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I'm curious what is your occupation ?and how you guys became a ppc junkie!





ME

Paratransit Supervisor for our Local Mass Transits System (SEPTA)

i started with my nextel i95 i mean way back i was curious about how to make ringtones and wallpapers and i visited this web site, that is now closed and been hooked ever since modifying mobile phones.

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I work for a walmart grocery distribution center. my buddy got an iphone and another buddy had a tmo wing so i checked out both and like htc device better. i had been looking at the qwest mogul for awhile, so one day said screw it and got it, i was HOOKED instantly. And after countless searches for programs, themes, and stuff like that, i came across a video dash had on youtube and bam ended up here.

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Well, i shouldnt really be writing anything in this thread cuz i dont really have what you can call a "JOB"...but i am a full time MOTHER/HOUSEWIFE and I DJ every once in a while..but its a hobby of mine so its not considered a job... :

I became a PPC junkie as soon as i registered on Wckediden and my first ppc was the Mogul....this was my first FORUM ever...and well in the beginning I would just come on here to download stuff...but then people started getting friendly and all so i started jumpin on here more often and well now im totaly addicted :)...

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hey nena being a mother is a job.No matter what anyone say !!!!

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I am an account manager. Very generic title, but in a nutshell, I am the muscle for supermarket marketing/advertising depts. Junkie wise, I had been eying ppcs when the 6700 came out. Wasn't totally sold on it, but I kept an eye out. Once the Mogul came out, I pounced on it. A few months went by and sitting in front of my computer late one night....(not what you're thinking), I thought, "Man, there's gotta be more this phone can do!" So I started searching stuff for Mogul and came across D/\SH and one of his couple of Youtube videos, and here I am. Thank you.

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I was working for Sears as the Recieving manager. One of the new guys that I hired had a Tilt when it had just come out. My contract was due and he talked me into getting a Mogul. Started to show me things I could do with the phone lol. From there found a video Dash had on Guitar Hero , been all over since that day!!!! :yahoo:

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I'm a chief Op/ reverb specialist at Aleris Int. been laid off for a litle while due to low aluminum demand from GM so now I'm a domestic engineer. lol

got into ppc when I went to buy my girlfriend a blackberry for her birthday and liked the mogul a lot better. after that seen D/\SH on youtube and hooked ever since.

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I am a Relocating Enginneer fancy term for truck driver...lol. I was due for an upgrade from sprint using a flip phone at the time spend a couple more bucks for a mogul, started searching stuff came accross an app that i liked and was routed to Wckediden, became a member and here we are..Sure wanna thnks everbody for help and info..forgot Touch pro user now..:glasses1:

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I work at bestbuy on GeekSquad >.< Um I havn't been active for awhile now that ive been moving around, but I'm getting a new phone(the touch pro) so you mite see some more of me now

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lol welcome, where did you go when dashy needed you, when he was having issue with his lap top....hahhahahah good luck on your new pro its awesome.

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I am a H.V.A.C Technician slash Engineer. Design layout & install heating systems and a/c for residential and commercial applications. Was Former Site owner slash admin at a well known pc warez site for around 6 yrs. As well as admin on a few other pc sites. Bought my apache cause i wanted to keep in touch on those sites when mobile. the bug bit. I left all my pc sites. Dove into ppc full stroke. Dashy was first to befriend me...oh my dashy poo....Then I met...well we will call him "angel". since then I have climb the ranks to where i am.No looking back. For I am a Wckediden.

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I am a licensed veterinary technician after being a big city cop for 10 years. My first phone was vogue and after seing a dash video on utube I was hooked. Now got the pro...and learning everyday...

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dashy poo huh !!!!! lol...yep and you deserve it with the experience i was looking for.

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I work for a chimney company, but wait b4 u say......."ohh that's gotta be a dirty job", well it is for others, but not for me since the company only concentrates in the Hamptons area here in NY, don't know the Hamptons?, well I've been to Puff Daddy's house, Marty Bregman(ScarFace producer), Lorraine Braccos, Paul Newman, Roy Scheider, Robert Sillerman(owns American Idol assets), Ron Perelman(#35 richest man in the world) to name a few, well all these people have summer houses in the hamptons that they barely use lol.............and I became a Wckediden junkie after watching some of Dash videos on youtube(damn you Dash, i could be doing homework right now lol)

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Sounds like cool job to me if you get to work with people like that !!!!!

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It is man, we move from house to house and every customer is something new, that's what I like the most about my job.

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Im a philly cop, and just happened to pick up a mogul one day because I wanted a Touch screen phone and thought the keyboard was cool to have. Did some searchin on google for some stuff, and came across Wckediden. Now....here I am:)

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not changing wcked but superman ..be careful out there...

