What do you do?

People on this site have the coolest jobs!!! This may be a dumb question, but what's IT? A few people mentioned it now and I've never heard it before....

Asst. Compliance Officer at a bank, own an antique business, and Secretary of the Kentucky LMSC. My husband keeps asking me if there is a way to make money swimming!

People on this site have the coolest jobs!!! This may be a dumb question, but what's IT? A few people mentioned it now and I've never heard it before.... Information Technology

Information Technology Thanks. :wiggle:

Retired Military (Army). Now a Government Contractor with Northrop Grumman Corp. Love my job, I basically get paid to play video games. Creating scenarios for our flight crews to train on in our simulator. Community Coach. High School Coach. But temporarily taking a break from those to sort out some personal business!!!!!

I cannot believe this. I have the oddest taste in forum friends. I'm always drawn to breaststrokers. Now, I have a pal that is a math geek. I will tell you, Jim, that freshman year math did nothing to help my college GPA. I skipped out of AP Calculus my senior year of high school to take another AP lanugage arts class, and I was screwed in college as a result. Fortunately, my daughter (who is, ugh, a breaststroker) is good at math. We have nothing in common academics or swimming wise, just our personalities. Everyone knows I am a lawyer. I cannot believe only one other person has fessed up. Everyone must be too used to being dissed. I did read that Rich Abrahams used to be a smokin' lawyer on Wall Street though. He's cleaned up his act apparently. Not even practicing law ... posted by the fort I wouldn't admit that you're friends with a math geek in public.....you could end up being flogged in the town square or something...LOL!! I can also say that growing up in high school I didn't have that many female friends (major suprise eh...LOL!!)....as LBJ once said in one of his earlier postings somewhere, the girls only liked us when they needed help with their calculus homework....then they srugged us off the way the head cheerleader girl srugged me off for so many days before finally saying hello (only j/k now....I don't want to stir up too much trouble with my current status as being on partially civil speaking terms with some of y'all...LOL!!) Newmastersswimmer

Jim, My main interests were in the earliest and latest stages of stellar evolution (much earlier/later than the current middle-aged Sun, for example). I did a lot of instrument development to address these problems and worked at optical and infrared wavelengths. I kind of fell into it when I couldn't figure out how to get through graduate school in either math or physics... -- mel

Jim, My main interests were in the earliest and latest stages of stellar evolution (much earlier/later than the current middle-aged Sun, for example). I did a lot of instrument development to address these problems and worked at optical and infrared wavelengths. I kind of fell into it when I couldn't figure out how to get through graduate school in either math or physics... posted by Meldyck Thats sounds extremely interesting to me Mel. I would have thought that studying the latter part of a Star's life (especially ones that are much more massive than the our sun for example..and the kind of super violent endings they can have), would be more suited for higher frequency analysis (such as in the x-ray or gamma ray end of the spectrum)....but I can also see how the optical, infared, and radiowave end of the spectrum could still provide valuable information about the end of a star's life that could not be known by looking at higher frequency radiation. Was part of the reason you stayed in optical and infared wavelengths because the technology available today for observing the higher end frequency radiation was simply not available say 30 or 40 years ago? I am jealous that I am not involved in projects that are anywhere near as interesting as the ones you have probably been involved in.....Abstract Math and Theoretical Physics could be a bit over-rated in some sense....although to me, I just think of all of these different disciplines as being tightly connected....each needs the other so to speak....the astronomers make these wonderful observations and the theorists then try and explain them with the most abstract mathematical tools and physical theories available (along with the important help and input of the astronomer's as well!). I majored in Low Dimensional Geometric Topology while in grad school (a branch of math intimately connected to some of the newest theoretical models in physics and cosmology)....my reward now is to get to teach addition and subtraction of signed integers to a bunch of bad attitude kids day in and day out....(not to say that there aren't rewards to teaching....I always throroughly enjoy teaching a significant percentage of my students each semester....its just that other significant percentage of realy bad attitudes that ruins it for me). Newmastersswimmer

Lawyer. :dedhorse:

Jim, My main interests were in the earliest and latest stages of stellar evolution (much earlier/later than the current middle-aged Sun, for example). I did a lot of instrument development to address these problems and worked at optical and infrared wavelengths. I kind of fell into it when I couldn't figure out how to get through graduate school in either math or physics... posted by Meldyck Thats sounds extremely interesting to me Mel. I would have thought that studying the latter part of a Star's life (especially ones that are much more massive than the our sun for example..and the kind of super violent endings they can have), would be more suited for higher frequency analysis (such as in the x-ray or gamma ray end of the spectrum)....but I can also see how the optical, infared, and radiowave end of the spectrum could still provide valuable information about the end of a star's life that could not be known by looking at higher frequency radiation. Was part of the reason you stayed in optical and infared wavelengths because the technology available today for observing the higher end frequency radiation was simply not available say 30 or 40 years ago? I am jealous that I am not involved in projects that are anywhere near as interesting as the ones you have probably been involved in.....Abstract Math and Theoretical Physics could be a bit over-rated in some sense....although to me, I just think of all of these different disciplines as being tightly connected....each needs the other so to speak....the astronomers make these wonderful observations and the theorists then try and explain them with the most abstract mathematical tools and physical theories available (along with the important help and input of the astronomer's as well!). I majored in Low Dimensional Geometric Topology while in grad school (a branch of math intimately connected to some of the newest theoretical models in physics and cosmology)....my reward now is to get to teach addition and subtraction of signed integers to a bunch of bad attitude kids day in and day out....(not to say that there aren't rewards to teaching....I always throroughly enjoy teaching a significant percentage of my students each semester....its just that other significant percentage of realy bad attitudes that ruins it for me). Newmastersswimmer I only understood about half of what either of you said, but it sounds awesome! I was thinking of going into astronomy before I found advertising and got to upper-level math. Math is not my forte......