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I am a Real Estate Investor/Flipper. I own a We Buy Ugly Houses franchise in Boston.
This is a recent project I just completed. It is a 12ft wide 1256sqft 3fl attached single family home that needed a full gut rehab.
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Todd320 said:
That’s me, but C#, SQL, etc... 22 years at the same place, oddly enough!
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That's almost unheard of, but I've been with my company for 21 yr. Us graybeards are a dying breed (literally)
 
bobeast said:
That's almost unheard of, but I've been with my company for 21 yr. Us graybeards are a dying breed (literally)
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I started late, was a math major until I was done with the course work for my PhD, decided to get into programming, since that was more of a passion. Started my first job at 28 (was a graduate assistant before that), but then started with this company at 30, and just never left. I did go over to the dark side, ‘management”, but in my company managers and supervisors still have day-to-day coding responsibility, just not as much as others.
 
Well I spent a few years in law enforcement part-time due to my passion for it but I liked money too much to do it full-time so had 2 jobs for quite awhile.
Spent a few years working at a plastics manufacturing facility that made all of the plastic interior pieces for commercial aircraft (side walls, windows/shades, overhead bin storage doors, etc). We had several CNC machines including Haas, Thermwood, and a few I don't remember anymore. I worked in IT so had minimal contact with them but was intrigued by them and bought my own small tabletop CNC. I have cut a few aluminum pieces on mine but it is a little too flimsy for aluminum. It does great with wood. I have made several wood signs on it.

What do I make now? I make it hard for bad guys to hack into networks now:)
 
Todd320 said:
I started late, was a math major until I was done with the course work for my PhD, decided to get into programming, since that was more of a passion. Started my first job at 28 (was a graduate assistant before that), but then started with this company at 30, and just never left. I did go over to the dark side, ‘management”, but in my company managers and supervisors still have day-to-day coding responsibility, just not as much as others.
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There's an ongoing joke on our team that we only let the manager code when we want to play hooky.
 
bobeast said:
There's an ongoing joke on our team that we only let the manager code when we want to play hooky.
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Every supervisor, Manager, director, VP, executive VP in the development organization and the CEO/owner, as well, were all developers at one point, and all started with the company at the entry level. 6,000 employees overall, of course, only some are developers, we need sales, QA, service, as well. But pretty amazing stat when compared to other companies, and we never employee contractors.
 
Todd320 said:
That’s me, but C#, SQL, etc... 22 years at the same place, oddly enough!
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bobeast said:
That's almost unheard of, but I've been with my company for 21 yr. Us graybeards are a dying breed (literally)
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Got you both beat... been at this company for 41 years. I was writing in C in the early 80's.
 
Ezsteps said:
What I do is not about what I build but what I ran to help others build. I started in construction at age 18 and ran dozers, backhoes, and excavator till around 28. Then moved into operating cranes. In 2011 I went into the office full time and became operation manager. I used to just worry about the crane I was running, now I get to worry about 100 pieces of equipment and 50 some employees (WTH was I thinking). Oh well hopefully only have to do it for 8 to 9 more years. :D Here are a few pics of our cranes and 1 of where my hardhat hangs now.View attachment 66855 View attachment 66856 View attachment 66857 View attachment 66858 View attachment 66859 View attachment 66860 View attachment 66861 View attachment 66862 View attachment 66863
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My uncle was a crane operator. He was pretty good operator, manufacturers used to fly him in sometimes to do demonstrations with the big stuff. One time he worked with one of the old Walenda guys, he'd laugh that the pinnacle of his career was holding up a wire while some guy dressed in pajamas walked around on it.
 
Woody said:
One time he worked with one of the old Walenda guys, he'd laugh that the pinnacle of his career was holding up a wire while some guy dressed in pajamas walked around on it.
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Woody that's pretty awesome. There is definitely no telling what you're going to get into from day to day. It’s been a while since I've been out running a crane on a job site, but back when I was it was interesting to see what you were going to do the next day. Most people don't realize how many different things that you do with a crane. One day you could be in a subdivision setting a hot tub or pool in someone backyard and the next day sitting air conditioning units on top of a high rise in downtown Detroit or a billboard on the side of the expressway, holding a sunshade for a movie shoot, sitting steel or precast at the Redwings stadium, hoisting the Hydro-plane boats out of the Detroit River during the races. You just never know. If any of you ever watch the Detroit Tigers play and notice the GM cars on the roof in center field well that's us. It's definitely not a boring job.
 
Those crane pictures bring back memories. Many years ago I worked at Grove, way before it was bought by Manitowoc, and illustrated parts manuals. This was when we drew with blank paper and technical pens. Then cad drawing started to take over and it kinda lost its appeal.
 
Well, sort of. I haven't been to the main plant since the late 70s and some of those cars look a lot newer than that. I spent my last 6 years in chambersburg. But I sure remember cranes suspending the flag.
 
Ezsteps said:
If any of you ever watch the Detroit Tigers play and notice the GM cars on the roof in center field well that's us. It's definitely not a boring job.
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Well you made out okay this year because you got to do it twice because someone complained about a pickup truck being up there
 
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