OT- forget about HS & College who's OLD here???

[HoofnIt]

I'm 34 with a BS in Radiation Science Technology. I have a wife, dog, and a mortgage on a new house. I bought a 'used' stang so I could afford to build it up (something I've wanted to do since high school.) I graduated from college in 1999.

 

[Killercanary]

I'm 27, and have a BS in Biology. I worked in the coal mines as a belt vulcanizer while in school (which enabled me to buy my stang), and now I am a medical sales rep for the largest physician supply distibutor and now I wear a suit everyday to work... talk about a change!!! I bought my car in dec '97, just a few months before meeting my wife in Cancun mexico on spring break. She says if she would have met me a few months earlier I wouldn't have the stang. Even given that I'm a lucky guy. My wife has a BS in Communications, and a masters in Communication Rhetoric... she completed her masters in a year and a half with a 4.0!!! She is a college professor at Penn State's altoona campus. I could only have dreamed of having a professor that looks as good as her!!! We have a dog named Shelby, and my wife is itching to start a family. Now you know why I bought my wheels now!!!

 

[bjl95mustang]

I'm 21 and I've been playing Jr. hockey for the past 3 years and I've had my fun now I need to decide what I want to do for the rest of my life. Why can't I get a job that pays $100k a year to work on my stang. That would be the life.

 

[LordHalbert]

37 here - old as the hills

I make $120,000/year but I hardly have money to spend on my Stang.

One you get married, you know why

 

[AznStanger3v]

37 here - old as the hills

I make $120,000/year but I hardly have money to spend on my Stang.

One you get married, you know why

well, i make $11,000 a year. so....eat that!

 

[Rootus]

37 here - old as the hills

I make $120,000/year but I hardly have money to spend on my Stang.

One you get married, you know why

I also find that the more money I make, the less I seem to have to spend... Even without a woman to take it all.

Dave

 

[cmozez]

35 here with a AA in Robotics/Automated systems. Its good to know that we have such a broad knowledge base. BUT what kills me is, you can take the most respected, well dressed, highest ranking, highest paid, etc... gearhead and we turn into complete idiots while sitting at red lights I am a car lover to the bone!!!!!!!

 

[nito88stang]

Graduating in June from UCI with a BS in Information and Computers Science and hoping for the big bux

 

[94GTLaserRC]

. She says if she would have met me a few months earlier I wouldn't have the stang.

I wouldnt have married her just for that comment.

I turn the BIG FOUR OH this year

I got my doctorate in pharmacy in 1991 (after 9 long years of school)..

BUT when I graduated, I was a teacher at first, and was only 26..that was one year less than the average age of the class I tought

Now I work for Walmart, b/c that's where the big $$$ are!

Got my 5/3 house, 2 girls in private school, Lincoln Navigator and of course the trackless car!

NEVER too late to go to college. BUT, nobody said you wont have to sacrifice something to do it!
RC


PS..RIO, I didnt know you such an old dude!
RC

 

[Killercanary]

I also find that the more money I make, the less I seem to have to spend...
Dave

Man is that the truth. The house payment, 2 car payments, school loans, credit card debt, ect suck up enough each month for me to buy a turbo kit!!! I always said, when I make XYZ dollarsa year I'll be set... well I make that and more now and I'm no where near well off or set, I'm not hurting or wanting for much, but I'm living as easy as I thought I would.

 

[Killercanary]

I wouldnt have married her just for that comment.

I turn the BIG FOUR OH this year

Just think once you're "over the hill" gravity takes a new hold on you and you actually be quicker at the track if you ever go!!!

As for my wife, in all seriousness, when I asked her to marry me I threw in a little "verbal prenup" stating that this marriage was contingent on the fact that she would never ask/tell me to sell my car unless we were living in a box on in an alley. She agreed.

 

[nmcgrawj]

As for my wife, in all seriousness, when I asked her to marry me I threw in a little "verbal prenup" stating that this marriage was contingent on the fact that she would never ask/tell me to sell my car unless we were living in a box on in an alley. She agreed.

HAHA good one

 

[smit0282]

27, Masters degree....getting married this summer. Starting to feel old

 

[Maxboost50]

39 here, with an 11 year old girl, and a 9 year old boy. Been married for 17 great years. Two AS in aircraft maintenance, and instructor of technology. 17.5 years in the Air Force, and ready to retire. The GT gets paid off in May. Then lookin' to get a 98 Cobra convertible, and Kenne Bell it.

 

[smokediver27]

28 years old here, no degree (But buttloads of cert's). I'm a Lieutenant/Paramedic for Hernando County Fire Rescue. Have wife and two dogs (looking to trade for quality supercharger) I'm also starting to feel old (getting up at 0300am and running into burning buildings is beginning to lose its appeal)

 

[finalgathering]

33 here. I work for a 3D software company called Softimage wich is always exiting.
3 months ago I finaly finished paying for school, Stang is payed off in April. All I had was the house. Haha, time to mod the 5.0...
Oh wait... did I mention I'm having my first born in June .
Wife said I had to buy an SUV -got a Liberty. So much for the mods.

Me = $130.000K in the hole
bum on the street +.25 cents (that I gave him)

 

[Tom C]

35, single Fireman here... know a little about a lot...

 

[tmoss]

Me too Rio, had a 67 Camaro with a Lingenfelter 383 for 12 years and sold it for family reasons. I DIDN'T know that very fine garage you got was a mid-life crisis buying spree though. I'm still jealous. Double nickle here with 5 more years of kids in College, so my buyihg spree will have to wait.

Right...Seems like I just got outta school...Im 47 and climbing... Got 2 girls 21, 22, got a son 25...You ain't seen nothing yet...enjoy it while you got it...the Stang that is....I had a sweet 70 Trans Am for like 13 years..then the family came first, and that went....then i came full circle....Been buying toys and such like its going outta style....??? next thing on my list, this Summer is to get another bike....i sold the 750 Gixxer and the Z9 to build the garage...You'll see a nice Z11 added to the garage real soon...

Getting older ain't really all that bad...

 

[stangboy]

27, computer tech at Dillard University...no degree, just experience. I have a possible career change coming soon. I might be working at Ford Motor Company in Memphis,TN soon ....talk about dream job. I live alone, I'm single, no girlfriend at the moment...except my car. I'm not making the money some of you are making but I'll be in the upper 40k/yr range if I get on at Ford. If that doesn't work out I'm gonna follow in my dad's footstep and be a fireman.

 

[Rootus]

Man is that the truth. The house payment, 2 car payments, school loans, credit card debt, ect suck up enough each month for me to buy a turbo kit!!!

Hahaha, I've had that exact thought. I'm forgoing any serious toy purchasing this summer in order to put all of my available cash towards paying everything off (except the mortgage, of course). And I've got everything planned out now -- three months for a turbo kit & dyno tune, another month for the TKO, another month for the axles, differential, miscellanous whatever, and then three more months (after the turbo is installed) for the new DART shortblock to replace my cracked stock block.

Or I could just start saving my pennies for an '07 Cobra. That makes too much sense, though, and a turbo would be more fun .

Dave