hrothgar Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 After a long period of sloth and indolence, its time to wander back to the professional world. The trip to Australia was great, completing the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest on World of Warcraft was an accomplishment (of sorts), hiking Mt. Katahdin was a bitch and a half, however, enough is enough. I just accepted a position at a mid-sized Massachusetts tech company called the MathWorks. I'm going to be working as the product manager for the company's statistics and curve fitting software packages. I'm quite excited about the position. The engineering team is all scary smart and the marketing types all have technical degrees. (Hell, most of the sales force is made up of E.E.s and the like) I'm going to spend a couple weeks relaxing in the sun. With a bit of luck, I'm going to be taking a couple classes on cheesemaking. Come July 9th, I get to try to remember how to be a "professional"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Time to break out the brew to celebrate. Very, very good to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I also finally found a job as programmer. Everyday I hope that something happens and I don't have to go to work again for a while, will it be the same every day of my life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Congrats, Richard, that sounds really cool. Does your company happen to do something in (bio)statistics? If so, is there a possibility for cooperation? I have a lot of crazy ideas that I have implemented in user-hostile software that only I can use, it would be very cool if someone could make use of some of it in comercial software. I'm now at my second and final year as a post-doc biostatistics at a genetics department. Can't really make my mind up if I want to do research (cool work but short-term contracts so that every two years I have to either move or put a lot of time into grant applications) or consultancy (just a normal job). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Congratulations all that have a new job :rolleyes:Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Congratulations all that have a new job :rolleyes:Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly). Isn't that pretty much what Homer Simpson does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Congratulations all that have a new job :rolleyes:Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly). Isn't that pretty much what Homer Simpson does? Congratulations all that have a new job :)Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly). Isn't that pretty much what Homer Simpson does? Not really since he works in the watch. I model the probability and effects of different severe accidents scenarios for a nuclear power plant. For this we also have to take into account human reliability, but also accident progression and component reliability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I'm working at the Norwegian Bridge Federation's office in Oslo. Been here for nearly 16 years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I'm working at the Norwegian Bridge Federation's office in Oslo. Been here for nearly 16 years now. Wow, sounds like a good job, better than mine at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BebopKid Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Hi, all. It was interesting seeing what people on here do for a living. I'm a systems administrator/programming team leader for a non-profit generation and transmission electric utility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepman Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I used to work in a toyshop, now i'm a bum, this thread reminded me a i need a new job :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 and play and teach bridge for money (my goal is to have enough demand to do this full time). Lookin good :( Moving to NYC in august, hopefully this works out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 and play and teach bridge for money (my goal is to have enough demand to do this full time). Lookin good :wacko: Moving to NYC in august, hopefully this works out Nice, congrats and good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I am called a Lecturer here in the UK (assistant prof in the states). I guess I should update as well. I decided that I really missed the U.S. and, in particular, San Francisco. So I moved back at the beginning of the year and am now working for one of the big four accounting firms in their transfer pricing department. Very different, but I'm enjoying it a lot. Sadly, I do not have nearly as much time for bridge these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akhare Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 Computer software....elbows in the mud OS stuff at present...but have done higher level SW stuff in the past... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantumcat Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I'm a university student studying maths & physics, but I teach french at primary schools for a small after-school activities organisation 3 afternoons a week and work one day a week at a preschool to pay my way through university. I will be either a high school teacher or start a bridge club, or maybe both, when I graduate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 My company does the data collection/QA and statistics for medical studies. I'm a software developer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRJ Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 I'm a petroleum engineer, currently working in Colombia. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtfanclub Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 Tech support for IBM. Just as exciting as it sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 I'm a "performance engineer" at Akamai Technologies. Before I got this job 8 months, I didn't even know such a job title existed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double ! Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 It's very interesting but not at all surprising how many of you are in the math/computer/technical fields (with the exception of the two fishy dentists). I am, and have been for more than 20 years, a school psychologist in a middle school in the South Bronx, NYC. I work with people with Autism, with Mental Retardation, with severe learning difficulties, and with severe social/ emotional/ behavioral problems, and with various combinations of the above. Add to these the socio-economic situations and other factors inherent in living in an inner city (such as gangs). I used to like the job. Not so anymore B) . DHL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 ...severe social/ emotional/ behavioral problems... like bridge players? =) jk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 Yah but, if it weren't for bridge, we would take it into real society and then there would be trouble... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double ! Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 Yah but, if it weren't for bridge, we would take it into real society and then there would be trouble... What?!!! You mean bridge isn't real society? BTW: just a side thought. Has anyone else felt that there's a similarity between someone calling for the director and a child calling for its mother?"DIREKTOR!"............................"MOMMY!!!" I am very tired lol DHL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 From august I will start working for the medical research council, as a consultant in Bayesian design for clinical trials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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