Getting to know you part 2

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Beelzebrush

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I\'m a self employed garden designer/builder - this is some of the recent stuff we\'ve done - http://bird-design.co.uk/

The work is hard and obviously outdoors (which, again, this year, is a fecking nightmare due to endless rain :mad: ) I wouldn\'t swap it for the world though.... I\'m also busier than I\'ve ever been and getting loads of enquiries - weirdest recession ever lol
 
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uberdark

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huh...thats ironic...in indiana we had a total of 1 and a half inches of rain for the entire month of july. and the average temp for the month was 78 f. a wonderfully great summer.
 
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Mourner

New member
well, lets just chip in than shall i...

I am a student (structural engineering) and hoping to go on to become an architect......

apart from that i have a part time job at a McDonalds restaurant as a crewtrainer...

it may not be the best job, but it pays... and i have great colleagues...
 
PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
I build spaceships.

Okay, design spaceships.

Okay, okay. Figure out how the hell you put the 12\" box someone else designed into an 11\" space on the spaceship.

Actually, it isn\'t that hard. You go back to the design engineer and slap them really hard and say \"STOP IT!\".

And you get to slap the Propulsion guy who just built a box in the same spot the Life Support guy has a box.

Oodles of fun, I tell\'s ya.
 
No Such Agency

No Such Agency

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PegaZus... wow. Pretty neat. It\'s good to see so many scientific and medical types here... not that I don\'t appreciate a proper butcher too :)

Anyway, chalk up one more for science, I\'m a research technician at a veterinary college, working on canine cancer and other diseases.
 
Farin

Farin

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I´m a college student majoring in enviromental engineering - basically i spent alot of my time last year to study how the atmosphere works ( both physically and chemically ) and how humans pollute it . I also do quite a few philosophy classes, since the professor is a SciFi freak, which also explains the topic of my last paper : Emanuel Kant , the first german SciFi Novel and Aliens - got me an A

And I have a part time job: Like Lizcam i´m a phone monkey working for Forsa , one of the big instituts in Germany doing Gallup polls - and i dare to say, that even so Lizcam makes way more money than I do, i have probably the same amount of stupid people on the phone.

@Amazon Warrior:For which Chemistry Journal are you working ? Just curious :)

@Atacam: Officially the coolest job i´ve ever heard - Might i ask what the biggest gun was you were ever allowed to fire ?
 
cleen X

cleen X

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I work at a grocery store :( With a lot of great people so it\'s okey :)
Also play american football for a team in norway, even though that doesn\'t pay more than I use on the bus to get to pratice. Doesn\'t matter, I get to do one of the things I love :D
 
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mud duck

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Shipping department for a institutional cabinet maker. Hopefully I\'ll get off my lazy ass and finish my demo reel and land that job at Pixar....
 
PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
Originally posted by No Such Agency
It\'s good to see so many scientific and medical types here...
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Had a fine arts professor teaching Critical Writing (a required engineering class). He said that the first year he taught the class, he was a little depressed that he was going to have to teach boring engineers. It was suggested to him to find out on the first day a bit more of the engineers-to-be creative sides. He said in a class of 10, all of them played some musical instrument, and 3/4 of them either painted or sculpted in their free time. Shocked him a bit since few in his normal fine arts program classes played, and only about half were creative in their free time. Made him start to enjoy being around people who weren\'t being graded on their creativity.

I think Scott Adams made an astute assumption about creativity: The more creative you have to be in your every day job, the more of the boring you want to be in your free time. Thus, engineers who paint and graphic illustrators who collect rocks. Or something to that effect. I know not what illustrators do in their spare time.
 
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ScottRadom

Shogun of Saskatchewan
I second Pegazuz\'s comment about creativity. I think you can only use that part of your brain so much before it needs a break. I do know a well renowned comic book illustrator and he can\'t be bothered with too much of a hobby. He\'d never pick up a pencil and draw that\'s for sure.

Choppin\' the hell out of dead stuff is fun, cathartic, and I enjoy interacting with staff and customers but my job uses very little creativity. The knife hasn\'t evolved too much over the years, and neither has my job. So I do enjoy turning that part of my brain on when I get home.
 
Amazon warrior

Amazon warrior

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Originally posted by Farin
@Amazon Warrior:For which Chemistry Journal are you working ? Just curious :)
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I work at Wiley-VCH, home of Angewandte Chemie, although I work for Chemistry A European Journal.

I mostly edit, but I get to be a little creative too, especially when authors send in less-than-exciting covers or frontispieces. I don\'t consider myself an expert at graphical fidgetry, but I am compared with a lot of the people I work with. Even had someone from one of our newest journals coming to ask for help with their second-ever cover the other day. \'S cool, it makes me feel useful over and above my regular job. :) (And it\'s more fun than \'real\' work! lol)
 
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frenchkid

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Feel like I answered that one not too long ago... oh well :p

I\'m a student in Buisness school currently doing a one year internship. I\'m the market planner for the Oral B brand in France for P&G. Which means I get to try and figure out how much we are going to sell for each product on the brand, make sure we have appropriate production, and make sure that the products are available when they have to be delivered to the client. I\'m also going to be doing some project work.
 
Farin

Farin

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@ScottRadom & PegaZus:

Second that : One of my best friends ( chemical engineering major ) at the university just recently started building and painting millitary models (submarines and ships) just for that reason. Was a huge surprise when he wrote a mail and asked for some advice and contrucitive criticism , since he never was too interested in the whole miniature painting , but i guess at some some point he too needed just something relaxing. And i have to say for a beginner his stuff was pretty good.

Also, the best painter at ouir store ( you find him as Jens here at Cmon ) is an engineer too

Or something to that effect. I know not what illustrators do in their spare time.
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One of my friends designs and illustrates a website for a shop and he is a wargamer: Warmachine , Demonworld and a few more systems


@Amazon warrior: ah, yes , that name rings a bell :) - and i know exactly what you mean with real job lol
 
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