+5 valve ranking

[tubatooter1940]

After playing tuba from 8th grade through college, I wired up airplanes for the Marine Corps, played in bar bands (vocals, rhythm guitar, trumpet, valve and slide 'bone) until I was 39.
I ran a rural route for the Post Office 'til I got a pension at age 60.
Now I earn extra money playing tuba, guitar/vocal and a tad of trumpet, swinging a hammer or a paint brush and fixing expresso machines.
I also rent out my P.A. system and my services for weddings, parties and run the sound stage for small town festivals.
Last week, for a high dollar block party, The Creekers played two hours, ran the computer d.j. tunes for an hour until they got boozy enough for us to hook up the Karioke and t.v. and let 'em sing.
We were paid by the hour.

[oldbandnerd]

I install, repair and maintain commercial dish machines .

[Dan Schultz]

automation sales engineer/manufacturing engineer turned music instrument repairman. Good thing my wife has a great job!

[windshieldbug]

I used to play tuba for the Delaware Symphony (a ROPA orchestra)
teach [url=ttp://www.demos.ddiweb.net/ddiweb/html/index.php]sportscar driving and racing[/url] and, in my spare time, was Director of Advanced Technology for Unisys Corp

Then, depending on who you ask, my wife (professor of flute for The University of Deleware) either hit me on the head with a shovel or I ran my racecar into the wall hard at Pocono Raceway. When I awoke from my coma, mostly I try to recover from my significant brain injury, and often hang out here.

[TubaRay]

When I awoke from my coma, mostly I try to recover from my significant brain injury, and often hang out here.

This may not be the best place to attempt such a recovery.

[windshieldbug]

This may not be the best place to attempt such a recovery.

Quite the contrary, Ray. I hear you, but it's an ongoing multi-year project, and to quote what Doc should have said (if he hasn't already), "Because I am the meanest SOB in the valley... "

[cjk]

I really am a truck driver in real life.
Not just on TV.
I drive for Con-Way Freight which is an LTL freight line like Yellow, Merchants, Old Dominion........
We tear up freight like no one else.

So Schlep,

Who would YOU use to ship a tuba ??

[Tubaryan12]

I make, and watch glue dry all day.

[Tubaryan12]

I make, and watch glue dry all day.

Pfffffft!
I can do that.

But can you get paid for it?

Ryan, how do your guys test this glue for dryness? Sniffing? Need and apprentice glue sniffer?

Maybe that's why I'm always in a good mood?

[Tuba-G Bass]

Hi Tubeneters,

I am the Senior TV Editor for RCN TV in Lehigh Valley/Delaware Valley, PA. My main tool is a Avid Media Composer Adrenaline,
http://www.avid.com/products/media-Comp ... /index.asp

I edit Programming, make Ads, and create open title sequences for TV shows and Sports coverage, and now I am doing all the Ad spot "tagging" for all the other RCN markets in NYC, Boston, Chicago, Wash DC, San Fran Calf. Tagging is adding specific logo's and graphic and audio voiceover information, its meatball surgery compared to my other work.

I previously worked for Lou Reda Productions as Post Production Supervisor, doing Long Form shows for The History Channel and Biographies for A&E, and before that I was a engineer at WLVT-TV Ch 39 PBS.

On my experiences with shipping big heavy things, UPS so far has come up worse, twice I saw video tape decks sent via UPS and got Trashed! I had a 90 lb Digital video tape deck well packed and it arrived in great condition when shipped with Old Dominion, luckily the shipper was a pro! He double boxed it, lashed a sheet of plywood on top of the outer box and mounted the whole thing to a pallet.

[ASTuba]

I currently work for the cable company here in Syracuse. I activate and trouble shoot phone modems. Still doing some repair, playing and teaching on the side.


I hate being in a cubicle all day.....

[MartyNeilan]

I am contract at the home office for a large non-profit, non-denominational organization with 1/4 million members located in 180 countries. My job duties consist of PC and server support, IP phone and network administration.
Several nights a week and most weekends I play Mary Poppins to my 2 (soon to be 3) kids while my wife works Mobile Crisis with the mentally ill in our community.
My teaching degree and state license never led to a public school job and my brief stint at a small K-12 private school did not work out.
I have had a number of professional gigs over the years on tuba and bass trombone but never anything top tier or permanent.
I am not playing too much right now except the rare occasions my wife allows me to play in church.

[sc_curtis]

...except the rare occasions my wife allows me to play in church.

For some reason, this seems really funny to me!

(mostly because you sound as whipped as I am)

[lgb&dtuba]

I'm a mainframe systems programmer, unix and windows systems admin. Started on mainframes when you could watch the lights blink.

I've always been an amateur musician and not cared to make my living that way. That said, the band I've been with the last 10 years performs as much as many professional bands and gets paid for doing so. All the money goes back into the band and not into our pockets, so it's technically still an amateur gig. The beer and brats go into us, though.

Jim Wagner

[Mark E. Chachich]

Assistant Professor of Psychology at one of the local universities,
I teach physiological psychology most of the time.

Special Volunteer NIH/NIA (neuropathology)

part time musician, tuba and string bass (not much time for this now)

best,
Mark