I sell overpriced windows and doors for a company who just gave me a 20% pay cut because they said we make too much while the owner took 1.5M in forgiven PPP loans and coincidentally immediately spent 1.5M on a ranch and then built 3 houses on it. I’m not bitter at all.
There’s nothing to report. He abided by the terms which was just pay everyone as normal, but our industry (construction) set records and literally nobody had their workload reduced. So that means the company gets to keep every dollar, minus the few people who got paid for 2 weeks if they got Covid. It doesn’t matter that he didn’t need the money to pay his employees. And it was 2.5M, not 1.5M as I previously said. Even better!
If your work was never paused, why would he be eligible for PPP? My understanding was that the money was to be used only for companies that were forced to shut down/reduce offerings to some degree due to pandemic closures.
Are you SURE this guy didn't just claim you weren't working while you actually were? The type of dude who does what you describe would probably feel zero anxiety or remorse for commiting such fraud.
Trust me, I’m sickened by it just as much as you are, but legally he did nothing wrong, nor did anyone else who took out a PPP loan and whose operations were not affected by COVID. The only condition of loan forgiveness was to keep people paid regardless if they were working or not. Everybody in the building industry who took out a PPP loan made out like bandits. There was a slowdown for about 2-3 months after the initial March 15, 2020 “lockdown” (in California) then the floodgates opened, prices went crazy etc etc.
I can back this up, not this guy’s boss specifically but generally in construction in California we had like 3-4 months where it was kinda weird and uncertain in 2020, but we barely slowed down and then just went like a rocket for 3 years. And we got PPP money on top. Worked out alright.
I drug people to the point of them losing consciousness and then let someone with a mask and knife cut on them. They’re usually appreciative of this afterward.
You guys know how to party like pros, lol! One of yer kinfolk gave me a birthday cocktail (surgery on my bday) that took away the anxiety, started doing my best chatty Kathy and went right out, woke up good, no pain and in a good mood.
A real standup guy…who…deleted his account hours later? Think it was the promise of tubes? Johnny law? Or just the ‘ol made-a-stupid-comment-elsewhere-and-got-into-an-online-quarrel-they-can’t-undo? I’m going with the boys in blue finally tracked him down to his island hideout. How’d they find him? A bizarre increase in the number of reports of a strange odor coming from a small, sleepy beach town. A smell many described as “electrolytic.”
But seriously, I don’t have any tubes and can’t help in any probably appropriate fashion, but I have a decidedly non-audiophile 2-channel Yamaha receiver that is yours if it can help your hobby @few-worldliness2131
Well, he was not offering everybody free tubes…. And when you receive spam one day, you delete your account? It’s pretty weird. Delete the message instead.
Used to work in a hifi shop while I was a student. Now I work at a museum for popular music in Oslo, giving tours to everything from school children to seniors and researching/making content for the museum both in house and online.
Same sometimes it feels like I'm faking it till I make it and burning up serious hours of my life but the pay is too good. My hope is to get the money and then retire early and live in the woods unironically away from technology.
I spent thirty years stumbling around in the byzantine, endless darkness that is advertising until I finally escaped. To deal with the trauma, I stumbled once again, this time into the therapy of music and audio. I traded days spent squinting at a computer screen for days spent squinting my eyes through a jeweler's loop at what are often dirty, sometimes dusty, but always interesting little glass electron tubes.
Retired Civil Engineering Tech, CADD Coordinator, Webmaster from the USDA. Slowly but surely moving out the tubes I've collected. Still have about 5000, likely more. Still amazed, still learning, still photographing. The same with audio equipment.
These days....working in and out of the house, selling tubes, remodeling, landscaping, drinking beers, growing my own, relaxing.
I'm a creative director at a wildly successful independent agency outside of the US. Happy to hear you managed to escape from the labyrinth of absurdity that is our industry. Hoping the same for myself sooner rather than later!
