Jobs and Careers by Hobbes

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Jobs and Careers

POSTED BY: HOBBES
UPDATED: Friday, May 9, 2003 15:11
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Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:02 AM

I'm currently a chef-in hiding. I spent six months last year at the CIA and decided that more schoolin was not for me. Now, I'm cooking for family and friends and developing recipes for this site. More coming soon, I know, I'm behind!

I've also got a graduate degree in history. I've done some teaching and some writing.

I'm also training for a half-marathon and working with dogs at our local no-kill animal shelter.

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There's always the sky, let it hear what your saying

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Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:39 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Geologist.

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Monday, April 14, 2003 4:42 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

occupationally, i currently work for a church as the Administrative/Technology assistant. that means i get paid pittance to do everything that needs to be done on the computer--database, weekly church bulletin, web site and the like. occasionally i even get to do fun things like artwork for production posters for the church, but only in between copy jobs. since they can't afford medical insurance for me i'll be moving on in the summer to something more secure--temporary work!!

what i really want to do is find a way to draw to my heart's content. unfortunately, submitting to art shows takes more money than i can spare right now. isn't that just the way?

"I'm still flyin'...that's enough." ~ Mal

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Monday, April 14, 2003 4:58 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaythryn:
And for the rest of you artists out there,
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
Albert Einstein

"Creativity is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

i knew i liked you. count me in for the Starving Artist Evolution vs. Creationism Forum. i'll bring the cheesecake.

"I'm still flyin'...that's enough." ~ Mal

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Monday, April 14, 2003 7:09 AM

GTHING

I am a lab technician. I've had this job for five months, and I still feel like I have a lot to learn. I'm 24 and considering going back to school to get some chemistry degree. Of course, it would be nice if I could raise the money first.

I also have some aspiration for writing. I have no doubt that making a living as a writer is very difficult. However, I believe I have some passion for it. I enjoy the mysterious and frightening very much.

Like InvisibleGreen, I'm from Michigan.

Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan

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Monday, April 14, 2003 8:09 AM

XENARC

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaythryn:
in my card board box under the free way. If anyone’s interested I’d call to invite you, but I doubt my box will have a phone jack

I have a friend who maintains that you just have to set up your box in a dark corner in some big IT company's alley and tap into their internet uplink.

I'm a field archaeologist working in various parts of the western US. My screen name comes from a college advisor who was pushing me to pick a specialization, then didn't like it when I told him I wanted to go into theoretical zenoarchaeology. He did stop asking me though....

ZenArc

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Monday, April 14, 2003 8:50 AM

SARAHETC

My title is "Newsroom Specialist." I work at a science museum in a one-of-a-kind journalism exhibit and labspace as a Program Developer, Educator and Multimedia Gal Friday.

MA in American Studies-History.

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Monday, April 14, 2003 10:08 AM

KETHRYVERIS

Fascinating the different things people do!

I am the manager of a group that does mechanical payload design for communications satellites at an aerospace company in LA. We were assimilated about 3 years ago by the giant aerospace company which shall remain nameless.

I blame Robert Heinlein for this because I read "The Menace From Earth" in the 4th grade. Just call me Holly Jones.

Kethryveris

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Monday, April 14, 2003 10:47 AM

WERESPAZ

I'm going to be unemployed in two weeks. I'm about to finish a temporary assignment at Amgen, a leading developer of pharmaceuticals for cancer patients (among others). In my spare time, I’m coding a fireflyMUD (you may have seen other treads about it) but that’s going pretty slow right now, seeing how most of my free time is taken up trying to find a new job. Speaking of which, does anybody know of any jobs in the greater Boulder, Colorado area that would want to hire me? Things are getting desperate.

Much obliged

-The SpAz

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Monday, April 14, 2003 4:46 PM

KAYTHRYN

Hey Channain, if you bring cheesecake we’ll hardly be starving artists anymore. What the hell, I’d rather have the cheesecake and a good debate over the title of “starving artist”. Come on over!

Xenarc- What’s theoretical zenoarchaeology? Sounds interesting. And thanks for the internet tip. I won’t get to have my dream box under the high way with a beautiful median view, but I think an ally will do just as well. I guess I can’t get too picky when I’m living in a cardboard box.

