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 A Town Called Malus wrote:
It's just astrophysicist speak for x-rays being reflected off the dust and gas being sucked into a black hole. Sorry

All I hear is black hole powered Gundam that shoots an x-ray beam that'll give everyone it hits cancer 30 years after the war is over.

Perfect for the would be masked villain with a flare for light red fashion!

I exist at a possible point in what we perceive as time and eventually not even that; all knowledge of this falling away as we become dust and shadow.

*takes drag off cigarette and looks longingly out a window*

I work as a Cyber Security engineer, in a senior capacity. Great work, I've worked on designing new architectures, compliance, vulnerability management and risk management. Really diverse field, and plenty of opportunities for growth.

I recently was promoted to a Technical Lead for a large company's datacenter. The slot below me are Infrastructure Analysts, whose job is to monitor and recover pieces of infrastructure and applications when they break, and to oversee the change process for upgrades. That was a job I loved.

Now my job is to oversee those infrastructure analysts, do their scheduling, analyse major incidents afterwards for root cause analysis, and work on various projects, which involves a lot of email coordination and meetings. It's a job I'm turning out to love a lot less even though the money is pretty good.

 Ouze wrote:

Now my job is to oversee those infrastructure analysts, do their scheduling, analyse major incidents afterwards for root cause analysis, and work on various projects, which involves a lot of email coordination and meetings. It's a job I'm turning out to love a lot less even though the money is pretty good.

Managing people is a pain in the proverbial I am afraid and most of the time it's like herding cats. I understand the sentiment though. It's nice to actually do something rather than watch and tell other people to do it.

Chemical Engimeer that spent 15 years in manufacturing plants doing some form of Process engineering, including Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. I've spent the last 4 years as a Senior Researcher for a building construction materials company. I currently go to our 20 wallboard manufacturing plants, rolling out new raw materials, new products, new processes, and help troubleshoot/investigate manufacturing issues.

I travel ~40 weeks a year to plants across the US. I love my job.

Studying the last few months of the swedish equivalent of freshman year. Currently applying for high schools, and I got into the really fancy, advanced one. Hopefully I'll be studying nature related things, mostly physics and biology.

I have perhaps the least interesting job in the thread so far; order fulfillment for a major DIY retailer.

I basically pick and ship orders of building materials.

However, I enjoy having a mundane job that I don't take home with me. I even get lots of exercise with all the lifting and walking.

Still currently looking for a full time job and figuring out exactly where I want to go for my career path after having finished my Bachelor's Degree in English and History. I currently have full time hours as a barista for a bubble tea shop and a part time job as a tutor during the evenings. Not too crazy about being a barista right now but I am 100% enjoying being a tutor, where I go to student's homes and can actually tackle their issues one-on-one and see them improve in person rather than the group session environments other tutoring places use. I'm hesitant to go straight to teacher's college since its very different to teach an entire class vs one student at a time and at least in Canada, the job market for Humanities teachers is pretty over-saturated, so I'd be basically forced to go overseas for work which I'm not prepared to commit to.

 Sasori wrote:
I work as a Cyber Security engineer

So you make cyborgs/androids that hunt people? Nice.

I'm a middle school language arts teacher. The pay's not great, but the hours are perfect for raising young children.

I'm a software developer for a multinational, though i do very little actual development. I have a toddler though, which is why i have no hobby time.

Behavioral Interventionist
Just started But basically I work with children with autism to teach them new behaviors and decrease problem behaviors
Which we do through play and guidance
Its fun, even if it is a bit dangerous. Its something I can see myself doing for awhile.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Behavioral Interventionist
Just started But basically I work with children with autism to teach them new behaviors and decrease problem behaviors
Which we do through play and guidance
Its fun, even if it is a bit dangerous. Its something I can see myself doing for awhile.

Sounds like really rewarding (albeit maybe frustrating) work

I'm a graduate of Modern History. My first job after graduating was with the university itself, in the history department as a research assistant. We were investigating the working class standards of living in Belfast in the late 19th/early 20th century. Unfortunately for me, there was only one permanent job to be had at the end, and there were 3 of us. I didn't get it.

After that I went back to working for the city council, as a binman. I'd done this during the summers between semesters. But it's not what I expected to be still doing after graduating from a Russel group university.

But I recently quit that job and now I'm pursing my dream of being a full time professional artist. That's my true calling in life. I should have went to art school. I have sold art in the past, and I hope to do so again.

I'm a nurse at a large jail.

It's rarely dull.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Behavioral Interventionist
Just started But basically I work with children with autism to teach them new behaviors and decrease problem behaviors
Which we do through play and guidance
Its fun, even if it is a bit dangerous. Its something I can see myself doing for awhile.

Sounds like really rewarding (albeit maybe frustrating) work

It is. Im really excited to get into the meat of it

The government of Canada, in their infinite wisdom, has decided I'm responsible enough to fly a 50+ year old helicopter off the back of 40+ year old destroyers. To be fair, the destroyers were just retired, and I stop flying the Sea King in a few months to move on to the Cyclone.

 complex57 wrote:
I'm a nurse at a large jail.

It's rarely dull.

I bet!

I'm an Investigator with an inquisitorial mandate, and when it comes to complaints in the financial sector, I'm like Sam Beckett - I put right what once went wrong.

I pray to the Omnissiah and hope everything works.

Other words, I make the internet work for the institution at which I am employed.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm an Investigator with an inquisitorial mandate, and when it comes to complaints in the financial sector, I'm like Sam Beckett - I put right what once went wrong.

Please tell me that you have some title/emblem that says 'inquisitor' somewhere?

Please?

Not at the moment...........but I'm sure I've got an inquisition pin badge somewhere!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Not at the moment...........but I'm sure I've got an inquisition pin badge somewhere!

...and the hat?


...c'mon, I'm sure it crossed your mind at some point!

I can neither confirm nor deny.....

It's a pretty fun job though.

 LordofHats wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:

Besides, historians sometimes come up with pretty nifty theories that we can also use in archaeology, so history and archaeology kinda help each other in improving our understanding of our past.

There's a lot of historical periods that simply don't work without archeology as well. We had a speaker over at my university last month who was giving a lecture on the luxury culture of Roman Britain, and almost no written sources really exist to get to that. Her presentation was almost nothing but archeology.

The Humanities: Where you go when presented with 20 different fields of study and you just can't stand to pick one


I know that sensation. Why I'm going into archives instead of academic history. Got to play with some 150 year old newspapers last week, and a ledger that was so brittle I decided to just leave it alone. Ain't no one gonna say Hats broke that gak XD

This is so true. . . My final project, which I'm currently (royally speaking) writing now is almost based on sociological, anthropological, and psychological studies. Apparently, I chose a subject of which the vast majority of "histories" are popular/fan history and not of all that much use to me

But, there are 2 jobs that I am applying for that I'm hoping to get one of:

One is as an archivist for the state's state department, the other is titled simply "Historian" working for the Dept. of Navy.

I always love it when some new archaeological discovery throws up new information - no matter where in the world or how relatively minor it is.

From random Saxon Gold finds which show a hitherto unknown sophistication in their metallurgy, to that village found in the Americas (can't remember where, and don't want to offend!) which shows human habitation long before it was thought.

Absolutely love seeing clever people being clever and piecing it all back together

I'm another Dakka IT guy - desktop support for a global cosmetics company

I run a help desk for computer system in one of the worlds largest automotive manufacturers. It's basically software and some tech support for roughly 28,000 users. It can get boring, but it's surprisingly low stress.