Occupations

[Liar]

I'm a student who's just about to quit studying 'electrical engineering' and about to start new studies in 'journalism' and 'movie-studies' (sorry about the terms, don't know the correct english terms for it).

Hey, maybe you could take over my job when I go back to college? It combines tech engineering knowledge and journalism.

#L

 

[cloudy]

It's interesting how we develop mental pictures of people as we talk to them in the threads. It's also interesting how sometimes we nail it and sometimes we are a completly wrong.

I had a mental image of many of the responders here. Some I already knew most of it. Some my guesses were pretty close and with a few, I was not even in the ball park.

Of the ones I had guesses for:

Honey I was right.

Og and Dr M, I was pretty close.

Liar, Mat, I was kinda, sorta not really close.

Colly, I was a million miles off, never would have guessed that in ten lifetimes.

And the rest I either know already or didn't have a guess yet.

Anyone else guess right or wrong?

Were you right or wrong about me? Just wondered....

 

[upfront]

Re: Re: Occupations

It seems you've got people here who are able to waste most of their days posting to the AH. I wouldn't call that a cross section of society.

LOL. My thoughts precisely!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Were you right or wrong about me? Just wondered....

I already knew yours, you mentioned it one of my first days on the board.

 

[Mhari]

I've done a number of things in my life, but what I am now is unemployed. (You'd think that would give me more time to post and to write stories, woudn't ya?!)

I used to be a professor of history and engineering humanities. And a PhD candidate.

Now I am permanently ABD and looking to restart in bioscience, if I can. Gonna try to get a job as a lab tech for now (again, if I can) and see about getting into a program in January or next year.

Any suggestions on how to go about doing that, not to mention what a lab tech makes, would be most welcome! (I ask about the salary because I have two places I want to apply, but both say "must include salary requirements", and I haven't a clue as to what to ask for!)

~M

 

[Colleen Thomas]

It's interesting how we develop mental pictures of people as we talk to them in the threads. It's also interesting how sometimes we nail it and sometimes we are a completly wrong.

I had a mental image of many of the responders here. Some I already knew most of it. Some my guesses were pretty close and with a few, I was not even in the ball park.

Of the ones I had guesses for:

Honey I was right.

Og and Dr M, I was pretty close.

Liar, Mat, I was kinda, sorta not really close.

Colly, I was a million miles off, never would have guessed that in ten lifetimes.

And the rest I either know already or didn't have a guess yet.

Anyone else guess right or wrong?

I would dearly love to know what you guessed for me

-Colly

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Imagine me as an artist....that's what I'm pretending to be at this time.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I would dearly love to know what you guessed for me

-Colly

You always seem so incredibly literate and articualte in all your postings, not to mention how well all your stories are written I had you pegged as some kind of professor, literature maybe. Or maybe the owner of a book store.

I would have say that you are without a doubt, the most cultured linesman I have ever met. (And I work with them all the time.)

 

[Torg]

I'm a software designer and developer. I love my job when I get an interesting and challenging job, but I loathe it when it is boring or managed by idiots. I've been doing independent contracting for about 3 years, and I hate it. I'd like to get a good permanent position soon.

I'm also a darn good dad with five kids of various sorts (full-time, part-time, bio, step-, foster, etc.) and my wife running a daycare.

I'm also a Wiccan priest, perform pagan rituals at the new and full moons, have performed legal weddings, and have a polytheistic viewpoint.

My dream job would be some kind of game programming or creating web applications/services.

 

[comp|icity]

International spy... oh, bugger! I wasn't supposed to tell anyone that...

http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/icon_007.gif

..

 

[comp|icity]

ok, ok, I'm an IT consultant.

I do enjoy it, but am considering taking evening classes in plumbing, and the leaving to develop property in Tuscany...

 

[SnoopDog]

Hey, maybe you could take over my job when I go back to college? It combines tech engineering knowledge and journalism.

