What is your career?

[Tovan 0]

hm.......i arrived late on this topic. ahem, i am in science and engineering. wow nothing more to say. oh yeah i jab nano-probes in to lab rats too for fun :)

[Tovan 0]

I guess some people just can't hold a job.

Whazzat you say, Cadet?

ouuuuuuuuu never make fun of A9, or jami is going to haul you out to space :)

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I guess some people just can't hold a job.

Whazzat you say, Cadet?

ouuuuuuuuu never make fun of A9, or jami is going to haul you out to space :)

oh i hate it when that happens, your ears always go pop!

[Nemesis 0]

I know what you mean Images and that whole blood boiling and body exploding is a real drag.

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I know what you mean Images and that whole blood boiling and body exploding is a real drag.

finally someone who understands, we've got to start a support group, especially since you've started on the aegis, fred loves airlocks!

[STSF StarDust 0]

Gee.. jack of all trades ain't up there for all us GMs that fall there. :)

 

I started college pre-vet and found that chemistry and I just didn't have.. well, chemistry. So I switched to history and english lit. One day I might actually break down and finish college.. I have attended 5 so far, and have enough credits to be a junior, but no one will take me past a sophmore...and I just don't do well with *traditional* type schooling.

 

Anyway.. I have worked as a gas station manager, assistant horse trainer (and general barn helper), and used to be a certified vet tech. Not to mention working hauling hay, colt breaking, waiting tables, and the usual college age jobs. I finally used all my computer experience and training to get a real job.. working as a purchasing assistant for a major company, Masonite, a wholly owned subsidiary of International Paper. I did that for 2 years, before deciding I really wanted to persue a fire career. I was injured in a car accident on my way to work, and ended my fire career. So I moved in fire dispatch.

 

I used to be a volunteer firefighter, and our department had an ambulance that I used to be an EMT on. No longer volunteering (I don't have the time.)

 

Dumbass.. I was just down your way on a fire. Spent a week in lovely Morgan Hill. And now ya'll are burning the world up again!!!

[STSF_BluRox 0]

I finished college close to 20 years ago, and have been working in the Pharmaceutical business as a toxicologist ever since.

[STSF Jami 0]

a wholly owned subsidiary of International Paper. I did that for 2 years, before deciding I really wanted to persue a fire career.

Hm...Ziggy...what's wrong with this picture?  From paper company to firefighter?  ::pencils him in with the counselor::

[STSF StarDust 0]

a wholly owned subsidiary of International Paper. I did that for 2 years, before deciding I really wanted to persue a fire career.

Hm...Ziggy...what's wrong with this picture?  From paper company to firefighter?  ::pencils him in with the counselor::

Actually, we made siding and doors. My job was paying for all the wood products we bought to make the siding and doors with. :)

 

But I guess it does sound funny.

[Dumbass 0]

In short, I teach the people how to use the programs that calculate your property taxes.

Hold still while I reload...

[Dumbass 0]

Dumbass.. I was just down your way on a fire. Spent a week in lovely Morgan Hill. And now ya'll are burning the world up again!!!

::whistles innocently::  :)

[Captain Huff 0]

My first degree was in physics, my second and third were in music, and I work as a professional musician.  I know every Dunkin Donuts in a two hour radius.

[Nemesis 0]

Dunkin Donuts ha you haven't lived life until you've had a Tim Hortons Ice Cap any Canadian will tell you that :)

[Sovak 0]

My first degree was in physics, my second and third were in music, and I work as a professional musician.  

I didn't know you were a musician, Huff.  My original degree was in music.  So I got a truck driving job out of college, and after ten years of that went into the computer education business.  So music and theatre are only a hobby for me now.  It would be nice to get paid for it, though!  I certainly spend a lot of time at it!

[Vex Xiang 0]

I dropped out of high school and worked at McDonalds for 2 years. Then I got my GED and went to college for 1 year. I dropped out when I started working as a pornstar and started a fun career in that. After a botched operation my career was ruined so I decided to become a professional actor. But the only job I could get was a poster-boy for a hemorrhoid company. After a while all my family and friends stopped talking to me and I lost my job again because of my drinking problem, so now I work as a full time medical sample donor to pay for my internet simming addiction.

 

I picked other.

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I dropped out of high school and worked at McDonalds for 2 years. Then I got my GED and went to college for 1 year. I dropped out when I started working as a pornstar and started a fun career in that. After a botched operation my career was ruined so I decided to become a professional actor. But the only job I could get was a poster-boy for a hemorrhoid company. After a while all my family and friends stopped talking to me and I lost my job again because of my drinking problem, so now I work as a full time medical sample donor to pay for my internet simming addiction.

 

I picked other.

jeez vex you've had a boring life  :( why couldn't you be something exciting like an accountant?

[Guest STSF Dacotah]

Hmmm, I seem to be on a hiatus from working right now.  Or at least from getting a paycheck.  I have a degree in Business and spent five years working for the American Red Cross as a Public Support Director - a fancy name for FUNDRAISER.  

 

After the third little "Dac" joined the family I opted to remain home, making the kids my priority.  Now, however; the youngest is a kindergartener and I'm finding that I have a lot of time on my hands.  The boxes are unpacked and the house is set up -- so I need to find something to do, other than picking back up with the traithlon training.

 

I have no desire go back into "business" so I am at a cross roads of what to do next.  I thought of becoming a massage therapist, but oily and hairy backed men give me the willies, and there is the little problems of schedule conficts.  

 

As my spouse is active duty Air Force, he is gone quite often, thus I play the single parent role.  Also, most employers balk at my request of

 

1. No nights

2. No weekends

3. No holidays

4. Summers off

 

Time to complete that teaching certification, 'eh?    ::(:   University of West Florida, here I come.

[R'Tor Bat'ok 0]

University student, taking engineering.

[Zertz 0]

Lol!

[Captain Huff 0]

A good friend of mine recommends changing careers every ten years anyway.  I like the idea myself.  

 

Dac, teaching does fit your time schedule, and with a degree already you might be able to find a fast certification program.  I know we have some up here.

[LoAmi 0]

Not surprisingly for some of you, I chose "science."  I have a B.Sc. in physics from McGill University and I'm now in my second year working towards a Ph.D. in biophysics at Harvard.  If nothing else, it leaves me with plenty of material to use in sims.

[Nemesis 0]

Woah Harvard isn't that a really good school. I don't know that much about american university's but isn't that considered one of the best good work. :(

[Travis Kroells 0]

Now, this is wishfull thinking, but I will most likely go for a Ph.D. in archeology.

[Vex Xiang 0]

Archaeology is great! Any profession that has you treasure hunting while fighting crazy natives and Nazi's on a daily basis has my endorsement!

[Ruca NEtani 0]

Ruca my dad's friend works for the RCMP in forenscis and I'm sure you know this already but incase you don't CSI is nothing like real forensics :(

Yeah, I know.. but one of the guys on that show is really hot in a lab coat and I can't help myself. And Forensic Files is so interesting .. I stay up late to watch it.

 

I really just want to piece things together. Solve crimes. But not necessarily have to be out chasing people down with a gun. I have a bad aim in sports.. so I don't think that'd be good for me. Or anyone else in a mile radius around me either.

 

Hmm.. just gimme a job with puzzles and dead bodies and I think I'm good to go. :D