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Name: Sean DOB: January 9th, 1987 Area; Seattle, WA
August 06, 2009
I'm 6'0", 210 lbs, red head with a semi-athletic build. I recently graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering emphasizing large scale power, power electronics, and sustainable energy systems. I don't know why I really did the whole electrical engineering thing, I don't feel like it is my passion- it just came easy to me. I currently live in Seattle, WA in the University District and my lease is ending soon, so I'm looking to move out of the U-District in to some place that doesn't gouge young people out of all their money for run-down shacks they call housing (I'm only a little bitter). I'm planning on moving in with my girlfriend of 1.5+ years into a place where she can continue to go to her current school and I can commute to my newly acquired job.
So, I'm offically an Electrical Test Engineer for EOSpace, a Boeing offshoot company that fabricates and manufactures fiberoptic products for the Department of Defense and other government type agencies. My title should really be Knob Turner, because that's what I feel like I'll be doing mostly. I really don't know yet, it's my fourth day right now. The people are nice, the atmosphere is cozy, and it beats the shit out of being unemployed.
I was employed for about five months following my graduation from the UW. It was nice to have a vacation, but towards the end the anxiety started piling on. Staring at a $16,125 debt to the Federal government for student loans, apartment lease about to end, and unemployed... That's about the most unpleasant spot to be in. The free time was good, though, it allowed me to get burnt out on atleast a couple of games.
My major problem is that whatever I tend to do, I tend to do en masse. I hardly ever do something half-way and anything can hold my attention for a good amount of time typically ends up being my life-consuming addiction for atleast a few weeks. There is something about the patterns, the repetitiveness, the focus, that I can lose myself in. A lot of what I do just seems easy to me, there is very few things in my life that I have spent a reasonable amount of time on and been completely lost. It's more likely that I get good at it pretty quickly and then I start to yell at everyone else that isn't as good as me.
Enter the computer games. I've been playing with computers since I was in the second grade. The first computer I had I used to play around in MS Paint. For. Hours. MS Paint. In retrospect I didn't even really do anything that cool. Since then I've played a lot of games, but the ones that got me to where I am today are: MMORPGs:Diablo, Ultima Online, EverQuest, Dark Ages of Camelot, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Age of Reckoning; FPSs: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare; RTSs: StarCraft + expansion, Warcraft I-III + the Frozen Throne -> primarily playing DOTA off and on for the last five plus years.
I also play an assorted variety of board games: Puetro Rico, Settlers of Catan, Twilight Imperium... some others as well, I guess.
I also try to be a very active person, despite all the hours spent gaming. I played baseball through fifth grade (quit to pursue my Ultima Online gaming career!), ran track in eighth grade, swam sophomore through senior year of high school, and threw for the track team senior year. The only spot I was really good at was baseball, but I never really gave my talent a chance to develop. I also did two and a half years of Tae Kwon Do during my baseball years, it was fun at the time but I really didn't care too much about it one way or the other. Junior year of college I did a quarter of Judo, which was fun albeit not what I was looking for. I'd probably do more of it in the future, but at a dojo instead of a club. I also trained at Ivan Salaverry MMA for six months in wrestling and submissiong wrestling. In the future, I'd like to return to the gym and continue my training so I can compete. The competiveness of sports is the real motivation for me. Being better than the other guy satisfies something inside of me.
A lot of people think that I'm an asshole, but they can go fuck themselves, because I'm not.
I'm a pretty observant guy, probably over observant. While it does lend itself to some activities, it can also make some social interaction difficult. I like to think that I'm a relatively social guy though. I've tore up my share of dance floors, chased after my fair share of girls, and collected a few friends over the years.
I'm also a psycho.
GOALS: ----- Be a cage fighter: ----- Be a racecar driver: ----- Be a airplane pilot:
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