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Azza007 wrote: I am starting my new job as a Health Care Assistant on Monday, it will be my first full time job and means the end of almost 2 years of unemployment.
Mate, good for you. Best of British to you!
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NO I don't!!
I did work at Cape Canaveral for a while supporting Atlas-V. But since that time, I have been mostly supporting Aviation. (Military and Commercial)
GG
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kronk wrote: I have a degree in Chemical Engineering. In my current roll, I'm a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Engineer.
I find ways to reduce waste and save the company money. No, I don't cut positions or reduce headcount, which is what people thought I was brought in to do. No job has been lost as a result of one of my projects.
Awesome..I'm a greenbelt!!
Six Sigma, if chosen correctly, can be very powerful.
for those of you wondering what SIX SIGMA is... enjoy
GG
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High school Senior. Currently I'm running a commission service, which I am hoping to take to the next level once I start using an airbrush. Less time painting + better results (with practice) = $$$.
I haven't decided what I want to do with my life, though. I could take up commissions full time and start hiring workers, or I could hit up college (bleh). Either way, I have a rather limited number of career choices, as I cannot go into any career that involves large amounts of math, a subject which I have struggled with since I was a little kid. Everyone that reads the works of fiction, poetry, or essays that I do says that I should consider becoming a writer. I would love to do that, though going that route would mean that I would have to (1) accept the fact that I will probably be very poor for a very long time if I attempt to do nothing but write, and (2) I will have to really work on chaining myself to my desk and writing until I have reached my daily goal of, say, 8 pages. I may just use my commissions to keep the bills paid while I work on my writing and attempt to get published.
_Tim?
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Azza007 wrote: I am starting my new job as a Health Care Assistant on Monday, it will be my first full time job and means the end of almost 2 years of unemployment.
Mate, good for you. Best of British to you!
Cheers, it will certainly be a kick up the backside doing shift work but looking forward to it.
Bruins fan till the end.
Never assume anything, it will only make an ass of you and me.
I'm a student. What I really do is make people feel small, most of the people I know are much smaller than me.
Veteran Sergeant wrote:If 40K has Future Rifles, and Future Tanks, and Future Artillery, and Future Airplanes and Future Grenades and Future Bombs, then contextually Future Swords seem somewhat questionable to use, since it means crossing Future Open Space to get Future Shot At.
Polonius wrote:I categorically reject any statement that there is such a thing as too much boob.
Coolyo294 wrote:Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
I was going to say Virology as I I don't recognise the analysers, not that there are many practical differences between the two
I work as a Biomedical Scientist for the British army, Basically I am one of the guys who makes sure that everyone who needs blood at a deployed UK medical facility gets the right blood and that it is safe for them, as well as performing all the other laboratory tests that you would expect from a trauma hospital. I specialise in Microbiology although that doesn't see much use on tour.
In the UK I am either embedded within NHS Labs or I waste my time (and tax payers money) at a field unit counting test tubes.
Before joining the army I did all kinds of minimum wage gak jobs that I will never, ever have to do again, thankfully.
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AustonT wrote: A medic in the field has significantly more decision making latitude than the EMT job he is nominally comparable to. That's why a lo of them become Nurses or PAs, and relatively easily given thier experience.
They do get a lot of hands on trauma experience but CMTs in the British army are rather hard done by as their quals are effectively worthless, they need to completely retrain if they want to be a civvie paramedic for instance. What usually happens is thet they end up working on oil rigs as an offshore medic or they do something non medical.
Not one of my military quals will be any real use to me as a civvie which is why I do as many civvie ones as I can get.
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RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
Currently I teach maths and biology in an International School near Dusseldorf. It's a pretty good job, especially compared to my last job teaching science in Essex. More money, more respect, less grief from management and the kids, and cheaper cost of living. Also, Dusseldorf is a really nice city.
Crap jobs I have held: McDonald's, dishwasher, bar back, line cook, ice cream vendor, Subway Sandwich Artist.
Career: Carpenter. I finished my apprenticeship years ago, now I am a foreman. I love this work.
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Azza007 wrote: I am starting my new job as a Health Care Assistant on Monday, it will be my first full time job and means the end of almost 2 years of unemployment.
Mate, good for you. Best of British to you!
Cheers, it will certainly be a kick up the backside doing shift work but looking forward to it.
Mind if I ask a question? If I remember correctly, your old avatar used to be an ambulance right? Did you used to be a paramedic?
Or have I got the wrong person or something?
