Periodic notice that Gene Winfield is still alive and working
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The man is 97 years old and still builds cars. I don't have many famous people I deeply admire, but he is one. He built the set cars for bladerunner and several other movies. That's how you know him. He said the day he's done learning he'll pull the dirt over him himself. I can so relate to that. He also said loving what you do is the key to life. I will probably die somewhat younger than he does, on account of my vices, but I will be working until I do. I love what I do.
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The man is 97 years old and still builds cars. I don't have many famous people I deeply admire, but he is one. He built the set cars for bladerunner and several other movies. That's how you know him. He said the day he's done learning he'll pull the dirt over him himself. I can so relate to that. He also said loving what you do is the key to life. I will probably die somewhat younger than he does, on account of my vices, but I will be working until I do. I love what I do.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Very cool! He's done some great stuff, and it looks like he's got some more to do! I totally agree with his committment to learning, as I do that myself. But rather than focusing on the thing I like to do, I diversify. A few years ago, after I retired the first time from the energy industry, I took on a study of gunsmithing at a place called American Gunsmithing Institute and completed the Professional Gunsmith Level 2 program. At the time they had a Master level, too, but it included a bunch of tools that I already have, so I passed. Eight years later they came up with a new level, sans the tools, called the Advanced Master course. It adds a few hundred more hours of training, includes certified Armorer courses for about 85 popular guns, and certification on all Glocks, Model 1911s, AR-style rifles and pistols, as well as expansion packs of 10 - 12 DVDs each, covering about a hundred more firearms than the several hundred I studied the first time around. Good stuff, this always learning something new, and the Internet makes it so much easier to find stuff! I'm also taking an online class in AutoCAD, and taking classes with ESRI to improve my mapping skills using ArcGIS Pro. I bought a pair of GNSS receivers with accessories last year, one Base and one Roaming on a stick, and it would be a shame to let that investment go to waste for lack of knowledge on using all that GIS data! I once interviewed for a job as a programmer at a casino, and their hiring process included sitting around a room full of applicants and telling everyone there what we have done and know how to do. It took a while, and the guy that was supposed to follow me got up and left saying, "I can't compete with that." Nitwit - he was applying for busboy. In the end I declined the offer they gave me because 1) they still thought Visual C was a great product and 2) a lot of the internal apps were written using VB6. I went to work as a Yamaha parts salesman and ended up getting certified as a Yamaha Five Star Service Tech in all product lines. Never leave me alone with a stack of training videos!
Will Rogers never met me.
