What do you do and where?

[Lantyssa]

You can at least teach them how to read a map.  I had a friend who, quite literally, was unable to use a map.  Forget finding a country, he couldn't find one street over.

[Xerapis]

update:  escaped from Army

Conversational English Instructor, Pagoda Direct English, Euljiro, Seoul.

Much happier now.  Job is easy and fun.

[Murgos]

Conversational English?

So, you get to use the words 'Fuck' and 'Shit' a lot at work?

"Fuck, man, that shit sucked."

"Shit dude, did you see what that fucking guy did?"

Otherwise it's probably not conversational English so much as some hypothetical version of English our English teacher hoped we would speak in conversations.

[Raging Turtle]

Hagwon!  Kekekeke.

I've occasionally thought about going back to Korea to try to land a university position.

[publius]

Age: 16

Location: Lyman, Washington (it is a town of like 250 people, if you count people a mile on each side of city limits. it is otherwise known as bumfuck, washington)

Occupation: High-School Student / Web Developer

Favorite Drink: Mountain Dew (me and one of my friends use to both drink a 24 pack to ourselves each weekend to get a buzz off of it, and now I drink a 1 to 2 liters a day :/)

[Furiously]

Interesting - I used to live on Lake Samish. (16-20 miles away as the crow flies for those that don't care).

Ever go to the Alger Tavern? I used to love rib night there.

[publius]

Nah, never been there. I'll have to see if a couple of my buddies wanna go for dinner sometime there. What night was rib night?

How long ago did you live there, I know a lot of people that live up that way, perhaps I've heard of you.

[Furiously]

Was Monday nights. They have a nice section outside of the bar. And unlikely - was only a year.

[Abagadro]

I was just offered and accepted a job to be a Senior City Attorney in a large metro area. So I am now a lawyer again, although not one of those greedy private lawyer bastards.

[WayAbvPar]

I was just offered and accepted a job to be a Senior City Attorney in a large metro area. So I am now a lawyer again, although not one of those greedy private lawyer bastards.

Grats! I am assuming you are still mired in the Beehive State?

[Nebu]

I was just offered and accepted a job to be a Senior City Attorney in a large metro area. So I am now a lawyer again, although not one of those greedy private lawyer bastards.

Ack... you were lured away from academia by the dark side?  Maybe I should start considering law school again.

[Abagadro]

Ya. Still here in Utah. I doubt I'll ever get out of here. But I am working for the good city. 

And yes, I was lured away from the hallowed halls of ivory towers and tweed jackets. Heading towards bankruptcy will do that to a guy.  Although this is more in line with what I have been wanting to do and it quite a bit different than my old job. It is doing transactional work for the Redevelopment Agency plus they may have me redo a bunch of the election regulations which is what I have been concentrating on in my research for the past year and a half. No more billing. No more fighting with clients over the bill. No more bitching with partners about A/Rs or billables. My really good friend that used to work at my firm and bailed several years even before I did works there, so all in all I'm hoping it will be a much better experience. I'm still going to try to do the dissertation as I finished up my coursework (yesterday in fact) and potentially adjunct in a couple of years after I get settled into this new job.

[Signe]

Grats!  Best of luck.  Do good stuff!

[Nebu]

Well, you know I can't blame you.  It's more important to be doing what you enjoy than about anything else.  If your stint in grad school helped you find a position that will have you happy to go to work in the morning, then you win.  I can see how having interesting work without dealing with the whole "billable hours" crap would be a breath of fresh air.  So congrats on the position!

I'm personally torn between taking a moderately interesting job that pays ridiculously well (allowing me to retire in 10 years) or taking a low paying job that I enjoy.  I guess that I could always do the first for 10 years and then the second, but I'm still trying to get used to the whole delayed gratification thing.

[Abagadro]

I agree with your sentiment on that. I talked to the guy who I will be replacing (who actually used to work with my father in law and wife at different places, god this is a small town considering how many people are here) and he made the same transition from big-firm corporate stuff to municipal work about 10 years ago and really likes it.  Working for a city won't get you rich by any means, but it is a lot more than what I would have started out at if I had been lucky enough to scratch my way to a professor position. I also got a bit disillusioned with the academic world in my brief foray. The teaching stuff is good but the other attendant bullshit looked like the same kind of crap I tried to leave (i.e. office politics, hounding for publications, always hustling for grant money, etc.). Hopefully I can adjunct and only do the fun stuff.

As for your dilemma, I'd have a hard time turning down a job that would put me in a position to retire in 10 years, but that amount of time sounds a lot shorter than it would be actually having to do something your not into.

[Zodiac]

Hello everyone :) Zodiac from Turbine here. I am the Manager for the Application Development group that's responsible for customer facing applications that are out of the game (e.g. Account Management).

Brought to this site, interesting, by the news about Sigil. Still trying to get a grip on what this place is about ;) The About page on the main site is broken :D

[Endie]

Brought to this site, interesting, by the news about Sigil. Still trying to get a grip on what this place is about ;)

We're mainly just a repository for the SWG NGE thread.

[Cheddar]

I got promoted.  For now.  Working for a telecom keeps me busy!

[Falconeer]

Still trying to get a grip on what this place is about

It's about insulting each other while talking about videogames.

I am an Italian living in Italy, but I don't like it. I am a secretary/writer.
I am 33 years old and since 1994 I am a single parent.

[voodoolily]

I got promoted.  For now.  Working for a telecom keeps me busy!

Gratz, Ched! You'll need it, what with all those mouths to feed. 

[Yegolev]

The About page on the main site is broken :D

Working as intended.

To stay on track with the job info, I am still putting fizz in soda.

[Sky]

I still make sure kids can hook with each other up on myspace.

[jtoast]

Delurking because I'm bored.

I have one of those dream jobs that people would kill for.  I work from home as a software packager.

[Yegolev]

You put DVDs into cases?

[Endie]

Um, yeah.. is there more to it than it sounds?

[jtoast]

heh yea...


I do mainly corporate desktop refresh projects. 

Company A is upgrading from 2K to XP, we go in and test all their software for compability, Update their install procedures, catalog it, repackage it into MSI format and then hand it back to them so that they can distribute it via SMS or whatever.

My job TITLE is packager but i've been kind of promoted out of that recently.

My actual job lately is to solve problems that the packagers in India come up with by calling the client in the UK and scheduling meetings :P

[Endie]

That's more like it.  :-D

In the late 90's I had a work-from home contract as a follow-up to a software dev one I did for a UK public sector org.  They had timed a data conversion at about six hours and sent me through a bunch each week to do.  They'd done it manually with a loooong series of SQL statements constructed on the fly.

I scripted it and could run each in about 40 minutes, of which i only had to be there for about 5.  I only regret (I really do) that I wasted those 18 months or so smoking gear, watching Jerry Springer and going out with students (the only people equally time-rich outside the actual unemployed).

[Selby]

Boredom strikes!  I make lasers.  Really big powerful ones.  I am the one who gets to deal with the line voltage and make it nice and compact and accurate for the rest of the system.  I'm the youngest one in my department by over 10 years, so I catch alot of hell for being the young kid.  Sure beats the hell out of being a garbage collector.

[Cheddar]

That's more like it.  :-D

In the late 90's I had a work-from home contract as a follow-up to a software dev one I did for a UK public sector org.  They had timed a data conversion at about six hours and sent me through a bunch each week to do.  They'd done it manually with a loooong series of SQL statements constructed on the fly.

I scripted it and could run each in about 40 minutes, of which i only had to be there for about 5.  I only regret (I really do) that I wasted those 18 months or so smoking gear, watching Jerry Springer and going out with students (the only people equally time-rich outside the actual unemployed).

What is smoking gear?

[Strazos]

Just got a job offer that I'm going to accept doing back-end file management for a large east-coast bank; pretty much every piece of paperwork comes through the office I'll be working in. At least it'll let me do things, like maybe get a 360, or finally take up fencing.

This is just somewhat temporary until I get offered a USAF commission. Failing that, I'd look into become a Foreign Service Officer (Consul, specifically).

Failing that, well....career choices get a bit more "out there"....Maybe, somehow, find a way to teach in Asia? Teaching History would be a huge plus, but conversational English would work as well.


Early 20s SUCK.

[Signe]

What is smoking gear?

[Raging Turtle]

Failing that, well....career choices get a bit more "out there"....Maybe, somehow, find a way to teach in Asia? Teaching History would be a huge plus, but conversational English would work as well.

Very VERY easy to get a job teaching english in Asia, even one that will pay decently.  Will it be a decent job and not make you go insane?  That takes more work.

[Slayerik]

Desktop Support tech at a large University / Hospital. I fix Brain Surgeon's computers. Well, nurses, doctors, admin assistants, researchers, and others as well. I get paid to forum whore basically.

[Rasix]

I am now a project manager.

Same company, same pay, same department. Now equipped with MS Project and a call-in number.

Woop.

[WayAbvPar]

Grats. Now bust their balls for a salary bump. + responsibility should ALWAYS come with + pay.