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#1 Apr 23 2004 at 3:55 PM Rating: Good
I noticed that a disproportionate # of us MMORPG geeks/nerds work in the tech industry (I wish I did, I graduated 4 years ago with a now worthless telecom degree).

What do you do for a living?
#2 Apr 23 2004 at 4:01 PM Rating: Excellent
As little as possible.

An oldie but a goodie.
#3 Apr 23 2004 at 4:03 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm a commercial landscape estimator for a fairly large design/construction firm. Basically, when some construction company decides they want to build something, they hire a landscape architect (or, God forbid, a civil enginner)to come up with a landscape drawing. Then they send it to us to bid it. My job is to break the plans down, measure stuff off and determine how much it'd cost for us to do it and how much base profit we'd make. Then the salespeople finesse the numbers into a real bid and try to land it.

We do have a smallish design division and do landscaping on a few very upscale homes each year, but the bulk of the work comes from commercial construction: offices, warehouses, churches, municipal projects, etc.
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#4 Apr 23 2004 at 4:16 PM Rating: Good
I use to design custom parts for commercial airplanes (primarily the 737NG, 757 and 777). About three years ago Boeing decided to hire people in Russia to do our jobs. Over that time designers and engineers have been laid off in order to keep Russians working for 1/10th as much as we made. So all in all I've been an unemployed house fixer upper for the last couple of months.

My wife (she doesn't come to these boards) does have a tech job though if that counts.
#5 Apr 23 2004 at 4:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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I am an Implementation Specialist for a newer PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Manager). Basically, I push papers ALL...DAY...LONG.

I use to be an Eligibility Administrator though. I would consider that to be a more technical position.
#6 Apr 23 2004 at 4:34 PM Rating: Good
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#7 Apr 23 2004 at 4:45 PM Rating: Good
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Paper pusher for a large mortgage banking corporation.

I wish I was a techno geek. It would be more interesting and pay better.
#8 Apr 23 2004 at 4:56 PM Rating: Good
I'm a Sea Turtle Shepard.

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#9 Apr 23 2004 at 5:07 PM Rating: Excellent
Actually, I am an electrical engineering tech, and I work on a drillship, 150 mi offshore of Brazil. 28 days on(12 hour days), 28 days off. Half of my life rules, and the other half bites!!!!! But I am 100% Tax exempt this year so... Horay for me!!!! 2 more years, and I will go get a real job. Get back in an office designing custom control systems for 6 axis robots and lasers, where I belong.
#10 Apr 23 2004 at 5:19 PM Rating: Good
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I'd tell you but then people would call my work and post about disproving that I work there.

Let's just say I make french fires and leave it at that.
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#11 Apr 23 2004 at 5:28 PM Rating: Excellent
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#12 Apr 23 2004 at 5:43 PM Rating: Good
I'm a Paladin... lol j/k
btw civil engineer > landscape estimator.
#13 Apr 23 2004 at 5:43 PM Rating: Excellent
Air pollution control compliance supervisor...
I supervise inspectors and make unpopular decisions.
then I come home and want to unwind with EQ - which turns out to also be an unpopular decision in my household.
#14 Apr 23 2004 at 5:48 PM Rating: Good
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#15 Apr 23 2004 at 5:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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civil engineer > landscape estimator
Maybe so, but I don't make myself look like a moron by pretending to be a landscape architect and create some of the worse designs (from an aesthetic and functional standpoint) ever laid to paper.

"Hey! Let's put some plants near HWL around this big open detention basin! Opening the book to a random page, we geeettt.... Eastern White Pine! This'll be great!" Smiley: oyvey

I can tell when a civil decided to play designer for a day within .005 seconds of opening a set of plans.

Edited, Fri Apr 23 18:53:26 2004 by Jophiel
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#16 Apr 23 2004 at 5:59 PM Rating: Good
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I am a Civil Engineer specializing in methane mitigation system design. I make sure your house don't go *BOOM* if you are stupid enough to buy one over an old oil field, garbage dump, live stock feed grounds or down town L.A. (the Le Brea tar pits). Actually it's completely safe to own a home or business in one of these locations... really.
#17 Apr 23 2004 at 6:02 PM Rating: Good
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#18 Apr 23 2004 at 6:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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Just so we are clear here, I want each of you to understand Gitslayer's job consists of lighting a match in the bathroom everytime someone flushes.

Oh, and he hands the towels out and shines shoes too.

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#19 Apr 23 2004 at 6:22 PM Rating: Good
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Just so we are clear here, I want each of you to understand Gitslayer's job consists of lighting a match in the bathroom everytime someone flushes.

Oh, and he hands the towels out and shines shoes too.


No, no, no. I create 20 page design specifications outlining the process of lighting the match and ensuring the flush so that the minimum wage slave who operates said system can ignore it.
#20 Apr 23 2004 at 6:24 PM Rating: Good
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I am a covert Republican Party special operative

Hm.

Our derfintions of "covert" must differ.
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#21 Apr 23 2004 at 6:40 PM Rating: Excellent
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See? I've been hiding right under your nose for years now. Be careful though, Smash, I'd hate to add you as the latest hanging chad on my ballot. Ok, that didn't quite sound like I'd hoped it would-- something politically analogous to the notch on my gun. My masters are watching your subversive activities very closely...

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#22 Apr 23 2004 at 7:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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#23 Apr 23 2004 at 8:53 PM Rating: Good
Video game designer/artist. Lots of freelance work, but getting a portfolio ready for a Square rival comapny *Ducks stones*
#24 Apr 23 2004 at 9:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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I am a Civil Engineer specializing in methane mitigation system design
So long as you don't try to tell me where to put the spireas, we're cool Smiley: grin
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#25 Apr 23 2004 at 9:12 PM Rating: Good
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i plan to continue mooching off my parents for another 30 years until i reach the age of 47 and go off into the woods to hang myself.
#26 Apr 23 2004 at 9:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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well, at least you have career goals I guess?
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