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what do you do?

POSTED BY: MELEAUX
UPDATED: Friday, October 10, 2003 08:43
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Wednesday, October 8, 2003 4:48 PM

MELEAUX

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Wednesday, October 8, 2003 4:53 PM

MELEAUX

Quote:
Originally posted by meleaux:

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

Kinda twitchy posting...
I thought it might be interesting to see what you folks do for a livin'. What types make up brown coats. Are we a motley crew- or more -unified?
I am proud to call myself a homemaker ~like Jaynes Mom maybe? My husband and fellow brown coat is in the printing industry. He works in "pre-press" and is what as known as (no joking) a stripper. He sometimes introduces himself as a male stripper...depending on whose asking

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 12:46 AM

JAVIDRHO

I am an oceanographer and a programmer of spacecraft software in DC. For reasons involving life in the nation's capital after 9/11, I will not say where I work or who work for (google is always watching). In my spare time, I am writing a SF novel which is being digitally illustrated by my brother in CA. (A lengthy preview of the story can be seen at my website www.cyberdrome.org if anyone is interested)

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I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just... let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. - Agent Cooper

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 2:43 AM

JOHNNYREB

I'm in Credit and Collections. I deny people credit so that they can go over my head to my boss and get approved, then I get to chase them for the money that I originally didn't want to be owed. When the chase becomes tiresome, I send them a "nasty-gram" in the form of a demand letter and coordinate the repossesion of their equipment.

That's a pretty accurate description of what I do. Maybe I'll put that on my resume'.

Fox sucks! Viva Firefly!

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 3:21 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

I'm a girl Friday at a Covenant church. The job title is Administrative Assistant-Technology, but that's pretty high-falootin for a glorified Receptionist. I do manage the church's web site and relational database, but basically I'm there to answer phones, control the calendar and process the Sunday bulletin while fielding last-minute urgent requests from two guys who wouldn't know what "lead time" was if it jumped up and licked them on the nose.

On the upside, I don't work Mondays or Wednesday afternoons which allows much creative time. The goal is to get into position to make a living as an artist, but that's a slow-going process.

Firefly Artwork Series
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 3:39 AM

STILLSHINY

I do tech support for Bubbas & Rednecks.

(I use those terms with love & endearment.)

Let me clarify: I work for Lowrance Electronics. We make fishing sonars & GPS devices. We cater to two main markets Your standard weekend angler, and you pro tournament fisherman, like the guys you see on ESPN. Anyway, when either one has problems using their electronics they call us. I talk to folk from all sides of the spectrum. Some have a clue, others not so much. All in all it makes for an interesting to do. And I have to say, even though I don't fish or hunt , I really do like my job. Not to mention I have this website up most all day to help when things slow down.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:17 AM

MELEAUX

I sense the makings of a mighty fine crew here. All we need now is a mercenary.

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:34 AM

STILLSHINY

Ok now ya got me to thinking.

So we take off into the verse.

a homemaker & her hubby the printing guy (sound like mighty fine folk to me.)

an oceanographer & programmer (might as well say scientist or genius) perhaps evil or at least ill tempered since he's a good guy?

a collections agent (sounds like a Mercenary to me)

a very good organizer, artist, and all around nice person..hmmmm.....ambassador.

tech support (who pales in comparison to that guy up there)- so hey I guess I'd be ye olde comic relief.

Gee, now all we need is a theme song and a plot.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:39 AM

STILLSHINY

Javidrho, Oh I think I may become a fan. Your website is freaking shiny! I never was a big sci-fi reader, but this has got my interest sparked.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:46 AM

JAVIDRHO

Stillshiny,
Since I wear Hawaiian shirts and shorts in the summers here, can I trade in my scientist title to be the pilot? I used to write flight simulator code so I am a pretty good arm-chair pilot. Please, please, please? Do I have to virtual-arm-wrestle someone else for the job?

Oh, and thanks for the very nice words regarding my online story. It keeps me busy and out of trouble these days. Hoping to publish next year sometime...

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I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just... let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. - Agent Cooper

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:56 AM

STILLSHINY

Javidrho, I'd say pilot you are. (I'd arm wrestle ya, but last I checked that required effort)Though if we land, folk might think the hawaiian shirt was our "uniform" I have quite the shiny collection of said shirts myself. To provide diversity I could just wear a succession of rock band t-shirts.

Hope we're not hijacking the thread. Of course these things rarely end up as what they start. Nevertheless, we need some other folk to post so we can build our crew.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 5:08 AM

LINDYCAT

I'm a hypnotist, doctor of pharmacy, chemist (working on my PhD), and lindy hopper. Right now I mainly work on synthesizeing new drugs I invented for my dissertation, do stage shows, and dance whenever I get a little bit of downtime.

