Vocations In the Playground

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I think it'd be interesting to see what everyone on these forums do for a living, or, as many of the younger crowd hang around, what you are going to school for, or at least would like to do for a living.

In fact, I'm thinking of making a list so that others wishing to get into the field, or have questions regarding their expertise that maybe they could be contacted. If you do not wish to be added to the list, or at least for me to put a 'don't contact' bit, just let me know.

Also feel free to give any links to your business or whatnot.

This could get interesting I think :smallwink:

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Skill: Profession

Adanedhel9 - Software Developer (Java, SQL, and ECMAscript)
Admiral Walrus - Freelance Artist
AdrianoIank - Software Developer
Apelord69 - Farmer (hopeful doctor/psychologist)
Archonic Energy - Professional Skiver
ARMOURERERIC - Professional Reenactment and Hollywood Armor Maker
AslanCross - High School English Teacher
Averagejoe - Student (math and physics)
Bonecrusher Doc - Physical Therapist (specializing in the orthopedic)
Bor the Barbarian Monk - Disabled (formerly jack of all trades)
Burrito - Correctional Officer
Castaras - Student (computing and mathematics)
Closet_Skeleton - *NEET
Dallas-dakota - Student
De-trick - Student (law officer hopeful)
Don Julio Anejo - Student (psychology)
Dunesen - US Army Signal Support System Specialist
Exachix - Student (physics)
FlWiPig - Dental Hygiene Manufacturer
Fri - Student/Freelance Writer (product design)
Frigs - Student/Camp aid (vetinarian or psychology hopeful)
Gem Flower - Student (author)
I'm da Rogue! - Student (mathematics)
Jack Squat - Student (computer science)
Killersquid - Student (neurologist)
Krimm_Blackleaf - Student (art)
Krrth - Financial Planning Manager (studying internet security)
KuReshtin - Computer Hardware Support
Leper_Kahn - Camp Counselor
LightWraith - Student (physics major/personal Triathlon coach hopeful)
Lord Omberous - Student (physics and linguistics)
Mauve Shirt - Student & Babysitter
Mouse Anderson - Cleaning Company Salesman/Professional Musician
Penguinsushi - Web Developer (PHP, SQL (mysql), Javascript, Ajax)
Perpetualnoise - Chef (classicly trained, La Cordon Bleu graduate)
Potatocubed - Editor
Purple Cloak - Studet (forensic science and archaeology)
Pwenet - IT System Administrator
Randman22222 - Student (forensic science hopeful)
Rtg0922 - Renaissance Man
Rubakhin - *NEET
Sewer_Bandito - Student (producer/musician hopeful)
SDF - Student (biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology)
Simius - Student (physics and math)
SoD - Saxophonist for the Australian Army Band
SMEE - IT Manager and Software Designer & Developer
Smellie_hippie - Marriage and Family Therapist
Telonius - Editorial Coordinator for a major scientific journal
Thanatos5150 - US Navy Aerograher's Mate, Third Class
The Vorpal Tribble - Head Journalist for Rising Stars In Music Magazine
Thufir - Student (academic hopeful)
Trog - Graphic Designer
Truemane - Administrative Supervisor (part-time freelance writer)
Valadil - Web Designer and Sysadmin
Vibrant - Real Estate Agent (graphic designer dabbler)
Victor Thorian - Student (philosophy) and English/Turkish Interpreter
WxDruid - Air Force Meteorologist
xNadia - Student (law or business hopeful)

* NEET = Not Engaged in Employment, Education, or Training.

[Bonecrusher Doc]

Physical Therapist, mostly the orthopedic type.

[Player_Zero]

I wanna' be the very best, like noone ever was. To catch them is my real test. To train them is my caaaause.

...I mean, I'd rather remain a student forever... Unless there's a job that lets me play around with maths and get paid for it.

[Penguinsushi]

Web Developer - mostly PHP, SQL (mysql), some Javascript (which i use, but hate) and Ajax all with HTML & CSS. That sounds considerably more impressive than I feel like it is. My job is primarily back-end functionality, database interface, etc - but i've done a fair bit of front-end stuff like graphic & page design, etc. We have full-time people that do that now, though.

I'd put a link to the company website per the suggestion, but I'm wary about how that goes along with the 'no commercial advertising' part of the forum rules, so i'll refrain.

~PS

[Krrth]

Currently, I'm the office manager for a Financial Planning company. I'm also a full time student learing Internet Security.

[SMEE]

IT manager and board director at my company.
I also plan, design and develop the new versions of our software. Insanity ahoy! :smalltongue:

[The Vorpal Tribble]

(Boopin' lag...)

Me, I write for an upcoming magazine called Rising Stars In Music Magazine that was started by a lifelong friend of mine. She met a woman while at a concert in Nashville, started talking, and throw in a heaping of luck and a dash of miracles and they actually got the thing moving.

My friend knew I wrote, asked me to do an article, and just went on from there until I became the head journalist. Also do design, editing, and transcribing for it as well, not to mention the occasional interview.

Basically it's a magazine that features up and coming artists of all genres, or those that would like to be, many having had little to recognition but have the talent if someone would notice them. We then add in a couple 'stars' who we interview personally and they tell their life stories and how they got into the business and give their advice on how to succeed. There is no gossip or rumors or anything printed. Everything is done face to face and personal. We try to show them as the person they are instead of the icon.

If interested, you can click the link in my signature for more info or just message me.

[Telonius]

What they pay me to do: Editorial Coordinator at a major scientific journal. I look at scientific papers and make sure they're formatted in the right way, and help scientists fix the files if something's wrong.

What I'm trying to get someone to pay me to do: Fantasy novelist. Book one is completed, and I'm currently looking for an agent.

[Bonecrusher Doc]

For my second career though, I would like to do this (http://www.goarmyrotc.com/#SMSI).

And someday, just like the song, I want to be a paperback writer.

[SoD]

I get paid money to play the saxophone in the Australian Army Band. So I'm a professional Saxophonist with extensive army training. Well...sort of extensive...alright, so I haven't completed basic training yet, I'm going to, alright?

[truemane]

I am a full-time office monkey. Part-time writer.

Specifically an Administrative Supervisor, or Admininstrative Director, depending on how attractive the girl I'm trying to impress is. And sometimes I'm a freelance writer of various things for various entities.

[Thufir]

University student, doing an MMath. As for what I'm going to do when I finish...


...I mean, I'd rather remain a student forever... Unless there's a job that lets me play around with maths and get paid for it.

Pretty much sums me up as well. I think I'll become an academic. I'm sure I can manage a bit of lecturing in exchange for never having to leave uni. The real world is a scary place...

[Player_Zero]

Pretty much sums me up as well. I think I'll become an academic. I'm sure I can manage a bit of lecturing in exchange for never having to leave uni. The real world is a scary place...

Hi five! :smalltongue:

[rubakhin]

Technically, I guess, I'm a NEET. (Not currently engaged in employment, education, or training - i.e. only good for spare parts.) Can't get a job doing nothing. Complete and total burden on society.

Off the books, though? *tries to think of a politically correct way to put this, fails* I'm an escort/hustler/prostitute/whatever. It's not bad work. It can mess with your head if you let it but mostly it's just making lonely men happy for good money.

[SDF]

Right now I'm going to Uni for a BS in biochemistry and a BS in molecular and cellular biology, with minors in physics and biomedical engineering. When I graduate I want to go to grad school for an MD/Ph.D. It would be an epidemiology Ph.D and I'd like to go into a neurosurgery specialty. I work in a biochemistry lab on a vaccine for the West Nile virus (probably be done in a couple of years) and may have a >paying< ecology internship later this summer.

I volunteer for several organizations too. I've worked for Hodia (http://www.hodia.org/) (type 1 diabetes camp) for several years, and recently I've taken up doing nutritional and immunological work for Village Hope (http://www.villagehopeinc.org/). I'll probably be traveling to Sierra Leone over Christmas.

I suppose that would be a brief of what I do... iuno I have other stuff too, like I've written most of an EP I plan to record soon, but I don't know if I really have the time to turn my music into something productive.

[randman22222]

I just finished my junior (second to last) year of high school (secondary), and intend to become a Forensic Scientist. Heh, today I spent a lot of time reading through an article in a forensics magazine I'm subscribed to about white-collar crimes that turn into homicides. Interesting as hell.

[Trog]

Graphic Designer :smallcool:

[valadil]

I'm somewhere between a web designer and sysadmin. I'd rather be coding though.

[Burrito]

Correctional Officer. All (almost) the risk of being a cop, none of the glamor. Even so, I will probably make this my career. I really don't see myself getting out on the "streets".

Want some statistics? This will varry greatly from state to state, etc.


Pay: Base is about 40k a year(I've topped out the pay raises though), with overtime I made 47k last year (gross). I have a coworker who made 70k last year with overtime.

Hours: 8.5 hour shift, I work 6 days in a row, then I have 3 days off. I work afternoons from 1430 to 2300.

Benefits: 80 hours of vacation, 24 hours of personal, 96 hours of sick (per year) Dental, short term disability (gives you up to 6 weeks of pay), Health ($160 a month for family!), Life, Retirement, Protective employment(this means I can "retire" and collect a pension at any time, of course, how long I work dictates how much of a pension I would get)

Workplace: County jail, we hold anywhere from 170 to 200 inmates at any given time. Some state, some local, some federal, some USBP, and some overflow from other jurisdictions. We also have work release.

Any questions

[Zombie pixe]

Philosopher of Mathematics.

Or a politician. Seriously, who wouldnt want to be in a job where you get to give the rest of the public sector technicaly a pay cut while incresing your own salary by £60,000?!

(these are what i would like to do, i have only just finnished GCSEs, so not much is goingto happen for a few years :smalltongue:)

[Lord Omberous]

I am currently an undergraduate pursuing both physics and linguistics. An odd couple, I know, but both address fundamentals of our universe; one, how the universe works; the other, how we communicate about it.

[I'm da Rogue!]

Philosopher of Mathematics.


And on Monday I'm taking an exam on Philosophy of Mathematics. :smallbiggrin:

Me? Apart from a serial killer, I'm a student of mathematics and a math tutor to highschool kids.

[Jack Squat]

Right now I'm a check-out monkey at a grocery store. My job is to run a register and/or do whatever managers ask me to...even if I don't know how.

I'm going to school for a degree in Computer Science, but not sure what I'm going to do with it yet.

[Castaras]

Student - Computing hopeful/Pure maths degree hopeful(maybe)

[Exachix]

Gamer.

Hopeful Physics Student.

[Mr. Moon]

I wanna' be the very best, like noone ever was. To catch them is my real test. To train them is my caaaause.

The sad thing is, that would be my dream job. That, or perhaps being on the Starship Andromeda as a main character.

[Player_Zero]

The sad thing is, that would be my dream job. That, or perhaps being on the Starship Andromeda as a main character.

I'm afraid that pokemon don't exist in reality, though... If we're talking about made-up jobs, then I'd be a pirate, sailing the Grand Line for the sake of my dreams with my nakama; for I am the man who will become the pirate king!

...Ahhh, good old fantasy escapism... Really stops me from going out and slicing up some dudes with some sharp objects. going out of my mind... errr... I suppose it just makes me feel better.

...One of these days I'll invent some sort of total-immersion escapism device that allows one to never have to deal with their problems. That'll be the day...

[Closet_Skeleton]

I'm currently a NEET.

[Player_Zero]

Oh, and I plan on becoming a hikikomori (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori), in that I never want to go outside or meet anyone.

So basically, I'm gonna' become a mad mathematician. Sitting in my darkened room doing sums forevermore.

[Mc. Lovin']

What I do now?

Work on our farm, with my cousins

What I want to do?

Either Doctor, or Psycologist (probably the latter), simply cus I want to save as many people as possible before I kick the bucket :smallsmile:

[RTGoodman]

Well, I just graduated with my BA in History (with a minor in Medieval & Renaissance Studies), and I'm currently looking for any sort of job that doesn't involve heavy lifting. Of course, I'm only doing so for a year to pay off some student loans, and then I'm heading back to grad school to eventually get my PhD.

My career aspirations aren't entirely decided, but I'd like to work as an independent scholar/historian and work with game design on the side. Of course, I don't know how practical that is, so I'll probably eventually end up teaching at the university level (either teaching History, Literature, or some related field).

Really, I'd like to be a Renaissance Man and just do a little bit of everything.

[Leper_Kahn]

I work at a summer camp where we beat the kids with foam swords.

I love my job.

[Vibrant]

real estate agent, dabbling in graphic design on the side.

[KuReshtin]

Laptop and desktop hardware support for what used to be a pretty respectable company who sold off their PC division to some Chinese company that has admitted not to care at all about the quality of the machines they produce as long as they can reach a 10% market share by 2010.

Pay's ****, customers are retards but at least there are no benefits at all.

[AdrianoIank]

Software developer.

[Killersquid]

I'm a student going in undeclared, hope to become a Neurologist (Physician)

[Phae Nymna]

Freelance Artist (I make things then try to sell them through other people. :smallfrown:)
I make a lot of crap, but some of my nicer things I try to get money for. My "nicer" things consist of my glass working and blowing, some of my printing such as some of the shirts I've silkscreened, and some of my more elaborate computer things. I've still got a ways until college, so money is not too big of a worry for me. Write now, I'm praying to ancient pantheons to help me (somehow) afford a Lazarett Field Hospital. (Ouch.)

I'm learning to etch metal, tool leather, and sew complex pieces this summer. :smallsmile: So I guess that's a plus...

Other than the side stuff I just said, I'm pretty much just trying to survive high school.

[Mouse Anderson]

salesman for a cleaning company, professional musician. Used to be a junior high band director :smalltongue:, an accountant's assistant (ultimate gofer job) :smallsigh:, night auditor for five different hotels :smalleek:.

don't recommend any of the later jobs, except for band director and then you better have good sense of humor and an amazing temper.:smallwink:. had the first not the second.:smallfurious:

[Mauve Shirt]

I am a student, I don't have a job but I babysit fairly regularly.

[RTGoodman]

don't recommend any of the later jobs, except for band director and then you better have good sense of humor and an amazing temper.:smallwink:. had the first not the second.:smallfurious:

Yeah, I can second that. I'm not "officially" a band director or anything, but I'm a staff member and instructor for my old high school's marching band and indoor percussion ensemble.

[wxdruid]

I'm a Meteorologist/Weather Forecaster for the Air Force. I've been doing it for the last 10 years. I have a BA in Earth Sciences with an emphasis in Meteorology. The wx in my user name means weather.

[ARMOURERERIC]

Professional maker of medieval armour for the reenactor community and the Hollywood film industry. My work has appeared in:

Jamestown the Beginning 1987
Sprint Cell Phone ad 1996
Kingdom of Heaven
and the biggie
Tin Man 2007
and most recently an ad for Guiness beer

Eric
www.jamesriverarmoury.com

[Thanatos 51-50]

US Navy Aerograher's Mate, Third Class.
I'm basically, the Navy's version of what WXDruid does, plus I work in Oceanography, as well.

[Fri]

Studying Product Design. But failing. And I always introduce myself as a freelance writer.

[Don Julio Anejo]

Psychology student. Haven't entirely decided on what to do after I get my bachelors - either stay in psych and become a therapist or get into medicine and become a resident at a hospital. Neurosurgery would be cool but I'm way too lazy to get my marks high enough to get into it.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Student atm.

I can be a pilot. Which was actually suggested by a friend who had planned it all out.

Dunno what I want. I know what I want when I´m legal. Out of this country.
Maybe give a lil visit to some gitp´ers who live more to the south or something.

[Archonic Energy]

Erm Professional "Skiver"! :smallwink:
my job used to be defined as a "Level 1 Optical Network Engineer"

[I'm da Rogue!]

This is exactly what I think about math and other fields.
And there are many students around here, so: :smallbiggrin:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

[randman22222]

This is exactly what I think about math and other fields.
And there are many students around here, so: :smallbiggrin:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

Jump off a cliff. :smalltongue:

Pure maths only exist to serve the other sciences!

I wonder where forensic science would be there? Probably some slave driver commanding the other sciences to do its bidding...

[adanedhel9]

I'm a software developer, using Java, SQL, and ECMAscript, as well as several other propietary and rare languages. I'm also starting to pick up some design work, but I'm still mostly a code monkey.

[Player_Zero]

Jump off a cliff. :smalltongue:

Pure maths only exist to serve the other sciences!

I wonder where forensic science would be there? Probably some slave driver commanding the other sciences to do its bidding...

Probably somewhere not on the scale because it's not a real science. :smalltongue:

http://www.forums.court-records.net/images/smilies/takethat.gif

[averagejoe]

This is exactly what I think about math and other fields.
And there are many students around here, so: :smallbiggrin:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

You know, the people I study with and I actually came up with this progression a few months ago. By the way, Randman, math serves itself, it's just sheer coincidence that science finds math useful.

I am currently a student, double majoring in math and physics, so I have opinions about these sorts of things. The proper use of such hierarchies is serious business.

[I'm da Rogue!]

Pure maths only exist to serve the other sciences!


Actually, it's the only science that can serve itself without using other fields. :smallamused:

[randman22222]

Actually, it's the only science that can serve itself without using other fields. :smallamused:

And right now we're just playing with words. :smallsigh:

Anyway, this is awakening my epistemologer side... Interesting way we play with words.

[Player_Zero]

And right now we're just playing with words. :smallsigh:

Anyway, this is awakening my epistemologer side... Interesting way we play with words.

Feel the almighty burning brand of truth upon your flesh and know the futility that is yourself!

...:smalltongue:

[randman22222]

Feel the almighty burning brand of truth upon your flesh and know the futility that is yourself!

...:smalltongue:

Phail. Now that my inner epistemologer/philosopher in me is awakened, I can see this "argument" more clearly than ever, and...

Point and laugh at everyone here! :smallamused::smallbiggrin:

[averagejoe]

Actually, it's the only science that can serve itself without using other fields. :smallamused:

Math isn't a science at all, though. You don't prove the fundamental theorem of arithmatic by experimentally looking at different numbers and seeing if they have unique prime factorizations, and then interpret the results of those experiments to gain more general knowledge about unique prime factorizations.

[Player_Zero]

Math isn't a science at all, though. You don't prove the fundamental theorem of arithmatic by experimentally looking at different numbers and seeing if they have unique prime factorizations, and then interpret the results of those experiments to gain more general knowledge about unique prime factorizations.

You don't prove fundamental theorem of chemistry and physics by experimentally looking at atoms up REEEEAL close, either. You prove them by deduction. Just like you do with maths.

Besides, maths is just plain better than any and every other subject. :smalltongue:

[Simius]

This is exactly what I think about math and other fields.
And there are many students around here, so: :smallbiggrin:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

You forgot to include the ALT-text though, which might not be appropriate for this forum, but is so very true.:smallwink:

I'm a physics student, taking a lot of extra Math courses. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my degree, but it's always been my dream to start a pizzaria/gelateria somewhere on a mountain in Italy.

[averagejoe]

You don't prove fundamental theorem of chemistry and physics by experimentally looking at atoms up REEEEAL close, either. You prove them by deduction. Just like you do with maths.

Besides, maths is just plain better than any and every other subject. :smalltongue:

No, but you need experimental results to back up any theory; in math the deduction is enough. Math is just philosophy with certain rigidly defined rules. :smalltongue:

[Don Julio Anejo]

I don't think math has experiments by definition. In there theories arise out of existing, proven models and if you can prove something using something that's already been proven, you're all set.

From what I understand about theoretical physics (granted, it's not a lot, but still..), it's somewhat similar. You think up of something out of already proven, working models and if you can prove it using those models, props to you. Come on, has anyone done an experiment to test time travel through near light speeds? Yet everyone accepts the theory of relativity as if it were fact.

Edit: I think it's because in math and theoretical physics you deal with concepts and reasons for why something happens (something that we can't really observe). In other sciences it's the other way around - we observe something and then try to explain it to the best of our ability. Because we can't explain WHY it happens, we have to test our theory to see if it's valid.

[averagejoe]

:smallconfused: Relativity is possibly the most extensively tested theories we have, perhaps second only to quantum mechanics.

Anyways, facts aren't science. Science is a process and a way of thinking.

[Fri]

XKCD hold the answer to everything.

http://xkcd.com/435/

[SDF]

Come on, has anyone done an experiment to test time travel through near light speeds? Yet everyone accepts the theory of relativity as if it were fact.

Well, they've set up synchronized watches, sent one on the space shuttle, kept one on earth. After the mission the time was off by a few seconds. That is the closest real world application I can think of.

As for the XKCD comic, it may be true, but fields of study, like life, are all about balance. Therefore when looking at the median of the line graph biology and chemistry is where its at. The mean would of course shift it solidly to chemistry assuming mathematics is an outlier. :P

[I'm da Rogue!]

XKCD hold the answer to everything.

http://xkcd.com/435/

Did you bother checking the previous page?:smalltongue:

[The Vorpal Tribble]

See, I'm proud to be amongst the most impure. Those of an artistic bent use imagination, which cannot even be computed. In fact, I daily enjoy creating things that are blatantly impossible and completely nonsensical :smallbiggrin:

[smellie_hippie]

Marriage and Family Therapist with a primary focus on children and families.

I of course aspire to be the owner/operator of an independent coffee shop & bookstore with a small private practice for therapy.

[Gem Flower]

Student with aspirations to be author.

[Phae Nymna]

Physical Therapist, mostly the orthopedic type.

I can't help but to laugh at the irony shared between your name and your profession. :smallamused:

[Don Julio Anejo]

Marriage and Family Therapist with a primary focus on children and families.

I of course aspire to be the owner/operator of an independent coffee shop & bookstore with a small private practice for therapy.
OMG dude that's my dream too :smile: A small private practice and a coffee shop where I can goof off. Without the bookstore though.

[RTGoodman]

Marriage and Family Therapist with a primary focus on children and families.

I of course aspire to be the owner/operator of an independent coffee shop & bookstore with a small private practice for therapy.

Man, we had one of those in the town where I went to college (sans the therapy stuff). It was called the Tipsy Teapot, and it was great - the whole front half of the store was filled with shelves of used books, and the back part was the "restaurant" part (i.e., where you went and got your food and beverages before sitting down on the couches back in the book section).

Also, for a while there was an Irish pub next door called "The Green Lantern," so you could slip in there for real food (and perhaps a pint o' Guinness, though I was a bit young to partake) and then go through the shared doorway into the Tipsy Teapot for tea/coffee/dessert and a book! :smallbiggrin:

[Dallas-Dakota]

Man, we had one of those in the town where I went to college (sans the therapy stuff). It was called the Tipsy Teapot, and it was great - the whole front half of the store was filled with shelves of used books, and the back part was the "restaurant" part (i.e., where you went and got your food and beverages before sitting down on the couches back in the book section).

Also, for a while there was an Irish pub next door called "The Green Lantern," so you could slip in there for real food (and perhaps a pint o' Guinness, though I was a bit young to partake) and then go through the shared doorway into the Tipsy Teapot for tea/coffee/dessert and a book! :smallbiggrin:
That sounds awesome.

[Azazel]

Temporarily between jobs as people say.

When we're not talking "real" jobs I'm an artist. Music, sculptures, photography and so on. I also act as a counsellor to people online because of my keen intuitive understanding of human psychology and genuine desire to help. Given my nimble fingers I could in theory be a massage therapist if I put my mind to it...

[Mustiado]

Actor and Window Salesman. ?:)

[Pwenet]

I get paid to walk around buildings with a sledgehammer and smash it against computers that are displaying only blue screens. Sometimes that fixes it, sometimes a bigger sledgehammer is needed.

Translation: IT System Administrator.

[potatocubed]

Me? I'm a professional editor.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Actor and Window Salesman. ?:)
That like one of those living mannequins where you pose for hours?

[Archonic Energy]

Marriage and Family Therapist with a primary focus on children and families.

I of course aspire to be the owner/operator of an independent coffee shop & bookstore with a small private practice for therapy.

Doc, i keep having a recurring dream where i'm using steadily increasing weaponary to destroy mugs of Coffee...

what would you recomend? :smallamused:

[Charity]

Doc, i keep having a recurring dream where i'm using steadily increasing weaponary to destroy mugs of Coffee...

what would you recomend? :smallamused:

Decaf .

[Falconer]

I'm wierd in that I go through phases of absolute certainty in what I want as a job someday, as well as times when I have absolutely no clue what to do with my life. I think i'm currently going through the latter.

Somewhat hoping to be an actor, partially a writer, and part of me is also interested in being a priest or a deacon. I honestly don't know right now...so...I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, I guess...:smallannoyed:

[Victor Thorian]

Oh well. Occupation: Philosophy student and english-turkish translation expert ( well at least I'm good enough to earn enough money in a few hours that other people have to work all day for. Not that I have enough gold pieces to put together an army to overthrow the government and become a dictator. )

Also, I am a short story writer who has won a few awards here and there under various names and personalities. I am interested in sculpture but not with usual materials. I sculpt the personalities of people around me.

Feel free to contact me if you need some chaos management or unreasonable arguments for the sake of,hmm; nothing.

As as side note in a few months I'll finish my training as a cook specialising in chinese food!

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

Right now I'm an art major in college, but I'm thinking of changing my major to drama. That or duel-major, but I'm not one for handling alot of stress.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Right now I'm an art major in college, but I'm thinking of changing my major to drama.
That'd fit :smallamused:

[de-trick]

I'm a student entering grade 11 in fall, and I'm planing on becoming a RCMP officer AKA the long arm of the Law AKA police officer

[Dunesen]

I have a BA in Cinema, but I hardly have any use for it since I'm currently in the US Army. My job here has the fancy title of Signal Support System Specialist, which just means I work with commo equipment like phone lines and computers.

I want to write comic books and write/direct films eventually.

[UserClone]

I. Make. Toothpaste.
What? Someone has to do it.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I. Make. Toothpaste.
What? Someone has to do it.
No, no, you are a 'Dental Hygiene Manufacturer'.

[UserClone]

Technically I'm a a compounder of pharmaceuticals - we also do triple antibiotic, diaper rash ointment, acne cream, poison ivy treatment, and many others, including a few fluids of a more "questionable" usage.

[Dallas-Dakota]

No, no, you are a 'Dental Hygiene Manufacturer'.

If that was true, nobody would need toothpaste. Or floss. Or any of those things, really.

[CrazedGoblin]

Professional maker of medieval armour for the reenactor community and the Hollywood film industry. My work has appeared in:

Jamestown the Beginning 1987
Sprint Cell Phone ad 1996
Kingdom of Heaven
and the biggie
Tin Man 2007
and most recently an ad for Guiness beer

Eric
www.jamesriverarmoury.com

COOLEST JOB EVER!!!!

me im looking to become a paramedic :smallbiggrin:

[Sewer_Bandito]

Right now I'm in the 12th grade, but I plan on being a producer/play in a band. I realise thousands of other people have had this dream and it only works for very few of them, but it's really the only thing I could see myself doing for the rest of my life and being happy.

[Copacetic]

As of now I work at a camp in the sumemr as and do school n the winter. I plan on becoming a Vet or perhaps even a pyschologist.

[Nychta]

I'm still in high school, but I hope to do law or business.

[AslanCross]

I wanna' be the very best, like noone ever was. To catch them is my real test. To train them is my caaaause.

...I mean, I'd rather remain a student forever... Unless there's a job that lets me play around with maths and get paid for it.

Accountancy? There are a lot of jobs that deal with math, actually. I'm just glad the math in my current job is easily handled by Excel.

I'm a high school English teacher. I teach 1st and 3rd year (equivalent of US 9th and 11th grade).

[Bor the Barbarian Monk]

While I'm disabled and collecting Social Security at the moment, I have had numerous jobs. Let's see what Bor has done, shall we? (An F next to the job means it was FUN! :smallsmile: )

Newspaper delivery (Yes, I started working at age 12.)
Movie theater usher - F
One of the slaves working at Burger King
Limousine driver - F
Book store cashier and stock-person - F
Movie theater assistant manager
Executive officer of the family auto parts business in Brooklyn
Debt collector
Fraud analyst

That's about all I can think of. It was during the debt collecting and fraud analysis jobs that my health started taking a dive. Lots of bouncing between employers. Much to my regret, my résumé started looking like a battlefield. :smallfrown:

[RTGoodman]

Executive officer of the family auto parts business in Brooklyn
Debt collector

Those two together sounded kinda sinister to me. Like you worked out of a front auto parts store and collected debts by whacking people (in every sense of the word) with your cane! :smalltongue:

[UserClone]

In what way are you disabled, Bor?

[Bor the Barbarian Monk]

In what way are you disabled, Bor?
I have useless toe. It doesn't do anything. It won't bend. It won't...

Okay, that joke, while true to an extent, was going nowhere.

September will make it 34 years of being an insulin diabetes, the complications of which have caught up to me. Diabetic neuropathy being the worst of it, with diabetic retinopathy running second. The diabetes is also taking the blame for a current cholesterol issue. Nephropathy seems to be a come and go issue for me for the last decade.

Severe recurring depression, for which I have been hospitalized several times. This includes a bout of artery hunting in my left wrist. :smalleek:

PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought to the foreground by being attacked with a wooden club in my sleep on 7/2/2002 at 2:30 AM by an extremely drunken roommate at a boarding house.

My most recent addition is severe osteoarthritis in my right great toe and the adjacent joint. The pain is so severe that I require some heavy duty narcotics to be able to walk.

[perpetualnoise]

Chef (classicly trained, La Cordon Bleu graduate)

[LightWraith]

Although I'm not certified in any fashion (yet), I'm making an attempt at being a personal Triathlon coach. I'm not incredibly experienced as a competitor, with only one race under my belt, but I think I can help people who are new to the sport get themselves started at least, and prevent them from making the same mistakes I did leading up to my first race. I don't have a website or anything yet, but if anyone is interested, feel free to PM me.

I'm also looking into the possibility of opening a multi-sports (read: Triathlon) store here in Memphis. That's a couple of years down the road at the least though.

I'm a Physics major at the University of Memphis, and I'm considering double majoring into Exercise/Sport Science to help with the above. I'll probably throw a few business classes in there as well. Why not?

[Purple Cloak]

Well i'm a leech of soc.. erm I mean student.

As it stand I'm doing Forensic science and Arceology, I'll have my Archeology results in August, I still have a year of Forensics.

I'm not sure if being a student counts as a vocation, but thats currently what i'm doing. :smallbiggrin:

[Aereshaa_the_2nd]

I program games as a hobby, and I plan to make a career of it. Although high school doesn't teach programming anywhere near my level, I will study it in university.

[Dunesen]

Although I'm not certified in any fashion (yet), I'm making an attempt at being a personal Triathlon coach. I'm not incredibly experienced as a competitor, with only one race under my belt, but I think I can help people who are new to the sport get themselves started at least, and prevent them from making the same mistakes I did leading up to my first race. I don't have a website or anything yet, but if anyone is interested, feel free to PM me.

I'm also looking into the possibility of opening a multi-sports (read: Triathlon) store here in Memphis. That's a couple of years down the road at the least though.

I'm a Physics major at the University of Memphis, and I'm considering double majoring into Exercise/Sport Science to help with the above. I'll probably throw a few business classes in there as well. Why not?

Sounds like a plan. Good luck with that.

[Dallas-Dakota]

While I'm disabled and collecting Social Security at the moment, I have had numerous jobs. Let's see what Bor has done, shall we? (An F next to the job means it was FUN! :smallsmile: )

Newspaper delivery (Yes, I started working at age 12.)
Movie theater usher - F
One of the slaves working at Burger King
Limousine driver - F
Book store cashier and stock-person - F
Movie theater assistant manager
Executive officer of the family auto parts business in Brooklyn
Debt collector
Fraud analyst

That's about all I can think of. It was during the debt collecting and fraud analysis jobs that my health started taking a dive. Lots of bouncing between employers. Much to my regret, my résumé started looking like a battlefield. :smallfrown:
Well, atleast you can say is that you have work experience:smallwink:

[Serpentine]

I got a promotion at my university library today. Now I'm a Shelf Stacker and... (*bum bum BUMMMM*) Back-up Newspaper Ironer! :smallbiggrin:

My god it's brain numbing. And now I get to do it for four hours at a time! :smallsigh: At least now I get a lunch break...

[Dunesen]

I got a promotion at my university library today. Now I'm a Shelf Stacker and... (*bum bum BUMMMM*) Back-up Newspaper Ironer! :smallbiggrin:

My god it's brain numbing. And now I get to do it for four hours at a time! :smallsigh: At least now I get a lunch break...

What the hell is a Newspaper Ironer, and why would there need to be a back-up position for it?

[unstattedCommoner]

I get my bar vocational course results this week.


I wanna' be the very best, like noone ever was. To catch them is my real test. To train them is my caaaause.

...I mean, I'd rather remain a student forever... Unless there's a job that lets me play around with maths and get paid for it.

Accountant, actuary, auditor, chancellor of the exchequer, economist, investment banker, stock market analyst ...

/\: One who irons the newspapers after the readers have crumpled them.

[Serpentine]

Heh, close. They put the papers on "microfilm", but to do that they need them really, really flat. So the creases need to be ironed out of them :smallsigh: The guy that normally does it hasn't been coming to work much for some reason, causing all the papers to start piling up. Thus they need someone else who can do it when he can't. Namely: Me. It is kinda flattering/a good sign that they picked me, I guess <.<

[LightWraith]

Sounds like a plan. Good luck with that.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it, even though it is going to be a lot of work :smallbiggrin:

[DigoDragon]

Currently work in the Admissions department at an Art college. We sign up students. Not a glorious job, but it pays most of the bills.

Now my batchelor's degree is in Animation and while I still haven't found work in that field in my area, I'm working freelance in an effort to have a few animated shows to sell. My brother speaks fluent Japanese and is currently attempting to move to Japan. If it works out we'd like to try and sell these animated show ideas there first since Japan has a bigger market for them.

That's my dream. Seeing my own work as an Anime. :smallsmile:

[Ossian]

Project management in NGOs (non governmental organizations). Fundraising, proposal writing, monitoring and reporting, outreach to donors and partner organizations, you get the drift.

Areas dealt with so far. Grassroot level: torture victims rehabilitation. Central Level: corrpution (all possible secotrs). Human Rights.

If one wants advice on living in Palestine or Jerusalem (NOT the towns in the US, but the country/town itself, in the Middle East), I'm good at that too.

M.

[Dunesen]

Heh, close. They put the papers on "microfilm", but to do that they need them really, really flat. So the creases need to be ironed out of them :smallsigh: The guy that normally does it hasn't been coming to work much for some reason, causing all the papers to start piling up. Thus they need someone else who can do it when he can't. Namely: Me. It is kinda flattering/a good sign that they picked me, I guess <.<

I'm honestly surprised microfilm is still being used. Many newspapers have at least the last ten years or so of archives online, and some like the NYT are converting their entire history to digital files.

[TwoBitWriter]

I am currently, by day, an office assisant for a state-run Worker's Compensation Insurance Company.

But beyond that, I am a writer who has yet to get published (My BA was in Professional Writing, so I am actually serious about it and didn't just think that it would be fun.)

[CultDoctor]

Secondary School Student. Yuh, um. I do that... supposedly. :smallwink:

Neh, I'm a psychology/medicine/veterinary sciences hopeful. Blood doesn't scare me, but the mind and motivations are probably a bit more interesting to me.

That said, I'll probably end up being an academic... don't ask.

Oh and um... I've been doing secretive office work since I was about 12 (yus, really, filing, photocopying and data entry... horray for touch typing) in the holidays. I do ad-hoc tutoring and tutorials to younger students, very occasionally (why they'd pick me I have no idea. I just oblige and look happy. :])

I'm looking for another job now, maybe an after school one for next year.

[Feralgeist]

Just dropped out of school, joining army as combat engineer.

fun fun!

[B-Man]

I was in college for a 2-year of Computer Programming, but I flunked due to a shocking realisation that food costs money, as does living. So, I'm working for a year or two, pay back my current loan (to a manageable amount), and look for something other than computer programming 'cause I don't have the patience for that any more. I'm currently employed as a call centre representative, which is a polite way of saying "telemarketer", but I'm one of the good ones! Honest! People call me instead of the reverse!

[SquirrelKing]

I am the bar manager for a large hotel, as well as their I.T. Systems Admin. (I've been professionally bartending for nigh on 12 years now, and have been in the IT industry for about 7 years as well) Plus, I am a contract bartender that will do private and/or corporate engagements.

And let's not forget flipping and twirling the bottles at my own house for monthly parties that I hold for friends.

Previous vocations:
- tennis instructor
- accountant
- data analyst
- retail systems analyst
- manager of a friendly local gaming store
- cook
- client services rep
- etc.

[Dunesen]

Just dropped out of school, joining army as combat engineer.

fun fun!

Here's hoping you get a better experience than I've had so far (though I'm signal, not engineering).

[Player_Zero]

I'm technically currently a NEET since I don't start university until some time in the future...

[Serpentine]

I'm honestly surprised microfilm is still being used. Many newspapers have at least the last ten years or so of archives online, and some like the NYT are converting their entire history to digital files.It's all fairly small local papers. Maybe they can't afford/haven't gotten around to doing that?
I prefer my town library job. I actually get to see and talk to people and do a few different things :smallsigh:
As for longer-term employment prospects, I'm finishing of a BaArts/Science, and have discovered that I have a talent for research (wooo, exciting), so I'll probably be looking at careers as a researcher of some sort.

[Dunesen]

It's all fairly small local papers. Maybe they can't afford/haven't gotten around to doing that?
I prefer my town library job. I actually get to see and talk to people and do a few different things :smallsigh:
As for longer-term employment prospects, I'm finishing of a BaArts/Science, and have discovered that I have a talent for research (wooo, exciting), so I'll probably be looking at careers as a researcher of some sort.

Or you could work at the reference desk at the library. :smalltongue: