I also do a lot of land drilling rigs, which means I get to drive to those locations
What do you do for a living?
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DarkSilver
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Varies. Mostly depending on how much the oil company is willing to shell out, and if it's a initial "visit" where I have to set up equipment. In the times I've gone into the gulf, it's been about 50-50 between boat rides, and helicopter rides....I got some nice shots of the GoM flying back in from rigs.
I also do a lot of land drilling rigs, which means I get to drive to those locations
I also do a lot of land drilling rigs, which means I get to drive to those locations
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Re: What do you do for a living?
IT Guy working for the county school district. Actually work at the high school from which I graduated.
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Showing the current students their future? 
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Could be worse. I'm responsible for 1600+/- student accounts, 100+/- staff and teachers, 700+/- computers, 80 something networked printers, 5 servers and probably a mile or more of wiring and fiber. Makes for a busy day
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Lucky, I did some mudlogging in the northwest where there's nothing but trees and no off-site personnel within 150 miles.DarkSilver wrote:Varies. Mostly depending on how much the oil company is willing to shell out, and if it's a initial "visit" where I have to set up equipment. In the times I've gone into the gulf, it's been about 50-50 between boat rides, and helicopter rides....I got some nice shots of the GoM flying back in from rigs.
I also do a lot of land drilling rigs, which means I get to drive to those locations
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Computer Engineering graduate student & reseach asst. Currently doing coursework in ASIC design, research tends to involve working w/ crypto on FPGAs & embedded software.
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DarkSilver
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Re: What do you do for a living?
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Lucky, I did some mudlogging in the northwest where there's nothing but trees and no off-site personnel within 150 miles.DarkSilver wrote:Varies. Mostly depending on how much the oil company is willing to shell out, and if it's a initial "visit" where I have to set up equipment. In the times I've gone into the gulf, it's been about 50-50 between boat rides, and helicopter rides....I got some nice shots of the GoM flying back in from rigs.
I also do a lot of land drilling rigs, which means I get to drive to those locations
I remember us talking about that a long time back there Chewie, when you first got that job. Think it was in the SDnet Chat.....(is that thing even still around?).
Yup, I'm still doing it, after 7 years.
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Alphawolf55
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Student at Brooklyn College and Costume Mascot for M&M World. If you see a blue or yellow M&M dancing around, that's me. It's actually a sweet gig in it's own way.
Re: What do you do for a living?
I'm a math grad student.
Re: What do you do for a living?
Alphawolf55 wrote:Student at Brooklyn College and Costume Mascot for M&M World. If you see a blue or yellow M&M dancing around, that's me. It's actually a sweet gig in it's own way.
I've always thought it'd be cool to be a mascot. But, like, at Disney World. Seems like it'd be a vacation every day. Except when it's summer time because F*ck that.
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It's not really a vacation, and the suit can be heavy, also it can be kind of depressing because you can't talk and everyone refers to you as your costume. So you're not "Tim" you're 'Blue" or "Yellow" and even your coworkers call you this, so doing it for hours can get a little weird, also it's hard for your bosses to judge your work because they hardly know it's you doing it. The upsides are that everyone wants to take pictures with you, you can make kids smile (a big plus). One of the best advantages is the break system for every minute you're in the costume, you get an equal amount of break time. So if I'm in the costume for an hour, for the next year I get to go to the break room without my costume on and get paid just sitting around for an additional hour, so during that hour I can watch a movie, read a book, play video games or most importantly study for school.Chardok wrote:Alphawolf55 wrote:Student at Brooklyn College and Costume Mascot for M&M World. If you see a blue or yellow M&M dancing around, that's me. It's actually a sweet gig in it's own way.
I've always thought it'd be cool to be a mascot. But, like, at Disney World. Seems like it'd be a vacation every day. Except when it's summer time because F*ck that.
Re: What do you do for a living?
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that </fellow sufferer>Grog wrote:I'm a math grad student.
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Super/hypersonic missiles development.
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Varying assistant duties for microfluidics research with lab on chip applications.
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I write embedded software. Have a degree in Avionics, would love to use it. Kodiak and Orik, can I come and work with you? Pretty please?
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Full time (Brain Science) student, 2/3d year.
Next semester, once I have less than 41 hours a week of courses, I plan to work in a lab (For XP mainly).
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Re: What do you do for a living?
Buy and Sell for a multinational entity. Currently AOR is in the East Asia region operating from HQ in S'pore, previously was in the ME offices and probably by mid next year in one of the (Western) Yerpeen offices.
