What do all you guys do for a living?
#126
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Damn these cars are expensive!
Just been out getting bits and pieces to assist me install my boost and water temp gauges that arrived yesterday, and it adds up a bit.
Wanted an FD when I was buying my first car in 98 but couldn't afford it so went with a Toyota Corolla for 5 and a half years. Worked various jobs, up to 30 hours a week while studying full time. Got out of Uni in July and started work as a systems engineer, earning average money. Got a job lined up with Honeywell starting in Feb, pay is heaps better so I jumped in early and got the car. I'm strugglin to afford it on my current salary but when I change jobs it should be quite easy.
The main reason I'm struggling at the moment is because it's Christmas, I have a gf (probably the next most expensive thing after an FD) and we are trying to save money to go to Melbourne in January.
The other day at work I was stressin about money and thinkin I can't afford this car. Then I walked outside, looked it it and thought "f$^k yeah". Then I got in, drove off, and thought "f*#k yeah". Wouldn't have it any other way.
F#%k
Yeah
Am I allowed to swear?
Just been out getting bits and pieces to assist me install my boost and water temp gauges that arrived yesterday, and it adds up a bit.
Wanted an FD when I was buying my first car in 98 but couldn't afford it so went with a Toyota Corolla for 5 and a half years. Worked various jobs, up to 30 hours a week while studying full time. Got out of Uni in July and started work as a systems engineer, earning average money. Got a job lined up with Honeywell starting in Feb, pay is heaps better so I jumped in early and got the car. I'm strugglin to afford it on my current salary but when I change jobs it should be quite easy.
The main reason I'm struggling at the moment is because it's Christmas, I have a gf (probably the next most expensive thing after an FD) and we are trying to save money to go to Melbourne in January.
The other day at work I was stressin about money and thinkin I can't afford this car. Then I walked outside, looked it it and thought "f$^k yeah". Then I got in, drove off, and thought "f*#k yeah". Wouldn't have it any other way.
F#%k
Yeah
Am I allowed to swear?
#127
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wow this is an old thread. I still run a video game company, though we have since relocated the teams to San Francisco. I also founded and Direct a Non-Profit Organization that teaches and fosters the arts on the interweb. Part of the latter is a big forums just like this one but about art. My clients include id, sony, ea, activision, blizzard, wideload games, microsoft, vivendi/universal studios. factor five, namco, and a whole bunch of others..nvidia..stuff like that. Mostly, I draw, paint, handle clients, negotiate contracts, plan, and delegate.
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Hola-
I'm a Ph.D. student at Stanford University. I get paid to research/develop advanced dynamics and controls systems for tomorrow's automobiles. Currently, I'm working on steer-by-wire technology... amazing stuff - it'll make tomorrow's cars handle better AND safer.
Before I came back to school, I was an entrepreneur that started and ran a business to develop racing parts for Porsche and Volkswagen engines. The company still exists, but I left because I wanted to do other stuff.
Mommy and Daddy have never helped finance any of my toys, er, cars :-). Compared to the ridiculously modified (i.e. complete one-off custom) cars I had with my business, my FD is low maintenance :-).
Take care,
Shad
I'm a Ph.D. student at Stanford University. I get paid to research/develop advanced dynamics and controls systems for tomorrow's automobiles. Currently, I'm working on steer-by-wire technology... amazing stuff - it'll make tomorrow's cars handle better AND safer.
Before I came back to school, I was an entrepreneur that started and ran a business to develop racing parts for Porsche and Volkswagen engines. The company still exists, but I left because I wanted to do other stuff.
Mommy and Daddy have never helped finance any of my toys, er, cars :-). Compared to the ridiculously modified (i.e. complete one-off custom) cars I had with my business, my FD is low maintenance :-).
Take care,
Shad
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I work on a lot of my friends cars.. On the side I usually make about 500 to 900 dollars a week in the summer and like 300 a month in the winter. Besides that, my daily job is a mechanic, when I can fit it around my classes at college that is.
P.s. I also rob a few banks here and there, JK
P.s. I also rob a few banks here and there, JK
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Originally Posted by Shad Laws
Currently, I'm working on steer-by-wire technology... amazing stuff - it'll make tomorrow's cars handle better AND safer.
Take care,
Shad
Take care,
Shad
#135
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Originally Posted by Shad Laws
Hola-
I'm a Ph.D. student at Stanford University. I get paid to research/develop advanced dynamics and controls systems for tomorrow's automobiles. Currently, I'm working on steer-by-wire technology... amazing stuff - it'll make tomorrow's cars handle better AND safer.
