RMS'ers occupations

If I could get them, I would have already! Maybe someday..... Jack "the 109 nut"

Tom

Actually, they've offered incredibly lucrative packages to the people with all of the experience. HUD has been literally reduced 50% in the past three to four years. The people taking their place have no experience, do not understand the programs, waste more money...entrenchment of the upper echelon is dependent on the party in power.

Ah yes, the world's greatest spreaders of infectious diseases, schoolchildren and their parents who catch it from them then bring it to work to share with the rest of us......

A little burg called Leola, Pa.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I write software self-employed; mostly financial models used by Wall Street in mergers and acquisitions. I am the author of a 50,000+ lines of code mortgage portfolio secondary market discounted cash flow model. I can't get fired from this job, because only I hold the magic keys to the software maintenance (and I own it 100%). Helped Wells Fargo become 1/2 trillion mortgage servicer.

Previously I was the guru of software to calculate tax refunds for oil/gas companies. One of my clients was Enron (different name back then), for whom I found millions in Windfall Profits Tax refunds; from something called the

90% Net Income Limitation rule. Yep, I was a Texas good-old-boy (from NY).

Hey, anyone is entitled to one career mistake!

Previously ...

1) Orthopedic ward guest at St. Joes in Denver; 3 months of wheelchair experience. That mountain climbing is STUPID. Got my first helicopter ride from the top of a 12,000 footer. Was one of those French turbo powered jobs. Voted by all the nurses as only the "second real man" to ever visit their work area. No, it is not what you think. It was more for a positive attitude to get the heck out of there and still smile and be nice to everyone. First real man was a truck driver who bailed out of his rig at dead man's curve on I70 when his brakes failed coming down from the continental divide. 1.1) Dallas Branch Manager for Scientific Timesharing Corp. (wandered around the hallways of American Airlines, ARCO, Exxon, Mary Kay Cosmetics; looking to sell computer services; most fun job ever) 2) USC systems management instructor at Malmstrom Air Force Base in off campus masters program (no this ain't Cal Tech; show me the slightest effort in statistics and a gentleman's B- is yours. Lots of free beers at the Officers Club after class, it was a bit nippy that winter in Montana, hobby shops few and far between, but they had a good hockey team in town if you wanted to see a little mayhem) 2.1) Tennis bum in L.A. (stretching out the unemployment checks to the max) 2.2) Surfing/Volleyball bum in Manhattan Beach, California (choose up sides by unemployment number) 2.3) Yosemite rock climber (STUPID, see above) 3) Space Shuttle Design Engineer (re-entry wing loads, told Rockwell, one way or the other, it will return to earth) 3.1) L-1011 Design Engineer (aeroelastic loads, lots better looking then that DC-10) 3.2) P-3 Orion ditching investigation engineer (my studied conclusions, don't ditch in one) 3.3) SST research engineer (told my boss, don't build it, let the British/French take the monetary bath on this one) 4) S3A Viking design engineer, aerodynamicist, wind tunnel testing, flight test, carrier arrested landing dynamics (really cool hotdog of a plane) 4.1) Successful applicant, USAF, OTS (not the Texas Air National Guard, where OTS is not necessary to be a fighter pilot at $1 million taxpayer expense, and you don't even have to show up) 5) US Navy Nuke engineer (go-fer, but eating lunch on the pier on an island in the Piscataqua River was neat, watching seagulls and lobster boats go by; lots cooler then that steel plant) 6) Bethlehem Steel management trainee, Sparrows Point, Maryland (hot, sweaty, dirty, but the Orioles beat the Dodgers 4 straight in the World Series; that Sandy Colfax, strictly bush league IMHO) 7) Assistant to Manager, Pelham Country Club ($80, six days a week ... in high cotton now) 8) Box and Bottle Refund boy, A&P Supermarket ($1.17 per hour, no tips) 8.1) Golf Caddie, Pelham Country Club (good tips, 2 bags, 18 holes, $10, no golf carts allowed, 20/20 vision then) 9) Lawn Care Specialist for Sr. Vice President of A&P Supermarkets 10) High School football star (er., bench-sitter; just didn't have that killer instinct the coaches were looking for, my attitude, win or lose, it's still just a game) 11) Paperboy

Next ..... Hard to say. The way things are going these days in America, probably minimum wage burger flipper. Hey, it is a hard road being a fancy pants elitist. Nobody pays any attention to us anymore.

Meanwhile ......

1) Plan is to hike into every nook and corner of 415 square miles of Rocky Mountain National Park 2) And debut at Carnegie Hall as a concert pianist (dream on).

In the wings ..... A few plastic and paper models in the stash

Wish I could .....

1) Design cardstock models with Autocad, Rhino 3D, Photoshop 2) Date Michelle Pfeiffer 3) Get my 68 GT Mustang Fastback (dark green, natch, gold C-stripe, nugget gold interior, 302 4-bbl, 4 speed, mileage unknown) roadworthy again. It looks fast as heck, but the truth is, most Hondas can best it from a stop light. Currently residing in a Denver mini-storage near Colpar Hobbies. I can visit the car and the best hobby shop between the Mississippi River and San Francisco in one trip down the mountains.

.../V

Small world. I'm an undergraduate archaeology student.

"Vess Irvine" wrote

Okay. . . Would you mind elaborating on this a bit? When was this? Who actually employed you (organization)? What were the plant designators for your projects?

KL

Good luck getting any specific info from the Vessticles on anything that can actually be verified, Kurt.

My home page:

" In walks the village idiot and his face is all aglow; he's been up all night listening to Mohammad's radio" W. Zevon

Vess Irvine dribbled on with a bunch of crud, then spat out this gem!!

Vess, it ain't how fast you go, but how cool you are getting there, man. Ford V8s rule!

RobG Frustrated GTHO Falcon owner.

Spent 20 years as a USN P-3 Orion RADAR/ESM/MAD/IRDS (as well as doing more than dabbling in the Acoustic (or "Wet" field as our RAF friends call it) field) ASW Operator, retired in 1995 as an E-6. Spent 5 miserable years working for the US Postal Service and am now working in one of the top three most-despised professions in this country, I'm a used car salesman in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

Don wrote (in part):

IRS agent is one, what is the other?

Rick Clark

Lawyer. Other than your own, of course.

Tom

I wondered what happened to you. Everyone I know who worked for the PO seems to have had a miserable time of it. Kind of glad I didn't take that part-time job at the Neffsville station 37 years ago. Going into insurance sales next? :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Ah, yes! That would be our largest plant. It still amazes me how many millions of items come out of there every day! Jack "the 109 nut"

Thanks for thinking of me, Bill. Had quite the domestic disruption, and moved from Lancaster to Clarksville, TN last Aug. Finally got around to doing some posting, tho, I've been lurking for a good while.

Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

Aeronautical engineer. Formerly in product definition at Pratt & Whitney Canada, now designing business aircraft interiors for Bombardier.

Dom

And I'm amazed at the number of former employees from there that I've met while doing temp work. They're almost as large a group as the former Donnelley employees. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE