[bobmad]

Thanks didn't know about that one. Knight moves for that entire area. I'll not solve it tonight.

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Awesome! I love easter eggs! But you can't play it unless it's Easter, and it's not, so no cheating! You can't fool the Easter BUNNY!!!!

[Troy]

Awesome! I love easter eggs! But you can't play it unless it's Easter, and it's not, so no cheating! You can't fool the Easter BUNNY!!!!

[sari]

My daughter was born on Easter Sunday 15 years ago - we always told her she was delivered by the Easter Bunny instead of the stork.

[dsenette]

I started running this past winter,

was someone chasing you?...or was something on fire? i can't seem to find any other logical explanation for running..

i used to play soccer....about the only sport i actually enjoyed participating in...(probably because i can't catch or throw a ball to save my life...but i used to be able to kick really well)...it's just a really fun sport


i used to manage the cross country team in highschool (so that i could go on trips to the various meets with my friends who were on the team)...there was a kid from another schoool that would run the 3 mile races in about 11 minutes? or something like that....everyone hated that guy

[sari]

A local guy just ran an 8+ minute 2 mile race at the Nike Track and Field high school championships. That's pretty amazing. He's tied for 3rd all-time fastest time by a high school student, and it's the first time since 1979 that someone has run it that fast.

[Kat]

I woke up with a nasty head and chest cold today. I'm at work, of course. There STILL is no one trained to be the back up for the work I do. And if I don't do my job, nothing gets produced or picked, and nothing gets shipped. That might make for some very unhappy customers. My head feels like it's gonna explode, my chest hurts from coughing so much, and my eyes feel like sandpaper.

Got NyQuil, anyone?

[keithr128]

Great stuff! I find these "30 second career recaps" very interesting. I'll post one when I'm not using a phone keyboard. Keep 'em coming.

I was interested in hearing admin's career recap, I hope he gets to a normal keyboard soon.

Edited by keithr128, 27 June 2007 - 03:22 PM.

[jester620]

life in 30 secs... i'm game...

grew up in a rural area so my first real job was working for a local farmer as a hired hand throughout high school and summers in college. When I was almost done with my B.S. in biology, one of my prof's hooked me up with a sweet job at a plant genetics/microbiology lab. I had that through grad school and got burned out in that field so i came back home to work on the farm. Now work at a local Groundwater Management District in my hometown as their network admin/GIS specialist. i've been playing with computers informally all my life. and its now my hobby to be the geek-on-call for my friends/family and to take old computer hardware and turn it into something different. (hard drives into clocks & CRT monitors into aquariums etc.)

my wife hates all the old computer parts cluttering up our house so we are moving into our new house hopefully in a month! I can't wait, its gonna be nice!

[Kat]

Hey jester! I grew up on a farm in the Midwest! What a coinkydink!! Excellent avatar, btw.

[BHowett]

I woke up with a nasty head and chest cold today. I'm at work, of course. There STILL is no one trained to be the back up for the work I do.

I woke up with that the other day........no fun at all, and I went to work too. I am the only one that does my job in this market area. I have never missed a day of work since I was 17 yrs old

[admin]

I was interested in hearing admin's career recap, I hope he gets to a normal keyboard soon.

Sorry, been very busy since I got back.

I'm not old (41)! 40 is the new 30, right? Someday I may decide what I want to do when I grow up.

School was always easy for me. If I recall correctly, I graduated 4th in a class of about 400. Mostly, because I got a D in shop class. Not because I wasn't good at it, but it was my only class after lunch my senior year, and I had a few too many unexcused absences. Career testing always pointed my to engineering or law. I started college in mechanical engineering, but I could not picture myself behind a desk doing that kind of work for the rest of my life, so I switched to Buis Admin and Finance.

However, every job I've ever had was not because of what I knew, but who I knew. In high school I took over a job that a friend of mine had assembling bikes and drilling bowling balls at a local JCPenny store. Mostly, it consisted of me flirting with the cute clerks as there wasn't much to do if someone wasn't buying a bike or bowling ball. Next, in college I worked for a while at an Avis Rent-a-car. My parents were friends of the owner. I shuttled cars from the car wash facility that was off-site to the airport parking lot. Then walked to the rental counter, exchanged keys for a dirty car, and flirted with the girls at the rental counter (notice a theme? ).