#L

Alright, though I have to say my knwoledge of tech engineering has not improved too well though I had it for one and a half years.

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

I'm a lead technician for a telecommunications/electronics cabling company. I also do network administration for small companies on the side.

6 ago I quit a 13 year career in the private resort industry because I hated my job so much it was turning me into an intolerable ass. I simply walked out one day and have not looked back. I swore then that I would never again do anything I didn't like to support myself.

I could say I'd like to do nothing and get paid, but that would not be quite true. I know how quickly I get bored. If I didn't have a job to go to I would go nuts inside a year.

I almost proved that two years ago when I spent 8 months out of work because I quit a company for writing bad paychecks.

I think I'll keep my current job. I'd like to have the money I was making in the resorts, but I support myself fairly well. So I won't complain.

 

[Randi Grail]

I don't do much.

I live very cheap, share a two room guest cabin with a friend in exchange for occational domestic work and extra labor on an old fashioned farm.

That, plus a small allowance from my family, allows me to live well, and read college courses by correspondence.

It's a wonderful, stress free easy life, if you can do without the big city comforts and diversions, and if you don't mind shoveling manure now and then.

 

[gauchecritic]

wearing womens clothes and not to be laughed at...

Wow. I'm impressed. Really. That you would say it out loud. Not the women's clothes thing (that's entirely up to you) but the wanting to not be laughed at... Don't ask me to explain (probably to do with my 'urbane' youth in a mining society)

I saw a guy at the seaside a few weeks ago who had gone the full ten yards with the wig and all, and the last thing I would have done was laugh. I was impressed then (broad daylight and simple clothing, not the drag thing) and I'm impressed now, I wish you well.

Gauche

 

[curious2c]

What do I do? Hmmm...sometimes I wonder that myself.

My job title...for whatever that is worth is Maintenance Tech5. Glorified name for an industrial mechanic. I have been a machinist, welder, millwright, heavy equipment mechanic, saw filer, and a few other things in my life, usually working with my hands...back, arms, legs...and other said body parts that are now begining to show the wear and tear.

Basicly, they break the pumps, conveyors, presses, whatever, and then I get called in to fix them. Usually performing miracles with no parts and lots of...um...blue-smoked words and phrases.

I have loved working with metals, woods, and my hands forever. Runs in my blood as I had great grandfathers that were blacksmiths, machinists, welders, and so on.

Grew up on a farm sort of, living in the village (town) and spending my summers on my grandfathers farm. My father bought the farm from my grandfather and then I spent even more time there. Loved those years.


I write because it has been in the back of my mind for a number of years now. My English teachers way back in high school would probably be shocked that I now write stories. (Let alone, erotic stories) Hell, every once in a while I am even surprised at myself for writing.

There, that's probably more than anyone needed or wanted to know.

 

[Honey123]

It's interesting how we develop mental pictures of people as we talk to them in the threads. It's also interesting how sometimes we nail it and sometimes we are a completly wrong.

I had a mental image of many of the responders here. Some I already knew most of it. Some my guesses were pretty close and with a few, I was not even in the ball park.

Of the ones I had guesses for:

Honey I was right.

Dammit, CD...how'd ya know??? Definately not my typing skills...

I do not have the "secretary spread", yet!

 

[Sunnie]

Well, currently, I am laid off, but up until last Friday I was a loan officer at our little family-owned-and-operated mortgage brokerage. (My husband is the project manager, and his cousin is Prez/CEO/owner guy, and HIS wife is processing manager...etc) It turns out I suck as a loan officer (should just stick to writing), and am going to move into the receptionist position come August.

So between the current time of being-a-housewife and the future time of being-a-receptionist, I'm drawing unemployment against my old job... ARBY's!

Yes. Before my entry into the professional world about a year ago, I'd spent EIGHT YEARS in lower-management fast-food work. GOD that shit sucks.

But my dream job always has been, and always will be, writing.