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I am a Sprint/Nextel Business Solutions Specialist and a National Account Executive for Sprint/Nextel. I became a member on this forum over a year ago and have ended having another family here on Wckediden. I love this forum!

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Ha, I havn't been on in awhile, the time when he had it hooked up dual monitor to the tv?

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Dam didn't know you where way up there like at Sprint!!!! Your person to come to if I got problems there Lmao

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so you are the Solution Specialist driving all Sprint customers away?......lol j/k bro :toothy12:

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The best way to described what I do is that I analyze alot of stuff....figure out what is going on where and what I can do about it....As for the PPC, well, I was watching TV and seeing all the neat phones (touch, diamond, LG's, etc etc etc). I knew that some phones could be flashed, but had to do alot of Google searcing...I have a bit of background using VB for developing PalmOS databases. I have been thinking about trying to develop my own launcher (all i have to do is figure out how to do it). I have some ideas for what I wold want, who knows? maybe someone else might also.....so in a few years, maybe I will have one! LOL

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Im in school and i gotta ppc6700 off ebay and looked for downloads and came across Wckediden

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Well Im an actor... out in NYC... basically non stop hustlin, maintaining that nyc lifestyle... my schedule and life got to the point where I need something more advance and functional than a basic clamsheel... did some research on tested out some phone till I eventually settled on touch, cuz of its professional capabilites, fnctionality cos effectivness and it was a cool phone.. started surfin to learn more about it, and i dont remeebr if I saw the videos, and found it browsin google or even through another forum... but however it happend.. it was meant to be, and today I proadly say... I am a Junkie!

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My job is complicated. I'm told to say I am a SATCOM technician. Thats the best way to sum it up, but there is so much more to the job. Think any movie where you see the DoD communications room. Yep thats me.

I started with the Mogul. It came out right as I was about to go for the 6700. I googled a few sites and stumbled here. I havent left yet!

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well i did work corporate for sprint running and looking over the receiving area for all new phones as well as doing beta testing. ( included the bad batch of original touch pros that we had to flash) (24,000 phones in one night!!) but that was a fun night between all of us and couldnt tell you how many red bulls, doritos, and pizzas we went through. ( bought 10 different stores out of their frozen pizzas hahaha) but now i work at metro health hospital as an security officer. do the basic restraints, calming of situations, 10-99's which are taking expired/dead bodies from the room down to the morgue and transferring from the bed to the gurney. i got into the smartphone/ppc game about 2 years ago now... i was searching the net and found my first forum on smartphones especially the WM2003 nextel i930 since thats the firsdt one i had. ( i know doesnt really count lmao) but anyways i was addicted and than found a very nice board in and loved the hacks, the styles, the professional skins, (i mean professional and mass amount of them to choose from) and many other things. thats where i met wcked and started asking him if i could post this or that up since it was consoderd to be warez..... not soon after that and my posting of applications onto the boards he asked if i wanted to be public uploader which i agreed upon. (3 days after joining :) ) than i went to mod a couple weeks later, and than to Admin later on after we got more of a feel for eachother. after some chatting with wcked (aka wcked) he offered me a chance i couldnt say no to. he said he had an extra license and since IDEN phones and modding them was dying down and pretty much done for he asked if i would like to be his partner in making a new site. I gladly accepted the offer (never expecting to have the tag i do next to my name) and got to work on the boards. never thought we would be this big and soooo fast but hell we are good like that... so basically without wcked i would be able to guarntee i would be an iphoner or basic phone person since without this place i wouldnt have strived to learn more about the devices and much much more. and the name of the site some may ask where that came from lmao..... well on puertotech it said information junkie so i thought why not Wckediden and keep with the team and that just pretty much stuck out more than any of the other ideas that we had so it stuck.... now that my novel is done being wrote i got to click that submit button to get this off to print so i dont bore you all anymore..... hahahaha

Cool Thread wcked

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I'm an Assistant Manager for The Home Depot, and I started with my first touch screen was the Sony Ericsson P800, from there moved to the P900. One day I was looking for something better on ebay and came accross the IMATE PPC Phone Edition, fell in love with it! Especially since it was more of a business phone intergrated into a "palm pilot". I than got the Tmo Wing and I had already known about flashing roms, and in searching on youtube I came accross a video from Tigerz, and have been like a crack head with everyone on here, I have to atleast check it out twicw a day. Thanks guys you guys are the BEST!!!!

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I'm a Paramedic for a private non-profit company in North Central Ohio. We do 911 emergency calls and facility transfers (hospital to hospital, nursing homes, regular homes for people with no other way of doing so). Been a medic for 3 years.

