Who Are You?

I grew up in So Cal and I'm a 46 y/o beach nut. :D
I'm a devoted father of two beautiful girls and handsome little 6 y/o boy and husband of a wonderful wife of 18 years.

I'm a graduate of Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Financial Accounting working all four years during college at night at United Parcel Service to put myself through (with the help of a scholarship and massive student loans .)

During college I was recruited and hired by an international CPA firm called PriceWaterhouseCoopers where I spent a number of years and also did my "internship" for my CPA experience credits.

As a side note, I was also the supervising accountant while at PWC for the Emmy Awards. That was a hoot. :D

A few years Later, I was recruited away from the firm by an executive search firm and hired by the company that currently employs me as its CFO and Vice-President of Finance with primary interests in mergers and acquisitions and corporate taxation.

I like guns and custom Bowies, a lot.
 
My names Matt,I'm 22 I'm a shipper/reciever and outta work security guard and artist.I live in a small place called Bains corner in New Brunswick Canada.
I'm an all around weapon nut. :)
KA-BAR
 
34 yr old dad to a 2 yr old boy, married 10 years this summer. Ex Cavalry (Queens own Life Guards) ex-nanny to two members of the Italian royal family, Ex paper worker (on big rolls for MoDo paper in Holland) ex steel drawer, Galvaniser, I.T manager, Doorman,Gym Manager, Personal Trainer, Track and Field coach at an all girls High School (Muwahaaaa) I now own a small Internet based knife shop (until I go broke :( )

I have lived in Punta San Vigilio, Italy. Utrecht, Holland, Kowloon H.K, Waltham, Mass and now Tokyo & Saitama.

I did a 3 month tour od Oz where we bought a van and drove it all the way around in 2001,

I lift, ride and play Call of Duty :) I like history, medical and engineering books, lame detective novels, dogs, shooting, fishing and being on my own in cold quiet places :)
 
I just read this entire thread. :) I guess I'll add a little...

I'm Vice President of Rendena Services Inc., my father's knife sharpening and sales company. We also have a knife and kitchen store that I help manage, but I sharpen knives four days a week.

I also make and sell dog collars and "accessories". "Alice's Artware" is the name I go by for that (Alice being my standard poodle, in my avatar.) My tagline is "gifts for the 'artful' canine."

I'm 27, own my own home out in the country, live with my dog and two cats, and I have a BA in English/Communications, but I like sharpening knives better. :D


~ashes
 
redtail said:
.... am returning to grad school (for library and information science) in the fall so that I can eventually get a stable and less hazardous job.
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Where?

I'm 35. I did 4 years as a Korean linguist/radio interceptor for the Army (91-95) after dropping out of school (Eng/Phil), then worked as a bookseller for several years. Went lame and couldn't take the large salesfloor so I went back to school. I'm currently a grad student in Information and Library Science here at the nation's oldest public university.

I live with my wife, 2 kids, a border collie and a very patient cat. Into books knives, guns/shooting, a little hunting when I can get it in, and lifting has replaced years of Isshinryu (see 'went lame' above) for exercise. I have a particularly embarassing name, but I'm not going to share it with you.
 
35, Gulf war vet (US Navy Attack squadron 145 [a-6 intruder] out of NAS Whidbey Island and deployed on the USS Ranger CV-61 decomissioned since 1993), weapons nut (especially non-firearm types), gun and knife collector, amature photographer, Department of Army Civilian as an ammunition inspector on a chemical weapon depot in the middle of nowhere, husband, and internet gamer..
 
I'm 25, currently living with my parents. :rolleyes: We moved here in '98 when my dad stopped doing construction to work at the University of Arizona doing optics. He does contracts for Raytheon, NASA, JPL, and others.

Myself, I'm a shift manager at a Papa Johns. The job's crap, but it pays well enough, I guess. Me and my crew are some of the best pizza makers in the company (whole country). Definitely not a carrer for me though.

I spent 4 years at the U of A (it was cheap, since my dad's an employee), learning absolutely nothing I wanted to know about stuff I had no interest in having a carrer doing.

Then about a year and a half ago, I entered the world of real knives. I've always liked knives, from the first John Deere stockman my grandpa gave me when I was 14. I've had a knife in my pocket every day since. But it wasn't until last April that I got my first "real" knife, meaning one that cost over $40. It was a Woodard Fer De Lance, and then a couple Benchmade Balisongs. From then on, I was hooked for good. We're talking like $8000 in knives (mostly autos and balisongs) since last spring. Then I realized what I wanted to do the rest of my life.

I want to make knives. I'm taking classes at Pima CC, right now machining, eventually metalurgy and knifemaking. Maybe CNC later on too. Specifically, I hope to specialize in balisongs and tactical folders (especially autos). I'd like to have my own small shop and do quality customs, but it'd be great to expand into a larger company. It's odd that with Arizona's open laws that there's no major auto company here (just a few small custom shops). I'd like to fill that void. That's the dream anyway, I don't know how realistic it is.
 
Yahmanin said:
Where?
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Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. It's right in my backyard, and I already have two degrees from Kent (BA and MA, both in English). This will be the first time I have gone to school for vocational purposes, so hopefully at the end I will have a BA, MA, MLIS, and a JOB!
 
