What is it that makes you do that voodoo that you do so well?

[TheNovaLord]

. I spent most of my interviews either discussing wargame strategy or solving systems of non-linear integro-differential equations...


PS

damn those tricky wargame strategy questions....

 

[Impeesa]

Well, this summer I've changed the pace a bit... last two years I was an instructor at a summer science camp, now I'm working in the machine room at a pulp mill. It's not the most interesting work, but for a student the pay is damn good. The machine room is basically the end of the line where bleached stock comes out, gets pressed into a giant sheet, dried, cut, stacked into bales, and either stacked in the warehouse or loaded straight into boxcars. Sometimes I'm pulp tester - basically, doing QC in the adjoining lab - and other times I'm just tooling around in the forklift.

Being a student, though, that's all just temporary. My real job is finishing my last year of a Computer Science/Physics double major, and then (hopefully) starting grad studies in some field of robotics.

--Impeesa--

 

[Rel]

I own my own company doing legal videography. Basically whenever there is a civil lawsuit, a lot of depositions must take place, often of doctors. Doctors can't be hanging around courtrooms waiting to testify so I videotape their depositions and these are (sometimes) shown in court. It isn't always doctors but I'd say that they comprise 75% of the work that I do. So I know a lot about things like torn ligaments and myofacial syndrome and permanent partial disability ratings and stuff like that. And once in a while I get to sit in a room for several hours while a doctor describes how they botched a delivery and some couple's baby died.

Yesterday was fun too. Important safety tip: Don't let suicidal people keep possession of their belts in your psych ward.

 

[KenM]

I work for my town DPW at the transfer station. Great job security. Union.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

To which I answered: "I haven't been playing wargames for 20 years just to pass up the first Department of Defense job that came along!" The interviewer wrote: WARGAMER on his evaluation form, and every single person I interviewed after that asked about wargaming. I spent most of my interviews either discussing wargame strategy or solving systems of non-linear integro-differential equations...

Cool. It pays to be a gamer.

 

[Steve Jung]

I'm a lab technician in a biochemistry lab at Rutgers University.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I maintain a database of contact information for state and federal legislators, city council members, county clerks, and other elected officials for use by various constituent organizations.

I'm sure that my company's work is interesting once you work your way up a ways is very interesting, but updating contact information for varying state legislatures is not as interesting as you might think.

 

[OfRiceAndHen]

I am a field technician for a soils engineering company. I test dirt/asphalt/concrete for density, moisture, etc.

 

[Arpad]

I do accounting for crazy people.

 

[EricNoah]

I work for my town DPW at the transfer station.

What's a DPW?