Yeah, I almost went to the iphone at first but thankfully I did some research. Being a huge sports fan I wanted something I could use my slingbox with, and I also had just discovered the $30 SERO plan right before they changed it (amazing). I did some searching and came across vids from Dash and Tigerz and decided on the Vogue, then went to the Mogul, and thanks to Wckediden moved on to a free Touch Pro. Love this site. This was my first forum and IMO is the best of any I now belong to.

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lol..no problem i always wanted to know everyone occupation before being an addict..hahahahahaha and you know what dashy that i920 which was replaced with the i930 and then discontinued is still a hot item...lol

no not tigerz ,,hahahahah he's a cool kat but always loved those screaming seagull...lol

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yeah i see that since they still go for a descent price.... you couldnt do anything on that phone lmao, and oh boy! the scrsaming seagull lmao

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i am a warehouse recieving clerk in san antonio texas for a growing supermarket(H.E.B.). as far as how i became a junkie, well that's a funny story. i never been a phone kinda person. it was my wife who would always have a new phone every other month. so finallly she got me a gift of my dream phone, the mogul 6800. since then i've been hooked. now my wife wants to get a windows moblie phone.

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Well I am a student, not working right now. And well my first phone was the HTC Touch and decided to youtube some videos about it, and I saw a video from DASH and joined the site. Love it here. :>

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hi wel i am a machine operator cnc and a student lol aswell taking pc security course still learning alot. my first smartphone whas the mpx200 i still have it runs 6.1 custom v2rom found xda so i start flashing i whanted something new lookt at al htc models and order the touch started looking on you tube i whanted iphone look so i typing htc iphone interface and found D/\SH mogul whit mario theme and iphone awesome vid i think i have see a lot of vids haha big jews touch i whas hookt so thats how i got here and i never left Wckediden again

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I am going to USF down here in Tampa, FL for mechanical engineering and minoring in computer science. I eventually wanna do weapons engineering. but as of right now i work at The Home Depot. Im the loader, but i also work in lumber, and tool rental.
I got into PPC's not too long ago. i went into Alltel and was looking at phones cause i was bored and came across the PPC6800, and knew i couldnt afford it. So i started looking around and obsessing about smartphones, and came across this site from DASH's youtube. I instantly fell in love. i like all the programming aspects, and the design things. And i too am learning more and more everyday...there are sometimes i wish i just had a simple phone again though. but i love it. Sorry for length!

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I am a Sonic Drive-In manager working about 70-85 hours a week on average. I have always had an interest in technology and how it works. I started modding and building my own home PC's since at about the age of around 14. I remember when I first saw the PPC-6700 first was to come out with sprint and I nearly flipped. Saved up, got me one, and have been hooked ever since.

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i am a digitizer for taylormade golf supplies. also known as tmax. everytime you order an item from tmax with a custom logo on it i digitized it. basically i get the logos sent to me i digitize them so the logo can be sewn onto the piece like a golf bag, backpack, or whatever then i send the logo to the embroidery room and they embroider the piece. its pawnage work.

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I am a tow truck driver wanting to get back into truck driving again... I heard about metro pcs being able to flash phones and came across a site that was selling the diamond for like $700 did some searching to find it cheaper and ended up coming across D/\sh's utube vid's signed up here got my tp and been a junkie ever since!

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I am currently in the military (USAF, to be more specific). I have been in a little over 19 years, and debating weather to retire next year and move on, or stay in due to this horrible economy. I am stationed in quiet Abilene TX, but was born and raised in NYC. I have been building computers since I was 15, and into all types of electronics. I had a Mogul, but then deployed, and when I came back, upgraded to the Touch Pro. I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and taking advantage of what this site has to offer. You guys have saved me countless trips to the Sprint store already!

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I get the nice generic title of Consultant, or I guess technically Implementation Consultant. When a client wants our product, I work with them on requirements for merging data, hardware, all that jazz. Good thing is I usually get to travel a lot (which I love) and I work from home when I'm not. Gotta love the 10 second commute during rush hour. :D

As for Wckediden. When I took the job with the travel, figured it was time to move from the LG clamshell I had (vx 8300 I think it was) to a smartphone so I could link with exchange server at work and all that jazz. I had been hacking the LGs as much as possible (custom flash wallpapers and ringtones without paying VZW for them), so I started trying to see if I could do the same with the smartphones. Researching what I could do with the Mogul led me here.

Since I did the footwork ahead of time, I flashed my Mogul the day I got it and have never looked back. :yahoo: I think the longest I ran a stock rom was two days with the TP because Sprint had trouble getting my data working.

