What's your real life?

I'm 18.

Full time homeschool high school senior, and I work part time at a photo studio doing various printing/assorted production work.

Not much else to say :p
 
And how does School Liason offiver (formerly known as School Attendance Officer sound)? A Magistrate gown (in Scotland) has been worn......
 
MAGLEVSX said:
All right Im 13 Ummmmmmmmmm
I LOVE DIRT BIKES
Dirt bikes
Dirt bikes
little More Dirt Bikes. (GETTING A Yamaha YZ 250 f 2009 for my birth day! yepee:) )

I Like to light stuff on fire.:p
I Learning how to make fire works.;)
I Like Death metal/Grind Core/Deathcore/(see me Sig)

I fly airplanes (Yes Thats true!)

I ride Yamaha wr 450 f:D
Im only 154 cm tall
I like to work for my dad (8 hours a week)
I LOVE MONEY!

Then Chicks yea there all right but I not getting a girlfriend they cost to much!:hehe:

And I build model airplanes and model trains.

And I Like kangaroos!

and Im doing good at school.:D

oh then Trainz.:hehe:

~Maglevsx~
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Why worry about chicks? They are... cheep!:hehe:...:eek:
 
Gah, yet another bloody gauntlet to go through.

I'm a smelly, slobbering coyote living in a cave with a laptop and a 15 mile CATV cable... oh wait, I just described a certain, well-known terrorist:eek:

I'm a not-so-smelly homeschooled Army brat living in West Germany with my family, not too far from Wiesbaden. In my spare time I read, go railfanning, play Trainz or Zusi (the best German railroad simulator ever, in my skewed opinion), or contemplate what to do with the rest of my time.

I work in FMK (see who can figure out what that means:hehe:) assembling bicycles on a part-time basis, I'm also something of an amateur photographer, though very amateur. I intend on going into the wonderful world of railroading as a career, namely as an engineer; whether I'll do this in West Germany or the United States remains to be seen.

I speak three languages: English, West German, and Pennsylvanian (don't ask). I'm 5 '11, wear size 13 US Army combat boots, and I like chicks, those sort of chicks to be more exact.

WileeCoyote:D
 
My Non-trainz life includes...

...working on my scooter (as in adding a bike dynamo,lights,battery lights and a trailer to it) (I Had a bike but it's too unreliable (as in repairing the tires every so often and fixing the chain if it comes off)), watching TV programs and playing with my friends.
 
robbiehanson said:
I'm 18.

Full time homeschool high school senior, and I work part time at a photo studio doing various printing/assorted production work.

Not much else to say :p
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I am also homeschooled! I am 15 and currently helping my dad in his machine shop to earn money for a. Car, etc. I have lived next to a coal line my whole life and I am spending time on a HO SCale model railway. Nothing much left to say! ;):D
 
Living in Belfast, I'm now a thoroughly disillusioned civil servant (having spent the majority of my working life in the private sector) tired of pandering to the needs of our inept, intellectually challenged, elected representatives. When I'm not doing that, it's Trainz and trains, simulated indoors and restoring the real thing outdoors. Thankfully, I still find time for my wife, Fender Jazz and my intolerance of an ever increasing list of things.

If I lived in the US, I'm sure I'd have been sent to rehab by now. I like a drink and I'm not afraid to admit it.
 
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Hi everybody.
I was born in 1943 left school in 1959 age 15. Signed up as an apprentice butcher but gave that up four years later when I realised I could not stand the sight of blood.

Joined the road British haulage industry driving seven and a half ton vehicles until I was 21 when they let me loose on multi-axle rigid and articulated vehicles. You did not need to take any special driving test in the 1960s to drive a truck, just be over 21 and climb up in the cab. That was my dream job until the mid-1980s when I was asked to become the distribution centres safety officer. Following months of training that then quickly went to becoming senior safety officer for eight other distribution centres.

Really enjoyed doing safety work including accident investigation etc for a really good American-based employer until the section of the company I worked in was sold to a huge European distribution company in 2004.

Could not stand the attitude of senior management in the new company so I decided to take early retirement. However I was immediately asked to take up safety work again by the American company which I did on a self-employed basis. They also recommended me to other distribution companies so I registered my own business in 2005 which took off and it has done very well right up to the present day.

