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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)




The Great State of Texas

 djones520 wrote:
Weather Forecaster, US Air Force.


My father in law did the same for the US army in the ETO.

Me-
former: hunter, mastadon and mammoth. Occasionally short faced bears.
current: B movie Villain, and limo driver for the Team Wienie and Rusty Tiger.

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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
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Longtime Dakkanaut





Chicago

I'm an ecommerce consultant at grainger. I also do a lot of contract work with the US Military


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Ramsden Heath, Essex

I'm a Commercial Manager for a construction company. It's dull to explain without sounding like a profiteering criminal.

Dakka helps fill the time between blags....errr I mean projects.

How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website " 
   
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges




United States

Primarily a political analyst, but I also moonlight as an NPO hatchet man* and personal trainer.


*Basically, I tell college kids when their services are no longer required.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 
   
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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos





NorCal

Production Manager for a truss connector manufacturing company.

Veteran Sergeant wrote:Oh wait. His fluff, at this point, has him coming to blows with Lionel, Angryon, Magnus, and The Emprah. One can only assume he went into the Eye of Terror because he still hadn't had a chance to punch enough Primarchs yet.

Albatross wrote:I guess we'll never know. That is, until Frazzled releases his long-awaited solo album 'Touch My Weiner'. Then we'll know.

warboss wrote:I marvel at their ability to shoot the entire foot off with a shotgun instead of pistol shooting individual toes off like most businesses would.

Mr Nobody wrote:Going to war naked always seems like a good idea until someone trips on gravel.

Ghidorah wrote: You need to quit hating and trying to control other haters hating on other people's hobbies that they are trying to control.

ShumaGorath wrote:Posting in a thread where fat nerds who play with toys make fun of fat nerds who wear costumes outdoors.

Marshal2Crusaders wrote:Good thing it wasn't attacked by the EC, or it would be the assault on Magnir's Crack.
 
   
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Old Sourpuss






Lakewood, Ohio

 dogma wrote:
Primarily a political analyst, but I also moonlight as an NPO hatchet man* and personal trainer.


*Basically, I tell college kids when their services are no longer required.


So you're not a Juggalo?

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Ask me about Brushfire or Endless: Fantasy Tactics 
   
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"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur

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Huge Bone Giant





Oakland, CA -- U.S.A.

Associate producer and QA manager in software development.

Or as it states in my bio, "pedantic nit picker."

"It is not the bullet with your name on it that should worry you, it's the one labeled "To whom it may concern. . ."

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Lakewood, Ohio

 kirsanth wrote:
Associate producer and QA manager in software development.

Or as it states in my bio, "pedantic nit picker."

>_> Boss? (I'm kidding )

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Beijing

I'm the senior science technician in a secondary school, with a team of three technicians, I do much of the equipment and chemical ordering, practical exam and coursework set up, as well as that needed for regular classes.
   
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Puyallup, Wa

 Talizvar wrote:
Commander OB wrote:
I did 5 years active duty in the USMC as an avionics tech on helicopters. <snip>.
Is it true that a helicopter is 10,000 parts all flying in close formation and the tech decides how close?


of course. The grown crew always decides wether or not the birds fly. How do you think a helicopter gets hit by rpg's and keeps flying makeing sure the troops make it in or out of where ever they are going.
   
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Oakland, CA -- U.S.A.

 Alfndrate wrote:
 kirsanth wrote:
Associate producer and QA manager in software development.

Or as it states in my bio, "pedantic nit picker."

>_> Boss? (I'm kidding )


Now I am going to pace around and see if anyone else in this office has DakkaDakka open. . .

Alas, I am relatively certain no one else here plays.

Maybe I should put WHFB/40k on the job requirements. . . .

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"It is not the bullet with your name on it that should worry you, it's the one labeled "To whom it may concern. . ."

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Old Sourpuss






Lakewood, Ohio

 kirsanth wrote:
 Alfndrate wrote:
 kirsanth wrote:
Associate producer and QA manager in software development.

Or as it states in my bio, "pedantic nit picker."

>_> Boss? (I'm kidding )


Now I am going to pace around and see if anyone else in this office has DakkaDakka open. . .

Alas, I am relatively certain no one else here plays.

Maybe I should put WHFB/40k on the job requirements. . . .


I just found it humorous that you and I both work in QA for software, though I live in Ohio and you live in California.

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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges




United States

 Alfndrate wrote:

So you're not a Juggalo?


Sometimes I wonder how magnets work.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 
   
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Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways

 dogma wrote:
[Sometimes I wonder how magnets work.


My MSc dissertation was on magnetic nanoparticles for use in magnetic fluid hyperthermia, so if you want to know how magnets work, just ask

   
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Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!

 SilverMK2 wrote:
 dogma wrote:
[Sometimes I wonder how magnets work.


