Just to jump on the bandwagon... I'm a student studying geography at the University of Oklahoma in Norman (1 year left - then I'll be moving back to the Twin Cities in MN). I have student jobs at the National Severe Storms Lab and Center for Spatial Analysis. I do software/web development for both of them.
ORACLE Database Administrator / Advanced Data Architect Yes, I'm an IT Guy through and through... :boy::boy::boy::boy:
Former Biology professor at CSU, Fresno. Retired from teaching after 35 years of it. I am back to my childhood hobby of model rail as well as greenhouse, fossil collection etc. etc. Love to travel....especially to the UK and Scotland where I ride the trains. Future trips to NZ and Australia are in the works for the next few years. I have a 10 X 10 N scale American layout with British, American, EU and Japanese rolling stock on a smaller layout around the walls. About 400 locomotives of all eras. I have no idea how many cars...my wife just says "stop buying them"!
I'm an active-duty Major in the US Air Force. Right now my assignment is as a PhD student in meteorology at NC State University. Here's me at "work" a few years ago over Baghdad:
I'm a Senior Project Manager for large Electrical construction projects....One of several 'jobs' .................
I buy lots and lots of N scale trains. Some day I hope to see cash flow. Until then I am an outside tech for A.T. & T. and also own 200 acres of prime ethanol producing(thats corn) farmland and also rent a little land and even farm a little bit (125 acres). Also built my own house. http://www.geocities.com/shiny4u/Our_page.html If you look closely you might see trains. Also do volunteer grunt work for the local museum and got two kids through college and a third on her way to year two.
I started work in a bank, became a union official and then worked full time for the union until retirement. It was a rewarding job, negotiating for better salaries, terms & conditions for bank workers with the various banks. Got to travel a lot to conferences overseas which gave me a chance to shop for model trains.
I'm an electrical engineer. I design chips with embedded processors for all sorts of nifty gadgets you probably use every day.
i used to work as a it project manager/unix admin/oracle admin/developer/consultant/system (all at the same time ....) architect until nov 2006 when they fired me after 12 years and 8000+ hours of overtime. now i work as a solution architect for a bank. it's an easy but rather boring job. also i had a salary cut back of 4k............... .........per month.
Wow! A lot of you guys have cool jobs. I didn't read all posts but it looks like this thread was brought back from the grave!!! Anyway, I'm a locomotive engineer for CSX.
I work for IBM as a Consultant in IT Business Continuity Strategy and Planning, and have done various jobs with IBM in my 25 years there. My consulting is done for internal IBM development and marketing, for IBM Business Partners, and external IBM clients and customers. My clients and job responsibilities can, from time to time, send me to various places in the US and the world..... hence, my occasional postings about local hobby shop recommendations and pictures from a few places I've been fortunate to visit on the side.
I didn't find that I had posted to this one but I might have missed it. Anyway, when this thread started I was a technical consultant for a smallish consulting firm in north Dallas. I am now a network manager for a non-profit organization in neighboring Irving, TX. I handle everything from the D-MARC to the mouse, including a good size server room and support for about 100 employees. I would love to find another "road warrior" consulting gig that didn't care which airport I lived near.
I am a construction consultant. This is not something I had even imagined I would be doing. I didn't know that the field existed. I got a degree in mathematics as an undergrad and then went to architecture school and got a master's degree. Almost immediately after I finished that a bunch of guys flew some planes into some buildings and the architectural hiring market went into the tank. I eventually had to settle for my old crummy job working in construction cleaning. Yes, with a master's degree I was cleaning windows, scrubbing floors, and shop-vac'ing houses prior to painting. It wasn't glamorous, but it mostly paid the bills for a while. I kept looking for architectural jobs while doing that, because the amount of money I was making wasn't very good - just about poverty level for our family of four with ZERO benefits. I was working hard all the time and getting worn out and not seeing much of my kids and sinking further into debt for no really good reason. Meanwhile, prices were going up and real estate in my town was heading through the roof. Well, that job ended, but it wasn't because I quit. I got laid off when the company went in the tank. I had worked my way up to being the field manager of the debris hauling side of the company. I frantically searched for jobs and went on unemployment for the first time in my life. I was only on unemployment for about six or seven weeks, and then one of my resume postings on the internet resulted in a call from a guy asking me if I would be interested in construction consulting. I called back and was asked to call again in a few days. I called at the exact time requested, got an interview that Friday, had about the most softball interview I have ever had, and was called out for a "follow-up" the next day. The follow-up turned out to be a job offer presented over a two-pint lunch at a pub. I accepted. The work is interesting and varied. The pay started at 1.6666 times the hourly rate I had been making and is now just over twice what I had been making at the previous job. I have benefits now, roughly comparable to other small professional companies on the West Coast of the U.S. My opinion is not only solicited but respected, and the work I do actually means something. Anyway, you must have graduated by now. What did you end up doing? Adam
Engineer for CSX, Lima to Toledo, OH. Hired out as a brakeman in 1979 in Lima and spent most of the '80s laid off. Became an engineer October of 1989 and haven't been laid off since. Even though it's CSX, my official seniority is B&O Toledo Division.
What are the odds that you know my brother (good or bad, but don't need to go there :zip: )? He's a trainmaster out of the Toledo yard, last name Kuhn. As for me, I'm a Major in the U.S. Army, currently working in Okinawa, Japan as the Operations Officer for the 505th Quartermaster Battalion. Brian
As one of the grandsons told his pre-school teacher "grandpas retarted and does nothin". I am retired,the wife n me have 6 kids [all grown], 23 grandkids. Most live close enough that grandpa babysits. Worked as a farm hand most my life, along with some other things. Wifes a service manager for a company that makes marine battery chargers
