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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 01:22 PM
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What do you do for a living?

Tell us who you are, what you do for living and/or for fun! Share as much or as little as you wish!

Are you in middle management? Is your guilty pleasure a diet sierra mist every now and then? Or maybe it's a Little Bites brownie? /s

inspired by this thread: https://acurazine.com/forums/third-g...nks-we-974493/
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 01:37 PM
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What do I do for a living?
Whatever I want. Retirement is the best job I've ever had - the only bad thing about it is you never get a day off.

Sierra Mist?
Nah, prefer diet cola, beer or Jack Daniels - not necessarily in that order.

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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 02:03 PM
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What I do for a living?
Senior Policy Advisor in the government. I am just under middle management. I like where I am. I feel safe.

Sierra Mist or Little Bites Brownies?
I don't we have either of those up here, but I prefer Coca-Cola and once in a while, Two-Bite Brownies.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MI-RDX
What do I do for a living?
Whatever I want. Retirement is the best job I've ever had - the only bad thing about it is you never get a day off.

Sierra Mist?
Nah, prefer diet cola, beer or Jack Daniels - not necessarily in that order.

Retired middle manager. We spend more on travel than on cars. We finished our retirement travel bucket list, made a second one, and finished that.

Do things while you can, you don’t get the time back.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 02:39 PM
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 02:43 PM
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What do I do for a living?
Quality Engineer for a dental products company. Used to be middle management. Possibly never again, unless there's a big jump in pay.

Sierra Mist?
I only drink water. But oh damn, when those brownie bites come out we go WILD! They're only for special occasions though, because I drive an Acura.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 02:43 PM
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Software Development Engineer for a Fortune 500 company. I integrate hardware (sensors) en-masse with software (backend) and also make it look pretty (frontend).

Where I live... there's some special brownies. I have yet to try them. I drink tea and liquor!
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 03:22 PM
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Retired middle manager. We spend more on travel than on cars. We finished our retirement travel bucket list, made a second one, and finished that.

Do things while you can, you don’t get the time back.

Oh for sure. Traveling and seeing the world and new cultures is awesome. Definitely lot of to see/do on my travel bucket list as well.

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What do I do for a living?
Quality Engineer for a dental products company. Used to be middle management. Possibly never again, unless there's a big jump in pay.

Sierra Mist?
I only drink water. But oh damn, when those brownie bites come out we go WILD! They're only for special occasions though, because I drive an Acura.


For myself (even though I don't own a 3G RDX currently, though I could....at least I do own an Acura product....)
What do I do for a living?
I'm in healthcare. Clinical side, not admin/management side. Still paying off a mountain of student loan debt....should be done in 2 years. Then may look into some guilty pleasure vehicles.....

Sierra Mist?
I'm more of a Sprite guy myself. Mostly water otherwise. Usually 2% organic milk from costco...gotta get your calcium and vit D, you know.

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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 03:30 PM
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Upper-Middle Management but we're only a 12 employee adhesive company. Otherwise, Jalopnik pretty much nailed me except for the fact that I'll alternate with Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper and Sprite Zero (Sierra Mist only when I go to the movies).
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 03:53 PM
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I mean, I haven't owned an Acura since 2009 when I changed over to the FX50...and my incoming car replacing the MINI is an Audi...

But, FWIW, I am in middle management as well. IT consulting.

Guilty pleasures? Well, if it's soda we are talking about, I do enjoy Coke Zero on a rare occasion but otherwise. I drink whisky.
Never had Sierra Mist.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 03:57 PM
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Seems to me that there's a good representation of current and former I.T. folks here (myself included). Not sure what, if anything, that means but something I noticed.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 04:12 PM
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Seems to me that there's a good representation of current and former I.T. folks here (myself included). Not sure what, if anything, that means but something I noticed.
Could be that these forums are more likely to be populated by people who know about computers and can navigate the world wide web with ease....lot of IT people on reddit as well I think...
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by nist7
Could be that these forums are more likely to be populated by people who know about computers and can navigate the world wide web with ease....lot of IT people on reddit as well I think...
I think it's the demographics of the members on here...by definition, those who participate or respond will LIKELY have a desk job that involves a computer (how else can you respond/post easily, right?)...And chances are, well, that means the IT demographic comes waving its hand esp. for those who respond in here. Hate to say it, but other professions like bean counters, well, they are too cheap as they are accountants and will likely own the Camrys and Accords instead. Or heck, Corollas and Fits.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 04:55 PM
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What do I do for a living?
Wife who is the primary driver of the RDX is in healthcare (Clinical Educator) within our local hospital network. I guess thats middle management. Im a steelworker, making the quality steel that Acura, Honda, Toyota, etc, etc, etc uses.

