What were you doing when you were 19?

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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited October 2008
    Working for a Steel Fabrication Company during the day with my dad.
    Good Job tough Boss. (See Last word of first sentence).

    Smoking, Drinking, Staying Out Late and Getting Down with all the honey's I could.

    Ahhh the good times.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited October 2008
    Working as a night manager of a gas station in STL.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited October 2008
    Working for Ingersoll-Rand and drinking lots of beer. Bought my first vehicle, 1991 SB Chevy S-10 with a 4.3L V6.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited October 2008
    That would be right now...

    Working
    College, EE major
    In a robotics competition
    NY State Math Fair
    Played at Carnegie Hall
    Doing research...
    polkaudio RT35 Bookshelves
    polkaudio 255c-RT Inwalls
    polkaudio DSWPro550WI
    polkaudio XRT12 XM Tuner
    polkaudio RM6750 5.1

    Front projection, 2 channel, car audio... life is good!
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited October 2008
    The Anti-Hippie....
    Carry on.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited October 2008
    I was a freshman in college and skipping class way too much...
    Jake
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2008
    appadv wrote: »
    That would be right now...

    Working
    College, EE major
    In a robotics competition
    NY State Math Fair
    Played at Carnegie Hall
    Doing research...

    Wow, sounds like you're really enjoying your youth.....
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited October 2008
    George Grand wrote: »
    Hey Petrym,

    < snip > They both immediately turned as a flight and I never heard from them again. Somebody got a good talking to when they RTB'd , and it wasn't me!

    Couple nights later I got my first -111 Light Show.

    I love stories like that, thanks for sharing! :D
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2008
    Jobless, selling drugs and living the good life.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited October 2008
    College....and I still am
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  • jeremie
    jeremie Posts: 246
    edited October 2008
    Going to Jr. College working at CC in the Roadshop as lead installer. Traveling all over the midwest competing in USAC even in the Pro 501-1000 watt class while being sponsored by Kicker. Fun times..

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    Receiver Yamaha 3070 *Emotiva xpa5 * Behringer iNuke 6000dsp *Monster Cable HTS 3500 -- line conditioner * Panamax 5300 * Apple 4K * Panasonic UB820 * JVC NX5 * Silver Ticket thin bezel 120”
    LSIM - Fronts 707 * Center 706c * Sides 702 * Rear 703 *FP RC85i * RP RC65i * Sub (2) SI HT18
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited October 2008
    1980. Working at Alcan (Canadian version of Alcoa). Driving a '69 Cougar. Selling dope. Smoking hot girlfriend. Dodging cops (most of the time). Young and dumb and full of c@m.
    SDA-1C (full mods)
    Carver TFM-55
    NAD 1130 Pre-amp
    Rega Planar 3 TT/Shelter 501 MkII
    The Clamp
    Revox A77 Mk IV Dolby reel to reel
    Thorens TD160/Mission 774 arm/Stanton 881S Shibata
    Nakamichi CR7 Cassette Deck
    Rotel RCD-855 with modified tube output stage
    Cambridge Audio DACmagic Plus
    ADC Soundshaper 3 EQ
    Ben's IC's
    Nitty Gritty 1.5FI RCM
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited October 2008
    Attending a JC, playing tons of tennis & working at a local sporting goods store so I could buy all my stuff inexpensively and snow ski for free!

    Bought my first "real" speakers from Lafayette & had them for about 10 years (too long!)
    "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Bob Seger
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  • Sansui
    Sansui Posts: 372
    edited November 2008
    Off the coast of Nam. CNA/CVN 63.
    Be gentle, I'm new to all this...

    The mind blowing speed of the BRAIN TRAIN...
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  • thebluemonkey
    thebluemonkey Posts: 190
    edited November 2008
    Was a fresh faced kid in boot camp in new jersey
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited November 2008
    I was starting my first year at Pacific Northwest Bell. 30 yrs later, I still work for the same company, although it's in a different state with a different name.

    Living with a blond hottie that turned out to be the psycho b***h from h*ll.
    My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself.
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  • Squidmon
    Squidmon Posts: 84
    edited November 2008
    Working my way thru college and smoking lots of pot
    If there ain't no gold at the end of the rainbow, I'll settle for the pot.:D
    Yamaha RX-A2020
    2-Sony DVP-CX995V 400 Disc players
    Sony BDP-S580 Blu-Ray Player
    Mains:Polk RT2000P
    Center: Polk CS400
    Rears: Polk FXi A6
    Subs:2-Polk PSW450
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,995
    edited November 2008
    billbillw wrote: »
    For fun, I was going across the border to Canada to drink at the bars just about every weekend. For those who live(d) in border towns at that age, you probably know what I mean. The clubs in Sarnia were the place to be at that time ('89 ish). Heck, even after I turned 21, I still went over the border for a couple years because the clubs over there were better.

    We did the same except a 10 min drive across the Ottawa river into Hull now called Gatineau, in the province of Quebec. drinking there was 18 so we could get away with being 16-17...
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  • Gadabout
    Gadabout Posts: 1,072
    edited November 2008
    Let's see ....

    19 was a long time ago. I took a year off from school before college. I was working in a mine on 1600 ft level mining for silver and gold. The ironic thing was the pumps had a power failure and flooded the 3 lowest levels of the mine.

    Being friends with the GM's son, he found us a job cleaning up the Teton Dam disaster in Idaho. Was pretty good work, mainly using air pups to get rid of the water in lower levels of the house and using high pressure hoses to clean the walls and floors the best we could. You never want to smell a whole storage house of rotting potatos. There were also lots of snakes that were in the trees and upper reaches of the houses too.

    Good times, lots of work, decent pay and working with friends. After the dam cleanup I went and worked in Rawlings Wyoming for a bit in a mine and then returned to the mine I was originally working in after it was back up and running.

    Next fall, I was in college and having different experiances.

    Fond memories.

    Scott
    Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ..... Frank Zappa
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  • Gadabout
    Gadabout Posts: 1,072
    edited November 2008
    Wow,

    Didn't think my mining stories would kill the thread ;-P
    Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ..... Frank Zappa
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