College student and now 6 year veteran of working in Best Buy, currently in Media(CDs, DVDs, and video games). I began as a cashier(which should be a punishment in Dante's Inferno) and then Home Theater before the explosion of plasmas and LCDs before going to Media.
I'm a Bacteriologist for the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Safety Laboratory. You may remember us from our work in nation-wide food product recalls such as:
Accounting major specializing in information technology, there are plenty of tech companies around here in Dallas that could use some some business savy.
I currently call myself a Computational Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. That means "guy who has some training in software engineering and in physics and numerical methods".
I am soon to be Computational Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Columbia, MD. Any GeekNights-types in Baltimore?
I have been working for the past three years as a legal assistant/paralegal while I contemplated law school. I decided that law school was not for me and am returning to school (while I work) for a second bachelors. My goal with my continuing education is to become a high school English teacher, then move on to administration/test development/college level instruction further down the road.
Well i work as a salesman in the Computer department at my local Good Guys (A big electronic/whitegoods store). The work isn't all that great, but i get great discounts of anything in the store, and the commission is awesome!
Let's see... I've done a lot of different jobs. I worked at Arby's doing pretty much everything, including being the training manager for a store that was set aside for training management, worked in the parts dept. at the local Chevy dealership, processed film, sold cameras, and sold electronics. I worked as a office manager and did customer service at a motorcycle customization place, along with working as a mechanic there. I've been a delivery boy for the company that invented the color weather radar, and a janitor. However, I now have the job that I hope to keep until I retire. I'm an aircraft mechanic under contract by the U.S. Army just down the road at Ft. Rucker, here in Alabama. I've been working there for about six and a half years and I'm already halfway up the seniority roster. A bonus is the fact that the top 25% of the seniority roster is filler with people who are withing two years of retirement age. So, within the next three or four years I'll be in the top 25%. Not to mention that I'm already vested in my union pension.
I topped my personal best record for hours worked this week: 78.75 hours for the pay period week, 93.25 for the calendar week. The firm running the project that I started Monday of last week (that was supposed to last three weeks) decided that they needed everything done before today, so they offered us $90.00 dollars per hour to work the weekend and said they'd allow us to work from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. both days. I only missed and 1.75 hours of that possible time and that was because of Metro delays.
To make things more remarkable, most of us went for twelve hours yesterday with no work. Seriously. We were just sitting there. They kept telling us they had more documents that were coming in at any second, but at 10:30p.m. they said that they had none left, the project was over, and we could all leave and write that we stayed until 11:0 p.m. on our time sheets.
I left another project for this one. That project was very objectionable to me because they didn't allow us use of the internet. They also didn't allow us to sign ourselves in and out in the morning, at night, and for lunch. They also didn't allow us to check out our own case notebooks or to fill out our own travel reimbursement forms. They had some punk kids from the firm do that for us. IMHO, if they don't trust us to do to use the internet and do those other things for ourselves, why should they trust us to correctly code the documents?
Someone said the obvious: They want us to concentrate on the documents. I hate it when people do that. Of course that's the corporate bullshit answer. The reality was that they put us in a space with a lot of little offices on the third floor of a building that looked out onto Pennsylvania Avenue through HUGE picture windows. So, instead of wasting time on the internet and filling out travel reimbursement forms, we watched the crowds walking down Penn Ave towards the Old Post Office and the Capitol. I might not have had the internet, but I had a Windows Vista. Also, some of the other people had Blackberries, so they used the internet on those. Finally, since we were in little offices and there were few supervisors, we had a lot of freedom to just sit and talk.
The thing that makes these piddling little things the firms like to do to remind us that we weren't case notes editors on the Harvard Law Review are made bearable by the pay rate and the fact that we're paid weekly. On this project however, they told us that we'd be paid biweekly and that there would be a two week delay before we received our first check. So we'd have to wait amonth before our first check. I know that's standard procedure for permanent jobs, but this was a temp job that wasn't even supposed to last a month. I'd be happy to wait a month for the first check for a permanent job, but it's unacceptable for a temp job. Additionally, their time sheet computer program didn't work for four of the days I was there. So I left after five days and went to the project that ended last night. I have another project that will begin on August 13.
This temp stuff was okay at first, but the insanity is becoming tiresome. I'm starting to look for regular, permanent jobs without much consideration of the patent bar plans. I've applied for open positions at the D.C. Public Defender's Office, the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, the Nashville Federal Public Defender's Office (we'd move in a heartbeat), and the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation through the Department of Labor (if I could get into the federal system, I think it might be easier to transfer over to the U.S.P.T.O. I'd be a lot more confident getting a job at a patent firm if I had some experience through the U.S.P..T.O.). I'm gonna continue to look and, in the meantime, get waived in to the Maryland Bar so I can look in Maryland as well. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office would be way cool, but their Public Defender's Office actually pays more.
m gonna continue to look and, in the meantime, get waived in to the Maryland Bar so I can look in Maryland as well. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office would be way cool, but their Public Defender's Office actually pays more.
Out of idle curiosity, how much to public defenders make in Balmer? I've always had the feeling that PD's in most states don't get paid enough considering the constitutional importance of their job, but I've never had data.
I work at a small Art Gallery as a gallery assistant/construction supervisor, which means I build walls, build random stuff for artists and hang painting/photos. I graduate with my B.A in Philosophy at the end of this academic year where I then plan to become a janitor.
I work in a factory that produces styrofoam, and I'm so fucking out of there after my vacation in a week or so (end of August I'd say) and am going to work for Canada Post to make more money at a less shitty place.
Cowdog: The position I'd want in the D.C. Public Defender's Office is $59,421 - $79,397, that position in the Baltimore Public Defender's Office has a salary range of $59,107 - $86,303. The Federal Public Defender position I applied for in Nashville has a range of $46,907 to $124,148.
They're determined by experience. I think that I might get at in the middle to higher end of the range based on 15 years of experience.
That seems like an absurd range. Almost three times the low end? Maybe I'm just a punk kid who hasn't seen a lot of salary offers by which to form an opinion.
That seems like an absurd range. Almost three times the low end? Maybe I'm just a punk kid who hasn't seen a lot of salary offers by which to form an opinion.
I am the technical manager for the R&D division of a large consumer products company. Bottom line is I manage a maintenance department, the controls and information systems engineers, and two guys that seeming pull fully functional production and testing systems out of thin air...
And they don't even have to roll a natural 20 to do it.
This article is the best description of what I've been doing for about the last year and a half. Developments are continuing with my job at the Attorney General's Office. If things go well, I'll start after Thanksgiving.
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http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/AD/release.asp?ReleaseID=1598
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01563.html
We're also currently involved with this little fiasco: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19489593/
More information about the kinds of things the lab does can be found here:http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/FL/FLHome.html In short, I'm in ur gub'ment, keepin ur foodz safe.
I am soon to be Computational Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Columbia, MD. Any GeekNights-types in Baltimore?
Live in fear.
In real life, I'm a lawyer who doesn't get much sleep.
To make things more remarkable, most of us went for twelve hours yesterday with no work. Seriously. We were just sitting there. They kept telling us they had more documents that were coming in at any second, but at 10:30p.m. they said that they had none left, the project was over, and we could all leave and write that we stayed until 11:0 p.m. on our time sheets.
I left another project for this one. That project was very objectionable to me because they didn't allow us use of the internet. They also didn't allow us to sign ourselves in and out in the morning, at night, and for lunch. They also didn't allow us to check out our own case notebooks or to fill out our own travel reimbursement forms. They had some punk kids from the firm do that for us. IMHO, if they don't trust us to do to use the internet and do those other things for ourselves, why should they trust us to correctly code the documents?
Someone said the obvious: They want us to concentrate on the documents. I hate it when people do that. Of course that's the corporate bullshit answer. The reality was that they put us in a space with a lot of little offices on the third floor of a building that looked out onto Pennsylvania Avenue through HUGE picture windows. So, instead of wasting time on the internet and filling out travel reimbursement forms, we watched the crowds walking down Penn Ave towards the Old Post Office and the Capitol. I might not have had the internet, but I had a Windows Vista. Also, some of the other people had Blackberries, so they used the internet on those. Finally, since we were in little offices and there were few supervisors, we had a lot of freedom to just sit and talk.
The thing that makes these piddling little things the firms like to do to remind us that we weren't case notes editors on the Harvard Law Review are made bearable by the pay rate and the fact that we're paid weekly. On this project however, they told us that we'd be paid biweekly and that there would be a two week delay before we received our first check. So we'd have to wait amonth before our first check. I know that's standard procedure for permanent jobs, but this was a temp job that wasn't even supposed to last a month. I'd be happy to wait a month for the first check for a permanent job, but it's unacceptable for a temp job. Additionally, their time sheet computer program didn't work for four of the days I was there. So I left after five days and went to the project that ended last night. I have another project that will begin on August 13.
This temp stuff was okay at first, but the insanity is becoming tiresome. I'm starting to look for regular, permanent jobs without much consideration of the patent bar plans. I've applied for open positions at the D.C. Public Defender's Office, the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, the Nashville Federal Public Defender's Office (we'd move in a heartbeat), and the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation through the Department of Labor (if I could get into the federal system, I think it might be easier to transfer over to the U.S.P.T.O. I'd be a lot more confident getting a job at a patent firm if I had some experience through the U.S.P..T.O.). I'm gonna continue to look and, in the meantime, get waived in to the Maryland Bar so I can look in Maryland as well. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office would be way cool, but their Public Defender's Office actually pays more.
I work in a factory that produces styrofoam, and I'm so fucking out of there after my vacation in a week or so (end of August I'd say) and am going to work for Canada Post to make more money at a less shitty place.
They're determined by experience. I think that I might get at in the middle to higher end of the range based on 15 years of experience.
And they don't even have to roll a natural 20 to do it.