Workday Time Killer - What Do You Do For A Living?

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,612
    Spunkie said:
    I was more curious about the plumbers butt thing.
    Ma'am this is a family forum
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,851
    I'm a university administrator. I like it... it's nice to spend my days in an atmosphere of learning and open-mindedness and equity and eccentricity and youth and all that good stuff. I made a good choice when I settled on my career.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,694
    i sell joints.

    not the fun kind. the implants that surgeons implant into patients with hip, knee, or shoulder osteoarthritis.
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Bentleyspop said:
    Spunkie said:
    I was more curious about the plumbers butt thing.
    Ma'am this is a family forum
    Man, if I had a nickelback for every time I heard that. Maybe this isn't the place for me!


    You mean you don't hear the word plumber and think of ass cracks?
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  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,562
    Primary/Elementary school teach. 3rd and 4th grade…but have been thinking recently what else i could do with my working life. 
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  • EL91640
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,732
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Repair and maintain electronics systems at a correctional facility.
    I missed this.  You do the mechanicals or the security systems? @JeBurkhardt I used to build prisons and wondering if I built the one you work in, lol!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,732
    PM for an Ornamental Metals company.
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,356
    edited March 2024
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Repair and maintain electronics systems at a correctional facility.
    I missed this.  You do the mechanicals or the security systems? @JeBurkhardt I used to build prisons and wondering if I built the one you work in, lol!
    Wabash Valley in Indiana. We do security (door and gate controls, perimeter security systems, cameras) safety (fire alarms) and communications (intercoms, telephone systems and LAN network connections). We even do the in facility cable TV system. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,732
    JeBurkhardt said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Repair and maintain electronics systems at a correctional facility.
    I missed this.  You do the mechanicals or the security systems? @JeBurkhardt I used to build prisons and wondering if I built the one you work in, lol!
    Wabash Valley in Indiana. We do security (door and gate controls, perimeter security systems, cameras) safety (fire alarms) and communications (intercoms, telephone systems and LAN network connections). We even do the in facility cable TV system. 
    My company may have done it but it was before i was hired.  97 I was building one in Cali.  That was most likely done earlier.

    Very cool.  I used to deal w the mechanical subs when we made the precast cells.  We used to joke about the cable in the cells.  Some of the workers would complain that they didn't have cable but the inmates do lol!!!
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,356
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Repair and maintain electronics systems at a correctional facility.
    I missed this.  You do the mechanicals or the security systems? @JeBurkhardt I used to build prisons and wondering if I built the one you work in, lol!
    Wabash Valley in Indiana. We do security (door and gate controls, perimeter security systems, cameras) safety (fire alarms) and communications (intercoms, telephone systems and LAN network connections). We even do the in facility cable TV system. 
    My company may have done it but it was before i was hired.  97 I was building one in Cali.  That was most likely done earlier.

    Very cool.  I used to deal w the mechanical subs when we made the precast cells.  We used to joke about the cable in the cells.  Some of the workers would complain that they didn't have cable but the inmates do lol!!!
    Yeah, we were built a few years before that. All they had to do was commit a crime and they could have free cable too! 
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,239
    College Professor - Anthropology
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,527
    GlowGirl said:
    College Professor - Anthropology

    :o would not have thought that to be honest.
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,239
    eeriepadave said:
    GlowGirl said:
    College Professor - Anthropology

    :o would not have thought that to be honest.
    Yup. I have my Ph.D. in anthropology, and everything :)

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,722
    PJ_Soul said:
    I'm a university administrator. I like it... it's nice to spend my days in an atmosphere of learning and open-mindedness and equity and eccentricity and youth and all that good stuff. I made a good choice when I settled on my career.
    Excellent!
    I've worked at three different colleges ( two in bookstores, one as a program assistant), and have take classes at 3 colleges and 3 universities- I was a higher education junkie for many years.  For me, there has been no finer a work environment!  (And I do sometimes miss it!)
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  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,646
    GlowGirl said:
    College Professor - Anthropology
    This makes sense from the discussion a few weeks ago about relationships and non-verbal behavior
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,239
    Go Beavers said:
    GlowGirl said:
    College Professor - Anthropology
    This makes sense from the discussion a few weeks ago about relationships and non-verbal behavior
    😁
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Scarsdale, NY Posts: 887
    edited July 2024
    Bumping this because I was gonna start a similar thread before I searched.

    I'm a Director of Unclaimed/Abandoned Financial Property (bank/trading accounts, checks, etc.) for a financial services company.

    If your account is inactive for 3-5 years, we are required to attempt to contact you and get you to reactivate your account. Otherwise, we send your assets to your state/territory. You can still get it back, but you have to file a claim.

    There's almost no reason for an account to become legally inactive. All you have to do is log in, and it's active. You don't need to trade/deposit anything. Just log in.

    On the flip side, people do die without beneficiaries, so if there's no one for us to contact, we don't have a choice but to escheat (send to state).

    **PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT**

    You can check online with your state's treasury/comptroller's office, for free, to see if you have unclaimed assets. And if you do, the claim process is free. DO NOT GO THROUGH A THIRD PARTY, WHICH WILL TRY TO TAKE A CUT.

    I somehow missed a check for unused vacation days from an old job years ago. It was escheated to New York, and I got the $ back. it was like $2K. Free money.

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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,200
    edited July 2024
    GlowGirl said:
    College Professor - Anthropology

    One of my favorite classes as an undergrad at Syracuse University. I think I took two or three anthropology classes there. The anthropology wing was quite impressive with all the skeletons and animal mounts. I will never forget my anthropology professor comparing human beings to animals with a common thread being methane gas, "otherwise known as a fart."

    I is a land shark, i.e. attorney. No free advice.  =)
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,629
    Main job: Graphic design/Art Director at a communication department 

    I also from time to time, work as an animator on children movies. The latest, this one coming out in the fall in Sweden:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzWKBeW0qbU


    Or by myself, doing music videos/ad work. But haven't had the time or energy to pursue that in a couple of years. 

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