What DO WE DO for a living

[sf101]

I work in the lottery gaming industry.  Somewhat new to the field, but my background is in public relations.

[westkoast]

IT of course!

[ziggy]

I am responsible for all the Material purchasing for a millwork company, and I am responsible for operations for a sawmill in New Zealand.

[Derek Bodner]

Still in college, but  IT.

Currently maintaining Airgas' internet and intranet websites as part of a 6 month co-op.

[jn]

Funny! I was going to post this very topic tonight!  :blink:


I work in the courts in Mpls.  Essentially I'm a paralegal.  My degree is actually in psychology.  Comes in handy when your dealing with angry litigants, like the one who shot up the office where I, thankfully, turned down a job a few months prior.  

[Laker Fan]

I am in the middle of my 3rd career. After college (history and social science major) I went away from what I wanted to do, which was teach, and put 18 years and 1.9 million miles behind me driving a semi cross country. After that, I completed my Certified Netware Engineering degree and went to work for Weider Nutrition International and traveled extensively to Europe and Utah setting up and engineering the international WAN. Because Weider is in Salt Lake City, I met some e-commerce programmers there who had developed some very high level tracking and datafeed programming for the affiliate marketing aspect of the industry, they asked me to come in and develop and manage their business model and marketing strategy, something I felt I could do but business managment wasn't my forte' so I am back in school to get my degree in business managment and now I am in a whole new area of the IT field, still in computers but from a different angle and having the time of my life with it.

[SPURSX3]

i clean out the spooge from the film boothes at the Adult Video Megapleax.....and after that i work at a burger joint making the paties by hand.......

[WayOutWest]

Most of my time is spent as a consultant for industrial automation projects.  Everything from pharmaceutical, co-gen, supervisory monitoring and control, food processing and oil/gas.

I write software, mostly client/server apps for processing tons of raw data collected at high speed.  Typically upto 300 floating point values every 10 miliseconds.  Alot of products out there claim thousands of transactions per second BUT typically the data is "stale".  Basically you collect the same data several times per seconds vs what I do, every sample is different.  When we crank it down to 5 miliseconds we sometimes get two "stale" transactions per 300 points.

Also do networking, project proposals, computer repair and on-call support on the side.

[sf101]

I know Spursx3 has a partime job. He runs an adoption agency out of his house for wayward 18 year old Korean girls. Anyone looking to adopt, let him know, he'll hook you up.

THANKS AGAIN X3.  Mai Lang is working out great, although I think my wife is a little jealous since she moved in.    

[SPURSX3]

I know Spursx3 has a partime job. He runs an adoption agency out of his house for wayward 18 year old Korean girls. Anyone looking to adopt, let him know, he'll hook you up.

THANKS AGAIN X3.  Mai Lang is working out great, although I think my wife is a little jealous since she moved in.  

yeah just remember if she tries to charge you more then 5 dolla, send her back to me so i can re-educate her on proper behavior.......

[Guest_JoMal]

I supervise the subcounty population estimates and the education projections sections of the Demographic Research Unit of the State Department of Finance. The data are used by other agencies for Capital Outlay planning and budgeting (the education data), and by local jurisdictions for calculating annual appropriation's limits and for the distribution of state collected subventions.

This link shows you the type of reports we do. For those living in California, our annual city population press release will probably be in newspapers next week talking about the annual population growth for the communities in your area. I no longer write our press release, but edit it. Look under Reports and Research papers and then estimates or the projections sections for my areas of work, though we do much more that does not get put on line.

 http://www.dof.ca.gov/html/Demograp/druhpar.htm

We also provide the population and housing statistics that get published in the annual California Abstract publication put out by the Department of Finance.

Like others, it was not my chosen field. I wanted to be a Marine Biologist, but family members talked me out of it. Instead, I have a scuba certification level of Master Scuba Diver and we try to take diving vacations every year. My dream is to pursue this more once I retire from State service, though that may be at least a decade away yet.

BTW, my wife is a travel agent who specializes in budget travel to Europe. Because of this, we take numerous trips to Europe which you can construe as "working" vacations as well. She gets to claim the trips as work and I get to be on vacation.

She has an email and web page and she can save you some bucks if any of you ever think about European travel (or want to learn to scuba dive at a resort somewhere - she arranges those too). If anyone is really interested, I can provide you with her email.  

[Lurker]

I'm a CPA.  I currently work in a small (9 employees) local firm.  I bounced around a lot after high school working as a bartender, route delivery, construction, restaurant manager, grill cook, etc.

After 4-5 years I started back to community college while working.  I soon moved to Texas and continued to work & put myself through college.  Numbers have always been easy for me (I took calculus as a HS senior) so I picked a career where I don't have to expend large amounts of energy to succeed.  It also allows me time to surf the net and post on BBS.

 :ph34r:  

[sf101]

I work for a company that manufactures scratch off lottery tickets for various US states and countries.  I work with the state lottery commisions and process new game orders from start to finish. Really involved process, won't bore you with the details, let's just say TONS of work goes into designing and securing those games.

[Joe Vancil]

Mark me down as another IT guy.

I'm currently a System Administrator at Carfax, where I've been for about 3-and-a-half years.  Prior to that, I was the Director of Information Systems at Storage Mart, and prior to that, Storage Trust (NYSE: SEA until we sold to Public Storage), where I was Network Administrator or Director of Information Systems - depending upon what timeframe we're talking about.

I've gotten OUT of management, and I'm not going back.  Techie geek is a lot more fun, especially at a place like this.

 

[Ted]

I am an editor at a health book publishing company. I've been with my current company for nearly four years now. I spend most of my day looking for books to publish and then editing or supervising freelancers who do all of the grunt work (copyedit, proof, indexing). I also work on layout and design (Quark, Photoshop, etc.)

It's not a bad job and it's what I'm good at. I got my BA in English about 5 years ago, and have been in publishing ever since. But I don't want to be an editor forever, so I am getting another degree. I'm nearly halfway through the executive MBA program at BYU. I'd like to eventually be a publisher instead of an editor. Making books is a cool (and sometimes rewarding) process. Needless to say, with the dreaded second year core coming and work being busier, you're probably not going to hear much from me for the next year. Somehow I doubt that's disappointing.