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Environmental work for a large food manufacturer.

I am a GIS consultant for the market leader in GIS software. In practice, in means travelling around the place sorting out problems and advising people on how to set up their systems and architecture as well as showing them how to run the damn thing.

I'm a farmer. Hardest and best job in the world.

After I left university I worked for a large agricultural firm and now I run the family farm. We can trace the family back on this farm to the early 1700's and it's amazingly humbling to be tasked with driving the business into the 21st century.

Go farmers! 'Feeding the world since Adam was a boy!'

NDT specialising in AUT inspection of pipeline girth welds.

I invented the "you don't have to be crazy to work here...but it helps!" line and the folding desktop calendar.

I now mostly spend my time by the pool surrounded by blow and hookers while waiting for lightning to strike for a second time.

 Ruberu wrote:
I am a federal security officer for... a place... Can't go into specifics of what I do other than I am armed security with good pay, great benefits, terrible hours, even worse management and crappy working conditions. I have continuous drug tests, background checks and every couple years I am ran in the federal and Interpol computers. Although while I'm at work I have all the time in the world to surf Dakka and built/painted models.

I want to go to school for lock smiting and maybe get a job installing home security systems. With the background I have from my current job it should not be too hard to get hired on working with security systems as long as I get some know how.

I thought you meant teacher until I read "good pay"

Former US army and now a novelist.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Ruberu wrote:
I am a federal security officer for... a place... Can't go into specifics of what I do other than I am armed security with good pay, great benefits, terrible hours, even worse management and crappy working conditions. I have continuous drug tests, background checks and every couple years I am ran in the federal and Interpol computers. Although while I'm at work I have all the time in the world to surf Dakka and built/painted models.

I want to go to school for lock smiting and maybe get a job installing home security systems. With the background I have from my current job it should not be too hard to get hired on working with security systems as long as I get some know how.

I thought you meant teacher until I read "good pay"

To be fair, some teachers are paid pretty well. It is highly dependent on what district they work for. It can vary widely.

 Hordini wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 Ruberu wrote:
I am a federal security officer for... a place... Can't go into specifics of what I do other than I am armed security with good pay, great benefits, terrible hours, even worse management and crappy working conditions. I have continuous drug tests, background checks and every couple years I am ran in the federal and Interpol computers. Although while I'm at work I have all the time in the world to surf Dakka and built/painted models.

I want to go to school for lock smiting and maybe get a job installing home security systems. With the background I have from my current job it should not be too hard to get hired on working with security systems as long as I get some know how.

I thought you meant teacher until I read "good pay"

To be fair, some teachers are paid pretty well. It is highly dependent on what district they work for. It can vary widely.

Yup... one of the most higher paying Teacher's job in MO... is in St. Louis.

http://www.slps.org/cms/lib03/MO01001157/Centricity/Domain/97/Teacher%20Salary%20Schedule%202014-2015.pdf

$90 grand doesn't seem exorbitant for a PHD. Maybe it's just me?

It isn't just you, though you don't really need a PhD to teach; especially at that level.

 dogma wrote:
It isn't just you, though you don't really need a PhD to teach; especially at that level.

Here in the state of Washington, most schools have gone to a one year Masters program just to teach high school... and it isn't even because there's a real need for that level of learning, it's all down to extremely high state "standards" and required courses

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
$90 grand doesn't seem exorbitant for a PHD. Maybe it's just me?

The primary reason to get a PhD is if you are pursuing an academic position at a university. It isn't the only reason, or the only job you can get with a PhD, obviously, but that is usually the goal. I agree that $90,000 doesn't seem exorbitant for a PhD either, but it also depends on the field. A lot of tenure track professors with PhDs make less than $90k a year, especially in the humanities (although that's not exclusive to the humanities by any stretch).

I'm a management accountant. I basically make graphs and charts in excel all day.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Here in the state of Washington, most schools have gone to a one year Masters program just to teach high school... and it isn't even because there's a real need for that level of learning, it's all down to extremely high state "standards" and required courses

I believe that's how it works in Illinois too, at least if you didn't study education during undergrad.

 sebster wrote:
I'm a management accountant. I basically make graphs and charts in excel all day.

One step away from being a Power Point Ranger

 dogma wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Here in the state of Washington, most schools have gone to a one year Masters program just to teach high school... and it isn't even because there's a real need for that level of learning, it's all down to extremely high state "standards" and required courses

I believe that's how it works in Illinois too, at least if you didn't study education during undergrad.

According to the VA's Vocational Rehab counselor that I was assigned, if you're going for elementary education (k-6 or so) you need a BA/BS (whatever it is) in education with like 3 particular classes completed. Middle school is quite hazy as I think you can get by with either an Education degree, or a subject degree, with the caveat being that if you are trying to teach math, you must have completed 2 courses above the level you teach, plus the same 3 classes elementary teachers had. High school requires a BA/BS in the subject as applicable, however in HS you are required to have endorsements for each subject you wish to teach once you've passed the "West-B" exam. On top of the same three or so classes elementary teachers have, HS teachers are required certain credits in local, NW history courses and additional life cycle psychology courses.

I know that U. of Washington-Tacoma has created a BA in [science] for people who wish to teach science at the middle school/high school level, as opposed to a BS in [science] and work in the field of science... For the life of me, I cannot really tell what the difference is between the two.

Communication Technician... had my company service anniversary this past March... 16 years so far.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
$90 grand doesn't seem exorbitant for a PHD. Maybe it's just me?

Very, very few teachers get their PhD and still teaches.

It's mainly for those who want to get into the administrative positions, like the Regional Board of Education.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

I know that U. of Washington-Tacoma has created a BA in [science] for people who wish to teach science at the middle school/high school level, as opposed to a BS in [science] and work in the field of science... For the life of me, I cannot really tell what the difference is between the two.

I imagine the BA requires fewer lab hours.

Nothing. I was born to a wealthy, property and business owning family. I spend my days lounging around our pool, cruising in my mustang and getting C's in the expensive private college I'm enrolled in while waiting for my Dad to die so that I can inherent all his stuff.

#bootstraps #startedfromthebottom

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Nothing. I was born to a wealthy, property owning and business owning family. I spend my days lounging around our pool, cruising in my mustang and getting C's in the expensive private college I'm enrolled in while waiting for my Dad to die so that I can inherent all his stuff.

#bootstraps #startedfromthebottom

That Inheritance Tax is going to ruin your day

Quality Engineer
We make things that destroy stuff... it is glorious.

Almost lost my mind in automotive... they will never take me back alive.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Nothing. I was born to a wealthy, property owning and business owning family. I spend my days lounging around our pool, cruising in my mustang and getting C's in the expensive private college I'm enrolled in while waiting for my Dad to die so that I can inherent all his stuff.

#bootstraps #startedfromthebottom

A true #bootstraps guy wouldn't just sit there and wait for his dad to die, they would do what it takes to get that money

That's the part I can't talk about online.

 Jihadin wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Nothing. I was born to a wealthy, property owning and business owning family. I spend my days lounging around our pool, cruising in my mustang and getting C's in the expensive private college I'm enrolled in while waiting for my Dad to die so that I can inherent all his stuff.

#bootstraps #startedfromthebottom

That Inheritance Tax is going to ruin your day

You've got to make sure you pay your fair share of taxes.

 Jihadin wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Nothing. I was born to a wealthy, property owning and business owning family. I spend my days lounging around our pool, cruising in my mustang and getting C's in the expensive private college I'm enrolled in while waiting for my Dad to die so that I can inherent all his stuff.

#bootstraps #startedfromthebottom

That Inheritance Tax is going to ruin your day

That is one of the reasons why God invented offshores.

I'm a Workers' Compensation Claims Examiner. If you've ever been hurt on the job then you've probably spoke to one.

I don't love it, but I don't hate it. It's the same thing I say about all things that require focus on the same thing for eight hours: who wants to do the same thing for eight hours straight, whether job or hobby (sleep excluded)? Eight hours straight doing the same thing is too long. I can do the same amount of work in six, probably more effectively, while being happier (and actually, I do, but I still have to hang around for the full eight).