Raevenskye said:i am currently a desk jockey. before this i was an archaeological collections assistant at a local museum...man i miss counting rocks!
So now you count rocks and rolls
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Raevenskye said:i am currently a desk jockey. before this i was an archaeological collections assistant at a local museum...man i miss counting rocks!
Gene Steinberg said:Raevenskye said:i am currently a desk jockey. before this i was an archaeological collections assistant at a local museum...man i miss counting rocks!
So now you count rocks and rolls
Raevenskye said:Gene Steinberg said:Raevenskye said:i am currently a desk jockey. before this i was an archaeological collections assistant at a local museum...man i miss counting rocks!
So now you count rocks and rolls
hehehe...indeed! i'm having back surgery in a couple of weeks, tho, and during recovery i have to do A LOT of walking...maybe i'll lose a couple of rolls in the process!
Paranormal Packrat said:Raevenskye said:Gene Steinberg said:Raevenskye said:i am currently a desk jockey. before this i was an archaeological collections assistant at a local museum...man i miss counting rocks!
So now you count rocks and rolls
hehehe...indeed! i'm having back surgery in a couple of weeks, tho, and during recovery i have to do A LOT of walking...maybe i'll lose a couple of rolls in the process!
Did you mean disc jockey? Know Krista from 106.5? I hung out with her a lot back when she was on the 99.7's Alan Handelman show, which dealt a lot with the paranormal. I was a huge fan of the show, and didn't even know that was her on it til she left. Sad, since I would be hangin with her the night before the show, and coulda discussed some things with her had I known it was the same person.
gilbavel said:Oh, and before that I was the sysop of a BBS... where I actually had control over where threads go...
MADMANMIKE said:..I'm in sales. Ironic, since I have Asperger's Syndrome, but I spent all my savant back in the formative years learning to build this facade of normalcy, and it got a bit out of control.
..I work for Schwan's. It's the best job I've ever had. Over the course of a ten day cycle I service around 850 customers, drive an average of 110 miles a day and take home a measely 400 dollars each week. That's for about eighty hours a week of working.
..I love my customers (for the most part), and I love the freedom of being out and about all day (I get to listen to podcasts while I drive). But after 11 years as a professional driver of one sort or another, I've realized just how much I hate driving. And now that my oldest kid is six and my youngest is 16 months, I'm really starting to miss being home in the evenings.
..I've got a line on another driving job that should pay the same or a bit more for only 40 to 60 hours a week, but it's always difficult to jump ship.
..I guess my point is, unless your crazy (or mad as the case may be), stay out of route work and sales in general..
-Mike
gilbavel said:You know what? We have an eclectic but VERY talented and experienced group here.
If we wanted to, we could form a consortium and put together a great web-based business doing nearly anything we wanted to.
Now, I'm just sort of playing with hypotheticals here, but we have a graphic designer, writers, coders, PR and sales people (including me; I have 25 years of in-the-field sales and management experience) and God only knows what else. I personally promote rock shows in my area, have, in the past promoted UFO lectures (and will again), and have sold everything from plant food and biostimulatnts to in-home demos of water treatment systems. I even owned my own RainSoft dealership, I got so good at it.
Looks to me like what started out as a friendly, casual conversation topic ended up looking like one of the most talented, diverse, but well-rounded group of individuals you could hope for.
Despite our differences and friendly jabs here and there, I think this group has what it takes to make a go of something really special.
But, we're probably too unmotivated and complacent to actually do anything about it. I just wanted to note that y'all are a bunch of smart, experienced people that could probably collectively do about anything we wanted to if we put our minds together to do it.
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Astroboy said:Former Architect, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, 3D Artist, Internet Consultant, now Real Estate Investor.
Worked as 3D artist building space ships and aliens at Rocket Science Games, the great "smoking crater" of game companies. It had a great staff of world class artists including some really talented guys from ILM. Our games were crap but looked awesome. We made the cover of Wired magazine which is always the kiss of death for any company.
Also had a long stint at a major LA studio which I won't mention.
Anyway, have a lot of experience with some very cool high tech startup companies.