Sierra Mist?
Never heard of it. Water normally, but single malt scotch is my guilty pleasure.
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Old Oct 31, 2018 | 05:56 PM
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What do I do for a living?
Don't hit the demographic since the DD is an Audi...needless, I design and construct HV power electronic substations (FACTS and HVDC). Simply put...I keep your lights on, in a 138kV to 760kV kinda way.

Sierra Mist?
Not even as a mixer...please drink responsibly
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Old Nov 2, 2018 | 08:18 PM
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Old Nov 2, 2018 | 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumcha

I drink whisky.

Obviously!!!
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Old Nov 2, 2018 | 09:03 PM
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Executive Management and run a global sales organization.

Don't really drink but do have a craft beer every now and then.
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Old Nov 3, 2018 | 07:42 AM
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Software firm small business owner.

Favorite drink old fashioned.
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Old Nov 3, 2018 | 08:47 AM
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Old Nov 3, 2018 | 09:13 AM
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IT specialist for 35 years. Will retire in the spring drive the hell out of my RDX every day if possible.

No soda here, but a real nice double espresso to start the day.

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Old Nov 4, 2018 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by nist7
Tell us who you are, what you do for living and/or for fun! Share as much or as little as you wish!

Are you in middle management? Is your guilty pleasure a diet sierra mist every now and then? Or maybe it's a Little Bites brownie? /s

inspired by this thread: https://acurazine.com/forums/third-g...nks-we-974493/
Professor, Information Sciences. I teach Master and PhD students and lead the research team studying emerging networks of all kind. Deal quite a bit with the unmanned system of different types and the cyberspace for their operation.

I wouldn’t take the Jalopnik’s article seriously. It’s the “I want to be noticed” syndrome, far from good professional writing.

The pains of RDX infotainment system adaptation resonate well with our research lessons learned. We see it frequently in the field trials with vendors. Great pieces of new tech elements, features, as taking alone, which are underperforming as a part of emerging system ( RDX Internet of Things?). It takes time and numerous user trials to find their best fit into a new system. As somebody from this forum wisely mentioned before ( don’t remember the thread), we the first users of 3G RDX, are volunteer testers of its advanced features. The good news is about the infotainment My first two weeks of driving the RDX Advance, make me wishing Acura putting more of the Info/Nav software refinement effort along the lines of Apple Play and Android Auto smooth integration, making it fully transparent to the phone apps.They have to leave their own Nav control/editing features as simple and minimal, so we can take full benefit of operating our phone apps via the Touch Pad on the 10.2 “ screen. At the current level of tech push, none of the car manufactures, including Tesla, will be able to compete with the phone Nav systems advances. The best they can do it is to let these apps, new Google Maps, Wase, augmented reality nav , etc, just been shared smoothly through the car computer. I think, the RDX Infortainment unit is well positioned for it. They, Acura, simply need more feedback on our part to come up with fixes quickly. I hope, they will be uploading these updates to our cars soon.
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Old Nov 4, 2018 | 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by TheLevelOne
IT specialist for 35 years. Will retire in the spring drive the hell out of my RDX every day if possible.

No soda here, but a real nice double espresso to start the day.

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That's cool. COngrats on the retirement!
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Old Nov 5, 2018 | 01:11 AM
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I used to work at the region's public transit company for nearly a decade until earlier this year. I started a side biz with a couple of friends a few years ago and did some Kickstarter projects with it. Somehow it turned into a full time business.

I like cars (Honda/Acura being the favorite brand since I was a kid), playing and watching soccer (huge Liverpool fan), and in recent years, following Formula 1.
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Old Nov 5, 2018 | 08:56 AM
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I don't fit the demographic. Nor does my wife who's the primary driver of this car. Sierra Mist.....never. Never ever. I'll take a Lagunitas Little Sumpin. No IT background or middle management. Make my living as a pilot. Biz jet type stuff.
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Old Nov 5, 2018 | 10:19 AM
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I guess I don't fit the demographic either. I'm Chief Investment Officer for a mid-sized asset management firm, and I prefer scotch to Sierra Mist.

Also don't own an RDX, yet, but it's #1 on the list.
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Old Nov 5, 2018 | 06:10 PM
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Wink Nearing retirement ...

Doctoral level professional in mental health in a government setting, with some administrative duties. My clinical work is combined with technology as I see my patients who are in their homes over the computer. Tend to like coffee, tea and an occasional Diet Coke. But will choose a brownie over a cookie every time! Loving my 2019 RDX Advance - no issues whatsoever except that I love driving it so much the miles are adding up rather quickly!
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Old Nov 6, 2018 | 04:48 AM
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Retired from the academic world. RDX Advance (delighted with it). Mostly red wine. Occasional scotch and occasional martini.
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