# What do y'all do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 1999, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163 "1999-07-23T03:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/81 "1999-07-27T05:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s nothing worse in this world than a corporate attorney, except maybe a defense attorney. Hey! Some of us are very nice people! \ You’re at a place nicknamed PMS, whattaya expect?? -Melin * * * ``` Phenomenal woman Bitch Corporate Lawyer That's me ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/82 "1999-07-27T13:58:00Z")
Government lawyer. I work for the Kentucky Department of Insurance, mainly monitoring the financial health of insurers. I also handle mergers and acquisitions of insurance companies. WOO HOO! Plus, I’m an inveterate cheese straightener in my spare time. * * * “Owls will deafen us with their incessant hooting!” W. Smithers ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/83 "1999-07-27T14:42:00Z")
Registered Nurse in ICU, landlord, freelance artist, aspiring novelist, long-suffering wife, mother of three. I need a nap. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 1999, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/84 "1999-07-28T05:09:00Z")
I am a trainer and support person for the Corporate Data Repository for our company. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/85 "1999-07-27T18:53:00Z")
Dirty Devil – Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, which is why I am now a government lawyer doing work I actually like for (Circus) peanuts. To be specific, I’m an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Montana. Greetings to all my fellow legal eagles (legal beagles?)! I didn’t know there were so many of us on the Board. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/86 "1999-07-27T20:05:00Z")
Currently a househusband, dog feeder, dog waterer, dog washer, SD addict. Was: Employed for 15 years by a submarine builder to test main power systems and components. After an on-the-job accident(involving head/back injuries), I was employed for another 5 years(same company) to design and produce manuals for submarine main power systems. My health eventually got to the point that I was unable to work productively anymore, so the company put me on compensation(read: out to pasture), and I now wait to see what happens. * * * **FixedBack** “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”~~_G.K.Chesterton 1908_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/87 "1999-07-27T20:22:00Z")
I’m a PhD student in Toxicology ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/88 "1999-07-27T22:12:00Z")
Melin - I am sure that you are a very nice person. I was stereotyping. Something I should be above. Sorry if I offended you. I guess there’s a little “PMS” in all of us ;). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 1999, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/89 "1999-07-27T22:51:00Z")
ConMan, you must come to my hotel!! We hire the worst possible canidates just to fill in the minimum staffing nonsense our GM dreant up. I’ve recently transferred from FD supervisor to Res supervisor. No one but myself to supervise now, and I have a chair, a desk AND A WINDOW! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 1999, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/90 "1999-07-28T20:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Plus, I’m an inveterate cheese straightener in my spare time. – Frank HEY! I’m into cheese straightening too! In fact, I’ve got a really, _really_ cool cheese straightener at home. You’re only the third human I know of who realizes the pleasure that can be had straightening cheese. ## Straighten on! **StoryTyler** _The fun starts here!_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 1999, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/91 "1999-07-29T03:20:00Z")
Uh…, I’ve got to ask about this **cheese straightening**. I’ve never been able to knock off cheese for being straight or otherwise. How do you tell? Or, more to the point, what are y’all talking about? StoryT - you possess some device that _makes_ errant cheese go straight? Can it be adapted to other mediums? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 1999, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/92 "1999-07-29T12:30:00Z")
Frankd6 – what a coincidence. I work for the Kentucky Department of Information Systems, tracking down unauthorized uses/users of state resources - NOT! Actually, I’m a programmer like many of the other people on this board, with a (by default) expertise in the use of utility programs, JCL, analysis, and system documentation. “DIF” stands for Dennis-in-Frankfort. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 1999, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/93 "1999-07-30T02:15:00Z")
beatle - I checked the people in that group - don’t know anyone but Doug V. who I wrote some stuff for a couple of years back (unfortunately, I also didn’t write some stuff for him - he may not be very happy with me) He may not know I dance, I don’t tell absolutely everybody about that! You might know my old boss, Dan S., worked at LL&E, really nice person, Mormon, went to Colorado School of Mining. The reason I thought we might have mutual acquaintances is that I never went to a vendor meeting with Dan where he knew less than half of the people in the room! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 1999, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/94 "1999-07-30T10:39:00Z")
about to be final year university student studing genetics * * * Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 1999, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/95 "1999-07-30T14:58:00Z")
During the day I moonlight as COO for an Internet company to support my real job: working on my old English car. * * * How come there are no English computers? They couldn’t make them leak oil… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 1999, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/96 "1999-07-31T02:37:00Z")
Currently a legal research paralegal with the South Dakota Supreme Court. Back to school this fall to finish my degree and then hopefully a job outside of SD… * * * “Nuts!” Gen A.C. McAuliffe “The general’s nuts.” unknown 101st AB grunt ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 1999, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/97 "1999-08-02T03:02:00Z")
Xgemina > [@](#): > > unknown 101st AB grunt you are dating yourself (and so am I). That is “dogface,” not “grunt.” ## Huh? Oh. . . Business systems programmer. I’m actually a rent-a-body who finally escaped from a single client after 12 1/4 years (and after the idiots in the company that swallowed my client destroyed my client in just 3 1/2 years–I have NO respect for the fools who call themselves corporate management in the U.S.) Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 1999, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/98 "1999-08-08T20:43:00Z")
Uke says: > [@](#): > > Ukulele Ike > Member posted 07-26-99 11:40 AM > I’m a book editor in a mighty NYc skyscraper. Good saxophonist, too. sounds interesting.is it? … Beatle:good topic. This was the only one I bothered to read completely, after 2 weeks out.I prefer not to tell anything interesting about my job(chemist). But I work in a lab, and at times in a plant. Is the board going down the toilet? I can’t find much in General to discuss. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 1999, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/99 "1999-08-08T22:15:00Z")
I’m a translator (English/French) and I work in the retail industry. I occasionally stumble upon interesting documents to translate 😉 * * * The gene pool could use a little chlorine. ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 1999, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163/100 "1999-08-08T22:20:00Z")
I’m a wife, mom, and servant to my dogs, horse, and ducks. I also do occasional web design, various software design for my husband (commercial software designer/programmer), and lets not forget the laundry and money market account manager. I garden (flower and vegetable) and write erotica. (Suzeanne, I’d love to talk :)) If it involves math I’m good at it, but my main job in life seems to be smartass extraordinnaire. trisha * * * He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-do/8163.md?page=6)