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Born on November, 24th 1976 in Langen/Germany and had a rather normal childhood in a normal family. So far.
Some people do not understand that I am special in some ways of my behaviour and whether they try to get into it or not makes them friends. If you think very sharply about that sentence you may discover this is so with simply everyone ...
I am the one I am and once you know me and can handle my “specialities” you´ll have a friend you can count on and have fun with most of the time ... however - read on!
After taking primary school I made it to “gymnasium” - a german school form similar to (junior-)high school.
After that I went on to the next stage - still called “gymnasium” here (don´t make any connections to a hall filled with sports equipment - that´s NOT it ...) - in general this could be compared with high school (next stage to junior-high school) - I chose “electronics” as my related topic back then for we got to choose a way through this school form.
At age 19 I made it through gymnasium and went to do my social services at our municipal youth institution, the “Jugendcafe”.
That time was best of all times up to now (that and my early kindergarden days ...) - I could practise drums three full hours daily and was simply in the best position for everything!
This was the perfect time to evolve my todays taste of music - I listened to the weirdest stuff and some things I still see as part of my musical education today - mainly fusion music which still is my most beloved music today and keeps me (a bit) out of the usual people´s music choice. Of course, I got myself into playing these styles as well and made quite some improvements in my playing and musical thinking skills thanks to those pieces of musical art.
One year later after my civil service I found myself with the serious decision about how to move on in life. My friend (and an impressive bass-player, god bless him) Till Sturm offered me an apprenticeship in the company he worked for - as a radio-television technician. I completed it and still appreciate handcraft skills so this was the right thing as is proven daily to me - a good base will never let you fall too deep, literally.
Well, as I said this quite was my interest back then and it still is today - I had one thing in mind - to repair and build own amplifiers - I joined in and did the apprenticeship in two years!
I made the best exam of the group and later became No.1 of my county in an official contest - I am officially the “Landessieger” (best-in-county) in my profession in 2000 - hear, hear ... ;o)
There came the time when I moved out from safe home - aged 23 - and that was the turning point !
So I asked myself if I really want to do the dull techinician job on the chain gang (an actual one with conveyor belt, imagine this ... I worked on it for 8 hours a day!!!) for the rest of my life and if I did the higher school for nothing - so I figured out a way to earn enough money to go on studying fulltime - self earning the needed money, that is.
I opened my own little company at age 23 (23 was the turn of the page, it really was ! ...) and worked as freelancer for bigger and even major (and, of course, smaller, too ..) event companies in event- & showbusiness. Fortunately with success for the rest of the nine years to come till I closed down my small business!
This includes setting up any kind of technical equipment for fairs, concerts, presentations - everything (and I STILL do that when I have the time - strictly for private amusement ;o) ..) + we´re talking about events from two-men conferences up to 25,000 visitor concerts and huge hall filling fairs - strictly professional!
As so with my 2006 extension into computer administration with 400+ clients such as the neighbours small network right over the street and VoIP telephony - it was a story of success.
My own company GU-MO (believe it or not - that´s simply an abbreviation for the german translation of “good morning” ... :o) ...) is now closed for good since I found a fulltime job and do not have time left for it.
But let me say that without arrogance - I am really proud about GU-MO as it paid for my studies and all other expenses featuring ever-growing revenue until the end (making ends meet, that is, which I still think is great!) - and this was me doing actual professional work.
When I finished my studies and became a professional electrical engineer holding a diploma now I simply had no spare time for a side job like GU-MO (but who knows .. the concept lives in mind, therefore GU-MO has not and will never really die!).
Then again, I stay low on my successes in public and do not carry them in front of me too much so sometimes people never even realise, I am not a simple construction worker but got some talent and a bit of brain in my skull, too.
However, I enjoy being a construction worker, too (if needed - call me ...) but don´t simply reduce me to that, please.
My range is - not at least due to my experience on music road, the apprenticeship and my studies - computers, networks, audio, video, repair, set-up, building own circuits for special needs, microelectronics and lately energy projects ... I have bitten my tongue for so many times when an idea I originally had came to production by another company some years later - but I still have an interesting idea here and there left ...
Today I am officially a “Diplom-Ingenieur” (Master of Science) in electronics/electrics - so following my way down to here on this page should show my efforts brought up some kind of success ...
Change is on the way now and I am pretty sure I will need an extra room to be equipped with my electronics workshop and my music/recording gear, what a relief it will be to have all of this in a seperate room without the need to keep everything neat and tidy all the time *smile* - this really wil be a “work”place and it shall look that way, there is no shame in that!
Since music is my only serious love in life I am (however) still searching for fellow-musicians in my musical direction (i.e. funk, fusion, jazz). Well, being nearly 35 is not too late for making out a new way, I think - we have lots of time here, such as the time making a website, maybe no one will ever see and read the insides of at all ... and once I find the time to go all that deep into Dreamweaver it “may” look more serious one day, who knows ... ;o)
NILS MAIER, 17.11.2011
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