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What do you do for a living?

Student. Hopefully an intern architect starting summer. I can't say architect cause in the US you're only legally an architect when you pass (and pay over $1000 for) the licensing exam.
 
I'm a biologist and occasionally do forensic entomology as well.
I used to work as a tourist guide and interpretor in the weekends but gave that up after I moved. My new town is just too far off the tourist tracks.
I really miss the additional money, though - my job is badly payed and the forensics counts as cooperation between authorities (meaning that the Ministery of the Interior borrows me from the Ministery for the Environment and I get payed only my normal salary. *sigh*

Apart from the payment I like both jobs, though :) It's at least never boring and one gets out in the fresh air a lot.
 
So, you do stuff like what Gil Grissom (CSI) and Jack Hodgins (Bones) do for a living?

Is it as exciting? Do you see a lot of cool crime scenes?

I've always had a passing interest in forensics.

Why entomology? Isn't it rare for women to work in that field?
 
Conchaga said:
What's your specialty, carpentry, masonry, drywall, electrical?

For personal reasons, I won't go into detail about what I do for a living. Let's just say someone pays me a lot of money to do very little and it isn't a skilled job.

No, it's not animal husbandry, ya sickos.
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You and me both...

I work for my wife. I go to work, bring all the money home to her, and if I behave, come nightfall she just might grant me access to her wonderful body! :eek:
 
I'm a graphic designer, occasionally working on projects that involve 3D graphics (which is what I actually enjoy). Mostly digitally based, but I've done a little print media too.
 
wow, Fuddlemiff, that sounds like a cool job! I always admired people who can do graphics. I draw and paint a bit but I find it extremely hard to reduce a picture to its essence, leaving all unnecessary details away, as you have to do all the time.


Conchaga said:
So, you do stuff like what Gil Grissom (CSI) and Jack Hodgins (Bones) do for a living?
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no, my main job is for the Ministery of the Environment. The forensics is just a little side effect of knowing much about water insects. I do it only maybe twice or 3 times a year on average.
Is it as exciting? Do you see a lot of cool crime scenes?
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It's nothing like on TV. When I get called, the body is often in the morgue already. I scarcely see the bodies in situ. Due to being specialized on water insects (on bodies who have been in the water for some time), the crime scene itself usually is somewhere upstream.
Most of the time there wasn't a crime at all, but just a suicide or an accident, but if several people are missing, determining the time they have spent in the water aids in the identification.

I've always had a passing interest in forensics.
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It's usually overrated. The TV shows have not much to do with real life. It's a boring lab job and you don't have any influence on the investigation itself. You only provide a little data.
A strong stomach is required, though. One protects oneself by automatically making a difference: if it's alife, it's "human". Once it's dead and on your table, it's "the preparation"
Water bodies are no nice sight as they swell up and take on a greenish colour after a while, but IMO still look better than the elderly lady who died 6 weeks ago and had the heating on or the run over kid who's parts are spread over 50 yards or the homeless who got beaten to death. I think there I'd really have problems to keep my breakfast inside..

Why entomology? Isn't it rare for women to work in that field?
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yes and no. Among my fellow limnologists the men/women rate is almost exactly 50/50. Woman have an advantage in the lab work as our motorical skills usually are better. Men have an advantage in the field, as they are stronger (water insects have this annoying habit of always hiding under the biggest and heaviest stones...).
As far as entyomolgy of land-living insects is concerned, for some reason female researchers are indeed rare. As the physical parameters don't matter much when you catch flying insects with a UV light trap or a net, I can only speculate that maybe women dislike killing insects, especially if they are pretty. Also, contrary to us limnologists who use alcohol, terrestrial entomologists use cyanide or formaldehyde to kill and preserve their prey. Both are highly poisonous, carcinogenic and teratogenic which is rather a putoff, especially if you are planning to have children.
 
oops, forgot to specify that due to my job as a limnologist I am specialized in water insects only.
Hence the small number of jobs as a forensic entomologist. Specialists for terrestrian insects are far more in demand, I'm sure

sorry if I confused you
 
I work for the most hated establishment in the country.
 
lemme guess: the tax office?
Poor Gagh!
 
We're even more unpopular than ever at the moment. The Government announces its spending review on October 20th, and all of us are worrying for our jobs. It's all part of this wonderfulGovernment's new way of showing they can 'save' money by making thousands & thousands of people redundant. Madness.
 
The Call Of Nature said:
wow, Fuddlemiff, that sounds like a cool job! I always admired people who can do graphics. I draw and paint a bit but I find it extremely hard to reduce a picture to its essence, leaving all unnecessary details away, as you have to do all the time.
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Well, like your job, it's not as exciting as it might sound at first, but I enjoy it for what it is. I've only been in the business a couple of years, so I don't work on particularly high profile projects, or get to really flex my artistic muscles. A lot of the work is kind of tedious, making or working from design templates and then basically doing the same thing over and over with minor changes each time. But from time to time I do work on something really cool, so it balances out in the end. :)
 
sometimes it is the plain/routine things are coolest. Just think of neolithic ceramic designs - mass-production, simple yet very elegant and absolutely timeless:
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(The metallic shine comes from graphite being mixed in the clay. The same stuff that's inside a pencil)
 
^ Can you draw pictures with those?
 
What do you do for money honey, how you get your kicks?
 
Controller.
 
Loktar said:
But not in bed with Laker Girl, eh?;)
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You dont think he's boning her up the behind do you?

I mean like, "the wazoo" and shit yknow? I wonder about that shit, I think that's why he left his first wife, she wouldn't have it.
 
Daystrom said:
You dont think he's boning her up the behind do you?

I mean like, "the wazoo" and shit yknow? I wonder about that shit, I think that's why he left his first wife, she wouldn't have it.
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I don't know....I don't want to butt into their sex lives.
 
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