My MSc dissertation was on magnetic nanoparticles for use in magnetic fluid hyperthermia, so if you want to know how magnets work, just ask

o.O

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia? WTF? O.o

Consider me interested...

Live Ork, Be Ork. or D'Ork!


 
   
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Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways

 whembly wrote:
 SilverMK2 wrote:
 dogma wrote:
[Sometimes I wonder how magnets work.


My MSc dissertation was on magnetic nanoparticles for use in magnetic fluid hyperthermia, so if you want to know how magnets work, just ask

o.O

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia? WTF? O.o

Consider me interested...


You use an oscillating magnetic field to vibrate/rotate magnetic nanoparticles suspended in a fluid (to heat that fluid and therefore anything that surrounds it) - it is currently being trialed in Germany in the treatment of cancer. It has a number of advantages over more traditional therapies, such as magnetic fields not readily interacting with the majority of human tissue, not involving toxic material or ionising radiation, and giving a number of choices of delivery (using magnetic gradients to move the particles out of the circulation at a specific point, binding the particles to proteins which bind to markers on cancer cells, direct injection, etc...) and retention. It can also be used as a method of imaging tumours in MRI, so you can measure how much of your material remains in the tumour, tumour shrinkage etc...

Incidentally, you may also have MNP's in tunable shock absorbers in your car or other devices since magnetic fields can be used to tune how easy it is for the absorbers to compress.

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Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!

 SilverMK2 wrote:
 whembly wrote:
 SilverMK2 wrote:
 dogma wrote:
[Sometimes I wonder how magnets work.


My MSc dissertation was on magnetic nanoparticles for use in magnetic fluid hyperthermia, so if you want to know how magnets work, just ask

o.O

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia? WTF? O.o

Consider me interested...


You use an oscillating magnetic field to vibrate/rotate magnetic nanoparticles suspended in a fluid (to heat that fluid and therefore anything that surrounds it) - it is currently being trialed in Germany in the treatment of cancer. It has a number of advantages over more traditional therapies, such as magnetic fields not readily interacting with the majority of human tissue, not involving toxic material or ionising radiation, and giving a number of choices of delivery (using magnetic gradients to move the particles out of the circulation at a specific point, binding the particles to proteins which bind to markers on cancer cells, direct injection, etc...) and retention. It can also be used as a method of imaging tumours in MRI, so you can measure how much of your material remains in the tumour, tumour shrinkage etc...

Incidentally, you may also have MNP's in tunable shock absorbers in your car or other devices since magnetic fields can be used to tune how easy it is for the absorbers to compress.


*cracks knuckles*

I've got some reading to do... that's cool as gak man.

Live Ork, Be Ork. or D'Ork!


 
   
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Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways

Science is cool

If you read up on it and want some additional explanation I will do my best

   
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Raging Ravener



Raleigh, NC

Molecular Biologist.

TL : DR - Shorthand for ""Hi, I am a miserable cretin of the Internet that must be spoon-fed pictures and factoids or I will piss myself."

 
   
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I work at a coffee shop.

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Tzeentch Aspiring Sorcerer Riding a Disc





staffordshire england

 SilverMK2 wrote:
 whembly wrote:
 SilverMK2 wrote:
 dogma wrote:
[Sometimes I wonder how magnets work.


My MSc dissertation was on magnetic nanoparticles for use in magnetic fluid hyperthermia, so if you want to know how magnets work, just ask

o.O

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia? WTF? O.o

Consider me interested...


You use an oscillating magnetic field to vibrate/rotate magnetic nanoparticles suspended in a fluid (to heat that fluid and therefore anything that surrounds it) - it is currently being trialed in Germany in the treatment of cancer. It has a number of advantages over more traditional therapies, such as magnetic fields not readily interacting with the majority of human tissue, not involving toxic material or ionising radiation, and giving a number of choices of delivery (using magnetic gradients to move the particles out of the circulation at a specific point, binding the particles to proteins which bind to markers on cancer cells, direct injection, etc...) and retention. It can also be used as a method of imaging tumours in MRI, so you can measure how much of your material remains in the tumour, tumour shrinkage etc...

Incidentally, you may also have MNP's in tunable shock absorbers in your car or other devices since magnetic fields can be used to tune how easy it is for the absorbers to compress.


so your basically using iron particles to cut and cauterize the growth, moving it and heating it with magnetic fields. Outstanding



Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men.
Welcome to Fantasy 40k

If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.

Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
 
   
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I wrastle alligators for a living....

I.E. I'm an engineer.

My company builds the engines that powers the airplanes you guys fly on.....start evil laughter....

GG
   
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Sopron, Hungary

I'm a secretary in a school for kids with special needs.

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UK

I suppose an easier question for me is "What don't you do?", the answer to which is: everything!

Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.

