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Last year of high school, final exams start next Friday and go for a month. Then next year it'll be uni doing a bachelor's of engineering (mechatronics), possibly combined with a masters of biomedical engineering.
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28 and im a knife maker

sorta it kind of pays the bills
i used to work for dad and it was killing me not doing something i like so i started working my way to knife maker about 3 years ago (time flys)
think im goingto look for a part time jsut to have extra money for toys
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Used to be a french teacher in high school. Not too much job in those days. Then life gave me two children that I love (3 yo boy and 8.5 yo girl). Been working at a law book store for the past 9 years. Love the people I work with, hate the job. It evens out. Been studying to go back to teaching. Should start in January 2007. Wish me luck.

Pretty nervous about quiting a job, no income with 4 mouths to feed. But I trust my talent....

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Ok........I have dual PhD's in Clinical Psychology and Social Psychiatry...However I do not practice....I own and operate a Kung Fu Center in New York where I teach Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, Knife Fighting and Arnis De Mano (Filipino Stick and Dagger Fighting)...when I'm not doing that I am teaching as a Defensive Tactics Instructor and Firearms Instructor for mostly Federal Agents and other Law Enforcement Officers. When I'm not doing that I playing with knives....Doc :D
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I'm a Pharm. D. and a RPh. which are a lot of seemingly random letters to say I am a licensed pharmacist.
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**ahem**
"Troubleshoot and repair of electical assemblies" <-- what the company tells us to say :p

Electrical Technician... working on Cisco systems, CableVista/CableLynx systems (distribution end of cable TV), and wireless internet (2.4GHz) boards.
As the OEM we have 70% of north america on our internet products and 80% on our cable tv products.
Spent the last 2 weeks swearing over the specs for our Comcast contract and failing board after board. 45 boards in 10hrs on 8 stations the one day, the same test on all of em. :rolleyes: Our 'standard' parts are 1mm x 0.5mm.

Some days go by easily, some drag on. Most days I fix 6-9 boards, some days it's 15.... days like today I get 3 done :rolleyes:

Make as much in 2 weeks as I did in a month at the tarp factory, but now I burn myself about once a week.
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I'm a 40 year old flexographic printer.

At the moment I work via an unemployment agency at a factory which prints labels they put on beer cases.

My contract with the agency ends about December an I hope to get a contract from the factory it self.

I like the atmosphere over there very much. There's almost no authority(so no manager breathing in your neck) so we are very free in our work.
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spydutch wrote:I'm a 40 year old flexographic printer.

At the moment I work via an unemployment agency at a factory which prints labels they put on beer cases.
My contract with the agency ends about December an I hope to get a contract from the factory it self.

I like the atmosphere over there very much. There's almost no authority(so no manager breathing in your neck) so we are very free in our work.
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My job sucks, and I cant type more ´bout it, ´cause my colleagues are watching over my shoulder :( :( :( :mad:

But I will leave soon.
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zenheretic wrote:Hail Spydutch!

Gee, now I understand why you feel compeled to have a beer after work. :D
Does that mean you do drugs when you get home ZH? ;) :D
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[quote="The Deacon"]Does that mean you do drugs when you get home ZH? ]

Nope, he is always high, he works at night :D ;) :p
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[quote="The Deacon"]Does that mean you do drugs when you get home ZH? ]
I might be tempted but beer tastes better. Besides, beer makes you sexier to the ladies, just ask anyone. :D
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zenheretic wrote:I might be tempted but beer tastes better. Besides, beer makes you sexier to the ladies, just ask anyone. :D
I mean everyone knows that fact except the computer nerds....oh wait, never mind.



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224477 wrote:My job sucks, and I cant type more ´bout it, ´cause my colleagues are watching over my shoulder :( :( :( :mad:

But I will leave soon.
You're still writing that your job sucks even though they're watching?

Well, at least you're leaving soon. Hope you get a better job!
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zenheretic wrote:I'm a Pharm. D. and a RPh. which are a lot of seemingly random letters to say I am a licensed pharmacist.
Ah, yes, that was the path i was on when I started college directly out of high school. During the interim being out of school I got my certification and worked as a CPhT for awhile before returning to school on the Podiatry route.
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Th232 wrote:You're still writing that your job sucks even though they're watching?

Well, at least you're leaving soon. Hope you get a better job!
Yup, because it doesnt bother me anymore, what they think ;)

Monday is my day ;)
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Former Marine who is disable and who designs knives (Tactial and others). Going to school.


I miss the Corps, grappling and deployments!!!

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I am a 19 year old student just starting a degree (MEng hopefully) in Electronic and Electical Engineering :D (I was learing about complex numbers to day, I hate i) It's nice to see lots of other engineers on here.
will_77 wrote:I'm an electrical engineer in the power industry, power transmission and distribution to be precise. I wear a lot of hats at our utility. Power doesn't really have a lot of young engineers going into it.
That is the field that I am strangely drawn to :confused: as there are lots of jobs but I don't know how the jobs compare to the electronics side.
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37 year old professional Firefighter.I also own a small family run bottled water distributorship.
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System Administrator. I get to play with Linux all day. I almost feel bad getting a paycheck.
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