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Offline mycrabface

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on: November 14, 2006, 12:35:37 AM
What do you guys work as?

I'm still schooling. I wanna be a psychologist when I grow up! But if I can't make it that far, I'll be an eye surgeon.
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Re: Jobs
Reply #1 on: November 14, 2006, 12:52:20 AM
I'm still at college getting my BS in Mechanical Engineering.  I still don't know exactly what sub-field I want to work in, but I'm leaning to a more design oriented job.
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Re: Jobs
Reply #2 on: November 14, 2006, 01:41:28 AM
Gypsy catcher

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Reply #3 on: November 14, 2006, 01:48:07 AM
I'm actually a marine a biologist.  Sometime I dabble with freelance architecture.  ;D
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Reply #4 on: November 14, 2006, 02:00:26 AM
Just finished last year at school and I'm planning to study Medicine at uni. Don't know what field yet.
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Reply #5 on: November 14, 2006, 02:24:44 AM
I worked in R&D most of my life for various medical and aerospace companies.  Later, I semi-retired as a college instructor.  I was non-degreed in the sense that I don't have a Ph.D., but I was able to teach based on my industrial experience and some college.  I taught mathematics, physics, and computer technologies.

I'm currently retired on medical disability.  I would love to still be teaching, but the doc says no.  :'(

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Reply #6 on: November 14, 2006, 10:46:56 AM
gypsy catcher?  what is that?  i kind of like unusual job descriptions - but i've never heard of that one. 

i think i would have made a good conservation/wildlife/park ranger.  i feel obsessed about picking up litter in wild areas.  or semi-wild.  i don't let my children litter.  and, generally - i almost feel like ticketing anyone throwing plastic bottles - even on a bicycle.  i like to see drainage basins actually drain (and not become infestation places for mosquitos) - and for birds to be well fed.  for animals not to be hunted 'for fun.'

also, i have always held various assorted odd jobs that usually deal with dexterity of the hands.  piano, sewing, painting (literal house painting - and also stencilling), tutoring, and now lately organizing.  if i worked at closet factory -i'd get my children's closets organized too.  there's something to be said for wooden shelving ina closet vs. rubbermaid hanging racks at the wrong height.  if i were to do it over - it would be the first thing that i'd fix in a child's bedroom.  to change to wooden rods, put them at the correct height and another at the adult height - and shelves everywhere else.  then you can pick up the toys on the floor and have a room to walk around in.  also, most closets are big enough to store books, too.  and, last, but not least a shoe rack that angles down so you can actually see your shoes. 

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Re: Jobs
Reply #7 on: November 14, 2006, 10:52:42 AM
I'd be careful about becoming a house painter, if I were you. There was one of those in Berlin in 1939.
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Reply #8 on: November 14, 2006, 10:54:56 AM
did he/she fall off a ladder?

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Reply #9 on: November 14, 2006, 10:59:01 AM
It appears not, alas, but he did grow a moustache and make funny hand signals.
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Reply #10 on: November 14, 2006, 11:06:42 AM
lead paint can do that. 

Offline elspeth

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Reply #11 on: November 14, 2006, 11:32:47 AM
I have four jobs at the moment, sort of. It's complicated... I pay most of my bills by chasing debtors for a tour operator and am slowly turning into an accountant. I also have a management role at an opera house, a similar role at a concert hall, and dabble in freelance wildlife photography. I also find myself seconded out to other theatres and concert halls in the area to do all sorts of things, mostly revolving around running the public face of the venue.

Busy busy... my diary is a scary place!
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Reply #12 on: November 14, 2006, 01:03:26 PM
I'm a freelance print, radio, online journo and sometimes lecturer.

Possibly about to trade two years of relative freedom and flexibility to return to a full time position in a newsroom.

Which offers sick leave, holiday pay and uncomplicated tax, but which, sadly, will cut back piano time  :'(.
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Reply #13 on: November 14, 2006, 04:57:46 PM
well i'm still a studen at college of business adminstration hopfully i'll graduate this january with an accounting degree.

after graduation i'll start seriously studying music theory and preformnace
while i don't have serious ambition to be preformer but i'm really really hoping to be a piano teacher i just love teaching piano.

and i might try my luck with modeling  :D 
seriously my friend told me to try audtioning for ford agency when i visit him next summer and i'm seriously consedring it
ahhhhhhhhhhh  i wish i  become a model.

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Reply #14 on: November 14, 2006, 06:44:03 PM
I am a deckhand on a submarine.

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Reply #15 on: November 14, 2006, 07:55:09 PM
My job?  Aircraft mechanic for a major airline!

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Reply #16 on: November 14, 2006, 10:01:00 PM
I am a deckhand on a submarine.

Thal

Glug glug glug gluggle glug glug gluggleglug glug gluggle?
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Reply #17 on: November 14, 2006, 10:04:32 PM
I used to work for the race relations board.

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Reply #18 on: November 15, 2006, 03:31:44 PM
I'm actually a marine a biologist.  Sometime I dabble with freelance architecture.  ;D
We have a marine biologist here!! Ahh, some of my friends are very interested about marine biology.. They often schedule diving trips at I dunno where, cos i can't scuba dive..  :'(
I might also want to be a part-time piano teacher...
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Reply #19 on: November 15, 2006, 06:44:41 PM
We have a marine biologist here!!

You could get him to investigate how submarine deckhands keep their sheet music from wilting.
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Reply #20 on: November 15, 2006, 11:19:49 PM
Sounds like a good idea to me.  How do you do it thal??

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Reply #21 on: November 15, 2006, 11:50:59 PM
I just finished working as a bartender during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, but before anything I'm an unemployed university student.

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Reply #22 on: December 18, 2006, 02:50:24 AM
ahhhhhhhhhhh i wish i become a model.

I believe Thal is a model.  You should ask him for some pointers.
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Reply #23 on: December 18, 2006, 08:48:27 AM
I believe Thal is a model.  You should ask him for some pointers.
A model what? Or shouldn't I ask?...

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Re: Jobs
Reply #24 on: December 22, 2006, 12:32:17 AM
I'm a retired Classics professor and teach piano too.

Offline lichristine

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Reply #25 on: December 22, 2006, 02:43:23 AM
i'm in school. :(

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Reply #26 on: December 22, 2006, 03:04:54 AM
airline pilot (still a long way to go)
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Reply #27 on: December 22, 2006, 02:09:36 PM
I am a vicar
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Offline mycrabface

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Reply #28 on: December 27, 2006, 08:27:06 AM
Why is my computer lagging? Its broadband! It can't be lagging! Its properly connected! IT CAN'T BE LAGGING!
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