Jobs and Careers

POSTED BY: Hobbes
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HOBBES

Friday, November 15, 2002 10:40 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.

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Friday, November 15, 2002 11:25 PM

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.

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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

SIGNYM

Friday, November 15, 2002 11:34 PM

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!

YEAHITSME

Friday, November 15, 2002 11:38 PM

College student in computer science

HOBBES

Saturday, November 16, 2002 12:03 AM

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.

MOUNTAINGAL

Saturday, November 16, 2002 12:27 AM

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.

EVANS

Saturday, November 16, 2002 1:11 AM

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

SAINTOFCHEESE

Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:37 AM

overly obsessive workaholic crazy high school senior here. hehe.

~*Saint of Cheese*~

THEGN

Monday, November 18, 2002 3:02 AM

I'm a physicists for the DoD.

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In the Dark Ages, Romano-Celtic Britannia was over-run by Viking-like cultures collectively called the Anglo-Saxons. They were led by warlords called Drytinns, and the greatest warriors among them were the Thegns.

HJERMSTED

Monday, November 18, 2002 4:19 AM

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)

RANDALT

Monday, November 18, 2002 5:12 AM

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

JOSSARAMA

Monday, November 18, 2002 6:19 PM

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

INVISIBLEGREEN

Monday, November 18, 2002 8:26 PM

I'm a high school senior in Michigan.

KEF

Monday, November 18, 2002 8:38 PM

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.

BOBKNAPTOR

Monday, November 18, 2002 8:44 PM

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.

DELVO

Monday, November 18, 2002 8:50 PM

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...

ILOVEJAYNE

Monday, November 18, 2002 8:55 PM

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.

KEF

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:49 AM

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.

JUGGERNAUT

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:03 PM

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.

CHARLIEBLUE

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:51 PM

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.

ENTILZHA

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:43 PM

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...

KAYLEE

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:12 PM

Lowly High School student

EVANS

Sunday, November 24, 2002 6:11 PM

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

THECASSANDRA

Sunday, November 24, 2002 6:40 PM

i'm a high school senior too.

ZATHRAS10

Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:01 PM

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

ALLRONIX

Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:14 AM

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!

SAINTOFCHEESE

Friday, November 29, 2002 3:55 AM

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

~*Saint of Cheese*~

DOUG

Friday, November 29, 2002 10:03 AM

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.

NIXXIGNATIUS

Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:53 PM

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

Nixx Ignatius

KLINGONMIKE

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:35 AM

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"

MERLINDREA

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:47 AM

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)

HOTFORKAYLEE

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:12 AM

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."

HOTARUANNE

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:17 AM

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

SERGEANTX

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:18 AM

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

NONOLUNA

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:36 AM

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!

SOLETA

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:14 AM

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

JASONZZZ

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:50 AM

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

SUINEGAGPF

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 6:29 AM

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.

BRIT

Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:29 PM

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.

JAMIE

Friday, March 14, 2003 12:40 AM

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

EMBASSY

Friday, March 14, 2003 2:07 AM

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."

LERXST

Saturday, March 15, 2003 3:58 AM

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

KAYTHRYN

Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:54 AM

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.

SUCCATASH

Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:05 AM

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

THECASSANDRA

Saturday, March 15, 2003 7:46 PM

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!!

JONSP

Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:42 PM

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.

OLDGUARD

Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:27 PM

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!

LUCCIOLA

Sunday, March 16, 2003 2:03 AM

Librarian at a small state university....

GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, March 16, 2003 7:31 AM

ex soldier, Canadian Forces.

Worked as a Aircraft Maintenance Engineer for a bit.

Now I fabricate oilfield equipment

Wish I was Jayne.

MARK

Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:30 AM

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.

SUENOS

Sunday, March 16, 2003 6:02 PM

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

VETERAN

Friday, March 21, 2003 1:39 AM

Geologist.

CHANNAIN

Monday, April 14, 2003 2:42 PM

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

CHANNAIN

Monday, April 14, 2003 2:58 PM

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

GTHING

Monday, April 14, 2003 5:09 PM

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

XENARC

Monday, April 14, 2003 6:09 PM

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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SARAHETC

Monday, April 14, 2003 6:50 PM

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

KETHRYVERIS

Monday, April 14, 2003 8:08 PM

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

WERESPAZ

Monday, April 14, 2003 8:47 PM

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

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:46 AM

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

XENARC

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:48 AM

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

CAPTAINZEE

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:28 PM

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."

LERXST

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:11 AM

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

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

MANIACNUMBERONE

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:43 AM

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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LORA

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:34 AM

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

KETHRYVERIS

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:54 AM

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

LERXST

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:16 AM

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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?

NOOCYTE

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:50 AM

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

JRC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:30 PM

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.

KOFFEE

Friday, May 9, 2003 11:55 AM

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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......)

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

A very worthy cause.

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And every breathe we drew?

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Was hallelujah.

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FREMDFIRMA

Friday, May 9, 2003 2:12 PM

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

SARAHETC

Friday, May 9, 2003 2:17 PM

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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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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

KENWOOD

Friday, May 9, 2003 8:42 PM

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!

LOSTANGEL

Friday, May 9, 2003 10:30 PM

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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?

KOFFEE

Saturday, May 10, 2003 1:11 AM

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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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