What Job does everyone do???

[naut]

So many Law Students.

Just a humble B. Bus / B. IT student.

[atheotes]

Working as a software engineer after doing my masters in electrical engineering hoping to join a MBA program sometime soon

[CountArach]

Seeing as everyone else is saying what they are studying (Or did study) I shall say that I am a first year University student studying Ancient History (planning to major in it) and Latin (Still undecided on if I will major in it). I would like to do Post-grad, perhaps a PhD.

[Papewaio]

Telephony Engineer

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

oooh me first


Full Time Student by day, org trawler by weekend and night


what about the rest of you??

Same As you Horseman

[Veho Nex]

Student most of the time, Mover part time and Mc D's register the remainder of my time. about 4 hours of sleep per night man I love my life, can't wait till work actually starts!....

[Kamakazi]

I go to school in a factory like school in crestile ohio that leaks and is worthless by day. And by night i play mtw and hang out with all your families!!!!! lol jk o course

[trickydicky]

I run our ecommerce website, and basically handle all the IT stuff.

However seeing as it's a family business (mine), I spend more time at work than I do at home

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

Full-time student (Civil Engineering), also work in a department store casually still get about 20 hours a week though. The rest of my time is taken up by Football, Squash, Eating, more football, RTW, more football, and sometimes if I'm lucky sleep! Lol.

[RoadKill]

I'm a law student too...




not really.

[Caius]

Proffesional Spender of Money.

And student.

[Tristuskhan]

Forest Manager, in charge of 5000 acres of communauty-owned forest. Ruling every aspect of human activity within my range.

[Beirut]

Forest Manager, in charge of 5000 acres of communauty-owned forest. Ruling every aspect of human activity within my range.

Hmmmm. Interesting.

If you care to go into detail, I'd be delighted to listen.

[pevergreen]

In spite of myself, I'm actually very interested!

Please do go on.

[Tristuskhan]

OK, here we go, the job is quite complex...

I'm employed by the French National Forestry Office. After beeing lumberjack for five years and beeing wounded badly, I was able to graduate an advanced level in forestry and could enter the ONF (5th out of 812 candidates, a bit proud of it).

I'm theorically in charge of the forests belonging to 12 different communauties (small villages under 50 souls for most), a total 3000 acres. Since our numbers are severely depleted I must take care of 2000 more acres belonging to three more communauties.

I have two kinds of forests: beech, marple, and ash-based on the (steep) slopes over the river Doubs, and more or less flat oak and wild cherry stands.
Plantations occur for less than 10%, dying spruce and healthy firs, a few Douglas and larchs too.

We practice natural regeneration whenever we can, the soils are rich.

So my job is: selecting the trees that should be fell on clearings or regeneration cuts, selling them (standing or felled, it depends of the wood's quality), supervising the lumberjack's work and make sure the communauties use enough of the sale's money for sylvicultural or infrastructure works I program.

I have to manage hunting too, in order to keep balance between vegetation and livehood (no natural predators for deers and boars, that's a problem), I have to convince the communauties that a dry standing oak is not a source of firewood but a fantastic environment for an incredible amount of endangered species!

The trunks are sold, the branches are used by the locals for firewood.
That's probably the worst of my job People are kind but work like donkeys. Letting loose the hogs on the saplings and the soil's structure. I've been kind since I just began the job but next year... 80 euros fine for the mad drivers.

That's a few aspects of the job, more to come if you want.

[Beirut]

That's a few aspects of the job, more to come if you want.

Wonderful. Thank you. Sounds like you have a real system in place. No unauthorized cutting and little if any waste.

It seems like you/they take the forests seriously. Are the French as protective of the trees as the Germans? (I've heard you can't even look at a tree in Germany without a permit.) Here in Quebec, we are at the tail end of La Grande Massacre Arboreal. Maybe a few more years left, but after that I think we'll have little choice but to adopt very restrictive measures.

Which chainsaws do you use?

[Caius]

Ahem, too off-topic, but here we kill our trees to plant more soy. What a shame.

[Tristuskhan]

Wonderful. Thank you. Sounds like you have a real system in place. No unauthorized cutting and little if any waste.

It seems like you/they take the forests seriously. Are the French as protective of the trees as the Germans? (I've heard you can't even look at a tree in Germany without a permit.) Here in Quebec, we are at the tail end of La Grande Massacre Arboreal. Maybe a few more years left, but after that I think we'll have little choice but to adopt very restrictive measures.

Which chainsaws do you use?

