Modern Vespa

Celebrating Birthdays!

Major cimres preosecutor, maybe I could work with the NYC CSI guy who collects evidence from douchebag rapists and idiot burglars. Also, amateur Guiness import quality control worker.....

I am a retired Investigator with the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner and was part of a national grant that developed and published the national guidelines for death investigation. I also helped develop California's mandated Death Investigation training program.

Stay-at-home dad. My scooter riding is now 100% for pleasure. Pre-bambina, the scoot was my workhorse. Now that title belongs to my Honda Accord...unless I can find a helmet and Corazzo jacket small enough for a 14-month-old.

I ride my little silver 197cc GT to work and continue to be surprised by the positive(?!?) responses. Most of the guys in that line of work have self-image issues, seeking out the loudest of Harleys, most expensive Italian sport bikes, or the fastest of the Japanese sport bikes.

I ride either my Vespa GT200 into work, Suzuki Bandit, or Toyota Camry.

I'm a Correctional Officer in the prison system (CDCR).

Full-time: Manager of Web Services for a leading renewable energy association in the nation's capitol. Doing my part to fight the good fight for the environment. Hence the 67mpg Vespa and a 35/45mpg Jetta TDI diesel.

Part-time: Photographer (studio, location portraiture/travel, landscape, exhibit and sell prints at some local art festivals).

Haven't begun riding the GTV into DC yet, but will once the weather (mainly mornings) gets a bit nicer. 25 miles each way.

I am retiring this July after working 41 years with the same company. I started in 1969 as a marine biologist doing water polution testing at a large manufacturing facility. I'm ending as VP sales and marketing. I have had a variety of very interesting assignments and have traveled to some incredible places as I work for an international company. I met my beautiful wife at work. She worked for the company for 28 years and has been retired for 10 years. I know this is very unusual but it worked just fine for us. I can't wait for July so that I can ride my Vespa any time I want.

Went to Culinary school. Started out as a chef.

Then I built a Mustang race car. I met a guy who had a business and started selling parts for mustangs. www.pro50.com
Worked there for 12 years.

Now I am a fleet mechanic working primarily on fords and work at Napa auto parts as a sales rep.

Started riding a 1983 Honda Aero 2 years ago. Just got my first Vespa. My car barely moves at this point.

WOW! There are some amazing people on this board! I am really enjoying it here!

I am a news photographer for a tv station in Kansas City. That means shooting stories, editing them and running a live truck. In the future I will also be a reporter. Just keep getting more jobs to do for the same "wonderful" pay. Some days it is a good job, not sure I could sit behind a desk all day after doing this for 20 years.

Me myself work in the advertising/marketing business, in central Rome, currently as project and account manager but previously as designer, developer, db-architect and product manager.

And of course I take my Vespa to and from work

Jet engine combustor test engineer.

I designed most of these.

Just an example

Pipe cutter?

Well this is my first post lurking for a year or so that is one of my jobs the other are Technical Training Manager for a large communication company, and helping run a local Haunted house

Ridge Tool Company (RIDGID) Threading Machines and Power Drives. For threading, grooving, and cutting pipe. I've also designed several of the tubing tools and some of the drain cleaning and pipe fabrication equipment. Been here 30 years this year.

For instance, this stand's top casting




Was made directly from my CAD model





Before that I was designer and draftsman at Rockwell/Delta. We made the table saws, drill presses, lathes, etc. that were in most high school woodworking shops.

I'm in sales, ebay , Craig's list etc etc etc. I started out selling records (I am a vinyl junkie & managed record stores for 15 years) & music memorabilia. The amount of money some people will spend on punk rock fliers I peeled off of telephone poles is simply amazing. After I unloaded enough music to make my apartment a livable space again I moved on to other things. I'm a long time thrift store maniac & now I sell all kinds of stuff, from the collectible to the mundane. Garage sale season is upon me now, so I must hop on the LX & prowl the neighborhoods

Ridgid tools have to be some of the finest to be found. Thanks for your excellent work, Steve.

When I was a kid, growing up near Medina, OH, my mom always went shopping at the nearest Sears, which happened to be in Elyria, home of Ridge Tool.

I now have been working at the DMV for 20½ years. I started as an evaluator on cars trucks buses and motorcycles, meaning I was the guy telling people if they could drive or not. Now have been working in the office for 10 years. Before that worked in driving schools for 15 years. I'm planning to pack it up in 3½ years. I work a block from where I live so I walk to work. My wife drives the cage (2005 Hyundai Accent)

My hobby will be part of my pension plan : I have a shop where I repair computers.

