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Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:00 pm to Skinner
Dock Operator at a Chemical Plant.
Was gonna go to grad school in NM but funding fell through so I left my job and desired career area (wildlife and fisheries) to pursue something making more money.
I dislike it some days and like it on others. Shift work is a mfer but I'm making more money now than I would have had I stayed on the path I was before. Just trying to get on as an operator inside a plant somewhere. Plus I met my SO through this transition and I can't say that I have any regrets. Still have a passion for what I did before but it's worked out for me so far.
Was gonna go to grad school in NM but funding fell through so I left my job and desired career area (wildlife and fisheries) to pursue something making more money.
I dislike it some days and like it on others. Shift work is a mfer but I'm making more money now than I would have had I stayed on the path I was before. Just trying to get on as an operator inside a plant somewhere. Plus I met my SO through this transition and I can't say that I have any regrets. Still have a passion for what I did before but it's worked out for me so far.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:27 pm to Skinner
Manage a cotton/corn/soybean farm
BBA in Management
Grew up in a farming family. My family had a farm and a large custom farming business when I was in middle school. We got hooked up with the wrong people in the custom farming part and lost everything, they went to jail. My father started managing a farm, I came back and worked for him after college. After a couple years, I had progressed to a point of being worthy of a manager's salary, but there wasn't enough room in the budget for it, so I started looking for a new job and found a great situation and have been here 4 years.
Love my job. Love agriculture and take pride in how our crop usually looks compared to other farms, but the ultimate goal is to one day get into a situation with my father where we have our own farm again, even it has to be a smaller operation that is only supplemental for us. I want our family and my future children to be able to have that.
BBA in Management
Grew up in a farming family. My family had a farm and a large custom farming business when I was in middle school. We got hooked up with the wrong people in the custom farming part and lost everything, they went to jail. My father started managing a farm, I came back and worked for him after college. After a couple years, I had progressed to a point of being worthy of a manager's salary, but there wasn't enough room in the budget for it, so I started looking for a new job and found a great situation and have been here 4 years.
Love my job. Love agriculture and take pride in how our crop usually looks compared to other farms, but the ultimate goal is to one day get into a situation with my father where we have our own farm again, even it has to be a smaller operation that is only supplemental for us. I want our family and my future children to be able to have that.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:30 pm to Skinner
Telecommunications Infrastructure Manager/Engineer - Retired
Physics Major and chose the closer job (60miles) versus a job for a Naval Weapons Lab 1000+ miles away.
Loved about 25 years of a 43 yr career.
Physics Major and chose the closer job (60miles) versus a job for a Naval Weapons Lab 1000+ miles away.
Loved about 25 years of a 43 yr career.
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:35 pm to MrSmith
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Software engineer in aviation.
Japense Company?
Is so I might be coming to LF
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:36 pm to Skinner
Technical sales
Graduated with ano ME degree. Started out in the engineering group. Quickly got tired of that and moved on to the operations group to escape the engineering group. Happened to be in the right place at the right time when the industry was skyrocketing. Moved up several positions in a few years due to expanding workforce. Lucky enough to have made the cut once it snapped back and everyone was cut.
I really don't love my job. But the freedom is great (I left at 2 today because I and a call at 3:30 and just wanted to take it at home so I wouldn't have to drive at rush hour). But dealing with customers is rough.
Graduated with ano ME degree. Started out in the engineering group. Quickly got tired of that and moved on to the operations group to escape the engineering group. Happened to be in the right place at the right time when the industry was skyrocketing. Moved up several positions in a few years due to expanding workforce. Lucky enough to have made the cut once it snapped back and everyone was cut.
I really don't love my job. But the freedom is great (I left at 2 today because I and a call at 3:30 and just wanted to take it at home so I wouldn't have to drive at rush hour). But dealing with customers is rough.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:36 pm to Skinner
I solve business problems with technology. I got a computer science degree from lsu. I originally was in school to go to law school. A friend asked me to take a part time job st a dot com and next thing you know I'm changing majors. Programmed for about 10 years and always excelled at business in general. So moved more in to strategic alignment. Pretty happy.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:38 pm to thelawnwranglers
I have been a X-ray/CT/MRI for 11 years. I did 4 years in college and started in my field as soon as I was out. I enjoy it. I have been doing it so long I don't k ow how to do much else anymore.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:42 pm to Skinner
When I was a teen I almost moved to Chicago to sign with an up and coming record label at the time.
Chose not to go because, didn't have a place, don't love the city, band member turmoil and substance abuse. Plus there was no advance.
I'm still in music, but had I gone there..what happened with the label, things undoubtedly would have been different. In a time when things were very different in the world and I was a lot younger.
Chose not to go because, didn't have a place, don't love the city, band member turmoil and substance abuse. Plus there was no advance.
