Probably the time I was doing yeast research (aneuploidy and whatnot). The whole epistasis thing I'm currently doing isn't as intriguing, probably because it is medical research. I guess that environment puts me off or something.
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What's the coolest job you've ever had?
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Favorite job? Seriously?
Well, I have had only one job so far that made me fill out a tax forum
Apart from that, I did (still do, if someone asks) extremely small time tech support-ish stuff, as well as consulting.
So, on that basis, the favourite job would have to be the time I went to someone's house to network their "inbuiltwifi" printer. Was there for three hours, three computers. I must suck right? Not exactly. She showed me her router, it was a linksys, but the only linksys in the list was in another coldesac, and had really low signal strength, and I couldn't connect. This baffled me for awhile, but eventually (Stayed up until 5 A.M. that night) dawned on me that, an SRX router should have maximum signal strength from feet away. Tried to hardwire it, nothing happened. Come to find out, the person who installed it has a bit of a paranoia disorder and basically put the router behind a trifecta of walls. Mac adress filtering (newest machine wasn't on the list). 256-bit WEP key. SSID broadcasting turned off. That was fun. I installed the stuff, and put mac address filtering only back on and left.
She then asked what my hourly rate was. I was stunned, I had never thought about it. She goes, "Is $20/hr fine?"
Answer was of course "Yes.", or as it sounded in my head, "F**king AWESOME HELL YES!"
It's sad, because I made $60 in 3 hours sitting in an office chair, whereas it would take 10 hours (roughly) at my real job to aspertain that.
Of course, there's nothing like showing up and making **** up out of shear comedy, just to see them believe it, and realize that their computational saviour is about to talk their ear off about how they just wasted $1xxx because their machine runs windows.
Well, I have had only one job so far that made me fill out a tax forum
Apart from that, I did (still do, if someone asks) extremely small time tech support-ish stuff, as well as consulting.
So, on that basis, the favourite job would have to be the time I went to someone's house to network their "inbuiltwifi" printer. Was there for three hours, three computers. I must suck right? Not exactly. She showed me her router, it was a linksys, but the only linksys in the list was in another coldesac, and had really low signal strength, and I couldn't connect. This baffled me for awhile, but eventually (Stayed up until 5 A.M. that night) dawned on me that, an SRX router should have maximum signal strength from feet away. Tried to hardwire it, nothing happened. Come to find out, the person who installed it has a bit of a paranoia disorder and basically put the router behind a trifecta of walls. Mac adress filtering (newest machine wasn't on the list). 256-bit WEP key. SSID broadcasting turned off. That was fun. I installed the stuff, and put mac address filtering only back on and left.
She then asked what my hourly rate was. I was stunned, I had never thought about it. She goes, "Is $20/hr fine?"
Answer was of course "Yes.", or as it sounded in my head, "F**king AWESOME HELL YES!"
It's sad, because I made $60 in 3 hours sitting in an office chair, whereas it would take 10 hours (roughly) at my real job to aspertain that.
Of course, there's nothing like showing up and making **** up out of shear comedy, just to see them believe it, and realize that their computational saviour is about to talk their ear off about how they just wasted $1xxx because their machine runs windows.
Never had what you would call a cool job. Has some very enjoyable ones but none of them were cool.
My job - developing embedded realtime software for UMTS (3G) base stations - is great fun, so I guess it is pretty cool.
But the coolest job ever is probably the one I read about in a Top Gear magazine comparo where they stage a race between an F1 race car and a fighter plane. The guy who piloted the fighter plane had a business card that read: "BAE Systems Eurofighter Project Test Pilot".
But the coolest job ever is probably the one I read about in a Top Gear magazine comparo where they stage a race between an F1 race car and a fighter plane. The guy who piloted the fighter plane had a business card that read: "BAE Systems Eurofighter Project Test Pilot".
I have 2 jobs,
Sucky one - Main job as IT Enterprise Support but pays the bills
Cool job - Part time Racing School Instructor so get paid to drive people round in Lambo's, Ferrari's, Aston Martin's etc. Great fun and would do it full time but it pays rubbish and is only seasonal.
Sucky one - Main job as IT Enterprise Support but pays the bills
Cool job - Part time Racing School Instructor so get paid to drive people round in Lambo's, Ferrari's, Aston Martin's etc. Great fun and would do it full time but it pays rubbish and is only seasonal.
I've been blessed with a few.
One that I can talk about, flying below treetop level on a zero moon lit night with full face googles in an AH-1F flying at 120 knots. Now that was a blast!
Still have my ET light from back then. Things sure have improved over the years.
One that I can talk about, flying below treetop level on a zero moon lit night with full face googles in an AH-1F flying at 120 knots. Now that was a blast!
Still have my ET light from back then. Things sure have improved over the years.
I had to complete two sets of vacation work for my degree.
The first was a practical hands on job, I worked at an aircraft maintenance facility fixing cessnas. The cool part of the job I was able to go on test flights(Citation 2, Cessna Caravan, Conquest and a few more)
Worst part was getting soaked in jet fuel, which left a horrible rash around my wrist.
Second job was at an airline. I did the takeoff performance checks for them. I was able to fly the simulators occasionally(B737-200 and B737-400)
My current job involves the installation of offshore structures, its great to see them installed, but getting it done is a bit stressful at times
The first was a practical hands on job, I worked at an aircraft maintenance facility fixing cessnas. The cool part of the job I was able to go on test flights(Citation 2, Cessna Caravan, Conquest and a few more)
Worst part was getting soaked in jet fuel, which left a horrible rash around my wrist.
Second job was at an airline. I did the takeoff performance checks for them. I was able to fly the simulators occasionally(B737-200 and B737-400)
My current job involves the installation of offshore structures, its great to see them installed, but getting it done is a bit stressful at times