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?
For all those living in G.R., you know exactl where I spent many years. Right there at 110 Michigan, G.R. Ford Federal Bldg. Was able to get out at 53 and have been traveling - mostly throughout Latin America for a bit now. Enjoy my summers near Lake MI on Muskegon Lake and am usually packed by time The Game is over, reserve a ticket and w/in a couple of days am headed to Ajijic, Mexico to spend the winter. In fact, headed back to MI this Friday.
are there any fish left in el Lago Chapala?
VERY tough job I'm sure and very impressed you take that on.
In a similar vein I had a friend who's job was telling people the results of their HIV tests.
In San Francisco.
From 1983-1986.
I'm not making that up. To this day I honestly think she had the worst job in the world.
Did my MSW internship in the cancer center. Mad props to you. It just was too difficult for me to come home with everyday. Now I deal with making probably over a dozen abuse/neglect calls every week with 5-8 year old kids, and that still doesn't compare to how difficult the cancer center was for me. And that was as an intern.
Graduated in 2015 - working at a small eCommerce consulting firm as a software dev / consultant. Wish I would have done business with a CS minor at UofM, since consulting is a good blend of business with dev work.
Wouldn't say this is my dream job - but I absolutely didn't want to work somewhere where I was a code-monkey all day. Consulting is the kind of blend I was looking for in the field.
I edit videos quite a bit (have posted on here a few times) and enjoy that, but have taken a bit of a break from it and am enjoying that - so not sure I would ever switch over to that as a full-time thing. The hit in salary wouldn't be ideal, either.
Fortunate to have that engineering degree from Michigan to give me a lot of options - would have been difficult to have the flexibility I do otherwise.
Is lawyer but mainly I drive my 4 kids to their activities (which I actually enjoy watching). Wish I could retire early and attend all the Michigan games (but see note about 4 kids).
GO BLUE!!
I am a supervisor / project manager at a Fortune 500 utility located in southeastern Michigan. I work with a group of engineers, designers and various other classifications on some of the larger capital improvement projects we have going in Washtenaw, Monroe and suburban Wayne County. I also help out the odd MGoBlogger when they have an issue with this particular company, which is fun to do when I can do it.
keep you very busy.... Ever met Urban?
Stay at home Koala that brews balsamic vinegar in the Spring while longing for my long lost love Rhonda Jones. Pretty much sums it up. Oh and I drink. A lot. I used to plan point parties a lot, but no one goes to them anymore. Sometimes I plan them anyways.
Work as a nurse manager running our trauma surgery program.
I've been out of college for 30 years. For 15 years, I was a copywriter/associate creative director at large ad agencies in Chicago, working on national accounts, doing mostly TV and radio. I also took some time away from that and went to cooking school and became a pastry chef. I worked at three different restaurants in Chicago doing pastry and desserts. After I had kids, I semi-retired and started a small business restoring vintage upholstered furniture and doing fabric consulting (reupholstering other people's furniture). That went great for a couple years, but now it's somewhat stagnant, and I'm possibly looking to partner with an architect friend who's interested in expanding her practice to include interiors.
Ironically, I shot a commercial for Frito Lay with Jason Alexander. It was star-studded and hugely expensive and never aired, unfortunately.
I've been a designer/art director for the past 35 years, have an architecture degree from U-M, and have worked with and for a number of architects over that time, both in an architectural capacity and as a designer. No culinary training, though.
I considered going back to school to get an architecture degree but then I visited the arch school at Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, looked at the portfolios of incoming students, and realized that there was no way I was going to tackle calculus at my age (or any of the enginering stuff). I would love to be able to do that, though.
Wendy,
Although we have likely never crossed paths, it sounds like we could have in a couple ways. I finished undergrad at UM 20 years ago and now have a company in Chicago that makes commerical furniture (including upholstered) primarily for restaurants - booths, tables, chairs, etc. The upholstery part is a tough business given the amount of imported furniture out there, but hopefully you enjoy it.
I find vintage chairs and sofas and refinish and recover them (well, I don't do it; I have people who do it). It's been very difficult to make money, so I'm thinking about expanding into a more service-oriented model, providing design consultation and sourcing. Not a full-service interior design company, but one that's focused more on textiles. A lot of people want to keep the furniture they have, and just update it.
One of my former upholsterers did a lot of hotel and restaurant jobs, building banquettes and specialty chairs. That was the meat of their business. Residential stuff just gave them a certain style cache.
NVH engineer.
I come up with all the music and sketches for the new Bill Nye show.
Own Defense companies, President & CEO of 1, and Board of Directors on a few more.
One thing we can count on is military and defense spending. It will never go away.
Sales for a tech-based courier service in MPLS. Love it
and have been doing this between 3 - 9 years now. Love it, never the same day twice.
Rapper, future POTUS. Vote Waka 2020.
Thanks for serving. Ohio State is a great school and just like MOST other schools, what you get out is what you put into it. Good Luck!
I do machine repair have for about 28 years
I'm not a rapper
Sorry it didn't work out for you. Not everyone can make it in the game.
I make car parts for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about.
-Ray
You've got really weird hair.
Electrical Engineer working for an Engineering/Architectural firm in Upstate NY.
Going through RN program right now.
Not sure if DNP or CRNA is the route to go. Did I miss the gold rush for your field?