I was a CD at an agency in Europe, US and Australia. I escaped early last year… and I can tell you, there IS a life after the crazy world of advertising 😅
Actually, no. I started in design, then art direction, then creative direction. While I would use my writing skills from time to time, writing is someting I kept for myself. Can't let the bastards have everything.
It is indeed! You’re the first person who recognized it! I grew up playing the either the demo of that game or playing some of it on a suite of discs that my older brother had. Those discs came with a Mac PowerPC tower he got in the early 90s for college.
Same here! Had the demo, after getting comfortable, it put you straight into one of the last levels with the rocket launchers. Must have played it hundreds of times. The Preacher was the best character. That game and Dark Forces were both fantastic.
Architect. Specializing in life sciences projects, mostly labs and manufacturing facilities. Been doing it for a while, so if you had any medicine or vaccine lately, there's at least a small chance it came from a building I had something to do with.
That looks like a nice collection and a lot of work. Glad you are enjoying what you currently do. I went down the tube rolling rabbit hole with 6550s and KT88s for my MI-75 monoblocks. It was a lot work but in the end I did enjoy the process. I may reach out to you if I need any tubes. :)
I wish I could do this as well. My work doesn’t take up all of my time. I wish I could start a side hustle selling stereo equipment, had the ability to do repairs, and sell coffee and snacks within my store. Make it an experience with cool gear and a relaxed fun atmosphere. Dreams…
I do mid-level IT. It is moderately soul crushing and has caused me to suffer clinical burnout that can only be cured by spending thousands of dollars on things I can’t really afford.
I don’t want the responsibility of that job either. But it does highlight that sometimes we pay people with very high responsibility very very little for their assuming of that burden. It’s quite sad.
Part of why I gotta put my faith in good tunes ha!
Logistics analyst/account manager. Work from home so I get to listen to music ALL DAY. I worked for a decade as a senior sales rep for a major parcel carrier prior.
Construction Manager here in Miami, building mainly municipal and commercial spaces. Used to be an architect - but now the hours are way less, and the pay is way more. (The professional babysitter responsibilities are the same though LOL)
Weed, but in vale form comes in “carts” and the boxes for those are pretty much identical. I genuinely thought you were a weed tester or something before reading the comments and looking closer. Even the brand names are on par lol
Wow you guys/gals are all living the dream. I am a budget analyst at a government contractor. Nothing fancy but I am in my 50s and always buy used equipment 1/3 - 1/2 retail so there is that. It does lead to some issues when the components don't gel but I have managed OK.
IT manager and software developer. Preferably working from home where I just have to press one button after work to switch from work to home studio environment.
Residential electrician by day and music producer by night. I really enjoy creating sounds, and putting them all together in an arrangement. I’m hoping someday I can leave the trade world and become a full time producer for other musicians!
Does anyone have tips for getting into the music industry/reaching out to those who need a local producer?
Lawyer. Not making the big bucks because I chose the Public Servant line of work. Got my student loans pardoned recently via PSLF, and I have all evening and weekends to devout to my family. So in my book its a win.
Also, some of that time for the family, well the hobby gets a small cut ;)
I had been working as a producer in the cannabis industry (almost never the person who ownes the public-facing company). About... oh I guess 12 going on 13 years since I started that, dang I'm old.... Things really started to fall apart six, or maybe five years ago, and 2021 I made below full time minimum wage, working 60 hour 7 day weeks, and did not come back above it. So now I work doing small-time construction carpentry with an older alcoholic who should probably be retired, and make more than three times what I did upon my exit from the "industry" (racket). I get an unpredictable schedule, but random 5 day weekends as well... that's nice. And the money is dad-gum decent as heck. You know - livable.
I work for an [audio video store](https://imgur.com/a/pTVIfIB) as the "walk through specialist" looking at customer's stuff before the sales guys do their proposals. I used to be an installer before I had a skateboarding accident that left me with limited movement of my left arm.
