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What is your profession?

I'm in one of the helping professions (ie, typically female-dominated fields that are low-paid but emotionally rewarding and fulfilling).

I work hard, and I sleep well at night (in my crappy Section 8 apartment). :lol:
 
A God for you all to worship. And when I find the free time, an adolescent psychotherapist.

And winston is NOT Master of the Universe. I removed him from that position last year because of a scandal.
 
I am a unemployed loser :(
I sold IT hardware and telecom B2B for about 10 years. The industry is in a major downward spiral because there is very very little margin in hardware now. Plus no one was buying anything. No IT departments were buying a DECENT amount of merchandise. I started with zero accounts and came up with 6. I was with the company for 5 months and got canned. When I had opportunities to sell product, I was actually DENIED to provide terms anything over NET 15. I can write a small book on how I cold called my ass off and came up with opportunities.... and how they were denied! I could have sold servers to CBS for the damn Super Bowl last year but my corporate office said CBS was too SLOW to provide CREDIT references!!!!! I could have shot the idiot who told me that!
Before that I was with another company for about a year and also got canned. I was hired along with 8 others and none of them lasted past 4 months. But they canned me after a major re-org.

I have VERRRRRRRRRRRRY bad luck with companies. Its either they go bankrupt, reorganize, close the branch office Im in / relocate, or they lie about job duties, commission, dont PAY the commission I EARNED, lied about training, benefits........

I can go on. Its gotten to the point that some of my family think Im full of ****. But my close friends and family know the sad, sick truth. I am freakin' CURSED with companies. Now dont get me wrong because I have been canned because I suck at a job too. But that has happened 2 times in over 18 years.

I dont even want to say how many jobs Ive had.

I want to go back to college but I dont have the money. Im not eligible for grants because I have a Bach Degree. (you cant get a grant if you have a Bach degree already)
I cant take out a loan. I have ENOUGH debt already.

I dont even LIKE selling anymore. Im tired of being only as good as my last month of sales. I deserve better than that! Im tired of kissing peoples asses and taking their **** just so I move product. Im tired of freakin cold calling every day! Not only making cold calls but making 90 a day and providing a report to my manager on EACH result. Then providing PROJECTED sales. Then providing sales that are the FUNNEL!!!

Ive developed heart palpitations that happen serveral times a day. Ones where I lose my breath. I actually have gone to the hospital from panic attacks more than 15 times in the last 15 years!!!!!

But the job market is ****! And I need a job.

I dont know what to do :(
 
Hoplite said:
If you guys figure out what to actually DO with a polisci degree, let me know :)
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Well I got the bachelor's degree in polisci. With that bachelor you can do 3 different masters: political sciences (to be a searcher or a teacher => no one did that), international relations (150 students chose to do that, but the only openings with that degree are embassies and stuff like that...so 145 of them are actually going to do something that is totally unrelated with political sciences), and public administration (I chose that, we're only 5 or 6) which gives many openings: here are some people who studied public administration

Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 - 28 January 1948) was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes after the war and executed.


Liebehenschel was born in Posen (now Poznan). He studied economics and public administration.
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Arthur Liebehenschel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Petraeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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The Giant Noodle said:
I am a unemployed loser :(
I sold IT hardware and telecom B2B for about 10 years. The industry is in a major downward spiral because there is very very little margin in hardware now. Plus no one was buying anything. No IT departments were buying a DECENT amount of merchandise. I started with zero accounts and came up with 6. I was with the company for 5 months and got canned. When I had opportunities to sell product, I was actually DENIED to provide terms anything over NET 15. I can write a small book on how I cold called my ass off and came up with opportunities.... and how they were denied! I could have sold servers to CBS for the damn Super Bowl last year but my corporate office said CBS was too SLOW to provide CREDIT references!!!!! I could have shot the idiot who told me that!
Before that I was with another company for about a year and also got canned. I was hired along with 8 others and none of them lasted past 4 months. But they canned me after a major re-org.

I have VERRRRRRRRRRRRY bad luck with companies. Its either they go bankrupt, reorganize, close the branch office Im in / relocate, or they lie about job duties, commission, dont PAY the commission I EARNED, lied about training, benefits........

I can go on. Its gotten to the point that some of my family think Im full of ****. But my close friends and family know the sad, sick truth. I am freakin' CURSED with companies. Now dont get me wrong because I have been canned because I suck at a job too. But that has happened 2 times in over 18 years.

I dont even want to say how many jobs Ive had.

I want to go back to college but I dont have the money. Im not eligible for grants because I have a Bach Degree. (you cant get a grant if you have a Bach degree already)
I cant take out a loan. I have ENOUGH debt already.

I dont even LIKE selling anymore. Im tired of being only as good as my last month of sales. I deserve better than that! Im tired of kissing peoples asses and taking their **** just so I move product. Im tired of freakin cold calling every day! Not only making cold calls but making 90 a day and providing a report to my manager on EACH result. Then providing PROJECTED sales. Then providing sales that are the FUNNEL!!!

Ive developed heart palpitations that happen serveral times a day. Ones where I lose my breath. I actually have gone to the hospital from panic attacks more than 15 times in the last 15 years!!!!!

But the job market is ****! And I need a job.

I dont know what to do :(
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Well I also know people who can't easily find jobs, especially now with the crisis. Many of my friends have studied history...those who didn't keep on studying for a doctorate thesis (so that they'll be low-paid searchers for the rest of their lives) are either jobless or have an awful job in some unknown medieval archive
 
bub said:
Well I got the bachelor's degree in polisci. With that bachelor you can do 3 different masters: political sciences (to be a searcher or a teacher => no one did that), international relations (150 students chose to do that, but the only openings with that degree are embassies and stuff like that...so 145 of them are actually going to do something that is totally unrelated with political sciences), and public administration (I chose that, we're only 5 or 6) which gives many openings: here are some people who studied public administration



Arthur Liebehenschel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Petraeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The first example - priceless.
 
I am a part of the vanishing middle class in America. I am a blue collar man with a pension plan. I work for one of the largest surface water treatment plants in the world as a plant operator/mechanic/plumber and whatever else they need me to do. I like my job and it pays reasonably well. It affords me a modest home in the suburbs and a pickup truck. My wife is a waitress and drives a 2007 Mercedes Benz E350. She has been waiting tables since 1986. We have managed to do well in saving for our retirement. Plan on purchasing an RV and hittin the road to see America when I retire.
 
I work as an Electronics Engineer supporting the design of just about any type of electronic project from customers all over the world. Both hardware and software. It's interesting because I never know what I'll be working on. Could be helping a hobbyist in his garage or an engineer from NASA!

In the evening and weekends I'm a husband/father/ATM/household handyman/electronics hobbyist.
 
Hoplite said:
Anything I'd recognize?
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Nothing released yet, but if you follow ICE games at all, we're working on AfterWorlds, a post-apocalyptic genre sourcebook and campaign setting for HARP Sci-Fi.
 
Sweet, I might actually check that out.

Shadowrun is a personal favorite and games in that vein tend to be my games of choice
 
Hoplite said:
Sweet, I might actually check that out.

Shadowrun is a personal favorite and games in that vein tend to be my games of choice
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Shadowrun, yes, I love it's smooth system structure and combining mid-evil fantasy with techno-fantasy. It's easy for new players to grasp the dice system and find their role-playing nitch. In Shadowrun, if you pimp out your SMG or spell focus, you don't have to flip through books and books to find all the relevant rules. It's pretty strait forward.

IMO the easiest game system is White-wolf's and the hardest game system is Palladium's. Shadowrun is a workable balance favoring simplicity. New gamers can follow the basic rules while more experienced players can specialize without braking the the game.

I have stories if you have stories....
 
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Jetboogieman said:
*Spartan Cheer from 300* Nah just playin

At the moment... I am an actor, fully graduated out of film school with an agent... I'm giving this a shot to see what happens and if all doesn't go well, will find a new thing to do. [
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If I were you, and dedicated to my craft, I'd go to local playhouses and take any kind of job I could get, even if it's a janitor or flunky.

By the way, you should know that agents always favor their most popular actors first, definitely not newcomers... Been there, done that.

ricksfolly
 
Astrophysics/Cosmology
 
Tashah said:
Astrophysics/Cosmology
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Tight, theory or experimental/observational? I am working on modeling X-ray binaries with a goal of getting a better determination of the equation of state describing the core of a neutron star.
 
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Jerry said:
Shadowrun, yes, I love it's smooth system structure and combining mid-evil fantasy with techno-fantasy. It's easy for new players to grasp the dice system and find their role-playing nitch.
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I've been a fan of Shadowrun for twenty years, but it's really only been Third and Fourth Editions where the rules could be said to be simple or easy to play. I really like what they've done with Fourth, adding Attributes to skill rolls, simplifying target numbers and thresholds, and removing the clunky damage codes.

Of course, they've also made it much more difficult to play my favorite character archetype, but they've made it up for it by making Technomancers so much more awesome.

Jerry said:
IMO the easiest game system is White-wolf's and the hardest game system is Palladium's.
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The only game where I've cared for White Wolf's Storyteller system is their short run and much lamented Street Fighter licensed RPG.

I'm a hardcore ICE fanboy. I have the full run of HARP, Spacemaster, and both of the current versions of Rolemaster-- and I'm eagerly looking forward to the new revision of Rolemaster that's being developed now.
 
Today when I was in orientation for a new trucking company another trucking company called to hire me. Trucking companies are hiring again this is a good sign.
 
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