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[MGP141]

Well I'm a recent graduate from an electrical technology program. I'm looking to get into the Power transmission distribution side of things.

Anyways, I've been doing temp work lately, living in NOTL, noticed there are some people on the board from this area and was wondering if their professions have anything to do with their passions for playing guitar or amps (Wild Bill, i noticed your in Stoney Creek)

anyways, just putting it out there to our lovely Canadian Music Community, Holla back sdsre

[Wild Bill]

Well I'm a recent graduate from an electrical technology program. I'm looking to get into the Power transmission distribution side of things.

Anyways, I've been doing temp work lately, living in NOTL, noticed there are some people on the board from this area and was wondering if their professions have anything to do with their passions for playing guitar or amps (Wild Bill, i noticed your in Stoney Creek)

anyways, just putting it out there to our lovely Canadian Music Community, Holla back sdsre

Well, for me I guess I could say, sorta!:smile:

I had a passion for electronics at a very young age and was perhaps the last generation to work with tubes as the world went solid state. I held all kinds of different jobs but nothing to do electronics after I gave up working in a music store and then being a "roadie". Then I stumbled into an order desk job at an industrial electronic parts disti that came into town in the late 70's. The first Intel CPU chip had just come out! I rode the high tech wave through a number of positions until 9/11, when the industry virtually collapsed.

It was only then that I discovered that once you were over 50 no one outside your field of experience will hire you! They seem to want younger folks that might give them more years of service, even though they're likely to lay them off in a couple of years anyway.:D

So I finally went back to my first love and went full time into amp builds and service!

It's only slowly getting to be even a modest living but man! Do I get a lot of free beer!

:food-smiley-004:

[Hamm Guitars]

I am doing what I am doing because of the music industry. I've always been a tech in some capacity since I was sixteen years old (I started as a grunt and followspot operator in Nova Scotia - Garry Tulk ring bells for anyone?)

I went to school and I am an Electronics Technologist on paper, allthough I haven't worked as one in years. I worked more or less as an Electronics Technician for a few years fixing pro audio equipment and other electronic music equipment (Keyboards, OOW guitar amps, wierd stuff).

From there I started doing service calls in Studios, which at the time were just starting to get very MIDI and computer oriented (as they still are) so I got into the wonderfull world of computers. Oddly enough, I can count the number of Macs that I've seen on my fingers and toes..

The music industry crashed hard in the early '90's so sometime around '95 I started working almost exclusively in the computer/networking field and most of my cross over music work died off.

I still work as a production tech, and I still fix the odd piece of equipment, make a patch bay or mod something to make it do a specific job - but most new electronic stuff is disposable surface mount stuff, so I am pretty much a dinosaur in the field of electronics.

The networking business pays all of the bills, and I just missed my freedom 35 marker and I'm now shooting fro Freedom 40. You can only deal with other peoples emergencies for so long before it starts to wear on you - and the job is boring and not challenging or fullfilling at all.

I'd like to retire to NS in the next few years, and just build guitars, maybe play a bit and do the odd tech tour.

[MGP141]

Well, for me I guess I could say, sorta!:smile:

I had a passion for electronics at a very young age and was perhaps the last generation to work with tubes as the world went solid state. I held all kinds of different jobs but nothing to do electronics after I gave up working in a music store and then being a "roadie". Then I stumbled into an order desk job at an industrial electronic parts disti that came into town in the late 70's. The first Intel CPU chip had just come out! I rode the high tech wave through a number of positions until 9/11, when the industry virtually collapsed.

It was only then that I discovered that once you were over 50 no one outside your field of experience will hire you! They seem to want younger folks that might give them more years of service, even though they're likely to lay them off in a couple of years anyway.:D

So I finally went back to my first love and went full time into amp builds and service!

It's only slowly getting to be even a modest living but man! Do I get a lot of free beer!
:food-smiley-004:


Well that sounds promising....being young (21), and growing up in the country, (Shelburne, ON ....North of Orangeville). I also have a great passion for beer (or drinking my face off):food-smiley-004: