Thread: What did you study? What do you specialize in? What do you do for a living?

Well I guess I will throw my 2 cents in.
I started working when I was about 5 with my dad during the summers and after school. My parents owned a interior decorating company in MN at the time, specializing in ceramic tile and stone. I was being sent to a very strict catholic school and highschool. I was learning stuff in 5th grade that public school kids got for 12th grade, I know this for a fact cause my best friend was in public school and I had the same books he did when he was a in 12th and I about fell over laughing when he told me it was hard. In 84 my parents got into a accident on vacation in Mexico and lost the 3 showrooms and over $1m bussiness they were doing. I continued working in tile and stone until today not always as my first profession. In HS I studied 3 years of architectual drafting, and that was my plan for the future. Once I graduated HS I went onto college to continue my studies and by the second semester I couldn't stand the teacher or what he was trying to teach us because it was almost ALL completely wrong and when I started to question him and he couldn't back anything up besides quoting a code book. At that point my 13 years of experiance in construction I think was topping his awesome intellect and I had enough of the joke that was considered a education. So I dropped out of college and continued working in tile as a side job and got a full time steady job at Kmart as a stock boy. I worked my way up to manager there before my brother got me a job doing cabnets and countertops full time with tile on the side. After working my way up to running that shop in 4 years, I stayed 1 full year running the shop and all the guys and jobs. I got tired of making vertually nothing compaired to the owner and quit that and went to work full time as a tile setter, self employed and been doing that ever since. I have worked on just about anything you can imagine in a house and most commercial buildings.

Originally Posted by DR.F33LG00D

There's an IB school just down the road from where I live. I would go there now but something about driving 6 miles to school every day seems a tad out of the question.

LOL 6 miles? That's not very far.

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Originally Posted by evilfeeling

Well I guess I will throw my 2 cents in.
I started working when I was about 5 with my dad during the summers and after school. My parents owned a interior decorating company in MN at the time, specializing in ceramic tile and stone. I was being sent to a very strict catholic school and highschool. I was learning stuff in 5th grade that public school kids got for 12th grade, I know this for a fact cause my best friend was in public school and I had the same books he did when he was a in 12th and I about fell over laughing when he told me it was hard. In 84 my parents got into a accident on vacation in Mexico and lost the 3 showrooms and over $1m bussiness they were doing. I continued working in tile and stone until today not always as my first profession. In HS I studied 3 years of architectual drafting, and that was my plan for the future. Once I graduated HS I went onto college to continue my studies and by the second semester I couldn't stand the teacher or what he was trying to teach us because it was almost ALL completely wrong and when I started to question him and he couldn't back anything up besides quoting a code book. At that point my 13 years of experiance in construction I think was topping his awesome intellect and I had enough of the joke that was considered a education. So I dropped out of college and continued working in tile as a side job and got a full time steady job at Kmart as a stock boy. I worked my way up to manager there before my brother got me a job doing cabnets and countertops full time with tile on the side. After working my way up to running that shop in 4 years, I stayed 1 full year running the shop and all the guys and jobs. I got tired of making vertually nothing compaired to the owner and quit that and went to work full time as a tile setter, self employed and been doing that ever since. I have worked on just about anything you can imagine in a house and most commercial buildings.

You mean just because it works on paper doesnt mean it works in real life? The hell you say. Reminds me of the job i did in alabama. Its no problem just carry the 150 ft shots up the stairs oh and you need to wrap the round walls with 18 in tiles. I hate interior decorators and architechs. They have no grasp on reality and most are fucking color blind.

No, I don´t want to start a brothel with you as the madame, Partyball, I want to invest in good, sound, legit businesses!