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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited February 2004
    i'm an waiter.. errrr actor.. yeah that's it

    JK:p
    PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
    Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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  • JrVtecAccord
    JrVtecAccord Posts: 64
    edited February 2004
    Financial/Accounting for Allstate Insurance

    I know you might think it's a puss job, but you might be right I work with all puss:D It's never been so nice to see your co workers:D Overall, easy and relaxing.

    Junior
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited February 2004
    Currently supposed to be a highschool senior (one of the few HS students on this board, along with Sid...), tho I work more than I have classes. As for work, I'm a Student Desktop Technician in my schools IT dept. Pay sucks and I have a long-standing disagreement with one of my co-workers, but I can get out of it at the end of the school year. Then it's on to bigger and better paying things. Ultimately, I want to open up my own computer parts/service store, but that's a bit in the future....
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited February 2004
    My job description lists me as a Chemical Manufacturing Technician. To be honest, I'm pretty much just a machine operator in a chemical plant.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited February 2004
    Originally posted by gidrah
    My job description lists me as a Chemical Manufacturing Technician. To be honest, I'm pretty much just a machine operator in a chemical plant.

    my Wife is a chemist. she worked for a company that manufactures capilary tubes in gas chromatagraphs(ch SP). hell i'm hooked on phonics;)

    I hate chem and am 1 of the idiots that have mixed clorox and amonia:eek: stupid is that stupid does:rolleyes:

    1/4twin
    ***WAREMTAE***
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  • pjdami
    pjdami Posts: 1,894
    edited February 2004
    I hate chem and am 1 of the idiots that have mixed clorox and amonia stupid is that stupid does

    What happened here? Did it liberate chlorine gas and choke you? Or even worse depending on the mixture make Nitrogen Trichloride which is an explosive? Ah, alias Hbomb I see

    ;)

    Okay, I'll confess that I am Chem Engineer. Back in the good ole college days I was in EE for a while and my dream was to design amplifiers one day or design subwoofers. Then I realized how much I hated Booleans and stuff and changed my major.

    So now I'm a Senior Production / Process Engineer in the world's largest Phosphorus Trichloride plant and still wish I was designing amplifiers or subwoofers. Instead, I make the weedkiller Roundup. Very demanding job but it pays good.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2004
    I usually tape off my eyebrows and steam my face over a nice stovetop full of Roundup weed killer.....good ****, highly recommended.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • TN_Polk_Lover
    TN_Polk_Lover Posts: 243
    edited February 2004
    I'm a manager in a datacenter. We have about 130 NT and Windows 2000 based servers networked together and do a job that most people use a mainframe to do. We process real-time medical insurance eligibilty transactions. I love my job. Sometimes managing people has its challanges, but I get to still spend a lot of time hands on loading computers, troubleshootling network problems, etc.

    Robert
    Robert
    zombie boy 2000 wrote:
    You are officially in the high-end of the deep-end of the top-end.

    Bonus Room Over Garage:
    Toshiba 27" CRT TV
    Digital Source: Sony DVP-NS3100ES
    DVR: Panasonic DMR-ES15
    Denon 3806 AV Receiver
    - L/R Preamp out to Parasound HCA-1200 Amp
    Polk RTi70's, CSi40 Center, RTi38 Side Surrounds, RTi38 Back Surrounds

    Living Room: (2ch only)
    TV: Sony KV20-FV12
    DVD Player: Sony DVP-NS715P
    Yamaha R9 Receiver Polk RTi38's
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2004
    TN - You and John Strong, another member, should get along famously :)
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • carvinman1
    carvinman1 Posts: 62
    edited February 2004
    I am a technical writer/illustrator for an armored car company in the Cincinnati area. I do the Technical Manual input for the
    up-armored HMMWVs we build. I have been in the publications
    business for 30 years, and I really enjoy it.
    Danny
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited February 2004
    I am so stoked about starting this thread. You see, WE (as in the folks here who share the common interest) come from all walks of life.

    It is really cool, IMHO..

    Please go on...

    :D:D
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited February 2004
    Great question and interesting responses.

    Got a degree in Physics, because it was easy for me. Chemistry was to hard because my memory sucks. For 30 years I worked as a Chemical Vapor Deposition, CVD, engineer making high tech ceramics such as SiC for the government and semi-conductor industry. I thought I liked it but didn't know what my real options were. Big pay cut to try something else. "Is that all there is?"

    About three years ago I quit and did nothing for a year in order to find out more about me. I needed the separation from the JOB in order to see what was left in me. Long story short: the problems and issues that I had at work and with people didn't go away. They were mine. Can't blame them anymore. I was bored also.

    So I started my own Handyman Business. I make much less money now, but I'm having more fun. Each day is different and challenging. The customers are interesting also.

    Who knows what is next.

    My good friend of 30 years was at his retirement party. He gets up to the podum and say only this " Have Fun". I think he was right.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited February 2004
    Currently working as an industrial engineer at TI, but looking to complete my PhD or MBA and get out of dodge ASAP.

    Work here is mindless and boring, but the pay is allright-stock options better! :D
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • dave shepard
    dave shepard Posts: 1,334
    edited February 2004
    I'm in autobody 8-5 M-F and have a Landscape Curbing business after hours 7 days a week.

    Autobody has been the main job for 18yrs and has been bad money wise for the first 14yrs and as a result started the business. Since then the owner of the shop got real pissed and ventfull towards my business and realized had better do something so the result was to increase the pay but only after some very close calls with a nock down drag-out fights between him and I. So the answer to the happy with job question is tuch and go I really have a love/hate filling towards it.

    Dave
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  • RSTERN
    RSTERN Posts: 287
    edited February 2004
    Cable splicer for the telephone company, Work on a rehab group, replacing telephone cable in existing neighborhoods. Right now locating underground cable until end of feb. Then back to splicing.

    Work with a group of good guys, we make work fun. Makes you feel good when you get a job done and say I did that.

    Rob Stern
    mains: rt16
    center: csi40
    surrounds:fx 1000
    sub: SVS 20-39pc+
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