What is your job?

txa1265 said:
My current title is 'Principal Optical Physicist' ... but 'Optical Engineer / Statistician' is a better description of my work, and teh balance is shifting more to the statistician side over the next few weeks with a job change within the company I work for. I'm in the semiconductor industry with a company that makes materials that are used in producing high-end computer chips ...
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In MA? What company is that? I thought Micron in ID was the last US manufacturer? I'm not saying I don't believe you, just that its news to me. But I also didn't know Turbine (the mmorpg company) was in MA until the sent me an invite to go play LOTRO (I got it too late to go do that).
 
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Rohm & Haas Electonic Materials (formerly Shipley) - make photoresist and other photo-optical materials for use throughout the chip & wafer fab process.
 
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Was a Nurse Manager until I had to retire early. Unless I am having medical issues I spend a lot of time volunteering for my Church and for the Veterans of Foreign War.
 
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What foreign wars are you a veteran of CM?? :)
 
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The one between myself and you for one. *looks for her fire sword*
 
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Was unemployed for almost a year until recently and now I'm (again) a sales/consultant dude in the IT area ;) .
 
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Glad to hear you're back among the ranks of the gainfully employed once again!!
 
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txa1265 said:
Rohm & Haas Electonic Materials (formerly Shipley) - make photoresist and other photo-optical materials for use throughout the chip & wafer fab process.
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It amazes me that there is a non-pharmaceuticals company in MA that actually creates an actual tangible, physical product you could touch. Not many left, or at least I never here of them, know people that work at them, or come across them job hunting.
 
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Horticulturist for many years--which is mostly manual labor with a fancy name prone to bad puns(--you know, "you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think" etc).
 
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Well, it's probably a lot more relaxing than IT, collecting taxes or being an undertaker;) It's also a very easy major. But the pay pretty much sucks.
 
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Everything I ever tried to grow died!! I think I have a black thumb!! :)
 
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Corwin said:
Everything I ever tried to grow died!! I think I have a black thumb!! :)
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Corwin, have you tried water? It's an amazing elixir which, when applied with reasonable regularity, will regenerate and even buff most plants.
Sunlight also helps, of course.;)

@Danicek-yeah, it's pretty much a ten-dollar word for a two dollar subject, but it occassionally persuades people into thinking you know what you're doing...
 
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Back at U, we called the lab engineer who supervised the botany grounds 'our carnation specialist' :biggrin: .
 
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Margerette, if you don't mind me asking, how easy is it to make a living by being a horticulturist? Does it matter that I have no experience growing... anything ( :p )? I honestly think this would be a good job for me once I'm done with my current job. I would probably only do it for a short time though since I could make a lot of money with the experience I have at this job.

Ahh, it's nice to just day dream about having such a chill job...
 
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Korplem said:
Margerette, if you don't mind me asking, how easy is it to make a living by being a horticulturist? Does it matter that I have no experience growing... anything ( :p )? I honestly think this would be a good job for me once I'm done with my current job. I would probably only do it for a short time though since I could make a lot of money with the experience I have at this job.

Ahh, it's nice to just day dream about having such a chill job...
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Remember, you will be outside in the rain, heat and cold, lifting, digging and chainsawing, mowing and weed-eating and heaving trees into holes. The glamor might wear off after a bit;) (The big tractors are fun, tho.)
But there is no reason not to try it out--there are some cush jobs on big estates, or running your own landscape biz, that do rake in the dollars.
In my experience, anyone who has ever grown a tomato or an african violet feels quite free to consider themself an expert, so jump in and plant something. If it immediately dies, consider returning to your alternate profession. :)
 
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Jaz said:
Back at U, we called the lab engineer who supervised the botany grounds 'our carnation specialist' :biggrin: .
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That's an easy field compared to "reincarnation specialist" :p
 
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magerette said:
@Danicek-yeah, it's pretty much a ten-dollar word for a two dollar subject, but it occassionally persuades people into thinking you know what you're doing...
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Well, it really seems to be quite nice work (when things are going well). After all you see results of your work quite clearly comming up from the ground. We - software makers - have sometimes real problem to get the motivation.
 
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PhD student in Computer Science, specialized in Image Analysis.
 
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