Oh, *wink, wink* any of you museum/archeologist/anthropologist types out there need an apprentice...especially since I just admitted that I don‘t know what theoretical zenoarchaeology is? *wink, wink*

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Monday, April 14, 2003 7:48 PM

XENARC

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaythryn:
especially since I just admitted that I don‘t know what theoretical xenoarchaeology is?

hehe. it was really just a joke to bug the prof. Xenoarch. would be the archaeology of other species (not on/from earth). Hence the theoretical part... For B5 fans - it would be working for IPX.

Of course, with Firefly not having alien races I'd have to resort to some crime for a paycheck

XenArc

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Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:28 AM

CAPTAINZEE

I am a television news photographer at a network affiliate in Ohio. I've been here for 7 years, 14 years total in the business. I was real excited, for about 2 days, when I heard my network might be picking up Firefly.

Because of this, I have an idea how TV people view sci-fi and its fans. For example, at one station I worked at, we had been running Star Trek in syndication since 1969. It was an area tradition!

One weekend a major Trek convention came to town. Richard Hatch, David Carradine, Ethan Philips and John Billingsley were all there. No one in the newsroom could understand why we should go cover it, even though we were running Enterprise.

After a long rant, I was allowed to put down the camera and pick up the mic to play reporter and bring a freelance photographer to do the shooting. We spent an hour and a half there and it ran 20 seconds that night.

Never mind that the idiot who paints his '71 Winnebego the football team's colors gets a 2-minute feature!

"May have been on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:11 PM

LERXST

Where at in Ohio, CaptainZee? I'm in Columbus.

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

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Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:43 PM

MANIACNUMBERONE

I am a former Forest Ranger/Ski Bum. I currently work for da' man. That's right. I.R.S. Be afraid, be very afraid.

I have a B.S. in Technical Writing, Forestry, and Philosophy.

But most importantly, I work for the cause of the Browncoats. And every breathe we drew?

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Who's winning?
I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:34 PM

LORA

My title now is Command Training Evaluator (hear the capital letters?) at the nuke field "a" school. I want to go back to being a mechanical engineer and eventually get into NASA with delusions of being an astronaut someday. I am looking to get out of the navy this fall and continue on my chosen path.

Kethryveris, (can I call you Kethry?) is your company hiring young mechanical engineers? I am at least as qualified to do engineering as any new grad and I have all my nifty naval leadership experience...

Quote:
Originally posted by kethryveris:
I am the manager of a group that does mechanical payload design for communications satellites at an aerospace company in LA.

More importantly, how are you and Tarma getting along? (If you aren't a Mercedes Lackey junky, I am going to feel kinda dumb. 'Kethryveris' is a very rare name, though.)

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?" Zoe, War Stories

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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:54 PM

KETHRYVERIS

Lora,
Yes, I'm a Mercedes Lackey junky. Tarma and Kethry are my favorites. Finally, someone recognizes me!

Unfortunately, we've been laying off the last year or so. There hasn't been much new commercial satellite work in the last two years. But you never know it may pick up. I also sent you a private message (at least I think I did).

Kethry

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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:16 PM

LERXST

Quote:
Originally posted by Lora:
My title now is Command Training Evaluator (hear the capital letters?) at the nuke field "a" school.

Wow. I used to be a nuke EM1. Orlando Nuclear Power School class 8703. USS Theodore Roosevelt 1988-94.

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:50 PM

NOOCYTE

Okay, the 'cyte, finally weighing in here (I know you were all waiting with worms on your tongues [baited breath. Har-har.]).

I'm a shrink. Which is a technical term for clinical psychologist. Got my Psy.D. (that's Doctor of Psychology. Like a Ph.D., only it's a professional degree, rather than an academic one. Meant that I could write a 200-page dissertation on the implications of chaos/complexity/dynamic systems, and evolutionary theory to the theory and practice of psychology, without having to run any subjects or ANY statistics, thank the many gods [of pie and otherwise]. Whew. Yup. That was one sentence).

In private practice with a few other shrinks outside Philadelphia, and fighting a muhtha case of Post-Cancellation Stress Disorder (physician, heal thyself!!.

What a marvelous, motley montage of disparate demographics we are!

Keep flyin'!!

