Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to introduce myself.

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My name is Phil, and I live in Clearwater, Florida. I work as a technical support engineer (no, not a flip-card reader!) for a major computer hardware, software, periphreals and consumer electronics distributor in Clearwater.(We're the ones who sell the Best Buys, Computer Citys, etc. a lot of their stuff)

I have a pretty broad background-- everything from broadcast engineering experience at a small AM radio station to working part-time at a low-power TV station, and being a paid firefighter-paramedic and a police officer in between. (Heck, I could never make up my mind what I wanted to do when I grew up... still can't.)

My hobbies are amateur radio, photography and, of course, DV.

Additionally, I have a side business as a Wedding and Event Videographer (fun!), with a little dash of component-level electronics repair thrown in for good measure (kinda fun).

Equipment-wise, I use a dressed PD150, TRV950, a dedicated AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with 2gb of RAM for NLE with Premeir 6.5, Pinnacle Edition, Pinnacle Studio 7 & 8 and I'm just now learning VV. (It's cool working for a distributer--good deals on NFR software!)

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Okay, that's enough yabbering for me. Normally, I don't like to speak about myself. Just wanted to be polite!

Thanks!

-Phil

Welcome aboard Phil! You have been doing a lot and looking at
your post you still are, that's great! I more or less know the
feeling since I'm at least interested in a lot and I've got my
fingers in a lot of things as well. I hope you'll enjoy your stay
here and see you around!

Hi Rob,

It's kind of embarrasing in some ways when people (or prospective employers) ask me about my work experience. I give them the run down of my experience, they look at my birthday on the app (I'm 34) and say "yeah, okaaay.... right".

I started out as a firefighter. Being single at the time, I was able to work a straight 48-hour shift and have the next five days off. For me, five days off with nothing to do got boring REAL fast. So I started using the extra time off for going to school and working other jobs. The rest is ongoing history...

Just by reading and browsing around, I have already discovered how friendly everyone is. I have to say this is one of the few boards I actually feel comfortable posting to!

Thanks!

-Phil

I'm glad you are enjoying your stay! One of our most important
aspects is to have a friendly place and have it stay that way. We
all try to help eachother out.

I can imagine some people might be skeptics about what you've
done in your life, but that is their problem! I say the more you
have done and experience, usually the better!

Good luck with everything.