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So, what do you DO?

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:20am
by Lonestar
As in, what do you do? What's your Job? Student? High school or College? Except for some vague hints in sigs, the most I know about folks are those in the Mess.

I'll go first.

I'm a Cryptologic Technician (Maintenance) Third Class in the USN...Basically this means I fix signals exploitation equipment, which intercepts the bad guy's radio messages and whatnot. I'm Currently on the Bunker Hill, a AEGIS equipped Guided Missile crusier homeported in San Diego. I'll be transferring to an East coast job here in May.


What about YOU?

Mods, if we decide we need to keep it on the down-low, feel free to HOS this thread.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:22am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Fifth year cinema major at the University of Iowa.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:26am
by Noble Ire
Junior at a small-town High School in Middle-of-Nowhere, New Hampshire.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:27am
by Dalton
Staff Deko/Thunder operator in the Graphics Department of MSNBC.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:28am
by weemadando
Currently running a very very small business, designing and publishing RPGs. Also, late in the process of getting a public service job within the Australian gov't bureaucracy.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:37am
by Danny Bhoy
Working in trading and marketing for a fairly small S'pore outfit with international presence, but based in the Riyadh office of said outfit. Besides Saudi Arabia, my geographical coverage in practice extends to most of the other GCC states, although there's nothing on paper that says I'm empowered to do so. But that suits my employers fine cos that means I have to handle more for the same pay.

Come 30 March, I'll have 365 and wake up. And then it'll be back to the world! Of course if I do make a mess of things, hopefully they'd yank me back sooner.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:39am
by Civil War Man
Fourth year Industrial Engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:42am
by The Dark
Master's student in Business at UCF, shoe salesman for Kohl's, and visual technician for a local church.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:44am
by RogueIce
Criminology student at USF. It was better than Engineering. :wink:

I'm also in the Army ROTC. We'll see how that goes though.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:45am
by The Grim Squeaker
I am a high school student in my last year, in Israel, once I finish I'll be in the army for a few years although my job there is not known to me yet.
My major specializations in school are : Physics, math, english, electronical engineering, binary systems, communication systems (Part of electronics), Math. [These are the subjects I took at the highest level possible in the school education system- 5 points]

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:46am
by Boyish-Tigerlilly
Ahh. I tutor at the local community college and middle schools, but I am currently a History Major at my local college, but am transfering soon to pursue History/Secondary Education and Anthropology.

Hopefully I will actually get a job so I don't have to work at WaWa again.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:47am
by Sarevok
A levels student at a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Posted: 2006-01-06 12:55am
by LadyJules
Tev's best friend, Nit's worst nightmare...

Mum to two boys, Senior at Mountain State University studying Pre-Law and Internet & E-Commerce... should graduate in ten more years LOL.

I'm here 'cause Tev said I had to.... LOL

Lady Jules

Posted: 2006-01-06 01:04am
by Exonerate
High School Senior in Southern California, working on college application and suffering from a serious bout of senioritis. Planning on going into engineering.

Posted: 2006-01-06 01:04am
by wilfulton
Assistant Squadron logistics officer in the US army. (spelled backwards: Yes, My Retarded Ass Signed Up.)

I basically sit in an office all day fighting the paperwork monster, a boss who is impossible to please, and of course dealing with Troop XO's, who always come in to me wanting something (I get even with them by always going over to their offices wanting something else).

Posted: 2006-01-06 01:15am
by Joe
I'm working on a Masters of Accountancy degree at the University of Georgia. Only one more semester, can't believe I have only four months of being a student left.

Posted: 2006-01-06 01:49am
by Thag
Recently graduated and partially-employed (i.e. I'm working part-time out of my parents house while I job hunt) electrical engineer.

Posted: 2006-01-06 01:52am
by Uraniun235
I work for the Forest Grove School District, where I'm an "Instructional Assistant for Technology", which basically means I'm the trained monkey for the tech department. I work there part time while I attend Portland Community College.

I intend to transfer to Portland State University in a term or two where I will earn a degree in history. Then I'll take my experience at FGSD and go find an IT job. Or, who knows, maybe by then they'll realize the department's understaffed and hire me full time... that would certainly be convenient.

The history degree is because I find Computer Science a godawful subject (especially as I can't stand any significant amount of programming), I enjoy studying history, and I'm a lazy son of a bitch. (This is, of course, not the story I'll be telling future prospective employers.)

Posted: 2006-01-06 01:52am
by Agent Fisher
Freshman in College, where I sit around, trying to learn. Oh, and in my spare time, a friend and I spar with practice swords he made. Mine is kinda liked the Spatha, his is some phillipino martial arts sword.

Posted: 2006-01-06 02:00am
by Solauren
"Data Anlsyst, Business Development Unit, Collections and Compliance Branch, Ontario Ministry of Finance".

Translation: I build Microsoft Access databases that level the entire IT branch going "WTF, you can do that?", and also use the internet and other datasource to hunt down, locate, identify and refer businesses that should be registered to collect Provincal Sales tax and are not, or may be reporting fraudulently.

It's sad when I embarrass 20+ programs with 10 - 15 years experience by building a database in 2 weeks that they said would take them 6 months if they dropped all there other projects and focused on it exclusively.

So very, very sad

Posted: 2006-01-06 02:00am
by Solauren
whops, that should say

Data Analyst

Posted: 2006-01-06 02:06am
by Durandal
I'm the Mac developer at my school, and a fifth-year computer science major.

Posted: 2006-01-06 02:24am
by Kamakazie Sith
I'm currently an armed security guard and soon to be police officer. I am also a member of the Air Force Reserve, 419th Logistics Readiness Squadron and I hold the rank of Senior Airman (E4).

I also do computer troubleshooting/networking on the side.

Posted: 2006-01-06 02:26am
by Alex Moon
University of Colorado at Boulder Economics major who will be graduating in May. I also work as an on call associate for the local soon-to-be-Macy*s store. This means I work pretty much full time, for less benefits than the part-timers, but that I get to make my own schedule.

Posted: 2006-01-06 02:33am
by Gandalf
Right now I'm a university dropout without a job.

I hope to return to uni in 2007.