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Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:01 am
by rdearman
Xenops wrote:I'm a medical technologist--I look for germs in patient specimens, including the-virus-that-must-not-be-named. :?

Syphilis ??

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:11 pm
by smallwhite
Radioclare wrote:
AroAro wrote:Accountant here. Tricked into a supervisor position a few years ago. Still trying to figure out how to get back to the roots (numbers!). For the time being, mainly reading and answering 150-200 unproductive mails daily.

I feel your pain! I'm a senior audit manager in a large accounting firm and I alternate between answering unproductive emails and taking unproductive calls, as opposed to actually doing any accounting :lol:

I send those emails in the capacity of The Client.

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:08 pm
by Xenops
rdearman wrote:
Xenops wrote:I'm a medical technologist--I look for germs in patient specimens, including the-virus-that-must-not-be-named. :?

Syphilis ??


That's a bacteria, dude. ;)

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:21 pm
by rdearman
Xenops wrote:
rdearman wrote:
Xenops wrote:I'm a medical technologist--I look for germs in patient specimens, including the-virus-that-must-not-be-named. :?

Syphilis ??


That's a bacteria, dude. ;)

Only viruses I know affect computers. :lol:

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 6:46 am
by Sumisu
Marriage/family/domestic duties

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:10 pm
by tarvos
I get money from the government for being semi-sick and semi-unemployed while also doing a few things but it's a long story and you don't want to know the red tape involved kthxbye

Basically I'm partially disabled :D

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:09 am
by jandzban
I work remotely on a computer. I would not like to do other work.

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:21 am
by IronMike
Retired and working on my (back-of-the-book) indexer certification.

And husband and dad, which is both harder and way more rewarding.

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 6:56 pm
by Jinx
Head of translation QA for two teams at a multinational LSP (language service provider). I review and edit translations from various languages into English, produced by several teams of fantastic translators in various locations around the globe (I'm only responsible for two locations, though: the UK and the US). I'm also theoretically supposed to be the "mother hen" to all these translators, providing feedback on the quality of their work and encouraging/admonishing them where necessary, but I'm spoiled because they're all so darn good at their jobs that I rarely have any critique to offer.

I also struggle (mostly in vain) to try to generally improve translation quality assurance workflow at my company. It's a Sisyphean effort.

I can't really complain, though. Most of the time I manage to avoid doing too much supervisor-y/administrative stuff, and instead just submerge myself in translations. So I get to read various foreign languages every day. Still, this isn't quite as fun as it sounds, because I have no time to savor the experience; I'm pretty much always speed-reading with one eye while the other eye watches the clock.

Re: What do you do for a living

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:51 am
by FrenchHero
I’m a lawyer and a single dad. I went back to school to get an engineering degree.