I'm Curious

[pakman]

What kinds of jobs do we lurkers hold? I know that it comes out in posts once in a while, but I would like to see the range of talent frequents these fora :)

Personally, I am still in school being educated for a degree in civil engineering after switching my focus from chemical engineering because I suck at chemistry. I currently hold a job at a civil enineering/architectural firm. We are in the pre-cast concrete industry and work with things like stadiums, parking garages, etc. Anything that is made of a majority of pre-cast concrete on the outside. We design the building and the parts. I work with AutoCAD, and I love it.

What do you do?

-pakman

[Zarathustra]

Full time student (PreMed)
EMT-B
Phramicist Technician

Yep, going to class, cruising around in an ambulance, and dealing drugs. Good times.

[The_lost_soul36]

im in the navy havbe been for 3 years one year left and i start my dream

hopfuly by this time next year i will open my performence shop in miami florida

[kandrathe]

IT Director for a .com

[BobThePumpkin]

High school student :ph34r:

[CowInvader]

High school student attending college full time next year. (CSci/EE)

[Mithrandir]

Preparing to study Biomedical Engineering :)

[Baylan]

High school student, athlete, full time nerd ;)

Baylan

[WarBlade]

Wild arrays of short term contracts. :D
The longest full time job I've had was six months working in a software retail business and I generally don't do well in full time employment, because of my jinx.

Business dried up for that place and it went belly up about six months after I left. Another software retail shop I got involved in granted me part time and casual work for about two years until my jinx finally kicked in and killed it.
The most impressive application of my jinx was when I worked for Dataflow NZ Ltd. which was the New Zealand branch of Dataflow, the old Australian distributer of Blizzard and Sierra products among other things. I worked in the NZ branch for 3 months and just under a year after I left, my jinx evidently caused the new inventory management software package they were trying to implement to be a completely abysmal failure resulting in both the Australian and New Zealand companies dying and heralding the loss of over 100 jobs. :D

Avid watchers of Xena, Hercules and other stuff will have seen me passing across their TV screens a few times. I'm the guy struggling up the slope under a sack, or the zombie on the left, or the spearman second on the right behind the swordsman just to the right of the falling chap almost in the foreground etc.

Say . . . anyone have a company they really hate that would be keen employ someone full time for at least three months? I can guarantee the place will shrivel and die between 6 to 12 months after I leave. :lol:

Right now, I'm not actually working! :D Good for 1.10 playing, but not so great for buying new DVDs :o I'm thinking of getting back into the film industry partly because I've had such a great time in that line of work and partly because my jinx hasn't killed projects that already wrap after a three month shoot. ;)

[Feryar]

I'm a student, but I often do some work on the side to earn some extra cash.
Over the last three years I've had jobs as

-gas station clerk
-repairing bicycles
-snowboard instructor
-bouncer
-tutoring younger students at school

Right now I'm still into the tutoring job. It's kinda laid back, and I get to refresh
what I've learned earlier years. It's also very well paid, since they pay for a fixed
amount of hours, and noone ever works as much as they get paid for.
There's just not enough curious people around B)

[Raz]

I don't really understand what it takes to be a Doctor in the U.S., but here in Mexico it takes 7 years in Med School. In sixth year you enter internship and in seventh you go do your social services.

I have just made it to third year... Yay to making surgeries on dogs and starting to cruise on ambulances!

(Well actually the dog part gives me the creeps; I like those animals).

:)

And on vacations, I usually go to do volunteer work for a Hospital :lol:

[keenduck]

Where are you studying, Mithrandir? Biomedical Engineering (BME) is a pretty tough field at my school, but it must be worth it, or otherwise it wouldn't suck up so many brilliant young minds. :lol:

Myself, I'm college student, electrical engineering and physics. Done programming and lab work, mostly.

[--Pete]

Hi,

Retired Boeing engineer. Been spending my time on home improvement projects, golf, catching up with my reading, and helping Magi in her business. Not too sure what I want to do when I grow up :)

--Pete

[[wcip]Angel]

I'm a 20 year old college student.

I've been studying English for the last two years. I plan to teach English and some other subject at High school level (age 16-18). I will start my History foundation course in August. The college I'm at doesn't have IT or Psychology, so I had to choose something else. History doesn't seem to be the dullest course out there.

I also have a minor job teaching drumming to some kids in the school band I used to play for. (one of my students can now play 1/16-notes on the bass-drum) ;)

[Yrrek]

I cook at Sonic! I actually like it, minus the intensely hot grill and friers *rubs burns*.

[Tal]

Webmaster/Virtual Reference Librarian

I handle the Library's website, its Intranet with discussion board, and the email contact while also being in charge of our contribution to the 24/7 Virtual Refrence from Ask Us Now. :)

[TaiDaishar]

High school student soon to start his second year in Computer Science (graphics).

[Mithrandir]

Where are you studying, Mithrandir? Biomedical Engineering (BME) is a pretty tough field at my school, but it must be worth it, or otherwise it wouldn't suck up so many brilliant young minds.  :lol:

University of Michigan.

[Ace 777]

I currently work (jeez 7 years now) for a major Payroll and Human Resources Service company as my department's Senior Support Specialist. I get to work on problems with our proprietary HR software for small to mid-sized businesses. I do a great deal of work troubleshooting application and database related problems.

I am also very proud to say that I am an Adult volunteer for a youth group called DeMolay. DeMolay Chapters are sponsored by Freemasons throughout the US and in several other countries. It's for young men between the ages of 12 and 21. Our group focuses on providing leadership training opportunities to young men in a setting that allows them to learn by experience, work as a team, and to also learn from their successes and failures. We teach and encourage civic, religious and intellectual responsibility.

[Count Duckula]

College student (rising junior at Hollins University) now planning to major in english with a concentration in creative writing, learn lampworking and other glass beading techniques, and scratch out a living as a writer and a jewelry artist/designer.

Upchucking the theater used-to-be double major due to stress, overwork, underappreciation, a GPA that needs serious propping, and a major fight with the department heads. HollinsTheatre does little-known, badly-staged, hard-to-sit-through off-Broadway stuff, while I think we should be doing shows more tailored to our campus and the local talent, both on- and offstage.