Dream Jobs

[WA6MHZ]

So what is your DREAM JOB?

Mine is to play NFL Football. Think about it. LT (LaDamian Tomlinson) makes $9 Million a year, for a job he works 3 hours a week, for 14-17 weeks a year!!!
OH, there are countless hours of working out and practice, but most people PAY to do that, at Health clubs. Besides the 9 Mil, he has many many commericals that bring in even more Millions per year. He is rich beyond his wildest dreams. And, he is getting OLD!!! He is almost 30 and ready to retire!!!
He has a house in Rancho Santa Fe, the most exclusive and ritzy QTH in North America. Who knows how many cars he has, but I do know he has a new, tricked out Lincoln Navigator. Probably a few Ferraris and Mercedes to drive around too. He is not alone. Many many football players make those kind of bucks. Soccer stars, in Europe, get paid OBSCENE Amounts of money!! One guy is making $40 MILLION a year!!!!!!!!! It is just hard to comprehend that kind of money. Here, I lost an Ebay bid because I couldn't afford a few cents more, and these guys could bid where there was NO CHANCE they could ever ever lose! $20,000 for a manual? Notta problem!

But back to reality, I do have a job many Hams would die for, but for how long who knows. I work in a tiny electronics plant where I have a 22 Ghz Spectrum Analyzer sitting here on the desk, along with every other piece of test equipment you could need. After hours, it is all mine to use to my delight, which is why I can so easily repair all these radios. I have 24/7 access to the plant so I come in on weekends to get free air conditioning or heat (in our very brief winter). Also, I have a giant back room and upstairs loft where I store hundreds and hundreds of boxes of junk; parts for the old radios. In the back room, I have assembled the West Wing of my Radio museum and have about 200 rigs on display. Customers who come to the plant always get a tour and most are completely blown away. I tell them, HEY! I have another 1000 at home! During work hours, I have continous access to the internet so I can do Ebay and QRZ between tweaking radios.
So, that would be a dream job for many, but the pay sucks. I haven't had a raise since around the year 2000!!! I make less than most of the guys working in a 7-11! And every day might be the last, as the company is as stable as Nitroglycerin! Each day I arrive I am pleased to see the doors not padlocked shut and a court order of seizure not on the window. As it is said, all good things have to come to an end, and it will be a sad day when I have to leave here.

But Money would help cheer me up greatly. A 50 cent an hour raise won't help. I had a job offer to work in Carlsbad, for $.50/hr more, but then I calculated out the gas per day I would use to commute. I would LOSE MONEY!!! I need a job that pays $25-$50 an hour. That would be better. THEN I could win some Ebay bids. Some rotten rat bastard outbid me by TWENTY FOUR CENTS last night and stole out a manual from underneath me. Had I a decent job, I could have bid a Quarter more!

[KC2UGV]

I would say my dream job is playing hockey. After that, what I'm doing now (Enterprise Content Architect).

[KB9BVN]

Cruise Ship Radio Engineer - Always at sea, never out of rum.

[KA9VQF]

I guess I already had my dream job. I worked in a prototype shop.

We did small production runs after creating what was needed to make something.

I got to work in a pattern shop, a small foundry, full machine shop.

I worked as a tool and die maker, pattern maker, and ran the machines to complete the fabrication of many things.

It was an exciting, fun and sometimes frustrating job.

Sometimes we would get a full set of blueprints but many times there were all kinds of different pieces of paper with ‘brainstorming’ on them. Occasionally a cocktail napkin or two would be in the mix.

I learned a lot about things that I never use anymore. Sadly the owner died and none of his kids had enough interest to keep the place going. The pay was pretty good at the time 20 plus years ago. I actually looked forward to going in in the morning to see if we could come up with something that would work for a customer.

Lately I think a lot about getting an electron tube factory going. I know it would be a nitch industry, at best, but I think it could be profitable even if all I made was sweep tubes.

[NJ7L]

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[KL7AJ]

Cruise Ship Radio Engineer - Always at sea, never out of rum.

