[jdonn]

I just got promoted to casino accounting manager at MGM Grand, I'm transfering from Bellagio in a couple weeks. My goal is to see how far I can advance in that area without knowing the slighest thing about accounting nor having the slightest interest in it, though I do really enjoy being involved with the casino and certain other aspects of the job.

When I told my previous boss in California that I have a department reporting to me now, he laughed out loud and had to apologize. I really don't blame him.

[matmat]

jdonn, on May 28 2008, 11:24 AM, said:

I just got promoted ...

congrats.

[jdonn]

matmat, on May 28 2008, 11:57 AM, said:

jdonn, on May 28 2008, 11:24 AM, said:

I just got promoted ...

congrats.

I celebrated with my first ever new car. Very hopeful that "jdown" or "jdonn" the license plate is not taken in Nevada (haven't decided which yet - see other thread), in which case I'll have a new forums avatar

[cherdano]

While we are going on in this thread, my job will move me to Berkeley in January 2009 for one semester (means I will have to pay up all those beers I lost to gnome during the last couple of years , but on the upside the institute where I will be is in the perfect location to watch sunsets behind the Golden Gate bridge). Then I will start a tenure track job (read as: permanent unless I suck in the next couple of years) in the middle of Connecticut staring August 2009.

[joshs]

cherdano, on May 28 2008, 01:12 PM, said:

While we are going on in this thread, my job will move me to Berkeley in January 2009 for one semester (means I will have to pay up all those beers I lost to gnome during the last couple of years , but on the upside the institute where I will be is in the perfect location to watch sunsets behind the Golden Gate bridge). Then I will start a tenure track job (read as: permanent unless I suck in the next couple of years) in the middle of Connecticut staring August 2009.

Misery loves company.

Hmm, Middle of Connecticut, Do tell says the Wesleyan grad....

[jdonn]

Jlall, on May 28 2008, 04:09 PM, said:

Woah, haven't seen this thread in a while...

I am now...a bridge bum!

Unless you are talking to a hot girl, in which case you are a professional gambler and card shark.

[andy_h]

I'm a 3.5th year university student studying Aerospace Engineering. My partner has asked me when am I going to quit uni to play bridge

[skjaeran]

skaeran, on Jun 20 2007, 02:13 PM, said:

I'm working at the Norwegian Bridge Federation's office in Oslo. Been here for nearly 16 years now.

Still there.

[kenberg]

Mathematician
College Prof
Retired, more or less. Mostly less lately. I'll be free again in mid-July.



See http://www.youtube.c...h?v=P9dpTTpjymE

[matmat]

kenberg, on May 29 2008, 04:33 PM, said:

See http://www.youtube.c...h?v=P9dpTTpjymE

that
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[luke warm]

that was priceless

[Al_U_Card]

In its integral form I found it almost derivative....lol

[kfay]

Currently I work as a laboratory technician in the Radiation Oncology department at UofM. We study how to make cancer cells less invasive and biochemistry of the pathways involved. An intersting problem in Rad/Onc these days is that radiation therapy actually has the potential to increase the metastatic potential of tumor cells. We are currently really involved in looking for ways to counteract this.

I've had a job as a lab tech all through college and--while my less glorious tasks have included dicing up circumsized foreskins and ejaculating sea urchins--I actually get to do a lot of experiments that I find to be genuinely interesting.

I think that laboratory work is probably one of the best jobs in the world. While the pay is terrible as a technician, you get to have an intellectually stimulating job with worlds of freedom to pursue what you feel is important within the confines of your lab's goals. You also basically set your own hours and you get to do new things every day.

I'll be going to medical school eventually but I want to continue to do lab research my whole life. While that means I'll have to write grant applications, which are a constant gorilla in the laboratory, it's just to exciting to leave. Also the research you do has the potential to have a far-reaching impact. Already I've been part of several projects whose published results have promising applications in patient therapy.

[h2osmom]

I am a nurse in a pediatric ICU, NOT a neonatal ICU. I take care of really sick kids, and I work twelve hour shifts, 2 or 3 days a week.

[Echognome]

I was an academe, but now I sold out, moved back to California, and am working in international taxation. I see plenty of big numbers before my eyes and get sad that none of them are mine.