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What do you do for a living?

V.I. Lenin said:
Is that the baby eating one or the Satanic one?;)

Don't knock it. They taste like chicken.
 
I'm a Junior in High-School (In North Kakalacky! [Carolina])

I WAS going to work on the graphical design team, to complete certain Photoshopped Graphics for Sports Endevour's magazines, but they were full. Right-Now I'm a full-time Vocalist for a band (Ecce Strages, shortly to re-name to "Asunder") and I'm about to join another band as Lead Vocalist.
 
Arch Enemy said:
I'm a Junior in High-School (In North Kakalacky! [Carolina])

I WAS going to work on the graphical design team, to complete certain Photoshopped Graphics for Sports Endevour's magazines, but they were full. Right-Now I'm a full-time Vocalist for a band (Ecce Strages, shortly to re-name to "Asunder") and I'm about to join another band as Lead Vocalist.

I am a laboratory technician for immunological stem cell transplants. We treat people with leukemias, cancers (to a much lesser extent), and myelomas. Basically we reboot their immune systems. We use to do this with bone marrow but have gotten away from that because the procedure is very involved and painful to the donor. We now inject the donor (very often the recipient them self) with a growth hormone that sends their immune system into overdrive and releases their immune system stem cells into their peripheral blood. Then we remove the cells from their venous blood and freeze them at -200 degrees until the recipient is ready for the infusion. We remove the cells from freezing and wash out all the reagents added to preserve them. The patient then receives the cells after chemotherapy. We also do some other procedures that would take even longer to explain, but they basically end the same way in that the recipient is getting a fresh start to their immune system. We also take part in some clinical trials that are looking very promising.

I am also currently going back to school for political science and then I am off to law school to become a constitutional lawyer. I would someday like to be a federal judge. I actually would like to orchestrate a hostile world takeover, but I could only find a school with that major in Germany. (lol)
 
alex said:
I am also currently going back to school for political science and then I am off to law school to become a constitutional lawyer. I would someday like to be a federal judge. I actually would like to orchestrate a hostile world takeover, but I could only find a school with that major in Germany. (lol)

:rofl That's very funny. Bet you could smoke anywhere huh? ;)
 
Kelzie said:
:rofl That's very funny. Bet you could smoke anywhere huh? ;)

You will be very happy to know that I am trying to quit smoking. I am 3 days without it so far! Wish me luck!
 
I am a surgical technologist. In surgery I am the guy who creates a sterile field, sets up the case, drapes the patient and pass instruments to the surgeon. I also retract and sometimes cut and cauterize tissue. It's a blast.
 
alex said:
You will be very happy to know that I am trying to quit smoking. I am 3 days without it so far! Wish me luck!

Aww, I'm happy for you. I'll even dedicate a "stop the government babysitting" to that:


Good luck Alex...stop the government babysitting!!!!

:mrgreen:
 
How long've you been into the whole punk rock thing (I'm assuming since the whole Op Ivy quote)? I was around your age, a little younger, when I started getting into the scene. First punk show I ever saw was back in the winter of '98, I saw Atom and his Package with Franklin and No Motiv at this club on Fullerton in Chicago called the Fireside Bowl, and that **** was awesome, especially for an 8th grader.
Best show was VGS, also at the Fireside, or the Teen Idols w/ the Role Models and Criminal Class USA (most people have never heard of them, but they ****ing rock hard!), also at the Fireside.

I've literally been listening to punk rock since about forever but then again I've always been a great lover of music. I learned a lot of Scottish and Irish songs from my mom and grandma. Now that I'm older though and I have a bit more liberty, I can go to shows more often. However I did go to a bunch of shows about 2 years ago with my friends cause I got them into that stuff.
 
alex said:
You will be very happy to know that I am trying to quit smoking. I am 3 days without it so far! Wish me luck!


hard to do, if you must do something, chew, don't smoke..

it helps I suppose, or i guess you could try the patch or gum

Just tryin to help a fellow citzen is all.

good luck man, you'll need it
 
Re:

What do you do for a living?

Cuurently my civilian job is I am a logistics account manager for a logistics corporation called velocity express. And I also attend college full time.

