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Dream Jobs of 2004
prostoalex writes "We've read about the worst jobs out there, the most overpaid ones, the worst job postings and the outsourcing tendencies. Can an article on employment in scientific and engineering fields can have a positive outlook? February issue of IEEE Spectrum talks about the dream ('coolest, baddest, hippest, grooviest') jobs, where people have fun and enjoy what they're doing. IEEE publication covered the dream jobs for Electrical Engineering majors only. The linked article is actually a story about 9 different people with 9 different jobs, each leading to a separate article."
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If I wanted a list of what's hip & cool, I wouldn't look in IEEE magazine to find it.
Let me tell you something: if you think you have the worst job, there's always a more dire one.
I had a job where I was supposed to engineer "smart" plumbing fixtures - keeping water temperature right, measuring turd/bowl ratio, etc. It paid the bills, but it was boring as hell - and always got blank looks at the local SCA meets.
When the tech boom subsided, I lost the job. I wasn't too worked up about it. I found another job quickly, but little did I know it would turn out to be even worse. It was similar to the above position (experience always helps when applying), but, as I found out upon showing up on day one, I was to be engineering urinals. I fear parties, for people inevitably ask me what I do. Ten years of higher education for this, and people piss on my designs!
So, don't complain about your job. At least your products aren't full of piss.
period.
I also reply below your current threshold.
i get no training and no chance for advancement, monitarily or otherwise. no raise in the 5 years i have been there...
so my dream job is any job where i get training once in a while on things i am expected to support, and where i might get a raise if i do a solid job. its not just me, nobody else at the company gets raises either. still looking for another job, but the market isnt so good, at least in my area.
on the other hand, i know people (at other places) that are far more qualified than I am, and they have been looking for a job for quite some time more... so i cant complain too much, i guess.
to summarize, my dream job would be one where i could potentially advance for doing good work. oh, that and i want to be surrounded by hot chicks.
No, I'm not bitter...
Sure, astronaut, deep sea submersibles, yeah, yeah. But they left out bikini team oiler.
Oh, they are talking about dream jobs for Electrical Engineers only?
In that case: A great dream job would be a trophy husband to a beautiful, weathly, fun-loving supermodel.
What? You think having EE degrees means they would rather stare at oscilliscopes all day!?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I don't know, I would guess CowboyNeal has pretty close to the ubergeek paradise job. I mean, come on, he's got unlimited mod points for God's sake!
I have discovered a truly marvelous
Stress tester for Playboy website development team. 'nuff said
Free XBox, PS2
Currently my day is split into thirds: Working, Sleeping, and Other. If I could find a job that involved sleeping for 8 hours, man, I'd be set.
You are the first whiny person posting about his unemployment. Please tell us we care so much.
You could have gotten extra bonus points if you mentioned outsourcing to India.
I work for IBM. A nice person from that company trained me how to do the job. He was nice but he seemed very sad. Anyway ,I now have a job and I can feed my family.
Yea, and I want to get cancer just for the remission. Good thinking.
"First, I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds, and give the other half to my friend Asadulah who works in securities..."
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
"It would be for Depp Space One."
Man, Lance Bass is going to be upset when he finds out Johnny beat him to it.
"two chicks at the same time"
"two chicks at the same time... that's what you'd do if you had a million dollars?"
"damn straight, always wanted to do that. i think if i had a million dollars i could hook that up."
$345 a week and all I have to do is send out three resumes during that week.
That Master's degree sure is serving me well now!
Unfortunately, that job is not without its risks, and the mortality rate of that job is much higher than the norm.
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
Worst job:
"Assistant crack whore"
A: Because it feels so good when I stop!
You would, I assume, be referring to the creative freedom you would have as such?
My other
A minor detail like "mortality rate" wouldn't put me off THAT job!
"Once you get through to them, engineers are too nice to hang up," says Fruehling.
:)
Do you really want us to supply counterexamples?
The coolest voice ever.
I would quiet my job the moment it stops getting fun. How exactly do you 'quiet' a job, do you pay it hush money?
$370 a week and all I have to do is check a box that says "Did you look for work?".
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
The budget deficit and unemployment due to an unsustainable socialist economy find YOU!
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Tech guru at the Playboy mansion.
No sig.
You're not supposed to like work... that's why it's called 'work'.
Besides, if everyone liked what they do, there would be noone posting on Slashdot.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
Rich, loving, sexy wife: Honey, I'm home. I made another million dollars today. And I stopped at Fredrick's Of Hollywood today, but that's a suprise.
Lucky husband: Great. Oh, the 25" mirror for my new telescope arrived today along with the racks of G5 XServes. I'll mount the mirror out in the Large Array tomorrow morning.
--- Ban humanity.
You are never punished if you fuck up
Table-ized A.I.
Smithers: Uh, hello. You got a Help Wanted sign in the window?
Moe: Yeah, I need someone to help me with the midnight beer delivery. Your job is to distract Barney until it's safely off the truck.
Smithers: I'll just wait out back until then.
Barney: I look forward to working with you!
Ah, but you'd lose your revolutionary status. You'd still be a geek, yes, but you'd be a bourgeois geek: one of the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Until the benefits ran out
Hehe, you got layed off from being unemployed.
Another benefit is that more than 1 in 10 Germans gets 365 days off from work every year. What a country!
If it ain't broke, you need more software.
I once had a boss that insisted that I send him a status report each morning. I don't mind paperwork, so I did what I often do in situations like that ... I buried him in what some people call "malicious compliance."
I can write fast and wordy. So every morning, right after my to-do list, I'd write two pages, minimum, listing every single little thing I did the day before. We're talking excruciating detail.
It took less than a month for the guy to tell me that he didn't need daily reports anymore. He wanted a single monthly report, no more than one page, double-spaced.
Sweeeet. :-)
The two key elements of any dream job are comradery and a physically active work day. Most people suffer through horrible jobs in overly air conditioned cubicle farms surrounded by people the don't know or only know enough to know that they despise them. These poor saps are constantly being bombarded by commands from managers who aimlessly trying to keep a sinking ship from catching fire. Now, imagine a job where everyone worked together, in unison, for a single purpose. A job where management was clear in their direction and purpose. A job which allowed you to move about and be physically active. You'll feel as if you accomplished something at the end of the day, even if the task seemed like moving a mountain, because you and your teammates were doing it together. You'll save money and time on trips to the gym because you'll be active each and every day. If this sounds like a job for you, and you have the will to succeed, please call.
Stan Dardevil
Alaskan Salt Mines, Inc.
555-NOW-TOIL
Striper
Is that the people who put the lines on the roads? =P
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What does Norm do for a living?
You know what?
Or, at least, you could if you had the time off to do so!
nuke the moon
... I have a friend who tells women at the bar that he's a Hostage Negotiator. ... it works. Sometimes.
Being a lawyer for SCO.
Either that or one of those guys that makes up stories for the Weekly World News. Pretty much the same thing, actually.
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
What? You think having EE degrees means they would rather stare at oscilliscopes all day!?
I'm not sure I see a benefit, either way you're staring at curves all day...
I guess the fun lies in the frequency of oscillation.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley