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Marxist artist wrote:
I am an acute medical consultant for the nhs, but wish I had done archeology despite this.

Thats funny, I also wish I'd done archaeology.

I wish I was archaeology.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I wish I was archaeology.

Are you saying you wish you were in archaeology or that you were the field itself? Cause you could be part of archeology if you freeze yourself in a time capsule with an Atari and the One Ring MtG card.

*starts digging, whilst thinking of how to get as many anachronistic things in the same pit, and who might be willing to do the backfilling*

Heck, im still trying to figure out how i can use my behavioral science degree to work with animals. I love working with people, but i wanna also work with a tiger

Retired Veteran

Handling HazMat shipment/storage for the US Navy

Unlike some of the above, I'm actually an archaeologist, and frequently wish I was something else because UK academic working conditions are horrendous

I am based in and teach at a Scottish university. I've mostly worked in Türkiye, Iraq, and Israel, and my main fields are archaeological theory, the archaeology of religion, and labour relations and colonial inheritance in the discipline.

Yeah, I can't stress how terrible archaeology is as a job sector I'm afraid. I'm very glad I'm not to be doing it anymore.

Print. Magazines, catalogs, coupons. All of above. Well aware aware that I just produce garbage . Hopefully, most of it gets recycled.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
I am a consultant in a small firm specialising in change management, project management and IT systems implementation.

What firm?

Small. Like 50 people small. I'd rather not say beyond that, but it's not a thin cover for some sort of secret service or something like that and got neither two, three nor four letters in its name

 Rolsheen wrote:
Babysitter and Child Therapist for Boilermakers, Machinists and Fitters

Given some of the people I work with who act like children, I think I may have some work for you here at the machine shop.





And I forgot to list veteran under my original entry.

Olthannon wrote:For many years I used to work as an archaeologist, but now I work for a museum dedicated to locomotives.

Reading that, I had an image of a trian in a dig site, with people carefully unearthing it with with toothbrushes and the like.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:*starts digging, whilst thinking of how to get as many anachronistic things in the same pit, and who might be willing to do the backfilling*

"Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark."

I’m worth ten whole dollars?

Great Success!

nfe wrote:Unlike some of the above, I'm actually an archaeologist, and frequently wish I was something else because UK academic working conditions are horrendous

I am based in and teach at a Scottish university. I've mostly worked in Türkiye, Iraq, and Israel, and my main fields are archaeological theory, the archaeology of religion, and labour relations and colonial inheritance in the discipline.

Olthannon wrote:Yeah, I can't stress how terrible archaeology is as a job sector I'm afraid. I'm very glad I'm not to be doing it anymore.

This is a significant part of why I have not made any serious efforts to change career. If nothing else, I do have job security at present.

I'm a consultant and implementer for a company that's partner with a provider for omni-channel solutions for contact centers.

(basically, I make sure the systems are installed and work so the servitors at call centers can work)

so you're some kind of techpriest, right?

I am a contact center executive for a multi-national mega-corporation and 6-sigma Lean Black Belt.

Every child's dream job.

What’s a 6 Lima Bean Zogwort when it’s at home?

6 Sigma is a popular methodology for business process improvement to do with reducing errors / defects... and you're already asleep... 😉

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
What’s a 6 Lima Bean Zogwort when it’s at home?

If you have seen Office Space I am a Bob.

 Easy E wrote:
I am a contact center executive for a multi-national mega-corporation and 6-sigma Lean Black Belt.

Every child's dream job.

Oh, so you're the person who refuses to let the company have any sort of inventory, instead insisting that everything we need will magically fly in through the door the second we need it?



Yeah, haven't been a fan. If I had a dollar for every unnecessary delay caused by this system not working correctly, then I could afford this hobby...

Yes. I freely admit that people like me have caused the supply chain issues we have seen since COVID.

However, since I work in Customer Service my job is to look at every time a person needs to contact us with a problem; then that is a defect. How do we fix that defect further up the stream, since Customer Service takes place at the end of the process. We have to fix it at the top of the causal chain not at the end.

That doesn't mean the rest of the organization gives a crap what some schmuck in Customer Service says though.

 Easy E wrote:
Yes. I freely admit that people like me have caused the supply chain issues we have seen since COVID.

However, since I work in Customer Service my job is to look at every time a person needs to contact us with a problem; then that is a defect. How do we fix that defect further up the stream, since Customer Service takes place at the end of the process. We have to fix it at the top of the casual chain, not at the end.

That doesn't mean the rest of the organization gives a crap what some schmuck in Customer Service says though.

I was being playfully flippant, but I can't imagine how thankless your job must really be...

People have the wonderful combination of getting really defensive if they think they are being criticised, and liking things that they are familiar with. Change management is hard!

So all power to you!

Community service, ex composer (for videogames (public) and storylines (private), also working as documentary maker but that is more an urge or drive than work (although it takes the most effort and time).

What kind of documentaries are you involved in?

Officially retired Toy Salesman/big retail management.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
What kind of documentaries are you involved in?

revised/reapproached history, mythology, symbology, etymology' -syncretism.
My (decades of) study courses have been health related sciences, mythology and symbology and have picked up etymology the past 3 years.

Quality control in a pharmaceutical lab.

I actually enjoy my work for the most part.

 laam999 wrote:
Quality control in a pharmaceutical lab.

I actually enjoy my work for the most part.

You must get a really dry mouth taste testing all those pills