Day Jobs

[Turnip]

Heh..

Degrees:

1.) BS in Marine Engineering and Shipyard Management from the US Merchant Marine Academy ('01)

2.) MS in Ocean Systems Management from MIT ('02)

I'm currently a production strategy associate at National Steel and Shipbuilding, here in San Diego. Half of my job is to contribute efficiency improvements in pre-production processes, while the other half is a formal management training program.

I started playing guitar to pick up chicks, while a senior in high school. It worked...but now I'm obsessed. So I continue to buy more and more gear, thinking that someday I'll be the man.

 

[Giganova]

Re: Heh..

Originally posted by Turnip
... thinking that someday I'll be the man.

BS, MS, recording studio, guitarist, chicks ... you are da man already!

Originally posted by Turnip
So what exactly do you do in astrophysics

I get paied thinking about the universe. One of the coolest jobs on earth, I guess. On a daily basis, I analyze & publish data from space-borne observatories (such as the Hubble Space Telescope) to get some ideas what's going on "up there". Music keep me sane.

 

[sae]

Re: Re: Heh..

I get paied thinking about the universe. One of the coolest jobs on earth, I guess. On a daily basis, I analyze & publish data from space-borne observatories (such as the Hubble Space Telescope) to get some ideas what's going on "up there". Music keep me sane.

And "they" pay you for that

So who's interested in that kinda stuff, government, private?(again with the ignorance)

 

[David Artis]

Well lets see.

I have an AS in Data Processing, BS in Computer Science, MBA and an honary PHD from my university (SIU Carbondale, Il.).

All paid for by the GI bill. Spent it all but one month.

I have been in IT forever and now have my own company
www.hipaasecurerx.com. Laid off 2 years ago after securing a $16 million contract for the company I worked for at the time. I cost to much....

Travel around doing work in the healthcare industry and develop software for it.

Have been a muscian longer than I have been in IT though. Been making and recording music since the late 60's.

Have owned two pro studio in Tampa, Fl. Currently have my private studio in a rebuilding stage after a proloned illness.

Pretty much wraps it up.

Later.

David

 

[Giganova]

Re: Re: Re: Heh..

And "they" pay you for that
So who's interested in that kinda stuff, government, private?(again with the ignorance)

I get taxpayer's money from the government through NASA. In return, I make all of my work publicly available and present the most interesting stuff to the media & public. I am also training teachers (for free) and student, give tons of public talks (for free), etc. The public is surprisingly interested in astronomy, which is great, coz it keeps the funding coming in from the government.

 

[Giganova]

Running an own compay sounds like a lot of stress, David. At least you don't have to put up with an obnoxious boss.

 

[malcolm123]

BS in Computer Science 1994
Currently Senior Systems Administrator
Company = Classified , , LOL


Genre =Hip Hop and R&B

First piece of Gear over 400 bucks = Tascam 4 track , 1991
First Real " ? " Sequencing software = Cakewalk 3 something DOS
First soundcard = Pro Audio Spectrum (Upgraded, LOL)
First Sampler = Cheap Gemini with one Big Button and a pitch control

I control my Infrastructure, so thats why im in the Forums all day LOL

Malcolm

 

[DDev]

Looks like we have not only a lot of engineers by profession present but we also have a lot of folks who played in high school band, huh? I, myself, played bass trombone until I graduated high school, at which time I switched over to electric bass.

These posts are fun. Keep them coming.

Darryl.....

 

[tjohnston]

In high school we didnt have any tubas so I played the tuba part on the electric bass. When we played football games I used a generator to power the bass and a monster stack It really sounded good. I remember that like it was yesterday.

 

[frederic]

In high school we didnt have any tubas so I played the tuba part on the electric bass. When we played football games I used a generator to power the bass and a monster stack It really sounded good. I remember that like it was yesterday.

The high school band I was in had four sousaphones for marching season. Frosh year I was switched from clarinet to baritone, then a week later to sousaphone so we had four, rather than three, two per side.

Carrying around a clarinet was much easier, but you had to walk all over the field in pretty patterns. The sousaphones just stand next to the percussion and march forward, then backward, then forward, then backward. Was easy enough for me.

I learned electric bass in high school (soph year), as part of a rock band I was in, as well as taking "Guitar I and II" classes in high school. So, I was promptly sucked into the school's jazz and dixieland bands, which was a lot of fun actually. The school provide the bass (fender basic) and the amp (peavey head plus 15" cabinet with horn), and thats how I got started in bass. Could never read bass clef at the time, played bass and tuba by ear.

Though tuba parts are easy... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh... borumgh...

Playing in the jazz/dixie bands were much more fun... got to learn slap, funk and string popping techniques rather than just playing simple notes. Still, by ear.

I can play almost any instrument by ear if I monkey with it for a while, though honestly, I don't play anything particularly well. Just well enough so it sounds like I didn't pick it up (whatever it is) an hour ago :-D

After we got on this thread, I was rumming through the attic and I found my clarinet, piccolo, bass clarinet and my oboe. Never could play the oboe though. Sounded like someone was clubbing kittens while on PCP.

I tried it last night, still sounded like clubbing kittens while on PCP.

Hahhahahahhahah.

 

[Son of Mixerman]

My day Job= Design Engineer.

I can't tell you what I do exactly, or what my specialty is either, in fact I can't tell you what I studied in college prior to being recruited by the _________. I never completed my degree in __________, because the company I work for was working on ____________ and paid me more for that than what a completed degree would get me. As long as Im working in ___________ Im pretty safe, but if I get laid off, Im worse off than C7sus because you can't print out my resume' !! Maybe Ill sue if I get laid off for making me non competitive in the civil work place

SoMm

 

[Dethska]

Carrying around a clarinet was much easier, but you had to walk all over the field in pretty patterns. The sousaphones just stand next to the percussion and march forward, then backward, then forward, then backward. Was easy enough for me.

I hear that. I played the cymbals in the marching band for a year in high school and a year in college. At first I laughed at the poor suckers running around in circles. Course then my arms cramped up from carrying around two giant 20" plates of brass. Those things were freaking heavy. And all arm strength to hold them. Then I wished I'd learned how to play the piccolo.

I also played guitar in the high school jazz band. Sucked bad. I still do at jazz. I can do an E chord. and then E7 is all right, but then it's like E7#5sus2b9 , and it's like, I only have four fretting fingers. And then it's a fast song and it moves from E7#5sus2b9 to a Ab7sus4b13#3 and two measures later to C6+bb3/A. Forget it. (Course I later learned that you don't have to play all the notes listed, just the important ones. It's jazz, fake it.)

 

[Jblount]

In high school, I played marching horn in F, and we had 7 marching tubas. We had like 350 members. It was so much fun.

 

[David Artis]

Running an own compay sounds like a lot of stress, David. At least you don't have to put up with an obnoxious boss.

Stress - yes - but if all goes well I will retire (I have a 5 year buyout plan in place for folks I am seeking angel funding from) and then the only boss I will have is a 5'1" beautiful wife of 33 years.