What does everyone do for their "real" job?

Executive Chef for a Convention center in NOLA

I make people FAT!
 
I am currently in school working towards a Marketing Management degree; as well as helping my wife run her custom jewelry business. I used to do landscaping and a ton of other jobs before that.
 
Building Services for a Natural Gas company. I fix whatevers broken or not working. The main building I work at houses a natural gas turbine plant for power generation. When the city goes black, our building glows. One day I'm working on automation systems, the next day I'm a plumber.
 
.paul said:
What'd you do? I'm the assman.
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Pop/ Chip isle Sundays before opening at 11 or 12, general stocking, cash. helping clean up at end of night. In one year working there, I only had one shit day. Otherwise, had a decent time, good people, worked inside with AC/ Heat.

Before that I did line cook, waited tables and dish at Bonanza.

After that I did Highway Construction for a summer CAD work for a truck trailer company for 7 months then joined the military.
 
redwillissuperman said:
Oh, I make 120 octane racing fuel from recycled cardboard with no ethanol, MTBE or TEL in it. Just the pure goodness of Alestron.

Doesn't varnish in the carbs and makes 8-10% more horsepower than 91-octane street gas.

Before that I designed cars, trucks and motorcycles for almost every car company in the world. Next time you get pulled over by a Ford Police Interceptor you can thank me. I designed the chassis and suspension, including the one-piece cast aluminum suspension crossmember.

But everyone knows me because I invented Matte Black paint- I am the original.
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Your comment about Alestron piqued my interest. I think you slightly overstated it capabilities.

Article: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2012/10/04/incitor-and-the-birth-of-a-new-low-costhigh-performance-fuel-molecule-in-pictures/

From article:
and has an octane rating of 110.
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A little less than 120, but 110 is high...

they generally produced a fuel molecule with around 120,000 BTUs (around the same as gasoline), that could safely run in 50 percent blends with gasoline or diesel.
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BTU is HP... Since my 360 runs on 87 Octane fine, with carbs and no computer, it will produce the same HP on Alestron as on gasoline. Of course, if I increase the compression ration, enrichen the mixture, I could get more HP, but Octane isn't HP, only BTU/Lb is HP. 91 Octane gas does not make more HP then 87 either. Odd you claim to be in the energy business and made that kind of error. Maybe you meant you could upgrade an engine to use the additional octane ratings, increasing the COP and allowing for more horsepower....

Still, Alestron looks promising....
Here's some more Info on it: http://www.incitor.com/

Also, Apple Corp called, and are suing you for patent infringement, the Matte Black Paint was an Apple invention. My sources tell me it was invented in China, but China might of stole the idea...

I could be wrong too, but Alestron does look like it may upset the oil cartels...One Day...

Police Interceptor? You design the new Ford Taurus? Maybe you shouldn't mention it....Even RoboCop couldn't make a Taurus seem like a viable police car....
 
mydlyfkryzis said:
Article: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2012/10/04/incitor-and-the-birth-of-a-new-low-costhigh-performance-fuel-molecule-in-pictures/

From article:A little less than 120, but 110 is high...

The article combines a lot of separate information for space. The "natural" octane is 120 but we advertise 110 because of downstream processing and handling. We will most likely make a suite of products that range from 93 to 118 octane with different properties for different applications. Our first offroad-use only fuel product will be 110 octane for four- and two-stroke motorcycles, ATVs and snowmobiles.

BTU is HP... Since my 360 runs on 87 Octane fine, with carbs and no computer, it will produce the same HP on Alestron as on gasoline.

Mostly correct but not the whole story. This is what we were aiming for (same HP as gas at the minimum), comparing against a zero ethanol fuel, E0. Most people can only buy E10 (ish) fuel, which takes a big cut in BTU's because of the 10% ethanol content. Its hard to quote a number since some people think in BTU/gal, US gallon versus Imperial Gallon, BTU/mass. A recognized standard is E0 gasoline has 114,000 BTU/ US gal while E10 only has 111,000. If you run you motor on E85, you only get 77,000.

You are correct, if your bike makes 50HP on E0 gasoline, it will make 50HP on Alestron. It will only make 48HP on E10 gas though(what most people buy at the pump).

BUT, this is how you make more power beyond regaining what E10 lost. Alestron brings along three oxygens with each molecule. E0 gasoline is only gasoline, no extra oxygens. The air side of your engine only brings in 20% oxygen with each gulp, but Alestron brings in more with the fuel. More oxygen = More Power (if you can take advantage of it). Usually you will need to increase your jet size on a carburetor but a fuel injected engine makes the changes to the pulsewidth for you. On the emission side, the extra oxygens ensure complete combustion.

You can read up on VP Racing U4.4 which uses the same mechanism.

However Alestron uses an engineered molecule that has some other advantages that gasolines derived from oil can't

Still, Alestron looks promising....
Here's some more Info on it: http://www.incitor.com/

Also, Apple Corp called, and are suing you for patent infringement, the Matte Black Paint was an Apple invention. My sources tell me it was invented in China, but China might of stole the idea...

Should have put the quotes around "invented". My company started the "murdered out" craze and subsequent incorporation of the matte finishes for Class A surfaces (think new cars). One of our SEMA cars was painted in Matte Black. The following year we licensed it to a Mercedes project and another. By the next year everyone was shooting "matte black" but usually flattened paint. My paint lives on in the factory finishes on the G-Wagen and other high end cars.

I get sued by Apple all the time, or at least threatened. Apple has an "amazing" (some would say borderline criminal) IP department that can get the Patent Office to give them a patent on anything, regardless of prior art. If you talk to them again, ask about the non-invasive glucose meter they are "inventing". I've had a working prototype for 3 years.

I could be wrong too, but Alestron does look like it may upset the oil cartels...One Day...

Police Interceptor? You design the new Ford Taurus?
No, the previous Panther platform based Police Interceptor. Yes it is ugly, but look up the Ford 427 concept. Picture that body on top of my chassis, coming in coupe, convertible, wagon and Ranchero bodystyles. Powered by a turbocharged V6 (they call it EcoBoost now), V8, and supercharged V8 engines. Would have launched in 2002, beating the 300C/Charger/Magnum/Challenger to market. But then I wouldn't have been able to work for Dodge....
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I'm a technician/technical admin for an Apple retail store here in NY and I'm overnight cashier at a local grocery store. and I'm trying to go back to school to be a social worker :)
 
Systems Administrator for a national wholesale distributor. Which means I fix computers when people open links that they shouldn't.
 
thisispainful said:
Systems Administrator for a national wholesale distributor. Which means I fix computers when people open links that they shouldn't.
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I feel your pain. It seems like thIs and password resets are all I do some days.
 
I am a Self Employed International Freight Relocation Engineer ( Truck Driver) and Part Time Bike Tinkerer
 
i work at a chain off road/truck/jeep aftermarket shop.i was service manager but as you age working outside sucks so i now work at the counter but for some reason whenever someone screws up the schedule or worse i get to go back outside. trying to get back into a motorcycle shop after having managed a cycle gear and giving that up for more money to go back to the off road shop.
 
Software developer... of the web variety for a small, 3 person shop. We do purchasing contract compliance applications for the most part. "Jack of all trades" being a small business; I have my hands in the entire system, from the database to the UI, but my favorite is writing JavaScript (client side).... if that's all I did at work, I'd be OK with that :)
 
Javascript? More like voodoo black magic code...
Any "programming" language that requires the use of animal bones and human sacrifice is not OK in my book.
 
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