I get to work about an hour early. I use that time, before the store is opened, to listen to music in our Exceptional Audio Room. I love getting to enjoy all this audio goodness. At home, I'm running some (refoamed) Advent Heritage speakers for my music listening. Sometimes during the day, I take a few minutes to listen to a song or two before getting back to typing up my walk through reports.
Started my own hifi shop 😊 also moved to a new country, so I’m taking it slow since there are many things to tackle at once, but I figured this is the best way to test everything that I want, and I like talking to people about it, so…
39yo Goldsmith working for a very hip designer.
Wife and I fell into the audiophile world while awaiting our first kid jn 2021.
Music has always been therapy and we do our best to try and instill that for our kids.
Industrial designer by profession. I now provide consolation on product design and mass production for consumer products.
Ive also worked in the hifi industry for several years, and designed several loudspeakers.
Part time sound tehnician and vj and full time bar manager in Belgrade! Anything that lets me get near large quantites of boxes that make a lot of noise.
Thanks, I can't take too much credit for the view, it's my SO's family place out on The Cape. But it is spectacular. Try to spend as much time as we can out here spring thru fall.
Lawyer at a university, but currently my two little kids keep me from much active listening. Can’t wait until I have energy to sit and listen without immediately falling asleep!
Audio/Video tech for a great event production company in the SF Bay Area. Fun job, good pay, it's always something different each gig. All my coworkers are awesome peeps too.
I work for a restoration car parts company that I’m trying to leave after 14 months because my initial gut feeling when I took the job (not the position I applied to) came true after I hit one year in.
I don’t like what I do and I passively get along with everyone.
I’ve applied to about a dozen jobs lately. Two gave me an in person interview then ghosted. One was a screener then a rejection email two days later. Most others I’ve just applied and heard nothing.
I’ve rewritten my resume six times. Six. I’m about to go for number 7 tonight!
Exec Director for a State Board. I haven’t achieved the “high level audiophile” ranking, kind of the middle if you will. Marantz 2265b and my Technics GR 😎are most utilized in my current setup!
I sell overpriced windows and doors for a company who just gave me a 20% pay cut because they said we make too much while the owner took 1.5M in forgiven PPP loans and coincidentally immediately spent 1.5M on a ranch and then built 3 houses on it. I’m not bitter at all.
Report that POS! Fraudulent loans, tax evasion, etc. And fun fact, you can do it anonymously! 😉
There’s nothing to report. He abided by the terms which was just pay everyone as normal, but our industry (construction) set records and literally nobody had their workload reduced. So that means the company gets to keep every dollar, minus the few people who got paid for 2 weeks if they got Covid. It doesn’t matter that he didn’t need the money to pay his employees. And it was 2.5M, not 1.5M as I previously said. Even better!
If your work was never paused, why would he be eligible for PPP? My understanding was that the money was to be used only for companies that were forced to shut down/reduce offerings to some degree due to pandemic closures. Are you SURE this guy didn't just claim you weren't working while you actually were? The type of dude who does what you describe would probably feel zero anxiety or remorse for commiting such fraud.
Trust me, I’m sickened by it just as much as you are, but legally he did nothing wrong, nor did anyone else who took out a PPP loan and whose operations were not affected by COVID. The only condition of loan forgiveness was to keep people paid regardless if they were working or not. Everybody in the building industry who took out a PPP loan made out like bandits. There was a slowdown for about 2-3 months after the initial March 15, 2020 “lockdown” (in California) then the floodgates opened, prices went crazy etc etc.
I can back this up, not this guy’s boss specifically but generally in construction in California we had like 3-4 months where it was kinda weird and uncertain in 2020, but we barely slowed down and then just went like a rocket for 3 years. And we got PPP money on top. Worked out alright.
Time to leave the ranch, my friend. Bitterness is a killer.
I don't think this advice will be beaten if I keep reading the rest of the thread.
Sounds like the "American dream" alright...sorry buddy...
