Ferris Bueller

Cant fault you for turning down a free ride if thats not what you want to do.

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amu107.9

Certified Pharmacy Technichan
10 years Experience 6 as a Certified Tech
I make 28k/year
Work is great hours are even better. I can attend school and work the hours I want.
People like any job can make things interesting at times.
Working on a Chemistry degree and eventual attendance to Pharmacy School after getting my degree.

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"I was about to call a whaaaambulance." -|SOG| Vir2L
"The Defenders can't go into that building. So I don't have to worry about that side." -Unknown

Drizzid

Fedex D.O.T Courier 8yrs no W-2 yet but will be $35-36,000.00 and definitely not worth it!!!

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Zhohar

I'm a student. I'm currently in my 4 moth work term. I write embedded C and I make $38k/year. Pretty sweet for a student

I make this.

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DigitalAssassin

Do you work for Ross Zhohar? That happens to be the brand of the video switcher we use at church, a Ross Synergy 100 SD.

ScratchMonkey

SF Bay Area here, east bay north of Berkeley. I got my house in the mid-90's for 80k, got it re-fi'd and I think it appraised for 300k, for 750 square feet. Prices remain stupid high. I'd love to move out of the People's Republic of California but I have a sweet job 10 minutes away where I set my own hours and get paid an exorbitant sum.

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Axis of Eeevil

Currently my wife makes 28k/yr. as a data entry specialist for the biggest Gov't data analysis contractor, CSC.

I have come home to homeschool full-time with my two boys. We decided we'd rather sacrifice a larger income and make sure they get the education they need. It is a hard choice to live with sometimes, but we only need to look at their intelligence, innocence and creative schoolwork to know it was the right one for us.

I had to give some back-story, but decided it belonged in a new thread: Hardships Overcome. Come on over and share yours if you want.

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Ratatomik

Canadian Forces Meteorologist 3years in 36k(CAD)/year

DigitalAssassin

CSC!?! Interesting, the company I work for, Covansys, was acquired by CSC last year and is a wholly owned subsidiary, so I technically work for CSC also.

TheSkudDestroyer

Still in High School. I'm a Senior, I plan on joining the Air Force after I graduate. (Trying to avoid training int he summer, afaik the Air Force trains in Texas )

During the summers I work at the giant Horse Race Course famous in my city. It sucks. Minimum wage and tips. I tell people they cant enter x area without PANTS and PROPER attire or I'm seating nasty New Jersey natives. (No offense, but these aren't the cream of the crop)

Right now... Nothing. I coast off the roughly 1200$ I make in the summer (Just 36 days!)

The local Air Force Recruiter has not responded to me. I call about 3-4 times a week, at 3PM (When kids get home from school), I've sent emails...Nothing. So I'm trying to find out how to contact the Central Recruitment offices (Whatever you call them) and find out why nobody has answered my calls. I'm under the impression that the guy is not doing his job. I haven't spent all too much time looking into jobs, just scanning for ones that catch my eyes...but the ones that have caught my eye so far are
1. Operations Intelligence
2. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Operations
3. Aerial Gunner (Kinda a joke, I'm pretty sure I'd hate all the noise)

So basically, my job is a slacker student who gets exempt from exams on character and merit!

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BMT Graduate - 320th Training Squadron, Flight 024 - MSgt Romero - "Kids no more!"
30 weeks Keesler AFB, 1W031 - Weather

Lorax74

Basic training for the USAF is held at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX. Avoid July and August like the plague.

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RandomGuy

One of my friends who I happen to be sitting near at work as I type this had that exact co-op job at Ross. I believe was working on the HD chroma keyer and was putting in a lot of overtime leading up to NAB 2004. It was a good job and good pay for a co-op but get ready for some serious slave^H^H^H^H^H co-op driving in a about two months.

Ferris Bueller

Skud, check the map on this page. Click on the squadron that serves your area, which I believe should be the 313. You can try calling them to talk about the problem with your local recruiter. However, I'd recommend calling the recruiting group command for your area (the guys who control the entire blue section of the map), whose number can be found here.

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Grunt 70

I work for National Fire Protection Association. We are a non profit technical publisher. We publish many titles that affect you everday but you'll likely never realize it. i.e. The National Electrical Code, The Automatic Sprinkler Code, The Life Safety Code, The National Fire Alarm Code and many others.

I started with NFPA in 1986 as a part time job to work my way through college. Early on I never saw it as anything but a stepping stone to something else...that was 22 years ago.

I started at the bottom as a order packer in the warehouse. I was promoted to order picker then mail clerk, responsible for managing all shipments going out from our warehouse. After a year or so of that a job opened up in the Customer Service Call center for a Call Center Sales Representative. I applied for it and got it. It was like a duck to water. Shortly after that I graduated college but because the job market for English Majors is limited at best and I was really good at what I was doing I stayed right where I was.

After 3 or 4 years I was promoted to Lead Sales Representative, then Supervisor of the Call Center. I did that for a while then a few years later a job opened up in our Professional Development Department as a Seminar Program Administrator. The administrator was responsible for managing seminar programs for 200-300 attendees at 20-25 open registration seminars held at major cities around the United States....lots and lots of travel. I did that for a couple of years and in 2002 I applied and got the a job Managing our Onsite Seminar Program. This what I'm doing today. The title sounds fancy but it's really an inside sales job selling seminar programs to companies with deep pockets. The average seminar program I sell is 2-4 days ranging from 12-21K per program.

I love my job and working for NFPA. We are non profit and we save lives...it's all inside sales now and really only one or two trips a year. My base salary is $55K + annual incentives based on our sales achievements. Last year was a good year. I made about 73K total between base salary and incentive pay. Combine this with a nice pension plan and excellent insurance and I feel fortunate lucky to be where I am today. I'm really proud I worked my way up from the bottom.

My wife is currently a homemaker but will be working soon as our 4 y/o will be in school in September. We have a 23 y/o and a 15 y/o too. 73K sounds like a lot, and ya know, it is...but living in the northeast is expensive and sometimes I look around my modest home and neighborhood and say "is this the best I can do?" It's those times when I realize that's its more important to be happy with what you are doing then to be a slave to the all mighty dollar.

P8riot

DUDE! I've got all your books! On Disk AND print! The NEC is my personal favorite - spine-tingeling (no pun intended- Grunt you are probably the only one that will get that) and full of suspense!

Seriously, we live and make our living by those codes and our knowledge of the NFPA takes us very far with our professional reputation - many fire marshalls will speak very well of us when they find out they are inspecting one of your projects.

Cheers Grunt!

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