer and he showed me how "advanced" they had become, up until this point my only experience with computers was the crap mac's of the late 80's in school. When the computer and more importantly the internet became fast enough to keep up with me I got interested in it and like wet biker I can build and figure out much of the windows OS. I can not program That much typing all the time has not appealed to me.
I can pull apart and put together just about any computer, including laptops. I have a aspire one 10.1 inch netbook I pulled apart and put a newer intel N wireless adapter in
Replaced all the ram with faster and larger chips put a 7200rpm hard drive in so for a little intel atom netbook its fairly quick.
I bought my first android in march and within a day it was rooted and within a week it was completely custom, though that was pretty much all someone elses work, after that I started modifying other peoples work to suit myself. I have been a casual Off/On user of linux I have tried gentoo, only got it working once then I flubbed something and it wouldnt work any more then I couldnt get it to compile and run I love trying different distro's to see what is out there and available. I tried mandrake years ago, fedora, and suze, not sure how that last one is supposed to be spelled. at the time I tried many of those the driver base was too little and many things didnt work on the hardware I had available. Now I have revisited some of those but dislike how bloated some of them feel. over the last few years I thought ubuntu was going to be able to go toe to toe with windows and come close and even beat vista but then ubuntu went in a direction I dont like I have now gone debian for my server (a media/web/storage/remote) and by remote I just mean it sits in the closet with no keyboard/mouse/monitor. And I dual boot linux mint debian and windows 7 for my main computer.
I have worked on computers for many people, but rarely for money, family and friends dont generally pay well lol
Holy crap I didnt realize I was writing a book
Hated it.
convenience store clerk, worked at a small saw mill doing odd jobs ranging from helping operators to driving bobcat, then to climbing telegraph poles and removing the wire that one was interesting and sliding 60 feet down the pole sucks and gets interesting splinters.
went into the Air Force at 18 only did 2 years worked as a diesel tech and moved equipment on and off the flight line Job was fine but had problems with authority figures. got a general under honorable discharge I basically told the bosses their way sucked they didnt like it.
after that I became a security guard got so boring I could not stand it. One major problem I have always have if I get bored with something I have to move on, Computers and smartphones are one area that has not and probably wont ever happen.
I worked as a CNA in a long term care hospital/old folks home. I liked helping people but hated to see them suffer so that didnt last that long, worked construction and cleanup after a major flood was temp work but then got into carpet cleaning/steem cleaning also boring, worked several pizza cook and delivery jobs worked for building maintenance was going to be assistant manager but family things got in the way and ended up moving to another town. Worked in a potato processing plant, made mcdonalds fries among other things. Also oreda products. Got into it with a shift super, I was working lots of overtime because one guy failed to come in or came in late on many occasions, and he was evidently the supers pet so one day I told him I am not staying I have a appointment and I cant cancel. Told him about this doc appointment a week before so he could make sure to have it covered. He said I leave dont come back I gathered my stuff.
worked a dairy for a short time wow do they smell, worked at a manufacturing plant, grinding excess cast off of things like trailer hitches and what not. got very bored with that.
In and around all this time I worked auto mechanics, basically my entire life I have worked with cars and pickups. I then worked for a auto dealer doing light auto mechanics, since I never got certified there isnt a lot they will hire me for though.
Did many odd jobs from labor to managing that didnt amount to much. In 2000 I had a friend with a gateway computer and he showed me how "advanced" they had become, up until this point my only experience with computers was the crap mac's of the late 80's in school. When the computer and more importantly the internet became fast enough to keep up with me I got interested in it and like wet biker I can build and figure out much of the windows OS. I can not program That much typing all the time has not appealed to me.
I can pull apart and put together just about any computer, including laptops. I have a aspire one 10.1 inch netbook I pulled apart and put a newer intel N wireless adapter in
Replaced all the ram with faster and larger chips put a 7200rpm hard drive in so for a little intel atom netbook its fairly quick.
I bought my first android in march and within a day it was rooted and within a week it was completely custom, though that was pretty much all someone elses work, after that I started modifying other peoples work to suit myself. I have been a casual Off/On user of linux I have tried gentoo, only got it working once then I flubbed something and it wouldnt work any more then I couldnt get it to compile and run I love trying different distro's to see what is out there and available. I tried mandrake years ago, fedora, and suze, not sure how that last one is supposed to be spelled. at the time I tried many of those the driver base was too little and many things didnt work on the hardware I had available. Now I have revisited some of those but dislike how bloated some of them feel. over the last few years I thought ubuntu was going to be able to go toe to toe with windows and come close and even beat vista but then ubuntu went in a direction I dont like I have now gone debian for my server (a media/web/storage/remote) and by remote I just mean it sits in the closet with no keyboard/mouse/monitor. And I dual boot linux mint debian and windows 7 for my main computer.
I have worked on computers for many people, but rarely for money, family and friends dont generally pay well lol
Holy crap I didnt realize I was writing a book
Koumajutsu
Android Expert
No doubt man . Now that I look back over the thread , I just keep adding and adding . lol
Many of us in here have a lot in common w/ one another .
That's why we get along so well.
My stepfather is a journeyman sheet metal worker. Small world, small world
johnny424
Android Expert
residental or commercial?
Koumajutsu
Android Expert
Commercial, I remember when he bought 2 of Southland Industries old pickups when they retired them. I wrecked one learning to drive. He still has the other one. I don't think he's ever gave that thing a tune up, even after a plug wire fell off and he drove it like that for a month
Koumajutsu
Android Expert
lol must of been a chevy
commercial is where the money is
nope, F-150 Custom
Commercial is definitely big money, I bid on a large package unit for a restaurant and could've taken like 2 months off but didn't get it because I was 8 grand less than the large companies... scared them off! Included materials, couple laborers, Crane and trailer rental
new optimus
Android Expert
I learned to drive in a 1973 ford f-100 3 on the tree.LOL , I learned to drive in a 1974 5-speed Datsun pickup . Lemme tell ya , that was 1 tough little truck .
shifting was sloppy as well wont go there
Koumajutsu
Android Expert
Defcon is closer to where I live. I've never been though, been out of the hardcore game for too long
DaisFlaque
Android Expert
I work along side my halve brother at Intel in Hillsboro Oregon, small time comp. tech and a phone rooter for extra cash.
Carsfanatic
Well-Known Member
schr9091
Android Enthusiast
I was an auto mechanic till i had 2 back surgerys done now i am a small time computer repair guy that mainly does broken lap top screens...still like to buy and sell cars on the side too....and i found a cool song on youtube just now....Bitch I Got An Android, **** You iPhone Fanboys [Music Video] - YouTube
Koumajutsu
Android Expert
OK, time for you guys to confess.
How many of you have formulated a plan to start a company that combines all of our skills into a business model that has a secret agenda to develop Android?
How many of you have formulated a plan to start a company that combines all of our skills into a business model that has a secret agenda to develop Android?
johnny424
Android Expert
lol
