diablednerd
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Post by diablednerd on Apr 11, 2023 15:37:08 GMT -5
Been working as an engineer for 23 years now... make good money but no girl to spoil with it, lol ;-) The Big Bang Theory gave you false hope.
It did... where's my Penny, or even Bernadette
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Post by wonk on Apr 11, 2023 17:29:19 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory gave you false hope. It did... where's my Penny, or even Bernadette Lower your standards slightly, perhaps to Howard's mum ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by anonymitea on Apr 11, 2023 23:35:10 GMT -5
No love for Amy Farrah Fowler?
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Post by wonk on Apr 12, 2023 0:03:58 GMT -5
No love for Amy Farrah Fowler? Perhaps when he becomes a theoretical physicist.
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Post by diablednerd on Apr 12, 2023 13:06:57 GMT -5
It did... where's my Penny, or even Bernadette Lower your standards slightly, perhaps to Howard's mum ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
Still in my fantasy Katee Sackoff phase...
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Post by nick1439 on Apr 12, 2023 15:13:01 GMT -5
unemployed and fuckin hate it. Unfortunately, my only employable skills required a working motor nervous system, which I don't have anymore. lol. I was a mechanic, Played guitar in a deathcore band, rode BMX. Theoretically I could probably still do tuning but dynamometers are expensive and I have no guinea pig cars. I'm probably gonna have to teach myself to be a day trader or learn how to count cards and start gambling online if I want financial independence.
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Post by wonk on Apr 12, 2023 20:32:58 GMT -5
unemployed and fuckin hate it. Unfortunately, my only employable skills required a working motor nervous system, which I don't have anymore. lol. I was a mechanic, Played guitar in a deathcore band, rode BMX. Theoretically I could probably still do tuning but dynamometers are expensive and I have no guinea pig cars. I'm probably gonna have to teach myself to be a day trader or learn how to count cards and start gambling online if I want financial independence. I do a lot of race car tuning, I have a chassis dyno that was an old school analog device. I rewired the retarder in series to run 192v rather than 12v and upgraded the control electronics. The bed was $2500, and the electronics was $4500. There are cheaper options out there now. I sometimes hire another couple of dynos in Sydney if it is difficult for the customer to bring the car or engine to me. I also do cnc programming for a race engine shop. At first I did onsite, but lately it is all remote. Having a mechanical background was a massive advantage over just some computer geek, especially when a mechanic wants a one off custom part. Lately I have started building a lot of engines again. I was very picky and was down to one every few months. A mate asked me to give his nephew a few hours work. He is 25 has autism and had never had a job. He has become my muscles. It is working brilliantly, I still check all the clearances etc, but he builds the engines under my supervision. We have built 5 high end engines in the last 5 weeks, and am now getting heaps of enquiries. I also noticed hptuners have just released some hardware to make remote tuning easier. These are a few ideas based on what I do. Your existing skills are valuable.
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Post by loupip on Apr 15, 2023 13:45:02 GMT -5
« I’m not sure but what I can say is that my job is really a situation » ! 😅
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Post by esf1996 on Jun 30, 2024 20:51:03 GMT -5
I just graduated from law school and am studying for the UBE right now. There are a decent number of “Big Law” attorneys with disabilities (including wheelchair users) and I will be a Litigation Associate at a V10 firm in NYC. My best friend is a rising 2L with SMA2 and will also likely be going to a top firm!
Happy to chat, PM me!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2024 22:42:05 GMT -5
I've been involved with tech all of my life, pretty much since I was about nine years old. I literally have always had an interest in computers and electronics for as far back as I can remember. Once I turned 18 I started my own little side business as kind of the go to tech nerd in my development that I used to live in. I wouldn't make an abundance of money but it was enough every once in a while to make me feel like I was at least being productive and trying to contribute to society. At the tail end of 2019 I finally decided to take basically every dollar that I had and put myself through technical school, after I was told that I wasn't eligible for a federal grant because I receive federal benefits. My response, naturally, was so let me see if I understand you correctly, you want to avoid giving me a little bit of money up front so that you can instead pay me a bunch of money every month from now until the time I'm no longer alive? The person at the front desk was rather perplexed. Anyway, I put myself through technical school earned five certifications and set out in the hopes of having a whole slew of new much more stable jobs that I could hopefully perform to earn a living. Boy was I wrong, turns out after being turned down about 75 times (I know, I counted) that I'm just messed up enough that no one wants to hire me for anything. I can't walk, I'm sitting in a chair all day, I get that. The real frustrating thing is the impairment in my left hand. Because of this I can't type at speeds a normal unaffected person can type at an apparently because of that it does not matter how smart I am, I can't meet that metric and I don't get a job. That's my wonderful experience, I even called that company NTI at home, they are an organization that is supposed to help people with disabilities return to the workforce. Man was that a severe blow to my confidence, when the people that are supposed to help you basically tell you that you're too fucked up for them to do anything for you it doesn't make you feel so good.
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