attended San Diego State as a journalism major while working at a small publishing house (weekly newspapers and such). got involved in computer typesetting, became a paid professional programmer at the dawn of microprocessors, decided school was interfering with my education and bailed after 2 years. fast-forward 10 years in the computer engineering trenches (with a bit of time off to pursue graphic design and commercial photography) i went back and completed a BS in Computer Science. designed a bunch of simulation software (aircraft, oil rigs...) then went off to Lost Angeles to design avionics for McDougal-Dongless, followed by 5 years of software design consulting (including some cool automated test equipment for Litton Aeronautic). moved to the Sierra to do software design after the LA economy crashed, along with my house, in the Northridge earthquake. did that for a while, tired of working for idiots, set out to do airbrush car art, graphic design, and commercial photography. eventually found my way East where my day job is once again software design (vehicle diagnostic systems for European cars) and i try to pursue graphic art on a time-available basis. i edit my PCA Region's newsletter and try to make my 911 better while i work out just what to do with the 914.6 and 356.

BA in Marketing, 5 years now at my first job out of school. I am a glorified office controller. I work for a author. Mostly Fund mangment and bookeeping.
Also, I grew up in the car business, so I do a lot of buying and selling of automobiles on the side, as well as help advise non car people with negotiation and purchase.
Ferg.

Where to start:

Currently: District Service Manager American Suzuki Motor Corp.

Previously:

Crew Chief: Chicken Hawk Racing, 4 National championships, Aprilia Motorcycles,
Suspension Engineer: 15 years (own business)
Motorcycle,Automobile,
Flight Engineer US Navy P3 Orion (odd jobs!?),
FIM World Superbike Suspension Engineer, Ducati/Ohlins
Research and Development Engineer Atlantic Motorsports, Engine development,
Imsa Data aquisition specialist Al Holbert/Porsche contracted,
Porsche dealership line mechanic, Factory Trained
Racecar constructor,

Schooling: Schooled many times. PHD. UNHK, UK ITA,SWE,GMN,SP

Assorted others: Some interesting people I know don't know what they what to do when they are 30, some of the MOST interesting people I know don't know what they what to do when they are 40.

Erik Madsen

Post Script: Still haven't acomplished shit yet! At least it feels that way.

Ahhh..Whats the line, am a Master-debater & a cunning-linguist

Edu. a little of this a little of that, mostly knocks ..the hard kind.

Currently CIO for largest Fee realty mngr in the nation. Mucho stress.

My side line is a a family affair partnering with my younger two bros building a Marble & Granite fabrication and import/dist. biz.

Would pitch it all Like Andy, or better Yet Rod, if I didnt have to wear a gun and be a target (no insult intended Rod)

Rod is the Bimmer a new ride and how do you like it compared to ..what the Kawis's / Harley?

With some pictures

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act...T&f=2&t=680&hl=

"Alotta people go to skool for seven yeerz"
"Uh Huh, there're called Doctors!"
Name the film. On a scale from 1 to ten I give this one a 6...

I too have a ton of skoolin and no degree.
Right now I am a LAN Admin for a fiber optic B2B company in Downtown Seattle...

Tommy Boy

One of the great movies of all time.

I gotta get that one on DVD.

Spent the past 30 years in manufacturing, employed as either an Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Tool Designer.

During this time, I also did Contract Engineering/Consulting for companies such as Boeing, Tyco, Hamilton-Sundstrand, Lear and Emerson Electric. Really liked the contracting jobs; was able to travel and work in Boston, MA area, Hartford, CT area and Pureto Rico.

I also have roughly twelve years of service in the Wisconsin National Guard. Last duty assignment was as an AeroScout
in an Attack Helicopter Battalion. Learned to repair and fly the OH-58 Kiowa. Nothing beats flying at 90 kph at tree top level with the doors off.

MY hat is off to Rusty.

By day I am an electrical engineer at an aerospace company, which is at this point very boring. I've been here for a year and a half now since finishing my masters in EE. So far this place hasn't engaged my brain, so I'm really looking for something new. In grad school I was working on RF power amplifiers, very similar to what Jkeyzer was doing. We got our BS's together at UC San Diego.

By night I am a 914 restorer and I work on microwave and millimeterwave electronics in my home lab. I think my neighbors believe I'm some kind of mad scientist. My wife does

-Tony

I'm a House Husband..... but all the kids are gone now.... so it's just me and my 914.

Yep, I got smart the second time around and married a "Sugar Momma"!!

What I life.

After setting a new world record for the number of years to complete my BSEE, I work at being bored at the same aerospace company as TonyAKAVW, who is responsible for getting me hooked on 914's, even though I don't have one yet.

By the way, TonyAKAVW is a mad scientist.



Andrew

Funny... a lot of Aerospace Engineers here.

I have my BAE from George Tech, although I never got a job in the field.