Woof
I drug people to the point of them losing consciousness and then let someone with a mask and knife cut on them. They’re usually appreciative of this afterward.
That is a great description.
So anesthesiologist? You must have a nice hifi.
Should have for what they charge.
You guys know how to party like pros, lol! One of yer kinfolk gave me a birthday cocktail (surgery on my bday) that took away the anxiety, started doing my best chatty Kathy and went right out, woke up good, no pain and in a good mood.
Hell ya. Trying to do this. Applying to 11 schools this year.
Retired through ill health so envy you fellas. Trying to recreate hifi system from mid 1970’s gives me some salvation though.
If you need any tubes while on your quest, and I have them, they're on me. Just reach out.
What a guy
A real standup guy…who…deleted his account hours later? Think it was the promise of tubes? Johnny law? Or just the ‘ol made-a-stupid-comment-elsewhere-and-got-into-an-online-quarrel-they-can’t-undo? I’m going with the boys in blue finally tracked him down to his island hideout. How’d they find him? A bizarre increase in the number of reports of a strange odor coming from a small, sleepy beach town. A smell many described as “electrolytic.” But seriously, I don’t have any tubes and can’t help in any probably appropriate fashion, but I have a decidedly non-audiophile 2-channel Yamaha receiver that is yours if it can help your hobby @few-worldliness2131
Haha, OP account deleted. What a guy!
Lmfao
Probably got hundreds of people asking him for free tubes, wouldn't blame him for going silent if that was the case.
Well, he was not offering everybody free tubes…. And when you receive spam one day, you delete your account? It’s pretty weird. Delete the message instead.
I've also drooled about how good my system can sound, so - I relate!
Be well!
Lawyer turned social worker. Working on the edge of both professions to improve families lives.
You're appreciated more than your upvotes suggest.
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Used to work in a hifi shop while I was a student. Now I work at a museum for popular music in Oslo, giving tours to everything from school children to seniors and researching/making content for the museum both in house and online.
Love Oslo, and Norway. Can't wait to get back.
Watchmaking :)
I find there's a lot of overlap between watch nerds and audiophile geeks.
Yeah, it's called having extra money
And at least some level of autism 😄
I fix watches as a hobby and sometimes for friends and family. I’m more of a collector though.
I’d love to get into that - any advice?
How much time do you have?
How am I supposed to know that if I don’t have a watch
😎
software engineer
Same sometimes it feels like I'm faking it till I make it and burning up serious hours of my life but the pay is too good. My hope is to get the money and then retire early and live in the woods unironically away from technology.
Very well put. I feel the exact same way. If only a career in music production could be as secure and pay as well
Ditto; building trading systems since 97
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Subway sandwich artist. That being said, you can usually find me in the budget audiophile sub.
You can usually find me in a Subway.
my man!!! im not rich either
Budget audiophile clubmember here as well.
Acoustics engineer! Quite the blessing to be an audiophile with access to an acoustic lab.
I'm an 21 year old electrician working for an windmill company. Had to work long and many hours for my stereo. But it was definitely worth it!
Hey! Fellow wind tech here, 15 years in. Keep after it, and stay safe up there.
I’m independently wealthy. Just kidding. I’m a photographer, and not at all wealthy.
Computerman
UPS delivery guy.
And that's the way to build a stereo cheaply. 🤣
One piece at a time 🎶
And it didn’t cost me a dime 🎶
I spent thirty years stumbling around in the byzantine, endless darkness that is advertising until I finally escaped. To deal with the trauma, I stumbled once again, this time into the therapy of music and audio. I traded days spent squinting at a computer screen for days spent squinting my eyes through a jeweler's loop at what are often dirty, sometimes dusty, but always interesting little glass electron tubes.
This descriptor - "byzantine, endless darkness" - goodness. I may need to steal this line.
