What does Everybody do?

Mikaado! brothels!!! ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just retired, still quite an adjustment! molecular biology at a great company for 38 years. i miss work, and the people. i was watching "Elementary" on TV and noticed all the McIntosh gear he has, and decided to build a great system. somehow i found this forum.

i ended up asking a LOT of DUMB questions of Mike, who was always very nice. then i found out he ran this forum. i got to meet Mike last fall for a great dinner. from him i got my GREAT Triode corporation tube integrated amp and ASTOUNDING Harbeth speakers. also two REL subs. this is a GREAT forum, run by a GREAT guy and very intelligent and helpful members. highlights include Mike himself, shark mouth, jade david and especially JDandy. many thanks guys!! best regards, Bob:hey:
 
Active Duty U.S. Navy for 25 years. Am a Head & Neck Pathologist and Forensic Odontologist...basically look at biopsies and identify casualties by dental comparisons. Thankfully, the former skills are being used a lot more often than the latter.
 
Retired in 2007 (I was a Fed in DC). Currently, add chlorine tabs to the pool every now and then. Other main hobbies besides audio and live music include motorcycling and working out at the gym. Enjoy going to brewpubs with family and also watching my grandkids grow up. I read a few sites and learn something every now and again. I like to post up what music I listen to sometimes. We have some good people on this site. Life is good.
 
I'm a baby. 33 years old and taught high school math until last year when I quit to focus on AudioThesis full time. I got into teaching and my entire life fell apart... literally. My first wife passed away during my second year of teaching and I've struggled to find the purpose of teaching again. AudioThesis keeps me grounded as my favorite thing in this hobby is introducing people to new gear that I fall in love with. The fact that I can maintain enough income combined with survivors benefits to make it work is something I don't take for granted.

Technically, I'm more stay at home dad right now as I have three young kids to take care of.
 
retired specialist nurse in NHS , miss it a lot but the hours were getting horrendous and constant fear of being sued drummed into you . now involved in property and supporting folks in their own homes . great forum this although some of the gear i am not familiar with as US based but still very interesting . family have banned me from talking about speakers as i am rather nuts about them so i come on here and you guys don`t mind !!!
 
retired a few years now from a 30-year wall street career. i now have a mix of projects in progress which keep me sane and out of trouble. retirement was a change that ultimately required me to accept that now having reached the other side of the ocean, there is no going back and the ships must be burnt! so, i am well along in the process of dismantling my former life and ruthlessly discarding anything unneeded in the new world.

in a few years, we will set out to a new and very different location from which to continue rebooting and for the adventure of it. our collective list of locations is long but the overlap is small... so, maybe we start working our way down the list and stay when it feels like home.

one of the projects has been to upgrade my audio system which is how i came across this forum - thanks so much to mike and everyone else here for making it such a great place. i enjoy every aspect here - technology, gear, music discovery, etc.

an analog photography forum is the only other one i actively participate in.
 
Electrician. Still working. Own my own business. Wife really makes the money. I am working on a new power delivery from the panel to all our gear. Just ordered some new wire. Currently run OFC cord from panel to a dist strip. By far exceeds NMB in the wall. Working on getting rid of all the plugs and receptacles. Were building a formula sports car here, right.
 
I'm a 43 year old maintenance planner at a pharmaceutical company. I make sure that equipment (scales, pipettes, analytical equipment) and utilities (HVAC, PSG, PW etc) gets their maintenance, calibration or validation in time. I've been doing this for about 13years. I have been into audio for about 15 years. Maybe one day I might like to work in audio. When I'm 50-60ish. The current shop owner is in his 60s and might retire in 10-20 years.

I live in a Leyden.

The job is not exciting but it pays the bill. Will probably retire in 25 years, will have worked for 45 years. If retirement still exists around that time.

Girlfriend since 2001, no children (by choice).
 
