| Author | Message | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Junior Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 155 Registered: 1-2003 |
Jim, I had four bikes, a practice 125cc, a race 125cc, a practice 250cc and a race 250cc. I only had a large box truck like a U-Haul back then. The mechanic drove it from race to race and I got there the best way I could since I had to hold down another job to make ends meet. Kawasaki did pay my travel expenses though so I flew a lot between races. I met Wymon Priddy at MX school and his assistant had gotten injured and could not attend so I got to help out through the dealer I rode for. It was a chance meeting but they needed another short-term rider and I rode a Kawasaki already. Fit right in. Fortunately, the ride lasted a little longer than short-term. Three and a half years. It was a lot of fun. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 2563 Registered: 8-2002 |
LOL, Jerry, my second shortest job was with Friendly's- i worked behind the counter handling the ice cream orders... i worked my full shift- 5 hours- but never came back the next day... or any other day after that... i did, however, have no problem going back for my check two weeks later...  | ||
| Jerry W. (Tork1966)
Member Username: Tork1966 Post Number: 502 Registered: 7-2001 |
While attending MSU, I got a job at a tennis club as a grunt. They put me to work cleaning the whole place on my first day. I had worked for 4 hours that first day then got to the bathrooms. When I saw what pigs these rich bastards were, I snuck out the back door and never returned. | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 755 Registered: 7-2002 |
I took a class from Steve Wise back in 83 in OKC in the small Will Rodgers Arena. I was on a KX80 at the time. My friend was/is named Ken Finley. He is 31 so would have been 14 years ago...1989. He jokes about how his mechanic just changed tires, chains whatever at the blink of eye while I would use a tire for months. Think he had 4 bikes and 2 trailers. Also friends with Guy "airtime" Cooper as his folks dealership was in Stillwater, OK about 20 miles from my house. | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Junior Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 154 Registered: 1-2003 |
Jim, Who was your friend. Was it Steve Wise?? Yes, I rode the 250cc and 125cc classes at first but settled into the 250cc class for the last two years I raced. I was getting out of MX about the time "the Hurricane" was getting into 125's. I rode with Jimmy Weinert and Wyman Priddy. Peter Lampu also rode Kawasaki at that time. It sure was fun back then. Now my body tells me that it will not heal as quickly as it did back then. I went down hard in the first turn and was hit 12 times, cracking my pelvis and separating the tendons from the bone in the upper leg. Fortunately, I was knocked unconscious by the first bike and did not feel the others. I sat out a year and came back to race in one more event. Finished 7th and 2nd in the two heats, had to be lifted off the bike at the end of the second race and gave it up. That was in 1975 and I have not raced since. It seems like I tend to think "The older I get, the better I was". | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 753 Registered: 7-2002 |
Jere: Brad Lackey! Now that is name from the 70's. Bob Hannah. I raced KX 125's back in the 80's. My friend rode for Kawasaki and had 2 semi trailers, mechanic and everything. He was 17 and making $60K, but left it all to play football in college for OU. Blew out his knees first season and can't do either now. Don't feel sorry for him though as his dad set him up wiht several very large trust funds. | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobd Post Number: 1055 Registered: 3-2001 |
I spent 2 summers in college working at a municipal sewage treatment plant... $2.25 per hour, giant raise to $2.50 the next year. The other summer, I moved up and built rocker panels at a Ford stamping plant. Both jobs provided excellent motivation to finish college. | ||
| Adam R (Arymarcz)
Junior Member Username: Arymarcz Post Number: 51 Registered: 8-2002 |
Old jobs: Worked on the ground crew at a resort. Sucked big big time, it was 25 yrs ago and I was like 120 lbs and had to rake seaweed out of the lagoon and shovel sand. Everything had to be done immediately and it was like the end of the world if I didn't follow 'orders' to a tee. Old hobbies: played guitar 6-8 hours a day for 15 yrs. Oh, wait a minute, this was more of a religious thing. Changed my life in ways I'd never imagine - really learned the meaning 'discipline'. Eventually, whatever was driving me 'left', which I never thought would happen. | ||
| Ken Thomas (Future328driver)
Member Username: Future328driver Post Number: 298 Registered: 12-2001 |