I wouldn't mind being a porn-site webmaster, either.

 

[rgraham666]

Currently, I'm a janitor. The job's physically tiring but the place I work is full of artist's studios, galleries, fancy food places (like a chocolatier) and other cool stuff like that.

Before that I was an urban hermit, hardly came out of my room, living on a disability.

Before that I was a mental patient. Not long, but I pray I don't go through that again.

Before that I was a computer programmer, self taught. I was good at it, but my lack of courtly skills made me unable to keep it.

Before that, I was a computer operator. Midnights, which is how I taught myself computer programming.

My first job was with the railroad. Not fun, working outdoors, in Northern Canada, midnights, in winter.

As far as my perfect job goes, I no longer think about it. A lingering effect of my illness is I no longer believe I have much of a future.

 

[Guest]

Gonna try to get a job as a lab tech for now (again, if I can) and see about getting into a program in January or next year.
Any suggestions on how to go about doing that, not to mention what a lab tech makes, would be most welcome!

'zdrast, Mhari. The salary will depend on where you apply. I'm certain lab techs at my uni make more than those where you are (cost of living, etc.) I'd think it'd be easy to call around to HR offices, or even check on the uni's websites.

Good luck, Perdita

 

[Mhari]

*hugs* Bolshoye spasibo, Perdita! Excellent idea, thanks! I seem to have PC tunnel vision these days...if I can't find it on-line, it doesn't exist!

~M

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

I'm a male nurse. I contract out to various agencies in the community and visit individuals at home who need medical help. I work with children from two months old to elderly patients suffereing from altzheimers and other ailments.

I love what I do but sometimes you hit the burn out phase. That's when it's time for a break for a week or two. I'd love to be able to write fulltime. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction it doesn't matter. Just to write.

 

[SeaCat]

I have done too many jobs to think about. I have been a special security officer for the U.S. Government dealing with Nukes. (Yes I still glow.) I have been a body guard. (I still do this but on a pro-bono basis for the local government, dealing with Battered women.) I worked for a couple of years building underwater robots. (BS in Electronics.)
I am now a C.N.A. in a local hospital, working on the Oncology unit while tryin to get back in the E.R. (Oh yeah I worked as an E.M.T. doing rescue in a Northeast City for five years. Had to leave because the pay sucked and I had a much too long commute. I never saw my new wife.)
My wife and I are bth currently taking courses to get our B.S. in Nursing. She's specialising in Pediatrics and I'm specialising in Trauma.

Cat

 

[rosco rathbone]

What do I do? Hmmm...sometimes I wonder that myself.

My job title...for whatever that is worth is Maintenance Tech5. Glorified name for an industrial mechanic. I have been a machinist, welder, millwright, heavy equipment mechanic, saw filer, and a few other things in my life, usually working with my hands...back, arms, legs...and other said body parts that are now begining to show the wear and tear.

Basicly, they break the pumps, conveyors, presses, whatever, and then I get called in to fix them. Usually performing miracles with no parts and lots of...um...blue-smoked words and phrases.

I have loved working with metals, woods, and my hands forever. Runs in my blood as I had great grandfathers that were blacksmiths, machinists, welders, and so on.

Grew up on a farm sort of, living in the village (town) and spending my summers on my grandfathers farm. My father bought the farm from my grandfather and then I spent even more time there. Loved those years.


I write because it has been in the back of my mind for a number of years now. My English teachers way back in high school would probably be shocked that I now write stories. (Let alone, erotic stories) Hell, every once in a while I am even surprised at myself for writing.

There, that's probably more than anyone needed or wanted to know.

Cool shit, man.

I'm an ironworker---structural steel erector. I have also been a door-to-door salesman, a cake decorator in a lebian-owned-and-operated vegan bakery, a lifeguard in a girl scout camp, a humble clerk in a mighty US Department Of, a scrivener, a linkboy, an ostler, and other occupations.

 

[Guest]