I tried retirement in 2007 for 4 months, drove myself crazy, my wife even crazier and my 3 dogs even crazier. They all kicked me out of the house and told me to go back to work. Retirement was the toughest job I ever had.

I may try retirement again in a couple of years as I just turned 65 and just had twin (boy and girl) grandchildren. However, my wife wants to be near the grandkids in NYC. There lies the rub! I clawed my way out of that place in 87 having grown up there, gone to med school and did my residency there and couldn't wait to get out. I break out in cold sweats every time the plane approaches LaGuardia or JFK. The only thing worse than flying into NY is trying to get out.
 
One thing's for sure, with this hobby, I am sure I will never retire.
 
Retired in 2011 after 29 years as a Firefighter/Paramedic. I am so happy now that I can totally focus on my audio and video hobby. I'll hit sixty in December. I'm waiting for grandchildren. I witnessed my neighbor sell his house per his wife and move out of state chasing their grandchildren. :disbelief:
 
very interesting - I would have assumed more doctors and lawyers on the forum.

As for me? I'm a private equity analyst for distressed municipal bonds. Market junkie on the side.
 
Priaptor said:
I tried retirement in 2007 for 4 months, drove myself crazy, my wife even crazier and my 3 dogs even crazier. They all kicked me out of the house and told me to go back to work. Retirement was the toughest job I ever had.

I may try retirement again in a couple of years as I just turned 65 and just had twin (boy and girl) grandchildren. However, my wife wants to be near the grandkids in NYC. There lies the rub! I clawed my way out of that place in 87 having grown up there, gone to med school and did my residency there and couldn't wait to get out. I break out in cold sweats every time the plane approaches LaGuardia or JFK. The only thing worse than flying into NY is trying to get out.
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I don't blame you for not wanting to go back to live in NYC. I grew up in Brooklyn and escaped in 1976 by going to college and medical school at Oklahoma State. While I love going back to visit, see the Yankees and dine on the wonderful food, I could never live there.

I am in the same boat, I could retire now but would go crazy. Maybe I will in 5 years so I can move someplace warmer or where ever my kids settle.
 
Mechnutt said:
I don't blame you for not wanting to go back to live in NYC. I grew up in Brooklyn and escaped in 1976 by going to college and medical school at Oklahoma State. While I love going back to visit, see the Yankees and dine on the wonderful food, I could never live there.

I am in the same boat, I could retire now but would go crazy. Maybe I will in 5 years so I can move someplace warmer or where ever my kids settle.
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YUP, I grew up in Brooklyn. On Glenwood Road in a crappy apt across the street from Midwood HS. Amazing what that crappy apartment is now going for. I never knew I grew up in a such a fancy neighborhood.
 
I retired in 2012 to take care of my wife, who passed away a year ago.

Enjoyed reading this thread.
 
I am 52 years old, when I was 20 moved from Seoul,Korea to Canada than when 1991 I moved to New York city and started work retail sector till 1997 than
started my business.
Around 2015 my father diagnosed with Alzheimers so moved back to Canada, Montreal and he passed away 2016 since than I taking care my old mother and niece.
My Audio journey started early teen, my family owned good system in Korea after my first savings from job I bought pair of B&W 801 Matrix 3 and Krell amp with
Well tempered reference turntable after 20 something years still love music and audio stuff. Its life long journey.
 
Priaptor said:
YUP, I grew up in Brooklyn. On Glenwood Road in a crappy apt across the street from Midwood HS. Amazing what that crappy apartment is now going for. I never knew I grew up in a such a fancy neighborhood.
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Wow, we were practically neighbors. I lived at 57th St. between Ave J and K. Went to South Shore H.S., the largest school in the country at the time and graduated in 76'. I remember running the 440 and 880 in track meets at Midwood H.S. on its unpaved track. I spent most of my time running track, playing basketball and stick ball. We did not own our house, we rented the downstairs of a 2 family row house. Those houses sold for $11,000 back in the early 1960's and are now going for $700,000 or so.

Larry
 
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