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| Brett Summerer (2tall)
New member Username: 2tall Post Number: 1 Registered: 7-2002 |
Head Nerd, 2nd class (Project Manager - IT development). The only guy above me is at the remote office 80% of the time. I want a Red 360 Spider 6 speed, but currently I only have a Dodge Viper and a Caddy Escalade. If I lived in a no-snow state, I'd have the Ferrari by now. dammit.  Not bad for a 25 years of life (a week away from 26), tho. As far as how I get there, I went to school for 6.5 years (4 degrees to show for it) and I got 6 mid/senior level IT certs while I was still in school. However, now I realize that big money is only found in 6 places: Medicine, Entertainment, Law, High-end Business (CEO/Pres/CFO/COO/EVP/etc...), High end finance/investments, and Supremely lucky AND hard working salesmen. High biz is my bag, so I'm off to MBA school. | ||
| bruce wellington (Bws88tr)
Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 382 Registered: 4-2002 |
ANY PREACHERS,RABBIS,DEACONS,REVS HERE?? THERE SEEM TO BE ALOT OF THOSE IN ONE PARTICULAR THREAD HERE..... | ||
| DONALD GRIESDALE (Griesdale)
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Neurosurgeon in Vancouver, same city as Peter. I have not met him yet but it's a big city with a lot of Ferraris. | ||
| Hartmut Gassmann (Hartmut)
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Dreams come true.I came with my wife from Germany to the US (South Carolina) in 1994 as a Sales Engineer for a BMW Supplier. 2 years later we established our own company as the exclusive US Importer of a German Product (HYLA-US.com). Since 2 1/2 years we live and work in our dream State Florida. Business is doing great and I love travelling all over the US to set up new distributors. Well. Life is good. | ||
| David Goodman (Miami328gts)
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Own an internet retail company called Goodman's: www.goodmans.net. Please buy from me and support my Ferrari! David | ||
| Larry (Larry)
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Nothing!!! Taking the Summer off. Rebuilding my 75 gt4. The dot com i worked for tanked. Need a job.........well, not until Oct. Larry | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
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Yeah, ok, i;ll get into MIT. I serioisly am considering lehigh though. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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I'm probably going to Uconn, they have a good school for entering the investment branches of businesses and it's not that far away. I think I'll wind up transferring after a year though. Fairfield is pretty cool and close, UDelaware is a phat party school, Lehigh is alright, if you want to do Physics go for MIT. I was at my friend's Lake House (he had a big party all weekend for like our 30 closest friends) and his dad was there who is a retnal surgeon, he has an M5 and he let me take if for a spin. Cool car. Except for their Rolls, A4, and Excursion (for pulling their boats) all of their cars are BMWs. | ||
| Ulf Modig (Ulf308qv)
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I work for Volvo Car East Asia as regional aftersales training manager, based in Malaysia. My 308 is in Sweden though. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
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I saw an L39 albatross fly at an airshow once. They were built in chzeckoslavakia right? Kurt, you must have had fun flying those planes too. It wouod be cool to be an airforce pilot and fly expensive fighters like that. I'm in the same boat a as bret, i dont know whatr i want to do, but i have some ideas. I want to major in engineering or physics. Where are you going to college bret? Luckily i have antoher few months to decide. Bret, one of my nieghboors who is my dad's friend works for something like you want to be. He drives an M5 (im gonna try to get him to let me drive it) Bret, i need money yo buy ferraris too. Maybe some day we could meet someowhere and i could see your car. I have alot of fre time now that i broke my foot and cant work. (If anyone here is an orthopedic surgion, how long till i can run? football is coming up and i cant miss it) | ||
| James (Jim_Red308)
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It'll be awhile before I upgrade from my 85' 308 GTSi euro car - I'm an Architect in Akron, Ohio. But hey, it's a prancing horse isn't it???!! | ||
| Richard L. Diasio (Putpark)
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I own Putnam Park Road Course near Indianapolis and Diasio Car Co. We manufacture Sport Racers. I have a 308gt4, Viper, Porsche 930 and my 360 Modena will be picked up in LA next week. | ||
| John Sanzo (Jks)
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I used to be a flight instructor on L39's (soviet trainer), then a corp pilot, now 30 years old and an airline captain for Mid America. Own a 90TR but will soon move up to a 355 or 360 Modena | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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We have a pretty diverse group, it's kind of cool. You guys are giving me some good ideas here, oh baby. Everyone here has a cool job, but I have to say that Kurt flying F-100s and F-16s (my favorite fighter plane) is awesome. I think I'm still gonna plan on becoming some sort of investor, I've wanted to for about 4 years now, so I guess I should stay with that. I think I would be happy with any of your jobs though. | ||
| Erik Jonsson (Gamester)
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Own a coin operated game company in Twin Falls, Idaho, partner in Motor Psycho Sport in Thousand Oaks, Ca, and wholesale adult toys worldwide. A JOATMON (jack of all trades master of none) I dabble in everything from flying to nascar- auto, cycle, boat and home restorations...mechanical and electrical troubleshooting and repair, fabricating/welding and whatever else you can imagine. I am an Electromotive (ignition) dealer as well. | ||
