OT: What's your job/career?? - Page 3

DarkAnt · #21 November 25th, 2004, 11:09 PM

I'm just a highschool student, but I hope to become a computer engineer so I can do cool stuff with robots.

Atrocities · #22 November 26th, 2004, 12:06 AM

If had to give any ten peaces of advise to a high school student they would be:

1. Never get fat
2. Trust No One At Work
3. ALWAYS get it in writing
4. Document everything you do
5. Buy Property, not sports cars
6. Enjoy life while your young if you can
7. Plan for your future by saving money now.
8. NEVER spend your money before you have it.
9. AVOID the Credit Card trap and always pay them off.
10. Read the fine print, and keep your lawyers card in your wallet.

Renegade 13 · #23 November 26th, 2004, 01:26 AM

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Will said:
Anyway, not sure if that helps any... but do at least apply to university. It will help out in the long run (spoken as someone who is first in the family to go beyond high school).

First of all, thanks to everyone who's posted so far. I hope more people see this thread, and let their professions be known.

Will, I just applied to one of the Provincial universities today. They've already given me a full-tuition paid scholarship for the first 4 years. (worth approx. $16,000 CDN) So I think I'm definitely going to go there, and at least discover what I do NOT want to do.

(*EDITED for spelling errors. You'd never know I actually had a bit of a brain in my head with the spelling mistakes I can make

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TerranC · #24 November 26th, 2004, 01:35 AM

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Atrocities said:
If had to give any ten peaces of advise to a high school student they would be:

1. Never get fat

Poppycock. Getting fat is fun and fulfilling.

Kamog · #25 November 26th, 2004, 02:14 AM

Another thing is, you should exercise at least three times a week.

When I was in high school, I didn't exercise. I took gym class until Grade 10 because it was mandatory, and that was the only exercise I got. After Grade 10, I participated in no physical activities at all. I just sat in front of the computer or read all day. Many years later, I was completely out of shape. It wasn't until partway through university that I started exercising. It's difficult to develop strength or flexibility when you're older if you didn't do anything when you were younger.

Aiken · #26 November 26th, 2004, 03:40 AM

Graduated as a manager.
Current work - lawyer in town administration (twas second education).
Taking post-grad course for doctor degree (economics).

Grauzone · #27 November 26th, 2004, 05:54 AM

PhD student (do research in distributed control algorithms for self-reconfiguring module robots)

Makinus · #28 November 26th, 2004, 09:44 AM

hey, cool, 3 lawyers already! what about we make a lawyer/advocate shipset? with special weapons like "civil lawsuit", intelligencce projects like "habeas data" that give all information on an enemy empire and special engines like "habeas corpus" that allow free movement?

(just kidding)

My post was a little shorte previosuly (had a court audience in a few minutes and had to hurry), but i do love my profession, even being a little overworked at this time, and in today�s courts a lawyer needs to have a very good grasp of computers, bacuse toay, computers is and indispensable tool of every law office...

And i love to play strategy games in my (very short nowadays) free time...

pathfinder · #29 November 26th, 2004, 09:50 AM

Chemist with US Fed Gov. Give technical support to government contracting. can't say much more, would probably bore you to death anyways.

Prior jobs were: part of hazardous material response team (state level)/disaster assistance, US Army, production supervisor/QA metal finishing, lab tech for NC dept of agricuture.

Yeah, many and varied to say the least.

Alneyan · #30 November 26th, 2004, 10:01 AM

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deccan said:
Sciences po? Surely you don't mean to be an enarque? That would make you even more Machiavellian than you already are, though that would arguably make you even better at playing strategy games with lots of scope for diplomacy...

Well, I wouldn't go to Sciences po in Paris, and the odds of getting in the ENA would be about as high as... well, defeated a High-bonus Asmala/Primitive/RexTorres alliance. So it does not seem that likely, even without looking at matters like "do I want to? Is it related to 42 in any way?".

It would fit quite nicely with my title though. As Narf put it, I am a "sarcastic, *****y, amoral mind-bender". Doesn't that have a nice ring to it? Too bad the comment was aimed at my character, the ever so nice Tiefling Psion.