I was a Stihl afficionado when I was a lumberjack, but I used an Husqvarna to scratch my own leg. Both brands are good but I prefered the sound of Stihl (Husqvarnas whistle). Few professionnals also use Oregon, but it's uncommon.

We are protective of trees in France but we have much more dynamic sylvicultural models than Germany (harder clearings, that's the reason why we have fewer windfells). Apart of that we are very protective: forests are common wealth that must be managed on the long term. And when I say "long term", it means that we think and work for year 2100 at least. My girlfriend thinks I have a strange relation with Time. Ten years is a short term for me

More of the job: long term management plans. Forests are analized every twenty years and the harvest is planned (date, frequency and quantity). The clearing process is based on the idea that a good quality tree must be given room to grow as long as it produces valuable wood. So only the worst are felled in clearings, the best are kept to produce the next generations of saplings until the final regeneration cuts (trunks of mature oaks are sold an average 250 euros per cubic meter, sometimes more)

[Ja'chyra]

Safety Manager for things that make a rather large bang.

[Banquo's Ghost]

The discourse between you gentlemen reminds me of a story I was once told to illustrate the idea of sustainability.

Some years ago, it was discovered that the great oak roof beams of New College, Oxford were beetly. (New College was founded in 1379, which often confuses visitors, but the explanation is a trifle distracting).

This discovery caused great consternation when reported to the College Board. Beetly beams have to be replaced, and swiftly, for such visible signs mean imminent collapse. Where on earth would they find oak of such quality and dimension? How on earth would they pay for such wood, if found? Did the college face a future with its mediaeval glory shored up by concrete joists?

A young Fellow rather cheekily suggested that since there was a "College Forester" on the rolls - bearing in mind that institutions of this age would have had many such ancient positions, usually held in honorarium by an equally ancient don - perhaps they should ask him for advice. Being bereft of other choices, the Board agreed and summoned the gentleman of the forest.

The Fellows questioned him closely, once he had recovered from the shock of being invited to the great hall. He and his staff were responsible for managing the tracts of wooded estate bequeathed to the College over centuries by alumni. (Most colleges have quite substantial estates across the kingdom, and Oxford is nearly a thousand years old with some rather influential and wealthy alumni).

The Forester was taken aback by the question. "Well sir," he growled in a low voice, "We was wonderin' when you would ask that."

It turned out that when the College was founded in 1379, a grove of oaks was planted on their first bequest of land. These oaks were destined to replace the beams of New College when they got beetly, because in those days they knew well that oak beams always get beetly.

This plan had been passed down from College Forester to College Forester for six hundred years. "You don't cut them oak trees. Them's for the roof of New College Hall!"

With relief, the College Board was able to order the felling of the oaks and the replacement of the beams. Wisely, acorns harvested from those oaks were planted again on the plot and entrusted to the care of new generations of Foresters, for the inevitable time when the oak beams of New College once again become beetly.

Now that, gentlemen, is sustainability - and the nobility of your profession.

[Peasant Phill]

for the moment I work as a traffic administrator. I do the shipments everywhere in the EU.

Next week, however, I'll start as junior general manager at a medium company in the services sector. I can't wait to begin.

[Spartan198]

Agoge.

[Don Corleone]

I'm an engineering manager at a semiconductor company. Lately, I've been asking myself why.

[Lemur]

"Engineering manager?" Hmm, where have I seen that role portrayed in the popular media ...

[Galain_Ironhide]

"Supply Team Leader" is my official role but its just flashy name for being the local 2IC for selling spare parts in a global mining machinery company.

I really wish I was a student or possibly rich and retired so I could play Total War games and hang around here a lot more often than I do.

[Don Corleone]

"Engineering manager?" Hmm, where have I seen that role portrayed in the popular media ...

Hee hee. I'm actually no where near enough up the food chain to be pointy-haired boss, though I frequently refer to myself that way to take the edge off when I have to crawl up one of my guys.

I'm actually more engineer than manager still, though I'd be happy to trade pride and futile 'technical credentials' for more money and no responsiblity any day of the week.

In other words, I'm ready for Marketing.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I'm a second year medical student. I work as a dispenser in a local pharmacy during the holidays.

[Sigurd]

I'm a second year medical student. I work as a dispenser in a local pharmacy during the holidays.

So what comes out when they put a coin in you?

[Ravencroft]

I'm an incoming college student here.

[CountArach]

So what comes out when they put a coin in you?

I'd be more worried about where they put the coin