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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 07:19 #1 / 36
Its been 10 years on and off around here and I find myself curious of the vocations of those who are mostly all way better than me at online risk.
Me, I'm a chemistry professor.
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 09:22 #2 / 36
Interesting thread, thanks Xrayjay for this prompt
I'm an interpreter and translator, and before I started on this second career 4.5 years ago, I worked as a jack of all trades for 20 years in nonprofit organizations (community organizer, executive director, paralegal, "bilingual staff", project manager, etc)
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 11:55 #3 / 36
I'm a man.Aerospace Engineer by education; spent ~5yrs at NASA, the rest at a military GPS company in various roles (engineer/testing/manager).
But I can change,
if I have to,
I guess...
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 14:15 #4 / 36
I am a software engineer that works for a non-profit that is a FFRDC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_funded_research_and_development_centers
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 14:50 #5 / 36
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 16:18 #6 / 36
I am a business controller.
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 17:22 #7 / 36
M57 wrote:
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
Awesome for you!
I started teaching High School Math for a few years and then taught at a Community College for about 12 years, and then was a mid-level administrator for another 7 and then went back to teaching HS for a year and a half. (Oh boy - what a time to do that!) This may have been my last year in education though - thinking about trying something else.
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 19:35 #8 / 36
Congrats M!
Amidon, two of the three best math instructions I ever had were at community colleges.
I'm a systems analyst at a technology company. I think when I started at WG I was a pizza guy.
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Wed 23rd Jun 2021 20:20 #9 / 36
M57 wrote:
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
25 years, one month, 6 days and 5 hours for me! Not that I'm counting....
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Thu 24th Jun 2021 03:00 #10 / 36
M57 wrote:
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
Have a happy retirement :)
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Thu 24th Jun 2021 19:48 #11 / 36
Youth football coach
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Thu 24th Jun 2021 22:10 #12 / 36
Like to play unique boards come join the Board Revival Group - http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/4082p1/Board_Revival_Group
GIS Specialist currently working with electrical utility
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Fri 25th Jun 2021 12:54 #13 / 36
Litotes wrote:
M57 wrote:
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
Have a happy retirement :)
Yeah, congrats on that milestone!
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Fri 25th Jun 2021 16:22 #14 / 36
M57 wrote:
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
That's a really fun combo. It seems like a lot of people wouldn't think math & music go together, but they are two of my favorite things too. Maybe WarGear attracts people who are both creative and analytical...
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Fri 25th Jun 2021 16:23 #15 / 36
Litotes wrote:
I am a business controller.
I have no idea what that even means... You control the business somehow?
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Fri 25th Jun 2021 17:45 #16 / 36
Ozyman wrote:
Litotes wrote:
I am a business controller.
I have no idea what that even means... You control the business somehow?
Mostly it's analyzing the numbers, for a firm with 2500 or so employees. I'm good with numbers. Others make the decisions based on my reports. Started as an accountant and advanced from there, without getting very far as I have no leadership skills.
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Sat 26th Jun 2021 02:20 #17 / 36
Like to play unique boards come join the Board Revival Group - http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/4082p1/Board_Revival_Group
Litotes wrote:
Ozyman wrote:
Litotes wrote:
I am a business controller.
I have no idea what that even means... You control the business somehow?
Mostly it's analyzing the numbers, for a firm with 2500 or so employees. I'm good with numbers. Others make the decisions based on my reports. Started as an accountant and advanced from there, without getting very far as I have no leadership skills.
Thanks for asking Ozy cause if nobody else did I was going to.
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Sat 26th Jun 2021 16:12 #18 / 36
I own 3 businesses (which sounds much more impressive than it really is), but my full time job is working for one of those three businesses. I'm a contract Network/Systems Admin building custom automation systems for heavy industry.
M57 - Congrats on the retirement. I hope that this opens you up for even more great map building!
XRay - Is that 25 years of a career, or 25 since retirement? :)
Litotes - Would that mean that you essentially report to the CFO? You (business controller) would be more responsible for accurately reporting financials, while the CFO is more of a strategic planning job? Is your company public traded (because I know that the financial reporting requirements are VERY strict when a company is...)
Ozy - What kind of software?
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Sat 26th Jun 2021 18:16 #19 / 36
Boris, yes, my company is publicly traded, and yes, i sort under the CFO. I'm not the only business controller we have, though, there are three of us.
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Sat 26th Jun 2021 22:17 #20 / 36
BorisTheFrugal wrote:
I own 3 businesses (which sounds much more impressive than it really is), but my full time job is working for one of those three businesses. I'm a contract Network/Systems Admin building custom automation systems for heavy industry.
M57 - Congrats on the retirement. I hope that this opens you up for even more great map building!
XRay - Is that 25 years of a career, or 25 since retirement? :)
Litotes - Would that mean that you essentially report to the CFO? You (business controller) would be more responsible for accurately reporting financials, while the CFO is more of a strategic planning job? Is your company public traded (because I know that the financial reporting requirements are VERY strict when a company is...)
Ozy - What kind of software?
(Edited for verbiage)
25 years to go. All going to plan at least.
