Just another useless thread for fun !

I am a baker at the local grocery store in town. I gotta say i rather enjoy it, and will be pretty sad when I have to leave it. How about you?

Military electronics. Buh-bye terrorists. I love my job.

Hugs, Devlyn

Coolio ^.^

I'm retired Army and now conduct analysis (i.e. Statistics) on experimentation results.  I'm a math geek so I do like doing this a lot.


Conform and be dull. —James Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote

cool! two military girls ! I came close to joining the military myself!

 Been doing computer support for 23 years, working at a public university now. Before that I did just about everything else.  I'm kind of done with it now in that if I could retire tomorrow I would. I'd love to do something else, just don't know what that is.


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Hotel manager, it's a bucket of $!*t.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on April 08, 2017, 09:00:05 PM
Military electronics. Buh-bye terrorists. I love my job.

Hugs, Devlyn

I work on defense electronics too. I recently had to renew my top secret clearance and had no problems at all after changing my name and gender.

20 years doing IT in construction,  education,  ecommerce retail and pharmaceuticals. Love it.

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self employed social media marketer, it's OK

Before I retired, I was in IT, working for a provincial government.  Before that, I was a military flying instructor.  I wasn't too crazy about being a soldier, but I did like the flying and instructing parts.  I should have gone into teaching when I got out.

Director of operations for a consulting startup in the hospitality industry. I do a small amount of consulting work with clients who need less hand holding than others about 25% of the time, and the other 75% of the time I manage a small team of consultants doing the same thing. It's okay. I don't like the industry and it's not something I enjoy, but the benefits, pay, and working from home most of the time are nice. It would be hard for me to go back to a job where I couldn't work from home so much so I'm content to stay put for now.

I have been a stay home parent for the past 7 years. I love my kids but being constantly seen as a "mom" has been very dysphoria inducing.
Before that, I worked as a biologist for the federal forestry service. I loved every minute of that but jobs in my field are almost impossible to find. I'm planning to go back to school for public health.

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Many people here are in IT industry.

I work as a professor at a national university here. Typically I teach biostatistics, marine ecology and fisheries science.

Yes. I love my job, as my working time is relatively unconstrained and few people can try to supervise me. It is very stable, as I already got tenure. The downside is that my salary is relatively low compared with professors at private universities.

barbie~~

Quote from: barbie on April 09, 2017, 01:01:20 PM
Many people here are in IT industry.

I work as a professor at a national university here. Typically I teach biostatistics, marine ecology and fisheries science.

Yes. I love my job, as my working time is relatively unconstrained and few people can try to supervise me. It is very stable, as I already got tenure. The downside is that my salary is relatively low compared with professors at private universities.

barbie~~

I work at a public university and a tenured professor in your field would make at least 115-120k a year. It's not a teaching college though. You'd have to do research, publish and get grants. The university takes 43% minimum of any grant too. I've heard that schools like Berkeley take 60%. That's nuts. It's relatively laid back though. Once you get a routine, people kind of let you be.


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Currently I'm a sculptor and prop maker.

I enjoy it immensely. The only part I don't like is the selling aspect.

I'd prefer to be an actor. It seems I wasn't designed for safe, secure and predictable professions. I always gravitate to the ones with some kind of instability and variety, having to get your mates to pretend they're your boss so you can rent an apartment because no-one calls it a "real" job, even if it is.

Quote from: Gertrude on April 09, 2017, 01:08:21 PM
I work at a public university and a tenured professor in your field would make at least 115-120k a year. It's not a teaching college though. You'd have to do research, publish and get grants. The university takes 43% minimum of any grant too. I've heard that schools like Berkeley take 60%. That's nuts. It's relatively laid back though. Once you get a routine, people kind of let you be.

Yes. But the salary structure is little bit different. National university here means that I am a kind of government employee with a fixed annual salary. I usually get research grants of ca. USD 150k every year, and the university takes about 25%. I can not get remuneration from my grants, but my students can get.

Yes. I once worked in IT about 25 years ago, and some of my researches sometimes involve it. For example, I am playing with this kind of animation movie now. https://youtu.be/4B4EveVh3fE

barbie~~

Quote from: barbie on April 09, 2017, 01:40:33 PM
Yes. But the salary structure is little bit different. National university here means that I am a kind of government employee with a fixed annual salary. I usually get research grants of ca. USD 150k every year, and the university takes about 25%. I can not get remuneration from my grants, but my students can get.

Yes. I once worked in IT about 25 years ago, and some of my researches sometimes involve it. For example, I am playing with this kind of animation movie now.

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https://youtu.be/4B4EveVh3fE

barbie~~

We're government employees too as it's a state school. Grants vary. Where I work they're usually in the millions. The president of the school makes a million a year. If you're not a professor or some sort of senior administrator, the pay sucks. The saving grace for me is that my kids get a 75% break on tuition if they go to a state school here, otherwise I'd work somewhere else.


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I'm a chemist by education but since I'm a mechanically inclined one, I've learned that I am a bit of a unicorn.  So I don't do typical chemist work, I install, fix, upgrade, and train people on the use of the one spectrometer that most chemists are scared to death of.

I love the fact that I'm never facing the exact same thing over and over again.  I don't work in a cubical.  The last time I actually saw one of my coworkers in the flesh was three months ago, and I'm doing a team job tomorrow with another that I haven't seen in nearly a year.  I haven't seen my boss in a year and a half.  It is also kind of fun to be the authority on things, so I kind of walk on water when I am in a lab.  Even the most self absorbed and uppity "science diva" type professors tend to not be a pain for me.  And the few that are, I can threaten to leave without fixing anything and they get reasonable really quickly.

So those aspects are great, the down side is I'm on the road 3-4 nights a week flying or driving all over the Midwestern USA.  The travel was fun at first, but it's pretty annoying a few years in. But the pay is really good and the benefits are insanely good when it comes to trans stuff, so I'm going to be tied to this job for a couple more years at least.

We don't have time for work in England  we are far to busy  Leaving the EU