What's Your Profession?
Posting Guru
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 2,357
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From: S. Mississippi
I'm a trained IT technician. I can handle anything from network setup to building a PC and everything in between. What I'm currently doing is being a wage slave for a large auto-parts retailer.
It appears that even though one may posses great technical skill, one cannot find the job you've trained yourself for.
The discount is nice on my parts, but I'd really like to put to use some of the skills I've earned outside of the garage.
It appears that even though one may posses great technical skill, one cannot find the job you've trained yourself for.
The discount is nice on my parts, but I'd really like to put to use some of the skills I've earned outside of the garage.
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Fleet Owner
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,678
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From: NorCal
What's it like driving on the "wrong side" of the road? I still find it strange that right-hand drive vehicles still have the gas pedal operated by the right foot. I mean, that's mechanically long distance from the carburetor!
Senior User
Joined: Apr 2015
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'Didn't deduce that at all! I thought you might have been Kenyan by the userID.
What's it like driving on the "wrong side" of the road? I still find it strange that right-hand drive vehicles still have the gas pedal operated by the right foot. I mean, that's mechanically long distance from the carburetor!
What's it like driving on the "wrong side" of the road? I still find it strange that right-hand drive vehicles still have the gas pedal operated by the right foot. I mean, that's mechanically long distance from the carburetor!
As for the carb thing, almost every old carb running car I've seen in the UK has used a throttle cable and not a solid linkage like these trucks have. It's the only way to do it really or have an incredibly complicated linkage system. I think that's why electronic throttles became more popular earlier in cars over there. Bit I might be wrong though...
Kierobi comes from a nickname from my best mate and it's an amalgamation of my first and middle names (Kieran, Robert). The Kenyan comment made me chuckle because running at the gym the other day I told the trainer "There's no inner Kenyan going to come out you know!"
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 17,708
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From: Calgary
Involuntarily retired Sept 3, 2012. Self employed 21 years doing sales and marketing, bought and sold commercial and residential furniture for 17 years, took a mid life change of career due to health and finished off with 12 years of pad concrete and landscaping. Dear old granny put my brothers and me to work one year picking crab apples and plums and sent us door to door selling them. Smart older bros used money from first wagon load to buy candy. They got their butts warmed up when they got back and I continued on myself. This was the month before I started Kindergarten. Thanx grandma.
Worked in a foundry for a year and spent a year and a half as a shear, punch and brake press operator. Spent a lot of time in their prototype room learning to design the pieces that I was to make.
Worked in a foundry for a year and spent a year and a half as a shear, punch and brake press operator. Spent a lot of time in their prototype room learning to design the pieces that I was to make.
