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StereoDreamer

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I make custom, hand-bound books and presentation cases for an upscale boutique book bindery in the Washington DC area. I have made items that are in the White House, the Vatican library, and National Historical Sites.

I also teach book arts at a private college.

Before this job, I have been a graphic designer, a publications specialist, and an IT manager for contractors who serviced various government agencies.
 
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volume control

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Network Engineer for retirement/nursing home corp. Definitely intense and making me vape hard lately...



edit. BTW if anyone needs a top tier Network Admin/Engineer from servers to wifis to phone systems, id move for 110k. I hate to boast but im pretty ok at basically anything that plugs into a wall =)
 
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TLS01

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There are a lot of occupations on here that are quite interesting.
I do IT support for a world-wide company of around 12,000, mostly maintaining a Citrix farm of around 500 servers (big expansion via acquisition lately) and also upper tier desktop/new hardware/software approval/testing. We also have to baby-sit our developer group of around 300, they really know nothing about computers nor do they have common sense. :p
 
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Multi-Line Insurance Adjuster - Insureds either love me or hate me. I used to care more about my job and try and help as many people out as I could while trying to stay pro-active to the insured, however, so many people now honestly believe they are due more than they are. Those are the ones that are a pain in the ....

One day, I'm going to escape this BS job; pays alright, but the stress, cycle times and ridiculous hours along with micro-management of the industry is not worth it any longer. Who's hiring!
 

bentandshallow

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Mud Pie

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Official title is "Computer Instrumentation Technician". Like most job titles, it's a wordy description...

What I really do is write programs for commercial office buildings to control/monitor their HVAC systems. Lots of typing all day, but I still find it interesting that the words I type can make millions of dollars of equipment do the things I "tell" it to do.

I enjoy it a lot except when someone in management asks me "Can you make this do that ?" and I smile and say "No problem !" when I fully realize that's gonna take about 6-7 hours of rewriting everything just because he came up with an idea while sitting on the toilet...
 

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Started off in the restaurant business. Moved onto politics for a bit. Then spent awhile designing agricultural and currency forecasting models. Now I do the occasional odd job, whether computer repair, consultation on various business issues that need outside the box solutions, and a few other things. After next week I should be involved in at least 2, and up to 5 new start ups though. A year or so of that and I'm back to school for Biochem
 
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