For certain, the info was all super exciting, I really liked the blood spatter stuff, and entomology was fascinating as well. I would have loved to have gotten into the field.
I specifically remember reading about airline disasters and body recovery WHILE I was flying somewhere for work (pictures and everything), and the person sitting next to me asked to change seats, hahaha.
Been about 14 years paying them off here, lol.
Hah! Not so much anymore…I definitely used to be but professionally, I always work with the same typefaces. There are still a few type foundries I like to follow and support though.
I paid my loans off 5 years ago. I would be very content if college was made a socialized service and provided for free and student loans where canceled for the remainder of students. The cost of college today is absurd and criminal and I thought I paid too much when I went to college…
I can’t afford them now, lol. 
Poor med student 
didn’t get a new yoyo for over a year. Not counting loop 360s
Honestly I just think there needs to be caps on loan amounts and colleges will be forced to bring tuition in line with that. Right now they know students will be able to pay them whatever ridiculous sum because crazy loans are given so freely to them.
I was able to pay my tuition with my summer coop money in Canada.
I have been a software engineer for close to 20 years. Yoyoing, design, and other related things are skills I learned as hobbies. I used to program as a hobby - not much any more.
Currently going to school for agriculture. I was working on a chile farm for the past 3 years but I just started a new job at my schools rock climbing wall. I’m really interested in joining the coast guard when I graduate, then i’ll go back into ag and probably raise dairy goats on the side.
Thanks mate!
i’m a lifeguard at my local jcc on the side, tho i’m gonna have to switch to a different job for college soon
I’m a metallurgist for an automotive supplier’s R&D center. I also manage the metallurgical testing lab.
Here’s a pic of my lab, with a buttload of spot-welded samples that we’re testing to prove out weld schedules.
Very nice lab.
Love these topics where we get a little peek into everyone’s lives. I graduated late from high school, went to college and while working an internship I got through the college, I started my own company on the side. Been doing that ever since. I did go back to school in the early 00s and finally finished my CS degree in 2006 (22 years and after I’d started college the first time).
There are two medium sized applications I designed and coded on my own especially for what we do, but most of my time is spent on admin, bookkeeping and janitorial/maintenance at this point (as I think I mentioned in the software engineering thread, SAS has taken over not all, but most of the tech stuff I do). I have done a little freelance work here and there mostly as a favor for friends, and very occasionally I do some hack graphic design.
I was relieved to learn a few years ago when I started yo-yoing at 50+ that I wasn’t alone here in that regard. Learning tricks is slow, but is still rewarding and fun. And reading this forum in my downtime is less stressful than reading the news.
Let’s press some stuff! Todays word is compression.
Do you play online or at a casino? I used to play online before that “Black Friday” where PS and FT shut down. Miss it but I really a break-even player and could never get accustomed to using huds.
Live/online split 2004-2011, majority live until about 2013, majority online until early 2017, majority live at a casino but starting to get into home games 2017-2020, majority home games since 2020.
99% of the time, that machine is doing tensile pulls.
Though a while ago I tried crushing this part without much luck. Turns out I was maxxing out the load cell! So enjoy this gif of me trying to crush this part for 30 mins condensed into a couple seconds.
Elementary school teacher! I throw while teaching sometimes and a few kids over the years have got into it.
I am also an elementary school teacher. It’s pretty hard and I"ve never felt very good at it.
I would like to make yoyos in my shed fulltime, but lets face it; once the ten people who want a Bloodcell have one, that’s the end of the line. 
There’s always another 10 who find the hobby eventually but yeah I get it probably not super sustainable income. No one is claiming to getting rich off YoYo. Maybe your dope mr85 proto will be the next hot new thing.
Teaching is tough my wife was a teacher for a long while before we had kids and she put her all into it every day. It seemed exhausting. All I have to do is make a nice power point and talk about some tech junk for a few hours to folks that vaguely know what I’m talking about already.
There’s potential there for it to be just that, but probably only amongst us boomers.
It’s a very ‘future proofed’ design because it will likely never have a future beyond the 6 people that will own one. 