Summers, I worked for the city Sign and Signal department. My mom worked for the city and got me the job. Being government work, it was easy. Go to work, fix a sign that some drunk driver ran over, drive across town, take a 25 minute break, drive back across town, paint a blue curb for handicap parking, drive across town for lunch (we never stayed in the area we worked). We also painted the school cross walks, stop light standards, and replaced lights in traffic signals with a bucket truck when they burned out. While working there, I met a guy who was dealing blackjack at a local private club (before it became legal everywhere). He got me a job there, and it paid well. However, the hours could be brutal. Up for work for the city at 7am, and often dealing until 2am. More than once, I fell asleep at a stop light between jobs.

1988, while dealing blackjack, I made an impression on a guy that used to play quite often. He often bugged me to come work for him, but I didn't have much interest. Eventually, I did visit his office (in a t-shirt, shorts, and a baseball cap). He gave me a job (why?) working for a local school supply and equipment company. It was a good fit. It was an employee owned company of about 100 employees with revenue around $15 million. I worked many roles, but moved up quickly. In a few years I was made a store manager/asst sales mgr. I also met (and hired) my wife there . In 1996 a plum sales territory opened and he REALLY encouraged me to take it. Reluctantly, I did. A few months later we were sold to a billion dollar corporation, and pretty much everyone lost their jobs, except sales and some mgmt. Our employee stock doubled in value, and I got to keep my job. Then I thanked him.

The new company had perks and problems. I was making more money then ever, but eventually was working a territory about 3 times as large, with no more resources. With a young child at home, the travel expectations and hours just got to be too much. About this time last year I negotiated a new role. I still work with the same company, but as a independent contractor. I work on large building projects, doing what I like best. I also work from home most of the time. It's had it's challenges, but so far so good.

Recently, I have seriously considered starting a local computer business. Maybe start by hiring someone to do on-site service and eventually expand into a store front. We'll see... Computers have always been a hobby that I enjoyed, but not a career I've considered.

Okay, that's my 30+ seconds.

[Troy]

oooohhhhh...

[Kat]

geesh Admin. You killed the thread!!

My career recap turn, I suppose. It's not as interesting as some of the others, though.

I always wanted to be a nurse. I wanted to help deliver babies, as a matter of fact. I was accepted into Purdue's nursing school before I finished my Junior year of HS. However, Fate had other plans for me, and I had my oldest daughter at 18, instead. After that, I worked as an Aide in a nursing home for several years, until I was in a car accident that royally messed up my back and neck. No more of that. I worked at a few menial jobs during my marriage to the tyrant, when he would allow me (or force me) to.

Once I booted him out, I was very fortunate to receive grants and several scholarships. I went to college, studying for dual degrees in Management and Accounting. During my last year, I was hired at a Playground Equipment manufacturing company via a temp agency. I was supposed to be a temporary Office Manager. However, two things happened not long after I started there:

1. The boss realized I was [bleep] good at my job

and

2. THe boss then realized she didn't much like to work, and decided to stop doing so for the most part.

Thus, I became the General Manager and Comptroller. I kept this position for a few years, and was very happy with it. Then, the cancer came. I quit working and moved myself and my girls up to live with my mom. I've had health issues off and on since then, including Chron's disease, and Fibromyalgia. As sari would say, my immune system hates me. I don't let that keep me down, however...as my friends around here will tell you. I had a job last year that was stressful and awful, and I'm very happy to NOT work there. No amount of money is worth being made to feel miserable all the time.

Now, I am VERY happy to be working in a place I love, with great people, and a job I adore. I have a lot of responsibility here, and a wide variety of things I do. I can't even pinpoint it all, let's just suffice it to say I work in the office for Del Monte fresh produce.

so, that's my "career" in a nutshell. Still not sure what I'm doing for the rest of my life, though.

[dsenette]

I have seriously considered starting a local computer business. Maybe start by hiring someone to do on-site service and eventually expand into a store front

if you ever need a monkey mascot....we can negotiate salaries

[admin]

I just got done listening to a day game on the radio (baseball). Now I'm not in the mood to work, and wanna play hooky. Anyone for a round of golf?