What did you study? What do you do?

[Bill Sikes]

I went to University and studied Mining Engineering. Now I'm vaguely connected

to computing. What did you do?

[lady cop]

have had several careers..started out a registered nurse. stayed home with kids. went to law school at night in boston. ran trial court law library. stayed home with kids. moved to florida. taught law. stayed home with son. took charge of security at resort in the florida keys. spent 2 years busting shoplifters for walmart. (now that's another thread!! :rolleyes: ) went to police academy when kids were grown. now a deputy for 4 years. want to make detective. criminology my lifelong passion, since i was 18 and found the graves of andrew and abby borden in fall river, mass.....set me on a lifetime path. "lizzie borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done, gave her father 41"

[greydeadhead]

Study.. lets see, how to roll a spliff 101.. beer tasteing 102.. TeeKillYa shooters 202..... ohhhhhhhh.. you meant like college.. okay.

Not much really got an AS in liberal arts on the 20 year plan.

Spent 15+ years as a professional chef, everything from pub grub to 4-star restaurants. Eventually became executive chef at a hotel resort. Way too much work.. got out of the hospitality industry. Now.. creation of processes to automatically build newspaper article databases. Midlife crisis or Slight career change you might say. In spare time.. a seasonal job doing inventory control at a warehouse.. driving forklifts and such.. and I still cook on the side.. a ski house from the end of December to mid March..

[A Karenina]

I married young, raised my son, and I went back to work part-time when he hit junior high school.



I am an accountant full-time now. I also go to college. I have another 2 years to get my Bachelors; then I'm going for an MBA, and then my CPA exams. I should be finished in another 6 years, tops. It'll take less time if I pass the CPA on the 1st or 2nd try.



It's all business, and sometimes that's a drag. LOL. Management, economics, and endless accounting courses, naturally. Plus the same at work all day long. Wah wah wah! I think that's why I chat on forums - it gives my head a break.



Originally I wanted to be a human rights lawyer.

[Hawke]

Hmm...I started college in Computer Engineering, wound up with a degree in Archaeology, currently working on a Master's in Archaeology, all while working on computers developing software sets and maintaining 300+ Macintosh computers.

[anastrophe]

have had several 'careers', if that they can be called. studied latin, philosophy, electronics, metalworking, graphic and fine art, and filmmaking while in college. loved the filmmaking so much i dropped out to become the Next Great Director. as you may be able to tell, that didn't quite work out. got various menial, technical jobs at the periphery of filmmaking, a la mixing huge vats of developer and stuff for a film processing lab - man, just a couple of rungs away from director, there! lucked into a job at the semi-famous Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas's post production facility. worked there a bit over a year as an audio technician, met the woman who would later become my wife, got fired for misconduct (my knowledge of computers bit me in the ass).



spent three years floundering with crippling depression from losing the coolest job i'd yet had. my last gig in the film biz was more audio tech work for francis ford copolla, on his version of dracula. the mixing studio was in a converted barn, and bats lived in the belfry - smelling bat guano while working on dracula was....disconcerting at best!



finally met up with a fellow who become my longtime business partner, mentor, and best friend to this day, as we rode the growing internet from the beginning of the tidal wave in 1994, through the crash of 2000. made some very good money through that, and gained a lot of self-esteem from my abilities in that field. survived just past the crash, but then the wave finally came down on me. have been eking out a living running a small online business since then.



as usual, my verbosity has created a far too detailed analysis. my ego has me convinced that this is interesting to others. eesh.

[Twinkies]

I am starting college in January. Majoring in Criminal Justice(going to transfer to the UCONN forensics program after 2 years) Minoring in Graphic design. Rightnow I do web design. :-6

[persephone]

I was fed up with school by 16, stayed and messed up my A-levels, got a job as a care assistant and now 10 years later I'm almost a qualified nurse.

[valerie]

Studied nursing in college, but it wasn't really what *I* wanted to do, more

what my parents wanted me to do. Then I did the classic "meet a guy" and

all h-e-doubletooothpick broke loose. My job now is homemaker, and I

really really like it. But some day, I would like to go back to my first love,

working with horses.

[Paula]

My major has always been business, some nursing and phlebotomy classes. We are retired Dairy Farmers, keeping books back then to now, a growing aggregate / construction / recycling adventure. When you have 600 plus acres you need to utilize it or sell out. A professional accountant worked with me for about 1 year and set-up our systems, a hefty price was paid for the tutoring. I create my own advertising, receive many compliments, at one time i was using old photos from the turn of the century. Horse & equipment, groups of hardworking men, etc...worked well. I do weekly ads, with assorted photos of what we do, included are people that work here. We have a reputation of running a clean, honest business, with good people, building relations 1@ time! :wah: :wah:

[A Karenina]

anastrophe wrote: as usual, my verbosity has created a far too detailed analysis. my ego has me convinced that this is interesting to others. eesh.
I'm interested!

Ok, you are not as fascinating as I am, but (shrug) few people are.