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So, I'm reaching the term of my contract in the army and soon back to civilian life, so I had to choose a new job to learn. Going for welding, if everything goes right. Got a year apprenticeship ahead.

Got me thinking while fooling around on dakka: what's your profession, fellow dakkanauts?

These days I work in medical billing. Well, dental, but more or less the same. The company I work for takes care of the billing side, so providers can focus on the healthcare side. And seeing that dealing with the insurance companies is a full time PITA, it’s a good thing we do.

When I was returning to the workforce after being a full time Dad, I needed something besides IT (my prior job) as I was so far behind the curve in that field I’d have to work some really un-fun positions to get back into it (full time phone helpdesk, or drive all over creation doing physical installs). Medical billing is an entry level (no prior experience needed) nice office job that’s generally not customer facing. So if you don’t want to people for a living (sales/food service/etc) it’s not a bad choice.

I'm a machinist for Caterpillar

I have a Masters in Biology but I work as a caregiver.

IT desktop support for a global cosmetics and skincare company

Currently I'm a program coordinator for an employment agency (non-profit) where our program is a free pre-arrival service for newcomer immigrants that are landing in Canada within 2-6 months and our aim is to prepare them for the Canadian labour market and ideally get them employed before they land. The good thing is that we're not getting them to settle for basic survival jobs like working at Tim Hortons/McDonalds, but secure positions commensurate to their skills. So we have a lot of engineers that get Project Management positions so they can still work in their field while working towards their license. There was one client I worked with that was a high level executive in Nigeria that was able to get a job as a International Business Consultant at Google here in Toronto. So pretty fulfilling job, though I am being currently scouted for a Manager position for Continuing Education at a local university.

Baker.

Fire safety engineer. Lots of building design and associated nonsense.

My Job is called "research coordinator" in a department of cardiovascular surgery of an university hospital. Basically a bit of physics experiment planning, a lot of statistical analysis and manuscript correction, some administrative work and a rising amount of teaching.

I have a Masters in Geography from KCL, currently working for the government on the planning for HS2 which, depending on your outlook, is a huge fethup high speed line from London to Manchester.

I work in Non-destructive testing. In my case I inspect pipeline girth welds with ultrasound and occasionally supplemental techniques.
Job's all over the workd, so I get to travel smd get paid for the privilege.

I am a practising medical doctor currently working in clinical cancer research for the NHS in the UK.


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I have a Masters in Geography from KCL, currently working for the government on the planning for HS2 which, depending on your outlook, is a huge fethup high speed line from London to Manchester.

Oof, that must be fun. Especially as they keep shaving bits off and making the whole thing increasingly ineffective.

Aye, I see public projects are just as messy anywhere on the globe

Talking of the public, I do the networks to get the county's libraries, fire crews and social services online.

 Haighus wrote:
I am a practising medical doctor currently working in clinical cancer research for the NHS in the UK.


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I have a Masters in Geography from KCL, currently working for the government on the planning for HS2 which, depending on your outlook, is a huge fethup high speed line from London to Manchester.

Oof, that must be fun. Especially as they keep shaving bits off and making the whole thing increasingly ineffective.

Well it means I'm not going to worry about redundancy anytime soon

Social Worker on a gerontopsychiatric ward. Mainly supporting patients and their relatives if they need extra support after discharge and all that comes with that plus also supporting the medical staff with anamnesis, additional conversations with the patients, that kind of thing.

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

Artillery Officer in the Marine Corps for 10 years strong. Last 5 have been in the Reserves (it’s like a part time job now). For my full time civilian job, I am a county cop up near DC.

I manage/administer a database for a large university.

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

What firm?


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Artillery Officer in the Marine Corps for 10 years strong. Last 5 have been in the Reserves (it’s like a part time job now). For my full time civilian job, I am a county cop up near DC.

Going reserve too

 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?


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Artillery Officer in the Marine Corps for 10 years strong. Last 5 have been in the Reserves (it’s like a part time job now). For my full time civilian job, I am a county cop up near DC.

Going reserve too

Honestly man, Reserves is sweet. No moving every 2-3 years and you can go active for up to a year with random units and billets that need filled. Three of my Marines just went to Europe, MEUs are always looking for dudes, there’s the Africa missions, not to mention the billets state side. New Orleans, Quantico, DC etc… you ever get bored or need a break from civilian life just bounce for a little. It’s what you put into it though. If you do nothing and aren’t a fairly good Marine you ain’t going. But if you show initiative and are a good dude, the world is your oyster.

If you’re in the DC, VA, MD area hit me up. I could pass along your info to the dept if interested.

Consultant for some banks

Also a veteran, there's plenty of folks out there who love the dedication, mission focus, teamwork, and leadership we bring.

usmcmidn wrote:

 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?


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usmcmidn wrote:
Artillery Officer in the Marine Corps for 10 years strong. Last 5 have been in the Reserves (it’s like a part time job now). For my full time civilian job, I am a county cop up near DC.

Going reserve too

Honestly man, Reserves is sweet. No moving every 2-3 years and you can go active for up to a year with random units and billets that need filled. Three of my Marines just went to Europe, MEUs are always looking for dudes, there’s the Africa missions, not to mention the billets state side. New Orleans, Quantico, DC etc… you ever get bored or need a break from civilian life just bounce for a little. It’s what you put into it though. If you do nothing and aren’t a fairly good Marine you ain’t going. But if you show initiative and are a good dude, the world is your oyster.

If you’re in the DC, VA, MD area hit me up. I could pass along your info to the dept if interested.

I'm in the French military though (til end of month), I'll go reserve their. US army reserve sounds better though. Here is how it works in french army:

In January, you get a calendar with all activities were personnel is needed in reinforcement. Then, in accordance with your employer, you report for what missions you'll show up. Or when a particular need arises then on short notice you can be summoned, but that's rare.

You can go on mission though, if you can be available for at least 2 week at once. Then if you can't do it all a further reservist will take it up and there you go

Super nice of you though, appreciate it pal!

Babysitter and Child Therapist for Boilermakers, Machinists and Fitters

Somewhere between Sam Beckett and a Cenobite for the financial sector.

Sometimes able to put right what once went wrong. Angel to some, Demon to others.

It’s a pretty interesting career path, of often times frustrating. Oh, and it comes with an Inquisitorial Mandate. Which is often the source of said frustration, as some just don’t seem to grasp “no” is not an answer when I’m requesting evidence. Sadly it’s not a 40K Inquisitorial Mandate in terms of “well I guess I’ll just have to take correctional procedures”

I'm an 'Ops Officer', basically I try to plan and synchronize stuff, then try to unscrew what other folks screw up to keep a bunch of interconnected projects on schedule.

Also a veteran. Prior civilian jobs involved model/sim of RF networks, EW and cyber effects, and cyber/EW and network capability development.

I work as a Printing Professional in the National Printing House in Greece. Yes it's a public sector job. Currently working 7 days 12 hour shifts to prepare for the municipal elections. No, not getting paid enough....

I wrote Behavioral health programs for children. And then train others how to implement it. Then try to collect data on its effectiveness(very difficult, parents don't want too collect the data)
I get paid decent, not enough for the tress this job puts on you

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

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