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What do you do for a living?

Post by -PLAGUE- » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:54 pm

Was just wondering what it is my fellow starport players do for a living, thought it might be interesting to see.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Moleman » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:31 pm

I'm a Director of two companies, one of which is a storage, packaging, manufacturing and haulage business and the other is a property and commodity trading company.

For the last two years we have been negotiating with a group who want to purchase the second company, the deal has been agreed and most of the last two years have been spent by the group trying to raise the necessary finance, obviously not easy in the recent climate.

Not sure why I'm telling you all this but the last 6mths has been driving me steadily insane as the deal is looking more and more likely but we still need to run the company day to day as if it will never happen.

We are selling the company for £9.5mil ($14.8mil), as well as being a director I also own 11% of the company shares = :mrgreen:

I'm going to lay down in my nice dark room again... :|

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Barefoot » Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:46 pm

I do market research and strategic market planning for a high-end custom men's clothing company.
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by McGrod » Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:59 pm

moleman is always on my mind because we are such good buddies.

i dont do much at all...apart from send good aura waves to moleman to keep him happy and full of bliss.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by MadAce » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:11 am

I'm a humble paper pusher for my city's social services. Which means I have to deal with the weirdest, most screwed up stuff you can imagine. And I'm talking about the colleagues here.
Right now I'm probably the only one without a massive hangover after last night's office party which ended with a tally of 2 people crying, 5 broken glasses, one broken bottle, a pack of fries hitting the floor, one girl vomiting and my boss dancing with me (relax she's female).

Oh, and the people, the clients, needing social services are weird too; sometimes. But in a positive way.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Major » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:20 pm

the ultimate riddle...


2 people dancing who may or may not also be crying and or vomiting. suddenly 5 glasses and one bottle break. how did the fries get on the floor?

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by -PLAGUE- » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:17 pm

Major wrote:the ultimate riddle...


2 people dancing who may or may not also be crying and or vomiting. suddenly 5 glasses and one bottle break. how did the fries get on the floor?
someone vomited fries?

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by salligator » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:56 am

Major wrote:the ultimate riddle...


2 people dancing who may or may not also be crying and or vomiting. suddenly 5 glasses and one bottle break. how did the fries get on the floor?
Ninjas

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Post by MastrIan » Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:44 am

Major wrote:the ultimate riddle...


2 people dancing who may or may not also be crying and or vomiting. suddenly 5 glasses and one bottle break. how did the fries get on the floor?
You're a bartender?

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Highlander » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:45 am

MI6.. enough said !!

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Jwilson6 » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:09 pm

I'm going to school to be a mechanical engineer.
But this summer I had the worse job I could have every imagined, but where I live I looked for months and noone else was hiring so I had no choice. I worked at a fiberglass factory. Basically what I did was put on a full chemical suit which would be taped up with thick masking tape for extra protection/hotness, eyeglasses, rubber booties, a rubber apron, and a set of thick padded kevlar gloves overtop a pair of latex gloves. And a respirator and go into a sealed off room heated to triple digits where I worked 10 hour night shifts doing the hardest, fastest paced, and most physical job in the factory for 8.50 an hour. Everything in the factory was either razor sharp or would burn your skin if you got it on you, and trust me it always found a way to get on you. And you would sweat so much in there that the sweat would run down your arm and into your gloves. Everytime I would lift up my arm sweat would seriously poor out of the elbows of my suit and leave puddles on the ground, and every couple of hours I would have to lift my respirator up and drain the sweat out or it would start to come back up into my mouth and choke me. They burned through a dozen people trying to replace me when I left, they all quit the moment they put them on my job. From what I hear they had to expand the job to 2 people after I left and they still can't keep up. I think I'll definitely ask for a raise next summer :wink:

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by MadAce » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:19 pm

