What do you do for a living?

[mdbrandy]

P.h.D Yup ur a regullar post hole digger huh

Just kidding.

We usually like to say that it's "Piled Higher and Deeper"

[mperdue]

did Probabilistic Risk Assessments of Nuclear power plants and such for about 8 years

Fun stuff huh? We have to do PRAs and FMECA (or "motherFMECAs" as my boss likes to call them) all the time. I can see how it would be extremely important for nuclear reactors etc but for us it's just a BS exercise that gets in the way of doing real work . Anyway sounds like your current jobs are much more exciting!

Michael

[sblake01]

We usually like to say that it's "Piled Higher and Deeper"

Let's see if I remember the degrees. B.S.-we all know that one, M.S.-more of same, and PhD-piled higher and deeper. I, however, have a B.A.

[Ed]

I'm with the Department of Homeland Security (used to be Department of Justice). Federal law enforcement. I'm here to help keep them terrorists out.

[mdbrandy]

Fun stuff huh? We have to do PRAs and FMECA (or "motherFMECAs" as my boss likes to call them) all the time. I can see how it would be extremely important for nuclear reactors etc but for us it's just a BS exercise that gets in the way of doing real work . Anyway sounds like your current jobs are much more exciting!

Michael

I got tired of these types of analyses. There was a lot of guesswork on the probabilities involved, and it was always a huge deal just to justify the answers. I did nuclear reactors, nuclear waste processing facilities, and chemical wepons depots and incinerators. Rockets are much cooler :classic: .

[NCLarry]

I also work in IT... currently as a QA Manager for JPMorgan Chase Retail Bank (although I'm currently seeking to change employers)...

What I do???? Currently, not much of anything, 'cept browse this board and the 'net. :tapemouth

Most of my career has been in the printing/publishing industry, however...

[ChrisA]

What do I do? Jack of all trades, master of none. Lately it seems fatherhood (nine month old) keeps me busy! Wouldnt trade it though.

Chris

[240znz]

I'm a NZCE electronics engineer who has nothing to do with electronics anymore. Currently I convert matter to anti-matter, in much the same way Spock did it.

In my spare time (9-5) I work designing electronic surveillance systems.....unlike Ed, I keep them out once they've got in!

[zhead240]

commercial fisherman on the great lakes ( erie and huron ) deckhand on a gill net fish tug.(canadian waters) EAT MORE FISH :pirate: :pirate:

[gema]

I'm a student at Temple University (Http://www.temple.edu) in my 2nd and almost a half year, studying Philosophy and either Japanese or French, I haven't decided which to get a degree in yet. After that, I'm off to law school. Hope to either work for the feds doing something awesome (Ed, any chance you can get me an internship? I have quite the interest in terrorism/counter-terrorism and live in the DC area), having/working at good firm (corporate/trade law is what I'm interested in), and/or opening my own slew of coffee shops. I LOVE coffee and have been doing it for years. I vote Student for the moment, but in a few years....

[240ZX]

I'm an alien visitor, from the 4th quadrant, beyond the Gzxionia system. My mission, here on the third rock, is to accumulate enough data to varify our desire to reside here. Through the decades, I have encounterd many strange customes and practices, especially the humans facination with automobiles. Continually, in my reports, I suggest that there is no logical reason to inhabit this small and very hostile but quaint planet. However, one day approximately three decades ago I discovered the humans had created this most interesting automobile. They even gave it a secret code. It's code name is 2, 4, 0, Z. Somehow this human machine promotes the same feelings as when I have xes with my ten wifes!! Amazingly enough to this day the humans painstakingly take great pride in owning these fasinating machines. So, I purchased one of these machines, brought it back to life and am now convinced there is a valid reason to be here. My next report will read...."I'm staying!!! And tell my ten wifes a Z car is by far easier to live with and certainly more pleasurable than they are....period!!! See ya!"

[kmack]

Well, since there was no choice for "Construction", I had to choose "other."

I work for a small commercial construction firm as a Project manager. We mostly do commercial and historical renovations. But we also do some industrial and laboratory renovations and new construction. Fun stuff!

But mostly I get to drive a really big truck from jobsite to jobsite and play in the dirt!