The Steel Guitar Forum

Dave Grothusen wrote:...A couple months ago I stood right on top of one the the big wind turbines and held on to the lightning rod. Good thing I was teathered.

Good thing a thunderstorm didn't brew up.

I spent 21 years teaching HS Biology and Chemistry also coaching all sports...football/track/baseball..
Retired from that and took a "real" job in the paper industry and worked in product development for 10 years...now am Sr chemist in analytical lab...good job..not as exciting as the prod-dev job...no travel...routine analytical stuff....

Been picking/grinning for 50 years...in HS..college..and other bands..rock n roll...country..religious/gospel...bluegrass...only started the bluegrass (dobro) in the last 3 years....love all sorts of music...hope to play lots of that when I retire....which I hope is pretty soon..
lots of interesting folks...and jobs on SGF..
mine is kind of dull...
oh well....

Jack Dougherty wrote:Retired pilot...Still at it though.
Now just trying to stay alive long enough to enjoy it all.

Play the occasional gig, but mostly a closet picker now.

hey jack...You know what they say..there are OLD pilots...and BOLD pilots....but no OLD ..BOLD pilots"
guess you are one of the "good old pilots"...
I love to fly....just never got to be a pilot..but I do admire those who fly my fat butt to all the neat places..............good luck...and keep on picking that geetar.....

I am a retired Chief of Police from Wisconsin. I attended the FBI National Academy, The US Treasury and The US Marshal's Academy. I am also a graduate of the Senior Police Institute. I have also served as a Deputy US Marshal.

I'm now retired and live in The Village, FL.

Law enforcement was good to me. It provided me with a goood way to raise my family. I have held interresting positions and recommed this career to anyone that is young and is willing to give what it takes to be a law enforcement officer. I have been permitted to meet people from all around the world.

Mark Hayes
The Villages, FL

I'm a registered Pharmacist and now I own a jewelry store. Wow, that's weird!
Jamie
www.southboroughjewelers.com

I might add that I too am a pilot and have a Cherokee 150 that I keep here at the farm. Fun way to be able to fly. That bio on Mickey Adams really makes me envious though.

Nebraska farm boy, high-school dropout, then welder, then over the road trucker. Then GED diploma. Then went back to University, got a degree and went to medical school, became a family doctor and now specialist in Hospice and Palliative Medicne. I spend about half my time in Romania, Russia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan teaching health care systems how to open hospices as part of their health care systems. Bought a lightweight GFI S-10 to lug around with me; D10 is too much work.
John

Retired deputy sheriff w/25 years from Florida, cabinet maker for a major boat company.

Police Sergeant- 23 years service. When I retire I will do something with music interests, maybe even my accordion
I have two other brothers actively in LE and an uncle/cousin retired FBI, G'pa was undersheriff in Canadian County, OK. I'm not sure Mom was real excited about having (3) of her four sons in LE however.
I really wanted to do something in aviation for a career!

Played Steel for a living for 7-8 years, got my ratings and flight instructed and flew charter/corp for a few years. In between flying jobs I got hooked up in the banking business which lasted for 10 years. Went off to Brewing school at UC Davis and have been brewing beer for a brewpub/restuarant here in Arlington TX for the last 14 years. Just started back playing steel in the last year and have been fortunate to pick up some fun steel jobs. Just wish there were more.

After a quarter-century on the road with groups, with music my career, I retrained as an English teacher. I then taught for 12 years in Indonesia, Kuwait, Poland, and UAE.

I now live in Rhode Island and have taught English and ESL for 8 years here. These days, I play country on pedal steel, and jazz on guitar. I also play saxophone in our college's (classical) ensemble.

I wouldn't trade my musical experiences in the 60s, 70s, and 80s for anything, yet changing careers (at 45) was a good move.

Chris

When you see the statistics for "underemployed", that's me. The talking heads think it's bad to be underemployed. Myself, I'm really enjoying it. I don't think I'll ever go back to being a full time company man. Too stressful.

What's my job? You're looking at it.

Austin,I'm a locomotive engineer for Norfolk Southern R.R. in southwestern Pa. I haul coal from the mines around northern West va. and south west pa.,to just south of Pittsburgh Pa.

