So what's great about your job?

Reaves · 06-15-07, 02:14 AM

Me? I work in retail which in itself isn't great but accross the road is a tanning/beauty salon. Nice scenary all day long.

CCIP · 06-15-07, 02:23 AM

I'm off for the summer, but I work as a teaching assitant in university here.
I honestly just really like working with students. The vast majority of them are certainly not stupid and it's great to see when they're actually learning what you're trying to teach them and when they actually get good enough to bring up some cool ideas.

(It's also the fact that I work in the Linguistics department and a lot of what I do isn't marking silly multiple-choice tests, but rather journals and essays, so the work is usually not menial or brainless - or at least there's a good balance between repetitive and relatively creative work)

For my very first academic/teaching job, I get paid really well too

HunterICX · 06-15-07, 04:32 AM

Motorcycle bussiness

I'm about located 100 meters from the sea.
and I'm really getting distracted when its high season and all the beauty that walks along here

It pays oke
but as I like motorbikes a lot it just makes it more fun to do.

ReallyDedPoet · 06-15-07, 07:01 AM

Work with special needs population in the Administration Department

Great folks to work with and for, gives you an appreciation for life's smaller more important things.

RDP

Jimbuna · 06-15-07, 07:13 AM

It could be said I work on the right side of the law....but there are no doubt some folk who would say I'm on the wrong side.
My reward or justification is simply ensuring life and property are protected

dean_acheson · 06-15-07, 09:25 AM

I get to try cases. I like courtroom work.

Takeda Shingen · 06-17-07, 07:21 AM

I'll be joining the college ranks in the fall, after nearly seven years in high school education. My job will be teaching music history and theory to first and second year students. I could not imagine doing something other than teaching.

porphy · 06-17-07, 07:36 AM

Hi

I work at the University since four years, now as a lecturer and researcher in a subject called "History of ideas and science".
Best thing is that I am my own boss more or less. Very free job and apart from the teching stuff I can work from home, or whenever during the day it suits me. Good for going climbing...

Or staying home till lunchtime reading up on Wittgenstein. Also very good students to work with.
Worst thing is at times all the student papers I have to judge and make comments on. Also a bit of solo job, I miss the feeling of doing something together with others in a joint project.

Cheers porphy

Reaves · 06-18-07, 01:35 AM

There's a bit of a range when it comes to what people do. I am surprised there arn't more military people around. I would have thought we had some captains or even an admiral on here.

XabbaRus · 06-16-07, 04:54 AM

Official trainee draughtsMAN unofficially Project Helper.

Basically I am given the stuff the project engineer doesn't have time to do which is good and bad.

Good as I am getting mini projects within the project and get to design and procure stuff.

Bad because I have never done anything like this and I am learning as I do it (read making it up as I go

) so next time when I have to design a pipe riser for a stack of 10 modules I can do it in half the time at half the cost...yea right.

It's good but am a bit stressed out at the moment. Relying on the guys in the workshop putting it together to help me. Getting quite hands on though. At this moment around my desk I have some 108mm copper Tee Pieces, 4 " bronze flange and some 108mm slip couplings.

06-15-07, 02:14 AM	#1
Reaves The Old Man Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,509 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	So what's great about your job? Me? I work in retail which in itself isn't great but accross the road is a tanning/beauty salon. Nice scenary all day long. __________________

06-15-07, 02:23 AM	#2
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I'm off for the summer, but I work as a teaching assitant in university here. I honestly just really like working with students. The vast majority of them are certainly not stupid and it's great to see when they're actually learning what you're trying to teach them and when they actually get good enough to bring up some cool ideas. (It's also the fact that I work in the Linguistics department and a lot of what I do isn't marking silly multiple-choice tests, but rather journals and essays, so the work is usually not menial or brainless - or at least there's a good balance between repetitive and relatively creative work) For my very first academic/teaching job, I get paid really well too __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

06-15-07, 04:32 AM	#3
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Motorcycle bussiness I'm about located 100 meters from the sea. and I'm really getting distracted when its high season and all the beauty that walks along here It pays oke but as I like motorbikes a lot it just makes it more fun to do. __________________

06-15-07, 07:01 AM	#4
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,885 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Work with special needs population in the Administration Department Great folks to work with and for, gives you an appreciation for life's smaller more important things. RDP __________________ Back in the Day

06-15-07, 07:13 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It could be said I work on the right side of the law....but there are no doubt some folk who would say I'm on the wrong side. My reward or justification is simply ensuring life and property are protected __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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dean_acheson Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Midwest - USA Posts: 1,057 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	I get to try cases. I like courtroom work.

06-17-07, 07:21 AM	#7
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I'll be joining the college ranks in the fall, after nearly seven years in high school education. My job will be teaching music history and theory to first and second year students. I could not imagine doing something other than teaching.

06-17-07, 07:36 AM	#8
porphy Commodore Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 603 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Hi I work at the University since four years, now as a lecturer and researcher in a subject called "History of ideas and science". Best thing is that I am my own boss more or less. Very free job and apart from the teching stuff I can work from home, or whenever during the day it suits me. Good for going climbing... Or staying home till lunchtime reading up on Wittgenstein. Also very good students to work with. Worst thing is at times all the student papers I have to judge and make comments on. Also a bit of solo job, I miss the feeling of doing something together with others in a joint project. Cheers porphy __________________ "The only remedy for madness is the innocence of facts." O. Mirbeu "A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts." W. B.

06-18-07, 01:35 AM	#9
Reaves The Old Man Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,509 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	There's a bit of a range when it comes to what people do. I am surprised there arn't more military people around. I would have thought we had some captains or even an admiral on here. __________________

06-16-07, 04:54 AM	#10
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Official trainee draughtsMAN unofficially Project Helper. Basically I am given the stuff the project engineer doesn't have time to do which is good and bad. Good as I am getting mini projects within the project and get to design and procure stuff. Bad because I have never done anything like this and I am learning as I do it (read making it up as I go ) so next time when I have to design a pipe riser for a stack of 10 modules I can do it in half the time at half the cost...yea right. It's good but am a bit stressed out at the moment. Relying on the guys in the workshop putting it together to help me. Getting quite hands on though. At this moment around my desk I have some 108mm copper Tee Pieces, 4 " bronze flange and some 108mm slip couplings. __________________