You can probably get a lot from my sig.
I'm 35 in about a week, have a beautiful wife and two wonderful children. When they are not hitting me up for money they let me play with my cars and my computer.
My previous job I described as talking and drinking coffee, often in different cities throughout the USA, I was a trainer for educational partners associated with Sun Microsystems. Basically, I got tired of getting worked up talking about computers all day long, but having to watch as the students did all of the work {not unlike talking about sex, then watching without a chance to participate
} So, I left technical education, to work directly for Sun as a System Support Engineer. I traded my travel (1-3 weeks/month) for a week on call out of every three. The stock options are really nice, as Sun is one of the few participating in the "dotcom" revolution that actually makes money. The stock doubles and splits at least once a year! My options made almost $5K today, not to mention the stock in the stock purchase program
This allows me to let my wife be a professional mom, and we still have the cash for toys (for both the parents and the kids)
Ok, I'm not bragging, just proud of my employer, they really know how to treat employees. Sun get's it in this age of tight labor. They understand that it is the talent of people who got them where they are in the market today. And with technology that I find superior to MicroSoft, I hope the market place learns even more about Sun.
I know that I maintain some serious mission critical systems for MasterCard, AT&T, SBC, Lucent, AGEdwards, Edward Jones and the USAF. They aint (technical term) running these systems on PC's with NT.
Cheers,
TB
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Tony Boner
Personal:
tboner@mvp.net Work:
tony.boner@central.sun.com Saving the computer world from windows as Unix/Solaris/Java Guru * Sun Microsystems Rocks *
http://www.sun.com Goofing off with cars
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Duratec Vehicles
1999 Contour SE 2.5L ATX
K&N FilterCharger
SuperChip
KVR/Brembo Cross Drilled Rotors and Pads
2000 Mazda MPV (Yes 2.5L Duratec)
Stock
Looking for 95-97 5speed SE as 3.0L duratec project car
Looking for 3.0L duratec for same
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Non-Duratec Vehicles
Daily Driver: 1987 Buick LeSofa^H^H^H^HSabre 3.8L V6 -- 150HP AND 215ft/lbs torque
[This message has been edited by tboner (edited June 19, 2000).]
I'm really a wire tech. Electrician or something like that. I have a 99 SVT as my sig says. You can see it at the link in my sig. I have no college. I will probably go since I can for free. Good ole Montgomery G. I. Bill. Thats about it. Later, Tim