On the military sector I was a weapons ordinance logistics specialist for the Enterprise battle group.

I was going into the Army National Gaurd until I just got word a few days ago that I got accepted to the Air Force Academy. So there I will be studying and hopefully training to be a aviator.
 
128shot said:
hard to do, if you must do something, chew, don't smoke..

it helps I suppose, or i guess you could try the patch or gum

Just tryin to help a fellow citzen is all.

good luck man, you'll need it

Thank you.
 
alex, you can do it. I quit 22 years ago after smoking most of my life. The second best thing I have ever done. The first was meeting the lady I married.
 
Old and wise said:
alex, you can do it. I quit 22 years ago after smoking most of my life. The second best thing I have ever done. The first was meeting the lady I married.

Thank you. It is hardest on the weekends. I have made several plans to keep me occupied over the next three days. I think I'll change the crutch to chocolate. I love orange-flavored chocolate. I'll buy a case of it and whenever I feel like lighting up, I'll eat it! MMMMMMMMM... sweet chocolate!
(Extra gym time though. Fair trade.)
 
I worked on a political campaign all summer as the Bronx borough coordinator, and if I don't get the job I'm applying for, (to be a paralegal/assistant to a housing lawyer), I'll be back at that part time during school.
 
What do you do for a living?

Right now I am a janitor/maintenance for a parking facility management company while I am going to school to be a PC technition and network administrator.
 
jamesrage said:
Right now I am a janitor/maintenance for a parking facility management company while I am going to school to be a PC technition and network administrator.

Take it from someone who is in the biz...Skip the "tech" part and go "network admin"....
 
I am a Cosmologist currently engaged in High-z Universe research. In simple terms, I seek high-z (z=redshift) celestial objects known as Type 1a supernovae and determine their /kps (kiloparsec per second) cosmic rate of recession.

Type 1a supernovae are excellent standard candles, which means that their absolute magnitude is always the same. If one already knows an object's absolute magnitude (true magnitude) and then measures its apparant magnitude (the light that we recieve from that object on Earth), one can then mathematically calculate its distance. In this manner, using Type 1a supernovae enables one to reliably measure recessional velocities at varied and various distances from Earth. With enough collected data, one can then calculate the value of the Cosmological Constant which in turn implies the overall geometry of the universe (open/closed/flat). Essentially, the true value of the Cosmological Constant reveals the ultimate fate of the universe.


 
Tashah said:
I am a Cosmologist currently engaged in High-z Universe research. In simple terms, I seek high-z (z=redshift) celestial objects known as Type 1a supernovae and determine their /kps (kiloparsec per second) cosmic rate of recession.

Type 1a supernovae are excellent standard candles, which means that their absolute magnitude is always the same. If one already knows an object's absolute magnitude (true magnitude) and then measures its apparant magnitude (the light that we recieve from that object on Earth), one can then mathematically calculate its distance. In this manner, using Type 1a supernovae enables one to reliably measure recessional velocities at varied and various distances from Earth. With enough collected data, one can then calculate the value of the Cosmological Constant which in turn implies the overall geometry of the universe (open/closed/flat). Essentially, the true value of the Cosmological Constant reveals the ultimate fate of the universe.



So is looking for the redshift basically the same as looking at a Doppler effect except with light?
So what have you gathered so far, is our universe open, closed, flat or other and are we expanding or collapsing?
That kind of stuff is very interesting to me, I have heard that we are close (well not that close) to mapping the known universe, so I take it your data helps in this mapping.
That friggin rocks.
 
gdalton said:
So is looking for the redshift basically the same as looking at a Doppler effect except with light? So what have you gathered so far, is our universe open, closed, flat or other and are we expanding or collapsing?
That kind of stuff is very interesting to me, I have heard that we are close (well not that close) to mapping the known universe, so I take it your data helps in this mapping. That friggin rocks.
The degree of spectral shift of selected elements (such as hydrogen) in a celestial body or sample determine if that object is approaching (blueshift) or receding (redshift) from our vantage point. With the exception of spiral galaxies (the spiral disk revolves around a central core and the disk is thus both approaching and receding simultaneously), all objects in the cosmos are receding.

The data to date suggest a Cosmological Constant value of around 1.3. The default value is 1 which denotes a flat universe. Thus, our universe slightly exceeds a flat geometry. With a flat geometry, the universe continually expands albeit at a slow rate of acceleration. Thus, the data suggests that the universe will slowly expand forever.

Contrary to what was previously taken as a given, the cosmic rate of expansion has changed over time. It is accelerating faster now than it was eight billion years ago. This increase is currently attributed to a phenomena known as dark energy. Although dark energy appears to be an anti-gravitational force, no one truly understands its intrinsic properties or if it is a variable entity. Hardly anyone in the general public realizes this, but dark energy comprises around 70% of constituent cosmic stuff. Ordinary baryonic matter such as planets and stars comprise only about 7% of what our universe consists of. The remaining 23% is composed of dark matter which is another cosmic enigma. In other words, everything that you can see and touch in the entire universe is a mere 7% of what is actually there.

PS. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has mapped about half of the Southern Hemispheric view of the universe.



 
Tashah said:
I am a Cosmologist currently engaged in High-z Universe research. In simple terms, I seek high-z (z=redshift) celestial objects known as Type 1a supernovae and determine their /kps (kiloparsec per second) cosmic rate of recession.

Type 1a supernovae are excellent standard candles, which means that their absolute magnitude is always the same. If one already knows an object's absolute magnitude (true magnitude) and then measures its apparant magnitude (the light that we recieve from that object on Earth), one can then mathematically calculate its distance. In this manner, using Type 1a supernovae enables one to reliably measure recessional velocities at varied and various distances from Earth. With enough collected data, one can then calculate the value of the Cosmological Constant which in turn implies the overall geometry of the universe (open/closed/flat). Essentially, the true value of the Cosmological Constant reveals the ultimate fate of the universe.



I've heard of a ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs...:2wave:
 
Tashah said:
The degree of spectral shift of selected elements (such as hydrogen) in a celestial body or sample determine if that object is approaching (blueshift) or receding (redshift) from our vantage point. With the exception of spiral galaxies (the spiral disk revolves around a central core and the disk is thus both approaching and receding simultaneously), all objects in the cosmos are receding.

The data to date suggest a Cosmological Constant value of around 1.3. The default value is 1 which denotes a flat universe. Thus, our universe slightly exceeds a flat geometry. With a flat geometry, the universe continually expands albeit at a slow rate of acceleration. Thus, the data suggests that the universe will slowly expand forever.

Contrary to what was previously taken as a given, the cosmic rate of expansion has changed over time. It is accelerating faster now than it was eight billion years ago. This increase is currently attributed to a phenomena known as dark energy. Although dark energy appears to be an anti-gravitational force, no one truly understands its intrinsic properties or if it is a variable entity. Hardly anyone in the general public realizes this, but dark energy comprises around 70% of constituent cosmic stuff. Ordinary baryonic matter such as planets and stars comprise only about 7% of what our universe consists of. The remaining 23% is composed of dark matter which is another cosmic enigma. In other words, everything that you can see and touch in the entire universe is a mere 7% of what is actually there.

PS. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has mapped about half of the Southern Hemispheric view of the universe.




Your posts are very sexy.
 
I teach. Yes. The socialist, russian, crazy foreigner teaches your children and eats up your tax dollars.

No supprise there,liberals teach all the time.No big deal really, unless you go off in the deepend like Ward Chruchill.
 
Tashah said:
The degree of spectral shift of selected elements (such as hydrogen) in a celestial body or sample determine if that object is approaching (blueshift) or receding (redshift) from our vantage point. With the exception of spiral galaxies (the spiral disk revolves around a central core and the disk is thus both approaching and receding simultaneously), all objects in the cosmos are receding.
Apart from Andromeda & possibly other galaxies in our 'local group' by definition.
Tashah said:
Contrary to what was previously taken as a given, the cosmic rate of expansion has changed over time. It is accelerating faster now than it was eight billion years ago.
Shouldn't that read 'expanding faster now than it was eight billion years ago' ?
 
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