Whats everyone do for a living?!?
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Capricious
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You didn't "audit" the posts closely-enough- check out my post, #138.
Passed the CPA back in 1988, but never worked in public accounting. The "big eight" wouldn't hire me because I was too old, like 29 at the time.
Seems to be a preponderance of engineers & electricians in here.
I head an R&D Dept for one of the largest hydraulics companies. Been there 39 years, most were engineering related sales. In my spare time I have a small HVAC business, about 2 installs a month plus the random repair. I enjoy it so I keep doing it, but in general I refuse to work outdoors in the winter or in attics in the summer. I also have a small machine shop at hone just to make stuff.
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"Wow what year was that...my first full time job paid $56 for a 40 hr week."
DFB, the first year was 1956. The alternative was driving a tractor at 50 cents an hour or picking cotton.....
No, I never picked cotton....
I never "chopped" cotton....
But I did pick broom corn one summer. And I flagged for a crop duster, dug a hole and trench for a septic system.....Raised pigs.....milked a cow twice a day for about 4 years....
DFB, the first year was 1956. The alternative was driving a tractor at 50 cents an hour or picking cotton.....
No, I never picked cotton....
I never "chopped" cotton....
But I did pick broom corn one summer. And I flagged for a crop duster, dug a hole and trench for a septic system.....Raised pigs.....milked a cow twice a day for about 4 years....
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Yep. I seem to have lost my audit skills a few years back.
I passed the exam in 1978 when we couldn't even take a calculator into the place. The test was at the Ramada in Jeff City.
Looking back, however, it is good memories.
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Steel Shop Tennis Club in historic St. Charles, Mo. Maybe a mile from where Lewis & Clark began their journey.
Its in a long ago abandoned American Car & Foundry (ACF) steel shop plant built in 1910. This plant built most of ACF's passenger cars for Wabash, Missouri Pacific and KATY.
The history of railroads in Missouri is also fascinating.
MoKelly
milligjg
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Yes sir. There are some cool pictures of Perry years & years ago. They used to have a turn style here
Capricious
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Used to drive by that complex all the time, back when the old "rock road" bridge across the Missouri was still there.
Took the CPA in the basement of Kiel Auditorium.
little k
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I was raised on a farm. Farmed for
.several yrs after high school. Carried mail as a sub & farmed, worked for a chimney sweep part time.Did some construction work. Now a full time mail carrier.Hope to make it 3- 4 more yrs.
k0ua
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Come on down, we will teach you to shoot guns, and be a conservative. :thumbsup: There are just some places that are easier to live in than others. Now don't get me wrong, there are plenty of places in our country, and even some in my state that are more like where you live, but I don't live there!