Proffessionals

[SwordsMaster]

Ah, long time gone "get to know us better" threads....
I was kinda missing them, so here you go:

What are you working on (as in what is your proffession)?

And if you could define your work in a few words, what would you say you do?


Here's mine:

Computer Science student. It is hard to say what I do, but definitely not what I'm supposed to... Well, working on a weather prediction engine right now...

[nokhor]

i'm in sales. i'm 'supposed' to be opening new accounts. i keep looking in here but can't seem to find any. will have to look deeper in here i guess.

[Ronin]

Computer science student....studying for an exam right now.. :book:

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I'm doing my A-levels now...hopefully I'll be a medical student in a year and a bit's time.

[Big_John]

was a geologist working at nasa.. first worked on martian cratering characteristics using data obtained by the 'mars orbiter laser altimeter' (mola) which was an instrument on the 'mars global surveyor' (mgs). later, i started working on determining the capacity for the 'ice, sea, and land satellite' (icesat) to identify small-scale changes in climate-sensitive glaciers (small, tidewater glaciers) using the jakobshavn glacier in greenland as the case study.

but i got bored and now i'm studying for law school.

i've decided that 'working' is for chumps, school is where it's at!

[Proletariat]

Occupational Therapy for the US Army. [Right now this consists of treating PTSD and teaching lots of amputees how to use new high end prosthetics.]

[Devastatin Dave]

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.... ~;)

[Somebody Else]

Layabout. Considering returning to university though (to study ancient history this time).

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Composer and musician. Unemployed at this time and "officially" unqualified. If I survive the coming June I'll be rushing for the university again (quit business school), to get myself "officially qualified" in what I am.

As for description, I compose music that nobody listens. :joker:
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[Quid]

Teaching English at the moment. Don't know why really. Am thinking of going back to Uni also. Would have done so earlier, if I had had the money.

Quid

[LittleGrizzly]

like somebody else a layabout, going to college in the summer though, and trying to find some crappy job in the meantime....

[Beirut]

Destruction of the natural environment. ~:cheers:

Ode to my saw

Kill 'em, cut 'em, chop 'em burn 'em
It's a wonder don't you see
That the world would be a better place
Without a single tree

A little gas and a touch of oil
Is all my saw requires
To send a mighty tree to ground
Right through the hydro wires

My sweet chainsaw
Your teeth so sharp at 10,000 RPM
You are so quick at cutting trees
My well tuned sharpened friend

I love to see you resting well
Upon a fresh cut log
And my love to you my chainsaw friend
Is second only to my dog

[Shottie]

Student at my Highschool right now, Im shooting to be a teacher of History, to Highschool students Or a cop, I can be both but I dont know if I want to be. Kinda different choices when compared but its all good. I love History though and I really want to do anything with Medieval/European Hisotry. :bow:

[MoROmeTe]

I'm a Political Sciences student. I'm learning all about politics, from different angles, from history and philosophy to ethics and rational choice theory. Might sound boring, but it is totally cool. And usefull, seing as any time soon I'll be taking over the world...
(followed by good old movie style villain laughter...)
(choces)

[Goofball]

Commercial banker for mid market loans ("mid market" is loans > $1million but < $10million).

[Beirut]

Ree-hee-hee-heeeeeely?

Loans you say.

Well I've got my eyes on a 70" Sony plasma screen and maybe you and I could have a talk... ~D

[SwordsMaster]

Ree-hee-hee-heeeeeely?

Loans you say.

Well I've got my eyes on a 70" Sony plasma screen and maybe you and I could have a talk... ~D


with or without that chainsaw you write songs to? :evilgrin: :grin2: :inquisitive:

[Goofball]

Ree-hee-hee-heeeeeely?
Hehe.

That was well written; I could actually hear Ace Ventura in my head.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Student in Mostly Honor classes looking to major in either History or English, or to go into the military academy and becoming a tank officer

[Productivity]

Student in economics (majoring in pure, international and development) and science (majoring in geography (development) and statistics).

[Hetman_Koronny]

Im a producer and business dev manager working for a polish developer. I manage (or at least try to) PC, Xbox and N-gage projects at the moment.

[TonkaToys]

IT Manager looking after a construction engineering company's IT and Telecomms over six offices.

[King Edward]

Merc accountant, am dong short term contract work until i have enough magic beans to go travelling, first round Europe, then to New Zealand to play a season of rugby then hopfully the states to see just how bad your beer really is!

[Hosakawa Tito]

I'm just joking here so don't take it wrong (I'm laughing with you not at you), but before one becomes a professional (not proffessional), one should learn to spell it. :bow: Don't feel bad, I had a hard time spelling sergeant (kept writing it as sargeant ~D ), and now I am one. New York State Dept. of Corrections for 23 lovely years. I really wanted to be an oceanographer, but marriage, children, and economic realities steered me down a different path.

[TonyJ]

I'm a sales account manager for a regional firm in South Wales, supposedly opening new business accounts.

Free internet access all day makes keeping an eye on The Guild when I should be doing business searches a nice distraction ~:)

[Tricky Lady]

I'm a project manager at a translation office.

Not so cool, uh?

[SwordsMaster]

I'm just joking here so don't take it wrong (I'm laughing with you not at you), but before one becomes a professional (not proffessional), one should learn to spell it. :bow: Don't feel bad, I had a hard time spelling sergeant (kept writing it as sargeant ~D ), and now I am one.