LC

Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langtry. - RAW

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 5:12 AM

MANIACNUMBERONE

During my current furlough from the IRS, I am sharpening my knives and thinking about women.

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 5:25 AM

JAVIDRHO

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:

Hope we're not hijacking the thread. Of course these things rarely end up as what they start.

Writing "side topic" moved to another thread:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=2666

[/hijack off]

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 6:12 AM

JOSH294

I go to school.

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 6:23 AM

ZAPHODB

I'm a professional chef by day, stealth-geek by night.

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 6:37 AM

EMBASSY

I have four jobs, it was just pointed out to me. No wonder I'm so tired.

My day job is as CEO of an aircraft design company for esoteric extremely high altitude high speed aircraft. See http://www.rocketplane.com.

My occasional gig is as a Major in the USAF Reserve. I am an instructor at the USAF Test Pilot School (from where I graduated in 1988).

I'm also starting a new business which I can't talk about much yet but it'll be really cool and has nothing whatsoever to do with flying machines.

FInally, we homeschool our two oldest children, and I have a hand in that, too. Buffy to Joyce: "Homeschooling: It's not just for scary religious people anymore!"

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 6:47 AM

NONOLUNA

I was caring for my elderly grandmother and terminally ill mother so I had to quit my job which was working with people with special needs.

Now I plan Shindigs...

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 6:53 AM

CPTBUCK25

I am a theatrical sound designer/engineer. I am also a research assistant and part-time student in physics and astronomy.

Oh, and I'm a pizza delivery guy.

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 6:55 AM

MELEAUX

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FInally, we homeschool our two oldest children, and I have a hand in that, too. Buffy to Joyce: "Homeschooling: It's not just for scary religious people anymore!"

Hey, we homeschool our youngin' too. But we probably qualify as scary religious people

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:01 AM

SARAHETC

I'm an exhibit manager, program developer, and educator for a science/children's museum. I do journalism and communication and computers and technology stuff.

And other times I blog and write stories and make short films and get really worked up about computer games.

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

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:06 AM

HINERMAD

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:
Ok now ya got me to thinking.

So we take off into the verse.

a homemaker & her hubby the printing guy (sound like mighty fine folk to me.)

an oceanographer & programmer (might as well say scientist or genius) perhaps evil or at least ill tempered since he's a good guy?

a collections agent (sounds like a Mercenary to me)

a very good organizer, artist, and all around nice person..hmmmm.....ambassador.

tech support (who pales in comparison to that guy up there)- so hey I guess I'd be ye olde comic relief.

Gee, now all we need is a theme song and a plot.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:06 AM

BARNEYT

I'm an analyst for an IT consultancy, which means I'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes...

In my defence, I do make very good cookies... so if there's a vacancy for ship's cook, I can try my hand at making chocolate cake using only processed protein (in all the colours of the rainbow!)

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"I think the right place to start is to say, fair is fair. This is who we are. These are our numbers." Mr Willis of Ohio - The West Wing

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:12 AM

STILLSHINY

Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
I'm an analyst for an IT consultancy, which means I'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes...

In my defence, I do make very good cookies... so if there's a vacancy for ship's cook, I can try my hand at making chocolate cake using only processed protein (in all the colours of the rainbow!)

I do see the makings a crew or two here. Cookies is a good thing. I like mine with blue protein chips just to get on Rivers nerves.

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"I think the right place to start is to say, fair is fair. This is who we are. These are our numbers." Mr Willis of Ohio - The West Wing

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:16 AM

HINERMAD

Quote:
Originally posted by Hinermad:
Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:
Ok now ya got me to thinking.

So we take off into the verse.

a homemaker & her hubby the printing guy (sound like mighty fine folk to me.)

an oceanographer & programmer (might as well say scientist or genius) perhaps evil or at least ill tempered since he's a good guy?

a collections agent (sounds like a Mercenary to me)

a very good organizer, artist, and all around nice person..hmmmm.....ambassador.

tech support (who pales in comparison to that guy up there)- so hey I guess I'd be ye olde comic relief.

Gee, now all we need is a theme song and a plot.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

Dagnabbit! I hate it when that happens. What I was trying to say is:

I'm an electronics engineer. Can I be the engineer? PLEEEASE? I haven't started a fire in weeks, and that thing with the reactor in Pennsylvania wasn't my fault!

(Sorry about cluttering up the thread.)