Had an 03 for a year and just got the 04. I love it and it does not even compare to a Kawi. I rode the Kawi for like three years and loved it only because I got to ride. The Harley is a great cruising police bike, but you cant do near what you can with a Bimmer. The Bimmer is just a great all around bike.

Early career - outdoor advertising sales, race car fabricator/restorer, Sydney university.
For the last 20, Lawyer, doing mostly property, town planning and local goverment, commercial type work. Accredited specialist in property law, Cert 2 in gas tungsten arc welding, also licensed real estate agent. Race 914/6 in classic rallies, belong to a golf club (2k pa) and haven't played in a year because of the teener.

Slid into computer programming after a bad time at school. 20 years later, I'm now looking for some way to make money in an auto-related job rather than just spend it.

Open Wide!! Dentist. DDS, BS Zoology, BS Microbiology a long time ago at Washington. 28 years in general practice. I share an office with my brother.

Love to work on the car cause it never complains at least not out loud.

Dave

Seems to be a bunch of engineers and technical people in here. It took reading to page 5 before I saw anything close to me. I got a bachelors in accounting and work as a financialy analyst for Corporate America. I'm about tired of all the political BS and am looking to get out.

Degree = BS
Started out doing construction... Family owned business.

Went back to school and been a computer geek for the last 20 years.

In the process of starting an online Autoparts Business.

Joe, you need THAT girl to be your virtual check out person!

Was a ski instructor, autopsy assistant, and pathology lab tech while in school. Afterwards, I couldn't find an honest job, so became a lawyer. specializing in international business. Teach part-time at Cooley Law School in Lansing, MI. Ex-racer (Triumphs, a Lotus [when important parts didn't fall off], Formula Ford and Formula Continental) and would-be racer, if I can find a 14er that really runs. Currently trying to figure out how I can afford one of Jake's motors.

Parts manager for a Freightliner truck dealership.
And yes, I do have some Freightliner parts on my 914.

Director of Network Operations. CCNP, CCDP, CISSP, MCSE, SCSA.

Just accepted an offer as a Project coordinator for the new DD(X) ship the the Navy is building here in rednecksville. I'm really excited as this should lead to other opportunities to excel. Being an Engineer is HIGHLY over rated and somewhat mind numbing.

Look up stoked in the dictionary and my ugly mug will now appear.

Pascagoula Joe? I spent a few months there myself.

Seek Strike Destroy Guy for the Gov in 70s, Oil & Min engineer for Merchant Marines in late 70 late 80s. Now I work for a cancer foundation for children, body shop, drive a wrecker, and some Gov contract work. My hobbies are collect 914 cars and parts and make parts for the 914. My goal is to have the worlds largest collection of junk 914 stuff.

Worked in the semiconductor business for 33 years. Coincidentally did vol firefighting for 18 years. Now, in addition to my 914, I bought my own fire truck. You thought the teener was expensive to maintain? Been tryin' to retire for the last few years but the cost of health insurance and Osama's impact to the stock market keep me in the clean room pushing silicon.

Started life as a Michigan dairy farmer, went to school to many years (no degrees)couldn`t decide what I wanted to be.Tried teaching, only lasted a year(those baby girls where WAY to tempting;didn`t see jail as a fun thing to do).Moved to south Florida to help mom. Started a screen business (designing & building pool and patio screen rooms). After 25 years sold out and moved to north Florida.I now sell outboard motor parts at a large marina. Bought my first 914 in `76 (it was a `71 6) loved them every since. Sure glad this wife doesn`t mind the misstress(Lil Red 914).

Did my commercial multi -ifr pilots licence. Had a small manufacturing company that my partners
succeeded in driving into the ground. Worked for a bank for 4 years. Worked for an aircraft component
shop for 5. Now I work as an AME (aircraft maintaince engineer). I like the shop I work at as it is small
but caters to high end piston and light turbine aircraft. One of our customers has 4 aircraft. Biggest is a
citation smallest is the one we just finished a 1947 pa-12. It is beautiful. I convinced the powers that be to
paint it the same colour as my car. When the car is done I am going to get a pic of them together.

Have numerous degrees in Pulp & Paper.

Still making paper after 31 years in the industry.

I've been in the restaurant bidness ever since college, took a few years off to run my own house painting company, but then, just when you think you're out, they pull you back in. Went back to culinary school, ended up in the bakery business. I am currently the operations manager for a central bake house for a company called The Corner Bakery, here in Chicago. I have seen it grow from a small Mom & Pop type operation, mixing 20#'s of dough at a time, to a plant that pumps out 55,000#'s a day, using a high tech Rheon stress free divider. Lots of chnges, but corporate America sure does wear you down after 7+ years.

Started life as a Michigan Guitar Player

Associate Publisher
Guitar Player Magazine
Bass Player Magazine

Commercial Banker- Technology & Life Science Companies - 10 years

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Licensed A&P Mechanic (Airframe & Powerplant)
Quality Assurance Director, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
Also, Range Manager, Blacks Creek Public Shooting Range

No wonder I never have any time for anything anymore…

humm let me see....

