[Rhodes22-list] Chris

[Ronald Lipton]

It's nice to hear someone say "I get to do physics". Let me know if  
you are out
near Chicago and I can give you a tour of Fermilab and other physics  
stuff.


Ron
On Dec 18, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Chris Geankoplis wrote:

> NO, No, No Slim,
>                             For 25 years I was in retail management,
> primarialy Big Box stores ie Home Depot/Lowes type.  One day while  
> driving
> back from the Reno unit to Portland I had some time to think about  
> what the
> hell I was doing.
>
> So after going back for a masters in teaching I have the best gig I  
> ever
> had.  (Pays 1/3 as much as my other job) but where else do you get  
> paid to
> be as mature as your "customers", in this case 8th graders.  Jeez  
> I'm in
> middle school and I've got the keys to the chemical locker.  In the  
> last
> month I've been paid to blow up some styrofoam cups and set off some
> hydrogen and as an added bonus set my mustache on fire (not exactly  
> planned
> that).  After break I get to do physics, so that means bowling  
> balls off the
> roof among other stuff.  Hey, I didn't want to be in front of the  
> pearly
> gates and the only thing I could say was "Well I did help sell 387,000
> toilets".  I'm having too much fun to do anything else.  Seems to  
> me you did
> the same gig too didn't you?
>
> Chris G
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Alm" <stevenalm at comcast.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:23 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Chris
>
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Career change?  Did I miss something?  Aren't you a public school
>> teacher?  Tell me you came to your senses and got out of that racket.
>>
>> Slim
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Chris Geankoplis wrote:
>>
>>> Stan,
>>>        for that reply alone I nominate you!  All kidding aside, you
>>> are an
>>> inspiration, you showed me that doing what gives you joy is worth  
>>> more
>>> than
>>> doing what gives you security or wealth.  I don't think I would have
>>> made
>>> tha carreer change I did without your example.
>>>
>>> One of your devoted minions,
>>>
>>> Chris G
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:53 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] stan
>>>
>>>
>>>> Chris, when YOU get into your eighties you will know that you don't
>>>> have
>>> to
>>>> ask that question.
>>>>
>>>> ss
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Chris Geankoplis" <napoli68 at charter.net>
>>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:43 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] stan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> STAN WROTE "Rose and I were in bed discussing who should be Time
>>>>> Magazine's
>>>>> person of the year"
>>>>>
>>>>> Gee stan, was before or after?
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris G  : )
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
>>>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:22 AM
>>>>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] stan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rose and I were in bed discussing who should be Time Magazine's
>>>>> person
>>> of
>>>>> the year and, after going back on forth on the viable  
>>>>> candidates, I
>>>>> told
>>>>> her
>>>>> that it looks like it is going to have to be me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Son of a gun.....
>>>>>
>>>>> they made me share it with you and the entire List.
>>>>>
>>>>> ss
>>>>>
>>>>> A politically correct seasons' greeting to all.
>>>>>
>>>>> stan/rose/elton and the crew..
>>>>>
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