DickSlap - what do you do?
I'm self/un-employed. I run a couple of web servers, host other sites, do web design for clients, make web sites on which to sell advertising, write freelance articles, and recently have begun producing and selling t-shirts (http://wordfront.com/wares/).
I'm busy.
I didn't know you sold t-shirts. Do you have a website?
Oh, and I'm a fluffer.
Or you could just go to Wikipedia and type in your search term there. :/
I get paid to look at boobs all day.
Seriously.
Do you write the captions for the Spice Channel?
wait wait wait
i do not understand this "fluffing"...
if the large number of naked ladies is not sufficient, what does the "fluffer" do?
Postdoctoral researcher (I think that's the official title), but I'm in the market for a new job. If anyone has a contact at a national lab, let me know.
I do computer consulting-type crap. I just got ITIL Foundation certified! Whoo hoo!
Speaking of which, hey womby, where's the bathroom, and is that poisonous?
I don't have a real job yet, I'm still in college (Political Science). I do work part time at a copy shop, and I'm on fire crew (wildfire) in the summer.
Technical Writer. Or "glorified typist", as some people would say, but I don't ride with those people.
Boring but also stressful work. Oh well, it pays the bills, and as long as I still haven't figured out what I would really like to do for a living...
Next I have to get PMP (which for the uninitiated is not what you're thinking it is).
Oh dear. Drop that Poli Sci major while you can, get a useful degree in Computer Science or something. Wish I had done that, but noooooooo.
Wombat -- Is the bathroom poisonous?
Speaking of, my last shift ever in retail will be tomorrow night.
A political science degree may be bad, but nothing's as worthless as a Philosophy degree.
A political science degree may be bad, but nothing's as worthless as a Philosophy degree.
Uh-oh... that's what I'm finishing up college to be.
For the last six years (!) I've worked for an airline in ground operations. Basically, I do everything at an airport that doesn't involve actually going into the air. It is also a stressful job at times, but it's got its perks. $40 flights to Greenland (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,1733.0.html)being one of them.
not to mention isolated.
Oh, I'd forgotten about this. Ithaca is very, very, very far from everywhere. Irvine is within shouting distance of LA which despite what some people might say, is definitely Somewhere, if Orange County isn't Somewhere enough for you. I confess that I have an irrational fascination with Southern California and a deep hatred of snow. Some of my best friends have gone to school and/or taught at Cornell and liked it. But I'd worry about doing something as isolating in the first place as grad school in a place like Ithaca.
OK, feeling guilty for talking just about the climate.... Are we talking Cognitive Science at Irvine? I've at least heard of some of them. That could mean they are very famous. Or it could just mean they abutted my field more than the people at Cornell... I know someone in linguistics at Cornell who might know something, if you want me to ask.
Huh, I got a Tech Writing degree. Used it for a little while when I was working for Sam's Club in the liquor store, and I put out a little newsletter for the employees on the side. Other than that, it's always helped me as sort of an adjunct to whatever I'm actually doing for a living because no one in the work force can actually use the written word to convey information effectively.What I enjoy the most is the empty vacant look that people get in their eyes when they ask me what I do for a living and I reply "I'm a Technical Writer". Then they ponder for a while whether they should ask me what it is I actually do, decide not to bother, and start talking about the weather or such like.
Huh, I got a Tech Writing degree. Used it for a little while when I was working for Sam's Club in the liquor store, and I put out a little newsletter for the employees on the side. Other than that, it's always helped me as sort of an adjunct to whatever I'm actually doing for a living because no one in the work force can actually use the written word to convey information effectively.
augustwest-- was that to me, or v-adore?
I do not know. I get a questionnaire to decide that sometime in... I think april.
and daydream about becoming an art & design major
Apparently there are people there who still HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY WHEN THEY WRITE E-MAILS SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO BOTHER WITH CAPITALIZATION. I mean, seriously, I thought the Internet killed off those people in 1997.
I had to deal with someone yesterday who wrote me a note in which the initial letter of every word was capitalized. How do you suppose that brain is wired?
That made me laugh, which led to coughing followed by calling the Earl which is why I'm not at the job this thread was about.
I'm a managing editor for a couple o' medical journals (and I do a fair amount of freelance, primarily for neurology articles and books).
he also drops words, usually incredibly inappropriately
JACR (jake-er)?
I once had an article that read, honestly, "Failure to can lead to severe seizures." Failure to what, failure to WHAT???
Living on a bank loan while I work on getting my internet start-up off the ground.
Living on a bank loan while I work on getting my internet start-up off the ground.