What is YOUR profession!

[rbastedo]

I was an electronic service technician for 18 years, then in 1996 I started an internet company. I didn't take any "investors money" & didn't try to "make it big".
So I'm still doing that, a little programming, a little web & email hosting and making ends meet for the past 8 years.

When my son wanted to play Tuba in 5th grade I got him a horn, and decided to get myself one also. I'm finally at the place now where I can remember the fingerings and my range is getting better.

[Steve Marcus]

I'm Director of Sales for The Beautiful Sound, Inc., the Chicago area's only authorized Steinway/Boston/Essex Piano and Wren Music Chest dealer.

I also freelance on tuba, piano, and vocal (tenor). Click on the link below for all the gory details.

[tubatooter1940]

Hi gang,
I worked 20 years full time as a band leader,roadie,rythm guitarist,
trumpeter and trombone guy.Then I got on at the postr office as a
rural letter carrier for 21 years(paid more than the music did.)
Started back playing tuba a year ago.working part time until our
c.d.gets around and our new website is up and running.
Next year we should be quite busy gigging and recording a comedy
c.d. an oldies c.d.and a mardi gras c.d..
The Fartman

[Tom N.]

My wife and I own and operate a private (for public use) airpark located just NE of Abilene, Texas. For you pilots it is 6F4. My profession would be aircraft mechanic. I have an Airframe and Powerplant certification with Inspection Authorization. We have a small shop doing inspections and light maintence on general aviation aircraft. In my spare time I do lots of mowing. Luckily my wife is a school teacher so we still are able to eat.

[bloke]

I'm a bloke.

[TubaTinker]

I'm a bloke.

Having just returned from two weeks in England... I am curious as to your definition of the term 'bloke'. Please elaborate.

[bloke]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=bloke

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?bloke001.wav=bloke

[Rick Denney]

Mechanical engineer.

Do I know you? Or, more to the point, are we related?

There aren't too many Denneys in the world, though there is a relative abundance of Dennys. (Of course, both come from the same root: 'Denn's, meaning "of the Danes" in medieval French, for Danish settlers in the Normandy and Brittany areas.)

Rick "Civil engineer, originally from Houston" Denney

[andrada]

Consultant. You know, some guy you bever saw before who doesn't know any more than you do, but has it better organized. Or something like that.

I started out studying Chem and Physics, got a job tracking satellites (Sputnik 2!) with an Air Force lab in the Boston area and fell into computer programming in 1958. All downhill from there. Joined IBM in the mid 60's as an operating systems designer, moved into compiler design, got into marketing etc etc etc. Still downhill (but it paid better!)

In the mid 80's I was sent to Japan for 3 months to run a product announcement and wound up staying over 6 years as marketing product manager for storage for IBM Asia Pacific. Started some alliances with local companies, returned to the US, retired from IBM and started a" little consulting" for some of my Japanese contacts. I thought it would be part time for a year or two and almost 10 years later I'm still flying across the ocean every month or two and working about full time as a "go-between" with my client's US partners developing computer tape drives. Living in Los Gatos on the fringes of Silicon Valley.

Along the way, I got married to a classical pianist while in Japan and switched to Japanese as my home language (which we still speak), got a Great dane as an apartment puppy in downtown Tokyo, and started playing tuba again after a 30 year break (originally started in 4th grade), got a couple more Great Danes, started studying Italian because my wife was playing piano for the San Jose Opera and thought we needed to learn it.

Tuba-wise, I play an Alex BBb in Community Band and an Alex F for other stuff - just transcribed the Finale from the Brahms horn concerto for Tuba and Clarinet and Piano and managed to pull off a "not so great but not too bad for a rank amateur" performance with my wife and a clarinet playing accomplice. Biggest kick as a tuba player though would still have to be playing a solo on the Harvard BBBb monster lo those many years ago.

As the kid was supposed to have said,"Moby Dick is a great book because it told me more than I wanted to know about whales" - so this was probably a great explanation about what I do.

Nuff said.

Jim Andrada

[Guest]

Tuba peformance major ASU

[Greg]

I am a middle school band director and tuba player nights and weekends. When I can't get playing on tuba, I play electric bass.

[Doc]

Mechanical engineer.

Do I know you? Or, more to the point, are we related?

There aren't too many Denneys in the world, though there is a relative abundance of Dennys. (Of course, both come from the same root: 'Denn's, meaning "of the Danes" in medieval French, for Danish settlers in the Normandy and Brittany areas.)

Rick "Civil engineer, originally from Houston" Denney

Danevang, the Danish capital of Texas, is in our county. Really nice folks, but no "Denneys" there. No "Denny's" either. Nearest one is 45min. from here.

Doc