The Steel Guitar Forum

Gary are them things donuts and/or bagels? Do you bake or do you own a donut shop? If so, you should look into getting a Tim Hortons franchise. Best donuts in North America, ditto for the coffee

Bent, our product is nothing more than a donut dipped in cement, thus, a finished product known as bagels. You can't schemere a donut as I suggest in my earlier post
BTW, my only experience with the oven is turning the sucker on whilst the morning bake off guy is enjoying a half of naughty head chased with a bumper of Old English.

I've been in the telecommunications public network equipment business for 27 years. Assorted Technical, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management jobs. Today I sell large battery back-up systems to AT&T, Verizon, Embarq, etc. Simply put, we are the reason your phone still works when the lights go off. So NO, I can’t get you a deal on a new cell phone battery.

Seriously, I really admire the pro guys who say (I’m paraphrasing here) “I always knew I just wanted to be a musician” etc. I’m looking at 50 in a few months and still am not sure what I want to be when I grow up.

Correction officer for NY State. I did make a living as an entertainer, at one time, playing 5/6 nights a week. Had 45 yrs. playing for audiences. I have time now, to record my own original material and get some air play. Two more years to retire-yahoo!

I've been a swimming pool contractor for the past 26 years. Prior to that I made my living playing steel guitar for several years in the Philly/South Jersey area. I'm back to playing for the first time in about 20 years or so and really enjoying it a lot. This forum is really amazing!

For over forty years.......

I've done nothing for 35 years except play the steel guitar and wrangle software. I played steel for 10 years from age 18-27, then went back to school (in computer science) and did software development for 10 more. I combined doing software development at a small software company in Redmond, WA with playing steel for a while, then did nothing but music from 2000 till 2005. Since then I'm back to mixing the software thing with music. My latest gig was doing program management for this site
Microsoft Virtual Earth

I'm moving to a work situation where I can write code for a minimal amount of time, and make a ridiculous amount of money with which to support my music habit.

I work at Intel, making the computer chips that allow you to read this forum, record, play games send e-mail etc. (Unless of course you have an @#D processor?)


Dom Franco

Retired Railroad Detective/Law Enforcement Officer.

Dom Franco writes: "I work at Intel making the computer chips that allow you to read this forum, record, play games send e-mail etc.(unless of course you have an @#D processor?)"

Oh, Dom! I have AMD co-processors in both my pcs. Could that be another reason why I play so bad?

LW

Retired USAF, 1988-2003 computer stuff, 2004-2005 poker afficiando in Las Vegas, NV. Now working at a resort/hotel at the West end of Lake Ave in Colorado Springs. Several steel players have stayed at the hotel/resort but I haven't met any of them yet. Please let me know if you drop by.

Sherman

Dan T
I looked up your Virtual Earth and it is awesome! Something like Google Earth but the pictures are of course way higher quality.
I found Bobbe's store...Cool

I'm a CPA. Yeah my life is about to suck for four months.

I am a senior software test engineer for a R & D company building Routers and high end network switches. We are part of an international company (cisco-like), and we develop all the new hardware and software features for the group! So like Dan, I get to earn heaps of dosh for little effort, so that I can be a bit more choosey about the gigs I play -- I have a degree in computer science and a diploma in Computer networking - for when the music scene is a bit quiet.I have swapped between playing full-time and this type of work for the last 30 years, and find a nice balance between studio session work, live gigs and my day job. About the only thing I don't do much of anymore is touring - but I've had my share of that. Besides, I can now afford to buy all the top end gear I could ever want (and trips to Dallas!!!!)