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11-07-2009, 12:10 AM
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Full Time Slacker
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If you weren't in your current career, what would you be doing?
Completely random topic.
I like what I do for a living, but I think if I had to choose another career I'd like to be an architect. I've always like projects, building things. I do it virtually in my current job but I'd love to design houses.
What about everyone else?
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11-07-2009, 12:23 AM
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Prickly Pear
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I'd be independently wealthy and would take shop class and learn how to work wood and work on cars and motorcycles. I'd also learn Spanish, how to weld, how to wire a house.... all sorts of things. Then maybe I'd start a handyman business.
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11-07-2009, 12:32 AM
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Roamer
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Location: MA
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Digital artist (special effects, graphics design, UI/web design, etc) or a photographer (good enough to work for National Geographic  ). I'm actually planning on going to the Vancouver Film School in 4-5 years. I really wanna switch careers or at least explore my passion that I so miserably failed to pursue 
On a side note: I've been fiddling around with 3d software on and off since I was 14. I've always admired architects and car/bike designers for the masterpieces they create using those apps.
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2003 VFR - 4100 miles (and counting) - current bike
2006 FZ6 - 4000 miles - totaled
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People say: if life gives you lemons - make a lemonade.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jobs
"You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference."
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11-07-2009, 12:35 AM
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If I had the patience to sit through and stick with college, I would like to be a veterinarian someday. Or a german translator.
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11-07-2009, 12:59 AM
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BMW World SuperBike Racer
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Porn Star...
I'm acutally going to school, so my current job blows...
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Offical BMW/Ural Motorcycle freak!
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Its all the damned Ural Patrol riders thinking the Dragon is a goddamned racetrack and dragging knee, then crashing out...
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More engineering goes into a Buell than a BMW motorcycle, and you simply cannot deny that. And the Buell works well.
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11-07-2009, 02:04 AM
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MotoGP...if only I were talented and had the money to get started. Right now i'm going to school for Information Technology Services, which I love computers and think this is a great field to get in to. If work gets slow I can always work on motorcycles or help people out for a little coin.
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11-07-2009, 10:12 AM
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World Superbike Racer
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Well I'm in school right now, but my plan if I wasn't gonna go was to either A) Enlist in the Navy and try to be a Combatant Craft Crewman, B) Do an apprenticeship at one of the shipyards and become a welder or work on private yachts, or C) Go up to Glouchester, MA and become a Swordboat Fisherman.
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Life is best looked at sideways...
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11-07-2009, 10:16 AM
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Slowgoose, what's stopping you from doing that stuff now, lol!
Jonny88, I'm a network engineer. IT is a great field. Just be prepared to keep learning stuff your entire career.
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11-07-2009, 12:46 PM
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World Superbike Racer
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I'd love to be a draftsman or Engineer, but I'm too dumb  I have thought that a tour guide or maybe a park ranger down in the grand canyon would be cool. I second the National Geographic gig tho,,,that would be totally badass!
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- I would have hit that like the fist of an angry god and asked questions later. Then gone straight to a federal PMitA prison-
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I have been on liter sport bikes, big torque cruisers...but nothing compares to the thrust these damn things hit you with. It will put a huge shit eating grin on your face. If you are going to grab the throttle, just make sure you have a whole lot of empty road ahead of you...feels like God placed his boot on the tail end of the bike and shoved you forward - really, really hard!
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I'd say 99% of the preride inspection should be about your skills from somebody who isn't stupid enough to get you killed. But if you really wanna check the chain tension before you go catapulting into a phone pole, have at it.
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11-07-2009, 12:57 PM
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I'm acutally going to school, so my current job blows...
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Someday you'll realize that is hte best job there is.
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11-07-2009, 01:13 PM
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BMW World SuperBike Racer
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Oh no, trust me..
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Offical BMW/Ural Motorcycle freak!
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Originally Posted by sqchram
Its all the damned Ural Patrol riders thinking the Dragon is a goddamned racetrack and dragging knee, then crashing out...
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Originally Posted by Nightfall
More engineering goes into a Buell than a BMW motorcycle, and you simply cannot deny that. And the Buell works well.
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11-07-2009, 06:21 PM
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The Coconut Man
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Currently in the wine business and it's fun considering all my friends and what they do for a living. But, I'm still shooting for that house care-taking job in the Caribbean, just gotta sell the house and downsize 'fore I can do that. Know the owners, got the house in mind, and scoped it out already. Wayyy far off island. Very quiet. Do that from January until August, then hop in the fifth wheel and tour the USA see some of these great areas that I've always seen pics or read about. Do that for about 7-8 years then settle down in that town we found while traveling and open up a hardware store, burger stand, brewery/winery, or whatever that the town seems to "need". It's not always about money m'friends!
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11-07-2009, 06:26 PM
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motojournalist
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that is important, in the end.
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11-07-2009, 10:25 PM
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Learn by doing.
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Sportbikes.net moderator.
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11-07-2009, 10:37 PM
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Prickly Pear
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Quote:
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Slowgoose, what's stopping you from doing that stuff now, lol!
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Money and time.
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