What does everyone do for their "real" job?
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Basement rat
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No, just too much credit.
Props for bringing this thread back up Big R. Very cool to see our diversity. I also dig the 'what do you look like' thread. Haven't seen it in awhile.
Sounds cool. Do you have a web site? maybe our own dtt decoder rings ;D
Hey LIttlekip,LittleKip said:
Sounds cool. Do you have a web site? maybe our own dtt decoder rings ;D
newguyj
Don't just TRY...DO!
Well I am a laid off Netrowk Engineering/Operations Manager type, but I also have my own business that specializes in system optimization/integration I was lucky enough to be lead Integration engineer/project manager for Pentagon Renovation Command Communications post 9/11. Although as of late my catering business has taken an up turn. Oh and I do free lance public relations/marketing for a fashion magazine (www.mapmoda.com) The magazine was started by a friend of mine Dwight Mitchell, a former AMA Amateur Champion as well as European Cup winner at the Isle of Man TT.
stik70
Coast to Coast
I'm a control operator at a power plant. One unit is coal fired, 38 megawatts, which was built in '60, and the other unit is an 80 megawatt turbine that runs on natural gas or fuel oil thats just a couple of years old. I really enjoy it. When we are not "online", i'm down in the shop making bike parts. (on my break, of course)
Hand Built
New Member
I am a boiler maker, which is basically steel fabrication and welding. I get to work on some cool shite though.
KrashManhatten
Active Member
Systems Engineer/ Network Administrator,
Depends who you talk to, most of the time i am jus the "IT Guy," and i am cool with that. and still lucky enough to have a job.
cp
Depends who you talk to, most of the time i am jus the "IT Guy," and i am cool with that. and still lucky enough to have a job.
cp
Is this the second coming of this thread? I remember posting in it, but I just went through the whole thing and I didn't (I even remember saying that I wanted to be Flghtchk when I grow up 
)
My business card says "Modelmaker" on it and I work here:
or at least I did until that company closed down a couple of years ago. Now 4 the 6 of us that used to work that shop have a new space that we call Buzzwerk. I don't know how all the legal works but I'm going to say that we're a subsidiary of another company, TXS. They're the design end of the company and we're the fabrication and prototyping end.
We make stuff like this:
Wind tunnel/display model for Peterbilt
Cut the chassis out of aluminum stock and milled the body out of ren-shape and ABS. This pic is obviously early in the process. We cut all the chrome parts from brass or copper and had them dipped. And stil to be mounted (on that aluminum box behind the cab) is the sleeper and all the other details. The back cut clear headlights are the coolest part, but I can't show that or someone would get fired.
Working DLP projector for TI (photo, not a rendering)
All cut out of solid blocks of ABS and glued/screwed together as a prototype designed by a game design student that won a contest with TI. The polished parts are aluminum.
Cosmetics graphics for Laura Mercier.
All of this was painted by me using automotive PPG basecoats and clearcoats. The graphics were supplied by one of our vendors and applied under the clear by me. They supplied the raw parts. I can second Jay-Kent on visiting those cosmetics HQs, but really I'd rather they come over to our shop because the smell in those places makes me nauseous.
Ipod boom box (during assembly) for Radioshack
Ren-shape and aluminum
And for a while we were doing this stuff for Nikko:
These are purely painting jobs, they supply all the parts, which I then strip and reshoot to their specs. I miss that client
I went to school at The Art Institute of Seattle where I graduated at the top of my class in 2002 with an AAA in Industrial Design, but the school focuses much more on the models than the design so I left with a portfolio that was much stronger in modelmaking than in design hence where I find myself today. Which isn't to sound as if I'm complaining, but I would like to see where a little more education can take me. I want a Mechanical Engineering degree.
All these pics are ones that I lifted from my Coroflot page BTW (http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id=176245&keywords=kit+headley&sort_by=1&c=1&)
)My business card says "Modelmaker" on it and I work here:
or at least I did until that company closed down a couple of years ago. Now 4 the 6 of us that used to work that shop have a new space that we call Buzzwerk. I don't know how all the legal works but I'm going to say that we're a subsidiary of another company, TXS. They're the design end of the company and we're the fabrication and prototyping end.
We make stuff like this:
Wind tunnel/display model for Peterbilt
Cut the chassis out of aluminum stock and milled the body out of ren-shape and ABS. This pic is obviously early in the process. We cut all the chrome parts from brass or copper and had them dipped. And stil to be mounted (on that aluminum box behind the cab) is the sleeper and all the other details. The back cut clear headlights are the coolest part, but I can't show that or someone would get fired.
Working DLP projector for TI (photo, not a rendering)
All cut out of solid blocks of ABS and glued/screwed together as a prototype designed by a game design student that won a contest with TI. The polished parts are aluminum.
Cosmetics graphics for Laura Mercier.
All of this was painted by me using automotive PPG basecoats and clearcoats. The graphics were supplied by one of our vendors and applied under the clear by me. They supplied the raw parts. I can second Jay-Kent on visiting those cosmetics HQs, but really I'd rather they come over to our shop because the smell in those places makes me nauseous.
Ipod boom box (during assembly) for Radioshack
Ren-shape and aluminum
And for a while we were doing this stuff for Nikko:
These are purely painting jobs, they supply all the parts, which I then strip and reshoot to their specs. I miss that client
I went to school at The Art Institute of Seattle where I graduated at the top of my class in 2002 with an AAA in Industrial Design, but the school focuses much more on the models than the design so I left with a portfolio that was much stronger in modelmaking than in design hence where I find myself today. Which isn't to sound as if I'm complaining, but I would like to see where a little more education can take me. I want a Mechanical Engineering degree.
All these pics are ones that I lifted from my Coroflot page BTW (http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id=176245&keywords=kit+headley&sort_by=1&c=1&)
dakine_surf
"Stay Thirsty my Friends"
Seriously Kit, that is some cool stuff! I wish I had access to the tools you guys have... really awesome.
dakine_surf said:
That is the best part. Co-workers are cool too.
It's just the constant exposure to all the solvents and chemicals and whatnot that make me question if I really want to do it for the rest of my life. Also I make 45k/yr here which isn't bad, but I don't think I'm living up to my full potential. I'd kinda prefer to do what I do for a living now as a hobby... and have the money to make that happen of course.
We bought an FDM machine at Iron Horse Choppers' big yard sale a while back, we've used it a few times, but I personally haven't had a chance to play with it, seems real simple though. It's about the size of a dish washer and has a pallet that's about 10"x10".
Makr
I make my own rules
That is cool as hell Mysta. I used to work for a prototype company that did the same stuff. Machining Prolab is so great...if you fuck up, you just glue another piece on and recut it.
This is what I have been working on. It is a pump mold so this whole thing is surface milled. 4000 pounds of aluminum. I don't like doing this huge shit, but the guy who used to do it left, so it falls on me. I most generally get to do the fun prototyping work. It is 4' x 4' x 15". This is just roughed in.
This is what I have been working on. It is a pump mold so this whole thing is surface milled. 4000 pounds of aluminum. I don't like doing this huge shit, but the guy who used to do it left, so it falls on me. I most generally get to do the fun prototyping work. It is 4' x 4' x 15". This is just roughed in.
Outlaw Rugger
1975 Honda CB500 "Sheila"
I sir, work at a landscaping farm/bounce at a bar near my college