What is your job?

[Rx Tone]

Dream Job !!!!!!

Yeah, I guess.
I made the "mistake" of having a career that I love versus a career that is stable, has benefits, insurance, 401k, paid vacations, etc...

It's tough when you work entirely at the whim of musicians. THEY have to decide that they need a tech. Nobody can tell them anything.

..and there's 2 things, I've found, that EVERBODY knows.
One is whatever it is they do for a living..and the other is guitars.EVERYBODY is an expert...no experience required.
I charge an extra $20.00 for people that start a sentence with " I read on the internet that......"

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.
There is also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson

[Rx Tone]

...and then out of the blue this appears on my itinerary:

AUGUST, 2009
Festival du Chant Marin. Paimpol, Brittany. FRANCE

Can't complain about that.

[MAXIFUNK]

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Semi-retired Body guard to the stars.
Ex-clients Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Prince, Janet Jackson, Micheal Jackson, Hugh M. Hefner, Sigourney Weaver, Rick James, Van Halen, I could go on and on but you get the idea I toured with every one of those bands and artist except the gloved one.

[Soulstress]

Went into the Air Force back in 93 till they kicked me out for asking too many questions and not following the rules. An out-going California party girl stuck on a Strategic Air Command remote base with mainly officers in bumpf&$k North Dakota with a bunch of enlisted men that never seen much outside of their little towns before. Along with a low population of women. YOU TELL ME, WTF WAS I SUPPOSE TO DO!!

95' worked as a supervisor for Bank of America's Online Banking Dept in San Francisco and traveled around the US hooking up with friends to party

Till 99' when I met a guy from an AOL online dating thing ( back when AOL was all there was). Graduated with an AA in Psych.

Got married in 01' to the AOL guy. Loving man and father. I put my aspirations on hold. Had two children. One of which was diagnosed with autism.

Now attending University of California in the Speech and Language Pathology program and learning guitar

[Plank_Spanker]

Went into the Air Force back in 93 till they kicked me out for asking too many questions and not following the rules. An out-going California party girl stuck on a Strategic Air Command remote base with mainly officers in bumpf&$k North Dakota with a bunch of enlisted men that never seen much outside of their little towns before. Along with a low population of women. YOU TELL ME, WTF WAS I SUPPOSE TO DO!!

Spend a little time at Grand Forks, did you?

I've been TDY there a couple of times, and that is one lonely, desolate, extreme backwater, off the beaten path, go nowhere little seen corners of the world. I don't know how young single airmen survive there without going crazy............it's like a remote in CONUS........ The place is depressing to say the least.

I have 30 years in the military - 12 active duty, 18 in the ANG, and I going to retire this year.

Right now, I'm an electronics quality assurance specialist (Civil Service) for the U.S government.

[Mr Pants]

Environmental Health Officer, and part time painter of military miniatures. Also spent some time delivering lighbulbs in Canada. Worked in a slaughterhouse for a while once, which was interesting.