Austin Area TW Chapter (all gens welcome, even T4Rs; heck, just make it a Toyota and we're good)

Know what you're gonna major in yet?

 

Well, I have a general idea. Not sure on specifics. I'd like to major in Behavioral Psychology, but not a lot of schools offer that specific major. I'm super interested into how living things act when presented with a stimuli. More specifically how humans and things of higher intelligence act. But, I'd be fine majoring in anything that will help me in Law Enforcement. My thought behind the behavioral psych is that with that major it would suit me very well if I ever wanted to go federal and do like federal detective work, or serial offender work (arson,homicide,auto-theft,etc.)

 

If I don't major in some kind of psych degree I'll probably end up settling for criminal justice.

 

switching out of engineering?

lol, I stayed in it.

Civil Engineer.

 

You can be Margo Robio and fall for the Joker.

Sounds cool dude

They are, I'm sticking with it and nice! I wanted to do Civil a few years ago but I like the path I'm goin now

 

I ended up not finishing school

 

Same dude. Just wasn't for me.

 

That's a good plan. Those feds are really smart guys.

 

Posting these here too

 

Those brackets are sweet, glws

 

Thanks man

 

I dated a girl that knew this woman's daughter I believe and for college graduation she gave her daughter a house worth $900K or something stupid like that...so yes I would assume this is the same woman that owns the other Lexus dealership in town.

 

I quit after an associates, got real tired of school and work, school and work, school and work. Was working 30-40 hours a week at Best Buy and was taking 15-18hours every semester including summers. I wanted to go for a bachelors(still may ya never know) but was tired of putting myself more in debt and not getting anywhere with a $15k a year job. So I looked for the best job opportunity I could after graduation.

I know a cloud systems engineer that works for Amazon that was a college dropout from Baylor (we got along real good together ) and he was recruited from a small company they bought out...now he's making $200K/year in Seattle living downtown!

 

Yea us dropouts tend to move towards the computer world since it's experience that matters and knowing your stuff. College degree looks nice on paper but I can out code and out engineer any college kid.

 

Hey @Misplaced Nebraskan, whats going on over at NXP? I see a lot of job postings here lately...are you guys scaling up???

 

NAHHHH! I'm not very modded either. Just some aftermarket wheels, AT tires, & a roll-up bed cover(I'm still in get out of debt mode). Although the interior and electronics are a different story. I felt the same last month when I pulled up next to all these guys and they are just lifted and modded out the wazzzooooo lol. Definitely gives some really good perspective though on what you may want to do to your truck in the future.

Next on my list though...
-Ultimate headlight upgrade (with new headlights)
-Lift??? 3" probably OME given the research I've been doing
-Bed cap or softtopper maybe...or maybe just some bedrails or something and keep the roll-up a while yet
-Weathertech mats (currently have the Tacoma All weather mats)
-Hood struts
-New double din screen with backup cam
-New speakers all the way around with a small behind the radio 50W RMS amp
-Billet grille insert with Toyota emblem
-New tires (next year)
-eventually fix the leak coming from the timing cover...dreading this one...they quoted me near $2000 to do that job at Autonation. OUCH AF

 

This is almost my list exactly minus a few things.
Speaking of AutoNation, anyone know how much they'd charge for a 60k maintenance. Since I just got my truck I wanna get that done for all of the inspection aspects and see that everything is healthy and in good working order.

 

Last year I dealt with Jared Jones in the service department at autonation...not sure if he's still there but he did hook me up with 10%off service when I had all fluids changed last year. His number on the card says 5125186900

 

The Qualcomm buyout is still moving forward and driving that I'm sure, but haven't heard much in the way of scaling up. But in the area I work in, we're always the last to find out anything.