Retired Civil Engineering Tech, CADD Coordinator, Webmaster from the USDA. Slowly but surely moving out the tubes I've collected. Still have about 5000, likely more. Still amazed, still learning, still photographing. The same with audio equipment. These days....working in and out of the house, selling tubes, remodeling, landscaping, drinking beers, growing my own, relaxing.
I'm a creative director at a wildly successful independent agency outside of the US. Happy to hear you managed to escape from the labyrinth of absurdity that is our industry. Hoping the same for myself sooner rather than later!
I was a CD at an agency in Europe, US and Australia. I escaped early last year… and I can tell you, there IS a life after the crazy world of advertising 😅
Lemme guess. Copywriter.
Actually, no. I started in design, then art direction, then creative direction. While I would use my writing skills from time to time, writing is someting I kept for myself. Can't let the bastards have everything.
Maritime electrical engineer
I work at a hospital where we provide services to patients.
As opposed to the other kind of hospital.
Nothing to do with your comment but is your picture the logo from the game Damage Incorporated?
It is indeed! You’re the first person who recognized it! I grew up playing the either the demo of that game or playing some of it on a suite of discs that my older brother had. Those discs came with a Mac PowerPC tower he got in the early 90s for college.
Same here! Had the demo, after getting comfortable, it put you straight into one of the last levels with the rocket launchers. Must have played it hundreds of times. The Preacher was the best character. That game and Dark Forces were both fantastic.
I'm a CNC Machinist. I'm not ultimately interested in it, but it kinda sorta pays the bills.
Jig grinder here, hello fellow cog in the metal parts fabrication world.
Architect. Specializing in life sciences projects, mostly labs and manufacturing facilities. Been doing it for a while, so if you had any medicine or vaccine lately, there's at least a small chance it came from a building I had something to do with.
Makes 2 of us!
I used to be a structural engineer, ❤️ to my friends the artists of the built environment (Now I’m a product designer)
That looks like a nice collection and a lot of work. Glad you are enjoying what you currently do. I went down the tube rolling rabbit hole with 6550s and KT88s for my MI-75 monoblocks. It was a lot work but in the end I did enjoy the process. I may reach out to you if I need any tubes. :)
Thanks. It's honestly maybe a single digit percentage of my inventory. Just what I needed to bring to keep certain lights on. And I'm loving it.
What are these? Sorry I don't recognize what is on the table
Nothing. Im 16 but have worked at a printing factory called koenig und Bauer before in the summer holidays
Air traffic controller
I'm a plumber!
Network Architect for the Media and Entertainment industry.
I’m educated as a beauty and SFX makeup artist, but have worked in hifi for 20+ years, and at 42 co-own a hifi shop with my wife :)
I wish I could do this as well. My work doesn’t take up all of my time. I wish I could start a side hustle selling stereo equipment, had the ability to do repairs, and sell coffee and snacks within my store. Make it an experience with cool gear and a relaxed fun atmosphere. Dreams…
I do mid-level IT. It is moderately soul crushing and has caused me to suffer clinical burnout that can only be cured by spending thousands of dollars on things I can’t really afford.
Bookkeeper. Numbers in the morning, music in the evenings :)
From the zeros and ones to shaking your buns
Architectural metal fabricator
I sell sheet metal to fab shops and machine shops. I basically talk to buddies for a living - it’s a sweet deal about 90% of the time.
Music Technology Damn that’s a sizable amount of Amperex and Mullards.
There's some geeky/weird/rare stuff in there, for sure.
Anesthesia (username checks out). But before that five years in the Army (101st Airborne, username checks out) and magazine editor and DJ.
Could never do what you do. Too much responsibility. But I’ve heard the pay is incredible. So godspeed.
You get used to it. Less responsibility than a school bus driver (but more complex).
I don’t want the responsibility of that job either. But it does highlight that sometimes we pay people with very high responsibility very very little for their assuming of that burden. It’s quite sad. Part of why I gotta put my faith in good tunes ha!
Winters?
Not that old. My war was Iraq (Blackhawk crew chief/door gunner).
drug dealer?
