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Here is a video of the machines I run/maintain,supervise. I just thought it would by cool to see what everybody does for a living.

 

 

This video shows mail sorters made in Germany by Siemens. Mine are very similar but not quite this nice. We print, insert and mail 120K-200K envelopes a day.

 

They can read the address, check to see if the person has moved in the last 6 months, then inkjet a delivery barcode and sort by postal code at 10 pieces of mail per second.

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Ah ha, the loco lair!

 

And that machine is sooooooo huge :blush:

 

 

lol, first thing I thought of was this story I read as a kid... The Ironing Machine...by stephen king... a huge hulking thing that processes clothes, steams cleans them...and then over the next few months the exactly correct ingredients to raise a daemon happen to fall into the machine which manifests as a called-upon daemon that loves to take upon itself the act of ironing and pressing people... scary stuff.

 

Your machine doesn't wake up at night does it? :P

 

I don't have my camera now, but my workspace over the last few months has been for me here at home for Bell Canada Mobiliy. Just a little while back our most senior peeps (yay me) was given opportunity to work from home, with bell providing all the link up and equipment... so every morning when I wake up I reach to the left click the comp on and can start working. I have three monitors on, one for work, one for Sacred 2 and the other for my internet use. Before it was so quiet I could play a lot but lately (apologies to all who see me poof out) it's been hell.

 

My friends hate my job

 

:P

 

gogo

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I'm in charge of the vegetables and fruit at our local supermarket on the busy Saturday morning, and in charge of the team pretty much 1-2 nights a week and during my work on Saturday.

 

Still a student... :blush:

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I'm the creative Director for Shafston, a collection of colleges specialising in English language courses, hospitality, business and trades. I am in charge of everything design related including, but not limited to; websites, print materials, signage, advertising, documentation, etc.

 

Here is my desk setup...

 

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and the view..

 

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Certainly can't complain :blush: If anyone is interested, I have also uploaded a 360 degree photo of the entire main campus here (5000x518px, 550kb)

 

Ps. I am not responsible for the current website :P It definitely needs an update.

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Whoa Loco, that job would certainly keep you on your toes! But also has a taste of fulfillment? You see to it that up to 200k people recieve their important mail. ~daily~ My hats off to you, the true hero's of ground, air and sea parcel communication. :D

 

gogo, the book your refering to was later made into a movie. This movie is titled: "The Mangler" or "The Manglar", scary ventures. :)

 

I remain, Etherian

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I can't take any photos of my work, but I work in the basement of a hospital in the medical records department. I pretend to design reports, take minutes for meetings and assist a handful of managers and physicians with their needs.

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Great topic loco and cool vid! Can't it go any faster though? I needs mah mail. :D Awesome shots/descriptions all. I can't wait to take some pics of work!

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I am currently working in a corporate office for a certain high profile company, manually updating accounts of "frequent shoppers". Certainly not the most entertaining job on the planet, but the money is easy to come by, so no complaints. :) I can't post pictures, due to company confidentiality, and besides... I'm fairly sure they would put you to sleep on the spot anyways. :D

 

The position I currently hold is temporary, so I'll probably post back here as I find new adventures to go on . Should be fun....! ;) Great topic, by the way.

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I have 2 'half-jobs'. One is to manage a forest around our house for an earl who has no time for it. So I can bring in a lot of own ideas which is fun. Hill-tops now have young fast growing trees for wood-pellets heating systems. They grow in fields. Each field has trees with same age. The cycle is 13 years, a prime number. So the danger of loosing too much wood because of wood ruining insect which appear in 3 or 5 years cycles is minimized.

The valleys contain large trees which are quite safe from storms there.

The forest-streets are no longer straight but a Steiner-tree with 120 degree angels. So a storm has less chance to gain power blowing along a streight street. Also the needed streets are way shorter: more room for wood, less cost for streets, ...

Weird to apply maths in this way.

 

The other job is to optimize Sprengschweissen-explosive welding. It is to use explosives to attach for example a copper plate on a titanium plate. You can't to this chemically. So the connection is physically, done by shock waves. There is a video of a company doing this in america. Germany is far denser populated than america so we have to be more tricky to stay in the laws.

 

Our company is far smaller, 12 people. And we do smaller pieces, mainly prototypes. The explosions at our place are done in an old worldwar-2 bunker which was created to fire anti-air missiles at bomber streams. The bunker is just 20 minutes away mid in forest if I use my bicycle. Because the bunker is in a forest and do reduce the number of metal particles blown into the air we have to do a water curtain to stop the exhaust flames. Depending on what we do the water curtain may be done by another explosion: 2 water filled hoses which contain explosive cord.

Explosive Hoses

Down on the page are pictures how a water curtain is used to stop dust storms after a house collapsing from an explosion. Left without water curtain, right with water curtain.

Explosive hoses are used to stop forest fires too. But you have to know the topology of the area, the wind and have the explosives computer-controlled for perfect timing. But the needed fuses are in several countries restricted for military use only.

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Some very interesting work Chattius.

I have heard of forwe-welding, which seems to be the same thing. I had some studies of metals and their properties in class.

It had allready captured my interest once before, when I learned that those metals cannot be welded together by standard methods. Yet by sheer force, a physical fenomena, something could be achieved with no chemical logic to it. I Can't say I fully understand the details of the proces, but it sure is interesting.

 

As for my job, it's allso 2-part.

5 days a week I go to college, studying chemistry. More specifically: Biochemistry.

Even though I still get a large set of subjects, they are all slowly starting to work towards their use in biochemistry.

 

To give an example of what I do in the labs this semester:

- Food analysis

(Determining salt, phosphourous, nitrates, amino-acids, god knows what, in foods ranging from orange juice to baby food to salted meats and cookies (mmm) )

 

- Enzymology

This revolves around enzymes (and DNA in some labs). Both DNA and enzymes are closely linked, so it's hard to study one without the other.

I replicated my own DNA in the lab using PCR (a method to replicate your own DNA using a 'machine', to achieve it in under 5 hours).

I tested myself own DNA afterwards to see if I was positive or negative on something called the "Alu-sequence'" in the part of my genes refered to as the PV92 Locus.

(see of this as a random set of genes. Even though random, it allways starts and ends with the same sequence, and is 300 units long. These appear to be present in some people, unpresent in others.

Sometimes even half your DNA has it, the other half doesn't. Their use is unknown, but presumed an anomaly, rather then a coding part of your DNA).

I was double - by the way :) Which means 0% of my DNA has it.

Another test we did was isolate all the enzymes from the white sticky stuff in eggs (do you call it egg-white?).

We then tested those enzymes regarding propertys, optimal conditions, reaction speed etc etc..

 

Organic chemistry

Aspirin, Biodiesel, Chloroform. How to make (and safely make) these products from other, more available recourses. That's what we do here.

 

To inspire you, I selected a very cool pic.

RBGE_Professional2_1.jpg

 

Picture more chaos (college labs huh), and you can actually see me at work. This is what I look like when I do enzymology labs. Special gloves, cool pipets (the pointy things he's holding), brightly coloured trays (with no added properties, other then being a tray, but cooler). It's all there

 

 

On the second part of my 'job', I actually work in a bakery (my parents') and scrub the metal plates on which the bread, sausage rolls, croissants and such are baked.

Not the fanciest job of em all, but it pays for my late nights :)

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Some very interesting work Chattius.

I have heard of forwe-welding, which seems to be the same thing. I had some studies of metals and their properties in class.

It had allready captured my interest once before, when I learned that those metals cannot be welded together by standard methods. Yet by sheer force, a physical fenomena, something could be achieved with no chemical logic to it. I Can't say I fully understand the details of the proces, but it sure is interesting.

 

As for my job, it's allso 2-part.

5 days a week I go to college, studying chemistry. More specifically: Biochemistry.

Even though I still get a large set of subjects, they are all slowly starting to work towards their use in biochemistry.

 

To give an example of what I do in the labs this semester:

- Food analysis

(Determining salt, phosphourous, nitrates, amino-acids, god knows what, in foods ranging from orange juice to baby food to salted meats and cookies (mmm) )

 

- Enzymology

This revolves around enzymes (and DNA in some labs). Both DNA and enzymes are closely linked, so it's hard to study one without the other.

I replicated my own DNA in the lab using PCR (a method to replicate your own DNA using a 'machine', to achieve it in under 5 hours).

I tested myself own DNA afterwards to see if I was positive or negative on something called the "Alu-sequence'" in the part of my genes refered to as the PV92 Locus.

(see of this as a random set of genes. Even though random, it allways starts and ends with the same sequence, and is 300 units long. These appear to be present in some people, unpresent in others.

Sometimes even half your DNA has it, the other half doesn't. Their use is unknown, but presumed an anomaly, rather then a coding part of your DNA).

I was double - by the way :) Which means 0% of my DNA has it.

Another test we did was isolate all the enzymes from the white sticky stuff in eggs (do you call it egg-white?).

We then tested those enzymes regarding propertys, optimal conditions, reaction speed etc etc..

 

Organic chemistry

Aspirin, Biodiesel, Chloroform. How to make (and safely make) these products from other, more available recourses. That's what we do here.

 

To inspire you, I selected a very cool pic.

RBGE_Professional2_1.jpg

 

Picture more chaos (college labs huh), and you can actually see me at work. This is what I look like when I do enzymology labs. Special gloves, cool pipets (the pointy things he's holding), brightly coloured trays (with no added properties, other then being a tray, but cooler). It's all there

 

 

On the second part of my 'job', I actually work in a bakery (my parents') and scrub the metal plates on which the bread, sausage rolls, croissants and such are baked.

Not the fanciest job of em all, but it pays for my late nights :)

Very interesting read promatolya!

 

Working in a bakery means free baked goods too! Can't complain about that :)

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Dang, Dreeft, you've got a nice setup there!

 

Some of you guys have got crazy jobs going o3o

I'm just a college student, working on a degree in Costuming and a minor in Media Arts. It's small, but it's fun!

 

As to supporting my addiction, my dad does network security and fixes the computers for the majority of the people in our valley. He was last thinking about working on making another game, which I think would be totally awesome. That's what/who pays for my addiction, but it's okay! He's addicted too XD;

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I've probably got the most snooze-inducing job here. I'm an accountant for BT Wholesale, we sell circuits, pipes, bandwidth, etc to other ISPs & communications providers rather than the public, which is BT Retail's job. I'm part of the Reporting team, so I'm fairly busy during month end making sure the (accounting) systems work ok & that everyone does what they need to do to make sure the numbers are what they should be. Since I'm the geekiest member of the team I usually get all the systems "development"/queries/stuff dumped on my desk (or asked in the first instance). I spend the vast majority of my time in Excel (not IE, honest) doing reports & stuff...

 

The typical month is ~3-4 days of making sure people post their journals into the system, then ~1 week of doing reports after the numbers have stopped moving, then ~2 weeks of "ad hoc" work...

 

Edit: I'm currently doing some prep for a meeting in London tomorrow on what I would like fixed/changed/etc to the finance system so that Group can decide where they want to invest their cash.

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so that Group can decide where they want to invest their cash.

 

Well ... what a coincidence !

Just happens to be an opening in my wallet. The previous residents were just traded in for some fun :thumbsup:

 

make sure to refer them to me :agreed:

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Well ... what a coincidence !

Just happens to be an opening in my wallet. The previous residents were just traded in for some fun :thumbsup:

 

make sure to refer them to me :agreed:

Yeah, I've tried to get them to invest in some nice little properties (well, one) a bit north of Gatwick but no dice...

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I've probably got the most snooze-inducing job here. I'm an accountant for BT Wholesale, we sell circuits, pipes, bandwidth, etc to other ISPs & communications providers rather than the public, which is BT Retail's job. I'm part of the Reporting team, so I'm fairly busy during month end making sure the (accounting) systems work ok & that everyone does what they need to do to make sure the numbers are what they should be. Since I'm the geekiest member of the team I usually get all the systems "development"/queries/stuff dumped on my desk (or asked in the first instance). I spend the vast majority of my time in Excel (not IE, honest) doing reports & stuff...

 

The typical month is ~3-4 days of making sure people post their journals into the system, then ~1 week of doing reports after the numbers have stopped moving, then ~2 weeks of "ad hoc" work...

 

Edit: I'm currently doing some prep for a meeting in London tomorrow on what I would like fixed/changed/etc to the finance system so that Group can decide where they want to invest their cash.

 

 

zomgod zzzzzzzzzzzz @ llama

 

:eek:

 

:P

 

gogo

 

p.s. lol, llama, I'm so glad you're still with that company though, I remember when you were looking and just got hired... and all this before I think your oldest was born? Still remember that ultra sound..still the youngest ever member of DarkMatters... he's got the record!

 

p.s.s. there are some fascinating reads here...everyone ...specially you promatolya... after you made that great post about your newest favorite tv series! :) And Chattius... working for Baron? It's just interesting to hear someone punch out that word in real life..it's almost surrealistic, but is finally the explanation of why you know so much about outdoors. :D Etherian...you're right about the original name of the story... ah ha, ew...I still remember reading the graphical explanations of what would happen to someone if they got "ironed". Yeah...Stephen King has that special touch :)

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That's what/who pays for my addiction, but it's okay! He's addicted too XD;

 

Same deal over here. I actually had to tell my dad that he needed to get off sacred 2 and get to work one day! :D

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p.s. lol, llama, I'm so glad you're still with that company though, I remember when you were looking and just got hired... and all this before I think your oldest was born? Still remember that ultra sound..still the youngest ever member of DarkMatters... he's got the record!

Nah mate, I've, er, been through several companies since then (this is my fourth, counting the one I was at when Teddy was born, though I've been with BT for a relatively long time & I'm happy here)... I got made redundant from the one I was at when Teddy was born (~6 months after he was born), left the next one after ~6 months 'cause it was aweful, then temped at another one (had my contract extended several times 'cause they were happy with me) & then ended up at BT.

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I can't take a photo of where I work for security reasons but I'm a croupier at a casino. Been doing this job for 8 years and it's so easy. The only downside is, is that I work mainly weekends and mainly at nights. It's hard on the missus but she understands. So much easier than my last job as a clinical psychologist but it doesn't pay as well but as a bonus, I'm A LOT happier.

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