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#81 User is offline   Echognome 

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Posted 2007-June-20, 01:14

Gerben42, on Jun 19 2007, 11:07 PM, said:

Congratulations all that have a new job :rolleyes:
Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly).

Isn't that pretty much what Homer Simpson does?
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#82 User is offline   Gerben42 

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Posted 2007-June-20, 01:59

Echognome, on Jun 20 2007, 09:14 AM, said:

Gerben42, on Jun 19 2007, 11:07 PM, said:

Congratulations all that have a new job :rolleyes:
Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly).

Isn't that pretty much what Homer Simpson does?

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Gerben42, on Jun 19 2007, 11:07 PM, said:

Congratulations all that have a new job :)
Since I last posted in this thread I've now started work in the nuclear industry as a safety engineer (which means probabilistics mostly).

Isn't that pretty much what Homer Simpson does?


Not really since he works in the watch. I model the probability and effects of different severe accidents scenarios for a nuclear power plant. For this we also have to take into account human reliability, but also accident progression and component reliability.
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Posted 2007-June-20, 06:13

I'm working at the Norwegian Bridge Federation's office in Oslo. Been here for nearly 16 years now.
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Posted 2007-June-20, 06:46

skaeran, on Jun 20 2007, 12:13 PM, said:

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

Wow, sounds like a good job, better than mine at least.
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Posted 2007-June-20, 09:26

Hi, all.

It was interesting seeing what people on here do for a living.

I'm a systems administrator/programming team leader for a non-profit generation and transmission electric utility.
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Posted 2007-June-20, 19:07

I used to work in a toyshop, now i'm a bum, this thread reminded me a i need a new job :(
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Posted 2007-June-20, 19:44

jlall said:

and play and teach bridge for money (my goal is to have enough demand to do this full time).


Lookin good :( Moving to NYC in august, hopefully this works out
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Posted 2007-June-20, 20:44

Jlall, on Jun 20 2007, 07:44 PM, said:

jlall said:

and play and teach bridge for money (my goal is to have enough demand to do this full time).

Lookin good :wacko: Moving to NYC in august, hopefully this works out

Nice, congrats and good luck!
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Posted 2007-June-20, 22:04

Echognome, on Mar 6 2006, 03:28 PM, said:

I am called a Lecturer here in the UK (assistant prof in the states).

I guess I should update as well.

I decided that I really missed the U.S. and, in particular, San Francisco. So I moved back at the beginning of the year and am now working for one of the big four accounting firms in their transfer pricing department. Very different, but I'm enjoying it a lot. Sadly, I do not have nearly as much time for bridge these days.
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Posted 2007-June-20, 23:49

Computer software....elbows in the mud OS stuff at present...but have done higher level SW stuff in the past...
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Posted 2007-June-21, 01:51

I'm a university student studying maths & physics, but I teach french at primary schools for a small after-school activities organisation 3 afternoons a week and work one day a week at a preschool to pay my way through university. I will be either a high school teacher or start a bridge club, or maybe both, when I graduate.
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Posted 2007-June-22, 08:59

My company does the data collection/QA and statistics for medical studies. I'm a software developer.
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Posted 2007-June-22, 21:23

I'm a petroleum engineer, currently working in Colombia.

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Posted 2007-June-23, 18:45

Tech support for IBM. Just as exciting as it sounds.
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Posted 2007-June-23, 20:26

I'm a "performance engineer" at Akamai Technologies. Before I got this job 8 months, I didn't even know such a job title existed.

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Posted 2007-June-23, 21:19

It's very interesting but not at all surprising how many of you are in the math/computer/technical fields (with the exception of the two fishy dentists).

I am, and have been for more than 20 years, a school psychologist in a middle school in the South Bronx, NYC. I work with people with Autism, with Mental Retardation, with severe learning difficulties, and with severe social/ emotional/ behavioral problems, and with various combinations of the above. Add to these the socio-economic situations and other factors inherent in living in an inner city (such as gangs). I used to like the job. Not so anymore B) .

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Posted 2007-June-27, 12:45

Double !, on Jun 23 2007, 11:19 PM, said:

...severe social/ emotional/ behavioral problems...

like bridge players? =)

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Posted 2007-June-27, 13:01

Yah but, if it weren't for bridge, we would take it into real society and then there would be trouble...
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Posted 2007-June-27, 20:02

Al_U_Card, on Jun 27 2007, 02:01 PM, said:

Yah but, if it weren't for bridge, we would take it into real society and then there would be trouble...

What?!!! You mean bridge isn't real society?

BTW: just a side thought. Has anyone else felt that there's a similarity between someone calling for the director and a child calling for its mother?
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Posted 2008-May-28, 10:03

From august I will start working for the medical research council, as a consultant in Bayesian design for clinical trials.
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