What's your day job?

Döbbie03 · 2015-11-10 06:44:34

pvsage wrote:

@ohnonot & @Dobbie03: I think it became memetic because Dodgeball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPYBb2DRsg

hahaha, awesome.

ohnonot · 2015-11-10 07:24:07

Dobbie03 wrote:

ohnonot wrote:
Dobbie03 wrote:
It made me throw up in my mouth a little
[smartass_remark]
i have noticed this expression go around the internet recently.
but why, if there's a verb for it:
Hmmm....I don't remember posting that??

god, sorry, it was Temetka. my bad, bad edit.

pvsage wrote:

@ohnonot & @Dobbie03: I think it became memetic because Dodgeball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPYBb2DRsg

ok, that might clear things up a little.

pa$$word wrote:

I think children (...) have less understanding of social norms etc. and just work on instinct (kill, maim, dominate, humiliate).

...yes, but also share, touch, enjoy... these come on instinct, too, ungoverned and sometimes in a way that we adults have to restrict/restrain.

and i think kill & maim is a little over the top.
same species don't kill each other.

Pieton · 2015-11-10 07:49:15

iMBeCil wrote:

Just finished two hours of teaching at Uni ... Now, to do few things in lab ... and talk to my phd student ...

Same job for me.

pvsage · 2015-11-10 08:58:45

KrunchTime wrote:

None...I'm unemployed and slowly draining my retirement fund. I have been looking for quite awhile, but no offers yet; very frustrating.

Went through that a couple times myself; last time was nearly a year out of work in 2009-2010, at the deepest depths of the Great Recession; hopefully the recovering economy will let you find a new job faster.

For now, especially at this time of year, you can at least take comfort in your family and home.

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iMBeCil · 2015-11-10 10:29:05

Pieton wrote:

iMBeCil wrote:
Just finished two hours of teaching at Uni ... Now, to do few things in lab ... and talk to my phd student ...
Same job for me.

What exactly? I'm doing physics ...

BLizgreat! · 2015-11-10 17:21:30

If you've been married longer than the typical honeymoon, you know the look. tongue

LmFAO. The dreaded "look" ... if you've been in a relationship w any woman, for virtually any length of time someone will know of "the look". Pretty sure it's a part of the female genome, something deeply ingrained and primal.

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mrneilypops · 2015-11-10 19:41:30

@BLwillbegreat!
+1

The look is especially powerful in our case as my wife is from Scotland and I am from England.

take a look at a bit of history;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg3xUA2wvrU

No more WAR!

Silver wedding next year

randomeur · 2015-11-10 21:50:00

Aquatic ecologist. No background at all in IT.

Pieton · 2015-11-10 22:24:21

iMBeCil wrote:

Pieton wrote:
iMBeCil wrote:
Just finished two hours of teaching at Uni ... Now, to do few things in lab ... and talk to my phd student ...
Same job for me.
What exactly? I'm doing physics ...

I am working on signal processing but I mainly teach safety engineering, control theory, and programming.

ohnonot · 2015-11-11 07:08:43

randomeur wrote:

Aquatic ecologist. No background at all in IT.

sounds dolphiny, but i guess i'm wrong about it...
your avatar suggests cycling?
i myself follow the "one less car" philosophy. btw, haven't seen that sticker for ages...

KrunchTime · 2015-11-12 08:54:42

Panda wrote:

@KrunchTime,
I'm sorry to hear that. It can be quite discouraging (I know). I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Thank you, Panda. It is discouraging especially given the fact that I've been looking for almost 2 years now. I've had more interviews this year than I did last year, though, so that is somewhat encouraging.

pvsage wrote:

Went through that a couple times myself; last time was nearly a year out of work in 2009-2010, at the deepest depths of the Great Recession; hopefully the recovering economy will let you find a new job faster.
For now, especially at this time of year, you can at least take comfort in your family and home.

Thank you pvsage. This is my second time of being unemployed. The first occurrence was when I left the military. So both times were by my choice, not due to a layoff. I resigned from my last job. Lest anyone be tempted to say I was stupid for resigning, the rest of the team I worked with was let go 6 months later. One could say I saw the writing on the wall.

