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What's your profession? Age?

Just thought after the "how much is your system worth" post that it would be nice to see what all these people do to get $80K systems, and perhaps how long it takes. I'm a 29-year old economist for the gov., just completeed my Ph.D. last month, and my system is at about $10K. Just a pup hoping to keep upgrading...
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dpac996
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Electrical Engineer - Digital design with FPGAs but a nice background in RF test and measurement at a cool DoD facility and even a 2 year stint as read/write engineer at Maxtor Corp developing high-end scsi hdd's / age-34
descartes
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I just got done "earthquakeproofing" my gear. I spent the first 30 years of my life in Illinois and Wisconsin, so the thought of the earth throttling my system is a bit foreign to me.

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pummill
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Mfg. Engineer (aerospace/defense), 53 years old. System worth about $12k.
emulex
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An ex-physicist in early 30's anyway. I am budgeting 5K for a starter system and just started reading this forum ferociously.

My years in the lab with instruments and scopes made me highly suspicious about spending $1000 on power cords and cables. So we'll see how long it will take before I get to 50K! wahaha.
tubeears
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Retired: (very happily).
Journeyman power lineman (Local 1547 Alaska) and eventually that led into Systems distributions dispatcher (the "low" side of the substations .. scada controlled). Moved to the "lower 48" to settle down a few years ago. Audiophile since the mid-60's.
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