Proffession - what's yours'?

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:34 pm

I've got degrees in physics and philosophy, and I use neither of them at work. I'm an "Operations Manager" for a small chain of furniture stores. I do IT admin stuff, payroll, personnel, some order entry and processing, facilities and utilities, etc. Standard small-mid sized business do lots of stuff position. Oh, and I get to try to convince a work addicted small business owner that they've grown past the point where they can do everything themselves and should start delegating if they want to keep growing...

That's what I'm doing while my wife finishes her nursing degree anyway. After that I'll go get an engineer masters or something interesting.

the_taken · Post by **the_taken** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:33 pm

josephbt wrote: Also, if there's a pig heaven, i'll be there at some point facing a pig judge for crimes commited against pigs.

Meet you public defender early.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:32 pm

Sig:
I'm sure I've said this before to people but let me reiterate: TEACH ENGLISH IN ASIA. At this point I have not seen work slow down and many schools are still desperate for teachers. In the Nam it's not hard to bring in 1500-2000US a month and it's not too hard to save half of it. If you got a degree great, if you don't still okay (for now). I've been over here for 4 years and have no intention of going back any time soon

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:58 am

Well, related to my budding profession...

Someone pointed me to the Uncyclopedia article on geologists.

It's scarily accurate. I recognize both teachers and fellow students in the descriptions, and have found myself taking on these characteristics--although I'm still sober and will try hard to remain so (health and personal reasons.)

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:12 pm

ckafrica wrote:Sig:
I'm sure I've said this before to people but let me reiterate: TEACH ENGLISH IN ASIA. At this point I have not seen work slow down and many schools are still desperate for teachers. In the Nam it's not hard to bring in 1500-2000US a month and it's not too hard to save half of it. If you got a degree great, if you don't still okay (for now). I've been over here for 4 years and have no intention of going back any time soon

Dang, that's 3-4 times what I make in a month.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:10 am

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote: Dang, that's 3-4 times what I make in a month.

And I reiterate; disease. And too close to China. No thank you.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:15 pm

That's just fearmongering and borderline racism. ckafrica hasn't yet been killed or scarred by a horrific jungle disease, and he probably never will while he's living in Vietnam.

josephbt · Post by **josephbt** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:04 pm

no professsion. got lay'd of yesterday. downsizing. fvck

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:04 pm

College student. Not currently employed, but I'm taking 20 hours and working on developing some Life Skills that I've always wanted to master better.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:26 pm

Surgo wrote:That's just fearmongering and borderline racism. ckafrica hasn't yet been killed or scarred by a horrific jungle disease, and he probably never will while he's living in Vietnam.

Yeah, don't you have to live in the jungle to catch jungle diseases? From my understanding. Viet Nam has cities and stuff like most places.

And if China is going to kick the world's ass, it's going to be through economics, China is not stupid. Conquest is pointless when everything is corporate nowadays.

SunTzuWarmaster · Post by **SunTzuWarmaster** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:09 pm

Wow, we have a collection of freaking smart people here.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:02 am

Surgo wrote:That's just fearmongering and borderline racism. ckafrica hasn't yet been killed or scarred by a horrific jungle disease, and he probably never will while he's living in Vietnam.

No.
That's just kneejerk bordering on Surgoism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 is a valid concern but I'll call fowl on your insistence on singling out my statements.

I'm not moving any farther west than 3000 miles and that's that.

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:Yeah, don't you have to live in the jungle to catch jungle diseases?

Nope!

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:37 am

It's closer than you think
Pretty much all cases of Bird flu affecting humans have resulted from regular and extended close contact with live animals (as in the damn things live in their house because the don't have a coup to keep them). If the damn thing does go pandemic there won't be anywhere to hide because it will be international by the time people even realize it's happened.

Well several of my coworkers have gotten Dengue Fever which is pretty shitty and I occasionally hear rumors of people getting malaria in the city. But other than that there is nothing here that you couldn't get anywhere else (the clap has been a regular offender with some of my colleagues). And we never hear of Samonella scares over here, or West Nile.

And seriously Vietnam is one of the least violent countries in the world. I know exactly one person who got mugged here and that was in a tourist town by a pack of nasty transvestites that roam at nights. All other violent incedents I know of have been caused by foreigners. Now driving on the other hand... possibly the worst drivers in the world (worst I've seen in 17 developing nations).

But to each their own. You honestly couldn't pay me enough to live in most of the U.S.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:09 am

sigma999 wrote:
Surgo wrote:That's just fearmongering and borderline racism. ckafrica hasn't yet been killed or scarred by a horrific jungle disease, and he probably never will while he's living in Vietnam.
No.
That's just kneejerk bordering on Surgoism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 is a valid concern but I'll call fowl on your insistence on singling out my statements.

Maybe if your statements weren't so consistently retarded I wouldn't single them out.

There were seriously 6 cases of H5N1 in Vietnam in 2008 (source: the article you just linked). That means .000007% of the population of Vietnam got H5N1. By comparison, there were 13,293 cases of Tuberculosis in the US in 2007 (2008 statistics not available), meaning .000043% of the population of the United States got Tuberculosis. That's an increase by a factor of 10 compared to H5N1 in Vietnam. That's for a disease that's not supposed to happen anymore in the United States. Bird Flu would easily be the last worry on my mind if I traveled to Vietnam.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:39 pm

The reason the pay is so high is because you have to live where you literally don't know what your boss is saying or what they'll chew you out for. They offer high pay because they know you know it's just a step up from slavery - heck, look at our contractors in Iraq, it was slavery.

-Crissa

SunTzuWarmaster · Post by **SunTzuWarmaster** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:41 pm

Optional slavery (can still quit).

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:36 am

SunTzuWarmaster wrote:Wow, we have a collection of freaking smart people here.

Fear not, I am here to lower the average!

Wait, am I supposed to portray that in a good light?

8 year Army veteran, munitions handler now training for network technician. I might even start taking some of those college classes they offer to pay for too.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:38 am

No, literally, they weren't allowed to quit. Slavery.

-Crissa

SunTzuWarmaster · Post by **SunTzuWarmaster** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:14 am

Ah, nevermind then.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:27 am

Crissa wrote:The reason the pay is so high is because you have to live where you literally don't know what your boss is saying or what they'll chew you out for. They offer high pay because they know you know it's just a step up from slavery - heck, look at our contractors in Iraq, it was slavery.

Uhm, are you referencing teaching english? Cuz no one in Vietnam I know has to deal with bosses who don't speak understandable english(let alone chewed out; unless they're a complete fuck up, and even then...) nor are we in any Iron clad contracts (heck most of us are casual or on short term contracts). Maybe some other countries (I've heard bad shit about some Korea schools and Thailand have shitty visa requirements nowadays) but we get what we get because of supply and demand. There are simply enough schools and students willing to pay for foreign teachers that we can make them pay us this much. Now we don't get some of the perks that Korea offers but we also don't have to live in Korea, which seems to be a huge plus from everything I've heard.

shau · Post by **shau** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:11 am

I'm third law student with a BA in philosophy. Since I have no other job experience, unexceptional grades, and shit networking skills I am pretty much waiting to graduate, take the bar, and then slowly watch the months count down until my creditors swoop in and steal my fucking kidneys.

Ckafrica, if you have a pamphlet or some contacts in Vietnam, I am totally interested. Just as long as I can escape the ruinous debt I took on to get here. I'd like to do something with this JD, but fuck this job market.

Neeeek · Post by **Neeeek** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:34 am

shau wrote:I'm third law student with a BA in philosophy.

Hmm. Me too. I'm hoping to get this fellowship thing, but we'll see.

shau · Post by **shau** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:03 am

Neeeek wrote: Hmm. Me too. I'm hoping to get this fellowship thing, but we'll see.

Good luck with that. My best prospect right now is a firm near where I grew up in Northwest Indiana. I know their hiring because all the talented people have fled like rats off a sinking ship.

I'll probably laugh about this someday if the I actually find a job. Today is not that day however.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:10 am

You could still become a prosecutor, right?

shau · Post by **shau** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:15 am

Surgo wrote:You could still become a prosecutor, right?

That's what my buddy has been trying to get into. Right now he has been reduced to loading up the resume shotgun and sending it to every prosecutor's office in the state. If he gets any bites with that I'll do it too.