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Prius Owners Poll - What do you do for a living?

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Main Forum' started by devious1, Jul 27, 2009.

  1. rpeek2

    rpeek2 Dry Ice Juggler

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    I'm retired from the Fire dept. My wife (principal driver) is an Administrative Secretary at the local college.
     
  2. orca_0574

    orca_0574 Junior Member

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    I am an environmental scientist (working as an entomologist) and will start working on my masters in environmental engineering this fall.

    My BS concentration was Aquatic Ecology (my minor was geology... my Prius has hauled a lot of rocks- not big ones but cool ones!)

    My MS concentration is also going to be water issues...
     
  3. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    i work as a dead horse; i take calls from people telling me how they are not responsible for the usage of their cellphones because they did not know that they were supposed to read their customer agreements and confirmation notices, or they did not know that the advanced mulitimedia phone they bought for their 12 year old could rack up charges equal to 3 times their normal bill if no restrictions were applied, (if your son threw a baseball thru the window of your neighbor's house, would you expect the baseball manufacturer to pay for the window??. idiotic question you say?? LOL!!....so little do u know!!)

    and occasionally, i adjust their bill due to mistakes we made. it does happen, but you will be surprised how little it does happen. all i can say is, if you sign something, u better understand what that piece of paper (or electronic form) says. if there are terms and conditions to read, READ IT!!
     
  4. gaurav47

    gaurav47 New Member

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    I am a Mainframe Programmer cosulting for local government.
     
  5. gpt

    gpt Junior Member

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    Project manager / Telecommunications vendor
     
  6. PriusMaximus

    PriusMaximus Junior Member

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    Purchasing agent for a packaging company.
     
  7. markderail

    markderail I do 45 mins @ 3200 PSI

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    I speak 19 languages ! Guess my job...

    1. Basic
    2. Visual Basic
    3. Fortran
    4. Cobol
    5. Shell script
    6. DBase
    7. Foxpro
    8. Clipper
    9. Visual Foxpro
    10. C
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    12. C#
    13. VB.Net
    14. SQL-92
    15. T-SQL
    16. Informix
    17. Java
    18. English
    19. French
    And yes, I totally Digg the TV series from the UK, The IT Crowd.
     
  8. Crazy Canuck

    Crazy Canuck New Member

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    I'm a Technical Services Manager for an audio visual company. Basically sales, design, and account management in corporate AV.

    Wife is a Grade 2 public school teacher.
     
  9. nerfer

    nerfer A young senior member

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    How about hiring somebody who can write it in a readable fashion? Why does it take 18 pages of small print to describe a simple contract?

    BTW, I'm an embedded software engineer (C/C++ & RTOS).

    (Since this said Poll in the subject line, I thought there'd be an actual poll that we could vote on).
     
  10. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    could u justify a $150 per hour salary if all you wrote was something a typical 7th grader could write?
     
  11. job.mcmichael

    job.mcmichael New Member

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    I own a Marine sales & service dealership in Florida and my wife has thirty plus years with public education.
     
  12. Chris_hitman_Hearn

    Chris_hitman_Hearn New Member

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    I'm a concrete technologist
     
  13. frodoz737

    frodoz737 Top Wrench

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    Aircraft Mechanic.
     
  14. eadams44

    eadams44 New Member

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    Maintenance Mechanic at a Nestle Frozen Foods Factory
     
  15. mikewithaprius

    mikewithaprius New Member

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    Pianist/piano teacher/classical musician with various hats.
     
  16. ArielG

    ArielG New Member

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    Public high school biology teacher

    SO is a mechanical engineer
     
  17. mmcdonal

    mmcdonal Active Member

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    Awesome, I never saw this thread before. What a diversity.

    I am an IT Specialist for the federal gummint (legislative branch) and specifically a systems analyst. However, I do the following jobs:

    Business Analyst
    Systems Analyst
    Systems Designer
    Database Designer and Developer
    Programmer
    Project Manager
    Systems Administrator
    Information Systems Security Officer
    etc.

    With the budget shrinking, I will be doing more and more of these sorts of jobs. I can also look forward to my next raise in two years.
     
  18. pb83

    pb83 New Member

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    Work in IT.
     
  19. Gurple42

    Gurple42 New Member

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    Wow, some pretty awesome professions listed!
    I'm impressed, also a retired Union Film Editor (TV Series), did my 40 years and I'm done.:rockon:
     
  20. dancergene

    dancergene New Member

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    retired radiation therapist