How's your job? School? Wife and kids? Girlfriend?
Let me know what's going well or not!
e: Come to think of it, I don't know what half of you do for a living.
So, tell me what your job/major/both is/are! Gadani fucked around with this message on 02-27-2008 at 11:41 PM.
I have no money, but I'm not letting that stop me this time!
So, I'm looking for a better job currently. I applied at Children's Hospital and a couple other places.
Other than that it's pretty ho-hum. I read the entire Ender's Game series. I'm just finishing up Shadow of the Giant.
Also oh god moving in with Lokii, MorbId, MorbId's sister, and YOTC's girlfriend(no YOTC 
) in August. Or I should say they'll move in with me.
Then the real world finally, I guess =/
Don't think I have the grades or inclination for grad school, at least immediatly.
This year, I'd like to do at least one of four things too:
-pick up a language
-pick up an instrument
-pick up writing some
-pick up some weights
Will probably join up on some local campaign too.
Currently finishing up my final semester at Gonzaga University. I have finished everything for my Economics degree (though I'm currently taking Econometrics anyways) and am doing my senior thesis for History.
I'm also waiting to hear back from Econ Ph.D programs; I've applied to UT Austin, U Rochester and UC Berkeley. If none of these places give me moolah to study there, I'm going to take a year off before re-applying and work somewhere for a year, hopefully some Think-Tank doing research assistantship stuff, or at the Federal Reserve. I'll be a stronger candidate for grad school next year, as the paper I wrote should be published this year in the Journal of Human Capital (hopefully).
I have a wonderful ladyfriend. She's quite pretty and smart, even though she's a Sociology major.
I also recently finished up the first Ender quadrilogy. Great stuff.
How is your life?
I started a new job in January. I'm a firmware engineer in Silicon Valley. It's a pretty sweet deal so far--I show up at 10, in sandals, and occasionally get to drink on company time. I also get to work on really cool stuff.
Otherwise, I'm still just getting used to having at least (a little) free time. Seriously actually picking up guitar for real this year. Starting to plan out finances. Starting to network up here as well. It's weird living somewhere without feeling like there's an "end date", so to speak.
Good times. 
I live in the city, without really having to worry much.
Don't have any kids I know about, and go out with people every weekend or so.
Life's good.
Life is better than it has been in about a decade, so I've got nothing to complain about. Except finals. Fuck that.
Life is great right now! My job is going pretty well. I'm functioning as a senior developer now and my data architecture and program concepts are becoming the company norm. My boss recognized this and hit me with a sizable raise this year.
I'm getting married in June, closing on a house in 29 days, and looking forward to all that jazz.
Got dumped by my girlfriend of almost seven years, not good.
Still unemployed and living with mom, not good.
Seeing a therapist to deal with a whole bunch of shit, probably good in the long run but right now it doesn't really feel that way.
Looking at the scorecard, my life's going pretty shitty.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
Just finished my first 6 months as a manager at my new job, waiting for the performance review to come back and find out how well the owners think I'm doing.
Big tax refund is coming, thank god for owning my own place.
Have had a bit of trouble sleeping in the past few days because of what feels like allergies, but is probably just a cold - so I'm only working a half day today.
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Gadani wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Tell me about your life.How's your job? School? Wife and kids? Girlfriend?
Let me know what's going well or not!
e: Come to think of it, I don't know what half of you do for a living.
So, tell me what your job/major/both is/are!
I work at a Kroger and a Gold's Gym.
I go to school at a little local campus in Duluth, GA and major in English Education.
I also train five or six days a week as an amateur cagefighter; I don't make money off it yet but I got sponsored to train.
No wife, no girlfriend.
I'm moving to Leningrad, Russia in about a year and a half to train with a team of guys up there; definitely looking forward to that experience.
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Aw, geez, I have Naimah all over myself!
I have a degree in Electrical Engineering and can't find a job. Go me?
Might need to move to a more fertile job market. You know, like Europe hurrrrrrrr
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Just declared a minor in Anthropology. No idea where I'm going in life with a Biology/Anthropology degree, but that's what interests me.
A guy at the campus center was giving away free bottles of Vault. It was disgusting, but it was free.
I work at the dining hall. : / I get paid minimum wage and I am embarrassed to tell people about it. I did get promoted to supreme master of smoothies though. I should have won the nobel peace prize for my discovery of the smoothie flavor "Awesome" It consists of strawberries, canteloupe, yogurt, milk, ice and a shot of vanilla syrup. You can put whipped-cream on top if you are a fatty.
I would like to study abroad next year, but I doubt I will be accepted into the program because of my major, which is unfortunate.
I bought a super cute poster for my wall but it keeps unsticking and rolling back up, which is annoying.
I am participating in my school's chapter of "The Biggest Loser" and I have lost 10lbs since the end of January! My target weight is 115lbs by April! It is feasible, even though I hate going to the gym and it's too cold to run outdoors.
I have class in 16 minutes.
Finished off my Bachelors of Science and Applied Arts in Astronomy with a minor in Math. I am currently waiting for another callback from the HR at SDSU to see if I was awarded the position I applied for (looking at about 45+k/yr + full benefits for this position). I am currently working at Astronomical Research Cameras as a part time employee for 13/hr doing assembly. I have a fiancé and we're planning on our wedding for 2010. I am also looking at finding a place to live. My fiancé is currently going to school for Archeology at CSU San Marcos.
School is going pretty great; I have a 3.4 GPA (from one semester, but this semester's shaping up pretty nicely), my major is Music Education (voice concentration), and I pretty much have my schedule planned for the next few semesters.
I've been having the same girlfriend for about two years now (such a long time right) and we are doing super!
My friends and I hang out whenever possible and I work with one of my closest friends almost every day (in the pharmacy).