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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker





Leesburg, FL

Wow, this is the most personally depressing thread that I have ever come across. I see all of these professionals, doing their professional jobs and I'm a 39 year old lawn tech for a nationwide chain. In other words I'm the guy that sprays your lawn with fertilizer once a month. Did I mention that I'm doing this in Florida...in August...for $11/hr. What really bothers me is that I have a high school diploma (graduated 1 year early with a 3.5 GPA), have 2 years of college study, and a 2 year certificate in motorcycle mechanics. Having all of that I spray lawns...in Florida...in August...for $11/hr.

It's not like I haven't tried to find a "better" job, I've looked and there really isn't any in central Florida. Kudos to all you guys out there that made it, I mean that, I just wish I was one of you...

It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. 
   
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Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!

 sub-zero wrote:
Wow, this is the most personally depressing thread that I have ever come across. I see all of these professionals, doing their professional jobs and I'm a 39 year old lawn tech for a nationwide chain. In other words I'm the guy that sprays your lawn with fertilizer once a month. Did I mention that I'm doing this in Florida...in August...for $11/hr. What really bothers me is that I have a high school diploma (graduated 1 year early with a 3.5 GPA), have 2 years of college study, and a 2 year certificate in motorcycle mechanics. Having all of that I spray lawns...in Florida...in August...for $11/hr.

It's not like I haven't tried to find a "better" job, I've looked and there really isn't any in central Florida. Kudos to all you guys out there that made it, I mean that, I just wish I was one of you...

What would you like to do... and better question, would you be willing to move?

Live Ork, Be Ork. or D'Ork!


 
   
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Tzeentch Aspiring Sorcerer Riding a Disc





staffordshire england

 sub-zero wrote:
Wow, this is the most personally depressing thread that I have ever come across. I see all of these professionals, doing their professional jobs and I'm a 39 year old lawn tech for a nationwide chain. In other words I'm the guy that sprays your lawn with fertilizer once a month. Did I mention that I'm doing this in Florida...in August...for $11/hr. What really bothers me is that I have a high school diploma (graduated 1 year early with a 3.5 GPA), have 2 years of college study, and a 2 year certificate in motorcycle mechanics. Having all of that I spray lawns...in Florida...in August...for $11/hr.

It's not like I haven't tried to find a "better" job, I've looked and there really isn't any in central Florida. Kudos to all you guys out there that made it, I mean that, I just wish I was one of you...


I had an advantage over you. When I got my qualifications there was more job opportunities.
One of my first jobs was mechanic for a kawasaki dealership.

Good times



Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men.
Welcome to Fantasy 40k

If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.

Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
 
   
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I'm a Graphic Designer/Desktop Published... if I could find a job in it.

Poor ignorant guardsmen, it be but one of many of the great miracles of the Emperor! The Emperor is magic, like Harry Potter, but more magic! A most real and true SPACE WIZARD! And for the last time... I'm not a space plumber.

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Leesburg, FL

 whembly wrote:
 sub-zero wrote:
Wow, this is the most personally depressing thread that I have ever come across. I see all of these professionals, doing their professional jobs and I'm a 39 year old lawn tech for a nationwide chain. In other words I'm the guy that sprays your lawn with fertilizer once a month. Did I mention that I'm doing this in Florida...in August...for $11/hr. What really bothers me is that I have a high school diploma (graduated 1 year early with a 3.5 GPA), have 2 years of college study, and a 2 year certificate in motorcycle mechanics. Having all of that I spray lawns...in Florida...in August...for $11/hr.

It's not like I haven't tried to find a "better" job, I've looked and there really isn't any in central Florida. Kudos to all you guys out there that made it, I mean that, I just wish I was one of you...

What would you like to do... and better question, would you be willing to move?


Well, I would like to have a career in the radio industry actually, I have one of those voices that needs to be heard reading commercial spots or the time and weather. LOL But I can't move, my daughter lives here with my ex-wife.


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 loki old fart wrote:
 sub-zero wrote:
Wow, this is the most personally depressing thread that I have ever come across. I see all of these professionals, doing their professional jobs and I'm a 39 year old lawn tech for a nationwide chain. In other words I'm the guy that sprays your lawn with fertilizer once a month. Did I mention that I'm doing this in Florida...in August...for $11/hr. What really bothers me is that I have a high school diploma (graduated 1 year early with a 3.5 GPA), have 2 years of college study, and a 2 year certificate in motorcycle mechanics. Having all of that I spray lawns...in Florida...in August...for $11/hr.

It's not like I haven't tried to find a "better" job, I've looked and there really isn't any in central Florida. Kudos to all you guys out there that made it, I mean that, I just wish I was one of you...


I had an advantage over you. When I got my qualifications there was more job opportunities.
One of my first jobs was mechanic for a kawasaki dealership.

Good times


I agree on the good times, I worked at a Honda dealership for about six months before being layed off, last one hired is the first one fired in this economy.

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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. 
   
 
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