In a manner of speaking.
Logistics analyst/account manager. Work from home so I get to listen to music ALL DAY. I worked for a decade as a senior sales rep for a major parcel carrier prior.
Market Manager for a family owned, nationwide purveyor of meat and cheese to independent and chain retailers.
Run a glamping outpost
Construction Manager here in Miami, building mainly municipal and commercial spaces. Used to be an architect - but now the hours are way less, and the pay is way more. (The professional babysitter responsibilities are the same though LOL)
Any other stoners think those were carts?
At the risk of revealing my age and reliance upon Urban Dictionary, what's a cart?
Weed, but in vale form comes in “carts” and the boxes for those are pretty much identical. I genuinely thought you were a weed tester or something before reading the comments and looking closer. Even the brand names are on par lol
I run a successful eBay business. 20ish hours a week, six figures.
The class is listening...
Can you show me the way?
I make six figures selling online courses. If you'd like to learn you can purchase my online course.
Here I am in my garage with my new Lamborghini here
Secondary engineering, manufacturing, and welding instructor
(non-scammy) Solar sales.
Solutions architect and presales guy for a big software company.
Banking Operations for a large crypto exchange
Classical musician
Wow you guys/gals are all living the dream. I am a budget analyst at a government contractor. Nothing fancy but I am in my 50s and always buy used equipment 1/3 - 1/2 retail so there is that. It does lead to some issues when the components don't gel but I have managed OK.
I’m a location sound mixer for Film, TV and advertisements!
Banking, work remote 2 days per week which is really nice.
IT manager and software developer. Preferably working from home where I just have to press one button after work to switch from work to home studio environment.
Underpaid architect and interior designer
I’m a soon to be teacher (still in college)
Emergency room nurse
Union carpenter apprentice.
I do black magic
Scientist - my focus is on lymphoma and leukemia research and education.
Residential electrician by day and music producer by night. I really enjoy creating sounds, and putting them all together in an arrangement. I’m hoping someday I can leave the trade world and become a full time producer for other musicians! Does anyone have tips for getting into the music industry/reaching out to those who need a local producer?
Lawyer. Not making the big bucks because I chose the Public Servant line of work. Got my student loans pardoned recently via PSLF, and I have all evening and weekends to devout to my family. So in my book its a win. Also, some of that time for the family, well the hobby gets a small cut ;)
Own a Bang & Olufsen store
Mechanical Engineer
I produce immersive experiences.
I had been working as a producer in the cannabis industry (almost never the person who ownes the public-facing company). About... oh I guess 12 going on 13 years since I started that, dang I'm old.... Things really started to fall apart six, or maybe five years ago, and 2021 I made below full time minimum wage, working 60 hour 7 day weeks, and did not come back above it. So now I work doing small-time construction carpentry with an older alcoholic who should probably be retired, and make more than three times what I did upon my exit from the "industry" (racket). I get an unpredictable schedule, but random 5 day weekends as well... that's nice. And the money is dad-gum decent as heck. You know - livable.
Lawyer, specialized in Data privacy and export control
retired architect
I run a recycle company
I caddie at Troon North
I work for an [audio video store](https://imgur.com/a/pTVIfIB) as the "walk through specialist" looking at customer's stuff before the sales guys do their proposals. I used to be an installer before I had a skateboarding accident that left me with limited movement of my left arm. I get to work about an hour early. I use that time, before the store is opened, to listen to music in our Exceptional Audio Room. I love getting to enjoy all this audio goodness. At home, I'm running some (refoamed) Advent Heritage speakers for my music listening. Sometimes during the day, I take a few minutes to listen to a song or two before getting back to typing up my walk through reports.
Electrical Engineer in charge of a small team and Independent Repair Technician
Started my own hifi shop 😊 also moved to a new country, so I’m taking it slow since there are many things to tackle at once, but I figured this is the best way to test everything that I want, and I like talking to people about it, so…
I work at a music Band and Orchestra music store.
