Folks Of Interest All My Friends... Know The Lowrider...

If you are in design school don't give it up - it will only help you build better cars. Four years of design training will give you the 'eye' you need to build a car with proper lines and flow.

That said - now is the time to take a risk and start something. I wish I had tried to launch a car business while I had roomies to split bills with. It's a lot harder to take a risk when you have bills to pay and a wife and/or kids that depend on you.

 

You're right.....Guess I'm the dreamer you refer to.

Don't know what I'd do to make it other than what I'm doing! I'd love to find something I can be good enough at to pay the mortgage and college for my 2 girls. Still hoping for scholarships!

God and I will figure it out one day!

 

If you can't whistle on your way to work.......................don't go.

 

Man Ryan I always like your posts, but this must be the best. I went through and read them all it makes me want to go change right now, and go for a drive

 

I remember the lowrider post well Its the post that got me started on my own company still not there yet and still trying to scratch the cash to get copy write and cant figure out how to use photoshop but I am heading in a good direction. Right now I work in a cube but at least the scenery is good I have a job and will be buying my first house in a month or so and I am making slow progress on my Galaxie.

 

Good and true words, and very very well written. The best words I've read for a long time. And it really have a flow with the words, it is poetry Ryan, the same feeling as I got when you wrote that old one, about the old custom car gods. And it starts wind up my mind again... I haven´t cut off the string as main employer, they give me 90% of my income. But the other 10% grows constantly and I guess it will be 25% this year... The day when that string will be disconnected, and I will be free floating is not that distant.

 

Beautiful

 

My sentiments exactly. . .Great read!

 

Good on you for not forgetting how you got it all started, and for keeping it real for the rest of us

 

Nice! Great story... Livin' a dream...

 

Cool story, actually, thats what its all about, We all have the knives in the hand to make sharp cuts in the direction of our lives.

One day a friend of mine asked me, if I would drive around some of these bankers from my hometown in my old Opel together with a few other old car guys and their cars. These bank guys in my car were talking the WHOLE time about business......After a while one of this guys asked me "Whats so funny?" (he must've mentioned the smile on my face). I said that I could never do their job.
They asked why. Cause You seem not to have any time to relax and enjoy, I replied.
Poor people......
I believe, the only thing we can take with us, when we leave live, will be the memories of the good times we had......
I do not want my memories to consist of too much talk about business.....)))))))))

 

Many really great responses - always good to spend a few moments thinking about our choices - made and to be made.

I was very focused early on and enjoyed the path I chose so much that I stayed with it until nearly 40 years went by. Guess memory leaves out the difficult bits, but it was always exciting to go to the studios each day with the ***umption we could always improve what ever designs we had underway.
Never really seemed like 'work' to me.

Ryan, get healthy soon and thanks for this great forum you have put together.

 

Good for you Ryan.

You have found comfort in your own skin and it is really showing in your writing and opinions here on the board. Funny, but it does come across.

 

Best. Thread. Ever.

 

If he doesn't my wife does, So we can leave corpus for good.

now for the Thread. In jan 2006, I was fed up with making everyone and their brother money BUT ME!! So I left working for dealerships and started remodeling houses, flipping houses, and misc. odd jobs. I had never been happier, until may of 2007 when I was hit head on by a drunk, now I am almost totally healed up and getting back into the swing of things, only with a twist now. Two semesters ago I started back to school to be a machinist, Boy I love it, from the first time I stepped into the shop I was almost in heaven. So now that I am almost done with school (couple of more semesters for my ***ociates degree in industrial machining) we are ready to get out of Corpus and do what we love in life. I will keep doing the remodeling gig, and buying houses to flip or rent, and when I can finally settle down in a new town, I can use my machinist experience to build more of what I love, Building Hot Rods with no one looking over my shoulder.

Viva La HAMB.
Thanks for all the FUN hours you have put in for us hoodlums.

 

Thanks Ryan! Half an hour to read all. Thanks to all.

 

Great post Ryan. Hope you get well soon, cause the roundup is getting close.

 

That just might be the most important piece of advice any young person could possibly hear. I'm forwarding it to my 19 years old (today) son who is in his first year of a design program.

Thanks Ryan.

 

glad somebody can truly live the dream. grats

 

Well stated, I also love the front end of that 65 Riviera in the main picture.

Jerome

 

Where do you work?

 

Wow. This post hits me right between the eyes. Just last month I told the owner of the company that I want to transition out to pursue teaching middle school.... Crazy, I know.. but it's what I really want to do. Part of me is thinking "don't be stupid leaving your job in this economy!!" but I must do this, or be stuck in a rut for years to come.

 

Ironic: Today was my last day at a job I've held for 5 years. At times it ****ed, but it allowed us to buy a home, benefits were great so childbirth was cheap, and it's led to a better gig, my dream job actually. A good buddy recommended me, and my old job prepared me and qualified me for the new one, so goes to show friends and family go a long way, and so does hard work. I think if you just have a vision of where you want to be (guy in lowrider), let people know your vision, particularly friends that care and can help, and then do your current job damn well... you can't go wrong. It may take 5 years, and actually 10 years since I took a leap and changed majors a year short of graduating. Hell, today's a great day, and thanks, Ryan, for putting it into perspective! -Schess

 

mhm..im going to like this..the low low

 

My Favorite thing about quitting and doing what I love, (teaching guitar) is hearing the traffic report in the morning and knowing that that used to be me in the jam.... then I go back to sleep till it;s time for students...

 

I (unlike many) believe that you only get one shot at life. To do what you truly love doing, with those that you love doing it with, as much as possible, is a duty!
Wearing "the uniform" lets others of like mind or who know the code, know where you're at as well as enabling you to feel comfortable with your place in the world.
Kudos to ya Ryan!

 

Being a mechanic that sells fish, has it's advantages, I can always stink, and I always have work! No tie for this mechanical ****er!

 

Great Ryan, now we have a bunch of honest people walking out on their bread and ****er to chase some friggin dream...

I did and it worked out great for me!

now if I could only be on some home makeover show....