I work for corporate america sitting in a cubicle and taking orders from people half my age. It is a waste of my time and energy and i despise it but i need to pay the bills

Deliver new heavy trucks from mfg. to dealer. Stack them up piggyback style , take'em across country and sit them on the ground. The hard part is flying back. Airline's are a pain now !!

well Austin, I have been in the truck business for 31 years! Selling Navistar's, Peterbilt's, Kenworth's, Volvo's and Freightliner's! I started my own dealership in 1999 and was to become a millionare in 3 years! Opened 2 more location's and by 2003 i had lost $1,619,000 in the dealership business!

Sold the three locations for almost break even and stayed on selling as the V.P. Fleet Sales for 8 locations which i still do today!

I travel on average 1400 miles a week!! Good thing is i listen to alot of steel CD's travelin! Without Tommy White, Lloyd Green, Buddy Emmons, Paul Franklin and Buck Reid i wouldn't be able to tarvel all those miles!

Want to buy a big truck?

Well Bud, do what makes you happy for you have to do it a long time.

I'm an avionics technician in the world of electronic warefare. Been at it off and on since 1968. Out motto is
"putting warheads on foreheads"

I started playing bass in a four piece band two years before I got out of high school. I played weekends straight for nearly twenty years. My first real paycheck (taxes paid) I detailed used cars. during my drinking, pot smoking, etc years, I got sick. I started my recovery by pitching hay bails --that lead to a job as a logger setting chokers in the woods. I spent many years as a logger until I was nearly killed. I went back to detailing autos but managed a small shop. I quit that job to become a garbage man (THE JOB i loved sooo MUCH until I was fired for totaling my truck)there were several short-lived jobs I enjoyed after that --Then I became a Process Development Technician for Hewlett Packard. After eleven year I took a voluntary severance deal and went to college for a computer science degree. I dropped when the money ran out. My wife and have, over the years have acquired ten breedable AKC registered Siberian Huskies; and with her manager job at Walmart and the sell of quality puppies, we've made ends meet. Our new venture is to take the kennel name of our dogs and incorporate it into a larger business. High volume high protein working class dog food, smoked jerky and bone treats for dogs, whelping boxes, dog houses, and a local hunter's game cooler with butchering and packaging. we want to start dog boarding, also. And, last but not least, I want to buy out the builder of the steel guitar I bought from a gentleman from this forum, with the help of my many engineering friends, improve on it, make it very exclusive and custom, and sell one of them to each of you (they will be beautiful and top-shelf quality). PM me if you are at all interested in our dogs or any of the other future products.

Chuck Hall wrote:Well Bud, do what makes you happy for you have to do it a long time.

I'm an avionics technician in the world of electronic warefare. Been at it off and on since 1968. Out motto is
"putting warheads on foreheads"

I bet osama bin ladin took one straight to the forehead on Tora Bora years ago and there wasn't enough of him left to find between the grains of sand

Tips Hat! thank you sir!

Retired after 27 years as an electrical engineer with IBM in hardware logic design as well as writing software at the machine level (Assembler) and at the application level (C language)...but am still running around the USA/World (Tokyo to Frankfurt) in my 33rd year of being a Challenge Level Square Dance Caller.

The last 26 years in local government - I'm a senior manager in Highways and parking. Lots of staff, big budgets and sometimes big headaches. (Especially when dealing with politicians)

Prior to that I was a pro musician for 17 years, gigging, doing sessions and teaching steel guitar. Happy days. Now a weekend warrior and sometimes a mid-week warrior too.

Commercial construction management but looking to get into work for NASA or one of its contractors. The time is upon us to build the next Saturn V.

Yet another software engineer over here, background in network security and HPC storage (hard drives for supercomputers), currently contracting in the agriculture industry. Also learning how to make western boots and embroidered cowboy suits. Setting up a custom westernwear design collective, have some really amazing people involved! No website for that yet. Used to be a film editor and 2D animator (among other things).

No computer tech or NASA work for this guy. I'm just a hard working House Builder. Self employed,
will build anything from a biggun to a shed house.
You just got to love what you do, and I love making
people happy in their new home. Then I STEEL some,
but have never been caught. Larry B.

I spent 7 years in the convenience store business. Decided it was too many hours, so I sold out. Then I spent 27 years in motel & 24 hr Restaurant. Retired 3 years ago, now its music, music, & music.
Wayne