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[Cromp]

Chemistry student - if only I had known there are so many chemistry experts around here before my midterms!

[Nigel H-C]

I grow carnivorous plants!!!!! Can you believe that???!!!   I also run  a business supplying exhibition stands, which is my main job.

[TroJon]

Well i'm an upper 6th student with Biology, Physics, ICT and Design, and tomorrow i have an interview for royal holloway uni to study Zoology!!! I want to do this course purely on the fact that i would love to do it! But i will need a decent paying job when i come out, so it'll either be as a researcher or somehow, a stockbroker or estate agent Anyone have job tips for jobs i can do, make money with the zoology degree i get, give us a yell  

[Mick]

Well, as an interviewer said at my last interview, I've "had a chequered career"!!! :?
6 years as a physiology/pharmacology lab tech at a University.
A couple of years doing a degree.
Almost 9 years as a Research Pharmacologist (Pharmaceutical Industry).
2 years running a small health & nutrition Marketing company. I was the 'M' in 'M & E Marketing'. Big mistake.
Just started a new job in the local hospital Pharmacy. Just to make enough cash to put a non leaky roof on my new house in France. Oh, and plumbing, sewerage, electricity, plaster, windows/doors etc. etc. etc.
:o

Mick.

[pond boy]

Well I used to be a volunteer librarian and worked there for almost a year but then stupid brenda thought I was autistic because I don`t get into too much conversation and fired me! Stupid ungrateful idiotic brenda!

[Frederick]

Short story: nothing

Long story: I graduated as an Engineer in Electronics and IT in 2001 and
had jobs varying from diggin' holes to plant roses and install seats in the
Concertbuilding of Brughe to designing motherboards for RISC-processors
and writing firmware for heavy-duty distributed processors. In October last
year I decided to stop looking for work and start a bridging course at the
University, which makes me a 26 year old student Civil Engineering with a
major in Computer Architecture and a minor in human fysiology (which
unfortunately doesn't include the reproduction system). I hope to graduate
next year and finally get my ticket out of Belgium.

In retrospect, diggin' holes was the best job and I would still love to be a
truckdriver.

Frederick

[tom]

hey denmark.dk
i spent some time installing controll systems in Odense
on the supertankers in late 60s,do they still build them there?

[schimatrix]

So I'm an architect: it could even sound good, but in Italy that  mainly means that you have to:
a) try desperately to convince those few friends who have had the ill-considered idea to restructure one's house that changing it into a sort of loft (open-plan, bedroom as part of the living area)  does not necessarily mean  that your guests will try to catch you in panties when it's time to go to bed
b) live by terribly boring analysis, losing one's sigh in front of a computer redrawing boundless portions of italian territory (wondering if someone else has already done it by chance)

as everybody can easily infer from all of that, this is not necessarily a remunerative kind of job..at all
giuseppe

[Loakesy]

Loakesy said:

I'm currently working in the Fingerprint Bureau in New Scotland Yard, but waiting to hear about a promotion that will see me posted to a local police station where I can get back to my passion of carrying out forensic examinations of all types of crime scenes!

OK, I found out today that I didn't get that promotion I've been waiting to hear about since August, and I'm absolutely gutted!!!!!!!!!!
      :madman:  #-o
Lots of sympathy please! :cry:

[Dunc]

Loakesy said:

Loakesy said:

I'm currently working in the Fingerprint Bureau in New Scotland Yard, but waiting to hear about a promotion that will see me posted to a local police station where I can get back to my passion of carrying out forensic examinations of all types of crime scenes!

OK, I found out today that I didn't get that promotion I've been waiting to hear about since August, and I'm absolutely gutted!!!!!!!!!!
      :madman:  #-o
Lots of sympathy please! :cry:

So, this time they made a mistake - it happens.......

[Tim]

Their loss. Don't worry, qualified labor is always in short supply. Trust me, I lived in Africa for much of my adult life. There can be huge unemployment, but someone who knows what they are doing and has a broad intellegence like you will eventually rise to the top. Forgive me if this sounds forward, but you are silly to worry.

[spiderman]

i second that dunc don't worry about it andy there loss mate!!!!!!

[Loakesy]

Gawsh!
Thanks for your vote of confidence fellas!!!!

[fly]

Really sorry to hear that Loaksey - that must have been pretty gutting. I think forensics are fascinating - you never know, perhaps the next opportunity that comes up will be even better - life's funny like that sometimes.

Kribuk - I also did  a zoology degree and it was great - but if you want to make money, stock-broking is definately the answer  

[Davy]

Started off in conservation forestry for the local authority......
Gave that up to work on a project  to build a 17th C farmhouse.

When that was done..found myself a job working within the NHS.

Now, I am a carer for my wife, and a houseparent.

[sam2809]

i am an a level student soon going away to study animal science at university in nottingham

[jimscott]

I am an Environmental Scientist, currently working for an environmental laboratory, in the metals department, prepping and analyzing.

[kenmc]

Me be an Embedded Software Engineer - mainly stuff like DVD recorders, Digital TV receivers and stuff like that. Cool enough when I don't have to do documentation. Or testing. Love solving hard bugs that no-one else can. Hey maybe thats why I like CPs - cos they kill bugs too! LOL
Ken

[Jamesemt]

I'm an EMT in the Ambulance Service which is kind of like a Paramedic but with fewer drugs; and no it's nothing like Casualty on the TV...thankfully  

[Starman]

Im still at high school,(im in year 8) so my carnivorous plants get undivided attention!
When I leave school, I want to go to gardening college and then be a famous gardner like Allan Titchmarsh!