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#4337320 - 02/14/17 04:03 PM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Chef
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I WAS a Financial Systems Analyst in healthcare IT for 16 years for a small town hospital. Now we are "managed" by a large state university run healthcare system and I was simply moved over into the entity IT security group. Its a bit different from what I was doing but it's interesting and just seeing how many holes there are is frightening.
The road less traveled is filled with fewer needy people.
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#4337327 - 02/14/17 04:25 PM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: Jedi Master]
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Nixer
Scaliwag and Survivor
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Scaliwag and Survivor
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Living with the Trees
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Except "student" can NOT be on that list. Unless you are being paid a living wage to take classes, that is.
Even retirees are usually collecting pensions and/or social security and/or investment income, so while they are not employed per se they are still earning money.
Being a student is not a job nor a profession, it's what one does before/in between/after working in one, and requires paying to be able to do it (notwithstanding grants/assistance/auditing). It may be your current activity, but does the statement "I'm a student for a living" make sense?
The Jedi Master I have almost doubled my net income attending college, and believe me, going back to school at age 65 is WORK. I have to work to keep my GPA up to keep some scholarship money rolling in. Going to have to slow down starting this fall I'm afraid. Too much stress and work for an old fart carrying 4 classes.
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Look for me on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or Tic Toc...or anywhere you may frequent, besides SimHq, on the Global Scam Net. Aka, the internet.
I am not there, never have been or ever will be, but the fruitless search may be more gratifying then the "content" you might otherwise be exposed to.
"There's a sucker born every minute."
Phineas Taylor Barnum
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#4337433 - 02/14/17 09:50 PM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: Nixer]
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Jedi Master
Entil'zha
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Entil'zha
Sierra Hotel
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I have almost doubled my net income attending college, and believe me, going back to school at age 65 is WORK. I have to work to keep my GPA up to keep some scholarship money rolling in. Going to have to slow down starting this fall I'm afraid. Too much stress and work for an old fart carrying 4 classes.
I didn't say it wasn't work, just that it's neither a career or job. You may increase your pay from an employer by taking classes, yes, but then that is where you are making your money. Neither the school nor another entity is giving you money to take classes until you retire, with benefits and sick and vacation days and such. If there was, I'd sign up! Quit this job and just take classes 40 hrs/wk until I retire in 15-20 years? Ok! Pay me at least 60k and you've got a deal! The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#4338148 - 02/17/17 02:29 AM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: Haggart]
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Vertigo1
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Zeta Aquilae System
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My job category is law enforcement - but it's not exactly the first thing that comes to people's minds. Meter maid?
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” -Milton Friedman
Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat
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#4338165 - 02/17/17 03:53 AM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Genbrien
Stick to the plan man!
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Stick to the plan man!
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none of the above : Flight Dispatcher/ aviation
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#4338176 - 02/17/17 05:44 AM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Haggart
I Fought Diablo
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I Fought Diablo
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The Lone Star State
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Vinz .... "Meter maid?"
no, .... I'm a courthouse guard outside the restroom areas
"everything lives by a law, a central balance sustains all"
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#4338294 - 02/17/17 02:04 PM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Jedi Master
Entil'zha
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Entil'zha
Sierra Hotel
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Posts: 49,716
Space Coast, USA
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Seems a place that shouldn't need guarding...?
Last thing I want is someone outside in earshot while I'm...going about my business.
The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#4338372 - 02/17/17 06:52 PM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: U-96]
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Top Gun
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Lifer
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XboxLive Tag: DOBrienTG1969 Dave O'Brien,Top Gun PhotographyNikon D500 & D7200 Nikkor 70-200VR AF-s F/2.8 Sigma 50-500 & 17-50 F2.8 Sigma 150-600
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#4338548 - 02/18/17 12:07 PM
Re: Career/job industry poll
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Paul Rix
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NW of Austin, Tx
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Currently working in business aviation as a pilot , and no, I don't intend to become an airline pilot when I have enough hours  (if only I had a dollar for every time I have been asked that question  ).
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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