Back in Toronto, my family lives next door to a really funny old guy whos retired. He used to be a middle school pricipal for like 25 years or somethin like that. Any ways, he has 2 sons, one of them has some sort of mental condition and is a bit of shut in. Hes an absolute genious though. Like if he wasnt so anti-social because of this condition he has, he could be like...any thing. The guy is super super super smart. But his other son is the same way.
For maybe the last 3 or 4 years, hes been working for De Havilland designing aircrafts. He was bringing in big bucks from them. Like his last car he bought for his house here *has one in the UK aswell*, he wanted to buy a Porche, but couldnt find one he liked here. So he decided to fly over to Germany to go to Porche to custom build his 911.
Any ways, last time i was home, he was at his parents house visiting and we talked for a few minutes, I asked him if he was still working for De Havilland and he said "no, i left them about 3 months ago". To me that was a bit of a shock. He was making like 3/4 of a million every year working for them. So i asked him why he left. He said "Well, i found a job that relates to me a bit more, and they also offered me more $". So...that made me think even more. "who the hell would pay him more then 3/4 of a million a year? this jobs gotta be rediculous" So i finaly asked him.."...so...where did you get a job at??" He just looked at me and smiled and pointed to his Benz he was driving. So i said "Mercedes?" he shook his head and said "you know the new supercar they just made right?...the SLR McLuren?" so i shook my head yes..."well..im working for McLuren now."
So he got hired to work with McLuren's F1 team for the 2008/09 season. They ended up firing a few of their cheif designers, so they were looking for people in the areospace industry to help them with the designing of their cars for the new season. So when you see the new F1 cars next year...my next door neighbours son designed that thing.
SO next time hes home, im gonna ask him if he can get me a job working on the F1 team. Even if i get hired to work as a waterboy or the guy who gets the tools for the engineers workin on the cars...i would be in heaven.
But freakin cool is that eh?? He already told my dad hes gonna see if he can get me and him a autographed shirt by Hamilton.