Jwilson6 wrote:I'm going to school to be a mechanical engineer.
But this summer I had the worse job I could have every imagined, but where I live I looked for months and noone else was hiring so I had no choice. I worked at a fiberglass factory. Basically what I did was put on a full chemical suit which would be taped up with thick masking tape for extra protection/hotness, eyeglasses, rubber booties, a rubber apron, and a set of thick padded kevlar gloves overtop a pair of latex gloves. And a respirator and go into a sealed off room heated to triple digits where I worked 10 hour night shifts doing the hardest, fastest paced, and most physical job in the factory for 8.50 an hour. Everything in the factory was either razor sharp or would burn your skin if you got it on you, and trust me it always found a way to get on you. And you would sweat so much in there that the sweat would run down your arm and into your gloves. Everytime I would lift up my arm sweat would seriously poor out of the elbows of my suit and leave puddles on the ground, and every couple of hours I would have to lift my respirator up and drain the sweat out or it would start to come back up into my mouth and choke me. They burned through a dozen people trying to replace me when I left, they all quit the moment they put them on my job. From what I hear they had to expand the job to 2 people after I left and they still can't keep up. I think I'll definitely ask for a raise next summer :wink:
That sounds tough. I frankly can't even imagine doing a job like that. I'm a guy who prefers to wear T-shirts in winter, so when it hits 298,15K (77F) I literally stop moving in order to preserve my brain activity. If I move I have to turn off my brain.

Actually coordinating movements and doing a job in the conditions you described sounds completely insane to me.

I hope they paid you plenty. Enough for a trip to Norway or something.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by GRAWRG. » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:40 pm

MadAce wrote:
Jwilson6 wrote:job in the factory for 8.50 an hour
I hope they paid you plenty. Enough for a trip to Norway or something.
thought id point it out.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by MadAce » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:43 pm

GRAWRG. wrote:
MadAce wrote:
Jwilson6 wrote:job in the factory for 8.50 an hour
I hope they paid you plenty. Enough for a trip to Norway or something.
thought id point it out.
Hey, I'm still a normal human being. Sometimes even I tune out when faced with grave injustices. Such as this one.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by JuliusCaesar » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:45 pm

MadAce wrote:I'm a humble paper pusher for my city's social services. Which means I have to deal with the weirdest, most screwed up stuff you can imagine. And I'm talking about the colleagues here.
Right now I'm probably the only one without a massive hangover after last night's office party which ended with a tally of 2 people crying, 5 broken glasses, one broken bottle, a pack of fries hitting the floor, one girl vomiting and my boss dancing with me (relax she's female).

Oh, and the people, the clients, needing social services are weird too; sometimes. But in a positive way.
ROFL this explains so much! You should type up a screenplay comprising the most insane moments and send it to some studios. I can guarentee it will be a hit. I want at least 5% :D

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Jwilson6 » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:25 am

MadAce wrote:
Jwilson6 wrote:I'm going to school to be a mechanical engineer.
But this summer I had the worse job I could have every imagined, but where I live I looked for months and noone else was hiring so I had no choice. I worked at a fiberglass factory. Basically what I did was put on a full chemical suit which would be taped up with thick masking tape for extra protection/hotness, eyeglasses, rubber booties, a rubber apron, and a set of thick padded kevlar gloves overtop a pair of latex gloves. And a respirator and go into a sealed off room heated to triple digits where I worked 10 hour night shifts doing the hardest, fastest paced, and most physical job in the factory for 8.50 an hour. Everything in the factory was either razor sharp or would burn your skin if you got it on you, and trust me it always found a way to get on you. And you would sweat so much in there that the sweat would run down your arm and into your gloves. Everytime I would lift up my arm sweat would seriously poor out of the elbows of my suit and leave puddles on the ground, and every couple of hours I would have to lift my respirator up and drain the sweat out or it would start to come back up into my mouth and choke me. They burned through a dozen people trying to replace me when I left, they all quit the moment they put them on my job. From what I hear they had to expand the job to 2 people after I left and they still can't keep up. I think I'll definitely ask for a raise next summer :wink:
That sounds tough. I frankly can't even imagine doing a job like that. I'm a guy who prefers to wear T-shirts in winter, so when it hits 298,15K (77F) I literally stop moving in order to preserve my brain activity. If I move I have to turn off my brain.

Actually coordinating movements and doing a job in the conditions you described sounds completely insane to me.

I hope they paid you plenty. Enough for a trip to Norway or something.
I was the same way, I lost 40 lbs and I saw 3 people pass out from heat exhaustion while I was there. And now I wear long sleeve shirts when it drops below 80. On the plus side, I'm now much healthier, and I'm pretty much convinced that I can withstand any physical discomfort this world has to offer.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by MadAce » Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:07 am

JuliusCaesar wrote:
MadAce wrote:I'm a humble paper pusher for my city's social services. Which means I have to deal with the weirdest, most screwed up stuff you can imagine. And I'm talking about the colleagues here.
Right now I'm probably the only one without a massive hangover after last night's office party which ended with a tally of 2 people crying, 5 broken glasses, one broken bottle, a pack of fries hitting the floor, one girl vomiting and my boss dancing with me (relax she's female).