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:26 AM

JAKE7

Another tech support rep checking in -- glad I'm not the only one!

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:44 AM

BARNEYT

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:

I do see the makings a crew or two here. Cookies is a good thing. I like mine with blue protein chips just to get on Rivers nerves.

So long as you promise that she ain't going to come at me with a butcher's knife while I'm carrying a plate of them...

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"I think the right place to start is to say, fair is fair. This is who we are. These are our numbers." Mr Willis of Ohio - The West Wing

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:47 AM

STILLSHINY

Quote:
Originally posted by jake7:
Another tech support rep checking in -- glad I'm not the only one!

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

Ain't it fun to be the hero?

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:48 AM

MELEAUX

Ok, we got people beggin' to be the pilot, the engineer, the cook and even somebody hinting at uhm public relations...
How come no volunteers for companion?
Plucky comic relief abounds... also a doctorish type. Student would qulify for River maybe. I wanna be Zoe

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:48 AM

STILLSHINY

I see we are gonna have to collect this crew together and head out for the black.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 9:13 AM

JOHNNYREB

I'll be the merc! No problem! I even have the goatee! I don't own any Hawaiian shirts anymore, my wife got rid of them, but I do own a fedora that I wear on occasion. How mercenary is that?

Fox sucks! Viva Firefly!

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 9:25 AM

STILLSHINY

Ok someone needs to take a crew inventory. But I thnk we got a shiny bunch here. Still lacking a companion??? and I ain't volueteering. (That whole wife who can break me with her pinky thing)

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 9:56 AM

LJC

I'm a full-time web designer for a corporation, and I have a sideline as a freelance journalist.

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 12:50 PM

GWYNETHH

Nuclear Engineer US Naval Shipyard for Submarines

Gwynethh

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 1:17 PM

DEFENDER82

I'm a career (read 21 years) Public Defender as in "What am I your advocate?" (Simon to Early in Objects in Space). Some people would say that makes me a whore and I play the Companion in Archer's Serenity Inc, pastiche. But like Mal about Inara, they would be wrong.

"One of the most gallant, generous, manly, and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country." John Adams descridng in old age his defense of the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 5:24 PM

SHEWHOHATHAPEN

I'm a disaffected college student, which means I have no job.

And I'm an English major, which means I'll never have a job.

---
"I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows."

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:29 PM

OPTIMUS1998

three time college drop out,
now working on my 6th year in a dead-end retail job(Cashier)

seem to have a might of a nack for fixin' stuff though....

recenltly failed at truck drivin' school, so that's a no for pilot...

any openings for comic releif/ idiot savant?

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Thursday, October 9, 2003 10:59 PM

DRAKON

I'm an electronics tech on an atom smasher, Stanford Linear Acclerator Center. We make our own anti-matter (positrons) but they never let me take any home.

Before this job, I was Reactor Operator on two nuclear submarines, USS George Bancroft, and USS Flasher. It was a recruiting video starring William Shatner that got me into the Navy Nuclear Power program. (Hey, I was 17 at the time, youthful indescretion)

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

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Friday, October 10, 2003 3:11 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I drive a cab - in detroit, no less.. fun fun fun.

As a consequence on not wanting to sell my soul to any specific company, I outright own and posess all necessary permits and licenses in my own name, thus allowing me to work for any company, any day, any time (I do percentage, never lease.)

Guess that'd make me the cabbie version of a merc, since with a few exceptions, I take the highest bidder when more than one of em has an empty cab.

Also happen to be a right handy small engine/appliance mechanic when I ain't pushin a cab.

-frem
diefuxdie

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Friday, October 10, 2003 6:37 AM

JAKE7

It can be -- when it's appreciated!

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

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Friday, October 10, 2003 6:57 AM

BROWNCOAT1

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

I am a marketing director. Pretty laid back job really, as exhibited by the fact I am posting here while I am at work.

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

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Friday, October 10, 2003 8:43 AM

PEDME84

what a cool thread! :-)

what do i do? good question. i just graduated from nyu with an individualized degree. i studies mythology and dramatic writing... so what do i do?

well, i was working as an assistant to my old dramatic writing professor but no more (as of like yesterday) 'cause he can't afford to pay me anymore. sad.

i work as an office assistant at the nyc fire museum though maybe not for more much longer because i need more pay 'cause i oh, so desperately want to move out of my parents' house.

but i'm a writer. that's the plan anyway. i'm working on a project right now with a friend that's very exciting. who knows? maybe one day you'll be looking at a poster for the next great musical and in really little letters it'll say "book by emily paul." i'm too young to be skeptical yet :-)

- emily

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