Workin' for a livin'

[Blindside]

Wow, there sure are alot of computer gee... uh specialists on this board.

Anyway, I'm a wildlife biologist for a National Wildlife Refuge. Mostly I do various wildlife surveys, write grants for studies, and try to figure out how to maintain our riparian habitat in the face of 4 years of drought and 150 years of climate change.

I couldn't ask for a better job.

Lamont

 

[OULobo]

Originally posted by Blindside
Wow, there sure are alot of computer gee... uh specialists on this board.

Anyway, I'm a wildlife biologist for a National Wildlife Refuge. Mostly I do various wildlife surveys, write grants for studies, and try to figure out how to maintain our riparian habitat in the face of 4 years of drought and 150 years of climate change.

I couldn't ask for a better job.

Lamont

That indeed is a cool job.

 

[Elfan]

I'm a profesional student (that means I loose money) at Bucknell University in the middle of nowhere, PA.

 

[GaryM]

3 years USMC, Then built and installed electronic iron gates and fences in parking lots ect. 5 years as a packaging machine mechanic/ plant maintenance first for a macaroni factory then a detergent company, installed aluminum siding, packaging machine mechanic in a pizza factory,maintenance supervisor at a ski resort, pressure washer service technician, fleet mechanic for a uniform company, framer (houses not pictures), and now I am a cosmic ray technician. No, really.

 

[Nightingale]

first job: working for carl's jr. restaurant as a cashier in high school. was either that or work at disneyland, and I like disneyland too much to ever want to work there.

after that, started college, and started a private tutoring service... $20 an hour to tutor kids in math/science/spelling and adults in how to send an email and use a mouse. sure beat my friends' $5/hr workstudy jobs. junior year I was an RA (kept the freshmen from blowing up the dorm) and kept up with the tutoring thing.

after I graduated, I taught elementary school for a year.
I got a job working for a tv station in LA after I decided that teaching wasn't for me... loved the students, but the parents were hell. did the tv station thing for a year and a half, then moved on to leasing apartments. my boss was a jerk and unjustly taking away commission (mainly because it made his final numbers look better if he didn't pay us as much) and so I switched jobs. Just started a new one last week.

I work for the Los Angeles Fire Department now, doing administrative stuff. fun sometimes, boring sometimes, but heck, you can't beat the scenery.

-N-

 

[KenpoGirl]

Originally posted by Nightingale
I work for the Los Angeles Fire Department now, doing administrative stuff. fun sometimes, boring sometimes, but heck, you can't beat the scenery.

-N-

Hmmmm, I bet!!! Surrounded by hunky firefighters all day. {drool}
I guess it's one of those dirty jobs that someone gotta do, eh?

Lucky dog.

Dot

 

[MountainSage]

I am a farmer, a blacksmith, a sheep shear, househusband, certified nurses aid and Jack of all trades. In the past I've worked in a sawmill, on a water well drilling crew, on house building crews, bucking bales, ranchhand, etc.... In rural america you need to be very diversified.

Mountain Sage

 

[theletch1]

a blacksmith

Now, that is something I've always wanted to try my hand at. We had a local blacksmith (he's passed on now) who could make anything you could imagine. He was a big ole bear of a man but one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet.

 

[Nightingale]

Originally posted by KenpoGirl
Hmmmm, I bet!!! Surrounded by hunky firefighters all day. {drool}
I guess it's one of those dirty jobs that someone gotta do, eh?

Lucky dog.

Dot

hehe... yep!

 

[shotmanuk]

Had a few jobs including office worker, bouncer, jailer and I've been a cop for the past 8 years over the pond in the UK:asian:

 

[Kroy]

I'm a bar manager/bartender.

 

[satans.barber]

Originally posted by satans.barber
I work park time in a Youth Library, and since Graduating I'm trying to get a full time job as a sysadmin. Second round of interviews was this morning, and there was only me and one other who got through to this stage, so I'll find out in the week whether I got the job or the other guy/gal did.

Ian.

Found out yesterday that I didn't get it, the other person did

Ian.

 

[theletch1]

Found out yesterday that I didn't get it, the other person did

Sorry to hear that, Ian. Keep trying and something will come along. 'course ya could always be a truck driver. This country has a definite shortage of drivers right now so having to say the other person got it is a rare experience.

 

[satans.barber]

Originally posted by theletch1
Sorry to hear that, Ian. Keep trying and something will come along. 'course ya could always be a truck driver. This country has a definite shortage of drivers right now so having to say the other person got it is a rare experience.

hehe, unfortunately that would require me

a) living in America and
b) not having a nasty eye disorder precluding me from driving anywhere at night!

Nice though though, thankyou!

I was very upset yesterday, but it's gone now. I'll just have to get some more papers out and see what I cand find!

Ian.

 

[KenpoTess]

Yep.. quite a few Computer people on here.. Seig and I used to do that... Before MCIWorldcom held us hostage and tossed us to the dogs... ~!

sooo much nicer to have our own business and not deal with bureaucrats

 

[Aikikitty]

I work part time at my next door neighbor's day care. :erg: Ages usually go from several weeks old to when they usually leave us at 2-3 years old.

Robyn :asian:

 

[clapping_tiger]

I unload trucks and track inventory. I also work at the karate school as the admissions director, and teaching.

I did go to school for web systems and design but due to the economy in my area there just are no job available.

 

[qizmoduis]

I'm a software engineer. The product I work on currently is a multi-tier web-based transportation and logistics management package. It isn't terribly glamorous, but I'm not really interested in glamorous anyway.

 

[theletch1]

sooo much nicer to have our own business and not deal with bureaucrats

Hmmm.... doesn't that make you the bureaucrats?

 

[satans.barber]

I don't see Tess and Seig as the beauraucratic type somehow!

Ian.