What do you do for a living thread...

[moreau]

Assistant Professor of Physics at Albion College in Michigan.

This after finishing my Ph.D. in Physics at Michigan State University in August.

Though Dr. Mordrid managed to retire at 38 after having spent time teaching physics, I'm afraid this Dr. (Moreau, for you H.G. Wells fans), won't be retiring anytime soon on a professor's salary.

cheers
Charles

[CHHAS]

I'm a DB2 database admin on a OS/390 mainframe platform.

[Dr Mordrid]

Ahhh....another physics type

What units are you teaching at Albion? The calculus of mammary suspension systems?

Dr. Mordrid

[agallag]

"Win2K Active Directory Planning and Engineering" is my department's name. I work for one of the big six canadian banks. Basically, we handle all the design and implentation of active directory for our big time win2k rollout (30,000+ users!). I'm mostly in charge of the domain controllers themselves, hardware, os, etc. Luckily, I don't have anything to do with the users or their computers

[The Rock]

My new title (promotion..WOOHOO) is Operations Coordinator (Open Systems) for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We coordinate the installations of servers (usually Sun boxes, and a LOT of them), and manage the backups for said servers. We set up the LAN drops, power, what racks to put em in (after we configure the rack cabinets), etc. These are Canada-wide national servers, not little LAN crap.

Bart

[moreau]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Ahhh....another physics type

What units are you teaching at Albion? The calculus of mammary suspension systems?

Dr. Mordrid

I wish.


Teaching (1)Theoretical Mechanics and (2)Calc based intro w/ labs.

Next semester I'm teaching (1)E&M and (2) algebra based intro w/ labs for premeds.

BTW, Doc, If you have any input on what needs premeds have in an intro physics course (i.e. what they need to take the MCAT), I'm open to input.

Charles

[Alec]

I´m a self-made graphic designer that worked on a publications company for the last 3 years. Now I´m waiting for my new job in a new company that´s still in the process of bureaucratic creation...

Meanwhile I´m taking a college degree in Social Studies (just one exam and training work report away). Here´s a photo of me bored in my 2-month training work in audio-visual production and directing in the news department in a TV channel:

[Technoid]

I think it says "Computer Technician" on my job description...

I don't care as I do get payed every month...

But what do I actualy do???

Repair computers, assembles computers, computer arceology, network adm,
part time shrink, bouncer, weapons specialist, aracnid hunter, Audio spectrum analyst..... and so on...

Working for a Computer shop that has been in buisnes for twenty years is fun for the most time, intersting sometimes and downright mysterious in a few cases...

[rubank]

Not really, just tired.
I´m a former... well, former will do. Now I have a dreary job, providing just enough to finance my spare time.

So Technoid, you´re a "weapons specialist". What gun do you use for hunting arachnids?

Personally I prefer more useful game, like moose and roe. And I won´t miss out a good opportunity on capercailzie or black-cock.

rubank

[Wombat]

I don't know any of those games, but I've played <B>stump</B>. Probably the most foolhardy idea for a drinking game that doesn't involve motor vehicles. But damn, it's fun.

[cjolley]

Is that anything like "Stump the Chumps" on Car Talk?
chuck

[Wombat]

No. That's a cool one too though. But I can't imagine Click and Clack doing the show drunk. That's very scary.

[Dr Mordrid]

The students I taught had need for classes in basic particle and radiation physics.

"Sir, what's the definition of a sievert again?"

"Sir, what's this stuff about quarks?"

"Sir, where in the nucleus is the electron?"

"You've got a textbook. LOOK IT UP, DAMMIT!!"

Dr. Mordrid

[Greebe]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA How true!

[rubank]

The classroom equivalence of RTFM, eh.