What do you do for a living
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ninuno
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mattf789
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Re: What do you do for a living
ninuno wrote::?:
I drive a lorry delivering drinks to the on-trade. I was lazy at school
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tastyonions
- Blue Belt
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Re: What do you do for a living
I’m a computer programmer. My job had nothing to do with natural languages until pretty recently, when we got a contract in Quebec and I happened to be the only one in the head office who spoke French. Now I’m the designated guy that our Quebec clients email with technical questions.
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Decidida
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- Location: Couch-surfing Refugee
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Re: What do you do for a living
Former student that is currently a couch-surfing refugee.
I won't qualify for resident-tuition until I have been on a lease for a year, so I won't be a degree-seeking student again for awhile. In between all the appointments required to establish residency, I study Spanish. Even though I have to work REALLY hard to make any progress, at least I am making progress at something that will matter no matter what happens with this pandemic. My Spanish studies are my lifeline right now.
I have no idea what I will major in when I go back to school. What will the world be like, then?
I won't qualify for resident-tuition until I have been on a lease for a year, so I won't be a degree-seeking student again for awhile. In between all the appointments required to establish residency, I study Spanish. Even though I have to work REALLY hard to make any progress, at least I am making progress at something that will matter no matter what happens with this pandemic. My Spanish studies are my lifeline right now.
I have no idea what I will major in when I go back to school. What will the world be like, then?
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lavengro
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Re: What do you do for a living
International jewel thief.
It would be of benefit to me in my vocation if I had better facility with more languages. That, and if I were more stealthy.
It would be of benefit to me in my vocation if I had better facility with more languages. That, and if I were more stealthy.
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“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
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ninuno
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Re: What do you do for a living
tastyonions wrote:I’m a computer programmer. My job had nothing to do with natural languages until pretty recently, when we got a contract in Quebec and I happened to be the only one in the head office who spoke French. Now I’m the designated guy that our Quebec clients email with technical questions.
tell me more about natural language processing what do you do
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Lawyer&Mom
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cjareck
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Re: What do you do for a living
I teach the military history of the 20th Century at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Thus, learning languages is like hitting two birds with one stone - it is my hobby and helps me work with the sources in their original languages.
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Iversen
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Ahem, not yet: Norwegian, Afrikaans, Platt, Scots, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Greek, Latin, Irish, Indonesian and a few more... - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1027
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jmar257
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Re: What do you do for a living
The fancy description is to say analytics, which is a broad term that includes quite a few things (of which I've done a bunch--Python, R, statistics, machine learning, visualization, etc. etc.) but my current role basically has me pulling data in SQL, occasionally manipulating it in SAS, and doing some reporting in Excel/Tableau. Nothing glorious but I enjoy it, especially given my industry.
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