What do you do ?

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  1. PGT

    PGT Wheel Whore

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    hope you take more time than my B.I. did with me :lol: he was writing down the correct answers before I even responded to his questions. :eek: I asked him at one point, "you want to just have me sign once you're done putting down my answers for me?"
     
  2. Justa Jim

    Justa Jim Well-Known Member
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    Depending on which agency requested your BI would determine who the investigator was. OPM uses young college grads primarily. If it had been me I would have put down what ever YOU said. :Thumbsup:

    Jim
     
  3. DIET SUV

    DIET SUV New Member

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    Cool and interesting jobs! I feel like some of us have a lot more in common than just MINI's.

    I own and run a small consulting group that provides creative services and brand development strategies. If you like to watch sports, play video games, or collect music/DVD packaging, chances are you've seen or touched my work. Over the past few years we have focused more on brand strategy, social media and music events. marrsgroup.com
     
  4. thirdraildesignlab

    thirdraildesignlab New Member

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    I was sort of stunned at one of my local runs, when, at a lunch stop, we discovered that several of the drivers in the convoy were fairly closely related by profession or interest. Just goes to show, when MINIs are involved, there's some good tatse there...
     
  5. Tron Chief

    Tron Chief "Need More Coffee"
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    US Navy Maintenance Master Chief with 28+ years active duty. Running a department of over 150 personnel who maintain 12 F/A-18C Hornet aircraft. One more UDP deployment next year and this chapter of my life will be over when I retire from the Navy with 30 years of service. Working on my MBA which will be done in mid 2011 taking two classes per term for the next three terms. In my spare time I hang out at custom mini shop in Fresno and I'm counting the days till the next AMVIV, May 19-22 in Las Vegas.
     
  6. YesIFit

    YesIFit New Member

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    #46 YesIFit, Sep 27, 2010
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    I'm an attorney, but work as an Investigator for the US Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. We investigate/audit all employer-sponsored benefit plans (health plans, pension plans, LTD, etc...) to make sure that employers are in compliance with ERISA.
     
  7. TGS91

    TGS91 New Member

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    Sales Rep for the last 25 years mostly in IT related companies, currently for a Critical Power and Cooling div of Schneider Electric

    Deeper dive. Large facility wide UPS systems that ensure your favorite website has continual power when the utility co doesn't, precision cooling for data centers, Power Distribution components for data centers, IT racks, Facility power management software.

    Constantly keeps me learning so never boring and pays for my MINI obsession, well allot of it
     
  8. JCC

    JCC New Member

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    #48 JCC, Sep 27, 2010
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    Installation Manager at a large commercial audio visual company

    I am the Installation Manager at a large commercial audio visual company with offices worldwide. The group I work with integrates operating rooms primarily for endoscopic surgery, but the rooms are used for lots of things. I have around 40 technicians who travel around North America.

    More often than not these rooms are connected together with a hub. Video conferencing is becoming more and more part of each OR or they share a videoconferencing codec using the hub. AV and IT have very much gotten closer together as I'm sure you IT folks know. We're currently doing a lot of work with Cisco who recently acquired Tandberg.

    I've been working with this group for what will be 10 years on November 6 this year. I started out a technician who knew little about AV other than how to hook up and set the time on a VCR and had a degree in electronics. I was leading projects before long and the opportunity came up to oversee the field installation technicians. I schedule them, book their travel and make sure the jobs get done. On schedule and under budget. You name the hospital and we've probably done work there.
     
  9. Justa Jim

    Justa Jim Well-Known Member
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    What type, may I ask? :confused5:

    Jim
     
  10. PGT

    PGT Wheel Whore

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    Square D?
     
  11. TGS91

    TGS91 New Member

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    APC - American Power Conversion

    Square D is our sister company
     
  12. PGT

    PGT Wheel Whore

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    ahh. we use both so :cornut:
     
  13. goaljnky

    goaljnky New Member

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    Hey, I have one at home. :aureola:
     
  14. TGS91

    TGS91 New Member

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    PGT and GoalJnky

    On behalf of the Schneider Electric companies, thanks! (and please buy some more) :devil:
     
  15. putterfarm

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    I'm a retired race car driver, doesn't everyone want to say that :D
    Actually I am. Started racing in '72 when I came home from W.W.Nam. Got my F.I.A. license in '76 until '86 when the economy went bad and the team lost it's sponsorships. I was a driving instructor for many years. From '86 til '93 I put teams together, was crew chief and team leader. I retired in'93 when my daughter was born and became a "Mr. Mom", something I'll always cherish :Thumbsup::cornut::cool:.
    I still play with cars, especially being involved with Group4 doing aerodynamics.

    Mark
     
  16. Nick5811

    Nick5811 New Member

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    Well paid security guard.

    Before that I was a not-so-well-paid security guard for the largest computer processor company that I can think of, prior to that I was a garrison MP in the Marine Corps (hence the 5811). Before that a coffee/smoothie assembly technician, and prior to that a movie theater usher/concessionaire.

    Still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. I better hurry though, since I'll be 30 soon. :confused5:
     
  17. Eric@Helix

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    It's no coincidence that there are a lot of people with design-heavy and creative jobs--architects, metalman. It's what I might expect from MINI owners.

    Many people know what I do: if not, check my sig, but I also am a part-time collegate soccer coach for Swarthmore College | | Men's Soccer. We are a very good Division three program at a top academic institution. This week we achieved our highest ever national ranking: 2 (out of more than 400 programs).
     
  18. BThayer23

    BThayer23 Well-Known Member

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    Division III athletics: the last bastion of amateur sports. Good stuff!
     
  19. quikmni

    quikmni Moderator

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    Aerospace Systems Engineer. Contractor for the USAF supporting the development and upgrade of Range Safety systems on the west and east coast. Range Safety systems track rockets to make sure they stay on course and can destroy the rocket up if it goes off course. Worked on many interesting programs over the years; such as Space Shuttle, B2 Bomber, and Titan Rocket.
     
  20. ScottinBend

    ScottinBend Space Cowboy
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    Wish I could say that too.......!

    So what teams were you associated with?
     

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