"I must be about my business", Muddler said.
Posted on: Fri, 10/10/2008 - 17:46
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"I must be about my business", Muddler said.
Muddler penned that in the daily smoking thread and it got me thinking - I wonder what we all do for a living? So says I to myself, ask 'em if ya really are that curious. So I's askin'.
Me: Mechanical Engineer, Self Employed.
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Rick Piatt
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Manufacturing Supervisor - Automotive Industry.
My blog: Timberwolfer's Blog
Real Estate Management firm.
"If you can't send money, send tobacco." -George Washington to the Continental Congress, 1776
I'm an assayer.
Cheers!
Corneel Vermeulen
Pipe Lore
Technical Writer and Staff Development person for a Medical Software Company
"Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?" T.S. Eliot
Concrete Finisher, Property Manager, Wanna-be Pipe Maker... soon to be unemployed. LOL
"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." - Alston Chase
My Collection - Sparks Space
My Blog - The Eager Beaver's Briar
My Work - Windjammer Pipes
so many professions I just can't list them all. But like clock work, every morning I am at Broadway and Miantonomi for the rush hour. Usually I hold the "I work for food" sign but comes Friday I switch to the "Beer" one. Steady clientèle and the only downside is those damn kids throwing tomatoes.
Fume in pace, ckr
You are freakin hilarious! Does that pipe roasting blowtorch double as a trash barrel firestarter for you and Stinky the alley rat?
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High Plains Drifter
I work hard too. :-)
Fume in pace, ckr
I work for a carcass processing company. Father of Three,4,5 and 9. Professional metal detectorist LOL.
Meter reader for the local water company.
Avocations:
1.) Former professional Flight Instructor but now just fly for the fun of it.
2.) Former Marketing Director of Innovative Simulation Technology, Inc. Simulator manufacturer. Sold my interest in the company last month.
3.) Forming a new simulation "software" company for FAA Approved Training Devices (simulators).
Vocation:
Owner of Coffey Insurance Services, Inc.
Independent Insurance Agent for 37 years.
Appleton, Wisconsin USA
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Oregon Department of Transportation. I oversee processing of construction contract plans and asset inventory of the state's highway system.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
Chief Technical Officer at Denmarks largest realestate company.
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LAMY Safari
Traffic Law enforcement officer - Operational management and collision scene investigation.
Knife maker
Wannabe pipemaker and Tobacconist owner
Local village idiot
If it can't cut, it's a pipe!
a financial manager type, working for big mining corporations. Now part-owner of a little software company. I mainly do the bean counting, which doesn't take too much of my time. Really must find something else to do...
into the environmental resources management game before it was chic to be green; that would have been 1966 and Union Carbide in Oak Ridge TN. Yes, that A-Bomb site in nuclear waste disposal. Since 1967, I've worked for the US Geologic Survey, a WV County govt, and (since 1978) with the USEPA in water resources projects, anything from drinking water to hydro-power to, now, abandoned coal mines and watershed management.
"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. " Gerard Manley Hopkins
Been an Architect for 22 years.
Jim
Tile Setter
I've said before, but I'm split between signal analysis on a mass spectrometer and building an application to sell my company's product.
I guess "Computer Programmer" is close enough.
I'm a Physics professor specializing in large laser systems, but I'll teach damn near anything (whether I know anything about it or not).
.....if we ever all get together in one place we will be a force to be reckoned with. Not to mention being surrounded by a blue cloud of pipe smoke. :-)
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
...one of my teachers told me that Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
Me: Mechanical Engineer, Self Employed.
You: _________________________________
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
and not even a well fare leach yet. currently living on tax returns from last years job as an R&D engineer.
what I do all day, except from looking for a job, is keeping my knowledge and skills fresh, currently implementing Tensor methods for unconstrained optimization problems. I am turning into a numerical mathematics freak, one of those wierdos that walk past the blondes in the library, just to find that one right book that might give some clues. Fortunatly I am on good terms with a professor at the univ, so I am about to write a paper on my findings, and see if it might get published through him. That might get me a better chance when looking for a job, being published and all.
If I have not seen as far as others, it's because giants have been standing on my shoulders.
I've said before, but I'm split between signal analysis on a mass spectrometer and building an application to sell my company's product.
I guess "Computer Programmer" is close enough.
I did take alot of courses in signal analysis before I stumbled into numerics and optimization. Really interesting subject :)
If I have not seen as far as others, it's because giants have been standing on my shoulders.
That might get me a better chance when looking for a job
Once you get the job, the blondes will be more interested in you and you will have more time to care about them!
After I defended my dissertation, my wife (at that time, still my girlfriend--I now refer to her as my "ex girlfriend", it makes for odd looks) said "so do I get you back now?" That was twelve years ago. I just got tenure a few months ago and, finally, she _does_ get me back: I've promised her that I will attempt to average no more than 50 hours per week at work for the next year. (She's not a blonde, however: Her hair was purple when we met and is now a gently frosted brown.)
Civil Servant, DoD
Well, I did design torpedos a number of years ago ... but mine didn't explode. I did the test section that replaced the warhead for test simulation runs. So ... I could sure aim at ya but I'd never blow ya up. I'm a lover, not a fighter I guess.
...one of my teachers told me that Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
Me: Mechanical Engineer, Self Employed.
You: _________________________________
Rick Piatt
...a lawyer.
"Defendants might as well have said: ‘Beneficent creatures from the 17th Dimension use this bracelet as a beacon to locate people who need pain relief, and whisk them off to their homeworld every night to provide help in ways unknown to our science.'"- Judge Frank Easterbrook, on the "Q Ray Bracelet"
I am am a sofware engineer for a pre paid electricity vending company.
We design and the software that handles the electricty sales for the municipalities.
It is a small company, only 3 developers/architects, and 15 man support team, so we get to do a the whole range of stuff, on both the software and hardware front. Much better than working for a large corporation.