Oh, and the people, the clients, needing social services are weird too; sometimes. But in a positive way.
ROFL this explains so much! You should type up a screenplay comprising the most insane moments and send it to some studios. I can guarentee it will be a hit. I want at least 5% :D
I've already considered writing a script, but nobody would believe me.
Jwilson6 wrote:
MadAce wrote:
Jwilson6 wrote:I'm going to school to be a mechanical engineer.
But this summer I had the worse job I could have every imagined, but where I live I looked for months and noone else was hiring so I had no choice. I worked at a fiberglass factory. Basically what I did was put on a full chemical suit which would be taped up with thick masking tape for extra protection/hotness, eyeglasses, rubber booties, a rubber apron, and a set of thick padded kevlar gloves overtop a pair of latex gloves. And a respirator and go into a sealed off room heated to triple digits where I worked 10 hour night shifts doing the hardest, fastest paced, and most physical job in the factory for 8.50 an hour. Everything in the factory was either razor sharp or would burn your skin if you got it on you, and trust me it always found a way to get on you. And you would sweat so much in there that the sweat would run down your arm and into your gloves. Everytime I would lift up my arm sweat would seriously poor out of the elbows of my suit and leave puddles on the ground, and every couple of hours I would have to lift my respirator up and drain the sweat out or it would start to come back up into my mouth and choke me. They burned through a dozen people trying to replace me when I left, they all quit the moment they put them on my job. From what I hear they had to expand the job to 2 people after I left and they still can't keep up. I think I'll definitely ask for a raise next summer :wink:
That sounds tough. I frankly can't even imagine doing a job like that. I'm a guy who prefers to wear T-shirts in winter, so when it hits 298,15K (77F) I literally stop moving in order to preserve my brain activity. If I move I have to turn off my brain.

Actually coordinating movements and doing a job in the conditions you described sounds completely insane to me.

I hope they paid you plenty. Enough for a trip to Norway or something.
I was the same way, I lost 40 lbs and I saw 3 people pass out from heat exhaustion while I was there. And now I wear long sleeve shirts when it drops below 80. On the plus side, I'm now much healthier, and I'm pretty much convinced that I can withstand any physical discomfort this world has to offer.
Good for you that you see the benefits of the experience. Often, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The boost for your self-confidence is very nice.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by McGrod » Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:45 am

i worked about 13/14 years ago for a few days at a factory cleaning the insides of ICbs

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it was winter and the factory was in the english countryside and I was outside. At that age I was very much follow orders whatever they were (the ACF had done a good job on me even though some of the training had been banned from the army and was only reserved for special forces-such happy days).

So when told to clean them out and that was my job I went to it oh and there was a huge tank that was supposed to suck out all the liquid inside umm but that was frozen and so was much of the liquid inside the icbs now.

They gave me a really crappy hand sized pump with blades to chop up the ice so it wouldnt block the factries drain.

I froze my balls off so mch that on the second day I was hoping I would hurry up and cool down to the numbing stage where you dont realy feel anything. at break time we got free tea and coffee or hotchocolate as much as we wanted. The hot water urns were very good at doing there job

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now I couldnt move my fingers but i had my hands more or less rigid enough to hold a plastic cup and someone was nice enough to put coffee and sugar and milk powder into my cup for me.

As I filled the cup the hot water must have triggered a nerve and my hand jolted this boiling water went all over my hand, woman next to me went white and I didn't feel a thing. No scars no pain (least not from the hot water). That was the coldest I had ever got ..........even when i had hypothermia at a later date.

On the third day I was told I could have gone and got a drink or had a rest whenever i wanted because it was so cold...i did not go back on the fourth day due to a misadventure that night.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by Dr.Strangelove » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:01 pm

I do a bit of this and a bit of that.....nothin that the taxman should ever worry bout, so there's no need for me to tell him.

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by -PLAGUE- » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:34 pm

McGrod wrote:i worked about 13/14 years ago for a few days at a factory cleaning the insides of ICbs

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it was winter and the factory was in the english countryside and I was outside. At that age I was very much follow orders whatever they were (the ACF had done a good job on me even though some of the training had been banned from the army and was only reserved for special forces-such happy days).