Approaching the age of 70 this year I decided to retire and in that sell the business to the employees who have supported me so well. However they had to turn to a capital investment company to raise all the money and that company has insisted that Carol my wife and me remain within the business on an advisory basis to the new owners. So I am still not completely retired, going into the office a couple of days a week for a few hours.

Like pfx I enjoy a drop of cider or contrue or even a wee Drambuie and should that send me to the pearly gates one day, I would ask "can I go back down and do it all over again without changing a thing along with Carol my wife of 45 years"

Bill
 
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Didn't realise this thread existed up till now, so it's one good use for bumping a thread.

As for me and outside Trainz, I mainly do voluntary work at a local bike shop (currently 2-3 days a week) as well as being on various forums (including this one, my own, and British Trainz).

In terms of my age, you can find that in my profile.

Shane
 
I am retired and been for 8 years, I do Trainz 24/7, if my wife allows me! I got all the time in the world!

John
 
In a former life, I lived in MD and fixed organs for a living. Yes, you read that right :D

Electronic and Pipe organs, and even restored a few "pump" organs along the way.

As a result of working on Electronic organs, I became adept at repairing everything from old vacuum tube (valve) electronics right up through computers, because that was the breadth of the technologies that my clients instruments were made of.

The slow death of organs in the home, and the rise of far more stable and reliable digital pianos (which I also serviced), slowly turned me in "The Maytag Man", so I closed up shop in 2005 and went to work with a similar company in Pennsylvania which had a world wide client base, Speakeasy Vintage Music.

There I designed and re-designed many of the products they sold - while at the same time continuing to do restorations, tho now focused on Hammond Organs, Wurltizer Electro-Pianos, and Rhodes Pianos. (in fact here's Alexa Joel playing what I am 99% certain is one of my pianos!)

Then around 2011 sales started to fall off at Speakeasy too, eventually I was laid-off. Around the same time, my then soon-to-be wife was also laid off and we discovered that we both had toyed with the idea of moving to LA.

At the time I said, "If we are going to live under a bridge, we might was well do it where it's warm..."

So, now I live in Burbank - she has a good full time position at a ticketing agency, and I... well I'm a cashier at a local electronics/department store. Not exactly what I had hoped for, but it helps pay the bills.

I have always wondered if my love of restoring old things both mechanical and electronic would serve me well working for a heritage railroad, but I've never been able to figure out how to pursue that...
 
I have to note that if anyone reads the entire thread there are so many old hands in it that have ceased to post. For a bit of nostalgia, go back and read from page one.

Franklin
 
Franklin_Prestage said:
I have to note that if anyone reads the entire thread there are so many old hands in it that have ceased to post. For a bit of nostalgia, go back and read from page one.

Franklin
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Yeah, I did that....wonder what happened to some of them. Today, Nov 30, marks the 4th anniversary of WiliCoyote's last post....a thank you for birthday wishes and then no more....then deeelare...not since last April...
 
In the real world I was a CSX Police officer till a bullet ended my career. Now I remodel homes full times. When not doing that I still consult for Various class 1 rail carriers. Out side of work I'm just a normal guy who lives very non exciting life and if needed I'd give you the shirt off my back.
 
Im 21 and a full time college student in California. During the summers, I help take care of wagon horses in Yosemte National Park. Don't have much else to say other than that.
 
Kris94 said:
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You sure did, especially considering what it contained. I happened to glimpse it, and it was way out of line, perhaps the farthest anyone has ever been on these forums. You are like the physical embodiment of the military depicted on all Michael Day films, which discredit the work the real military do. Being in the army doesn't make you immortal, and being racist (yes, that was in there) is not tolerated here, even if you try to hide it in a PM. To me, sir, that is your real life.

On a more relaxed note, something about me. 18, just finished secondary school and awaiting my VCE results which indicate whether I get into my university course. I'd like to be a film maker of some description, which has been maintained recently by countless visits to railfanning sites with plenty of filming and, when I get home, editing. I only follow the Trainz scene these days rather than use it mainly due to technological disadvantages, but hope one day I can make a return, or that is if people like ^^ haven't driven me out for good first.

Tim
 
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