Thread: What's Your Job/education?

Originally Posted by ;356063

yah he's right cops get called pigs. and they often are.
Im in highschool.
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These two lines go beautifully together. Haha, kids. They're so fun loving.

Yeah I know people call em pigs, big deal. Its not about how much I get paid, popularity, or my life expectancy. Its somethng that I KNOW I would enjoy doing. I want to enjoy my life, if it puts my life at risk, so what, as long as I like what I do. I know so many people that have chossen a career as something that they hate doing, and have a misserable time.

I completed my bachelor's degree in Physics in May 2005 w/ minors in German and sociology. After graduation, I took a year off from school and taught at a residential environmental education center in rural Mississippi for a semester and then taught swimming lessons and did odd jobs around my hometown for a semester. That last semester of working gave me a renewed appreciation for the ivory tower of academia, so I climbed back into the cloister and am currently a grad student in atmospheric sciences (my research is in the areas of climate change and extreme weather).

However, I'm not a fan of specialization and the day-to-day modeling and programming which my research involves isn't something that I particularly enjoy (the findings are pretty damn cool, though, I've gotta say), so I'm considering dropping my degree objective down from the Ph.D. to the Master's and then getting a second Master's in Environmental Policy. My career goal (at the moment) is to be a science writer for a national publication, writing, preferably, about climate and environmental issues so that the public understand not only what the science is, but why it matters. Since without public support, the science will not advance, and without the science, society will become increasingly vulnerable to the deleterious environmental and climatological effects of human actions, public understanding of and support for science (and public policy) related to climate change and environmental degredation is of especially strong importance both now and in the future.

My advisor has no idea that I'm thinking of dropping my degree objective, though, so everybody "Shhh"

I am a full time student, getting my BA in English. And, I am a weaver/seamstress.

This is a question I dread getting asked in social situations. Here's why:

I hold a job with a small stamping plant that I had no intention of staying with for very long. My job is inside sales, special projects management, IT, repair and troubleshooting, engineering, occasional toolmaking... and on and on. I'm an administrator, mostly, and "administrate" whatever seems to need it at the time. It is a fun job with great people, and I'm treated royally by them.

We also run a small machine shop, which I work at most evenings and weekends. That was intended to be the career, but then came Michigan's private little recession, which changed everything. The business is doing ok - it is paid for, self-supporting and providing a bit of extra income, but it has never really blossomed. Not yet, anyway.

I am also a musician. That is more of an avocation right now, but trending back toward more regular gigs. If I had my "druthers", that is what I would do full time.

My education is as varied as my career(s); I have a BA in mechanical engineering, AAs in general business and liberal arts, and an AS in accounting.

My real dream is to somehow combine my engineering and machining expertise with my musical interests - perhaps in making instruments of some kind.

Hey PJ what kind of instruments would you make? that would be so cool! think you might make stuff like 4mspedals.com? or more acoustic type stuff?

Originally Posted by Artelis

These two lines go beautifully together. Haha, kids. They're so fun loving.
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lol yah I noticed how it looked too.

cops are stalinists!

I was at Arizona State for Chemical Engineering. I found school to be quite boring during my sophomore year and just kind of stopped going to classes (excellent idea btw.) I guess there were more important things to be done elsewhere... It was a good experience though, I learned more about life in that year-and-a-half than I'd learned in my previous eighteen years.
I decided to take the asvab (military) test to see what jobs I would be qualified for, and aced it (aka I can do any job I want, depending upon availability.) So I'm thinking about joining the airfoce by the end of this summer. I'm just working on getting my act together now, and seeing if the wind takes me anywhere special before then. I'm currently taking electrical and mechanical classes at a junior college for knowledge and understanding. But, I guess that's what school is really all about anyways.

Originally Posted by ;356440

Hey PJ what kind of instruments would you make? that would be so cool! think you might make stuff like 4mspedals.com? or more acoustic type stuff?
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That's some interesting looking stuff there.

I have a number of ideas. I've made some well received and wonderful sounding percussion chimes in my shop, and have some ideas for some really unique electric guitar and bass designs. Ultimately, I'd love to get good at acoustic instruments though - the full range of them. Bob Taylor built his guitar empire on combining engineering and machining with instrument manufacturing.

One of my crazy ideas is an acoustic guitar with a glass top.

Originally Posted by ;356440

lol yah I noticed how it looked too.

cops are stalinists!
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You missed it. I was calling you a moron.

Originally Posted by Artelis

You missed it. I was calling you a moron.
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yah I definitely didn't miss that you called me a moron. I did notice that. I guess you didn't understand my response.
btw are you a cop?




yah good luck pj, a glass guitar would be cool, I remebr syd barrett had a guitar that was covered in small mirrors..it didnt affect sound or anything, but looked pretty cool.

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his is a question I dread getting asked in social situations. Here&#39;s why:[/b]

I here you PJ.
I took all the advanced art classes in high school and went on to college to get a fine arts degree. As my interests lie in there art field.
So I get a landscaping job. At that time I am three classes away from my degree.
I gave what life handed me. Because of my financial situation at that time I got stuck.
I did go on to now own my own landscaping company and it is doing well. I get to use some of my art experience when rendering landscaping design and architecture for my customers. I work my ass off and am proud of what I built.
But often as I am in the middle of the day performing hard labor I think to myself.
Wow, The Cleveland Museum of art is replacing it&#39;s curator. Could have that been me?

Originally Posted by ;356583

yah I definitely didn&#39;t miss that you called me a moron. I did notice that. I guess you didn&#39;t understand my response.
btw are you a cop?
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Perhaps you should actually read the thread.

I hold an associate of science in electical engineering technology and a bachelor of science in computer science.

For the last 25 years, I&#39;ve held almost every technical position there is in the industrial automation business including hardware, hotline, software test, software development, systems engineering and management. My job lets me travel and see some cool stuff, like the time I spent in Paris working on problems at the waste water treatment plant. 1,000,000 cubic meter facility.

I&#39;m currently leading a team of 8 engineers testing part of a new state of the art control system, bleeding edge stuff

I&#39;m a sex therapist.

I don&#39;t have a degree in whateveryouwannacallit (sexotherapology?).

But I am one.

Originally Posted by Howetzer

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I here you PJ.
I took all the advanced art classes in high school and went on to college to get a fine arts degree. As my interests lie in there art field.
So I get a landscaping job. At that time I am three classes away from my degree.
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Here&#39;s the real chronology, Howitzer:

1979 graduated high skewl (barely), enter "two and two" program in Mechanical engineering at local community college. Take co-op job as a toolmaker apprentice.
1980 get job on drafting board (yeah, they still had them then...) and discover I HATE it. Change major to Accounting and General Business. Find some success in a band - actually making some buckage. (Went back to the toolmaking position - same company.)
1981 Drink myself out of the toolmaker&#39;s job, health and mind failing rapidly because of drinking and drugs, not sleeping enough, etc.
1982 Quit band. Get sober. Try accounting job and discover I hate it. Complete degree anyway, find I only need a few more credits for general Liberal Arts degree and finish that too. Take job as engineer/toolmaker. (Making great sense, right?)
1985 Quit smoking, meet wifeling, burn my sports car up in the parking lot of her employer and then fall off a cliff. Take job as "Assistant to the President" of an ordnance manufacturer while learning to walk again.
1987 Get married, start business. (Still in awe that she married me after that first summer&#33
1989 President of company dies of alcohol-related issues.
1990 Get into fight with the heirs, quit and move on to the "day job" I still hold. Go back to college to complete my engineering degree.
December 2000 - graduated Suma Cum Laude.

So... it took me 21 YEARS to get my four-year degree.

You&#39;ve been through quite some shit man, respect. _O_

I have an "office and data administration" diploma... Just a high school degree. But I did a lot of evening classes and that&#39;s how I scored my job&#33;

I work at the ITC Helpdesk for a gouverment institution. My main task is helping out my collegues when they have problems with their computers. Next week I&#39;ll have another task here, I&#39;ll have to do a lot of work in MS Access, making reports, new databases etc.

I like my job, but I love my hobbies

I&#39;m still in high school. >.>

Im still in school but i have a partime job as an actor....awesome job.

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So... it took me 21 YEARS to get my four-year degree.[/b]

They say it is not the destination that counts the most, more so the journey getting there.

Originally Posted by Seeker

I hold an associate of science in electical engineering technology and a bachelor of science in computer science.

For the last 25 years, I&#39;ve held almost every technical position there is in the industrial automation business including hardware, hotline, software test, software development, systems engineering and management. My job lets me travel and see some cool stuff, like the time I spent in Paris working on problems at the waste water treatment plant. 1,000,000 cubic meter facility.

I&#39;m currently leading a team of 8 engineers testing part of a new state of the art control system, bleeding edge stuff[/b]

Is that all?

Junior in high school, im looking at a college that has lots of mechanical and computer engineering classes.
never had a job...

Sophomore in college, going to major in econ, planning to get into a MBA/J.D. program, work hard, retire early.

I&#39;m 21 years of age. I have no part-time job but am looking for one.

For the past three years I&#39;ve been studying towards a Bachelors in Arts and a Bachelors in Law. I&#39;ve dropped the law side, so, this last year will be my last year studying undergraduate Arts. I&#39;m majoring in History, also studyied Ancient History, Philosophy, Latin, and Psychology. As well as the Law, of course.

After this year has finished, I&#39;m going to do one of two things. I&#39;ll either do an OE and go to Europe, Britain, and the US and work my way around the world. A working holiday kinda thing. I have a EU passport so pretty much I can do whatever the hell I like and don&#39;t have to worry about visas, except for the US of A. If I don&#39;t do an OE, I&#39;ll go straight back to university and start my postgrad, working my way through BA (honours), Masters, on to getting a scholarship to do my PhD overseas, perhaps in the UK. If I do a year or so of travelling and working, I&#39;ll come back to uni after it&#39;s done and start postgrad and do what I describerd before.

High School Sophmore. Currently without an actual paying job [Mostly because no one around here hires at 15.]

Yep.