OT: What do you do for a living?
With the offseason here, I thought it would be interesting to read what members on this board do for a living. Student, Professional, Retiree, Entrepenuer...
Do you like what you do? Wish you would have done things differently when you were a student searching for a career choice?
Project manager at a software consulting firm. Recruited through UM by some fellow Wolverines. Had no clue what I was looking for during the recruiting processes...but Ross BBA provides amazing resources to get interviews so that really helped me out.
left out the part about being Gustavo Fring's right hand man.
For a Cleveland-based medical device firm I'm a co-owner of.
If so . . . don't ha ha. They owned a company I worked for for a couple of years.
One of my very good frieds is the corporate toxicologist for Medtronic so I know (and enjoy enjoy working in) the Med Device field . . . . often easier to navigate than pharma/Ag Chem.
Our device is specifically designed for surgeons conducting nerve assessment: hand, plastic recon and neurosurgery as well as head & neck surgeons for the most part. The irony is Denard's ulnar nerve issue could've be treated far differently (and dare I say far more effectively) had the surgeons who operated on him utilized a Checkpoint IMO.
Funny thing is University of Michigan is my 4th largest customer behind Detroit Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and sadly guys.....Ohio State!
Batman
I test software for a benefits software company
I'm an unassuming general counsel for a hedge fund...by night, I'm Batman.
His name was Jesse...
In reference to your comments I actually live in Breaking Bad territory. I am a teacher and high school coach out here in New Mexico and we actually had a real life Breaking Bad experience. Guy was a teacher, chemistry, and arressted, for cooking meth. Arressted in October, plead guilty last week.
Consultant for ADP. I'll be honest: dealing with other people's payroll is fucking awful. Clients don't know how to use the software and when something goes wrong, they decide its easiest to just blame you for it.
I do have some great clients that I've built great relationships with, and then I've got some pretty awful ones. The kind of people who I wouldn't mind if I never met them. If I ever got to a point where money didn't matter, would open a no-kill dog shelter. That's the kind of job where I would happily come in for 18 hour days.
that's me.... on the right.
What happened to all your melanin?
the brightness of my shirt kind of washed out all the melanin in that photo.
I feel like we should get all the CO posters on here together for a game sometime. I bet it would very interesting group of people.
Offshore oil & gas. Trying to evolve to land to survive through the downturn :) Work with a bunch of Wolverines in, Texas of course.
I work as an accountant at a hedge fund servicing company.
If I could do things over again, I would have gone into education. Probably higher grade elementary school or middle school history. Unfortunately, too many people talked me out of teaching and into a different path.
I don't hate what I do, but I feel my job has no purpose, just watching the rich get richer. And I could have been doing something that would have given me satisfaction and summers off!
Unless you landed in a pretty nice private school you likely would've just seen yourself as babysitting children to enable the rich to get richer.
You're probably right. Either way, somewhere the rich are getting richer.
I chose science. If you are doing quality, ethical work, mankind benefits.
or did it get put off as does happen so frequently?
It was fine. It was a grand jury, so my part only took 10-15 minutes. Now we wait and see what happens. Hopefully that's the last time I get called in.
Thanks for remembering!
my guess is that you won't ever have to testify again. remember the proceedings are confidential, so other than your lawyer (not the company's lawyer, YOUR lawyer) no talking about your testimony.
I didn't feel a need to have a lawyer, but trust me, this ordeal is the last thing I want to talk about. I've pretty much already suppressed it all!
with. there's an old saying, 'you know what you know, but you don't know what you don't know'. grand jury proceedings can be way tricky and are always highly case specific. you only know a very small part of the whole puzzle and quite frankly they can be dangeous.
if they contact you again for testimony, contact the mods who can get me on back channels. i will do my best to point you in a wise direction.
This isn't helping my stress level at all. But either way the questions asked were very basic, and most of which I didn't know. I never did anything wrong/nor did I say anything that could incriminate myself. I didn't feel the need to spend money on legal fees, when there was no wrong doing on my part.
Plus I was told by several lawyers and a judge that there would be no reason for me to hire a lawyer.
As they say, "ignorance is bliss".
And please don't take that the wrong way IMissJohnCooper.
This may be just Oklahoma, I don't know, but here all you need is a Bachelor's degree in a random field to be a teacher. You can "test" into the field of teaching you want. So technically, at least here, your dream would still be approachable. Guessing that's not the case where you are?
There are transition to teaching programs here, but from what I have seen to be certified you have to take pre-requisite courses to get in.
I would love to do it, but now is not a good time for me to switch careers. 2 kids, one 2 years one 6 months... our life is crazy enough!
I know what you mean man. I'm a full-time Accounting Manager for a fairly large Retailer in Oklahoma, and on the side I'm working on growing a side business I started a year and a half ago in hopes of quitting the day job. I have similar thoughts about the day job as you do, at least in that it doesn't feel like satisfying work. It's just family support to me, which obviously is important.
Just had our first child one month ago, and it's been extremely difficult to find the time to do everything I need to. What sucks is I almost feel guilty doing my side business, which is in fact my dream job at the moment, because it takes time/focus away from my family. I need to have it though to support the family and allow my wife to stay at home, so eventually something is going to have to give. At least I love the side gig, which makes putting a lot of effort into it very satisfying.
Hope you get to fulfill your dreams, man. There's nothing like doing something that you love to do. I'm sure you will have the opportunity to down the road, maybe once the kids go to school. I wouldn't lose hope yet!
Social Studies for 3 years. It wasn't for me.
Can you please make the next ones not look as stupid as the last 10 years have looked?
also, I love the Ram (not the ones with the gaping holes in the grill tho).
Chevy/GM always look weird to me but I guess I can see what others like in them
What are you even talking about?