I am an X-Ray Tech in a Lower East Side Hospital in Manhattan. I am starting school next semester to finish my pre-req's for Medical School or PharmD, not sure which one I'll choose. Just wondering what everyone else here is doing. I'd imagine there are a few others in the medical field here. Pls tell us about yourself in a few sentences...

I work for a company called vintage stock. we sell used movies, music, and video games, as well as toys and various sports and entertainment memorabilia. we also buy sell and trade everything we sell. sometimes, we get some pretty decent TF's in.

alot of people in the area Starscream that we either don't give enough for trade on toys, or that we overcharge for toys.
we can either offer a fair price to the seller, in which case we sell the item for 50-75% more, or we low ball you on price, and we sell it for cheaper than you find on ebay.
either way, someone's not going to be happy...

I'm currently holding a position doing data entry/data encoding/accounting work for a fortune 500 insurance company built on no advertisement other than word of mouth. The largest purposes for my position are government reporting and gain/loss assessment. I like my job and plan on moving up once I fell I am ready. I have a bit of a temper problem IRL.

Bum.

I'm pretty much permanently disabled.
Through Aspergers, depression and agoraphobia I'm pretty much never going to work.
Seeing people through most of next year to remedy this though.

I currently teach Japanese and English to junior high school students.

Fun with students...






Fun with other teachers...

No good dirty film student starting his final semester in January

Near-last year of bachelor for English Language and CUlture, and Philosophy.

I think there's been a thread or two like this, but anyway... I have a degree in Anthropology and Antiquities and previously worked as an archaeologist and museum curator for the National Park Service. After I realized I was working in a semi-dead end job I quit and did some teaching for a while (middle school and high school), but I soon got tired of that and am currently working for a hospital while pursuing a second degree in the medical field.

Finishing my bachelor's degree in Communications and Philosophy, then hopefully on to voice acting.

Though currently I play accordion for a gondola tours business.

Good for you. That's how I prepared for my career.

Web/graphic designer by day, and fine artist & illustrator by night.

I'm a Graphic Designer / Creative Artworker.

Architect and part time statistician.

I'm also in the Medical Field, at first I too was plan on being a X-Ray tech but ended up a BMET, Biomed (Biomedical Equipment Technician) what ever you want to call it. Basically I maintain and repair medical equipment. I know Galvatron1 should be familiar with what I do.

I think this thread would've worked out a lot better if we all just simultaneously pumped our Transformers in the air and yelled "HAROO! HAROO! HAROO!"

Currently unemployed, but I'm trying to get prepped back up towards doing animation(flash) and web design.

Aoi

I am inside sales/outside sales/purchaser/project manager/take off specialist (think blueprints)/IT/Fleet manager/maintenance/Operations agent/Inventory agent for a national electrical supply distributor.

I also do work at TFormers now and then.

I've done a billion things it seems...

right now I have no title, but you could say I am a software technician/engineer for a OEM (like Dell but not as cool). My current claim to fame: I have software on all of Walgreens security computers that I wrote. yay!

I have previously done work as:

Retail: cashier
Farmer
Deskside support
Tech Support: Sony (Consumer Electronics, VAIO), Adelphia (level 2), Iomega
Landscaping
Software Developer
Website Developer
PC Implentation
Site Migration (2000 to XP)
Club DJ, security
Concert Promoter
Sales (Iomega, Verizon)
Windows NT Administrator
Training

Yes there have been threads like this before. This could also be rediscussed since I imagine some of the old threads have tfan members that might have changed job(s). I am a middle school math teacher and have been for the past 9 yrs.

Animation Student in my last year then i dunno i will shop around for work i guess

Very true!! LoLz!! I think we are all transformers collectors by profession! Haroo! Haroo! Haroo! Ha ha ha!! That's the answer I was looking for, I love it!! For Sparta!! Er...for Cybertron???

In?

I'm surprised that nobody is putting themselves as an axe murderer so far.

ETA: Oh, and I test DVDs.

How long did you go to school for that, if you don't mind me asking? I thought about getting into radiography myself, but the programs offered here are a LOT more hardcore than nursing and the like, and I don't really feel like doing another 3-4 years just for an Associate's degree.

like a few others here, im a graphic artist. will be my 7th year working for a major publishing company here in Honolulu. also a freelance designer/illustrator (my "play" money. hehe) and a full-time father!

That's more a hobby really.

I work remotely (i.e. "at home") for a healthcare company that does third-party claim adjudication for mental health services. I'm in the IT department, more on the database/operations side than the PC/LAN support side. I'll have been there for five years on April 1st.


<_< there's a joke in there somewhere

I get my ass kicked for $2.35/hour.

It took me 2 1/2 years, I only need 2 classes b/c I fulfilled most most of my undergraduate courses when I got my bachelors at Hunter College. At Hunter, I did my pre-requisites for physical therapy & graduated 1/99. I worked 2 years as a physical therapy aide, but decided against getting my Masters in it, b/c the field was so saturated, & too competive to get into school & way too competitive to find a job, so I became a personal trainer for 2 years at Crunch. After 9/11 Crunch let me go, so I collected unemployment for a year and got myself together to go back to school for Radiography. With Radiography, you will always have a job, as long as you keep your license & registration renewed every 2 years.

I will be most likely leaving my job, to take classes starting January 25th. I do not think they will offer me p/t. I am about to start pre-req's for PharmD.

I guess you don't get paid for being an admin then.

*Crosses "Kill pete and take his INTERNET place." off of the list.*

We should have a poll with certain industries as options. When I was a uni student, the overwhelming majority of fellow nerds I knew on campus were either doing computers/IT or engineering. As an arts/education student I really stood out!

I work with guys who test DVDs (well the drives anyways). So one day the one guy says, "how do you test video in a CD drive?" Well the next day I brought in my awesome Gundom 0083 Movie VCD and he never questioned again.

IT up until last year, now trying my hand at some of the more fun bits of real estate. If it doesn't work out, I guess it's back to slaving over a hot keyboard.

Make sure you know what a friggin land patent is. I got bored of asking Appraisers if they knew what it was because NONE of them that I did knew it. And back as ye olde appraisal.com (they are criminals) they had like a 20% market share on RE appraisers.

I used to live next door to a guy who worked as a labourer who thought that any work that didn't involve manual labour didn't count as actual work and he found the notion of me talking about "working" or feeling any stress or fatigue from work difficult to comprehend (i.e.: he usually dismissed it as a joke and laughed).

...cos ya know, managing some 150+* teenagers in an attempt to educate them is effortless... (-_-)

(*yes, there are about 30 students in one class, but it's not as if I only teach one class per day! And you can tenfold the stress for each emo kid per class)