My first bike was Circa 1965 GS 160 or was it a SS 180 (this is what other members here have told me) GS or SS after that I had many models of bikes (650 Bonnie, BMW 500 (that came back from a 1½ year trip thru europe), Hondas CB 360 and XL 500 (that one took me from Montreal to Tierra del Fuego) and 3 different Goldwings and now riding a 2007 GTS250 bought last year brand new in the showroom. I was able to buy that after I sold my old vintage (1941 Indian) last year.

Hey. . . my wife, Sylvie is a Deputy Attorney General in the Correctional Law Section. She represents you guys. She rides a Vepsa GTS250ie.

Belly dancer Just kidding... I'm an educator in the suburbs of Long Island.

Respect. Nice work, and obviously valued by customers. Creative engineering - the best sort.

I love the Ridgid calendars.
But, I haven't seen one for awhile.

I can't believe I missed this thread the first time....

Public Health Nurse for Pediatric Lead Poisoning doing case management, investigations and inspections as well as a Healthy Homes Specialist/Indoor Air Quality Inspector. Got bored being the charge of cardiac/medical ICU for 18 years. I also own and manage rental residential property in a college town-therefore "jack of all trades"; and yes, I use Ridgid pipe cutting machines, but none as new as this...

Cant ride to the rentals....they might think I'm having too much fun or making too much money (and can't carry the tools/equipment); ride to the health department whenever I can, but avoid ice and rain.

The diversity on this site explains why I find it so facinating and informative!!!

I don't think Vespas have anything to do with my job...

..oh, wait, that's the only thing that has to do with my job!

I'm also a part time engineering student.

That's how I made it through. If nothing else, it taught me perseverance/stubbornness. Keep up the good work!

I had to sit in a CABG surgery and valve replacement during my first few days as a cardiac nurse. I was fascinated by the fact that the cooling system for the cardiopeligia solution was a bucket of sterile ice. All that high tech series of pumps n tubes and then, a bucket of ice.

I'm a Childrens Services Manager, providing services for disabled children and young people in a leading childrens charity.

I work for UPS.

R & D for a company that makes synthetic DNA.

ICU/CCU registered nurse on the weekends and full-time nurse practitioner during the week. I ride my scoot for pleasure and occasionally to the hospital.

I'm a self-employed fine art installer. I hang expensive pictures for rich people and, on a good day, I get to rig big sculptures with a crane.

I have a Sprinter van for my work that is PERFECT for hauling scooters. It has "airline track" embedded in the floor, so hooking up ratchet straps is really easy. I bought my scooter from a client one day; just hauled it away.

Interesting thread!

Mechanical Engineer!!

I also build custom guitars in my spare time and I am a professional bassist in a local alt band....

K

I have a designer menswear store in Dublin with my Dad.
See Facebook: Neon Stephens Green
Also part time fashion agent fro a Danish Shirt & Tie company.
If you've ever battled Dublin traffic & parking fee's you'd be driving a Vespa too but that aside I love it!

Thirty-three years in the cable TV industry, from draftsman to Dir. of Engineering/Technology. I currently manage the west coast branch of a company that does specialty electronics repairs (set-top boxes etc). Fun ride!

Cheers,

Seven pages of responses and I'm apparently the first Professor of Archaeology.

Hey,

Do you work in the Anthro Bldg at UNM? (I have an office there and occasionally see another scooter parked nearby...)

I am the Peace Studies Advisor to about 60 undergrads, a full time grad student, and part time instructor - all at UNM; plus I do a bunch of other things as time and life allow...

Desi B.

Another professor, here, but in art. Professor of painting and drawing at The College of Saint Rose, in Albany, NY. This coming Wednesday I will receive a bronze medallion for lasting 25 years here, ha!

High school art teacher here.
I worked in live theatre for many years as a stage manager, lighting guy, stuff like that. I also have been making theatre masks and puppets for schools, and private collections for the past 20 years or so.
Working on another puppet show for adults at the moment and recently finished a bunch of masks for a University theatre department here in Canada.

I'm part of the University Honors Program, so I get to teach archaeology to the smart undergrads. I usually park next to the Student Health Building on the other side of campus since the Honors Center is in the basement of the SHC.

Are you the guy with the swing dance sticker on your ride (speculation based on your login here on Modern Vespa)?