Before I came back to school, I was an entrepreneur that started and ran a business to develop racing parts for Porsche and Volkswagen engines. The company still exists, but I left because I wanted to do other stuff.
Mommy and Daddy have never helped finance any of my toys, er, cars :-). Compared to the ridiculously modified (i.e. complete one-off custom) cars I had with my business, my FD is low maintenance :-).
Take care,
Shad
I'm a Ph.D. student at Stanford University. I get paid to research/develop advanced dynamics and controls systems for tomorrow's automobiles. Currently, I'm working on steer-by-wire technology... amazing stuff - it'll make tomorrow's cars handle better AND safer.
Before I came back to school, I was an entrepreneur that started and ran a business to develop racing parts for Porsche and Volkswagen engines. The company still exists, but I left because I wanted to do other stuff.
Mommy and Daddy have never helped finance any of my toys, er, cars :-). Compared to the ridiculously modified (i.e. complete one-off custom) cars I had with my business, my FD is low maintenance :-).
Take care,
Shad
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Originally Posted by Section8
Steer by wire doesn't sound like something I'd like, seems like it would take all the feel out of driving the car. I already don't like throttle by wire for the same reason.
That's just plain false. In fact, it gives us MORE flexibility than ever before. We can make the force feedback to the wheel anything we want. If you are familiar with the way traditional steering systems work, then you are familiar with the tradeoffs of kingpin angles, caster angles, spindle offsets, etc. and their effects on jacking torque, mechanical trail, scrub radius, etc. You're also familiar with the love/hate relationship of power steering. What if we could make it all go away? What if we could give you the feedback of an ideal mechanical setup without having the compromises of actually having that mechanical setup? Ah, but we can... and it rocks.
Plus, we can do fun tricks like variable Ackermann. What race car driver WOULDN'T want variable Ackermann? Imagine the possibilities...
And, you have no steering column. The packaging of the engine bay is better and there's nothing to go through your chest when you get in an accident.
Take care,
Shad
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Originally Posted by ejmack1
I was looking into Stanford's PhD program... how do you like it?
Hanging out in the bay area, working on groovy cars with cool technologies, working with some great people... I love it :-). I'm in the Design Division of Mechanical Engineering... I dunno how that applies to other departments. They vary widely...
Ya gotta first make sure a Ph.D. is for you. You're going to be stuck in school for 5-6 years or so, working just as much as a regular R&D job with the same stress level, only with much crappier pay. Just a thought...
Take care,
Shad
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Hi all,
I'm 26 and i set up my own wellness centre here in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10 months ago. Primariliy involved in anti-ageing and general well being. Before this i managed the marketing dept. in a automotive parts manufacturer and it was cool coz i got to travel the world visiting motor shows and establishing distribution points. Lived in Darwin, Australia for 3 years then moved to Sydney for university, which is where i fell in love with the RX7. Cheers.
I'm 26 and i set up my own wellness centre here in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10 months ago. Primariliy involved in anti-ageing and general well being. Before this i managed the marketing dept. in a automotive parts manufacturer and it was cool coz i got to travel the world visiting motor shows and establishing distribution points. Lived in Darwin, Australia for 3 years then moved to Sydney for university, which is where i fell in love with the RX7. Cheers.
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LOL That question is funny, because every situation is different. Guys making $9/hr-$90/hr can own FD's of all types of upgrades...it really depends on your finances.
You can mke $2k a month but only have $300 in bills and be better off than $5k a month and $4k in bills no doubt.
As for me, I'm in real estate...and I worked only part-time while owning the FD this year, come 2005 though I'll be full time=Mods.
You can mke $2k a month but only have $300 in bills and be better off than $5k a month and $4k in bills no doubt.
As for me, I'm in real estate...and I worked only part-time while owning the FD this year, come 2005 though I'll be full time=Mods.
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I'm a Senior Consultant for Booz|Allen|Hamilton doing Design/Development. I also own a Design company on the side. I'm expecting a boy April 21st and I have owned 4 RX-7's in the past. My current RX-7 is a 93 CYM R1. : )
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Originally Posted by REXDEX
Happy Holidays!
Air Traffic Controller at Newark International.
Air Traffic Controller at Newark International.
Any way I use to own a 93 MB Touring until I got cut off on the freeway and slamed into a rock wall Before that I owned and sold a 90 TII, 87 Sport Couple and my first car a 85 base FB
Currently I work at a hospital in the pharmacy dept. But not for long when I attend college real soon.