Sounds like most of us on QRZ already. :D

[WB3JLA]

NUFF SAID

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[K8ERV]

My dream job is to not have a job. I'm gainfully retired and love it.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[WB3JLA]

My dream job is to not have a job. I'm gainfully retired and love it.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

I know this retired guy who was in a bad mood he said

" I AM ON A FIXED INCOME "

I said
" DON'T BLAME ME I DIDN'T FIX IT "

[W5WPL]

OFPC University of Texas Austin. The Gods of construction engineering and inspection.

[KC4RAN]

Lately I think a lot about getting an electron tube factory going. I know it would be a nitch industry, at best, but I think it could be profitable even if all I made was sweep tubes.

Since tubes are coming back via the audio industry (tube amplifiers are all the rage for guitarists now), this might not actually be such a bad idea...

[KG4KWW]

Police/Fire Dispatcher

[W2IBC]

Police/Fire Dispatcher

your joking right?

[KC2UGV]

Since tubes are coming back via the audio industry (tube amplifiers are all the rage for guitarists now), this might not actually be such a bad idea...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't tube amps always been the rage with guitarists? I always thought they (generally) preferred the sound of a tube amp to that of a solid state. Again, I could be wrong.

[WA6MHZ]

Since tubes are coming back via the audio industry (tube amplifiers are all the rage for guitarists now), this might not actually be such a bad idea...

What there is a real need for is very EARLY tubes, which are unobtainium anymore. Tubes like are found in the Prewar broadcast sets (80, 76, 39, 44, etc.) and even Earlier tubes (UX-222, 01A, etc.) from the 20s. There are still millions of 12AU7s out there, and 6SN7s, but the early tubes are hard to find.
I have a mini stash of them, but who knows if they are any good after 70-80 years. But even still, think of how many other things manufactured are still good after 80 years! Most stuff made today will be good to last 10 years!

[WB3JLA]

your joking right?

No KG4KWW is in a dying business

he has a stiff ocupation

No customer ever comes back

his hole business is going into the ground

No complaint department

No life time guaranties

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[WB3JLA]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't tube amps always been the rage with guitarists? I always thought they (generally) preferred the sound of a tube amp to that of a solid state. Again, I could be wrong.

yes they are we need 12AX7 and 6L6

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look here this is where we buy from
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the tube page
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[N4CYA]

My dream job is owning my own dance club in California or maybe Florida at the most around the areas that will make me money. Like making the club 3 stories like having techno on the top level, country lower level and maybe the R/B and Rap in the middle? Also have security just incase people want to fight other people and my security team will have radios to communicate when they need something or need help, I will always will be walking on all the floors watching over my team and answering questions guest have for me to answer *smiles thinking about the club*

- Jamie (N4CYA)

[KC4RAN]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't tube amps always been the rage with guitarists? I always thought they (generally) preferred the sound of a tube amp to that of a solid state. Again, I could be wrong.
There was a time not too long ago when 80-90% of all amplifiers at any level were solid state, and very few were tube. There were even tube pedals that would let you add that tube sound to the input of a solid state amplifier.

Now tube amps are making a mainstream comeback and aren't just relegated to the niche.

[KB3LAZ]

Vampire elder in the coven of darkness which resides in the land known as Archinsania.

[KI4NGN]

Start with a list of the many things that I could be doing for a living, and then get paid not to do them.

[WB2WIK]

I could manage a brothel.

But hey, I already have sex almost every day!

Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday...:p

[K8MCN]

i guess i could follow my XYL's career--she was a test pilot in a broom factory for years.:cool:

[NA4BH]

Pixie dust spreader on the Tilt-A-Whirl.

Or oatmeal scooper at Morrisons.

[W6ONV]

After working for the airlines for 12 years and watching mine go from a great company to a piece worthless, bankrupt that will never recover I am glad I get to play with trains all day!

[N7RJD]

So what is your DREAM JOB?


The one where I work once every two weeks and get paid everyday.

