New Job....

[KidJethro]

I can finally talk about it a bit now that it's a sure thing. Took the new job I was talkin about in the commuting thread. It's in Paradise, CA- I'll be High Angle Drivelines new main shaft builder/assembler/shipping guy. :D I start tommorrow officially. Just got back from spending a day up there checkin the shop out, seeing how things run, meeting Jesse, lookin around Paradise and Chico. The 78 mile drive takes about an hour and 15 minutes...So I'm 99% sure I'm gonna move to Chico sometime soon. Alittle cheaper to live up that way too. :) Finally a job I'm pretty sure I'll actually enjoy.... I've always wanted to work in the 4x4/wheelin industry somehow. Finally got my foot in the door. : :beer:

[BRBoudreaux]

Congrats. :2thumbs: :2thumbs: :2thumbs:

I doubt a lot of us are working in our happy place cause it's so hard to find. :2thumbs: :2thumbs: :2thumbs:

[KidJethro]

I doubt a lot of us are working in our happy place cause it's so hard to find. :2thumbs: :2thumbs: :2thumbs:

Thats the key right there- Working in your happy place. Makes life about 1000% better when ya enjoy what your doin for a living. :D

[4X4HIGH]

Cool stuff Joe. Sooo, i will give you my measurements and have YOU build me a shaft. :D

[Ryan B.]

Sweet! congrats dude thats awsome!

[barbastard]

Right on Joe...very happy for you man. You'll love it up there. I'm a Chico State Alum, so if you need any tips or advice on areas up there to live or places to go check out, etc. feel free to hit me up. Cool you'll be up there....I now have a place to crash when I go back up to Chico every now and then to party!!!! :2thumbs: :flipoff2:

[jays68yak]

now what was it you were saying about young drunk chicks? :p

[KidJethro]

Right on Nate...good to know someone that knows the area. I'll prolly have questions for ya sooner or later. :pimp1:

Paradise seems to be a cool town...ALOT like where I live now. Dunno bout livin there though, I think I'm gonna check out Chico alittle more throughly. Lotta eye candy cruisin around I'd imagine cause of CSU. :D

Now that I think about it...Nate- Ya know anything about this place? What kinda neighborhood? Ghetto?
http://www.rentnet.com/apartments/fyp/search/brochure/brochure.jhtml;$sessionid$3ODYBQ43DMT0MCQAQUCCFFQ? pid=369606&cPointer=

Just one of the places I've been checkin out online. It would prolly just be a temp thing till I could find a place with a yard or some place to park my truggy.

[KidJethro]

now what was it you were saying about young drunk chicks? :p

I said they were stupid....Never said they weren't good to look at. :flipoff2:

[4X4HIGH]

I have an Aunt that lives in Paradise. I've only been there twice but it seems like a pretty cool place.

[Dandwg]

Great to hear bud! :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[UseYourBlinker]

Congrat's Joe. You will be making me some shaft's in the near future :2thumbs:

[Burt4x4]

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !
Congrats Joe :beer: :beer: :pimp2: :beer: :beer:

[PaloAltoK5]

Right on Nate...good to know someone that knows the area. I'll prolly have questions for ya sooner or later. :pimp1:

Paradise seems to be a cool town...ALOT like where I live now. Dunno bout livin there though, I think I'm gonna check out Chico alittle more throughly. Lotta eye candy cruisin around I'd imagine cause of CSU. :D

Now that I think about it...Nate- Ya know anything about this place? What kinda neighborhood? Ghetto?
http://www.rentnet.com/apartments/fyp/search/brochure/brochure.jhtml;$sessionid$3ODYBQ43DMT0MCQAQUCCFFQ? pid=369606&cPointer=

Just one of the places I've been checkin out online. It would prolly just be a temp thing till I could find a place with a yard or some place to park my truggy.