| Kurt Kjelgaard (Kurtk328)
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A pilot for 27 years, initially Danish Airforce F-100 and F-16, now Airline Captain with Scandinavian Airlines, living just outside Nice, France. brgds Kurt | ||
| Vincent Canipelli (Gtbivc)
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Sell Italian Wines for distributor in Atlanta.May never move up from my '80 308 GTBi but that's OK! | ||
| Yoshi Toda (Ytoda928)
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I work for Covad Communications as a director of procurement/logistics in Silicon Valley. Covad is a leading provider for DSL. For those who do not use high speed internet access, here's the solution! Fasten your seat belt! | ||
| David Prall (Davidpra)
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LIFE #1 - Professional Ski Racer / Coach (retired). Pay was not so good...'Fringe benefits' were fantastic!!! LIFE #2 - Senior Mechanical Engineer / Spacecraft Propulsion Systems. Contract work for NASA deep space science (no Defense!!) missions. Pay is good...'Fringe benefits' are non-existent. LIFE #3 - ...we'll see... | ||
| Matt Karson (Squidracing)
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Institutional Equity Block Trading (NASDAQ tech stocks) in a top investment bank in New York. The action and intensity is second only to taking turn 2 through to the chicane (at Watkins Glen) with my foot stuck to the floor. Weekends are great, but Monday mornings are fine as well. | ||
| Awang (Wang)
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Real estate, Construction and oil industry supplies. This is a great thread | ||
| Neville Pugh (Nev_Pugh)
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Independant Software Consultant (VB/SQL) in the UK ... yawnsville, but pays okay (pity the govt then takes most of it all away again in taxes .... !) | ||
| Rijk Rietveld (Rijk400i5sp)
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My wife and I own a successful international architecture practice (the smallest multinational in the world) on the seventiest floor of the Empire State Building. Most of our work is in Europe, but the Euro currently sucks. So, this is interesting: We need a weaker dollar to pay for the 360 spider we have on order. | ||
| Dough (Dough)
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I work for Penn State University in the Meteorology department. I also work for WPSX-TV in State College, PA. | ||
| martin J weiner,M.D. (Mw360)
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Solly; Would have been interested in a project but moved from NYC to Portland,Or. A doc and a dentist-----Sounds like a direct line to poverty! | ||
| KARL DASTOLI (Luch)
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I own a hi-tech mold/machine shop. We build high precision mold components for such companys as Este Lauder ,Elizabeth Arden, Avon, Proctor&Gamble....We also do some specialized machining and grinding down to ten millionths of an inch. Lots of fun and very busy. | ||
| Bernard Rowe (Gtsturbo)
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Peter "QRS Ltd" but the shocks are Quantum's. We don't do any Indy Car, biggest markets are Europe & Japan. We have a distributor in the US called CV Products, where the dampers go under the name of "2QWIK". | ||
| Peter S�derlund/328 GTB -88 (Corsa)
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Im working at Micronic Laser System (laser pattern generators for production of photomasks) as Technical Product Manager. Bernard, what is the name of your shock absorber company? I used to work at ohlins racing designing shocks for NewmanHaas Indy team(Mansell/Andretti) and forks for Ducati superbikes etc. BTW, Tom, when is the recession over in Silicon Valley? Ciao Peter M.Sc Mech Eng | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
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Bret, absolutely true. I have that slide show as well. I think she takes off more and more but truely you look at the Spider! My guys in the office went wild while I was crying over the hood of the car! "She's gonna dent this with her fat ass!" I am in for a career change as well. How about a new porn movie: The Fast and the Frivolous" | ||
| Arnaldo Torres (Caribe)
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Peter, Thanks so much for taking the time of getting the magazines. I got only one of your emails today to which I already replied. This is basically my reply in case you did not get it: Please let me know what you got, the cost, and how do you want to exchange it. Arnaldo Torres. | ||
| Steven J. Solomon (Solly)
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Practiced dentistry for 12 years (great for manual dexterity but seen enough teeth to last me a lifetime), then founded a managed care company which I now run (hard work but extremely interesting). Also develop and own clinics (these pay for the cars), a restaurant (this soaks up money otherwise available for cars) and some real estate. Seriously contemplating opening or investing in a high-end classic car restoration/sales shop in the New York/southern Connecticut area. Anyone share this interest? | ||
| Peter Boray (Gts308qv)
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I reside in Australia and work as a Flight Attendant for QANTAS Airways. Have been doing this for 21 years. Prior to this I was with American Express as Personnel Manager for the Australian operations. PS. Arnaldo Torres-(Caribe). I just came back from Los Angeles (Pomona Swapmeet) and have the TR magazines you asked for in another thread(Old Magazines with Ferrari articles). I have emailed you direct twice with no response. | ||
| Kevin Moore (Kevinm)
