I'm a magazine writer who specializes in stories where I put my body in what might seem like harm's way, but usually isn't really harmful, or at least extremely harmful.
Two basic zones involved:
1)actual adventures (done for National Geographic Adventure Magazine in a former column I named "Oddventures" and which included jet skiing across the Bering Sea and being held at gunpoint by teenage roosky soldiers with Kalashnikov's; swimming through a shark feeding frenzy with this electrocution device strapped to my back, which was supposed to repel the sharks and actually did so for less than a second before encouraging them to sweep around and snap at my fins; and setting a personal land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 71 Mustang into which a Lincoln Continental Engine had been shoe horned in under the hood. Oh, and there was the time I wore a cup and swimming goggles and lay our for days in Chihuahan desert beside two deads calfs obtained at a rendering plant and absolutely blasting the dry air with violin sonds of blowflies, all this to try to get a vulture to land on me.
2) Medical misadventures where I would undergo largely unnecessary procedures, from multiple real and "virtual coloscopies" to hypothermia inducement in the graveyard of the Pacific (got my heart down to 94.7 degrees), attemtps to make a donation to a sperm bank where I got good and bad news. The good: my sperm count at 965,000,000 makes it possible, theoretically at least, to repopulate all of China with one good jolt of product. That bad net: my multiple little swimmers were disqualified for all sorts of reason, from my unfortune heatlh history, participation in risky maneuvers, an unacceptable number of previous sexual partners (it was certainly not unacceptable to me!) and my age--they didn't want men much over mid 30s, if that.
1)actual adventures (done for National Geographic Adventure Magazine
an unacceptable number of previous sexual partners (it was certainly not unacceptable to me!) and my age--they didn't want men much over mid 30s, if that.
There's someone on my team writing for NG. She's heading to the Galapagos soon to do "research." Rough assignment ...
As to the second part, I thought everyone was shopping at Bailey & Bailey in staid, McMansion (although many homes quite tasteful) Swickley. What else is going one there?!?!
I started out as a financial and operations analyst but found my true love - taxation - at 40. I prepare individual tax returns from Jan-Apr and am a stay-at-home mom and student for the rest of the year. I'm working on turning the tax gig into a year-round occuaption.
It's classified...
...I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you...
:joker:
That reminds me I said that to a HR woman once when she asked my SSN. She Didn't get the joke and was all flustered and "Excuse me??"
Ah well...good times...:rofl:
I started out as a financial and operations analyst but found my true love - taxation - at 40. I prepare individual tax returns from Jan-Apr and am a stay-at-home mom and student for the rest of the year. I'm working on turning the tax gig into a year-round occuaption.
I believe that is the first time I have ever heard someone refer to taxation as their true love. But if it makes you happy than more power to you!!! :woot:
I might have posted this before, but eh....I'm a student studying Advertising with a minor in Psychology and thinking about adding a minor in Film. So yes, when I graduate I will be brainwashing you into buying things you really don't need....don't hate me, it's just my job........;);)
I believe that is the first time I have ever heard someone refer to taxation as their true love.
I know, it's sick and weird, but I really like it.
(But you know, as often as I'm calmly helping clients out with their audits and IRS notices, my heart still pounds every time I get mail from the IRS.)
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 got a 5 on my AP Calc exam :thhbbb: :banana:
with the resurrection of this thread, i feel i need to update "what i do", since i have changed jobs since this thread started :)
i now work in quality assurance for a biotech company. which means, no, i don't play with petri dishes (i wish i did!), but i do push paper all day long. mostly to make sure people do their jobs right, so that when new products get to clinical trials, no one dies. at least not from our products...
so yes, i still am a science geek.
and i like it that wayl
:D
Yay! GeekieAvsFan!
Thanks for watching out for my well-being :banana:
G.I.S. (Geographic Information Systems) Specialist
Currently, I work for an environmental and underground engineering consulting company keeping track of their chemical and geologic data and doing various kinds of analysis and display on that data. I’m also in charge of managing, creating, and maintaining the system, writing small programs and providing technical support to system users. That part of my job is kind of a specialized systems analysis and design role. I also get to create systems for clients when the need arises which I absolutely love. Very soon I would like to start doing G.I.S. consulting on my own or with a G.I.S. consulting firm.
Yay! GeekieAvsFan! Thanks for watching out for my well-being
posted by Muppet about SwimmieAvsFan
I'll second that....Its always music to my ears when I hear another science geek is aboard over here (especially a female science geek!)...it tugs on my heart strings like the gravity well of a class A Globular Star cluster...he..he
Newmastersswimmer
alright! two whole guys who actually like the idea of female science geeks!
:woot:
