Jobs and Careers by Hobbes

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Jobs and Careers

POSTED BY: HOBBES
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Friday, November 15, 2002 12:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
Nah, it's not naive at all. I often wonder about what you all do. I'm sure many of you have careers and lives more interesting than mine. Actually, mine is rather boring. And, lately, it's just been poop, more poop, and a ton of burping from our newborn.

In the spirit of Haken's remarks I was wondering what y'all :) do for a living?

To start things off, me :)

I'm a fairly inactive and lazy sci-fi writer (with, sadly, no sales) look at my website ( www.hobbes.8k.com) and is currently enrolled in University at the age of 23.
I was born in Eire (OK OK, Ireland, Eire just sounds better) and I now reside in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Oh yeah it's from this thread
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=942

ANd I know this is the second time I posted this but the first time I forgot the title and so can only be accesed from the forums themselves, not the main page.

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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May you be in heaven an hour before
The Devil knows you’re dead.

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Friday, November 15, 2002 1:25 PM

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Uh, I'm a college student at Embry Riddle, Daytona Beach Campus. I major in Aeronautical Science, which for you ground pounders, means pilot training. I occasionally tinker with writing, which I have recieved some awards for. I grew up a military brat, but have never lived anywhere interesting. I like books, genre films, Macs, and Britney Spears' earlier works, before she sold out. (You know the stuff) I am an American, a feminist, an enviromentalist, and a developing indie rock fan, whose only complaint about my parents is that they picked out such a prosaic name for me. When I grow up, I want to harness the very power of creation and take over the world.

________________

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

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Friday, November 15, 2002 1:34 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I'm a DUH environmental chemist. I work for the government. Could I get you to believe it's top secret?

OK, didn't think so!

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Friday, November 15, 2002 1:38 PM

YEAHITSME

College student in computer science

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Friday, November 15, 2002 2:03 PM

HOBBES

Quote:
Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
...and Britney Spears' earlier works, before she sold out.

Too much Buffy when you start stealing Dawn's lines :)

Quote:
Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
When I grow up, I want to harness the very power of creation and take over the world

Now that's a goal I can admire :)

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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May you be in heaven an hour before
The Devil knows you’re dead.

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Friday, November 15, 2002 2:27 PM

MOUNTAINGAL

In April i'll offically be an Airman, uniform and all. Right now i clean hotel rooms for nothin', but that's not gonna last long.

I've had it with scrubbing nasty toilets someone else's behind was on. I really have.

EDIT to add: Yes, my job in the air force...I'm gonna fix planes. Cool huh?

~S.

You can't take the sky from me.

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Friday, November 15, 2002 3:11 PM

EVANS

Always in factories; always non-exempt. Love makin' stuff.
Currently optician (not eyeglasses).
Formerly artificial hearts, grafts, respirators, liquor & soda dispensers, calculator displays.

m.

"But ... not boring, like she made it sound." Wash, in ARIEL

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Friday, November 15, 2002 4:37 PM

SAINTOFCHEESE

overly obsessive workaholic crazy high school senior here. hehe.

~*Saint of Cheese*~

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Sunday, November 17, 2002 6:19 PM

HJERMSTED

A-V technician for a large software company that wields far too much power over the world's computers. And therefore over you.

mattro

(PS: no, I won't buy you software from the company store)

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Sunday, November 17, 2002 7:12 PM

RANDALT

Unemployed in Toronto, with hopes of starting an airbrushing business in the near future (shirts, jackets, gas tanks, helmets). This is a fun show, I find I identify with Jayne a lot.

Usually I post on the sff.net newsgroups about Firefly, nice to be here with y'all.

-Randalt

I'm Not Afraid To Go But It Goes So Slow... -Jeff Buckley

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Monday, November 18, 2002 8:19 AM

JOSSARAMA

Film and English Major, first year in Ottawa. Joss is a role model of mine, if it wasn't already evident from my nickname.

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Monday, November 18, 2002 8:19 AM

JOSSARAMA

Film and English Major, first year in Ottawa. Joss is a role model of mine, if it wasn't already evident from my nickname.

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Monday, November 18, 2002 10:26 AM

INVISIBLEGREEN

I'm a high school senior in Michigan.

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Monday, November 18, 2002 10:38 AM

KEF

Quote:
"Oh my god, I'm a hack!" - Joss Whedon

Is he on that show about the cabdriver who solves problems for people?

(pause while everyone groans)

Anyway, I'm just an idiot who watches way too much TV instead of trying to make something of my life.

I was born prior to some of you, and I fall into the male demographic.

I photographed rock bands for a while but nobody famous.

I like to read about aviation and history.

And I enjoy quiet walks on the beach. Seriously. I do.

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Monday, November 18, 2002 10:44 AM

BOBKNAPTOR

I am a program manager working for the same over-powered company as Hjermsted (although, the company is large enough that I have never met Our Mr. Hjermsted in person). (and No, I won't buy you software at the company store either, because I can't even buy it for myself.... damn contractors...)

I am also a karaoke host, running my own business, Celestial Star Productions. Poor little company is still very much in the red, so I keep the day job with Big Brother.

I love reading, singing, movies and board games. Other than that, I spend my time trying to line up exciting new crime.

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Up until the punchin, this was a real nice party.

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Monday, November 18, 2002 10:50 AM

DELVO

Based on the way the last three years have gone for me professionally and financially while others in my profession have no troubles, I suspect my role in life is to protect others from bad luck by absorbing it for them (over and over). But, if you ignore the fact that my life's been one long running disaster for three years, the answer would be that I'm a former forester for the Florida Division of Forestry, who had grown up in Missouri and couldn't stand Florida and therefor moved to Pennsylvania a few months ago and has since then worked temp jobs while looking for a way back into forestry in this region...

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Monday, November 18, 2002 10:55 AM

ILOVEJAYNE

Part-time pencil-pusher/paper-filer/coffee-getter/new-price-maker/bossman-gofer. I DO IT ALL!!! The pay stinks, but the hours are fine.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:49 PM

KEF

Reading through this thread again I just realized that I neglected to say what I actually do for a living now. (Although if the intent is to get a sense of the person, my original post suffices.) I work for a little hi-tech company building subassemblies for a device that (I swear to God) looks uncannily like a phasor-type weapon from 90's era Star Trek. As for what it is - a handheld device that analyzes the composition of certain things at the atomic level - they joke around here that it's the ancient ancestor of the tricorder.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:03 AM

JUGGERNAUT

I'm the Design Director for a newspaper on the East Coast. (I've learned the hard way not to get more specific than that!) I handle the overall visual look of the paper on a daily basis.

No phaser-like devices here, but I do get groovy press passes and a big press sticker to put on my winshield. For some reason, it scares people when I follow 'em.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:51 AM

CHARLIEBLUE

I'm a poor college student in San Diego who's wishing for a job. Though I work at my school newspaper enough that I'd call it a job if they'd just pay me.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:43 AM

ENTILZHA

I am a validation engineer in the pharmaceutical industry. That means that companies hire me to document that they are following the FDA regulations when they install equipment, produce a product, etc. And I tell them what they are doing wrong and what they have to do to fix it.

So, in other words, most of the time I'm a necessary evil, and I'm treated as such. But when the FDA walks in for an audit, I'm suddenly very popular...

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Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:12 AM

KAYLEE

Lowly High School student

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Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:11 AM

EVANS

Quote:
Originally posted by Entilzha:
I am a validation engineer in the pharmaceutical industry.

Yay for Regulatory Affairs and GMPs!

m.
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"But ... not boring, like she made it sound." Wash, in ARIEL

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Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:40 AM

THECASSANDRA

i'm a high school senior too.

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Sunday, November 24, 2002 1:01 PM

ZATHRAS10

IT Networking guy at the University of South Dakota. So our cable modem/router/wireless setup at home is a professional necessity. Woo hoo!

I also pull in the (very) occasional modest fistful of dollars performing folk/bluegrass/gospel music. So of course the musical style of Firefly is right up my alley, and one of the things that drew me right in.

Chris

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Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:14 PM

ALLRONIX

I pay my bills by being retail and customer support at CellularOne (if you are in the Midwest region of America, I'm the person the salesguy is yelling at on the other end.

I'm in a bit of a crisis at the moment. For the first time, I have no frelling idea what I want to do with my life and no real idea on how to get direction.

What I am...

* A fanfic writer with 15 years worth of stories in several universes under her belt. Firefly just got my attention, and I have nasty ideas for the crew...

* A political activist and left-wing radical. I see injustice, inequality, and imbalance and it really pisses me off! I sing with the Seattle Labor Chorus, am getting involved with a group called Radical Women (an offshoot of the Freedom Socilist Party), a proud ACLU member since 1995, participated in 5 anti-war protests this year...you get the general idea. (Fanfic is how I relax from this stuff.)

Given that, I will return to this normal conversation.

Co-founder of the Evil Writing Crew - causing hell, one hero at a time!

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Thursday, November 28, 2002 5:55 PM

SAINTOFCHEESE

shiny.. there are quite a few high school seniors here!

~*Saint of Cheese*~

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Friday, November 29, 2002 12:03 AM

DOUG

I'm a second year law student at a university in New England. My goal is to eventually practice law nine months out of the year, then spend the other three months making my own low-budget movies, financed by the large income I hope to be making.

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Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:53 PM

NIXXIGNATIUS

I'm a technical writer that works for the evil empire....errr...a major software corporation. :)

Nixx Ignatius

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Monday, December 16, 2002 2:35 PM

KLINGONMIKE

I work in professional theatre as a backstage technichian.running the scene changes during the performances.

"If you sleep with Targs,you wake up with Glob flies"

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Monday, December 16, 2002 2:47 PM

MERLINDREA

I'm a project manager within the IT department of a bigger manufacturing company - unfortunately we just learned Thursday (why do they always have to share the bad news right before christmas???) that our company wants to outsource IT to India

So if anybody has an interesting job for me, let me know - I'm not sure I want to do IT anymore... I'd love to be a bestseller writer, but that would mean I have to start writing :-)

Oh, and I'm currently living in Colorado, after moving from Germany to Belgium to here.

Merl (depressed and VERY unmotivated right now)

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Monday, December 16, 2002 3:12 PM

HOTFORKAYLEE

I've had so many different experiences in the job field it would take a website to cover them all. For the last year I've been an inside salesman for a very large truck accessories wholesaler

That is, until 2 weeks ago. They decided to close the Cleveland Ohio division. The money has been great but as of 1-31-03 I'll be unemployed. I also have been helping to care for my grandmother for the last few years but now she has to go into assisted living. I can't make house payments and nursing home payments especially without a job so now the house has to be sold to pay for her care. When it rains.....

Jobless, homeless. I have wanted to live in Florida since I was 17 and what better time to finally do it? I'm single, so no pressure there and my grandmother who won't be able to remember me very soon so I have no immediate family in the area anyways.

I have a job offer as a video & pinball tech (which I love doing) and another for a purchasing director at a large retirement community (good pay, better future (nepotism of course)) both in the Sarasota Florida area, plus I'm sure I could find alot of other jobs once I move there. The Florida gulf coast really is beautiful.

Sorry to ramble so much. So for a little bit I'll enjoy my high speed access while I can and get back to packing things up. I might not be around much the next 2 months but will get back up on high speed from Florida and hopefully be a happier person.

Quote:
"G'Quan wrote: 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:17 PM

HOTARUANNE

i'm 16 and i'm still in high school...i'm going to be a doctor (hopefully) and yeah, i live in toronto, so i hope to get into U of T

http://glaivemaster.cjb.net/
Just another Firefly fan

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:18 PM

SERGEANTX

eh... Sheet metal worker for a small commercial heating and A/C company. Spent three years learning programming, all shiny and ready for a job when the dot-com crashed happened...so still banging metal. Before that...jeez a little of everything, air traffic controller, tried my hand at my own business(guttering).. all the time trying to work my way through school(six or seven years worth). Studied engineering initially, then decided to pursue law school, ended up in Architecture school here in Lawrence, KS. Then was fortunate enough to get custody of my kids (six years ago) and got a real job, the aforementioned sheet metal gig.

Wow...looks like kind of a mess when I write it all down. :)

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:36 PM

NONOLUNA

I work with people who have special needs...

I noticed a lot of people (what, 3?) here listed that they're from Toronto. We've been trying to get a party for Friday going but have had no luck finding a place with a big screen TV (that's quiet enough to hear it) for the showing of Serenity. I'm from 1 hr. or so out of town so it's really inconvenient for me to arrange. If any of you have any ideas post here or find the old thread (very well hidden) in the gen dis file at the FOX Firefly board.

Thank you!

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:14 PM

SOLETA

Wow, there are a lot of Canucks here. I'm a Master's student in history in Kingston, Ontario (which I've learned is essentially a suburb of Toronto, despite its distance). There are a lot of students here, too. Kewl. :)

Yolande

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:50 PM

JASONZZZ

I am a professional entertainer and
part time whore. At least that's
what my boss and co-workers said.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:29 PM

SUINEGAGPF

Rocket Scientist with a knack for fixing Air Force One.

