What do you do for a living?

[mkloby]

Right now I autorotate for a living

[trackend]

Originally Posted by mosquitoman

Found out I've got myself a job as a research assistant for a drug discovery company.

Well done Mossie I thought you had to develop drugs but perhaps you have a sensitive snoz and sniff out the airport luggage.
Told you at FL you would do ok first step is the hardest now you're on the first rung its up all the way.

[mosquitoman]

Basic molecular biology sort of things Marcel, going to be given training on using radioactive markers aswell- should be fun.
Discovery development it's all the same thing.
Thanks everyone.

[Pisis]

OK, please boil for me 500 pills and 1kg of Meth, payment via invoice.

[Marcel]

Originally Posted by mosquitoman

Basic molecular biology sort of things Marcel, going to be given training on using radioactive markers aswell- should be fun.
Discovery development it's all the same thing.
Thanks everyone.

You're going to do AFLP then? Or mainly northerns? (or the ancient RFLP)
I did a lot of radio active stuf years ago, manly notherns. It's fun if you know what you're doing and if you don't have a chinese guy walking around: "You'll have to clean and check everything with your geiger until it's very clean, do you understand?" He: "Yes, yes" Next time we had to de-contaminate the whole lab and the whole procedure happened not once but almost every week. They should have forbidden him to work there..

[mosquitoman]

Not entirely sure what I'll be doing day-to-day but it's a small company so I'll be doing a bit of everything.
Pisis, it'a bit more difficult than that, I will start brewing my own beer in a few months though.

[lucanus]

Well Guys - With this alphabetic this and that, I just wanted
to add that I am a Cad Manager for an A/E/C firm...Quite a
promotion from where I started Chainman/Rod Dawg on a Survey
crew, in the distant past before lasers and GPS. I also was a
Draftsman (draughtsman) with pencils, ink and a slide-rule.

[Aussie1001]

Cad-really
i am still a student currently in my second last year of secondary school.
i really like graphics on computer that is i am no good on a drawing board.
BTW Lucanus what program do you use on the computer.
We use Auto-Cad or CATIA

[Screaming Eagle]

well I quit my job at hungry jacks and now I am concentrating on boilermaking apprenticeship. Should be good, now that I get weekends off.

[comiso90]

I've worked for the same company for 13 years as a video producer/video editor/writer/animator/cameraman/graphic artist... attached are 2 recent TV commercials shot in high def.

I may be homeless and unemployed in a few months.. I'm going to sell my house to get out of Fresno.... Too much of the same thing for too long.... i wanna hit the road... nothin keeping me here

Anybody overseas wanna sponsor me for a year so I work and travel abroad for a while?








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[lucanus]

Aussie you must quit using Autocrap...It warps your mind

[davparlr]

RETIRED! I worked 29 years as an Avionics Controls and Displays engineer for Northrop Grumman. Started with the duel fuel flow indicator for the Saudi F-5E, worked on the F-18L (Northrop land based F-18, went nowhere), moved over to my first black program, the Tacit Blue upside down bathtub (reminded me of the submarine Seaview, anybody remember that from TV). It was one of the first stealth aircraft. Then I got my big break by being transfered to the B-2 program for the proposal phase, which, without a doubt, was one of the most exciting projects an engineer could work on. I worked as the design manager for the B-2 avionics controls and display for most of the rest of my career, ending up working on the upgrade to the JointSTARs radar surveillance aircraft (which kept me in the LA area).

Retirement is great. One Saturday after another! You can put off till tomorrow what you don't want to do today!

[mkloby]

Originally Posted by davparlr

RETIRED! I worked 29 years as an Avionics Controls and Displays engineer for Northrop Grumman. Started with the duel fuel flow indicator for the Saudi F-5E, worked on the F-18L (Northrop land based F-18, went nowhere), moved over to my first black program, the Tacit Blue upside down bathtub (reminded me of the submarine Seaview, anybody remember that from TV). It was one of the first stealth aircraft. Then I got my big break by being transfered to the B-2 program for the proposal phase, which, without a doubt, was one of the most exciting projects an engineer could work on. I worked as the design manager for the B-2 avionics controls and display for most of the rest of my career, ending up working on the upgrade to the JointSTARs radar surveillance aircraft (which kept me in the LA area).

Retirement is great. One Saturday after another! You can put off till tomorrow what you don't want to do today!

Congrats - I can't wait till one day I can say I'm retired!

[Matt308]

Tacit Blue, huh. I bet that was fascinating actually. Especially if you work flight controls to make that thing fly.

[davparlr]

Originally Posted by Matt308

Tacit Blue, huh. I bet that was fascinating actually. Especially if you work flight controls to make that thing fly.

I was doing the Avionics Controls and Displays (cockpit instrumentation), but, as such, I did had the air data computer and therefore got involved in doing some air data mapping of the airframe, which was interesting and quite informative. Air data sensors, including flight control sensors, were also affected by stealth concerns. With computers, the flight control people could make a brick fly like a Cessna if you had the power to get it off the ground. Except for the flight controls (at Norhtrop, flight controls were not considered avionics), most of the avionics was F-5E type.

Tacit Blue was nowhere near as fasinating and exciting as the B-2. I wrote a letter to the editor once to comment on an Aviation Week and Space Technology article on the B-2 cockpit. It had to be approved by Congress in order to send it. It was approved and was printed.