Old jobs: worked on the assembly line for cruise missiles, designed military electronics systems, designed major subsystems for Citation business jets. Old hobbies: flying real airplanes, flying r/c helicopters, tennis, golf....the list is endless | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Junior Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 152 Registered: 1-2003 |
My worst job. I was the sanding finisher at a furniture reconditioning company. All I did was sand and steel wool the finish on reconditioned furniture. In a non-air conditioned shop in west Texas for two months one summer. It was absolutely miserable. Most interesting part-time. Helped crew a top-fuel car. Love the smell of nitro and the rush of those massively powerful engines. Hardest work, least pay, most fun. Racing Moto-x for Kawasaki Central region. I raced before the big contracts like Ricky Carmichael gets. Also before the endorsements were there. Had to keep another job along with the racing. I got 2 race bikes, two practice bikes, parts, a mechanic, a box-truck for transporting, travel and expenses paid and got to keep my winnings if there were any. Great experience but back then you could not get rich on it. I raced with Jimmy Weinert, Marty Tripes, Tony Distefano, Kent Howerton, Jim Pomeroy, Rex Staten, John Desoto, Gary Jones, Brad Lackey and all those guys if we have any old mx racers here. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 2509 Registered: 8-2002 |
LMAO, Jim, that's awesome...! How well did door to door copier sales go...? LOL, i can't imagine that... | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Intermediate Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 1367 Registered: 7-2001 |
I think I need to buy JimS some beer and get some stories about the barback job at Cabaret. Worst job I ever had was selling copiers, down the street. Knock knock, want to buy a copier? | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 748 Registered: 7-2002 |
worst 2 jobs I had were as a grinder at a metal fab shop on the graveyard shift. other was at a bowling alley working in the back making sure the pin setting machines worked correctly. Cool past jobs. First job, taco bueno cook one summer. yum. Worked as a barback at Cabaret Royale (strip club in dallas). lots of coke whores at the time. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 2493 Registered: 8-2002 |
Lord Ausbrooks, i saw the movie, but i don't recall that scene... i'll have to keep it in mind, next time i see it on... Thanks for the info on CART, fellas... | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 703 Registered: 2-2002 |
DES: CART is Championship Auto Racing Teams, at that time there was no IRL and CART was it for Indy car racing. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1076 Registered: 8-2002 |
DES: Funny. Actually, the place where I worked looked a lot like the 'True Lies' set in the "Screwed the pooch" scene with Charleton Heston. BTW, "Championship Auto Racing Teams." | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 2481 Registered: 8-2002 |
Jere... Interesting thread and an interesting list of hobbies and "jobs" you've posted... Sounds like a lot of fun... Ironically so, i'm confident i've had more jobs than anyone else here and yet, none of them required any driving of any kind (except when the parts department at Chrysler actually wanted me to drive and i was unable to furnish a valid/legal license  )... Actually, when i was a window washer, i drove almost everyday, 40 or so miles, to and from sites, but it was a manual transmission Mitsubishi pick-up truck... Nothing interesting, though... i would easily trade my smashing good looks and charming personality for a valet job at some huge exotics dealership, out in southern California, though... Wayne, your NSA job now makes perfect sense of your intense grasp on information... Did you have your own office...? If so, did it actually read Electronic Warfare Signals Intelligence Analyst on the door...? If so, did the door have to be widened...? lol... Bill, what's CART...? (something something racing team...?) | ||
| '75 308 GT4 (Peter)
Advanced Member Username: Peter Post Number: 2545 Registered: 12-2000 |
Back on topic in Off Topic... My previous hobby was mountain biking. I got into it during its infancy back in the late '80's/early '90's. Raced semi-professionally between '94 and '95. A lack-lustre season made me decide I'd rather build the bikes than race them. I then moved to B.C. Canada and enrolled in BCIT in their welding courses with a dream of being a bike-builder. I woke up from the dream when I found out how much Rocky Mountain paid their welders... The welding certification led me to other jobs and I've been successful enough at it to support my latest hobby: My GT4 . I currently work as a welder/fabricator/mechanic repairing tanker trucks and trailers at this company: http://www.advanceengineeredproducts.com. Other interesting places I've worked at was the Machine and Welding department of the Pulp & Paper Research Institute of Canada. This was my first job (at 17) and gave me the inspiration to pursue a career in the Trades (which the ultimate goal was to become a bike builder - see above...). | ||
