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OT: What do you do for a living?



Tonee Northam wrote:

>I think you left out beer!
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>Tonee
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>Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:
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>I'm the IT manager for the largest college (Liberal Arts) at Temple
>University in Philadelphia, PA. Me and my staff of 8 FTEs and 25 part time
>support over 1250 desktops (including 11 computer labs with a total of 350
>machines), 10 servers, 25 websites, and gobs of databases. I'm also heavily
>involved in the planning and programming of our nearly 650,000 net square
>feet of office and lab buildings. I also have a small freelance IT
>consulting business on the side.
>
>Besides doing crazy things with A1 chassis VWs, I mourn the loss of my C230
>Benz last month, enjoy road trips (driving to Denver this weekend), SCUBA
>diving, beer, tropical aquariums (especially cichlids), beer, Mersenne Prime
>Numbers, and beer.
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>-Marc
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Mike Smith
>Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:18 PM
>To: Tonee Northam
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org; area53@validpath.com
>Subject: Re: Re: OT: What do you do for a living?
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>Unemployed computer geek currently back in school working on a Graphic
>Design/Web Development AA degree. Hopefully more after that. Wife's
>an RN.
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>Mike
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>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:33:35 -0700 (PDT), Tonee Northam
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>wrote:
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>>and here's one for the texans
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>>David Utley wrote:LOL... I think you are right,
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>coincidentally one of his children is named JACK, and lifts the Scirocco
>when needed... :-)
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>>I need some clown thingies... ICONs, that is. I say Icons...
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>>David
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>>>From: Tonee Northam
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>>>Date: 2004/10/14 Thu PM 01:27:12 EDT
>>>To: area53@validpath.com, fahrvegnugen@cox.net
>>>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>>Subject: Re: OT: What do you do for a living?
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>>>Did you forget to add your children? Manufacturing humanized monoclonal
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>antibodies? Planning on picking up where Dr. Frankenstein left off?
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>>>Tonee
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>>>Jeff Toomasson wrote:
>>>I'm a Validation Manager for a biotech company in the SF Bay Area
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>specializing
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>>>in designing and manufacturing humanized monoclonal antibodies, Protein
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>Design
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>>>Labs...Wife is in Marketing for Franklin Templeton Investments.
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>>>Supporting the roc project is a huge f*$%ing juggling act that I'm sure
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>I'm
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>>>going to have to answer for soon... :(
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>>>JT
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>>>>In an effort to strike up some conversation, I am curious what
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>everyone
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>>>>does to keep their VW habit going (and hopefully to keep food on the
>>>>table and the electric paid)?
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>>>>It is prolly well known where I work, but I will offer it
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>nonetheless...
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>>>>I work in the parts dept of a VW dealership in Oklahoma City, OK. On
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>the
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>>>>weekends, I tend to work at a VW shop nearby. That is where my
>>>>disappointment called a 'pickup' is, among other sundry VW bits...
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>>>>Well, what does everyone else do? I know Kirsten works for a company
>>>>that supplies metals, heavy and otherwise, Mark (Mardak) is a
>>>>mechanist/mechanic, Tonnee is a Dad/student (IIRC), and beyond that I
>>>>don't know a thing... What do you do?
>>>>
>>>>David
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>>>>
>>>>---Chrome don't get you home.---
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>>>Elmhurst, IL.
>>>93' Corrado VR6 (Baby)
>>>00' Rabbit GTI GLX VR6 (Sleeper)
>>>00' Plymouth Voyager SE (Wife's Winter Driver)
>>>94' Passat GLX VR6 (Now Jarrett's Newer B3)
>>>*****Rice, Marinated and Grilled Daily By German Engineered Weber
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>Grill*****
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>>---Chrome don't get you home.---
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>>Elmhurst, IL.
>>93' Corrado VR6 (Baby)
>>00' Rabbit GTI GLX VR6 (Sleeper)
>>00' Plymouth Voyager SE (Wife's Winter Driver)
>>94' Passat GLX VR6 (Now Jarrett's Newer B3)
>>*****Rice, Marinated and Grilled Daily By German Engineered Weber
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>Grill*****
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I'm a VW Technican.  and After working on VW all day you start to hate 
the cars