DC:80SG+M+B+I+Pw40k97#+D+A++/wWD190R++T(S)DM+
htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
Ahtman wrote: My job is to assess and catalog people's online names, as well as make notes and observations.
For example 'd-usa' works and is a fitting name, but if you remove the hyphen and get 'dusa', well that is just silly. Someone has to notice these things, for future generations.
Truly noble work.
I'm a art student and planning to go to uni next year for game design, not as exciting as being a mad scientist or the army but it's alright.
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WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
I was going to say Virology as I I don't recognise the analysers, not that there are many practical differences between the two
I work as a Biomedical Scientist for the British army, Basically I am one of the guys who makes sure that everyone who needs blood at a deployed UK medical facility gets the right blood and that it is safe for them, as well as performing all the other laboratory tests that you would expect from a trauma hospital. I specialise in Microbiology although that doesn't see much use on tour.
In the UK I am either embedded within NHS Labs or I waste my time (and tax payers money) at a field unit counting test tubes.
Before joining the army I did all kinds of minimum wage gak jobs that I will never, ever have to do again, thankfully.
The closest 'line' of machines is our second line, it does stuff like high sensitivity CRP, PSAs etc. all the really expensive tests.
That sounds like a pretty cool job to be honest, much more exciting than working in a dreary Pathology lab. Where did you study?
Napier University in Edinburgh and Northumbria University in Newcastle. I also did a high intensity military BMS course when I joined the army, Nothing very indepth just lots of information and not much time to learn it.
To be honest the majority of my work is either pointless or its exactly the same as any other BMS. The only real difference is that military BMS are truly multi-disciplinary while NHS BMS tend to stick to one, possibly two departments. I have actually considered joining the Australian army, their lab rats seem to do a lot more research which is something that I am interested in and its a simple process (allegedly) to transfer over.
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AustonT wrote: You could always be a mad scientist FOR the army
How else will the zombie apocalypse start?
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RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
Worked for 2 years as a shopfitter. 2 1/2 years making lounge furniture, 1 year making sinks, now i'm a historian. that doesn't pay much, so i may ahve to go back to bieng a shopfitter.
Oh man, the first monster I see I'm going to sneak up behind him, whip out my wand, and shoot my magic all over his ass.
kronk wrote: I have a degree in Chemical Engineering. In my current roll, I'm a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Engineer.
I find ways to reduce waste and save the company money. No, I don't cut positions or reduce headcount, which is what people thought I was brought in to do. No job has been lost as a result of one of my projects.
Awesome..I'm a greenbelt!!
Six Sigma, if chosen correctly, can be very powerful.
Black Belt, here. My roll is about 50% Black Belt projects, with the remainder split between new product development and production trials (new raw materials) and safety projects.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
necrovamp wrote: Worked for 2 years as a shopfitter. 2 1/2 years making lounge furniture, 1 year making sinks, now i'm a historian. that doesn't pay much, so i may ahve to go back to bieng a shopfitter.
Am I the only one who read Shoplifter
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
necrovamp wrote: Worked for 2 years as a shopfitter. 2 1/2 years making lounge furniture, 1 year making sinks, now i'm a historian. that doesn't pay much, so i may ahve to go back to bieng a shopfitter.
Am I the only one who read Shoplifter
No but since this very nearly fits my current life in a little worried.
Automatically Appended Next Post: To be clear I meant no yiu aren't the only one.
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Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
necrovamp wrote: Worked for 2 years as a shopfitter. 2 1/2 years making lounge furniture, 1 year making sinks, now i'm a historian. that doesn't pay much, so i may ahve to go back to bieng a shopfitter.
Am I the only one who read Shoplifter
Nope, I read shoplifter the first time around as well...
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
Azza007 wrote: I am starting my new job as a Health Care Assistant on Monday, it will be my first full time job and means the end of almost 2 years of unemployment.
Mate, good for you. Best of British to you!
Cheers, it will certainly be a kick up the backside doing shift work but looking forward to it.
Mind if I ask a question? If I remember correctly, your old avatar used to be an ambulance right? Did you used to be a paramedic?
Or have I got the wrong person or something?
Your right, I volunteer for St John Ambulance and have reached the level of crewing the ambulances. Hence the medical related stuff, as its stuff enjoy. Not a paramedic as don't like/can't drive, so looking to train as a nurse in the next few years with some life experience instead. That all started today.
Bruins fan till the end.
Never assume anything, it will only make an ass of you and me.
