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04/27/2006 10:05:58 AM · #76 |
Originally posted by hotpasta:
I am a Pastor of the best church in the world |
Me too. |
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04/27/2006 10:08:12 AM · #77 |
I am very boring - after reading what all you guys "do" :)
I'm a DCO (Data Conversion Operator) at the Post Office REC (Remote Encoding Center). Let me tell ya - there is a reason postal employees Go Postal! It'a a new job (been there 7 months now).
Then I manage the sweepstakes section of About.com - been doing that for about 8 years. Hunt down new sweeps, daily updates, blog, articles, newsletter, tolerate management's interferences (it is now owned ny the NY Times).
I live for the few hours I can grab to go out with my camera!
Ingrid
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04/27/2006 10:18:32 AM · #78 |
Originally posted by Kaups:
Boy there are a lot of IT/Programmer types here. I for one am a Network Admin for Minnesota's only toll road. I also play some games sometimes and try to enjoy life with my soon to be wife. |
Yup...I'm a Senior Network/Systems Engineer with Fujitsu. |
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04/27/2006 10:24:27 AM · #79 |
I work at the local grocery store, I should say the only one around for about 40 miles. I see ALOT of people, get to hear all the local gossip, and you wouldnt believe what I hear. I think its actually driving me nuts! Ive worked in busy offices since i was 18 but since Im new to the area the only people who would hire me was the grocery store....Maybe after 10 years i can become a local and eligible for the "GOOD" jobs. (Im a little bitter, can you tell???)
Other than that I play on the computer, read books when I have time, other than that i clean my house and take care of my family. Ocasionally play Halo on xbox if i can kick my husband off. Oh and while I sleep im an avid dreamer :) |
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04/27/2006 10:24:30 AM · #80 |
What do I do all day long? Click the update button while trying to work... :D No wonder my boss hates me...
Anyway, work as a sales rep, at least for another 3 months. Boooooooooooring. Also a father of two, am the best chef in the world and i like miniature golf, even though I have never tried it.
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04/27/2006 10:34:30 AM · #81 |
Originally posted by Kivet:
I work at the local grocery store, I should say the only one around for about 40 miles. I see ALOT of people, get to hear all the local gossip, and you wouldnt believe what I hear. |
Sounds like a small town in the middle of nowhere. I have been to lots of those places. The last one I was in had a McDonald's and under the sign there was another sign saying the next McDonald's was 140 miles away. Wish I had my camera at the time but I had to leave it at the hotel.
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04/27/2006 10:37:38 AM · #82 |
| besides work??? On most weekends in the summer I street race, winter I ski, rain days I play poker (actually I play poker almost everyday) and during the week before after or during work I fight for those less fortunate then myself. I'm actually the guy everybody (except ppl from here) calls when they "need" something and I "geter dun". Oh yea, I also like to play with and make explosives when I'm at the cottage. |
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04/27/2006 10:39:18 AM · #83 |
By day and sometimes night I'm an Navigation Systems Engineer for the US Navy (Civilian). Basically this means I do A LOT of programming and other work on computer aided navigation systems for ships.
I my off time, when it exists, I'm also active in Amateur(HAM) Radio and other geek interests.
Message edited by author 2006-04-27 10:41:03.
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04/27/2006 10:41:02 AM · #84 |
Originally posted by TomH1000:
Sounds like a small town in the middle of nowhere. |
Hey, got it in one guess! yup, 1700 people, valley in the mountains of southern Wyoming, middle of nowhere. We have no McDonalds, nearest is 50 miles away :( |
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04/27/2006 10:41:39 AM · #85 |
I'm a cognitive psychologist. I'm about to retire after 35 years of university teaching. I've also done a lot with computers and a bit with cryptography and chaos theory.
I was a very serious photographer in high school and college but I quit completely in graduate school. I wasn't interested in doing photography without the control I got in the darkroom--and doing this was not compatible with graduate school. I discovered digital photography in 1998. It gives me the control I had in the darkroom without the mess and bother.
My other creative outlet is cooking.
--DanW |
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04/27/2006 10:44:17 AM · #86 |
I do soo much more then just hang around DPC... I am a member of 5 other photography forums, I am graduating College as a photographer, I'm at nightschool working on my masters, I run my own plumbing company, I have 2 small children living with me but no wife to help.., I have my own studio and do plenty of work there... and then it's all my hobbies.....
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04/27/2006 10:53:51 AM · #87 |
I am husband and father...son, brother, and friend.
During the day, I am a programmer...in a beige cubicle. Humans are not meant to be confined to a desk all day, and it's sucking the life out of me. I need a change. Gotsta start my own business or something.
I used to be an avid whitewater kayaker* - but that ended (for the most part) after having a "bad" day on the river.
I didn't want my daughter to grow up without her daddy....I still get out occasionally on the river, but don't do the Class V stuff anymore.
With the time left after all the responsibilities of "dad", I lift weights and play golf - not at the same time though, occasionally I snowboard (but tore yet another knee ligament the last time I went). I rarely watch tv (other than some sports)...oh yeah, and take photos.
If someone wrote a book about my life, I wouldn't read it....I need to change that. :)
*Styles of boating I was into: Playboating, Ocean surfing, creeking, river running, and squirt boating.
Biggest waterfall run: 25 feet.
Longest time upside down getting 'worked': 1 minute - and I didn't even swim! Held on, rolled up, and finished the rapid - in front of about 100 people. Talk about humbling...:) A photog got a shot of it...and it's an 8x10 on my wall.
(The rapid was Pillow Rock, on the Upper Gauley River in WVa...I got stuck in The Room of Doom).
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04/27/2006 10:54:28 AM · #88 |
Originally posted by Kivet:
Originally posted by TomH1000:
Sounds like a small town in the middle of nowhere. |
Hey, got it in one guess! yup, 1700 people, valley in the mountains of southern Wyoming, middle of nowhere. We have no McDonalds, nearest is 50 miles away :( |
Well one thing you have going for you there is the beauty. I love that area. Now go out and take some photos and share them here. Would love to see them. 1700 not so small really. The last town I was in only had 98 people (-:
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04/27/2006 10:59:04 AM · #89 |
Originally posted by DanSig:
I do soo much more then just hang around DPC... I am a member of 5 other photography forums, I am graduating College as a photographer, I'm at nightschool working on my masters, I run my own plumbing company, I have 2 small children living with me but no wife to help.., I have my own studio and do plenty of work there... and then it's all my hobbies..... |
Your own plumbing company, that's got to be lucrative and satisfying. Not too long ago I was watching a home improvement show and saw the most impressive piece of plumbing work. It was like a computer network cabling closet, only for water. Some good innovations in it with other than stiff copper pipes.
It's admirable you're in school at the same time.
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04/27/2006 11:04:22 AM · #90 |
I'm a lab engineer.
The good part of my job:
I break stuff.
I think up new ways to break stuff.
I don't have to fix the stuff I break.
The not so good part of my job:
I have to explain the technical reasons WHY stuff broke to people with no clue.
I don't get to use explosives to break stuff. (Not for lack of trying though).
Everyone is P.O.'ed at me when I break their stuff.
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04/27/2006 11:05:32 AM · #91 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
It was like a computer network cabling closet, only for water. Some good innovations in it with other than stiff copper pipes. |
You probably have gold pipes in your house... ;-) |
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04/27/2006 11:08:20 AM · #92 |
Ohhh what a low feeling... looks like I'm a contenter for the Brown Ribbon of lifestyle!
I'm not as boonified as, say, Kivit, being 50 miles away from Fast Food, but we do live "out" and so are behind the wheel a lot. My commute to work used to be right at an hour, but with the increasing traffic and added red lights (no, not green :) it is often an hour and ten or fifteen minutes.
When I do arrive at my workplace, I plug in my headset and try to choreograph a scope full of airplanes out of my sector and into the next one. My radar is displayed on a huge ultra hi resolution monitor... I forget the specs, but the thing cost around $35,000 I think they told us. Bear in mind that those are US Government dollars I'm talking about (remember the one about the $800 hammer), so I don't have any clue what such an item would run on amazon. I keep hoping they'll toss one in the dumpster at work and I'll salvage it for photo editing.
Spare time? I have a little. I've had numerous hobbies in years past but have pretty well abandoned them all in order to be able to afford buying ever more photo equipment. We enjoy the occasional family outing, you know, a day or two here and there.
Play with the dog... shoot a little pool. I cooked hamburgers on the grill last night...
I need an adventure vacation :) |
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04/27/2006 11:10:19 AM · #93 |
Supervise the building and repair of houses.
Work on my book.
Google anything and everything that I have a question about.
Clean house and tend to my herb garden.
Kayak.
Fish or just cruise around in the Boston Whaler (boat).
Rollerblade (just picking this up again).
Drink wine and listen to my husband rattle on about boats, diesel cars and trucks, fish and how to fix all of the things that keep breaking around here.
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04/27/2006 11:12:36 AM · #94 |
| I go to school, well... university. Two more years of control engineering. |
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04/27/2006 11:15:43 AM · #95 |
Originally posted by TomH1000:
[quote=Kivet] Well one thing you have going for you there is the beauty. I love that area. Now go out and take some photos and share them here. Would love to see them. 1700 not so small really. The last town I was in only had 98 people (-: |
my portfolio is full of them :) |
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04/27/2006 11:16:37 AM · #96 |
I am Graphic Designer/Production Manager/Creative Art Director - so its really one title
(I know it sounds like alot of titles I have but I basically do all the same thing)
Good Part of my Job
I get to use my photography
I get to travel for free!!!!
I get to use new cameras
So close to home no more long commute or driving
Bad part
Explaining techincal terms to brain dead people on how I need files and still getting them wrong
Dumbass people still doe it wrong, one persone even brought their whole computer in AND no I am not talking about a laptop!!!
Other than that I am a bowler addicted to it like I a photography I had to take some time off though cant wait to get back. Also enjoy football, & basketball.
Also into computers...
Message edited by author 2006-04-27 11:17:28.
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04/27/2006 11:25:10 AM · #97 |
i am a photoshop ninja. i correct photos all day, and i shoot for some in house magazines.
i used to be a graphic designer/art director, but i prefer the simplicity of technical photoshop work.
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04/27/2006 11:25:53 AM · #98 |
I take care of my own garden , I spend hours cooking , I read a lot and I like to be with my husband and cats at home.
I'm always at home , it's a nice place and when I'm not too bad I like to walk near the sea. |
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04/27/2006 11:35:23 AM · #99 |
"software designer/programmer/network engineer/whatever comes along and nobody else can fix in the joint I work in". Also like to cook, play tennis, and watch football (euro version)...
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04/27/2006 11:38:35 AM · #100 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Whee, my life story!
I'm an Exploration Geologist, which is a totally cool occupation, almost as totally cool as being a Ninja.
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I should have known from your username. Are you glad you didn't choose Dipslip? ;-) |
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