Ok. I’ll throw my two cents in. I’m retired from the auto service business. I ran fixed operations (service departments) for Toyota and Jeep for 17 years. I took a bicycle ride across North America and became what I fondly refer to as, “Functionally unemployable.” I decided I could no longer put up with the retail BS required of those poor souls who are cursed with having to face every poodle toting soccer mom with a rattle in her dash.

I do a little remodeling and make physical therapy tables on the side, but my dream (which is coming true as we speak) is to write. I was just given the opportunity to write for “Ride Oklahoma Magazine.” Our second issue comes out in a few weeks.

Check us out at “rideok.com.” Subscribe. I promise to entertain you with stories of wonder and woe with the little KLX. Our next issue has a story about a ride we did in Terlingua, Texas last month. The KLX kept going while we lost a KLR 650 and a DRZ 400 to clutch failure in the mud.

Great thread, guys...and at least one very spunky gal.

Shadetree (Bill Dragoo)
Norman, Oklahoma

 

I work in the fashion industry.

My job is toapply crushed ice to the models nipplesin preparationfor bikini shoots. It really does make the photos come out better!

Well, someone has to do it right!?

 

I'm an Intel employee too. I'm an Electrical Engineer designing Itanium microprocessors. Before going to the University of Illinois, I spent eight years maintaining avionics for Naval aircraft -- mostly ECM equipment. My avatar is the patch of one of the squadrons I was assigned to.

 

I'm glad he asked. I've always wondered how they zap a semi conductor into the silicon. I always thought they were chemically 'grown' ...shows you how much I know[8D]

 

if you ain't AMMO...you ain't $hit!!! yeah, I've worked with your kind

 

We also use a FIB (Fixed Ion Beam) during the development/debugging stage of the parts. With over a billion transitors on a single chip, someone is bound to make a mistake. Rather than having to remanufacture the part, we can cut or splice "wires" inside of the chip for troubleshooting. Once the problems are root caused and a fix verified, we'll remanufacture the part with those changes.

 

I go to work when bad things happen around the world...I'm part of a Contingency Response Group...we are the first responders to a national crisis situation or a natural catastrophe...in short we're off the ground in 12 hours or less...land, secure the area, set up a command post, organize an active runway and parking area...pretty much we can start talking to aircraft and bring them in in less than 30 minutes after getting off our aircraft...we make it so that more aircraft and troops can come in... ...in the mean time we do ALOT of training which unfortunately keeps me away from my BABY GIRL DG[&o][&o][&o]... ...they have me in Guam right now for some training...

 

Thats pretty crazy OD!

man what a group of people we got here.

 

I work on an air to ground bombing and gunnery range. We provide controllersand scoring of aircaft bombing and strafe training missions before they are sent into harm's way.

 

I am production manager atPearson-Precision Collision Center.I look overanything in-between drop off and pick up that doesnt have to do with the actual customers or insurance negotiations. Balancing workload between techs, building itself, , shoulder to whine on, etc. It took about 7 years of working the front officeto realize that if I heard "It wasn't like that before the accident" 1 more time i'd snap. Needed to get on the other side of the wall. The stress level can beoverwhelming even without insurance adjusters and customers who never get to our doorstepunless bad things happen to thembut summer tends to be slower thus more ride time. Beer doesn't hurt either.