| Sunny Garofalo (Jaguarxj6)
Junior Member Username: Jaguarxj6 Post Number: 81 Registered: 2-2003 |
There was a base in the Philipines that had the same problem. And what would go on outside the base and made into video tape.. what was the name? I think Clark rings a bell, can't remember though. Sunny | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 824 Registered: 5-2002 |
Infinately more interesting than some piece of trash with a Fabio look-alike on the cover. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1068 Registered: 8-2002 |
Why does that sound like such a shitty premise for a novel? | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 823 Registered: 5-2002 |
The gist of the novel "Slicky Boys" was that the Slicky Boys would never steal enough items to really put a dent in the military base budget because they knew that the military's budget "allowed" for the theivery. Until one day when an "outsider" started stealing large amounts of property, then the military brought in some investigators who started ruffling the feathers of the Korean theives. So they murdered the "outsider" who had brought down the heat on them and upset their 50 year racket. Now it was a murder mystery. A pretty good book. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 3756 Registered: 12-2000 |
Sold drugs from 14 to 17 years old. Legal of course, I worked in a drug store. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1066 Registered: 8-2002 |
Arlie, I guess I was out of the loop on that one. I worked on a military base in SK for two years and wasn't aware of the "Slicky Boys" problem. Then again, that's more like something the MPs would've been concerned with. Not really a matter of national security. Besides, the security at the place where I worked was extremely tight. There were so many hoops to jump through just to get in to work everyday that I can't imagine that "Slicky Boys" would have even been an issue. | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 822 Registered: 5-2002 |
Slicky Boys: south Korean theives who illegally enter the perimeter of U.S. military bases in Korea in order to steal and plunder anything they can get their hands on. They've been doing it for 50 years. A term understood by those who spent time on U.S. bases in Korea. I work with a guy who spent several years in Korea and he told me tales of the "Slicky Boys". There was even a fiction novel written several years ago with that title. When I saw it at the book store, I immediately knew what it was about and bought the book. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1065 Registered: 8-2002 |
Arlie, "Slicky Boys?" | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 818 Registered: 5-2002 |
LWayne, are you telling us that you monitored the "Slicky Boys"? | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 701 Registered: 2-2002 |
Twenty years ago I worked for CART as Director of Marketing. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1061 Registered: 8-2002 |
Jere, my job was what they call the "reporter." I received intel from a variety of sources, and pieced it all together to figure out who was doing what and when and where they were doing it. Then I typed up a report based on my conclusions and sent it off to the proper recipients. | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Junior Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 144 Registered: 1-2003 |
Wayne, While in the Navy I served aboard a Guided Missile Frigate (now light cruiser) in the OI division (radarmen and ECM) Two of my best friends onboard ship were ECM and ECCM specialists. They told me they did a lot of monitoring signals coming from Hainan Island and North Viet Nam. I take it yours would at least be in the same family. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1060 Registered: 8-2002 |
Interesting previous job: Electronic Warfare Signals Intelligence Analyst/Korean Linguist for the NSA (INSCOM). | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Junior Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 143 Registered: 1-2003 |
Just wondering what people have done in the past for hobbies and jobs. My old hobbies were drag racing, moto-x racing,golf and tennis. The golf and tennis were just pure recreational although I did get fairly proficient at both. 8 handicap in golf and played high school and college tennis. Moto-x raced for Kawasaki Central Region back in the early 70's. Before big contracts and endorsements. Rode Penton, Suzuki, Yamaha, Bultaco, Maico and CZ also prior to the Kaw. Last drag race car was an altered roadster (A/EA), 23 Ford bucket on full tube chasis with big block. Ran high 8's around 165 - 169 mph. Was a blast to drive. Gave you a real rush when it hooked up. Also built and drove various stock class cars prior to the Altered. Okay, now how about anyone else? Any interests other than Ferrari? Something unique that would make the rest of us envious? |