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So, what do you do for a living
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i work at a weekly newspaper in the middle of nowhere, cirrculation of around 2500. as with any small buisness i do a large number of things. i was originally hired as a press man, to run our 5 different presses and other various equipment in the print shop but as soon as my boss(now my wife) discovered that i had an actual brain unlike the guy i replaced, i got put to work doing lots of other stuff. i also set copy on a limited basis, check and make sure we have all the ads on the pages every week, everyone here is also a photographer at some point. i can run our photo lab: do 1 hour work, photo calanders, photo greeting cards, enlargements ect ect ect. i do a lil bit of everything except write stories.
in my "free time" i vollenteer for various clubs im apart of: Optimist Club, Elks, and Walleyes Unlimited. who ever says there is nothing to do in this small town is full of crap as i have no free time and only actually am at work 5 days a week most weeks
in my "free time" i vollenteer for various clubs im apart of: Optimist Club, Elks, and Walleyes Unlimited. who ever says there is nothing to do in this small town is full of crap as i have no free time and only actually am at work 5 days a week most weeks
I was a photography major in college.
geography minor.
(graduated 1992 SUNY New Paltz)
I did the geography minor because I wanted to study aerial photography and cartography...I was more interested in the scientific side of photography than the artistic side, and graduating with ONLY a photography degree wouldnt have made me able to be much more than a wedding photographer..
I wanted SCIENCE too!
actually, if I knew then what I know now, I would have gone to college for Enginnering instead! but im still happy with the way things have turned out..
my first 5 years out of college were spent working at minilabs and small photogrphy stores.
(MotoPhoto)
I also taught a college photography class for 2 semesters, at Corning Community College,
and I worked in a few pro printing labs, mostly custom-printing wedding photos.
10 years ago I got a job at Eastman Kodak, and im still there today.
Im an Image Scientist.
I work in R&D at Kodak.
My group works on digital printers and makes the imaging algorithms that power the Kodak "Perfect Touch" system.
(its basically automatic digital dodge & burn!)
http://www.kodak.com/eknec....th=1307
the little demo doesnt really do it justice..it can lighten shadows AND darken highlights at the same time..all automatically, in a fraction of a second..
its slick!
its a fun job!
Scot
geography minor.
(graduated 1992 SUNY New Paltz)
I did the geography minor because I wanted to study aerial photography and cartography...I was more interested in the scientific side of photography than the artistic side, and graduating with ONLY a photography degree wouldnt have made me able to be much more than a wedding photographer..
I wanted SCIENCE too!
actually, if I knew then what I know now, I would have gone to college for Enginnering instead! but im still happy with the way things have turned out..
my first 5 years out of college were spent working at minilabs and small photogrphy stores.
(MotoPhoto)
I also taught a college photography class for 2 semesters, at Corning Community College,
and I worked in a few pro printing labs, mostly custom-printing wedding photos.
10 years ago I got a job at Eastman Kodak, and im still there today.
Im an Image Scientist.
I work in R&D at Kodak.
My group works on digital printers and makes the imaging algorithms that power the Kodak "Perfect Touch" system.
(its basically automatic digital dodge & burn!)
http://www.kodak.com/eknec....th=1307
the little demo doesnt really do it justice..it can lighten shadows AND darken highlights at the same time..all automatically, in a fraction of a second..
its slick!
its a fun job!
Scot
I stuff junk mail!
I run a Phillipsburg Master Mailler II and sometimes a Bell & Howell AIM Intelligent inserter. These are machines that insert paper into envelopes (like your 5 page electric and phone bills, bank statements, stock statements, etc.) It' some boring work, a chimp could do this but I get paid decent for it (I've got a decade of experience doing it). The schedule is 12 hour days, 2 on 2 off 2 on 2 off... never the same days off each week but it gives me time to work also at a local toy studio and work on all my own crazy projects and still feel responsible by collecting a steady paycheck.
At the mailing place we are really only super busy 4 times a year, on the business quarters: January, April, July and October the rest of the time there's not a lot to do since 90% of our jobs are stock/tax related (we don't do catalogs, ads for cable TV or pizza shops, etc just confidential stuff) There's work the other months but it's little bits here and there but we can stay and get paid to draw on scrap paper or read books go just home early I always take the night off if there's nothing to do. I love that!
I run a Phillipsburg Master Mailler II and sometimes a Bell & Howell AIM Intelligent inserter. These are machines that insert paper into envelopes (like your 5 page electric and phone bills, bank statements, stock statements, etc.) It' some boring work, a chimp could do this but I get paid decent for it (I've got a decade of experience doing it). The schedule is 12 hour days, 2 on 2 off 2 on 2 off... never the same days off each week but it gives me time to work also at a local toy studio and work on all my own crazy projects and still feel responsible by collecting a steady paycheck.
At the mailing place we are really only super busy 4 times a year, on the business quarters: January, April, July and October the rest of the time there's not a lot to do since 90% of our jobs are stock/tax related (we don't do catalogs, ads for cable TV or pizza shops, etc just confidential stuff) There's work the other months but it's little bits here and there but we can stay and get paid to draw on scrap paper or read books go just home early I always take the night off if there's nothing to do. I love that!
Trapper7
Loves VFT's!
I follow bills in Hawaii’s legislature related to health care because I work for an association of hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies, and hospices. I write testimony for bills that our members either want passed or want stopped. (Others on the staff go to hearings and actually present the testimony. That’s fine with me because they spend hours of their time just waiting around for their turn to testify for a couple of minutes.) I also edit the newsletter.
Pyro, please translate what you do into English.
Pyro, please translate what you do into English.
I'm an electrician. I have worked in almost every kind of job you can imagine. I have worked in steel mills, power plants (including nuclear plants), hospitals, military bases, and on and on. I have wired some projects for nationaly known companies like Proctor & Gamble, Goodyear, Walmart ect.
I have stopped doing electical work two times. Once I got a job calling people on the phone to raise money for charities. The other time I got a job driving a locomotive.
I have stopped doing electical work two times. Once I got a job calling people on the phone to raise money for charities. The other time I got a job driving a locomotive.
PlantAKiss
Moderator Schmoderator Fluorescent fluorite, Engl
I am a graphic artist and do marketing pieces for ONE office out of a large and icky real estate company. Our office is the only office in the corporation to have a "me" (in-house designer)...its a great recruiting tool as I offer customized marketing unlike anyone else can get at other offices.
I worked in advertising for 12 years. Loved it...crazy job, high pressure, great people, lot's o' fun amidst the hard work. I have a B.A. in Fine Art, a background in printing. I'm "old school"--high quality, detail oriented and good at what I do...if ONLY my supervisors could see outside of the box and let me be creative the way I can be.
If you know what a pica is...I love you.
Pyro...loved your answer. lol
I worked in advertising for 12 years. Loved it...crazy job, high pressure, great people, lot's o' fun amidst the hard work. I have a B.A. in Fine Art, a background in printing. I'm "old school"--high quality, detail oriented and good at what I do...if ONLY my supervisors could see outside of the box and let me be creative the way I can be.
If you know what a pica is...I love you.
Pyro...loved your answer. lol