Taking comfort...hard to do when I watch my retirement fund slowly being drained. I've went through over half of it already.

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slashviper · 2015-11-12 10:40:13

professional poker player

Irulan · 2015-11-12 14:41:44

By day, I'm a clever comic magician, by night...Agent J. -Joel Hodgson

boot · 2015-11-12 17:52:48

I work in a hospital where i repair and maintain medical equipment, loads of medical devices run linux, both our (GE) mri scanners for example run suze linux.
first linux i had was redhad (some ancient version), i got from a friend at school. Installed it on a 486 dx.

randomeur · 2015-11-16 15:31:03

ohnonot wrote:

randomeur wrote:
Aquatic ecologist. No background at all in IT.
sounds dolphiny, but i guess i'm wrong about it...
your avatar suggests cycling?
i myself follow the "one less car" philosophy. btw, haven't seen that sticker for ages...

the closest to dolphiny I've got was to work on fisheries ecology research for and (for a while) after my MSc.
#yes, fully aware that dolphin are not fish #

For my PhD I switched to freshwater carbon cycling dynamics. So I now mostly focus on algae, aquatic plants, and a lot of life-forms I suspect most people here have never heard of.

And good catch with the avatar. Avid cycling fan here, both as a pro sport and as a commuter.

ohnonot · 2015-11-17 06:36:55

randomeur wrote:

freshwater carbon cycling dynamics. So I now mostly focus on algae, aquatic plants, and a lot of life-forms I suspect most people here have never heard of.

so, jobwise, does it have to do with keeping rivers and lakes clean?
and how much of it is sitting behind a desk/computer/telephone, and what's the rest?
(sorry, i'm always interested what the actual work behind a job name is)

apacus11 · 2015-11-17 20:47:32

Mainframe system support service in an Spanish electric company (sic).
Not a real friend of coding, but I am used to JCL and REXX language (really bad at REXX, by the way).

In linux since '00 cause of my unix teacher at my IT degree. Started with RedHat, switched to Fedora when RH went Enterprise, then played a bit with Debian and Ubuntu (I get rid so fast, in 10.04 I guess, then back to Debian). Nowadays I decided to make Elementary OS my desktop system and bring back to life an old netbook with Crunchbang/BunsenLabs, after trying to minimize lubuntu and debian to its limits and finding out someone did it much better and named it Crunchbang.

PD: it's my first post, so Hello world.

Sector11 · 2015-11-17 23:33:44

apacus11 wrote:

PD: it's my first post, so Hello world.

And a nice post it is ...

Welcome to #... BunsenLabs! Almost an OOPS! there. ]:D

ohnonot · 2015-11-18 06:30:09

apacus11 wrote:

so Hello world.

images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTV_5aqd1jR4kLHfSqkn9h2OKLwa0NkpPBBdkRn5dB6Yo95Cso4yA

randomeur · 2015-11-19 14:58:01

ohnonot wrote:

randomeur wrote:
freshwater carbon cycling dynamics. So I now mostly focus on algae, aquatic plants, and a lot of life-forms I suspect most people here have never heard of.
so, jobwise, does it have to do with keeping rivers and lakes clean?
and how much of it is sitting behind a desk/computer/telephone, and what's the rest?
(sorry, i'm always interested what the actual work behind a job name is)

sort of. some of my colleagues are involved in the European Water Framework Directive, trying to tackle issues of eutrophication that were quite common in the 80s, especially in freshwater sources around urban areas.

I, on the other hand, mostly focus on natural greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide and methane) from aquatic ecosystems and try to unravel terrestrial-aquatic linkages in carbon cycling mechanisms. If you're still curious and don't mind getting your hands brains dirty, I'll refer you to this technical paper.

As for time spent doing my job, I would say it's divided into
25% field work (getting samples from lakes),
30% lab experiments and sample analyses
45% office work (data analysis, statistics, writing, publishing, conferences, meetings etc...)

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