What does everyone do for a living?

[Lowjiber]

Just Retired

I'm a retired Dept of Defense manager...30+ years.

Formal education: Electronic Engineer (you can't spell "Geek" without double "e").

Real education: Learning from many, many experiences with nice, smart folks.

 

[steve in so la]

Well, I don't have a great math background - - but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night steve in so az

 

[kalky7]

Family Daycare is the way to go ...

About 4 years ago, I left my job as a Process Engineer at a local Automotive Supplier and my wife and I started a home daycare. We are having the time of our lives!

No more overnight trips. No more long crazy hours. And I get paid to play wiffle ball and take the kids to the park!!!!!!!

When you have 5 kids of your own, what difference will a few more make ...

 

[mudbug]

I'm the lead heavy equipment operator at a landfill in Louisiana.:spin:

 

[Plowhead]

Medically retired after splitting my skull in half(nice out of court settlement) in 1984. Went back to work 5 yrs. then applied for SSD and got it. Started investing in Transformer toys and spent 1800.00 on them and now there worth around 18k which makes me happy. Most of my life after 1989 was uneventful but in 1992 accepted Jesus as my lord and saviour. My life hasnt been better since then. Single and lives with mom but looking at a house in Tn in Aug. Hope she wants to move but shes just to independent but a good chance to find a wife to Id suppose. At the drop of a hat a friend tells me were to find the good toys and I sell them on ebay every once in a while for extra cash. Dont feel sorry cause my spine has literally healed itself over the past 18 yrs. 3 discs were pushed out 3,3 and 4 millimeters but have been slowly realigning with my spine proper since then.

Plow

 

[zander10]

my occupation...

i am a computer scientist. i have a b.s. in computer science but i am unemployed and looking for work in real estate appraisel.

zander

 

[zander10]

operator theory...

hi,

operator theory is about developing short hand for complex calculations that can be represented by a single symbol.

an example of an operator is the upper case gamma which represents the gamma function.

so if you are reading a paper on string theory and see the upper case gamma you will know that they are talking about finding factorials of fractions.

usually operators are upper case greek letters but they can be any symbol.

i have never studied hilbert space but i would guess that is where one finds hilbert curves and other hilbert stuff too.

complex operations deals with imaginary calculus. nabla is the only operator i can think of from complex operations right now but it has been awhile since i was interested in that stuff and complex operations has operators in it. now that i think of it i is an operator for the square root of a negative number and thus qualifies as an 'operator'. so froget what i said about them always being capital greek letters.

basicaly operators prevent us from getting bogged down in arithmatic.

also operators are like '+' and '-' with the argumets to them being called operands. + and - are binomial operators which means they each take two argumets.

i am going out on a limb here but operators may be a subset of automata with the + and - being of the deterministic finite variety as is gamma. now i am not so sure about i. or pi the ratio of a radius to a half a circle. i and pi may be a nondeterministic variety of automaton.

do i sound like dale gribble yet? sha cha...


-zander


zander

zander

 

[Jack_Mightyheart]

I'm going into my Freshman year of college this fall. I'll be attending Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, majoring in Political Science.

Just a side note, are there many people my age (18) who metal detect? I've noticed that most of you guys are older....

 

[SeabeeRon]

Welcome Jack! I am one of those older guysbut there are lots of folks of all ages here!
There was a thread awhile back that asked something like..."How old are you..., I can't find it, but maybe one of the Mods or Admins can. It may have fell victim to a crash and hack we had last year.

 

[SilentE]

Industrial mechanic. I keep the machines running that make the disposable diapers your kids wear, the disposable gown you wear in the OR, the mulch film that helps the vegatables you eat grow, the wrapper on your individually wrapped cheese slices ...and a zillion other everyday things.
I've been doing this for 23 years. ....all nightshift. I like the 4 days off every week.

 

[mach2]

Professional Breeder

I breed bird dogs with buck teeth for a living.....

 

[sog]

Occupation

Tour Bus Driver/Tour Guide

 

[Jax]

Service Engineer for a large digital cinema company. I service/fix digital movie projectors when they have problems.

 

[KellyV]

What do for living?

Software Sales - Banking Vertical

 

[RelicHound]

if i told you id have to kill you

 

[Russ]

Student

Though older, I am a full time student at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, NC for a degree in Graphic Design. NO JOB NOW! ahh, GI bill paying for all of it.

 

[Chasintail]

HVAC Mechanic at Gettysburg College. Man would I love to hunt the property I work on!!!!!

 

[duse]

Started out as an English teacher. I married, had my 3 sons, then studied acting . I act with an off-off company in midtown, NYC. I've been training kid actors for 12 yrs. (someone else's studio) and now just began a coaching biz. I write and have monologs fout on the market. Currently developing a play about the struggle of a school psychiatrist to save a student, opposing administration.

 

[at630]

I'm a starbucks barista...woot for free coffee! Also in college to get my medical technologist degree, hope to work in blood banking someday

 

[Rod]

United States Air Force... at your service.

I currently plan, organize, and conduct military response exercises to include wartime and peacetime. Peacetime exercises include emergency management- hurricane, mass casualty, biological, radiological, aircraft crash, gate-runner- someone crashes through the gate, hostage scenario, flu epidemic, etc. etc.).

A lot of hard work... a lot of long hours... but someone has to do it to keep The Force on their toes.