How old are you guys, really?
 

This is probably OT, if so, please move it to the OT forum, sorry!

I'm curious, how old are you watercoolers/CNC masters out there? I mean, are you guys mostly hobbyists or guys with masters degrees in computer sciences/physics?

I just finished high school myself, but I've never met anyone else as involved in this stuff

Specifically wc'ers, tho, cause I think its definitely one of the most complicated computer "mods" out there

Thanx!

I'll be 34 in a month.

32:D and just a hobbyist.

I'm 19 :D

So I'm a youngin to most of you I'm sure.

18

Final year of high-school this year.
I'm a wee lass and can barely weild the hefty power tools I play with frequently.. ;)

23. Master's in Accounting, undergrad in goofing off. ...& on vacation as we speak. :D

Iam 16 yes PH34R my youngness :)

70, retired computer programmer (1957-1997). A little older than most, but I still love computers.

I'm 28 and got a M.Sc.E.E degree.

I just turned 19. Just a hobby for me. Been into computers since 94. Watercooling for almost 2 years now.

That's great! you guys are pretty much all over the map here, I mean, we've got 16 to 70! I wish I'd gotten into wc'ing earlier, but I spent (wasted) a good number of years flopping around using Dell Laptops:cry: :shrug:

Yeah, I turn 19 this october, and I just started playing with power tools at school the LUSH:D second semester of my senior year!

Its impressive how knowledgeable some of you are even just out of HS, definitely some bright people here:)

18

26, been in computer stuff since the age of 5 (1981). I had an Alice32 then when i was 7 i got a C64. I was already an arcade addict.
I have French diplomas, english equivalents are: PhD-like in artificial intelligence, a master in computer science, bachelor in electrical engineering.

gmat, you have a PhD equivalent at 26?!:eek: Wow...

and brad is only 18...wow...

how was the wc'ing on the C64:)

24 in 2 days :D
ENSAM Engineer (mecanical, mechanics of the fluids, materials, thermic and what you want... :) )

18 :)

33.

I've got 1 1/2 years of pure&applied science, 1 1/2 year in electronics, and 1 year in tech support, but I'm starting again to get a Bachelor's in Business Administration.

I am 43 (thank God for Fuzzy).

BSEE/MBA.

Where has all the time gone...sigh

I'm 22 on Sunday. I'm almost done my BaSC in Civil Engineering. I study in the concrete materials group, so all of this electronics stuff is purely a hobby... though I may take more fluids stuff in grad school which would help out the watercooling.

34, BSME from UW-Madison. Worked in engineering ever since I can remember (long before the degree, ripping stuff apart and sometimes actually putting it back together). Now managing an engineering department for a company of ~110 people. Got started in computers ~1979 with the Apple // line (hacking games so I could always win, heh, heh).

This thread is a nice break from the norm.

18 and fresh out of HS.

Skulemate, you rock! Taking Graduate studies in watercooling? That is obsession, not hobby.

24, 13 years programming experience (kid prodigy ... managed a development department at a software firm when I was 16 ... f*ck child labor laws), most of a BSCS (waste of time, don't ever want to finish), EE in USN (waste of time, never want to go back), extra physics/mechanical engineering in college (interesting stuff, there).

Now I'm a system administrator for a small company, design/implement databases, do Bastard Operator From Hell stuff as an added bonus, and do custom programming as the jobs arise.

PS: read the BSOD (http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html) stuff. You'll then know how my typical workday goes. ;)

Didn't know there was companies that did that kind of stuff in moscow. Your only about an hour from me.

They don't. At least, not until I came along. I went from selling cars to turning a car dealership into a tech farm. I sit behind my desk, all knowing, and whenever anybody needs any info, I fire up my dbase and out spits the answer. We went from one terminal and and antiquated (1988 era) CRM and accounting software package to nine PCs, 4 legacy accounting terminals, and custom software that doesn't take five minutes to generate payment plans. We also went from a single dial-up connection and shoe-leather network to aDSL and Satellite feeds networked to every machine. I'm kind of the hub of it all because the guys here are ... limited in their computer skillz (they can turn them on and play solitaire, but they need me to resize the windows for them because they don't know how whenever they want to do fantasy baseball on Yahoo at the same time). Teaching 65 year old technophobes how to use a word processing program is so entertaining ....

Needless to say, that's how I have time to be here all the time. I keep this in the background for when I'm not keeping the dbase afloat and responding to "technical emergencies" (HELP! I can't figure out how to download pr0n!).

The best part, though, is from the sales desk back, we have almost a complete paperless office. The worst part is that the fastest machine in the store is an old Athlon Legacy 700mhz that I brought in from home (do you know how hard it is to work on a 50MB dbase on a laptop that runs 133mhz on 16MB of RAM? ... that's why I brought in one of my old machines).

"Help! My machine is crashing!"

"It's because of a Redundant Logic-System Dereferencing Problem."

*Dummy Mode On*

"What do I need to do?"

"Flip the red switch on the back to 230V and push that button until smoke starts coming out of the back, then give me a stack of blank, signed purchase orders. Your machine will be running better than ever in about ... two weeks."

"Okay!" Drool drips from his chin ....

Later that day--

"Hello, NewEgg?" ;)

28, bachelor of science in mechanical engineering.
Very close to start my own business.