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Originally Posted by pilotbob
What do you do? Are you a NASA launch controller or a 911 operator? Or, maybe an FAA Weather Briefer?
BOb - Feeling inadequate with his two monitors. (Three if I turn on the laptop.)
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Oh, those do sound like interesting jobs .... but, no. I have floated through a number of occupations over my (very long) life. For a number of years I worked in different capacities in hospitals (through college, graduate work and then post grad). I spent some time doing search and rescue work n the Sierra Nevada mountains. Then, in 1984 I decided to go to law school. For those four years, I did reagent research and development for American Red Cross. Then, I became an attorney.
That's what I'm doing at present ... and that's why all the monitors. Most of my work involves serious number crunching, and it's simply easier for me to have my internet, documents, spreadsheets and book-keeping programs open where I can easily refer to all of them without constantly alt tabbing between windows.
Now, I'll admit, that part of the reason I'm heavy on the monitors is that I've been building computers for almost 25 years now as a hobby, and I like to make use of things until I can no longer repair them. My workshop (in the garage) looks a bit like an electronics store most of the time. Top it off with the fact that, for a few years, I was maintaining houses in both California and Texas ... so l had two sets of computers there ... each with two monitors. When I decided to sell the California place and consolidate everything ... I hooked all four up and decided I liked that much better. It's been four monitors ever since. Six is only when I decide to put the laptops into the mix .... although I could throw in my tablet and make it seven, I suppose. But then I'd probably get whiplash.