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i'm a systems/network administrator for the Federal Housing Finance board, semi pro musician (i play drums) and tech addict. i was a faithfull samsung fan until i wanted to go beyond the ringtones and wallpapers thing not just sounding unique but make it look unique too so i found the touch and the sprint users forum, that didn't quite whet my whistle so i kept looking around and found XDA and PPC geeks and Wckediden and this is where i've stuck i used to just lurk around in the shadows but now i've become much more active, now i have the page constantly up on my desktop all day everyday... it's been a fun ride and it just keeps getting better

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Chef... I work at a high end country club I work under a Chef who is very well known but im about to go back to school for computer science probably gonna specialize in graphics design animation hopefully i can squeeze programming in but anyways i seen a few of dashs videos on youtube b4 i actually signed up i had juz got htc touch and wuz looking to change my clock and sum other things.. i had a pm convo with dash and told him because of his videos im in the process of changing my career and i will thank him and Wckediden also because im finally pursuing something that i love but if anybody need recipes hit me up forget the crap on youtube im the real deal i do all menus i can help with dieting and setting up weekly menus to save money and eat healthy

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Funny you say that bro.. i was a Sou Chef for a Kosher cattering company, but cooked in the field for over 5 years.. i got some good recipes too kid.. we should link up

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CB radio tech/installer. We have a small CB shop on the east side of Houston. Been here a few years. We do all kinds of work with "Freight Relocation Specialists" and "Professional Steering Wheel Holders". That's what I get paid to do.

What I don't get paid to do is be a mother. I gave birth to four of them, and have too many customers that call me "MAMA" I do all kinds of stuff for my customers, for my kids too.

We got into this forum because of my hubby. He wanted a "smartphone" and was going to get the Palm 755, but it wasn't what he wanted. My fault for showing him youtube videos from Dash, that just started it all.

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May be a bit off topic, but I read what Daisy wrote. This is for you!

A few months ago, when I was picking up the children at school, another mother I knew well rushed up to me. Emily was fuming with indignation.

"Do you know what you and I are?" she demanded.

Before I could answer, and I didn't really have one handy, she blurted out the reason for her question. It seemed she had just returned from renewing her
driver's license at the County Clerk's office.

Asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. Emily had hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. "What I mean is," explained the recorder, "do
you have a job, or are you just a .....?"

"Of course I have a job," snapped Emily. "I'm a mother."

"We don't list 'mother' as an occupation...'housewife' covers it," said the recorder emphatically.

I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation, this time at our own Town Hall. The Clerk was obviously a career woman,
poised, efficient, and possessed of a high-sounding title like official Interrogator or Town Registrar.

"And what is your occupation?" she probed.

What made me say it, I do not know. The words simply popped out. "I'm a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations."

The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in midair, and looked up as though she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly, emphasizing the most
significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pompous pronouncement was written in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.

"Might I ask," said the clerk with new interest, "just what you do in your field?" Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply, "I have a continuing program of research [what mother doesn't) in the laboratory and in the field (normally I would have said indoors and out). I'm working for my Masters (the whole darned family) and already have four credits (all daughters)." "Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities [any mother care to disagree)? and I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are in satisfaction rather than just money."

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk's voice as she completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.

As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants--ages 13, 7, and 3. Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model (6 months) in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern. I felt triumphant! I had scored a beat on bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than "just another mother."

Motherhood...what a glorious career. Especially when there's a title on the door.

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Dunno what happened with the other post, what is all that code from?? Can someone edit it please? **mod edited**

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:lol: that is one heck of a post! ...and i most certainly agree with you in all aspects :) the good thing at this moment is that i only have ONE business associate lol...my son...but soon i would like to expand the business with hopefully a FEMALE associate :lol:....anywho thanks for giving us mothers credit for once :) i guess if people would learn to look at it in your perspective they would see how hard it really is :) not to mention rewarding at times :) :thumb:

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Know why there isn't a job title? Mothers don't do it for recognition. For that matter stay at home dad's don't either. The real reason is that then you would get in trouble for not paying taxes for domestic help. HA!

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you know whats funny i ran a kosher kitchen for a couple of years it was different but shit kept me on my toes i know that much and for sure on the link up.... anytime

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Im a supervisor for a major cable company and at nigh i bounce at a night club so i throw people around alot

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Nice, im in the process of changing my cooking and eating hapits... I may have to hit you up... if you have any healthy inexpensive receipes where I can start at please share... i love to cook!

Edited for yah... great post... except, i would change that title to something more like "Research Manager in the field of Child Development and Human Relations" or "Human resource manager in the field of child development and human relations"... after all... motherhood (parenthood in general) is like the biggest management position of all time...lol!

Kool... so how did you come to find Spj?