What do you do for a living?

[happybuddha]

One of my favorite aspects of diving has always been the social interaction and how people of often disparate backgrounds can sit around after a dive enjoying a beer and communicating on a new level through diving.

Most of my work life has been in the apparel business on the production/sourcing side but a few years ago I took a couple of years off and became a DM then OWSI and hung out at the beach in the Philippines. The dive shop/resort I worked at has a bar above it and I really enjoyed (still do when I can get back there) sitting in the bar in the evenings talking to guest that could be a London firefighter, Chicago machinist or Oxford-educated MD; all with a passion for diving.

I left the beach 2 1/2 years ago to go back to reality and now live in China and work as Director of Production and QA for a major US-based sporting goods company. I really miss diving every day and think constantly about going back to the beach, but my regular paycheck has kept me in China so far...notice I said so far

 

[jpedwards]

Another definition for consultant ..... the guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.

Aka 'a professional between jobs ...'

 

[Diver0001]

Aka 'a professional between jobs ...'

A farmer is standing in a field tending to a flock sheep when a man in a nice car drives up. The man stops and starts talking to farmer.

"If I can guess how many sheep you have in your flock ", said the man, "will you let me have one".

The farmer is sporting and says "ok".

The man interviews the farmer for nearly an hour, during which, of course, he discovers that the farmer knows the answer. After some "clever" questions the farmer gives him the answer, upon which the man writes a 200 page report on the issue and gives it to the farmer. On the last page is the conclusion.

"You have 1287 sheep", said the man ask he packed up one of the animals and pushed it into the back seat of the car.

The farmer is very impressed, but not stupid. "Just a minute", he says, "You won the sheep fair and sqaure but if I can guess exactly what kind of work you do will you let me have your car".

The man is sporting and says "ok".

"You're a consultant", says the farmer.
"Very good!" says the man "but you were going to guess exactly".
"You're an IT consultant", says the farmer.

The man's jaw drops.... "but"....."how".....

"Simple", says the farmer. "You arrive here uninvited, you want to be paid for an answer I already know, you interviewd me until I told you what to write, you assumed that what I told you was the truth, you wrote a 200 page report of which only the last page was relevant and you didn't wait for me to tell you if you were right or wrong before you packed up and started to leave".

"Yeah...", says the man, "that's true, but any type of consultant would have done those things....".

"Well", said the farmer, "It takes an IT consultant to not notice that sheep don't pant and bark. That's my dog in the back seat."

R..

 

[Squashie]

Past lives include; Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Design, Mechanical Engineering, High-Speed Automated Equipment Design & Build, Project Management, Civil Engineering and Mid-Level Technical Management....now currently a....

Human Development Engineer, doing my part to make America beautiful...one woman at a time, working for a medical device manufacturing company, whose business is "busting out all over".... Yes, that's right...I design, develop and support the manufacture of breast implants. Still trying to get the post implant quality control job...the waiting list is really long.

Say what you will...at least it pays for the diving.

 

[happybuddha]

Still trying to get the post implant quality control job...the waiting list is really long.QUOTE]

One of my previous jobs was Asian QA Director for a well known US bra manufacturer. Some types of apparel have to be modeled on a body to analyze fit and unfortunately bras are one of them. Twice a week I used to sit through fit sessions of just me, the QA manager (a lady) and a model ...and I gave it all up to move back to the US for a "better" job which I left 2 years later to move back to Asia and run a factory making hooks and eyes for bras. Call me atupid, my friends do :classic: .

Cheers,
Drew

 

[gypsyjim]

After being Dad, which is a full time job in itself? Goldsmith/diamond setter, part time TKD instructor and partially reformed Harley bum. Just another average low life, I would say.

 

[cmalinowski]

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One of my previous jobs was Asian QA Director for a well known US bra manufacturer. Some types of apparel have to be modeled on a body to analyze fit and unfortunately bras are one of them. Twice a week I used to sit through fit sessions of just me, the QA manager (a lady) and a model

that would just be frustrating to me.

 

[ParamedicDiver1]

Lets see...
1) ER Nurse
2) Field Paramedic
3) BLS / ACLS Instructor

 

[PaulChristenson]

Second life...FF/EMT Hazmat/Rescue Tech.....Hay farming in the summers


Paul in VT

 

[all4scuba05]

i find them hot and leave them wet...firefighter... i WILL die with a tank on my back