I don't know why, all the typos always show up in the most visible (and not editable) places.... ~:cheers:

I kept spelling "sargent"

~D

[Mount Suribachi]

Shift Laboratory Technician in Quality Control for a pharmaceutical company.

I test chemicals to ensure their quality and do forest loads of paperwork (pharmaceuticals is the 2nd most regulated industry on Earth and keeps Beirut in a job ~;) )

[A.Saturnus]

I´m about to become a witchdoctor (or psychologist as some call it).

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

What's the first most regulated industry on Earth?

[Mount Suribachi]

What's the first most regulated industry on Earth?

Aviation.

[Ser Clegane]

I'm a research analyst covering the chemical industry for a consulting company

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Aviation.

Ah, makes sense.

[Hosakawa Tito]

What's the first most regulated industry on Earth?

In the US, I would say the firearms industry.

[JAG]

I am a student, uni in September to study Politics and International Relations.

[Tribesman]

Stonemason/bricklayer

[Mount Suribachi]

In the US, I would say the firearms industry.

GAH!

I spit on your puny firearms regulations! :duel:

GAH!

:charge:

(but lets not go into another arms control debate, eh?)

Its the US Food and Drug Administration that drives the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry - its by far the biggest market in the world and if you wanna sell your stuff there, you gotta meet the FDA's standards. As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, God sits at the feet of the FDA.

[SwordsMaster]

As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, God sits at the feet of the FDA.


I read somewhere, that there have been no new antibiotics developed since 1980s, while the amount of microbia-bacteria related diseases keeps raising. They say now that even stomach cancer and some ulceras are bacterias´fault.....

Is the research really oriented in some other direction?

Please note, Im not critizising or trying to raise a debate, just curiosity. I´m somewhat of a chemist too....

[Hosakawa Tito]

GAH!

I spit on your puny firearms regulations! :duel:

GAH!

:charge:

(but lets not go into another arms control debate, eh?)

Its the US Food and Drug Administration that drives the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry - its by far the biggest market in the world and if you wanna sell your stuff there, you gotta meet the FDA's standards. As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, God sits at the feet of the FDA.


The ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) and each states laws, about 20,000 some statutes, beg to differ. ~D

[Beirut]

Stonemason/bricklayer

Really? I've done some stone work myself, though I'm sure not to your standards. All the best stone work in my small town was done by Europeans. And I've done lots of foundation repairs and footings.

But my evil speciality is in-ground cement support posts for house extensions and the like. My posts will last as long as the pyramids they will. :egypt:

[Devastatin Dave]

I am a student, uni in September to study Politics and International Relations.

God help us all!!! ~;)

[discovery1]

I am a high school student. Graduate in late May will go off to under grad school in Sept. likely to study Aerospace Engineering.

[Mount Suribachi]

I read somewhere, that there have been no new antibiotics developed since 1980s, while the amount of microbia-bacteria related diseases keeps raising. They say now that even stomach cancer and some ulceras are bacterias´fault.....

Is the research really oriented in some other direction?

Please note, Im not critizising or trying to raise a debate, just curiosity. I´m somewhat of a chemist too....


Hmm, well antiobiotics isn't really my companies field, we're more into cancer and heart disease, but it was for one of my former employers ~:) I remember talking to some GPs a few years back and they were saying a lot of the problem is that antibiotics are so prevalent today and that many bacteria are now resistant to antibiotics - my job at the time was to test the level of antibiotics in chicken feed and they were telling me off for getting the things in the food chain at the beginning. And of course you have GPs prescribing antibiotics for patients who have viruses just to shut them up, which doesn't help either. As for research into anti-biotics, dunno, can't help you there.

[Tribesman]

My posts will last as long as the pyramids they will.
Not quite Beirut , depending on the chemical balance in the soil they will start to deteriorate after roughly 26years . ~;)
BTW you could use your chainsaws on some stonework , but it can be very dangerous .

[The_Emperor]

IT Admin. overworked & underpaid... Yet I enjoy my job... (well most of the time ~;) :computer: )

[Komutan]

Electronics student. I am trying to graduate in 2006...

[Sigurd]

I am a system consultant; in my company that means I am in development.
Currently I am involved in a project building an automatic tally system for a North-Sea drilling rig. That is; a system that keeps control over the length of the pipe-string from the floating rig to the sea bottom and below into the oil reservoirs.

Definition of work: planning,designing,building and implementing IT-systems.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

CS student.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The kid with the high IQ who sleeps in class, and the official history consultant of my class(don't even have a degree! Yet.....).

[English assassin]

I'm a lawyer. Now I specialise in administrative/constitutional, with a bit of human rights when its unavoidable. Almost all advisory work with very little litigation thank god.

I studied molecular biology though and still occasionally regret the change.

[SwordsMaster]

I'm a lawyer. Now I specialise in administrative/constitutional, with a bit of human rights when its unavoidable. Almost all advisory work with very little litigation thank god.

I studied molecular biology though and still occasionally regret the change.


I have to reckon its quite a change, from biology to law....

[English assassin]

I have to reckon its quite a change, from biology to law....

Well, law is a lot easier, obviously. Not as interesting though.

Mind you I finished my degree before "big biology" really got going. How interesting it is spending all day trawling gene databases for homologies I don't know. Biochemistry has changed out of all recognition in the last ten years.