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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2006, 02:00:58 pm »
Really this whole thing is very silly.  Like those lists of 'best places to live.'  It's such an individual thing.  How can they expect anyone to take them seriously when they write that that one guy has the best job in America. I wouldn't want his job in a million years.  I'd rather.... yeah, pick up animal poop, even!
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2006, 08:09:09 pm »
Quote from: V-Adore on April 25, 2006, 01:08:19 pm
Wow, they're... pretty optimistic about science, huh? As compared to most of the stuff I've actually been hearing, which seems to indicate that the NIH grants are running out and the sky is falling.

I've been in the government grant game for a long time. It goes in cycles. Plus, there is a war on and that won't last forever. More disciplined spending is really what is needed here - the government doles out money for silly stuff occasionally - also, more basic science. Leave the product development to those who stand to profit.

When (and it will happen) the political winds turn the other way, the money usually starts flowing more freely.

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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2006, 09:17:53 pm »
What the crap?  They neglected my job -- Patrick Swayze Impersonator.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2006, 05:15:15 am »
Say that in the middle of your first LSAT Prep Course class you want to drive a foil cutter into your temple.  Is this a bad sign?
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2006, 06:36:37 am »
See, phooey on the naysayers.

I'm really into this whole "Sort of trying to be a screenwriter but being cripplingly inconfident and dying behind a Ralphs in North Hollywood, lying in a bed of the steaming remains of your dreams" career path thing.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2006, 11:39:15 am »
Quote from: miles on May 10, 2006, 05:15:15 am
Say that in the middle of your first LSAT Prep Course class you want to drive a foil cutter into your temple.  Is this a bad sign?

Nah. Standardized tests aren't actually very much like whatever they're supposed to be prepping you to do; if you feel the same in your first law class, that's a indicator of a problem.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2006, 02:24:26 pm »
Did anyone else take that Strong aptitude test in high school, where you answered how you felt about a number of things and then they told you what your ideal job would be?

I still remember my top three:

Architect
Home Furnishings Designer
Ballistic Missile Technician (or something like that)

I was really into playing and studying music at the time and was dismayed that musician wasn't higher up on my list (it didn't show up in the top 10).

However, now I am kind of an architect and designer, so THE TEST WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL.  I didn't plan on doing computer design work for a living, I just kind of fell into it as a hobby that grew into a career. DAMN YOU, APTITUDE TESTS!
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2006, 02:39:46 pm »
Mine said "Shitty Worthless Writer who will die penniless"

Or something similar.  Seriously the top 3 were all artsy jobs that I would love to have if only I had the nerve and the metabolism to do without food and shelter at random times.

So, basically being a coward, I went into computers for which I also had a strange (yet uncompelling) knack.  It's... it's kind of creative.. I... guess?  *silently weeps*
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2006, 03:33:40 pm »
I believe mine said psychology, which was great, because I was a huge psychology wonk at the time. Then I decided Psych was too fluffy and went into Bio instead... which led me to Neuro. DESTINY?
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2006, 03:56:34 pm »
dang, we never got to take those.

and we can't figure it out... they just skipped a year or something. kids above and below us took it... we did not.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2006, 04:19:36 pm »
We never took the test at my school, because we had to sign a document with our own blood before we graduated saying that we would settle down immediately after college to a life of homemaking and childbearing.


And V, PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS is clearly the answer.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #26 on: May 10, 2006, 04:26:11 pm »
I never took one of those tests.  But I thought about what you'd have thought I'd grow up to be if you had observed me as a child.  The first weird nerdy thing I ever did was try to write a book about insects. (Insects being really the only wildlife that one can observe regularly in the Bronx.)  So I guess that since in my life I have published some things, and now am feeding insects to animals... I have managed to fulfill my destiny in a roundabout way.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2006, 04:28:03 pm »
I am going to be a teacher. I would like to be a teacher. My test which told us what we should do said I should teach as well. I want to teach, desperately. I cannot wait to teach. I would like to teach History or English or Music.

I would like to be a teacher.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #28 on: May 10, 2006, 04:30:49 pm »
Quote from: JudyIsADickSlap on May 10, 2006, 04:28:03 pm
I would like to be a teacher.

I have a daughter that would like that as well.  It must be nice to know at 15 what you want your career to be.  I surely didn't.  I think I'm getting pretty close to figuring it out now, if I can just make it pay...
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #29 on: May 10, 2006, 04:47:22 pm »
Man, that aptitude test gave me "Philologist".  If I have to look it up it's not a real job.
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