Life is good! Gadani fucked around with this message on 02-28-2008 at 06:09 PM.
Getting ready for a duty transfer coming up in a few months. Cant wait. Gonna buy a house.
I'll finish up my MBA eventually. Someday.
Mom died on the 15th, my dad is still a wreck because of it, my brother is picking up most of the slack and getting stressed because of it, and I don't know what the heck I'm supposed to be doing as I've never been in this situation before. We went to buy a new car, ended up getting two, don't know what the fuck to do with the other one and have just stuffed it in the garage for now as it needs work doing to its engine.
Trying to get a few exams finished so I can get a job that won't entail stacking products onto shelves or talking someone through pressing the power button to turn on a computer over a helpline.
Kind of a limbo at the moment. A frantic running-around-like-a-headless-chicken limbo.
Happy that my critically ill aunt made it for her 50th birthday, she's a tough cookie. We threw a surprise party for her, even though she was really sick that week and quite obviously upped her steroids in order to make it for her 'birthday dinner' which is what we told her it was.
My thesis is going well, I'm doing well, mark wise with a 75% that should actually be rising now, since my instructor told me that he's enjoying my recent pieces more... We had an amazing xmas card sale to raise money for our grad show and brought in $650 over the course of 3 partial days which exceed our expectations.
I'm now working on a 'professional' site for my work, which hopefully will be up and running soonish.
I was recently in an art show to raise money for the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, which was an amazing experience.
All and all everything is going well. :3 Thanks for asking.
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Naimah thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
I have a degree in Electrical Engineering and can't find a job. Go me?
Do you have any job experience? If you don't, you're going to run into a pretty big wall, as most places I've been would rather hire a senior technician than a junior engineer. (I've actually got the opposite problem: I've got experience but no degree, so I'm stuck in technician-level positions.)
Where do you live now and what, specifically, are you looking to get in to? Design, process engineering, reliability...? Arttemis fucked around with this message on 02-28-2008 at 10:18 PM.
And the scary thing is that I am loving it Oo
Race: Dwarf
Name: (Kill) Kilinus
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Level: 14
Allignent: Neutral Evil
Diety: Bane
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So quoth Arttemis:
Do you have any job experience? If you don't, you're going to run into a pretty big wall, as most places I've been would rather hire a senior technician than a junior engineer. (I've actually got the opposite problem: I've got experience but no degree, so I'm stuck in technician-level positions.)Where do you live now and what, specifically, are you looking to get in to? Design, process engineering, reliability...?
I have about a years worth of experiance in software QA. But yea, pretty much every listing I've looked at has been for 3-5+ year experiance. I'm in Austin which isn't the best of markets but whatever. I have another 4 or 5 months of savings and if I can't get something in town, I'll start looking nationally.
Wife is doing fine. Working at Penney's and taking classes to finish her accounting degree. Once she gets her AA finished she's looking for a bookkeeping job, so bye bye retail. Our son will be 16 months old on the 5th of March. He's gonna be ginormous when grows up I think.
Overall, things aren't going too bad. Hopefully they'll keep looking up.
Gotta start thinking about retirement, though, which is a downer. And I need to figure out how ambitious I still am at this point in my career--I can try to coast for the next 10 years to max retirement, pull the handles early and look for a "real" job after another assignment, or see how far I can still go in terms of responsibility.
I'd like an assignment back in the US one of these days, but can't figure out how to avoid the Pentagon. 
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I don't have a girlfriend right now. I honestly rather like being single in college, although I'm considering whether I might better stay on track with one.
I'm not really sure what I'm majoring in, which doesn't make my college very happy. This semester I'm taking Cultural Anthropology, Behavioral Analysis, Computational Linear Algebra, Financial Accounting and Engineering Statics. I'm officially working towards a degree in Economics, but I'm not taking any of those classes right now.
Pretty boring really.
Stalwart Steve fucked around with this message on 02-29-2008 at 05:42 PM.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
So all in all, things really haven't been better since... dunno, forever. I haven't played this little video games since I was like years old. I vaguely miss it, but wouldn't give up the time with my girlfriend for anything. Vorago fucked around with this message on 02-29-2008 at 06:14 PM.
So I'm gonna keep working shit jobs while I get back in shape and maybe think of law enforcement or army enlistment.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
Had I been born a hundred years ago, I most certainly would be.
Getting my business plan worked out. Current work involves writing articles for magazines, freelance designing of jewelery, and freelance accounts auditting.
Wife is fine, working as an LPN, and going to school to get her RN. My daughter is beautiful, learns quickly, and destroys electronics. She turns 2 this year, and can already call me on her mom's cell phone. My girlfriend and I broke up, and this made me sad. To the point that I lost about 40 pounds on a beer and antacid diet. But I'm healing nicely.
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Greenlit Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Today's private investigation is not the kind I am interested in.Had I been born a hundred years ago, I most certainly would be.
But "ees so easy" - Green Leaves
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Callalron obviously shouldn't have said:
My job...is my job. Shift manager at the Car Care Center on Nellis AFB. Just got a raise last paycheck, plus maybe another coming in a couple of months. And I've heard we're actually getting bonuses this year, since we hit our retail goals for 2007. Don't know how much or when, but it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Customers on the other hand...ugh. For what they're paying me, they're lucky I don't go after some of the dumber ones with a bat.Wife is doing fine. Working at Penney's and taking classes to finish her accounting degree. Once she gets her AA finished she's looking for a bookkeeping job, so bye bye retail. Our son will be 16 months old on the 5th of March. He's gonna be ginormous when grows up I think.
Overall, things aren't going too bad. Hopefully they'll keep looking up.
You live around Nellis?
My squadron flies into there pretty often.