Remember, now after work you can take skyway till it turns to dirt, follow that till it forks, stay left then when it T's go right and your on the High Lakes 4x4 Trail!! :2thumbs:

And now we'll have a staging area closer to the trail head!! haha :beer: :pimp1:

[barbastard]

Right on Nate...good to know someone that knows the area. I'll prolly have questions for ya sooner or later. :pimp1:

Paradise seems to be a cool town...ALOT like where I live now. Dunno bout livin there though, I think I'm gonna check out Chico alittle more throughly. Lotta eye candy cruisin around I'd imagine cause of CSU. :D

Now that I think about it...Nate- Ya know anything about this place? What kinda neighborhood? Ghetto?
http://www.rentnet.com/apartments/fyp/search/brochure/brochure.jhtml;$sessionid$3ODYBQ43DMT0MCQAQUCCFFQ? pid=369606&cPointer=

Just one of the places I've been checkin out online. It would prolly just be a temp thing till I could find a place with a yard or some place to park my truggy.

Joe, West Park Plaza is ok. I had some friends that lived there when I was in school and I “knew” :mrhumpy: a chic that lived there after I got out. It’s a big complex, has a couple pools, and has mostly (90%+) college students that live there (at least when I was there from 1996 to 2000). The area it’s in is ok. We used to call the area right by it the “ghetto”….but it’s Chico so it’s not like East Oakland or Compton. The Ghetto area was from Nord to West Sac up to Warner and over to 4th Ave. But I lived like 2 blocks north-east of that area for like 1.5 years and loved it. I’d say go for it man….especially if it’s going to be temporary. I just hope you like loud drunken college students, parties, and young impressionable nubile ladies who are down for random hook ups!!! :pimp1: :2thumbs: :beer:

Let me know if I can help out any other way. I know that part of town like the back of my hand man. Actually….I’m jealous you’re moving there. I’d give my left nut to find a job that paid decent up there and was in my career field….me and the wife would be there in a heartbeat.

Good luck man!!!

[barbastard]

Remember, now after work you can take skyway till it turns to dirt, follow that till it forks, stay left then when it T's go right and your on the High Lakes 4x4 Trail!! :2thumbs:

And now we'll have a staging area closer to the trail head!! haha :beer: :pimp1:


True dat!!!! Glad to see we’ll have a club member close to the high lakes now. I’ve been wanting to get a club run up there for years…..maybe next spring/summer we can actually put one together.

I’ve still got friends that live in the area up there…one guy lives in Magalia and is like minutes away from the High Lakes.

Pick a day for a trip up there and I’m down!!!

[PaloAltoK5]

True dat!!!! Glad to see we’ll have a club member close to the high lakes now. I’ve been wanting to get a club run up there for years…..maybe next spring/summer we can actually put one together.

I’ve still got friends that live in the area up there…one guy lives in Magalia and is like minutes away from the High Lakes.

Pick a day for a trip up there and I’m down!!!

It's still about 30-45 minutes above Paradise.

Now, I used to live in Chico too, out in California Park on the east side of 99 off of 32 by the Butte County golf course, it's real nice and open over there. If your looking for apartments, I'll try and find the name of the places we lived in, they were pretty nice and clean too, and at that time only $400 a month...but that was '96-'97

[barbastard]

The dirt road leading into the high lakes (can’t remember the name of it) is about 1 mile from his house. I’ve done the trip with him from his house once or twice and it took us about 25-30 minutes. He’s got a flat fender willy’s jeep that isn’t even street legal that he just drives from his house out up to the high lakes….talk about spoiled. We had his bachelor party up there and we stayed at the bambi inn…talk about a drunken time!!! It was in early May and there was still TONS of snow up there.

If you were living out off California Park you were in the “ritzy” part of town man!!! They’ve got some NICE houses out there now. Even back in the day (96-97) it was considered the nice/new part of town.

[PaloAltoK5]

Yeah that is spoiled....wish I had it that ruff, but guess I have gotton to used to the other convienences of bay area life....oh well...

Chico and Ritzy in the same sentence...Haha, but true, however it was closer to my work off Skyway and 99...and moving up there from San Diego my wife and I decided away from the college was "safer" for the marriage... :rolleyes:

We are planning a wheelin trip the second weekend of November, probably not High Lakes, more south near Yermo, CA and Calico but the actual location is still in the air. Plus, we have our annual Moon Rocks run coming up in December, our buddy has a bunch of Comp nights in Reno, so we usually wheel all day and gamble at night. :2thumbs: