So Late So Soon Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 I'm a full time student going to community college right now. I'm also starting a new job in a few weeks and i consider working out to be my other full time job Well I guess it's only life, it's only natural We all spend a little while going down the rabbit hole Link to comment
Atalan Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Aight, I feel like it's time to get to know everyone a little better.What does everybody here do for a living? College? Full-time job? Traveler? What takes up your 9-5 each day?College, with internships, so come May I'll be working full time for 0 pay.It's gonna be GREAT! Link to comment
Philociraptor Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Full time (7:30-5 M-F) Engineer for a major polyethylene company, i.e. I make trash bags. Link to comment
Artinum Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Aight, I feel like it's time to get to know everyone a little better.What does everybody here do for a living? College? Full-time job? Traveler? What takes up your 9-5 each day?I work for the local council. My job involves database maintenance, so the only part of me that gets significant exercise in the day is my fingers. It's probably quite a good sign that I've stayed as slim as I have! What happens when you play Final Fantasy VII with everyone called Cloud? It gets quite confusing... https://ff7crowdofclouds.wordpress.com/ Link to comment
notanartmajor Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Graphic Designer at the local newspaper. Link to comment
Thrillho Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Unemployed bum, part-time building designer, part-time writer, full-time parent AND registered for my Bachelor's Degree in technology management. The cancer was aggressive, but the chemotherapy was aggressive, as well. There was aggression on both sides. Link to comment
Mb82 Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Biology Student, sales associate for the Orvis Company. Link to comment
wildross Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 systems integrator (project manager) for a bank. linux architect on the sideSent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk Warriors don't count reps and sets. They count tons. My psychologist weighs 45 pounds, has an iron soul and sits on the end of a bar Tally Sheet for 2019 Encouragement for older members: Chronologically Blessed Group; Encouragement for newbie lifters: When we were weaker Link to comment
UncleTone Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 The job I get paid to do is behavioral therapy with children. I am also a nursing student. I do some freelance writing but have not been doing it so much lately with 16 hour days between work and nursing school. Dwarf Ranger STR 3 // DEX 2 // STA 2 // CON 4 // WIS 2 // CHA 2"It's Simple, so says the Captain;Face Forward,Move Slow,Forge Ahead.Onward! Onward! Onward!" Link to comment
Silentplanet Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Quantitative analysis and Economics major I do stuff with numbers and graphs and stuff. Link to comment
Red1263 Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Unemployed Bum, I have just finished my B.S. in Biology: Biomedical sciences, My 9-5? Wake up, cook breakfast for myself and my mom (still live at home), clean/run errands, cook lunch for the family, then Study for the MCAT until 8pm where I exercise/run. Currently looking for a job, perferrably in a hospital so that I can start networking, I've signed up for volunteering, which should commence at the end of this month. Level 25 Final Fantasy Rebel My Epic Quest | My Journey | Currently on the Trial of Orthos Str: 60 | Dex: 23 | Sta: 66 | Con: 28 | Wis: 55 | Cha: 14 Goals for 2021: Spoiler Build my brother a Destiny 2 Lamp Learn how to do a Handstand Play 1 song on the acoustic guitar Clean up the Christmas Decorations and finish setting up my apartment (hang things up, plus some other few things that need to be organized) Re-introduce Pull-ups into my routine Build a shelving unit next to my Desk "No matter what, if you can hold your head up high, you've done the right thing." "When you stand with your family, your family stands with you." "Write what needs to be written." Link to comment
Book Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Software test engineer for a medical device company. Character and Epic Quest! Current Challenge Battle Log Link to comment
Waldo Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Aviation engineer. I have a Civ E degree but am more of a general engineer nowadays; I need to know electricity, air conditioning, and radio broadcast as much as dirt, foundations, and structures (and of course airport and airspace geometry). currently cutting battle log challenges: 21,20, 19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 don't panic! Link to comment
BarefootDawsy Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 C#/VB programmer, working for an Australian company, but based in Canada at the moment... BAREFOOT DAWSY Scout Commander (ret.) Link to comment
161803398874989 Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 University student f'yeah! Doesn't even take up my 9-5 and it's like a hobby. Other than that I tutor kids for a job, teach them right from wrong so that they may pierce the veil themselves: that mathematics does not arise from divinity but reason. That they will see that mathematics does not command you to be smart, it commands you to be creative.See what I did there? Quare? Quod vita mea non tua est. You can call me Phi, Numbers, Sixteen or just plain 161803398874989. Link to comment
Rosen Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Sys Admin for a small CCTV company in Sofia, Bulgaria. 9:30 to 18:00. After work - meet friends, rest or workout. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was "Arrrgh!" —PIRATICUS 13:7 Fitocracy Link to comment
Woodsrider Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Power Engineer (aka Stationary Engineer). Not a real engineer but a boiler/turbine operator. I'm a control room supervisor for a large electrical generation company here in Ontario. I look after two 480 MW, coal fired generators and work 12 hr shifts. So, if you see me on here, I'm probably at work. Link to comment
Suominatua Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Student... College. Astronautical Engineering. Link to comment
Guest Snake McClain Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Well i don't know where i fit in but i'll just tell you what's going on with my life.1) i work for liberty mutual insurance. sort of. i actually work for Pitney Bowes doing work for liberty mutual. I am underpaid (which leads to)2) I am starting school in august. I'm considering electrical engineering but I don't know enough about the work or if I'll enjoy it. chances are I can do it and be fine but I don't want to be bored and hate my life. It is actually a 2 year degree in elec engineering technology so i'd be a "technician". I can't seem to find any real info on what that means. I've also considered something with comupters.3) what i really want to do is write (because I'm quite good at it) but making a career in writing fiction (primarily comic books) is no easy task and i am tired of being poor. So no sense in going to school to be more poor forever. 4) I am training to be a pro wrestler (if you don't know this you don't me). This is my life long dream. I'm doing my best but chances of making it to a level where I'll make money....well not good. So i'm going to treat it as my full time job but not expect anything to come of it. just work at it as if I get paid a million dollars a year to do and hopefully one day i will get paid a million dollars to do it. If anyone has any pointers on school (i'm 30 and this is my first go) then please chime in. Also if you can tell me anything about working in electrical engineering or with computers i'd love to hear your thoughts about what to do. I just literally am picking something i can do and will pay me because i'm sick of being broke all the time and having no future prospects. Link to comment
bigm141414 Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Full time job. I design and characterize integrated circuits that go into mobile consumer goods. "Pull the bar like you're ripping the head off a god-damned lion" - Donny Shankle Link to comment
BarefootDawsy Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 If anyone has any pointers on school (i'm 30 and this is my first go) then please chime in. Also if you can tell me anything about working in electrical engineering or with computers i'd love to hear your thoughts about what to do. I just literally am picking something i can do and will pay me because i'm sick of being broke all the time and having no future prospects.This is exactly the position I was in about 7 years ago when I made the move from slightly-better-than-minimum-wage temp jobs to proper programming. I really wanted to to electrical engeneering too, since the coursework seems pretty cool, but like you I never managed to get a straight answer as to whan an EE does every day. I'd highly recommend going into programming if you don't know what else to do. It's interesting, cerebral and creative work, it's in high demand, and it's well paid. If you're lucky, you can land a flexible role that will allow you to pursue your other interests more easily too.The cool thing about programming is that you don't really need a degree to do it. Yes, having one, or working towards one will look good on your resume, but generally, with coding, you can either do it or you can't. I work with a handful of amazing programmers, and only one of them has a degree.It take a lot of hard work and deidaction to get your head around the basics of writing code, but once you have it, it's transferrable to other languages, etc. If you want an easy way to have a taste of it, start writing macros in Excel at work. Try recording a macro, then seeing what it looks like in the VBA designer (see Google). Change a parameter or two, and see what it does...start using macros wherever you can and hand-coding them as much as possible, and you'll be able to write basic code before you know it. Once you have a foundation, the rest is just application. BAREFOOT DAWSY Scout Commander (ret.) Link to comment
Waldo Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Well the EE's I work with have to know the NEC backwards, forwards, inside, and out, they design/review the E (electrical) set of drawings, and have to specify and order generators and transformers. The basics on our drawings that they have to really check are box layout and types, wire sizing, and grounding/lightning protection. Our EE's deal with 120V+ AC, the electronics engineers deal with the 12V (+others) DC stuff.Most engineers don't do the same thing day after day. Things tend to vary depending on where in the project lifecycle each of your projects are. I think for most engineers, what you learn and do in school is only vaguely related to what you actually do after school. Learning the problem solving and critical thinking skills of an engineer in school is far more important than the all of the details they teach. I walk on site, look around, and assemble things in my head in a 3D model right there when I'm really doing my design work (I'm not a detail designer, more big picture). I can't say that is a skill I learned in school. currently cutting battle log challenges: 21,20, 19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 don't panic! Link to comment
The Tin Man Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 <--- Mechanical engineer in product development at a consumer electronics company. The Tin Man: Cyborg Ranger Tin Man's Out of Date Epic Quest I am what I do. Link to comment
NukeTheUnicorns Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Full time Anthropology student and employee at Whole Foods Market. I work the cheese counter. Valar Morghulis Link to comment
WizardTrip Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Current full time job is Senior Analyst for the US Department of Defense, but my background is IT Project Management. Level 6 Wizard of Beer Warrior STR 21.25 | DEX 5.75 | STA 7.75 | CON 3.50 | WIS 9.50 | CHA 3.25 Twitter | Epic Trip | Current Challenge Previous Challenges: 1 2 3 4 5 *the warrior formerly known as icedtrip and former dothraki god of thunder furyan* Link to comment
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