Where do you work, what do you do?
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baconpocket
eating bacon
I do Biochemistry research in my 2nd year of phd training at indiana university
this gives me a busy but excellently flexible schedule
and between experiments i spend too much time on this website. hahaha
this gives me a busy but excellently flexible schedule
and between experiments i spend too much time on this website. hahaha
Marketing Database Analyst @ one of the top banks in the nation. Mostly I run code (SAS/SQL/VB) on our database for marketing campaigns. Aside from that i'm also the lead campaign auditor for our division.
I have my com sci degree and am being sent back by the employer for my masters in marketing and leadership. I love my job.
in a former life i was a paid professional hacker, a disco dancer, a pig and cattle farmer and a paperboy.
I have my com sci degree and am being sent back by the employer for my masters in marketing and leadership. I love my job.
in a former life i was a paid professional hacker, a disco dancer, a pig and cattle farmer and a paperboy.
tWistedWheelz
BUILT NOT BOUGHT!
Well if any of you are interested in a career that is exciting, a wild ride of ups and downs, gratifying, rewarding, with exceptional pay and benefits then don't look into my profession! I am a sales rep for a well know HVACR manufacturer. HVACR is Heating - Ventilation - Air Conditioning - Refrigeration. In the area I live in, I sell mainly Air Conditioners and Ventilation Systems, air quality is my focus. Not to exciting but it puts a little change in my pocket. I was a SCUBA instructor and a retailer of SCUBA equipment for a while but as the economy began to crumble, recreational activity sales just wasn’t cutting it. I am currently pursuing a new sales rep. position.
Deviant1
Over 1,000 Posts
Past jobs:
Bag Boy at local grocery
Construction Grunt
Auto Glass Shop Tech
Dollar Store Stock Boy
Farm Labor
House Framer
Lumber Yard Attendant
Secuirty Guard
For a while I rappelled down condos to fix weatherproofing problems
Cabana Boy selling beach chairs
Restaurant Assistant Manager
Tile Installer
I'm excluding all the shit I did working for temp services.
Bag Boy at local grocery
Construction Grunt
Auto Glass Shop Tech
Dollar Store Stock Boy
Farm Labor
House Framer
Lumber Yard Attendant
Secuirty Guard
For a while I rappelled down condos to fix weatherproofing problems
Cabana Boy selling beach chairs
Restaurant Assistant Manager
Tile Installer
I'm excluding all the shit I did working for temp services.
Hmmmm.... let me think back through the years....
Bag boy at Safeway Grocery - lasted 2 shifts. Only got paid for one and union dues left me with a $0.65 paycheck. I still have it - never cashed it. That was 25 years ago.
Slung burgers at a retro-styled diner - lasted 1 shift - I told the idiot owner I could only work after school (high school) and after he hired me he told me it wouldn't work.
Telemarketer - worked in a tiny room calling people out of the phonebook selling magazines - a bit surreal of an environment
Stock boy at Foodland Grocery - summer job out at the cottage
Beach bum - rented out boats at Westhawk lake - spent the summer chasing girls and getting tanned - BEST SUMMER EVER! 18 years old
Christmas help at Beaver Canoe - Canadian clothing company (gone now) - mall rat job
Day Care worker - yep - considered a teaching gig
University of Winnipeg student newspaper production manager - old fashioned ruby lith and wax strip layout
Landscaper - laid a lot of sod, mowed lawns, paving stones etc. Hard work and good pay.
Camp Counsellor - they let me do that! Have a picture of me in a dress to prove it.
Camp Counsellor #2 - Camp Stephens near Kenora Ontario - best summer camp in the world
Volunteer at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock AZ for a summer
Telecommunications Consultant - finished school and moved to Toronto - put on a suit and went to work.
Still at it - working for TELUS, responsible for making sure everyone gets their bills every month
Bag boy at Safeway Grocery - lasted 2 shifts. Only got paid for one and union dues left me with a $0.65 paycheck. I still have it - never cashed it. That was 25 years ago.
Slung burgers at a retro-styled diner - lasted 1 shift - I told the idiot owner I could only work after school (high school) and after he hired me he told me it wouldn't work.
Telemarketer - worked in a tiny room calling people out of the phonebook selling magazines - a bit surreal of an environment
Stock boy at Foodland Grocery - summer job out at the cottage
Beach bum - rented out boats at Westhawk lake - spent the summer chasing girls and getting tanned - BEST SUMMER EVER! 18 years old
Christmas help at Beaver Canoe - Canadian clothing company (gone now) - mall rat job
Day Care worker - yep - considered a teaching gig
University of Winnipeg student newspaper production manager - old fashioned ruby lith and wax strip layout
Landscaper - laid a lot of sod, mowed lawns, paving stones etc. Hard work and good pay.
Camp Counsellor - they let me do that! Have a picture of me in a dress to prove it.
Camp Counsellor #2 - Camp Stephens near Kenora Ontario - best summer camp in the world
Volunteer at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock AZ for a summer
Telecommunications Consultant - finished school and moved to Toronto - put on a suit and went to work.
Still at it - working for TELUS, responsible for making sure everyone gets their bills every month
M
Mach-5(50)
Guest
Currently I sell inflatable rafts, catarafts and IK's for the worlds premier inflatable manufacturer, SOTAR. We also have a retail store, and I do most of the shipping and receiving. I am also a photographer when time allows, or people are willing to pay me.
Previously, I worked at the local NAPA auto parts for about 5 1/2 years. Started delivering parts, moved up to the counter, and then to outside sales. I worked at a golf course for a lot of years when I was younger, and have done nearly any job you can think of relating to a golf course. Range rat/cart jokey, pro shop, catering tournaments, taught junior golf clinics, spent countless hours on mowers of all shapes and sizes, etc., etc., etc. I have also done my fair share of landscape maintenance, and wired a few houses.
As was mentioned early on in this thread...I learned a long time ago to make enough money to survive at a job you love. I like to work at my job, I don't let my job work me.
Later,
Ryan
Previously, I worked at the local NAPA auto parts for about 5 1/2 years. Started delivering parts, moved up to the counter, and then to outside sales. I worked at a golf course for a lot of years when I was younger, and have done nearly any job you can think of relating to a golf course. Range rat/cart jokey, pro shop, catering tournaments, taught junior golf clinics, spent countless hours on mowers of all shapes and sizes, etc., etc., etc. I have also done my fair share of landscape maintenance, and wired a few houses.
As was mentioned early on in this thread...I learned a long time ago to make enough money to survive at a job you love. I like to work at my job, I don't let my job work me.
Later,
Ryan
uglyprimate
New Member
Nothing fashionable, I just drive trucks. Came back into it 3 years ago. Zero stress, decent money (depending on where you live). I'm home every day, none of that overnight stuff anymore.
Had a professional career for a few years, managing trucking operations on the East Coast. Hated it with a passion. Never gave up my license, so when a geography change was in order, work was a phone call away. Nothing is as fullfilling as telling your company's owner to lick your balls.
In my younger years, I worked my way through every fast food chain. Did make it to store manager at an Arby's for 3 months.
When I offered a fat woman a diet coke, I knew I shouldn't be in that line of work.
Bought my first truck at 21 and drove cross country for 15 years. Briefly lived on a sailboat and had a perfect lifestyle. Three marriages later, I'm a thousand miles from water.
Had a professional career for a few years, managing trucking operations on the East Coast. Hated it with a passion. Never gave up my license, so when a geography change was in order, work was a phone call away. Nothing is as fullfilling as telling your company's owner to lick your balls.
In my younger years, I worked my way through every fast food chain. Did make it to store manager at an Arby's for 3 months.
When I offered a fat woman a diet coke, I knew I shouldn't be in that line of work.
Bought my first truck at 21 and drove cross country for 15 years. Briefly lived on a sailboat and had a perfect lifestyle. Three marriages later, I'm a thousand miles from water.
CresentSon
Over 1,000 Posts
Cop... ;D
locOleoN
Is that the best you got? OK.. now my TURN...
Tim said:Hmmmm.... let me think back through the years....
Bag boy at Safeway Grocery - lasted 2 shifts. Only got paid for one and union dues left me with a $0.65 paycheck. I still have it - never cashed it. That was 25 years ago.
Slung burgers at a retro-styled diner - lasted 1 shift - I told the idiot owner I could only work after school (high school) and after he hired me he told me it wouldn't work.