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General Electric Gas Turbine Application Engineer. I deal primarily with land based turbines used in Power Plants ~170MW | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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A lot of you guys are involved in computers. It seems that everyone here is either: 1 engineer 2 a doctor 3 investor 4 computer related. Where are all the secretaries and waitresses? On the porn topic, someone sent me a couple pics of a hot blonde girl washing a red/tan 355 spider. It's funny, if you look at the pics I guarantee you'll look at the car and not at the girl. There are a lot of porn stars, but very few Ferraris. For the sake of all of us, I wont post any of the pics here. | ||
| Eric de Back (Eric328)
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Software Test Manager | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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Peter, all I can say is lol. I think I might go to college now, but not right now, in like 6 months I think I would be ready. I want to study finances or something like that to become an investment banker, it sounds like a good job to me (a couple of my friends fathers are investment bankers). | ||
| '75 308 GT4 (Peter)
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Bret, there's one requirement you must meet in order to become a porn star... but I can't say it here (too crude J). | ||
| James Pai (Jaymus)
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Hmmm, not doing anything I want to do. Tax Consultant James | ||
| James P. Smith (Tigermilk)
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I send men (and women) into space - rocket scientist (structural engineer) at NASA Johnson. | ||
| Tom Antal (Intenso)
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I have a high tech Advertising Agency in Palo Alto. Business in Silicon Valley is a bit slow right now, but hey.... the traffic is much better. Tom | ||
| Charles T (Charles)
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Head of General Admin and legal at software company in NY. | ||
| david schirmer (David)
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It looks to me like you two (Bret and Chris) should be professional comedians. As for me I was an effects editor for film and TV. Did you ever watch Bill Nye the Science Guy? That was me messin' around with bouncing arrows and kooky graphics. I now am involved in an internet startup that is funded and well managed. Kind of a unique experience. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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And I wouldn't have to go to college to be that, sweet. Where do I apply? | ||
| Chris_N_Chicago (Chris_N_Chicago)
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porn star | ||
| Darius Yuen (Dy_Pup)
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I grew up in Los Angeles but now work as an investment banker in Hong Kong. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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I don't want to go to college. I think I have to though. | ||
| david handa (Davehanda)
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Professional Peddler. I sell surgical lights, powered surgical tables and medical gas booms for anesthesia, used in operating rooms. | ||
| Becker Cu�llar (Becker)
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EE by training always wanted to work designing microchips and computers which I did while finishing grad school but I didn't see the bright light down the road so I went solo and now own a little software company developing custom packages to meet client specs, my own hours, a bit of world roaming ... no complains. | ||
| Danny R. West (Dan_West348ts)
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I test software for a living. That means I try to break it before it's sold to the world. Dan | ||
| Rob Breton (Parilla)
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I work as a Manufacturing Engineer and supervise a R&D tooling shop for a company in So California That designs and Fabricates Miniature and Sub Miniature electrical connectors. My speciality is Assembly line Automation / Robotics | ||
| jim galli (Galli)
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I run tech/counter (parts) for fremont toyota get all my parts at near cost ferrari to... | ||
| Mark C. Gordon (Markg)
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Service Resource Coordinator for onsite deliverables, Compaq Computer Corp. Colorado Springs | ||
| Jorma Johansson (Jjfinland)
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49 years, retired, sold last year my company making modile hydraulic valves. | ||
| Mark (Mnmark)
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Pediatrician. The kids are lots of fun. Sometimes get some loopy parents, though. | ||
| van mollenberg (Vanny)
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i own and operate a mechanical contracting firm in buffalo-in has been in business for 91 years-3rd generation | ||
| Chuck Rine (Chuck348ts)
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Hydrogeologist (from hydro=water and geo=rock), meaning I investigate and clean up contaminated groundwater and soil, help companies to comply with government environmental regulations, and fill out mountains of ridiculous government paperwork. | ||
| Greg Reinacker (Gregr)
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I own a software development consulting company. We have our ups and downs, but it's been a great business to be in thus far... | ||
| Mitchel DeFrancis (4re308)
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I am a data circuit provisioning coordinator for Equant Networks. I build data circuits, order and configure Cisco routers, and allocate ports around the globe......I make sure my clients around the world can download porn as fast as possible.  As a hobby, I assist buyers and sellers with Ferraris and other special cars. I can appraise Ferraris, sell Ferraris, assist with some historical information. I also collect anything to do with Ferrari. | ||
| Doug Meredith (Doug308)
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I sell ad space for a trade publication in the trucking industry. I work out of my house, set my own schedule, and my dog has been traveling with me to all my customers for 5 years. | ||