[N7RJD]

i guess i could follow my XYL's career--she was a test pilot in a broom factory for years.:cool:

And I'd like to thank her for that. Had it not been for those who went before the pay would not likely be where it is today and my wife would be making minimum wage.

[WB2WIK]

After working for the airlines for 12 years and watching mine go from a great company to a piece worthless, bankrupt that will never recover I am glad I get to play with trains all day!

::And I used BART twice last week to get from OAK to Moscone Center.

Thursday (last week) was not a good day, when something derailed the train and there was a l-o-n-g delay.

Oh well.:p

[KI2Y]

RF Tech climbing towers.

[K4LIB]

So what is your DREAM JOB?

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Tough times, no question about it. Wondering if Dennis Hof (the guy with the cigar
in the following video) might be retiring and selling his business any time soon? :D

http://www.inquisitr.com/14572/the-bunny-ranch-reno-nevada/
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[N7RJD]

::And I used BART twice last week to get from OAK to Moscone Center.

Thursday (last week) was not a good day, when something derailed the train and there was a l-o-n-g delay.

Oh well.:p

We used to ride BART all the time. We'd catch a ride to the El Cerrito Del Norte station and take the train to the Oakland Coliseum for A's games. I won't say how long ago this was but it was $1.00 each way averaging inflation I would imagine it's close to $4 or $5 by now.

It was always a good ride as long as everything was on auto. Back then their big claim was that it was an automatic system that couldn't fail and trained their on board operators accordingly, as in not much actual operating practice. Imagine a new driver and their first manual transmission, a lot of forward lunges followed by back falling not to mention the zipping by and backing into stations.

Of course now it would be a bit longer drive to get to the nearest station.

[KB9OFM]

I think that I have been working long enough.
I would like to get paid to do nothing.

[XU7XXX]

My "job" for the past 16 months has been traveling around the world on a full time DXpedition........It does not pay much, (nothing!!) but I'm having the time of my life. With over 50,000 QSOs now, it's still as much fun as it was working the first one.

I worked in government for years doing the 75+ hour work week. My fulltime job was 40+ hours a week & my "part time" job (also in government) was another 30+ hours a week............This past lifestyle cost me a marriage, 50% of everything I owned & maybe some of my sanity. :)

See ya from somewhere around the world........Live your dreams while you can!!!



Tom XU7XXX

[W5WPL]

My "job" for the past 16 months has been traveling around the world on a full time DXpedition........It does not pay much, (nothing!!) but I'm having the time of my life. With over 50,000 QSOs now, it's still as much fun as it was working the first one.

I worked in government for years doing the 75+ hour work week. My fulltime job was 40+ hours a week & my "part time" job (also in government) was another 30+ hours a week............This past lifestyle cost me a marriage, 50% of everything I owned & maybe some of my sanity. :)

See ya from somewhere around the world........Live your dreams while you can!!!





Tom XU7XXX

Hey!!!, Aren't you my father? I want the other half!!!

[W9MAV]

NO JOB!!!!!!!!!

Just play on the radio all day.:):)

[KG4CGC]

Carpenter or glass blower, botanist, tobacconist, charter fishing boat captain, marketing consultant, cigar mogul, woodsman, park ranger, time lord, internet trinket dealer, brewmaster, flavorist, custom bike mechanic and all around good guy.

[N7RJD]

Carpenter or glass blower, botanist, tobacconist, charter fishing boat captain, marketing consultant, cigar mogul, woodsman, park ranger, time lord, internet trinket dealer, brewmaster, flavorist, custom bike mechanic and all around good guy.

The thought of having all those jobs at once reminds me of the old Wayan brothers skit on In Living Color about the Jamaican family where family members were considered lazy if they only had ten jobs.

[KG4CGC]

Did I mention food critic?

[N7RJD]

Did I mention food critic?

I do that job part time. I'm always telling the wife how bad her cooking is.

[K8ERV]

Start with a list of the many things that I could be doing for a living, and then get paid not to do them.

Sounds like you should take up farming.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo