The ONSC "What I do for a Living" thread

[izzyandsue]

I am a recovering engineer, Mechanical, from B.S. to postgrad work. Did that in manufacturing (from product design to plant manager) companies in US, Japan, Netherlands Entered Lean and Six Sigma and did career change, eventually got to Charlotte via Bank of America. Became mortgage banker first, then ran IT ops (Utilities, Cloud, etc) at the bank, with focus on process improvement/lean work. Certified nerd, love learning interesting things.

Since 2009, own small management consulting firm specializing in process improvement, change management, project management, IT project support, and Lean/Six Sigma efforts. We help our clients by providing either the staff, the knowledge, the training, or all of the former in our fields of expertise.

Did a lot woodworking as well, at one point built all the furniture in my house by self-learning, watching New Yankee Workshop (Norm!) and following Stickley Brothers early designs, and shaker style workbooks.

 

[little_joe]

Simple answer:
I work with computers

I am a huge fan of Debian (Ubuntu or Xubuntu) and spend 95% of my time in a CLI environment.

w00t, another Linux geek! I run Arch on my personal machine, Fedora at work, and work for a large open source software company in downtown Raleigh. I used to run Debian exclusively at home and work, but migrated away last year - always loved that distro.

 

[David70FJ40]

New Yankee Workshop (Norm!) .

Don't watch Norm. He doesn't do his own work, rather he has a crew that does most of the projects for him. The Delta and Porter-Cable reps would laugh at him knowing he was taking credit for someone else's work. What he did do on screen was usually fairly sloppy. If he was working for me and did that work I would have fired him or sent him to a training school.

 

[izzyandsue]

Was watching Norm in the 80's, haven't seen his show since, used to watch it regularly, got all his books.....

 

[JohnVee]

I'm an actuary. I currently analyze the risk of universal life insurance for MetLife,

So......can you get me a good deal on renting the blimp next time it's in town? Ya know, since it might show up a few days early if weather treats its travel well... Or maybe some giant Snoopy stuff?

 

[David70FJ40]

Was watching Norm in the 80's, haven't seen his show since, used to watch it regularly, got all his books.....

Norm retired, Tommy something-or-another took his place. I watched his show a few times and his shop was clean enough to do surgery in. My shop, on the other hand, was dusty and had chips all over the place no matter how often we swept.

 

[weejub]

Finance + Pricing + Contracting + Wireless WAN + Tablets + PCs = = My Job

So if your business buys and resells tablets/PCs in North America - - - I can find a Sales Person to sell you something . . .

You are all also welcome to use my Employee Purchase Plan website - perfectly "legal" - - Let me know if you have questions about anything in that regard or about Lenovo products in general.

Site: Lenovo US Employee Purchase Program | Lenovo US
Password: Send me a IM and I will send you my Corp ID and Last Name

Wife and I are also turning up two businesses based on our previous businesses in KS - stay tuned!

 

[tgadd]

So......can you get me a good deal on renting the blimp next time it's in town? Ya know, since it might show up a few days early if weather treats its travel well... Or maybe some giant Snoopy stuff?

I can probably get you a tour of the blink next time it comes to town. They announce it early and offer tickets to employees, family, and friends.

No giant Snoopy, but we get little plush ones every so often. I'll grab one next time they're handed out.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Finance + Pricing + Contracting + Wireless WAN + Tablets + PCs = = My Job

So if your business buys and resells tablets/PCs in North America - - - I can find a Sales Person to sell you something . . .

You are all also welcome to use my Employee Purchase Plan website - perfectly "legal" - - Let me know if you have questions about anything in that regard or about Lenovo products in general.

Site: Lenovo US Employee Purchase Program | Lenovo US
Password: Send me a IM and I will send you my Corp ID and Last Name

Wife and I are also turning up two businesses based on our previous businesses in KS - stay tuned!

That is awesome. Thanks for the link Jamie, I'm going to use that. I love Lenovo products. Have one for my work machine and laura has one as well.

 

[OGBeno]

I'm an actuary. I currently analyze the risk of universal life insurance for MetLife, or more bluntly I'm a spreadsheet monkey. Pay is good. Work is good. But sitting at a desk all day is boring.



This is what I would ideally like to do. No woodworking knowledge but I just inherited an almost complete shop from my grandfather. Need to find a place to set it up though.

Can you tell me how much my life is worth if I smoke, drink, party and wheel?

There must be some depreciation on my body and soul.

 

[NCFJ]

Good for the soul, not so much for the body.....

Oh yeah, what do I do for a living, this morning it is handling correspondence with customers chasing down web sites etc to provide more information on product selections like wheels & tires, shifter, gauge package and radio/nav. The fun part of the job,, right Onur

 

[Jaeco]

I am a knifemaker specializing in hunting knives, EDC and camp knives.

Jaeco Knives

 

[Jaeco]

I am a knifemaker specializing in hunting knives, EDC and camp knives.

Jaeco Knives

 

[tgadd]

Can you tell me how much my life is worth if I smoke, drink, party and wheel?

There must be some depreciation on my body and soul.

Meh. We're only concerned with if you smoke or not. Everything else is a wash. I also can't tell you how much your life is worth, but I can look up a probability that you die. Then can tell you how much insurance should roughly cost you based on what you think your life is worth.

 

[krzyabncanuck]

Let's see. I have changed a few things now in my life.

Cruiser mechanic.

4wd instructor.

Wildland FireFighter. My adrenaline rush job.

That's it for now. Next year is a new year and new jobs.

 

[uzj100]

Currently Sales Ops at Avaya. 1 year into a 2 year EMBA at UNC. Looking to work with smaller start ups on strategy, market segmentation, business development, sales and sales operations. Be the foundation behind the scenes while the creative types focus on their business.

 

[GarnerFJ40]

I'm a process support specialist (formulation chemist) at a biotech company in Clayton. My current project is to transfer the formulation and filling of a new diabetes drug to the US market.

Not much has changed since I first posted this, but I'm roughly ~1+ years into a Masters in Biomanufacturing at NC State.

 

[OGBeno]

Meh. We're only concerned with if you smoke or not. Everything else is a wash. I also can't tell you how much your life is worth, but I can look up a probability that you die. Then can tell you how much insurance should roughly cost you based on what you think your life is worth.

Honest answer, professionally.

Nice.

Thanks!

I'll continue on my trajectory!!

 

[tgadd]

Honest answer, professionally.

Nice.

Thanks!

I'll continue on my trajectory!!

Keep on keeping on.

 

[JohnVee]

I'll continue on my trajectory!!

Downward Ho!


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