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Shiatsu therapist - I fix the shoulder, neck and back problems you desk jockeys accumulate on a day-to-day basis.

I'm a System Administrator currently working in a multichannel marketing agency here in Brazil.

So basically my job is to configure and maintain all necessary devices and network services.

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Originally posted by shaw And to think, it's all undone by a few simple plugs here on TA. Buy Kenmore!

You do know that Whirlpool makes a rather large portion of Kenmore appliances, right... if you buy Kenmore your usually buying Whirlpool, Electrolux, GE, or a handful of others... but mainly whirlpool.

BTW, I manage a bodily injury / casualty claims department for an independent claims adjusting firm

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Originally posted by ziptnf A large reason behind that is that they're overqualified. The only place for a PHD is the university.

And sadly not even there much of the time. So many fields have a glut of PhDs nowadays. I hear it is brutally competitive, which is another thing that turns me off the idea of going into academia: I am not much of a competitive person.

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Originally posted by ziptnf College is good for one thing: landing your first decent job in your field.

I already did that without college... You know as well as anybody in this field that college isn't entirely needed (and some of the most successful dropped out of college very quickly). There is nothing in CS really that requires you to go to school to learn it.

Yes, you managed to get a decent job doing something you like. But you are an exception, since most people aren't completely obsessed with computer programming and especially not in your specific area of interest. Unfortunately, when you decide to do something else, your lack of education will tell companies that you have no skills beyond what you used to do.

Luckily I am a spoiled person. My parents have let me live on the cheap working on stuff that will benefit me in the future. I don't plan to leave the CS field anytime soon either, and I have a big portfolio in the work I am interested in now, enough so that I have been contacted out of the blue for job offers (which I didn't accept, though one of them is contract work from the parent company of the place in Florida). I am not too worried about moving fields because they are all pretty much within my sphere of influence, which is CS, with a focus on simulation, and within the field of the armed forces.

And if that doesn't pan out I have a few years left to decide if I want to join the military like a few people (here and else where) said I should. That would involve me going to college because I would want to come in as an officer.


Also on the note of parents, my mom dropped out of college in the 1970s and finally picked it back up in about 2006 and graduated in 2009. She still isn't able to find any good jobs outside of retail. Partly though I think its definitely harder on women who don't go to college unfortunately, and her age doesn't help.

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Originally posted by Vector A And sadly not even there much of the time. So many fields have a glut of PhDs nowadays. I hear it is brutally competitive, which is another thing that turns me off the idea of going into academia: I am not much of a competitive person.

i'm a little afraid of this too. i'm kind of hoping to be able to teach at my alma mater... they tend to hire former students a lot, especially in polisci.

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Originally posted by prolikewhoa i'm a little afraid of this too. i'm kind of hoping to be able to teach at my alma mater... they tend to hire former students a lot, especially in polisci.

Teach what?

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Originally posted by Chimney Teach what?

not sure yet - haven't even gone to grad school. it will be in either political science or french.

cue everyone saying i don't know shit about political science.

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Originally posted by prolikewhoa not sure yet - haven't even gone to grad school. it will be in either political science or french. cue everyone saying i don't know shit about political science.

do you know any French already? Or are you gonna learn it fully there?

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Originally posted by Chimney do you know any French already? Or are you gonna learn it fully there?

oui je parles fran�ais courrament. j'ai �tudi� en france en 2007.

I anally rape mice. No seriously, I do. And recently I managed to get reimbursed for buying gummi bears.

I'm a Ph.D student with a background in Marine Biology. After years of just working in dead-end jobs I decided to go to university on a foundation year + 3 years to get my B.Sc. Absolutely loved it, finished top of my class and top student in the biology the department (of 350 students). Won 4 of the 5 prizes offered by the department and was awarded a fully funded Ph.D

Just goes to show if you really love something and give it your all, amazing things can happen.

Civil Engineer........... lots of school but great pay plus i love my job and in the current job market for people with my skill set, its awesome for getting impromptu raises.

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Originally posted by Jackson I'm a Ph.D student with a background in Marine Biology. After years of just working in dead-end jobs I decided to go to university on a foundation year + 3 years to get my B.Sc. Absolutely loved it, finished top of my class and top student in the biology the department (of 350 students). Won 4 of the 5 prizes offered by the department and was awarded a fully funded Ph.D Just goes to show if you really love something and give it your all, amazing things can happen.

that's awesome!

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Originally posted by Jackson Just goes to show if you really love something and give it your all, amazing things can happen.

not to disparage your achievements or anything, but that's really only true if the thing that you love happens to be something that higher-ups deem to be a financially sound investment.

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Originally posted by PivotTechno Shiatsu therapist - I fix the shoulder, neck and back problems you desk jockeys accumulate on a day-to-day basis.

Nice, I'd actually really like to learn that, or reflexology.

I just realized I didn't actually say what my job is. I jerk people off.

Not much has changed in the last 4 years. I just do less and get paid more by easily exploiting the cut-throat rental industry here, letting people throw money in my bank account, or remain homeless. So I occupy myself through the day with hobbies, at 3:30pm I pretend to be a mother to 3 adopted kids between the ages of awful and terrible.

The great superpower dreamland of Kittentopia never materialised it as I envisioned, apparently its still illegal to keep serfs.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie I just realized I didn't actually say what my job is. I jerk people off.

lol

Professional stoner & student. Word up.

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Originally posted by KushnOJ Professional stoner & student. Word up.

takes absolutely zero skills to smoke lots of weed. get a job you fucking hippie.

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Originally posted by prolikewhoa takes absolutely zero skills to smoke lots of weed. get a job you fucking hippie.

My job is to study. I incorporate the smoking at my own discretion.

Sometimes the balance of the two gets out of wack, but somehow it all evens out it the end.

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Originally posted by KushnOJ My job is to study. I incorporate the smoking at my own discretion. Sometimes the balance of the two gets out of wack, but somehow it all evens out it the end.

i worked three jobs when i was in school.

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