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Was a Pharmacy Tech at Kaiser.
Became an RN, worked at a Psychiatric Hospital.
Special someone inspired me to strive for PharmD
so that's where my life is headed now.

I've always wanted to work for NASA.
International Space Station??? *Be gentle my beating heart*
Also thought about being an Airline Captain for UPS or FEDEX.
 
Carpentry as well as slave :D, moving to Alberta pretty quick here for camp work.

Hopefully get into tech-school next fall to become a x-ray tech, way too lazy for my current job.
 
I work for the General Networks Company and my official title is Support Consultant Level 2(almost level 3, started at 1)..., but I guess my unofficial title or what i would put on my resume if I would search for a new job would be SharePoint Administrator. My company has a large 4-5 mil contract with the Walt Disney Company where we have three teams providing IT support for various applications.

Before anyone asks... No, I can't get you into Disneyland/world for free.:(

My team works heavily with Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and all customizations(programming) that come a long with it. We handle many different internal/external sites for example: The payroll system for Disney Cruise Liners and telling which employee to be on which cruise, the Disney Product Integrity site where they test every Disney product to make sure Disney cannot be sued for any safety reasons, as well as certain ABC broadcasting parts of the company and ESPN. Our sites essentially just help these business units do their jobs/share info more efficiently. My day to day responsibilities are mostly IT support/Sys Admin support but every now and then I get a development project and I really enjoy working on those.

I'm comfortable with what I'm doing, but I would like put my computer engineer degree to better use and move into a more programming oriented job rather than IT support/Sys Admin support. I'm not sure how I would go about finding a pure Software Engineering position as I've spent the last few years in IT support. The pay is not fantastic, but not terrible either and I'm only 2 years in and living at home so it's ok for now. I've seen other positions that pay much more but require many more years of experience.

Only downside to this job is I have to be on-call 24/7 for a week each month because we support such a large company world wide(Europe, China, Japan...). It really messes with my sleep schedule when someone reports a problem in the weeee morning AM hours.

Upside is I get to work from home quite often :).

During my last two years of college I interned at Adam Nutrition which is a nutritional pharmaceutical manufacturing company. If you walk into a Costco head to the aisle with all the pills/protein powders, that company makes a majority of that stuff. Also a ton of P90X recovery powder. It was a medium sized business, about 100-150 people give or take. I mostly just did homework and fixed stuff as PC's broke or taught people how to use their computers better. My boss wouldn't let me be near the servers :( which i find funny since I help manage a ton of them now. Best thing about this internship was free drugs :)
 
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all you tech support guise...

-sales leader at sports authority

often involves following tweakers around the store and conning people into buying insurance on stupid little things like baseball mits and soccerballs :troll-94: i need a new career
 
semiconductor engineer.
joined Army for helicopter flight school but washed out.
wanted to be a fighter pilot.
wanted to be a programmer too, but i do that at my job anyway.
 
I think most know my background and even many of the brands I represent. I have been in outside sales since early the Nineties. I started with the Gallo Winery family out of college, taught me well but paid me shit in return. Four years with Gallo and now Nineteen years with Young's Market Co. I am lucky to have a fairly large territory and top name brands to sell, being commisionable sales position, I work for myself but do have management I deal with through email and voice mail, I like it this way and realized early on, a cubicle would of been the death of me as would a manager (unless you're the CEO or self-employed there is always a manager) standing over me each day.

I do drive a ton of miles each week but I love the Central Coast of California, not too many places in the US I would rather spend my days traveling to and from accounts. Due to the nature of the job it does come with some perks built in, not that I would give up income in lieu of them. In the end I am glad for the income it produces, the nature of it being pretty casual, the medical sales industry pays better but much higher stress levels and job turnovers.

Dream Job: CEO World Bank, because money is power.
 
Some may be surprised by this but I'm a preschool co-teacher. 15 four year olds is my class. Have to have two teachers for certain numbers of kids. The best part is I work in a high income area so its a nice place with awesome kids.

Dream job would be to create and write a TV show. I'm a English major with a focus on creative writing so I hope obviously hope to become a writer. If I fail at that I would probably try to be a book editor or something along those lines.

Dream Dream job would be Professional TV Show Watcher or Astronaut
 
Joshua Lein said:
Some may be surprised by this but I'm a preschool co-teacher. 15 four year olds is my class. Have to have two teachers for certain numbers of kids. The best part is I work in a high income area so its a nice place with awesome kids.

Dream job would be to create and write a TV show. I'm a English major with a focus on creative writing so I hope obviously hope to become a writer. If I fail at that I would probably try to be a book editor or something along those lines.

Dream Dream job would be Professional TV Show Watcher or Astronaut
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That must help a lot when you are admin'ing on the GO server :p
 
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