Your Profession?
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I was just wondering that what are the professions of the people who access this forum and are they satisfied with it? Those who are umemployed, they can tell their qualification...
I am a student myself. I think that I will like to be a doctor in the future or maybe an Engineer (if I will get good marks in Maths, I will think of that.)
what about you all?
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I'm an engineer working in a chamical plant. I mentioned before that I like the whole chemical field. It's so much fun to figure things out, how to improve a process...
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I have had a number of professions during my life:
Like Rick in the film "Casablanca," I consider myself a professional drunkard. Very satisfying work.
My first profession was journalism. I was a reporter for a newspaper that printed all the "news" the owner thought the public should know. In other words, I wrote lies to please my employer and get pay raises. Not very satisfying work.
My journalism career was interrupted by 4 years as a meteorologist in the Air Force. (It was either that or years in prison as a draft dodger, with a very large cellmate nicknamed Bugger.) Military work is an oxymoron.
After military service, I was a freelance travel writer and photographer. That's a wandering bum who travels to exotic foreign countries with a notepad and a camera in his backpack and stays in roach-infested cheap hotels. The work was okay unless I caught some dreaded tropical disease -- malaria, yellow fever, leprosy, etc.
Then I became a published fiction author -- the biggest mistake I ever made. I enjoyed inventing stories (like my journalism days), but my pay sucked. I did most of the work and my publishers kept most of the money.
Lastly, I tried to cash in on the internet boom by teaching myself web design and software programming. By the time I was fully proficient in 2000, the "dotcom" bust happened and all the money vanished like a puff of smoke. I had developed a web design editor almost as good as Dreamweaver, but I couldn't give it away for free.
That's the history of "my professions." Now I profess to only one thing -- early retirement this coming July. The path to my grave will be lined with Social Security checks. Work is for suckers and people with no imagination.
I'm a student of English and American Literature and I've got no idea what I want to do in the future. Apart from studying I teach litle imps of devil <11 year old kids> English
In dreams begin responsibilities.
I work at acomputer company that handles online pc games
What i do basicly is playing pc games all day long... Joy!
I'm a mechanical engineer. We develop products for various things. I'd rather keep the company and what we do outside of the forum. I'm on the forum and its not my place to bring others to public forum without their consent. I find it immensely challenging, creative, and enjoyable. I said this in my intro, while the education of engineering is hard and boring, which makes it doubly hard, the job of engineering can be great fun.
Papaya - Nice to know there is another engineer on the forum. Would you agree with my characterization of engineering? Also, the engineering field has been predominantly male, and it still is, but lately we've hired a bunch of female engineers. I find them to be top notch.
Pensive - Feel free to ask me anything about engineering that you like. You need to get good grades in math for engineering school, but I've found that in my the actual application of engineering math is mostly insignificant. But you do have to understand the math.
Last edited by Virgil; 12-30-2005 at 05:14 PM.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Nice professions we have got here.
Papay: its good that you are satisfied with what you are doing. You know things like unemployment is getting common with population increasing day by day.
starr: Like I said to papay, I will say the same to you that atleast you had jobs. You found a way to earn your own living.
Monoica: I am good at english in my class but I don't like it as a subject and I think the reason is that I have heard from many people that it has not much scope. Its nice to see you working as a teacher. I like teaching children very much.
I used to imagine myself a teacher and then I used to imagine the work I used to do was done by a student and then I used to check it and I also used to give lectures to my own self.
Willow: It would be fun.
Virgil: Thanks Virgil, I am trying my best to improve myself in Maths.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I'm thinking of becoming and engineer... I think it'll be interesting.
Betcha I have the most exciting job of all: superhero and forest vigilante! HA!!
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
College flunky, here. Hopefully a student again this coming fall, for now I'm a shop-keep. I ring people up at the register and make sure the shelves don't get empty. In school, though, I study Art and English Literature. Maybe I'll be an illustrator. *fingers crossed* Maybe I'll spend the rest of my life working a register and making sure shelves don't get empty. Guess which one I'm hoping for?
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Supposedly I am a student, but I prefer to see myself as part time ruler of the universe.
There is no darkness, there is no light, there is only Lasagne!
haha Emily. Whatever you do you will bring a fresh breath of air to the job and make life interesting for anyone around you. my guess is the shopkeep.
My life has always been divided into two areas-nanny/care aide for seniors and writer. I was a women's editor at nineteen, totally fluked my way into that(the editor was I think in the midst of a hangover and didn't know what he was doing). I became free lance after finding that you couldn't be very honest in the newspaper business and that meant lowering standards and integrity. not interested.
then a group of people came to me who heard the stories I wrote for children, especially abused and at risk children.They urged me to become a writer for children which I am currently doing. So really I combine care with writing, the children give me great ideas and since I am really a people watcher rather than participator I have a ton of notes on hand at any given moment.
I couldn't shopkeep if my life depended upon it and I wish I could, or waitress even, I have always wanted to do that sort of thing for a while because the professions are rich in interesting people just crying out to become heros and heroines in great literary books.
i am still in a Medicine student , it seems that it will take forever to finish it ....IS there is anyone studying Medicine here?
I'm studying what my quack of a doctor is doing to my body with prescription drugs that have vile side effects. Does that count?Originally Posted by Dark Lord
What do you call the guy who graduates dead last in his class at medical school?
Doctor!
I'm the full-time ruler of the universe. That means I get medical insurance and profit-sharing.
You keep reinforcing this image I have of you as Modonna with child. do you walk around with a gold halo around your head?
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
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