I'm a hurdle.

A few years ago, a friend and I were drinking Wild Turkey on his front porch and we came to the conclusion that people like us are obsticles or stumbling blocks that normal, productive people have to navigate around to get anything done. We're the people that make the world interesting and exciting and challenging. "Like a hurdle," I said.

Why? Because it would be too easy for us to follow suit and do what's expected. You get a lot more out of life if you're the hurdle, and so do the people who have to jump over you.

Apart from being a 24 year old hurdle, I'm a graduate student working towards a master's in English, with a concentration on creative writing (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction). My writing, even before coming to the aforementioned realization, has always been about the hurdles of the world.

In my professional life (if you can call it that) I'm the "Assistant Customer Service Manager" at the local Food Lion grocery store. Meaning, in essence, I'm the baby sitter, and the one responsible when the babies screw up. I'm also a hurdle at work too... I do things my way and we're the most efficient store in the district.

My hobbies apart from reading and writing, tend towards the destructive side, but as I've said many times, it's therapy through destruction. If I didn't have my knives and other toys to keep my occupied, I may do what the voices in my head tell me to do... and that would be loud, firey... generally bad.
 
Psychopomp said:
My hobbies apart from reading and writing, tend towards the destructive side, but as I've said many times, it's therapy through destruction.
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Nothing wrong with that, according to my sig line. ;)

~ashes
 
OK why not? I am a 60 YO retired quality professional. Been retired for 4 years now and married to a lovely Indonesian lady 20 years my junior and now have one of the nicest 17 YO daughters in the world. Yep, I robbed the cradle with all the advantages and disadvantages of that situation but she is a great lady.

To all you younger men out there I have a word of advice; don't forget to practice your dirty old man lessions, they may come in handy someday.
 
I'm a 43 year old father of 2 (son 7, daughter 3.) Married 14 years come august.

I live in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area and work as a Reliability Engineer for a major semiconductor company. Basically, I torture semiconductors to see if they're up to snuff.

My hobby time has been naught as of late. But when I have time, I enjoy blacksmithing, and medieval long sword.
 
Hmmmmm.....I am a dad (two wonderful girls), husband, did some/still doing some things in/for the Army, avid long range shooter, knife nut and hopefully here soon a "Convoy and Static Security Specalist II" for one of the bigger companies in Iraq.
 
I'm 22, a certified translator and interpreter, used to be a part-time bartender and, from time to time, a doorman. I'm currently in the military, ETSing on August 31st and hopefully returning to the service as an officer next year.
 
kamkazmoto said:
... don't forget to practice your dirty old man lessions, they may come in handy someday.
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Dirty old man? No, no, no ... that's "sexy senior citizen". :p
 
33 year old male. Married 7 years. No kids, two pet bunnies. Like to drink beer and whiskey. Smoke a pipe once in a while too. Work at a local university in the post office. Like to fish and whittle. Bought a house last year. There's more, but I wouldn't want to let it all out at once.
 
In the interest of recording the diversity of membership...
I am 54. Male. Very happily married 31 years today and grateful for 3 fine adult children.....I may be able to challenge for sweetest German Shepherd, by the way.. Along the way I've worked for city, state and federal government agencies not necessarily in that order. I spent three and a half years in Asia working for DOD and a foriegn government [my earliest academic degree being Asian area studies and Chinese]. From there I tried entrepreneurship finding money but not happiness.....so I went back to school and studied biology/geology. I've been teaching high school biology for the past 17 years and haven't looked back. My interest in knives dates to childhood but I am not a serious collector. I've enjoyed reading this thread.
 
Name: Jason
Location: Sacramento, CA
Age: 36
Education: B.Eng Vanderbilt, M.Eng Cornell
Occupation: Chemical engineer in the semiconductor industry
Hobbies: Knives (Likarich, Woodard, Rogers, Reeve, Klotzli, Downing, Tighe, Cold Steel, Busse, Paragon....), cars (1971 Cuda, 1991 NSX....), home theater design (Fujitsu, NAD....)
Other: I'm single and I spend my money on toys :)
 
I'm a college student, and I'll be 20 on Monday, actually. I still haven't decided on a major. I'm thinking maybe something in geology.

I've always had an interest in knives. I have a whole drawer full of Chinese and Pakistani knives I'm kind of ashamed of.

After picking up a cheapy balisong and deciding it was awesome, I navigated to the balisong forumhere to get some advice on which knife to upgrade to. I have a nice Typhoon on the way right now. It should be here in the next few days.

I also have a strong interest in pneumatic weaponry. I have a bunch of air rifles, air pistols, and I'm going to try to make a couple of BB machine guns when I get some spare time.

I love conventional firearms too, except the police would become rather upset if I shot those in the backyard.
 
Currently 21yo college student. Going to be a nurse God willing. I like knives and guns, the outdoors, my brother and I brew our own beer and Ive started learning the finer points of whiskey tasting. I hunt and fish. I bleed Black&Gold love dem Pens and Steelers. I have a small assortment of knives and guns, and I really hope to someday actually go to a knife show and possibly talk to someone face to face about knives rather than via the internet. Ive hung around here a while and there are a lot of varying age groups and interest groups, but Id have to say this is one of if not the best forum as far as people on the interweb.
 
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