Department of Redundancy Department

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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 5:30 AM

JRC

OK y'all, my turn to throw in my two cents:
I work at the local newspaper here in Austin (Texas, of course!). Working here going on eighteen years. Been in the printing/newspaper business all my adult life, thanks to my dad. Love my wife, two kids, Mac G4 Cube, assorted cars and pets, in that order.

Talk peace, but, carry a BIG stick.

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Friday, May 9, 2003 1:55 AM

KOFFEE

Quote:
Originally posted by ManiacNumberOne:
I am a former Forest Ranger......
I have a B.S. in ......Forestry......

I am beginning to believe we are kindred spirits.

My degree is Parks and Natural Resources, and I worked seasonal for the DNR. (Department of Natural Resources for those who don't know.) But there are no good permanent jobs in the DNR here in Iowa. Ya either have to kiss ass or be related to get anything good. And since I've no relatives in the field, and I am really bad at kissin' ass......

I now work for General Mills. I am a lab tech in their Quality and Regulatory Operation. I check foods before they go out the door to make sure they are good. (taste, vitamins, moisture, texture, pH, packaging, etc......)

Quote:
But most importantly, I work for the cause of the Browncoats.

A very worthy cause.

Quote:
And every breathe we drew?

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Was hallelujah.

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“It's a real burn, being right so often.”

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Friday, May 9, 2003 4:12 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I am one of those lunatic detroit cab drivers folks make jokes about.

It's a living, although the money sucks since you get really hammered on taxes, fees and the like.

But you get PAID to drive like a jerk, get to meet new and interesting (and even sometimes bizarre or freaky!) folks, and see more of the world than you might expect.

Having done this job for a while, I completely agress with Joss that some humans are a damned lot scarier than any aliens could EVER be - and a lot of them live in detroit...

-Frem

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Friday, May 9, 2003 4:17 AM

SARAHETC

Quote:
Originally posted by Koffee:

My degree is Parks and Natural Resources, and I worked seasonal for the DNR. (Department of Natural Resources for those who don't know.) But there are no good permanent jobs in the DNR here in Iowa.

Cos Iowa is sorely lacking in natural resources, unless you count dirt, soybeans and old people.

Oh, I'm bad! I'm bad! I know. I was born in Fort Dodge lived there and elsewhere (Des Moines-ish) til I was 12. I find that the Iowa in me never quite dies. It's always in there, wanting to make things have perfect 90 degree angles.

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And every breathe we drew?

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Was like hallelujah.

Not like it. Every breath we drew WAS hallelujah!

And since there is no emoticon for big smile/kinda teary/thumbs up, Koffee! I'll just say that I wasn't trying to be bitchy there. Just reinforcing you.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Friday, May 9, 2003 10:42 AM

KENWOOD

Allright here we go. Born Montauk, NY. Moved to Melbourne, FL to go to collage as a EE. Droped out in my senior year and went to work for a company makeing small run fast turnaround circuit board orders ( at ridiculous price premiums ). Got laid off so I moved to Seattle, WA with some friends. Now I work as a lab rat for Quest Diagnostics. Third shift, the job sucks but the pay is lousy. I also work part time for my X doing medical data entry.

Seems like we have a pretty diverse crew here. We should all get together and form our own colony somewhere.

Later,

ME.

Don't look back, som'thin' might be gainin' on ya.
Who let the pigs play poker?
Evo Shander was right!

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Friday, May 9, 2003 12:30 PM

LOSTANGEL

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Seems like we have a pretty diverse crew here. We should all get together and form our own colony somewhere.

Now that's what I've been talkin' about son! I'da started my own ages ago if I wasn't so lazy and used to civilization.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

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Friday, May 9, 2003 3:11 PM

KOFFEE

Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
And since there is no emoticon for big smile/kinda teary/thumbs up, Koffee! I'll just say that I wasn't trying to be bitchy there. Just reinforcing you.

Thank you for the correction.

I've edited my old post. I was trying to remember it without going back to the fan-fic for fear I would lose what I had already written for my post.

I gotta start remembering to just write my posts in word and copy them when I'm ready to post.

I'm from the Cedar Rapids area. Born, raised, and still not far from home. Not quite so hung up on the 90 degree thing around here. Have a bit less "flatland" and even a few real hills. (we really need a laughing smiley) But you are right, the area in the central parts is flat and square.

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