2009-04-05, 09:50 | Link #81 |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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Currently serving my National Service. I was hoping to be a lawyer specialising in computer crimes.
If I fail to get into law school or as a job under computer engineering, I might just sign for Blackwater as a mercenary. Need that money.
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2009-04-10, 07:05 | Link #87 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
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i'm just a student but for the summer i'll don the lab coat and do some part time research, eh that reading backlog just got bigger |
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2009-04-10, 11:34 | Link #89 |
Hige
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: God only knows
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Pilot - Currently flying BAe-146 200 for Lufthansa.
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2009-07-21, 22:55 | Link #90 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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From college degree to food stamps: Life during the downturn
I read an article on recent graduates and what they should do now that the economy is on summer break.
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I was in San Francisco for the Fourth and fully 3/4ths of the people I know there are unemployed. Amazingly, no one is looking for a job. They're all taking the time to travel, spend time with friends, work on their own ideas for start ups and generally recapture whatever magic was lost when summer vacation went away. It made me feel like a sucker for having a job. |
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2009-07-23, 22:11 | Link #92 |
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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Even though this data can be entered and found on a person's profile, it's sort of enjoyable to have it all compiled into one place to read.
Currently a graduate student engaged in immunology/molecular biology research. I'm fast becoming disullusioned by the research climate, and will likely not pursue research as a career (at least, not fully). Not to mention that time-wise (that is, time to perform experiments, time to read papers, and overall time on your brain to think these things over) it's quite brutal, there's a lot of stress because competition for various discoveries and for funding is quite high, and looking ahead, the pay is pretty awful (adding insult to injury). The research itself can be fun and rewarding at times, though.
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2009-07-23, 22:25 | Link #93 |
Sugar_Prayer <333
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Living on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific
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I'm currently working under family business with my dad. But I'm planning to get enrolled into filming school next year to chase my dreams of being a film director! ^_^
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2009-07-23, 22:40 | Link #94 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Seattle WA
Age: 47
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2009-07-25, 00:12 | Link #95 | |
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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I know of some researchers who get into evolutionary biology, but it isn't really my area. My current projects have me mapping intracellular pathways (tracking receptors and protein interaction cascades), ideally for the sort of stuff that'd be useful in drug therapies or even just explaining why some things are the way they are. I do consider evolution slightly (as in, how something may have developed as a response to the rise of something else) but that technically isn't evolutionary biology, and it's probably not what you had in mind
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2009-07-25, 17:03 | Link #96 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South America
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1st postulate: Knowledge is power. 2nd postulate: Time is money. Now, you know this physic's equation: Power= Work/Time Then, considering that Knowledge=Power, we have: Knowledge= Work/ Time. And you know that Time=Money; Knowledge=Work/Money. If we want the money: Money=Work/Knowledge . When knowledge tends to '0', money tends to infinite ( does not depend on the amount of work done). So the Less you know, the More you earn . |
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2009-08-11, 16:55 | Link #97 |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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A little over a year ago, I became a journalist for a newspaper.
Well, I may be stretching the definition a little, as I'm not actually working as a reporter, but rather as a sub-editor. Sub-editors, sometimes known also as copy-editors, are the guys who comb through a finished copy to check for errors, while making corrections to ensure that the text conforms with a publication's housestyle or, if need be, to rewrite entire passages for the sake of clarity and readability. Sub-editors are also in charge of designing and laying out pages. And, finally, they're the ones who write the headlines that scream for your attention. It has recently occured to me that I have a somewhat schizophrenic job. A perfect sub-editor has to have a sharp eye for detail, to the point of being anally retentive. At the same time, he has to have the creative flair needed to improve copy, and to find the right balance of grey text, pictures, captions and headlines that would "sell" a story. Intuitively, then, the job seems to require a mix of clashing personality traits: the qualities of a stubborn perfectionist pitted against those of an insightful artist. Not surprisingly, good sub-editors are very rare. Intuitively, too, I know, deep down inside, that it's unlikely that I'll make it as an effective sub-editor in the long run, simply because my strengths lie elsewhere. And, yet, I took up the job one year ago because I wanted the challenge. Having been a former programmer and a self-taught magazine editor, I felt an urgent need to find out exactly where I stood as a professional. Was I really as good as some people said I was? Too often, I felt like a fraud. I could not shake the nagging suspicion that things had been going a bit too smoothly for me. I was terrified by the thought that, perhaps, I had not been stretching myself far enough. So, one year later, what have I learnt? I've discovered that I was right: I've been a victim of hubris; I did not know how much I did not know until I joined the paper. It's been a humbling experience, and a timely wake-up call. There is much work ahead of me, even as the gap between my peers and I grows ever wider. Strangely, though, I find myself relishing the challenge even as I quiver before its apparent difficulty. And I also find myself recalling a certain episode from Hataraki Man (2006): Spoiler for Hataraki Man, Ep11:
So, to anyone reading this who is in need of career advice: You'll know when you've found the job you want when you find yourself living for work as though it's your calling in life. |
2009-08-12, 07:49 | Link #98 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
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I have what some people would consider a great job. I started working in the gaming industry after I graduated as a translator but gradually moved to marketing and now operating manager. It's an incredibly tough job and I put in about 100 hours a week for now, but hopefully this will go down to normal hours once our game is launched and gets some stability.