I'm still in music, but had I gone there..what happened with the label, things undoubtedly would have been different. In a time when things were very different in the world and I was a lot younger.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:49 pm to Skinner
- website and mobile app development
-self taught for the most part I started off in hardware I have an A+, mcse, nuvell and CIW certification. First job was tech at best buy, graduated over to programming over the years
- yes and no, I don't get to really program anymore I manage projects, which I like doing I don't like dealing with idiots having to comb through work for simple arse errors, telling someone we are on deadline then having them screw the job up gets old quick, I like challenges. I don't like it when I know the right way to do something and a client wants it done the hard or impossible way because they know just enough about design to know what WordPress is and thinks its a cure all.I hate scope creep, I hate clients that think you can't have a weekend off like I don't have a life. I hate Asians of all kind. Like seriously i hate Asians
-self taught for the most part I started off in hardware I have an A+, mcse, nuvell and CIW certification. First job was tech at best buy, graduated over to programming over the years
- yes and no, I don't get to really program anymore I manage projects, which I like doing I don't like dealing with idiots having to comb through work for simple arse errors, telling someone we are on deadline then having them screw the job up gets old quick, I like challenges. I don't like it when I know the right way to do something and a client wants it done the hard or impossible way because they know just enough about design to know what WordPress is and thinks its a cure all.I hate scope creep, I hate clients that think you can't have a weekend off like I don't have a life. I hate Asians of all kind. Like seriously i hate Asians
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:52 pm to Skinner
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- What do you do for a living now?
Engineering Supervisor
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How did you end up there
BS CE, get fired from consulting firm, PE,, wind up in a great job get promoted after 5 years
Love my job
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:58 pm to Skinner
-got laid off in the oilfield
-went back to school to kill time...ended up with an engineering degree
-now manager of engineering
-wouldn't change a thing.
-went back to school to kill time...ended up with an engineering degree
-now manager of engineering
-wouldn't change a thing.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:01 pm to Skinner
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What do you do for a living now?
Pipe Welder and Draftsman(im always switching between the two)
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How did you end up there (education, jobs, certifications, interest)?
I like to build things and work with my hands.
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Do you like what you do (and if not what would you have done differently)?
At the moment im doing drafting work, plan on going back to welding asap. I like both, but welding is what i love.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:32 pm to Skinner
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What do you do for a living now?
I do wealth planning for private wealth management clients at a major financial institution
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How did you end up there (education, jobs, certifications, interest)?
Education: BS Pharmacy, MBA, JD, LLM Taxation
Worked as a pharmacist for five years then decided to go to law school and eventually got my LLM. Spent the majority of my 10 year legal career doing tax, trusts and estates. Specifically, complex estate planning and administration for high net worth clients ($15M-$50M)
quote:
Do you like what you do (and if not what would you have done differently)?
Just left private practice to start working at the financial institution. They will have to call security to make me leave
. I see the comp of the people that have been there for around 20 years and it is bonkers.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:49 pm to Spankum
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went back to school to kill time...ended up with an engineering degree
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:50 pm to Skinner
Pro Golfer. Ranked 700 something in the world.
Nike contract
Married a white girl
Won a bunch and got rich as frick
Tried to be a navy seal
Cheated with a bunch of white girls
Fire hydrant.
9- iron to head
Had to pay wife $150 million
Can't walk anymore
Still rich as frick
Nike contract
Married a white girl
Won a bunch and got rich as frick
Tried to be a navy seal
Cheated with a bunch of white girls
Fire hydrant.
9- iron to head
Had to pay wife $150 million
Can't walk anymore
Still rich as frick
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:59 pm to MSTiger33
I work in private wealth management (SFO).
B.S. Finance pursuing CPA.
I like where I'm at. I get to work on some cool stuff and there is a lot of potential for me.
B.S. Finance pursuing CPA.
I like where I'm at. I get to work on some cool stuff and there is a lot of potential for me.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 10:19 pm to Skinner
quote:
- What do you do for a living now? software analyst
- How did you end up there (education, jobs, certifications, interest)? took the aptitude testing at Johnson O'Connor Institute
- Do you like what you do (and if not what would you have done differently I love it. Get the aptitude testing done immediately. I wish I had done that in high school. It would have saved me the pain of the wrong degree and 12 years of trying to making something work that I'll never be happy doing.
I say this in all these threads and I'll say it again here, go get the aptitude testing done. It will save you a shite ton of time and bad decisions. Everyone should have it done at 16.
www.jocrf.org
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 7:05 am
Posted on 3/6/17 at 11:04 pm to Skinner
quote:
- What do you do for a living now?
Nothing.
quote:
- How did you end up there (education, jobs, certifications, interest)?
Thinking outside the box.
quote:
- Do you like what you do (and if not what would you have done differently)?
Drinking all day is awesome.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 11:15 pm to Skinner
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What do you do for a living now?
Manage control center operations of one of the largest terminals in the country.
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How did you end up there (education, jobs, certifications, interest)?
Scheduled pipeline for one of the majors for three years, HSE for 2 years for the same major before that, LSU liberal arts graduate.
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Do you like what you do (and if not what would you have done differently)?
It has it's ups and downs....I hired a gentlemen a couple weeks ago and he broke down in tears because he found a job onshore and is now able to be with his family everyday.
I took a huge risk leaving one of the majors-some days I wished I had stayed, I was really good at my job and didn't have to manage over 50 individuals, but ultimately this will pay off more in the long run.
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 11:18 pm
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