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Breakdown mechanic

To all you students. I'm the guy who gets your car going,after its been standing all term.
Because the cheapest beer is on campus

Software Engineer, for one of the largest software companies in the world. Odds are very high that you have, at some point, used software that I've written.

Redbeard wrote:Software Engineer, for one of the largest software companies in the world. Odds are very high that you have, at some point, used software that I've written.

Sorry about all the cursing and threats on the lives of yourself and your family, I just don't get along with the Daemons that live inside my computer. Oh, and thanks for somehow banishing from my life the evil that was DOS, it very nearly caused me to become Amish.

Technical editor and associate producer at a software company.
I really do nitpick for a living.

I'm a mouth breather and a window licker. When I'm not licking windows I'm painting or at work making peoples computers work right and explaining to them that the cd-rom is not a coffee cup holder.

Some people just don't get it until you tell them. True facts.

Im a member of an elite mens only drinking club.

olympia wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:
How do you earn money as a historian?

In the U.S. starting salary for a history professor is about $60,000 depending on location and the nature of the institution.


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DUDE where do you work, cause my friends who got hired are lucky to be pushing 40k. Teachers make jack crap in the U.S.

College professors normally get paid higher wages than HS or Elementary teachers.

Degrees pay a large part of it. Most professors I've ever known/had spent about 12+ years post-grad and have like or 3 BS's and a PhD (or 2).

HS teachers generally have only a single degree (or at least one that can be applied to teaching).

Fateweaver wrote:College professors normally get paid higher wages than HS or Elementary teachers.

Degrees pay a large part of it. Most professors I've ever known/had spent about 12+ years post-grad and have like or 3 BS's and a PhD (or 2).

HS teachers generally have only a single degree (or at least one that can be applied to teaching).

agreed, but most profs are working on either a thesis or a new PH.D so ya they deserve that much. The problem is he didn't specify so I percieved it as k-12

Mechanical Engineer getting his Masters in Business

If you live in central Florida and your lights are on, you're welcome.

Empchild wrote:\agreed, but most profs are working on either a thesis or a new PH.D so ya they deserve that much. The problem is he didn't specify so I perceived it as k-12

Well he did say "professor" and that usually denotes work on the collegiate level.

Tyyr wrote:Mechanical Engineer getting his Masters in Business

If you live in central Florida and your lights are on, you're welcome.

ew...you're gonna be dangerous when you get out. I can already think of two - three fields for ya.

I despise the business part but unless I wanna be crawling around boilers for the rest of my life I don't have much of a choice.

I have two jobs at the moment..
In one job I kill people for a living, and in my other job I save people for a living.


(This is why Santa Airdrops gifts at Frazzled's house)

A couple of years ago I described myself as a videogame producer, but I do so little software any more that it's nearly all videos.

Student, and about to sit my Mock GCSEs

dogma wrote:Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.

You sir win the thread (Futurama FTW)

Test Engineer (currently), mostly compliance work.
My powers are almost to a point where EEs notice the drop in temperature when I enter the room.

During the week, Special Inter-Planetary Funkmanship adviser to the government of Japan. Weekends, Beach Bum.

I am a semi-pro troll.

frgsinwntr wrote:I am a semi-pro troll.

Way to aspire toward nothingness

At least he has aspirations, even if they are to become nothing someday.

If more people aspired to be something, even if it's nothing, the world might be better.

Hot-Tub tester.

Well, I was a factory worker but I just quit my job because I'm going back to school to pick up my nursing degree in January.

I'm a management accountant for a university.

darkkt wrote:I was a Tax consultant (GST) in a big four accounting firm and am now an in-house tax manager at a university.

Do you mind me asking which university? I'm at UWA.

mental health associate at a place that helps kids.
i get to make sure they behave and don't do anything crazy when they're not with a therapist or in school

Popular Musicology student and founder-member/musical director of post-electro free-bop combo 'Stupid Bitch'.

What a coincidence. That's the nickname I have for my ex-gf.

You sir, are not alone.

hign school student independently studying programing

Pretty cool to see what others do. I imagined a bunch of students, and they are probably the majority it seems. But aside from that there seems to be some diversity.

Wildland Firefighter / Fuels Technician.

(fuels tome are trees and downed wood!! not gas)