Ok, that's not quite accurate.

I'm Digital Design Engineer apparently specializing in Avionics. At my previous place of employment, I got to work on part of the control system for a radio that relays video from an air to surface missile back to the pilot. I also designed the digital portion of the control system for a PA module for a radio that is installed on F-15s that allows pilots outside the hot zone to know what to expect before they get there. Then they laid me off and after 6 months of looking for a job, I landed a job with one of their competitors. My first project for this company was to debug a problem with a Color Weather Radar display destined for Air Force One where certain pixels were randomly drawn in the wrong locations.

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Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:29 PM

BRIT

Ex regular Royal Navy, now Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. My proper job is in the National Health Service. I am the Medical Records Manager for 8 community and mental health hospitals.

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Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:40 PM

JAMIE

I'm a freshman in history at the University of Illinois. I'd like to go to grad school for Museum Studies.

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Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:07 PM

EMBASSY

I'm the CEO of a little rocket-powered airplane design company. I used to be in the Air Force for about 12 years, and currently live about half an hour away from Santa Barbara, which bears a striking resemblance to Sunnydale, for what it's worth.

Mitchell
"The Glass Is Neither Half-Full, Nor Half-Empty. It is twice as large as it needs to be."

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Friday, March 14, 2003 5:58 PM

LERXST

Mailman in Columbus, Ohio. Walking route. Don't have near enough seniority for one of those routes where you don't have to get out of the truck. Really sucks on rainy days.

Saw a bumper sticker the other day that really cracked me up: "If walking is so good for you, how come my mailman looks like Jabba the Hut?"

There is never love without pain. --Peart

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Friday, March 14, 2003 6:54 PM

KAYTHRYN

I used to teach fencing, and ballroom dancing, and for a short while I answered phones. That was oh so exciting. Currently I am blissfully unemployed/ a college student. Fine art’s and biological anthropology major. Yeah, like that education is going to get me some high paying jobs. I plan on being a starving artist who holds high spirited debates over the concepts of evolution vs. creationism 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, or that I will even be able to buy a phone. But I’ll still think of you all, and it’s the thought that counts right?

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

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Jayne: Hey, I didn't fight in no war. Best of luck, though.

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Friday, March 14, 2003 10:05 PM

SUCCATASH

I'm a drunk stoner who somehow managed to land a good career in Internet marketing and also the non-Internet kind.

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Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:46 AM

THECASSANDRA

JAMIE said:
"I'm a freshman in history at the University of Illinois. I'd like to go to grad school for Museum Studies."

that's what i'm planning to do!!

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Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:42 AM

JONSP

I'm an Administrative Assistant and Acquistions Specialist at the Idaho State Law Library. Actually, I'm THE Administrative Assistant and Acquistions Specialist at the Idaho State Law Library. The wonderful thing about this is that I can afford a rather spacious apartment all by myself (no roommates), lots and lots of books, and I work only 19 hours / week, which leaves me plenty of time to indulge my writing habit. (And no, I'm not allowed to give out the name of the demon to whom I sold my soul, sorry.)

I consider writing my real career. Unfortunately, I haven't found many editors who agree with me. So far, my writing income averages out to about $3 a year. I'm sure I'll be famous by the time I'm dead though. I write horror and ... well, just kind of bizarre stuff. Actually sold two really crappy stories to the Roswell Literary Review (which went out of business shortly thereafter ... no correlation, I'm sure). Celebrated the sale by buying a pizza. Which pretty much used up the money they gave me.

I'd eat Joss Whedon's brain and heart if I thought it would give me one-tenth of his storytelling talent. Hm. Actually I think I'd eat his brain and heart just because I'm hungry.

Anyways.

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Saturday, March 15, 2003 11:27 AM

OLDGUARD

I'm a Cadd Designer with a degree in Physical Anthropology/New World Archaeology. Spend my time designing bridges and roads. Education doesn't always take you where you want to go!

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Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:03 PM

LUCCIOLA

Librarian at a small state university....

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Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:31 PM

GINOBIFFARONI

ex soldier, Canadian Forces.

Worked as a Aircraft Maintenance Engineer for a bit.

Now I fabricate oilfield equipment

Wish I was Jayne.

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Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:30 AM

MARK

I, Unfortunately, work in a factory making fire-retardent/resistant products... And I will continue to until someone who needs a guy with a BSc in Electronics hires me at long last...

Being newly graduated sucks.

Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.

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