How do you make a living?, Whats your job? |
How do you make a living?, Whats your job? |
 Sep 26 2004, 05:15 PM
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 Mistress of Red Magic  Group: Arbiter Caste Posts: 1466 Joined: 24-June 03 From: Minneapolis, MN Member No.: 53  |
I work as a security guard for 4 office buildings in the downtown area, betweenthe 4 are about 60 floors. Some nights I'm on patrol and others in operations. I've been with the company for over 4 years and worked at verious other places.
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Sep 30 2004, 06:57 AM
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Soul Frame Group: AT Certified Posts: 150 Joined: 29-March 04 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 137 |
 No, I didn't use my kids photos on the karate site - I didn't have any when I started this, and we just haven't changed them. The other site is one of my best friends, who was my neighbor till she moved to this new farm the next town over. Those are her kids all over the site - that was fun to do, and see their reactions when we showed them.Meteorology was and is fascinating - I wanted to be a meteorologist from the time I was in 6th grade. It was my focus all through high school, and I truly enjoyed learning about it in college. I got to do wonderful internships, living and working on top of Mt. Washington for a summer and a winter (the tallest point in New England, in the Northeast - 6,288 ft - home of the "World's Worst Weather") and I got to work at channel 4 WBZ here in Boston, behind the scenes. That's where i learned I never want to be on tv. The hours, the politics, the stress, was just too much for the poor pay you earn until you get into the night newscast - which is usually years. I say usually because sometimes people luck out - I turned down a weekend tv job at a little local NH station (WMUR) and some new chick named Michelle Michaels took it instead. Next thing i knew, she was here in Boston, then she was on the Weather Channel, and now she's back here in Boston again. Believe me, I wonder if that could have been me at times...but I know her personally, and know the issues she's had to deal with - stalkers, producers who care more about her looks than her forecast, days without sleep or going home - it is just overwhelming. INstead I took a job at a place where I learned how to run the satellite groundstation, and helped create satellite images that you see every day on the news. We were a giant warehouse of weather data that we would then stream out over satellite dishes to people who purchased our value added products. It was fascinating, but the hours I mentioned above did not work as I went through marriage, the death of my father, purchasing a house, having two kids...I could not function. In addition, I was one of the few females in an all male field - it's getting better, but it's still testosterone driven...I guess that's why I'm not a girlie girl - if you are, you get eaten alive in that field, and I never outgrew it. I'm more comfortable joking around with a bunch of guys than with women. So eventually I had to get out of that department, and I, being a geek since I got my Atari 800 and programmed in DOS, was teaching myself HTML at the time - and my company was starting a *gasp* website - while the web was TEXT ONLY, I started helping to build INTELLICAST. And I loved web work, and it went from there. The funny thing? I think I do more weather now than when I worked as a meteorologist. I have time to sit down and pour over the computer models and watch the images and study the patterns, whereas during work I had to focus on quality of data, not the CONTENT...and now I get to share it cause I go into the kids' classes every year and give a talk on weather. :D That's so much fun, so in a way, I still use my degree in a big way. AND I get to be online 8 hours a day and get paid for it. ;^> ... Oh my didn't mean to babble on so long. I have to comment - physics to philosophy - that's an intriguing combination!! The two are such opposites, and yet not - it's like science and religion in a way, they compliment and yet oppose each other depending on how you look at it. Have you read "Angels and Demons"? I think you'd like the opposing viewpoints presented there! It takes one hell of an open mind to have passion for both! |
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