Started working at 13 in my father's construction business, quit that crap at 25. Went into the Marines for four years and they taught me how to sit behind the reticle of a scope and drop a walking target a 1000 meters or so away, didn't care for that job (no future and a very short life expectancy for me). Started the computer thang before and after the stint in the service and I'm still at it after 20 years ( pays the bills). I'm currently the Sr. Domino Admin for a furniture company here in the mid-west. I maintain 100 database and email systems scattered east of the Missisippi (sic) OK.. "big flipping river" and China. The stress is ungodly, but somebody has to do it...I have my MCNE and CLP. I think I'll ride this out until they put me out to pasture or I die from a stroke. Whichever comes first......

System engineer on Space Station avionics lab at Johnson Space Center. Lawyer (part-time), airplane mechanic, etc. I can half-assed do a lot of stuff.

72914s -
The angle of the rear wheel in that picture really concerns me - have you checked the suspension console for rust?

I was thinking the same thing.......not a problem if it was a '66 Bug, not good on a Teener

I am a heavy line tech for a Chrysler Jeep dealer.
Spent 2.5 years working in a small Porsche shop.
I wish I was still working in a Porsche shop, some day ( soon I hope ) I wil get back in a Porsche shop.

Either brain scientist or rocket surgeon, I can't remember

I just started my new carrer last Monday. After 23 years in oil refining I took a job as Superintendant of a service center (repair shop) for a major pump manufacturer.
The shop is almost 60,000 sq. ft. filled with all kinds of cool machines and stuff

The place is waaaay too busy. We're doing a half million a month in repairs.

im a high school senior. about a to be a CSU freshman going for a degree in civil engineering

Senior Consultant with Accounting/Retail Mangement software firm that serves the Petroleum Distribution industry. First 914 at 15, second at 40 (gift from wife). Currently, awaiting new paint/interior retoration.

Just an uneducated loser that spends too much time playing with engines........LOL

Hey all,

HS education + many years in community college. (note constant spelling/grammer errors)

15 years in the Medical-Device startup industry (Hey Patrick). Currently developing a transoral device for obesity. Worked at Intuitive Surgical for 5 years helping develope the first FDA approved surgical robot- da Vinci.

Chris

www.ridgemed.com

Satellite Engineer - Fancy name for someone who drives a big TV truck to football games, murders, and hurricanes and fixes everything that breaks just long enough to get through the day.

Picture test:

Rider914, welcome to the club! You'll find that 800x600 pics fit nicely. Post some pics of your 914 in the Members 914 pictures thread. This is a link to that thread.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=8

Stealing a hint from Gint's post. I'm a reluctant WinNT/Win2k Level II Server Support Engineer for the Managed Hosting division of Cincinnati Bell (yes in Cincinnati). Looking to get out of the 24x7x365xMultipleClients support thing and work for 1 client full time. (PM me if you're hiring techs in my area, I'm looking).

I started out in 1989 doing component level repair on old Western Electric equipment that was produced in the 60's and 70's. Then got into desktop support and have now been doing server support and occasional application integration for 10 years now for various employers.

Recently started messing with Linux and I like it a lot. http://aircooled.dyndns.org is a 486 120mhz w/16mb running OpenBSD in my kitchen when the IP is updated properly. Yea, a 486. Did I mention that I kinda like this Linux thing. I'm looking to do more with Linux (RedHat, Fedora, Suse and OpenBSD).

Other endeavors include: Licensed Real Estate Agent in KY. I'm a partner in a vinyl sign business that is growing beyond my ability to keep up. 914 junkie. ....and last but not least daddy of 3 and husband of 1. :-)

Rick

Sammy, congrats on the new gig. I know you were working some hellacious hours at the old job...hope the new one leaves more time for family & hobbies

hay Chris.
LOL I don't know what I got myself into.

The shop does sooo much work the last two superintendants left the position due to burn-out. $500,000 a month is a lot of pump repairs.

maybe I'm dreamin but my plans are to develop systems and procedures so the shop runs itself. I've done it before but on a smaller scale. It's waaay too hands on now. I hate micro-managers.
For the first six months I'll be buried, after that the investments should start paying off. Then it'll be time to start thinking about another crazy porsche project. Any suggestions?

The new job is only 15 miles from home, I love not having to sit on the freeway for 75 minutes to get home in the eventing.

I took four weeks off between jobs and spent time getting to know the kids again, best thing I've ever done.

Database QA Analyst for about 1.5 years

Unemployed for 1 year


Just got a job: Video Game Tester




Sang

Licensed real estate agent in MO & KS, Residental land development and I'm on the verge of opening my own real estate Brokerage in Kansas City. The Midwest still has the cheapest land in the country,life is good