Who are you?
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31, married, 2 kids, 1 dog. Live in Hartland and hate my yuppie neighbors. Grew up in New Berlin, mom/stepdad still live there and their house is about 3 minutes from Snap, who is the main person that got me going on WIBimmers one day because i saw an e30 at an intersection and stomped on it in my 1er, only to find him posting about it later that day on the forums.
I work for Artisan Partners, an equity investment firm which is part of the evil financial services empire in this country that everyone hates. Been in software for 10 years, and technically have a job title of "Application Architect" within the software department at Artisan, which actually means 80% of my time is babysitting a lot of grown men with Type-A personalities who don't know how to work together because software guys tend to have huge egos. The other 20% of the time I get to do cool stuff like set technical direction and play with new technologies.
I pretty much hate corporate america, started investing in real estate 7 years ago, own several duplexes that I manage and do most of the work on, trying to get into commercial either this year or next, and plan to pseudo-retire before 50. My only desire in that particular arena is to get to a spot where I do not need to be beholden to some employer for a paycheck.
I love to track cars, work on cars, spent the past 25 years playing a lot of soccer and continue to play 3-4 days a week to this day, play a fair amount of guitar when I have time, and am a huge geek when it comes to computer gaming. I think when I quit World of Warcraft in 2010 I had about 275 days of played time, and at that point I realized I should stop and not waste my entire life or I will regret it
2011 E92 M3 6MT ZCP - ESS 625 supercharged
2007 Z4MR
2003 E39 M5
2002 E46 M3
2021 X5 40i -
Very diverse indeed. I'm not the youngest on the forum Am I?
Maybe idk? Nice to see another younger member. 22 here.
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30, Born and raised Oshkosh townie. Have a GF finishing up vetrinary school in Madison at the UW. I earned an associates degree in package and label printing, did and externship and quit the biz. I'm now a mechanical designer at Oshkosh defense developing military trucks. Intrests include craft beer, loud music, comic characters and running. In my "younger years" I enjoyed BMX, Skateboard, Snowboard activities but my body doesn't seem as up to it.
And as much as I hate winter I'm not looking forward to mowing the lawn...
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which actually means 80% of my time is babysitting a lot of grown men with Type-A personalities who don't know how to work together because software guys tend to have huge egos.
I found this incredibly amusing. Thankfully I don't have to manage people like this, but I have enough experience with them to know what you're talking about.
I've worked with a guys like this, except their egos are completely out of line with their actual abilities. I rarely have the heart to tell them about all the things that they're fucking up because I don't want to start an argument or hurt their feelings, so instead I end up playing janitor and cleaning up all the messes they've left behind.
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which actually means 80% of my time is babysitting a lot of grown men with Type-A personalities who don't know how to work together because software guys tend to have huge egos.
I found this incredibly amusing. Thankfully I don't have to manage people like this, but I have enough experience with them to know what you're talking about.
I've worked with a guys like this, except their egos are completely out of line with their actual abilities. I rarely have the heart to tell them about all the things that they're fucking up because I don't want to start an argument or hurt their feelings, so instead I end up playing janitor and cleaning up all the messes they've left behind.
They dont call you Hip Mother F***** for nothing
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No one actually calls me that, but if they did it would be because I drink PBR, insist on listening to wierd music that no one has heard of, and drive a malaise era BMW.
Maybe the music thing is age related?
RATM, Temple of the Dog, Erik B and Rakim, Tribe Called Quest were all regularly played back in the day and still are by me!!
I graduated HS in 91
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22 (Sorry for not contributing to the diversity), from Mequon. I attend Lehigh University and am getting my degree in Mechanical Engineering. I am hoping to land a job in south/eastern WI before I graduate and start that this summer. Been dating the same girl for just over 3 years, she just got a job as an actuary which is pretty cool. I have always been into cars so I got a job at a classic car restoration shop in Delafield for a few years (I still do part time when I can) where I learned how to work on them. First car I owned was my old e36, sold that for my current e30, and am now considering another bimmer as a daily/winter car so I can really go to town on restoring/modifying the e30 and not having to worry about driving it to work every day. Hobbies include my cars, craft beer, downhill skiing, biking, and building stuff.
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Name some bands, I feel I may be able to relate.
I've been way off the charts (pun intended) for a long time. Haven't listened to the radio by choice in 10 or 15 years. Years ago I used to follow the "new" list at aquarius records like it was religion. Occasionally find something of interest by listening to wfmu.org. They're too wierd even for me, but I still donate to their marathon every year because I believe in the cause (commercial-free 24-7, no corporate "underwriters", no PSAs, no mandate, just do whatever, whenever).
Haven't spent much time searching out music in the past year, but recent favorite new (to me) discoveries include: Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Mantels, Solids
old school favorites includes things like: Q and not U, The Mars Volta, At the Drive-in
but mostly into finding strange oddities, bands that aren't good at playing their instruments, singers that aren't good at singing, two different melodies that don't belong together, played together for no good reason...
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I saw this thread before I left on vacation. Pretty cool reading through everything. Definitely a lot of diversity here.
I'm 34, married, 2 kids 10 and 8. I've been into cars since I was 16....not really much before that. I'm self taught on just about everything car and career related. I work at A mechanical design firm in West Bend.
Possibly by 2025 my crappy 5 series will be back on the road, until then I sport my little F150.
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old school favorites includes things like: Q and not U, The Mars Volta, At the Drive-in
I'm a huge fan of At the drive in and The Mars Volta! Have you listened to the current project Antemasque?
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Hadn't heard of it, but checking it out and it sounds pretty good. More back-to-basics than the proggy Mars Volta stuff, but still super-tight rhythm. Cool to see they're still going and I'm amazed he can still sing like that. They haven't gone all soft either, tons of energy.
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26, single, no kids. The first car I ever recall seeing and thinking, "holy shit, I need that!" was a Laguna Seca Blue E46 M3. 10 BMWs later and I just bought my first 911 a couple days ago, so at least I'm sticking to the German theme! As for employment, I'm a police officer in the Madison area.
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I just bought my first 911 a couple days ago,
I'm a police officer in the Madison area.
A police interceptor with "911" on the side doesnt count.
I challenge you to taze Chris
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