What do you do for a living?

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:30 pm

My work is pretty dehumanizing too but I make over $25/ hour. I guess that makes it more worthwhile? Oh and its engineering.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:34 pm

What kinda' engineering?
(I'm interested in engineering... gah, career, unless you can detur me.)

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:38 pm

Civil engineering but you can makes lots of money in any kind of engineering. If you can handle the math and science in college then its the way to go. Even better if you get a master's or doctor's degree but I just have a bachelor's.

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:24 pm

I'm a student/dumbass. But I aspire to be a programmer one day. My future looks bleak.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:26 pm

I fix computers for a dude here in south jersey. under the table fro 6.15 an hour. its not bad.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:29 pm

Jimmyjay86 wrote:Civil engineering...

Have you designed any cities? (or is that the job of a civil archetect or something?)

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:29 pm

Yea I probably want to get into graphick design or writing or summat you know? Something creative and not too uptight. As for making money, I make a lot of it doing odd jobs (nothing formal like delivering papers though) as well as trying to milk people for cash whenever I can. I'd make a good con man.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:32 pm

Go to some town and sell them a bunch of musical instruments, then when they have gained your trust as a musical conductor, run away with their money!

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:36 pm

Strapon2 wrote:Have you designed any cities? (or is that the job of a civil archetect or something?)

No, most cities are already built and that's more in the realm of urban planning. Not really a good field to be in. I design roadways, bridges, that sort of thing.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:38 pm

Ah... neeto, do you know all about roads?
Like, how thick, how wide, on what serface, etc...?

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 12:05 am

Strapon2 wrote:Ah... neeto, do you know all about roads?
Like, how thick, how wide, on what serface, etc...?

Yeah, most of that is what has to be redesigned based on the amount of traffic among other variables. Most roads get reconstructed the way they were originally but you always look at alternative materials to see if there are cheaper ways to build them. There are a few areas engineers get involved from the surveying, to the cad design, to the construction. My current job is working on the cad design, creating plans and coming up with cost estimates. I like working on the construction end more instead of in the office which gets boring.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 12:15 am

A civil engineer? Did they ever try to ship you Assfuck, Zimbabwe to build an infrastructure there or something? Was it easy to get a job in the States?

Insane Koolaid Man · Post by **Insane Koolaid Man** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:05 am

I'm a student, and I also make 6 dollars an hour cleaning at this trucking company.

morris · Post by **morris** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:11 am

I'm a Computer Engineer doing R&D for a U.S. defense contractor.

Killa-Killa · Post by **Killa-Killa** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:12 am

Student. Comes with free computer parts from the CAD lab!

(NOT stolen. They give out the old parts from the CAD lab to PC club members. I dont even show up and BOOM! free 512 stick of DDR! w00t w00t for wasting money from grants!

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:15 am

IÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â´m a Health care technician in the area of Anatomic Pathology.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:44 am

Its not too tough for most engineers to get a job here. Roads and bridges will always need to be reconstructed. A lot of industrial engineers are screwed because alot of that is being scaled back or sent to China. And as fun as learning some things are, there is little chance that you'll get a high paying job in History (Sorry OTB!) But teachers will always be needed.

Get a good handle on what classes you either enjoy or are good at and then check out the career opportunities for that type of knowledge. If you want to get started in Civil Engineering, look for a job on a survey crew. You usually can make decent money and you get to work outside all of the time.You should have a good understanding of math, geometry, and trigonometry.

Electrical engineering is probably the best choice for higher paid jobs or chemical engineering. I'd guess the average starting salary for engineers just out of college in the US is around $35,000.

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:05 am

We all have to start some place Neon Dingo, be grateful you wont be stuck there the rest of your life. Oh and my career as everybody knows is a gun runner.

(Sounds cooler than authorized legal gun dealer)

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:39 am

Used to work in a paper factory, as a casual for one of the contracter groups there. $15 an hour and was working full time (had to forge my times, to avoid getting in trouble for working too much).

Pro: Got to use all the nice big power tools, and the pay was decent.

Con: The hours, 9 hours a day sucks.

I had to stop working because of uni though :x

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:32 am

I get $8.38 an hour unloading trucks at my local Wal-Freakin'-Mart. I'm also going to skule for 'puter programming, although after reading JJ86's posts, I might be changing it

(j/k, I'm too far into my degree program to be changing. Two more semesters and I'll have my Associate's Degree in Computer Information Systems! Yaynowwhat?)

Pro's of my actual job: None. Well, I guess a semi-flexible schedule is good (the days I work, not the hours. Those are etched in stone). Pay is decent, consider unloading trucks isn't the most mentally-intensive activity in the werld

Con's: Don't even get me started.

EDIT: Blasphemous typos.

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