I am currently the project lead for the browser game Heroes of Gaia (http://www.heroesofgaia.com) and we're entering into our closed beta next Monday. It's an awful lot of work and there's a ton of pressure to deliver. If you're intending to come into the asian gaming industry and have a leading position, be prepared to burn the hours and put in a ton of extra effort. If you're just looking for a job, then plenty of us go home at 6 right after work. |
2009-08-12, 15:44 | Link #99 |
horo fan
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: missouri, usa
Age: 39
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well i graduated last year with a history degree, and i am not a teacher, and don't plan on it. since i graduated it has been hard finding a job. right now i work at fed ex, i basically do manual labor. i work there at night and i have been looking for a job during the day for awhile now, and can't find one. i am not exactly sure what i want to do besides getting a master's in library science. but i am not sure if i want to go to school just yet.
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2013-02-04, 05:39 | Link #100 |
MSN, FNP-C
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ontario, CA
Age: 34
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I was gonna make a thread on "your job/occupation" but found this thread. Although it's quite old, why not bump it up and fill it with current individuals x)
My first occupation is that I am a college student. I just recently got accepted into the nursing program down here in southern California. Waited 2 years; however, time flew and next thing I knew, I got the acceptance letter. I already went through orientation, bought most of my equipment and books and met my future 2-year classmates (60 of them O_O). I officially start the 25th of this month. As of now, I'm just reading my fundamentals book as well as working on dosage calculation and math problems for pharmacology. I have two jobs currently. I work at my current community college as an instructional aid for adult students with disabilities. What it boils down to is that I tutor students with all kinds of disabilities in basic level classes such as English and Math, all the way up to college level courses such as college algebra or statistics or psychology, etc. In addition to tutoring, we have an ABI, or Acquired Brain Injury program where brain injured patients come here to work on memory and cognitive strategies. My primary job is to tutor, but when I am free, I sit down with several of these ABI clients and work with them on strategy-type programs for the brain. I've been working there for over a year now, but this winter intercession is my last session working there due to the fact that I need all the time I can get for the nursing program. Currently, I only work 10 hours during the weekdays since intercession is a bit short (normally during spring and fall semesters I work 19). I will definitely miss this job and as I have loved working with the speech therapists and fellow tutors. I will miss some of the students I tutored, others I will not haha. For my second job, I work at a nearby private hospital as a Lift Team Technician (aka mobility technician). I work with a partner and we go ALL throughout the hospital helping assist nurses and CNAs reposition their patients with a a major focus on working with ICU and CCU. My department that we are under is physical therapy so in addition to repositioning, we do chair-bed and bed-bed transfers as well as assisting patients in standing up/sitting down. We don't walk them around as that's the PT's job but we help them get up and down. I currently work 16 hours, two 8-hr graveyard shifts on the weekend. We are soon changing to 12 hour shifts to better work one-on-one with the night nurses. Once we officially switch to 12-hour shifts, I will be working just one day a week (hopefully haha) instead of two. I love working with the night nurses and there is always something new every shift. This job provides me the perfect hospital experience for my nursing career and I most likely will be working at this hospital when I graduate.
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