Meet the Forumites

[DD696]

Job: Retired for 20 years, Systems Analyst previously
Age: 65
Residence: Guyton, Georgia, USA
Family: Children, grandchildren, and one cat "Too Much Trouble"
Education: Half way thru college and the USMC; back seat of a '60 Cadillac
Work: Herding the local Corvette club around and mowing the lawn
Favorite Quote: Life's a bitch, and then you die
Reading: Business plan for possible investment

Edit: forgot one of the more important aspects of my education....

[dr.hal]

Some very interesting folk on this site and playing this game!

[HansBolter]

Job: Architect
Age: 54
Residence: St. Petersburg, Florida
Family: Single, two cats
Education: University of Florida
Work: Santiesteban and Associates Architects
Favorite Quote: "I am the way and the truth and the life" second: "Never appeal to a man's better nature, he may not have one. Appeal instead to his self interest."
Reading: The Triumph of Christianity, How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion

[dr.hal]

Job: Academic Dean at a University
Age: 61
Residence: Central Vermont
Family: Married 2 years (first marriage too!)
Education: Ph.D.
Work: Education!
Favorite Quote: The crime is NOT that life is so short, it's that people take so long in living it!
Reading: Neptune's Inferno (just started it!)

[oldman45]

Job: Behavior Modification
Age: 52
Residence: Jacksonville, Fl
Family: Amazing wife, 3 teenagers
Education: AS computer networking, 18s USN
Work: raising 3 teenagers
Favorite Quote: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Reading: Operation Drum Beat

[Historiker]

Job: Self employed in online marketing, retail, onlineshops... but right now selling and probably back in university, soon.
Age: old enough to be allowed to use a computer
Residence: Germany
Family: Mom and Dad
Education: MA in Newer and Newest History, Medieval History and European Ethnology
Work:
Favorite Quote: "Government isn't the solution to our problems. Government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
Reading: Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom

[Historiker]

How is it possible that so many of you are already retired while still being so young? Retirement age is 67 in Germany!

[obvert]

Job: Teacher (Photography, Film, Art)
Age: 40
Residence: London (from Portland, OR)
Family: maybe soon (GF now)
Education: BA Literature, MFA Photography + Mixed Media Arts
Work: Photography and Art; currently working on the idea of the romanticized image vs historical actuality (painting a clipper on canvas over a map of China)
Favorite Quote:(no favorite, but this is one)

This is what it means to be human,
to witness the heart of a moment like a photograph,
the present standing up through itself relentlessly
like a fountain.

Dennis Johnson

Reading: A Submariners War: The Indian Ocean 1939-45 by Michael Wilson; 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Film(s): Burnt by the Sun; The Thin Red Line; Spirit of the Beehive

[Roger Neilson II]

For some of us retirement was forced upon us as the alternative to being unemployed...... its called the economic crisis.

Allegedly Germany has not been affected by this at all.

Roger

[Itdepends]

Job: Process Consultant (Chem Engineer/Metallurgist- I play with industrial plants)
Age: 36
Residence: South West Western Australia
Family: 1 wife, 3 daughters, 1 bitch
Education: BsC Chemistry and Extractive Metallurgy
Work: I get expensive toys/trials to work on and then see if I can make money with them
Favorite Quote: I'll remember one after I've posted this I'm sure.
Reading: Awakened
Favorite Film(s): Hot Fuzz, The Life of Brian

[Smeulders]

Job: Phd Researcher in Operations Research
Age: 22
Residence: Leuven & Mol (Belgium)
Family: Single, but good parents and brothers
Education: Continuing, have a BA and MA in applied economics.
Favorite Quote: Don't panic - Douglas Adams. It's good solid advice in any situation, this was written (in large friendly letters) on a number of my course books.
Reading: A song of Ice and Fire
Hobbies: Basketball, both as a coach for 12 to 15 year olds and as a player. (Interesting that this one wasn't on the list. Maybe CR assumes we don't have time for anything besides WITP ?)

[Empire101]

I don't normally post details, but here goes;

Job:AA Patrol
Age: 51
Residence: Great Wyrley, near Cannock, England.
Family: Long suffering girlfriend, getting married in May 2012
Education: History Degree, never used[:(]
Work: Dealing with motorists who think steering wheels are 'beneath' them. [:@]
Favourite Quote: See signature line below!
Reading: 'K-Boats: Steam Powered Submarines in WWI' by Don Everitt.

Favourite Film: Dr.Strangelove

[frank1970]

Job: college teacher
Age: 41
Residence: Grafenwöhr (Germany)
Family: married, two daughters
Education: PhD
Work: College teacher, some readings at university
Favourite Quote: There are no problems only solutions!
Reading: "Mein Leben mit Tieren" (Desmond Morris)

[crsutton]

Lot of interesting diversity here.

Job: Realtor and Investor. Prior: Ten years in the Seafarers International Union.
Age: 57
Residence: Silver Spring, Maryland
Family: Married, no kids. Two dogs and two disrespectful cats.
Education. University of Maryland, College Park. US and Byzantine History.
Interests: Volleyball, history and dog training.
Favorite quotes: Too many to note. How about this? "No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter."
Reading: Re-reading the "Collected Short Stories of W Somerset Maughan."

[Cap Mandrake]

Empire 101:

You do realize May 2012 is in 3 weeks? [:D]

Sounds like you have an interesting job. "AA Patrol":

"Here comes a Toyota Tundra with a twin Bofors...GET HIM!"

[Cap Mandrake]

"No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter."

[:D][:D]

[aztez]

Job: IT specialist
Age: 38
Residence: Western Finland
Family: separated, 2 daughters 5 and 6 and 1 cat.
Education: Marketing degree and some random IT degrees.
Work: Customer IT support specialist
Favorite Quote: never start anything you cannot finish
Reading: Nothing at the moment

[pmelheck1]

Job: Food Service
Age: 51
Residence: Ohio
Family: Wife, 3 grown kids
Education: 20 years Air Force Metrology
Work: Fast food
Favorite Quote: Don't be conspicuous it draws fire
Reading: Neptune's inferno

[USSAmerica]

Template:

Job:Software QA
Age:almost 45
Residence:Raleigh, NC
Family:wife, Sara, and son, Alex
Education:A.S. Computer Engineering Technology, State Technical Institute at Memphis.
Work:Small company providing SaaS for the Agriculture industry
Favorite Quote:"Good times will set you free." - Jimmy Buffett
Reading: Lord of Chaos - Robert Jordan

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Empire 101:

You do realize May 2012 is in 3 weeks? [:D]

Sounds like you have an interesting job. "AA Patrol":

"Here comes a Toyota Tundra with a twin Bofors...GET HIM!"

[:D][:D]
Yep, May 26th to be precise.....my life comes to its end[;)]...

.....wilco command, have been hit by German BMW.....am going down........