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Ok, so what do you do for a living?....

A good friend tried to get me to go out to CO and get on ski school while I was in grad school. If I had survived my parents killing me, I probably would have never left. In retrospect I wish I had done it. Anybody that tells you age is just a number is either lying or a 40 year old that has no idea what's coming. Wish I had my college age body back.

I have wonderful memories of my time living in Tahoe city. Working at Squaw and the occasional trip to Heavenly or up to Incline / Rose pass. Those were the Scot Schmidt extreme days but I was an east coast short radius mogul guy. Blasting down Shotgun under the chair lift at Heavenly was divine. Man that was fun.
 
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Interesting with so many engineers responding. I too was an engineer for Cutler hammer before getting in to education. Winder how many if us may have actually been in some classes together. Something like an Emech or Phys 201, stuff that I believe all engineers took.

where’d you work for cutler hammer? I’m currently an accounting manager with eaton and have worked in a couple different locations over 6 years here
 
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I've worn numerous hats over the years as I was expendable for corporate America during "down-sizing" as I am a single white male with no dependents. However, once Al Gore invented the Internet, the world became my oyster. I self-taught myself web design and more specifically - search engine optimization and began working for myself as contracted consultant.

I initially started by working for a mortgage company in Las Vegas offering to make "free" web pages for real estate agents. The difficulty with this venture was that I had to explain to the realtors about the potential importance of Internet marketing. Within a couple of years, the Real Estate industry caught on to web marketing's importance and had a big convention in Vegas to discuss this exciting new marketing tool. My lone REMAX agent was excited that the "experts" used the website that I designed for him for free as an example on how to design for high search engine visibility because how his site dominated the local market. Word quickly got out and I was employed by a company to promote incorporating in "tax-free" Las Vegas. It was through this position that I also became an associate of a venture capital firm. THEN I spotted my true opportunity, when a start-up company in California wanted to incorporate: "Wireless Internet Services, Inc."

Back in the Wild West days of Internet marketing, I was among the best "SEO" experts and actually turned down a million dollar salary position working in the porno industry over ethical issues. They had noticed how Business Concepts Inc. dominated the Internet for Tax Free Incorporation Services and knew - proof was in the pudding! Some days I kinda kick myself in the butt for being so moralistic and turning down the BIG money.

But to make a much longer story short, after the Telecom Sector Meltdown, my "severance package" was the WISP directory I created to promote wireless broadband access. Less than a month beforehand, I had answered the phone when Nortel called inquiring about licensing and co-marketing our digital TCP technology. Didn't take them long to find out that we (3 employees including owner) turned down Cisco System's $43 million buyout offer. Nortel Networks (Canada's largest employer at the time) was forced to report a $14 billion goodwill write-off after they discovered much of their inventory was obsolete when their engineers talked with the company boss - Greg Pierro, a former cryptologist for the Air Force... which help to "flush the toilet" on a teetering Tenecom industry. I became an "amateur enthusiast" until Google debut AdSense Ads which I eventually plugged into my web directory and became a full-fledged web publisher for many years until the info became stale. However, I learned there is MUCHO $$$ in attracting eyeballs on the Internet... and even more lucrative IF you can induce them to "click" on the ad links! lol

Here's a sample rudimentary front page I made... actually many similar with various key word combinations & SEO tricks which you can see were "hidden" in the graphics which links are now broken. "I owned the Internet" back then! lol I beat the tar out of all the big communications companies vying for top positions in the search engine rankings. But in the end... I beat them up too badly. Opps - we didn't know until afterwards how many were playing "liars poker" ... shameful!

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and if you are retired, what did you do as a career before retiring. Some folks have their profession in in their board names....not really looking for specifics, just a general idea...

Engineering for me.
Tarbender!!!
 
Attorney. Started as an appellate court clerk, then a prosecutor, now I mostly went corporate. I still have a pretty varied practice for being at a large firm because of my background, so I rep construction companies/A&E firms, energy E&Ps, white collar criminals, general commercial, and any type of government contractor.

Law Enforcement/ K9 handler

What part of the state are you in? One of my best friends growing up was a K9 officer in the York area until a couple years ago when he moved back to central PA.
 
What part of the state are you in? One of my best friends growing up was a K9 officer in the York area until a couple years ago when he moved back to central PA.

I live in Hershey, but I work out of what my department has labeled “Eastern Pennsylvania”. The majority of the time I’m in Philadelphia or Reading with occasional trips to Scranton.
 
Went up to the office this am. View doesn't change, virus or no virus. Beautiful, cool morning in SoFla

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Lion84, Isn’t cool to see the different paths ERM leads people down. I know it’s true for life and other majors as well, but I bet heard many stories on the ERM major. Well rounded degree. Congrats on your career. Yes haz waste was interesting especially back in the early days. Remember being coated with scrubber slurry went a filter press seal blew out!
Back then it was a case of you didn't know what you didn't know - early days of RCRA, TSCA and CERCLA - some crazy stuff happened in the plant with more than a few calls to the fire department when reactions went wrong. After a few years it was nice to trade that in to push a pencil at a nice clean desk but I learned more in those first few years that have served me well. When we meet with clients I am one of the few that can talk from experience about their operations which has made developing insurance programs for them much easier since I am not just some insurance guy who doesn't know their business and if they are Part A or B they have to but certain coverages by law which is really critical for them.
 
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and if you are retired, what did you do as a career before retiring. Some folks have their profession in in their board names....not really looking for specifics, just a general idea...

Engineering for me.

Started on the assembly line at Mack Trucks while attending grad school at night at Lehigh. Stayed at Macks for 16 years.
Spent 16 years with a venture capital type organization before retiring in 2011.
Consultant for three years.
Taught some management courses at a local university before retiring again.
Starter at a golf course, left in 2017.
Finally retired since then.
 
Started as a marketing manager for Boise Cascade. Left and went to UPS while going back for a Masters in History. Started at UPS part time unloading tractor trailers. Worked up to on car supervisor then region health and safety mgr. Also trained drivers as a third party examiner to drive semi's. For the past 20 plus years, farrier and blacksmith. Life is good and busier than I want.
 
Man - not a lot of ditch diggers in here. No wonder why there are so many know it alls here - lotsa smart people on the board......who act like 3 year olds, but still smart
Educated? Definitely. Smart? Who knows
 
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