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Old 04-10-2008, 04:28 PM   #101
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Control Room Operator at a coal fired power plant.

I know.....I know.......kind of ironic for a guy that is trying to be green!
I am a control room operator for a petroleum pipeline company (not the pipeline company) in Alaska.

When I bought my Prius, my boss made the rather ignorant statement that, "How can you work for an oil company and buy that car? It's people like you who are going to put us out of business." My reply was, "No, sir. Us charging $4.00/gal for gas is what's going to put us out of business." Of course it won't but still.

I have no qualms about working for an oil company. If the company I work for wants to provide some sort of employee discount for gas, I'd probably still be driving my 16 mpg 4Runner.
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Old 04-10-2008, 04:38 PM   #102
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Interesting. Do you have an older control system, like Bailey INFI-90 or Honeywell TDC 3000, or something newer like a Emerson DeltaV PlantWeb or Siemens PCS7. Any HART or Foundation FieldBus?

I do a fair amount of control systems, always curious what is out there
Cool, another control systems engineer.
I never really worked with the PCS7, but plenty of experience with the older S5. I used to program control systems for hydro powerplants back in Germany.

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Old 04-10-2008, 07:50 PM   #103
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Wildlife Biologist

Working to increase the amount of quality wildlife habitat on private land
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Old 04-11-2008, 12:19 PM   #104
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I live in upstate NY. I am an actor and part time courier.
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Old 06-30-2008, 02:00 AM   #105
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Heya, was catching up on old posts and 50+ pages in I found this, I realize the thread died a few months ago but figured I'd add to it and maybe some other new posters to the site would also.

My title at work is 'Chief Technology Officer' but this is really just a fancy title for software engineer (head geek)...

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Old 06-30-2008, 02:33 AM   #106
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Teach 7th & 8th grade social studies and reading
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Teach 7th & 8th grade social studies and reading
awesome! i actually just took a job teaching 8th grade keyboarding (and one period of 6th grade math)

it'll be my first year teaching, so we'll see how it goes! i subbed for that district this past spring and had many conversations with students about the prius after they would see me getting out of it and then have me in class. maybe i'll include some assignments about the future of hybrids?

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I work for Dept. Homeland Security as an Immigration Officer
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