So when told to clean them out and that was my job I went to it oh and there was a huge tank that was supposed to suck out all the liquid inside umm but that was frozen and so was much of the liquid inside the icbs now.

They gave me a really crappy hand sized pump with blades to chop up the ice so it wouldnt block the factries drain.

I froze my balls off so mch that on the second day I was hoping I would hurry up and cool down to the numbing stage where you dont realy feel anything. at break time we got free tea and coffee or hotchocolate as much as we wanted. The hot water urns were very good at doing there job

Image

now I couldnt move my fingers but i had my hands more or less rigid enough to hold a plastic cup and someone was nice enough to put coffee and sugar and milk powder into my cup for me.

As I filled the cup the hot water must have triggered a nerve and my hand jolted this boiling water went all over my hand, woman next to me went white and I didn't feel a thing. No scars no pain (least not from the hot water). That was the coldest I had ever got ..........even when i had hypothermia at a later date.

On the third day I was told I could have gone and got a drink or had a rest whenever i wanted because it was so cold...i did not go back on the fourth day due to a misadventure that night.
Brutal. :o

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by McGrod » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:41 pm

Yes despite training and upbringing I did feel very sorry for myself those few days...
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yet after the event had that nice little smug feeling that I was not defeated and that despite getting on the wrong bus falling asleep and ending up in a different county and navigating my way home through instinct I still felt truly victorious...

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MastrIan wrote:
Major wrote:the ultimate riddle...


2 people dancing who may or may not also be crying and or vomiting. suddenly 5 glasses and one bottle break. how did the fries get on the floor?
You're a bartender?

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Post by JuliusCaesar » Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:19 pm

McGrod wrote:Yes despite training and upbringing I did feel very sorry for myself those few days...
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yet after the event had that nice little smug feeling that I was not defeated and that despite getting on the wrong bus falling asleep and ending up in a different county and navigating my way home through instinct I still felt truly victorious...

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Lol i'm the guy from platoon ranting about how one minute my best friend was there and the next my hand is inside of his face which has been reduced to a pile of goo.

No but I was interning at a biotech company, not doing anything glamerous, but mostly cleaning out biowaste, calibrating various kinds of simple machines, cleaning up glassware, so on and so forth. At one point I was supposed to be making reagents, but couldn't due to liability purposes. Oh and during lunch I would have philosophical conversations with this 80 year old Greek pathologist, who had been practicing medicine long enough to see penicillin in it's early days

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by -PLAGUE- » Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:56 pm

JuliusCaesar wrote:
McGrod wrote:Yes despite training and upbringing I did feel very sorry for myself those few days...
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yet after the event had that nice little smug feeling that I was not defeated and that despite getting on the wrong bus falling asleep and ending up in a different county and navigating my way home through instinct I still felt truly victorious...

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Lol i'm the guy from platoon ranting about how one minute my best friend was there and the next my hand is inside of his face which has been reduced to a pile of goo.

No but I was interning at a biotech company, not doing anything glamerous, but mostly cleaning out biowaste, calibrating various kinds of simple machines, cleaning up glassware, so on and so forth. At one point I was supposed to be making reagents, but couldn't due to liability purposes. Oh and during lunch I would have philosophical conversations with this 80 year old Greek pathologist, who had been practicing medicine long enough to see penicillin in it's early days

ah so you already have experience with dealing with pollution ahaha

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Post by nine-breaker » Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:35 pm

I'm currently an unhappy butcher, and because I'm 6'5" I do some bouncing for a local bar on the side. The second job is fun, because I rarely ever have problems, and I can work when ever I damn well please.

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Post by -PLAGUE- » Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:00 pm

nine-breaker wrote:I'm currently an unhappy butcher, and because I'm 6'5" I do some bouncing for a local bar on the side. The second job is fun, because I rarely ever have problems, and I can work when ever I damn well please.
I like the second one :P

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Post by nine-breaker » Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:48 pm

-PLAGUE- wrote:
nine-breaker wrote:I'm currently an unhappy butcher, and because I'm 6'5" I do some bouncing for a local bar on the side. The second job is fun, because I rarely ever have problems, and I can work when ever I damn well please.
I like the second one :P

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