What does everyone do for a living?

I retired from the Navy at the rank of AWCS (E-8) where I was an aircrewman on the P-3 Orion as an Electronic Warfare operator. 21 years in the Navy and no tours on a ship, all aviation. Now work at Boeing as a contractor on the Navy's new antisubmarine warfare jet the P-8 Poseidon doing test and integration.
 
tbontrager said:
I retired from the Navy at the rank of AWCS (E-8) where I was an aircrewman on the P-3 Orion as an Electronic Warfare operator. 21 years in the Navy and no tours on a ship, all aviation. Now work at Boeing as a contractor on the Navy's new antisubmarine warfare jet the P-8 Poseidon doing test and integration.
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04cobra23 said:
Evening everyone! Has anyone else gone by a 10+ million dollar house in their boat or car and thought, geez I wonder what they do for a living? Well lets hear it.

While I'm sad to say that I am still far away from that 10 mill house on the water :smt089:grin: I own a couple of fast casual restaurants here in South Florida that I developed and we just started to roll out licensing agreements for the company. I've also been in the construction industry.
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Well, I don't have the 10 mil house either, and really don't want or need it. My small modest house is just fine, and I can launch my water toys in about 5 minutes, which is great. I do have a GREAT location... secluded by 2 min to the inter coastal and 15 min to the gulf... with tons of places to boat. The only downside is I'm too far from the airport when I want to travel.

I've been a real estate investor most of my life, which is not really a job, with a few side line business along the way in printing and aviation. So far so good and has enabled me to provide for my boats. I enjoy working with my hands as a mechanic but never made a dime for it. The most lucrative, is clearly buying an investment house. Lots of similarities, both have seats, ac, power supplies, kitchens, baths but houses don't float and aren't nearly as much fun.

Where are your restaurants? I think it's dinner time.
 
La Maddalena said:
So somebody on CSR knows about OSHPD :smt101
I'm convinced after working around the world that California is the most difficult place in the world to design and building a hospital. The permit review phase alone averages 2 years.
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Try building approximately 1,000,000 sq ft on Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco! Not only OSHPD but the SF politics!
 
Seevee said:
Well, I don't have the 10 mil house either, and really don't want or need it. My small modest house is just fine, and I can launch my water toys in about 5 minutes, which is great. I do have a GREAT location... secluded by 2 min to the inter coastal and 15 min to the gulf... with tons of places to boat. The only downside is I'm too far from the airport when I want to travel.

I've been a real estate investor most of my life, which is not really a job, with a few side line business along the way in printing and aviation. So far so good and has enabled me to provide for my boats. I enjoy working with my hands as a mechanic but never made a dime for it. The most lucrative, is clearly buying an investment house. Lots of similarities, both have seats, ac, power supplies, kitchens, baths but houses don't float and aren't nearly as much fun.

Where are your restaurants? I think it's dinner time.
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Little bit of a drive for you! Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. I did own a restaurant on Siesta Key for about 10 years, I sold 5 years ago.
 
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I live off the 8-10% margin gained by explaining to companies that they are wasting money on office 365 and google apps. Anyone that adopts a "cloud app" needs to be slapped </rant>
 
wingatesl said:
I live off the 8-10% margin gained by explaining to companies that they are wasting money on office 365 and google apps. Anyone that adopts a "cloud app" needs to be slapped </rant>
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The world is changing.... my kids are 12 & 13 and they're comfortable on Macs, PC's and Chrome books -- desktop OS's are meaningless to kids these days. They've never used desktop apps for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. We're in the top school district in MN and it's all Google. All homework is sent via their iPads or Google cloud apps. They type their papers in Google Docs and their presentations in Google Slides and create spreadsheets in Google Sheets. I own two businesses and although I use MS Office on my Mac I do everything else in the cloud.... from accounting, to data backup, to file storage... nothing is local and it's all available from any device, anywhere.
 
What a great thread, very interesting!

Another 25+ year "Elevator Operator" here. Waiting to see what 2016 brings, as we're shopping for the next Sea Ray.
 
I'm not really Heisenberg. What I really do is write contracts for the Army. It pays the bills.... and God knows there are a lot of bills!!!

This is what my dream job was. Never got there:

I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT! I have weekends off, and I am my own boss.


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wingatesl said:
I live off the 8-10% margin gained by explaining to companies that they are wasting money on office 365 and google apps. Anyone that adopts a "cloud app" needs to be slapped </rant>
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An argument I have nearly everyday. Also, trying to explain to people the cloud is not a magical place, and I can often build/maintain the gear on site for less than the operating cost in the cloud.
 
It's amazing how people grow in size with their boats....

See what Kameroo has owned.....

(Former Silverton '96 37 Convertible, Sea Rays: '91 280WE, '85 230CC, '84 210CC, '96 190BR, '95 180BR).. from 18 ft all the way to 37.... so, in other words, he doubled the size of his boats in a number of years, meaning that I will go from 29 to 58 down the road :smt038:smt038:smt038
 
JimmyDubai said:
It's amazing how people grow in size with their boats....

See what Kameroo has owned.....

(Former Silverton '96 37 Convertible, Sea Rays: '91 280WE, '85 230CC, '84 210CC, '96 190BR, '95 180BR).. from 18 ft all the way to 37.... so, in other words, he doubled the size of his boats in a number of years, meaning that I will go from 29 to 58 down the road :smt038:smt038:smt038
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Hmmm....does that mean I'll be in a 650 in 6 years?
 
Since May of 1992. Before this I was a student, part time bank teller and I worked at the Gap.

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HAHA. No. When I worked at the Gap they still sold sweats and Levis. Mid '80s.
 
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