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    What do you do for a living?

    I am a web designer, developer and manager of a company.
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    I have a regular job as a project manager in consumer electronical business. I also have fix engagements with my music (studio jobs, writing pieces for kids) that grow more and more. Today we will meet people from a record company who will check the draft for our kids musical. Things work great and I consider myself more a musician than a business man.
    "A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of the business. But I think if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading it for free," - Corey Taylor (Slipknot)

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    Oh wow, that is cool Jimi. It's great you have such connections and the time for it too. I am more of a Jack Of All Trades than anything else...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert
    It's great you have such connections and the time for it too.
    It's tough really. Most days look like this:
    Coming home from work, playing with the kids, spending the evening with my wife, then working on my music from 10-1h in the night and getting up again at 6h in the morning.
    "A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of the business. But I think if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading it for free," - Corey Taylor (Slipknot)

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    I work at the Police, I take care of those who wishes to file a police report and stuff like that.
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    67-69 Arcade manager weekday evenings; Roller Rink whistleblower weekends
    69-71 Wild West Show; Fill-in musician
    71-89 Warmonger; Part-time musician
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    They don't call me Rev. Rawk for nothing!
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    a) My Kids' Dad

    b) Project Manager for a cleaning & restoration company working with clients, insurance adjusters and contractors to clean/restore/repair flood or fire damage to property

    c) Guitar Slinger for my band "The Barley Boys"

    d) Aspiring singer/songwriter working up the courage to do some solo acoustic gigs
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    I do interactive strategy in a marketing agency by day.

    At night, I hang out with my wife (and college-aged kids when I can). I seem to find some time to practice guitar most nights, too.

    On Sundays, I sing and play in the church worship band.

    Life is good!


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    I am a librarian. I work in a small suburban library at the reference desk.

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    Quality assurance manager for a manufacturer of large industrial air and gas compressor equipment. When I first graduated from college with a degree in chemistry, I was an organic and polymer chemist at a major research facility. Much has transpired in between. What a long, strange trip it's been....

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    Quote Originally Posted by duhvoodooman
    P.S. Unlike that guy on "Breaking Bad", I've never run my own meth lab, so don't even ask.
    But you could if you wanted to, right? Just sayin...

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    I'm a geoscientist, specializing in seismic data processing, I'm also the Managing Director of the company. :
    “Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.” Stevie Ray Vaughan

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    Well, let's see. Alot of ground to cover...

    Working musician from 1964 - 1971.
    During that time, I also did part-time as an apprentice electrician.

    1972 - got my electrician's journeyman's card. Worked full-time as journeyman electrician - residential, commercial and industrial.

    1975 - got my State of Florida Master Electrician Certification, and ran a business for abt 3 years.

    1977 - opened and owned and operated my record store thru 1980. (Be careful what you wish for! My love of music really waned during this time, as I was in the store from 10 AM til 9 PM six days a week, w music playing constantly. The LAST thing I wanted to do was listen to music at home or in the car! My enjoyment of my first love - music - had run out! Also, every beautiful album cover and its contents became just a catalog #, as ordering and shipping from major labels was handled this way. Got to where I couldn't handle it anymore and sold the store!)

    1980 - started my own electrical contracting business thru 1991.

    !981 - 1983 - got a three-piece acoustic group together (miced thru our PA) and became house band at local legendary cut'n'shoot bar. Finally got playing live out of my system. Had been bugging me for years. So glad I finally did that! Weekends only while running my contracting business.

    1992 - returned to college (I had done abt a year and a half back in the late 60s - and all those credits transferred!). Graduated Summa Cum Laude w a B. A. Degree in counseling psychology in 1995.

    Took a break, then went back for my Master's Degree in 1998 - my world then proceeded to fall apart: had a nervous breakdown in 1999-2000 and was a vegetable for abt a year and a half. Never quite fully recovered and haven't worked since, although I keep my Electrical Contractor's License active (that damn thing was just SO hard to get, I'll never let go of it).

    Luckily, my three children (by three different wives) were grown by then, and are all doing very well!

    2005 - decided to get serious abt playing guitar again, and have spent many thousands of dollars acquiring most of the gear you see in my signature since then.

    Welp, that's the bulk of my story and I'm stickin' to it! I guess the short answer would be Master Electrician!
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    In 1972 got a job on a fishing boat baiting hooks.
    1973 got promoted from junior baitor to master.
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    I'm a job developer for a not-for-profit. I find jobs for disabled people.
    I also own a small real estate development business and play in a fairly active band.
    Patrick

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    By day, I am a staking Engineer, GPS tech, emergency lineman for a rural electric co-op.
    I am also the Music show chairman for www.kyapplefest.org
    and have served on the Board of Directors for The Kentucky Apple Festival for17 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sumitomo
    In 1972 got a job on a fishing boat baiting hooks.
    1973 got promoted from junior baitor to master.
    Sumi


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