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ps veganeric did you ever live in tampa?
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anthropology doctoral student just finishing up my dissertation research on extreme/far right-wing groups in Japan.
class of 2010! woo!
class of 2010! woo!
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Geographic information systems specialist for a county health department.
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^Nice. I did GIS for a while as well.
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I am just bored, curious and wondering what everyone does for a living? I'm 18 years old and for the past three years i've worked at a local family owned outdoors store (www.leesadventuresports.com to get a feel for what its like) and this fall will be a student at Illinois Wesleyan University probably working at the rock climbing gym down there. What do you all do?
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i work in a cheese sandwich factory
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Currently doing my job and other people's jobs for a software co. So basically doing what I really don't want to be doing.
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I double majored in physics and philosophy, then got a free ride to grad school in philosophy. For a few years I did the normal Teaching Assistantship stuff that many grad students end up doing, but then money was so tight I got a regular job. Given my background in physics -- which involved using computers to run experiments -- and my background in logic -- from studying philosophy -- I was well suited to computer programming. So here I am.
In the past year, I have decided to take up philosophy again and finish my dissertation. My intention is to get back into teaching, particularly critical thinking / writing, within the next couple of years.
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did my bachelors in dietetics, and was doing a masters in nutrition science when I got offered a job to manage a lab at a university. Am doing that now, mostly nutrient analysis in biological samples as well as some basic molecular biology work. Moving back home to Los Angeles to finish my masters at the end of summer.
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Corporate world is a strange, contrived place. Sometimes it zaps your self worth, other times it fuels it. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm doing here and other times I feel like there's nothing I'd rather be doing. My coworkers are odd people but that's OK because I am fairly autonomous over the business processes I oversee and no one micromanages me.
I wish I owned an online bike shop. That will be my next foray.
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I do daily corporate safety videos for Shell Oil Refinery in Martinez. I am also a third year film student at the Academy of Art in SF. Awesome school, i love it.
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Thought that said dianetics. I bet if you try to tell someone that at a loud party, they'll make the same mistake.
I have conversations professionally. I'm going to school for new media production, which I like to call it. Basically making forms of news that work well on the interwebs, so photo, video, and a little bit of print. I work at an newspaper right now, which is pretty old media, and it sucks because I have a cubicle for a view. I also screenprint stuff and do freelance sound work for one of my professors.
I think everyone replies with their job, whether or not asked specifically, because that's what people do with a huge portion of their time. I think, also, that some people don't do anything but their job, and "oh, I watch tv" doesn't really start a conversation.
I have conversations professionally. I'm going to school for new media production, which I like to call it. Basically making forms of news that work well on the interwebs, so photo, video, and a little bit of print. I work at an newspaper right now, which is pretty old media, and it sucks because I have a cubicle for a view. I also screenprint stuff and do freelance sound work for one of my professors.
I think everyone replies with their job, whether or not asked specifically, because that's what people do with a huge portion of their time. I think, also, that some people don't do anything but their job, and "oh, I watch tv" doesn't really start a conversation.
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OK, yes, we should not be reductionistic in regards to equating what we "do" with our work...
But, to stick with the theme of the thread, I am a stay-at-home-dad of a three year old girl (Simone) and a ten month old boy (Gavin). During naptime I am trying to write my dissertation as I am a grad student in Philosophy. Doing work around the Phenomenology of Place coming out of the work of Martin Heidegger, Gaston Bachelard, with some infusions of Edmund Husserl and Walter Benjamin (for you Philosophy-nerds). My hope is to have it be rather interdisciplinary pulling in some aspects of city/place planning and human geography. I tell people at parties that I am a topoanalyst (taking from Bachelard).
I commute by bike.
I like this thread.
But, to stick with the theme of the thread, I am a stay-at-home-dad of a three year old girl (Simone) and a ten month old boy (Gavin). During naptime I am trying to write my dissertation as I am a grad student in Philosophy. Doing work around the Phenomenology of Place coming out of the work of Martin Heidegger, Gaston Bachelard, with some infusions of Edmund Husserl and Walter Benjamin (for you Philosophy-nerds). My hope is to have it be rather interdisciplinary pulling in some aspects of city/place planning and human geography. I tell people at parties that I am a topoanalyst (taking from Bachelard).
I commute by bike.
I like this thread.
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And because colloquially, "what do you do?" usually asks for your occupation. It's a fair enough assumption that, unless it's otherwise made clear, this questioner expects job-talk for an answer. Sure, sometimes the savage literalists are looking for a list of biological processes, but that's a somewhat rare event.
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I'm a "interior horticulture tech." which means I water houseplants professionally. I have a mount to hold the watering can on my work bike. I get to play with plants and ride around Boston and Cambridge all day. I get a kick out of watering 30 foot palm trees in the snow.
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And because colloquially, "what do you do?" usually asks for your occupation. It's a fair enough assumption that, unless it's otherwise made clear, this questioner expects job-talk for an answer. Sure, sometimes the savage literalists are looking for a list of biological processes, but that's a somewhat rare event.