Telemarketer - worked in a tiny room calling people out of the phonebook selling magazines - a bit surreal of an environment
Stock boy at Foodland Grocery - summer job out at the cottage
Beach bum - rented out boats at Westhawk lake - spent the summer chasing girls and getting tanned - BEST SUMMER EVER! 18 years old
Christmas help at Beaver Canoe - Canadian clothing company (gone now) - mall rat job
Day Care worker - yep - considered a teaching gig
University of Winnipeg student newspaper production manager - old fashioned ruby lith and wax strip layout
Landscaper - laid a lot of sod, mowed lawns, paving stones etc. Hard work and good pay.
Camp Counsellor - they let me do that! Have a picture of me in a dress to prove it.
Camp Counsellor #2 - Camp Stephens near Kenora Ontario - best summer camp in the world
Volunteer at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock AZ for a summer
Telecommunications Consultant - finished school and moved to Toronto - put on a suit and went to work.
Still at it - working for TELUS, responsible for making sure everyone gets their bills every month
funny how you "conveniently" forgot to mention your current PT gig as a Pole Dance Instructor at Aria Fitness and the "biker dude" Chippendale Dancer...
I guess I should pipe in here as well..
Im a fulltime bum with a Masters degree from UWO in Slacking.
I live off my rich sugga momma...
Starting at the beginning:
McDonalds, drive-thru crew
Noah's Bagels (Einstines everywhere other than the west coast) Baker
Managed a 2 screen neighborhood theater, good times
An associates degree in Industrial Design (Art Institute of Seattle) brought me out here to Texas to work as a modelmaker/fabricator/prototyper for a company called Ignition. We aligned ourselves with RadioShack and they killed us as of December '07. Now three of us from the old Ignition shop have started a new modelshop called Buzzwerk where we do prototypes, engineering prove out models, photo models, architectural models, and anything else you can come up with (we just got a job machining dinosaur bones to fill in an incomplete skeleton for a museum display) So I program and run 4 CNC 3axis mills mostly cutting soft materials (plastics, foam, light metals) do finish work debur, sand and paint parts. We just recently celebrated our 1 year anniversary.
I also work part time as a valet... because I've always wanted to, I like having cash... and as long as I'm working I have less time to spend money.
I'm looking into going back to school to get at least a bachelors in mechanical engineering so that when I grow up I can do what Flugtechnik does
This is me: (wind tunnel/display model for Peterbilt)
*click*
And this is us
*click*
McDonalds, drive-thru crew
Noah's Bagels (Einstines everywhere other than the west coast) Baker
Managed a 2 screen neighborhood theater, good times
An associates degree in Industrial Design (Art Institute of Seattle) brought me out here to Texas to work as a modelmaker/fabricator/prototyper for a company called Ignition. We aligned ourselves with RadioShack and they killed us as of December '07. Now three of us from the old Ignition shop have started a new modelshop called Buzzwerk where we do prototypes, engineering prove out models, photo models, architectural models, and anything else you can come up with (we just got a job machining dinosaur bones to fill in an incomplete skeleton for a museum display) So I program and run 4 CNC 3axis mills mostly cutting soft materials (plastics, foam, light metals) do finish work debur, sand and paint parts. We just recently celebrated our 1 year anniversary.
I also work part time as a valet... because I've always wanted to, I like having cash... and as long as I'm working I have less time to spend money.
I'm looking into going back to school to get at least a bachelors in mechanical engineering so that when I grow up I can do what Flugtechnik does
This is me: (wind tunnel/display model for Peterbilt)
*click*
And this is us
*click*
Flugtechnik
My bike is not transportation, it is a respite
mysta2 said:I'm looking into going back to school to get at least a bachelors in mechanical engineering so that when I grow up I can do what Flugtechnik does
I'm good friends with the new head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering dept. at UT Arlington.
He was my advisor at Georgia Tech. He's a composites guru. If you ever need an introduction, let me know. He's a great guy and will do whatever he can to help out.
Flugtechnik said:I'm good friends with the new head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering dept. at UT Arlington.
He was my advisor at Georgia Tech. He's a composites guru. If you ever need an introduction, let me know. He's a great guy and will do whatever he can to help out.
Really? Because if I get shit-canned from this gig, I'm thinking of going back to school for mechanics, and UTA has one of the better mechanical schools around. I may be giving you a call as well.
--Chris