| Bernard Rowe (Gtsturbo)
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Worked for 2 Formula One teams back in the 80's early 90's, last 10 years in my own business which designs & manufactures race car & motorcycle shock absorbers. Its taken me all over the world but no chance of a 360 just yet! | ||
| Najib Amanullah (Najib)
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Full time Ferrari enthusiast and keen reader of Ferrarichat. Part time Chartered Accountant currently enjoying tax free income in Saudi Arabia. Still looking for my first Ferrari which I hope to get once I have cashed in an investment. | ||
| Arnaldo Torres (Caribe)
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I am a Software Consultant in Southern California. Job is fun sometimes, but there are so many of us that it could be a little trying at times. I feel like a book worm most of the time, though. Always reading and learning new stuff just to stay current, but hoping to be a little ahead of the rest. Nevertheless, it does help to make enough money to convince my wife that I can spare some of it to get myself a Ferrari. | ||
| Frederick Thomas (Fred)
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I own a restaurant -- pizza and Italian cuisine. I have three locations in Indianapolis. | ||
| '75 308 GT4 (Peter)
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Tradesman (welder/fabricator). The Trades are lacking an incredible amount of workers and pay well to keep the few of us around. The last day of trade school I got a job and have been working since (never laid off). Went back to school mid-way through these past four years to upgrade to pressure-pipe and TIG welding. Now I build and service aircraft refuelers and tanker-trucks. Here's me hard at work: (you'll find these A.R. hydrant carts at LAX, Los Angeles)   | ||
| stu cordova (Balataboy)
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I own a small (inventory about 30 cars) auto dealership. It's great for someone who loves cars of all types - as I do. I started it about 7 years ago after spending 15 years as a Social Worker. I know, 180 degrees. | ||
| Stewart Chung (Navygakman)
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I am an architect by training (believe it or not I actually have a degree from Harvard GSD). But I quit doing that last year because the profession sucks. Lots of work and responsibilities but no respect and not enough money. Now I manage a bridal business my wife and I owns. Small business but I get flexibility and I am more in charge of our destiny. And a bit of spending money for a cheap, 20 yr old Ferrari ;-P | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
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Real Estate & Securities Investments | ||
| Gene B. Radcliffe - 308 GTS (Brcbank)
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Bank President in West-Central Wisconsin. Trained as a lawyer but not presently practicing. Happy to give free financial or legal advice . . . as long as you don't expect a guarantee! Oh, and we specialize in financing Ferraris and other exotic sports cars! | ||
| David Jones (Dave)
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I'm a voiceover artist... I voice radio and TV commercials, as well as owning a studio where we do audio/video production, sound design, motion graphics, music score, or anything else for a buck.... | ||
| kelly vince (Tofosi1)
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I'm a Technincal Consultant for a Southern Telecommunication company called ITCDeltacom. I help sales people sell data and telephone services. Mostly I design T1's, Frame, IPVPN, telephone networks and internet access. Anyone every need computer or telephone advise call me. | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
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Telecom related software sales... 20+ years. Gets me out of the office (I can sit behind a desk only so long). | ||
| Jeff Fiedler (Muck)
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Ceramic tile and marble contractor for 19 years, my back and knees need a rebuild. | ||
| Daniel B Reese MD (Dbr328gtb)
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I am a cardiologist. I cant think of doing anything more rewarding and the income will guarantee some sort of Ferrari but you'll have to wait until you are at least 32 years old to finish training. | ||
| Leonardo Soccolich (Lens)
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Forty-year-old associate of a museum/exhibition design firm based in NYC. | ||
| Warren E. Smith (Magoo)
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Retired. Owned a Boat Marina, two boat retail boat outlets and best of all, my diversion, I owned a Cocktail lounge and package goods store. I sold these back in the 80s and retired. | ||
| martin J weiner,M.D. (Mw360)
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Retired medical oncologist.Starting a new career as an F1 driver! | ||
| Herbert Edward Gault (Irfgt)
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I am 50 years young and own and operate an Automotive Repair Business. I have not decided what I will do when I grow up. | ||
| 308i80 (Lamont)
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Work for the Air Force and NASA, as site manager at a USAF Satellite tracking station. Gov work isn't great pay. You have to like what you do. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
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software development project manager - I love it, but I'll never be able to afford a 250 GTO doing it. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
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Real Estate aquisition and development. Shitty job but somebody has to do it. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
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Someday I'm gonna have to do something so that I can buy more Ferraris. What do you guys do? Do you like it? |