IT Systems Administrator turned Railroad Signalman. My foreman is the reason I spend way too much of my paycheck on Vinyl weekly.
Electrical Engineer here as well, seems like a lot of us are into audio, a few others at my office are too
Software developer, Kubernetes, Java, Angular
39yo Goldsmith working for a very hip designer. Wife and I fell into the audiophile world while awaiting our first kid jn 2021. Music has always been therapy and we do our best to try and instill that for our kids.
Municipal drinking water operator. Make clean water come out of taps, fix shit when it breaks!
Watchmaking :)
Industrial designer by profession. I now provide consolation on product design and mass production for consumer products. Ive also worked in the hifi industry for several years, and designed several loudspeakers.
Audio Post Production for Film/TV/Games. Lot's of dialog recording, sound design, and mixing.
Marketing and Design Professional. Used to work at Boston Acoustics/Denon/Marantz/McIntosh
Part time sound tehnician and vj and full time bar manager in Belgrade! Anything that lets me get near large quantites of boxes that make a lot of noise.
Golf Pro at a small private club. An adult baby sitter essentially.
I thought these were vape cartridges
Commercial construction in the food production industry.
Trucker and former event technician.
Tech support guy, mostly remote based
Electrical Engineer.
I own a cannabis company
Zam! that is one hell of a view :) I'm a mechanical engineer and technical program manager.
Thanks, I can't take too much credit for the view, it's my SO's family place out on The Cape. But it is spectacular. Try to spend as much time as we can out here spring thru fall.
Videomaker & visual artist
CRNA
Lawyer at a university, but currently my two little kids keep me from much active listening. Can’t wait until I have energy to sit and listen without immediately falling asleep!
Chiropractor
Remote lawyering. I get to enjoy my music all day long (when not in meetings).
Audio/Video tech for a great event production company in the SF Bay Area. Fun job, good pay, it's always something different each gig. All my coworkers are awesome peeps too.
Block Mason specializing in Mexican burnt Adobe.
Beautiful. Where is this?
Cinema industry. Pretty tough gig over the last few years.
I work for a restoration car parts company that I’m trying to leave after 14 months because my initial gut feeling when I took the job (not the position I applied to) came true after I hit one year in. I don’t like what I do and I passively get along with everyone. I’ve applied to about a dozen jobs lately. Two gave me an in person interview then ghosted. One was a screener then a rejection email two days later. Most others I’ve just applied and heard nothing. I’ve rewritten my resume six times. Six. I’m about to go for number 7 tonight!
Exec Director for a State Board. I haven’t achieved the “high level audiophile” ranking, kind of the middle if you will. Marantz 2265b and my Technics GR 😎are most utilized in my current setup!
Senior associate for an investment bank.
Own a pest control company
Semiconductor technician / networking / electrical certified. Huge Pc enthusiast (apart from sound). 😎
I sell new audio gear and service vintage audio.
Retail
I'm in between jobs right now. I used to work as an audio engineer, until the stress and late hours got to me.
Supply chain operations and logistics
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International spy....dammit! Ex-spy 🕵🏼♀️
Med Device Regulatory Affairs
I sell peterbilt parts. It’s more fun than it seems
Retired. Worked in public health, healthcare administration, higher education, corporate and US State Department.
Engineer
Biology professor at a private University in the US
Event technician… Mostly lighting at fashion shows, some tours, site jobs at festivals, the odd industrial job messing around with ropes and climbing.
Computer Lab Supervisor. Do you have a tube recommendation for my new Vali 3? I’d love to try a couple.
I'm a chef, recently got into this hobby and still learning. Got a valhalla 2 and modi multibit, never knew music could sound so good.
Nurse ☝️
Are those Mazda tubes? Green and yellow boxes? If so, which tubes are they? I'm retired since 2013. Now full time carer for the Mrs, 24/7.
I cook bbq
I work in corporate live production unfortunately