::makes a mental note to never ask Simetra what he does for a living cuz she wants to keep him around::
Awwww… ::sniffle-smile:: Sometimes that’s all a guy needs to hear. 
Btw Conti, I’m afraid we’ve just hijacked your thread to death. Sorry 'bout that. 
I humbly submit to the Teeming Millions that my job as a full-time photojournalist is purty kewl.
“That’s easy!” I hear you saying to yourself. “Anyone can take pictures!” Yeah, well, I don’t see you getting paid to do it, bub.
Basically, I’m paid to go to interesting places and meet interesting people, and then snap a few photos of them. I won’t bore you with a list of celebrities/politicians that I’ve met, other than to say, how of you have had an NBA star fall in your lap during the course of doing your job? (Just as long as you make sure it’s not Dennis Rodman…he has a habit of kicking us folks in the groin when he does that. :eek: )
Ahhh, dont worry about it Simetra. It’s fun reading what everybody has to say anyway…haha. By the way, i read in your profile about programming for the air force. I’m majoring in Computer Science myself…and i was wondering if they use the C, C++, Basic types of programming we are learing, or if the military has their own programming language? Also, is there a demand for civilian programmers in the Air Force? I understand if you cant answer me. Thanks!
Conti
Conti, Simetra would answer you I’m sure but I believe They cut off his Internet access when they sent him to military prison for divulging what he has so far.
I do historical and legal research for a law firm that represents American Indian tribes. Sometimes, I get to do field work. I spend a lot of time at the National Archives and the Library of Congress, as well as local universities.
I don’t have an easy time of it waking up in the mornings, but when I do, it’s with a shit-eating grin on my face. You’ll only be able to pry this job from my cold, dead hands.
I’m a monkey washer. I’ll let you decide how “cool” that may be.
Nice euphemism. I didn’t know you could get a job doing that. Hell, I’d be a millionaire by now!
When I was 16 I had a job packing Jewlery into little envelopes and send them off to Cote D’I’voire. Far from incredibly cool admitedly but I was impressed by another guy who worked there as a Diamond Courier. He would attach special pouches to his body and get chauffered to the airport , fly first class ,meet the customers wherever(and I do mean wherever), spend a couple of days wandering around and then fly back with their signatures.
I figure I’m still jealous.
I’ve worked as an Industrial Chemist , Osaka’s best cocktail bartender, waiter , tech support guy , medlab technician and a few others.
Whadda mean I cant hold down a job ???
My job can sound cool, if you describe it right, but most days it isn’t. Basically, I do research for the Provost. If the provost wants to know something, we find out about it and tell her what she needs to know.
My husband’s job–well, one of the things he does as a consultant–is cooler. He animates automobile crashes for trials so they can show the jury what happened. Unfortunately, the one he is working on now involves a driver who was WAY over the legal limit when he ran into a huge gravel hauler. He died, and his family is suing because they claim the truck was overfull. I’m sorry, but when your dead family member got that way being behind the wheel blasted, I don’t care if you ran into a a non-inspected triple-length overweight rotted-axle fuel-leaking truck laden with plastique driven by a methamphetamine-addled unlicensed driver. Dude, you were DRUNK and driving. Let’s leave it at “oops” and not tie up the courts, shall we?
…and GIS coordinator. Yay. I travel all over the state of Alabama inspecting wells, water systems, and treatment plants.
Ogre, defender of public health and well-being! I swear, I should just get it over with and start wearing a super hero outfit.
I’m a freelance namer. I used to work full-time with an American marketing consultancy in Tokyo, where my job was to think up names for products and companies all day. It was fun for a while but I got burned out after having to come up with 400 name candidates for each of 5 different shampoos expressing why each one is luxurious, economical, sophisticated, easy to use, and completely different from everything else on the market. Yeah, right. Now I just do occasional freelance projects for one of my former managers.
I’m also a wedding minister. A lot of Japanese couples want to have western-style weddings, not out of any particular religious feeling, but because in the movies Christian ceremonies seem to be much more romantic that traditional Shinto weddings. To complete the setting, they usually want a western minister who can perform the ceremony in Japanese, which is where I come in. Wearing my minister outfit, I act godly, put on a show for about 30 minutes, and send the happy young couple on their way. The pay’s pretty good too.
–sublight.
I think my job is pretty cool. I’m a mechanical designer and I get to work with 3-D modeling software. There are a lot of mundane details to my job, but designing parts and being able to see them on my monitor is really cool! A big plus is that all the companies I’ve worked for have paid for my training instead of me. And the money’s not bad for a non-college grad.
Oh dear God am I one lucky, albeit neglected, adoptee.
My job is halfway cool, I guess. Cool meaning I get paid a nice sum to play online all day. I’m an Admin. Asst. for a very small office based out of a nationwide intellectual property consulting firm. We have cool moments directly related to the job when we get to view patents for everything from truck frames to intraocular lenses to fake teeth to beef-packing machines.
I’m “training” to be an actor(actress, for the politically correct). That will be cool when I eventually find a contract job with a theatre company somewhere.
shrug
I’m a writer and I’m active on the Lower Hudson Valley amateur bicycling circuit, and I’m also a catwatcher.
These jobs are cool, but none of them pay anything, so for money I do telephone support for a large brokerage firm’s online trading desk. They’ve been imposing non-online-related jobs on this department as of late, basically making us do all the crap jobs that no one else wants to do, which has made me passionately hate my job. Otherwise, I’d say this job is kind of cool. Before spring, I fully intend to have gainful employment elsewhere, perhaps doing web design or writing and editing.
Nope, I work for a weekly radio trade paper. I edit the three sections of the paper that have the least to do with radio. Works for me
Currently and NT admin for lockheed. I get to see them build F-16’s, which is kinda cool. The main factory floor is one room, a mile long, about 4 storys tall. Supposedly it is the longest room in the world, and at one time the largest air conditioned structure(that was a long time ago). The same factory was used in WW2, to build B-24’s, and later b36’s, F-111’s, and a bunch of other planes. They have pictures of all the differant planes being built over the years, all in the same factory, which hasnt changed that much.
In the past I have worked, in no particular order, landscape,Dominoes pizza, bouncer, security, computer tech, Psych tech, motorcycle mechanic, microfilm tech, airport security, lawnmower repair, programmer, musician(keyboard player), convience store clerk, and probably a few more that I dont recall, or won’t admit to.
Well, I’ll give you a rundown of the languages I’ve used so far.
PowerBuilder
C++
Visual Basic
Ada
COBOL
SQL
Flash 5
Assembly
Hope this helps, and yes, we are always looking for contractors. The demand for programmers in the Air Force is extremely high.
((No, they haven’t thrown me in military prison yet. ))
CatRandom:
I am a copyeditor also. Sometimes cool.
Upham:
I hate to be clueless, but was this L.D. some sort of hot all-time Betty?
I’m an attorney. While that alone doesn’t sound interesting…here is why most people giggle at my job:
Person: Hi…what do you do for a living?
Me: I’m an attorney…
Person: Ohh…where do you live?
Me: Springfield.
Person: Who do you work for?
Me: Um…the Department of Nuclear Safety.
Person: Oh my God, you’re Homer Simpson!
har har har.
I’m studying to take the patent bar exam so I can do intellectual property and get away from the Homer Simpson jokes!
Tibs