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Does anyone here have an interesting job?

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Originally Posted by globetrotter
I am in charge of international sales for an american manufacturer. I would say, from the reactions I get from people, it is a very interesting job. I get to maybe 40-50 countries a year, often several times, have maybe 100 good business meals a year around the world, do largescale muliti-cultural negotiations on a regular basis and manage people from differnt cultures. yesterday I spent the day riding around chicago in a stretch hummer with 10 people from a customer organization from colombia, had lunch at at good steak house and generally had fun - all part of the job.


I have been a bodyguard, a recon paratroop sargeant and have tought soliders from a foreign country to fight for money - frankly none are anywhere as interesting as they sound.


So true. People often do not understand how interesting jobs in business could be.
 

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Interesting? Nope.... I run a team that makes trees. Oh, you excluded IT so that means me and my trees cant participate... but they are really interesting trees.
 

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I design instrument landing procedures. Basically when an airplane needs to land through clouds/weather, the procedures that get them on the ground is what I design. Any commercial jet will use a procedure, regardless of weather, for any landing. It's just easier for the pilot to let the autopilot fly them down to the last couple hundred feet or less, depending on the procedure, then hand fly the touchdown.
 

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Originally Posted by batorizer
I design instrument landing procedures. Basically when an airplane needs to land through clouds/weather, the procedures that get them on the ground is what I design. Any commercial jet will use a procedure, regardless of weather, for any landing. It's just easier for the pilot to let the autopilot fly them down to the last couple hundred feet or less, depending on the procedure, then hand fly the touchdown.

I fly the approaches....
 

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Originally Posted by batorizer
I design instrument landing procedures. Basically when an airplane needs to land through clouds/weather, the procedures that get them on the ground is what I design. Any commercial jet will use a procedure, regardless of weather, for any landing. It's just easier for the pilot to let the autopilot fly them down to the last couple hundred feet or less, depending on the procedure, then hand fly the touchdown.

As a PPL holder, thank you for saving my hide several times now
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Originally Posted by sydneycentric
I fly the approaches....
I work the aircraft when it gets on the ground!
 

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My dad's company has an "engineering" contract at a nuclear power plant which is interesting but my now two companies are about as boring as it gets (selling cars and accounting)
 

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I'm currently a college student but the school I go to is pretty good at getting chem majors into top graduate programs so hopefully in about 8 years or so I should be able to say I'm working on something really cool in chemical research or engineering or the like. Who knows, maybe I'll solve the energy crisis, or (more importantly) make some great advancement in textile technology.
 

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I think I have a very interesting job. You may disagree. I am a microeconomist (industrial organization/market structure analysis/auction theory/etc.) working for a federal department/commission/agency that regulates an industry (sorry, I'd rather not get into details since there's a least one other list member who works in this industry). But I have a direct hand in determining the conditions under which a very significant industry operates.

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I render trees - but only on the side. For those of yall that play video games, if there is a tree in the game, theres a very good chance that my company helped create it. Our most publicized deal was with Grand Theft Auto, so the next time you are riding around ****** and robbing people - slow down and look at the scenery. Yup - some of those trees were 'grown' right here on this computer... For the most part, the trees in video games (PC-based, XBox, PlayStation, etc) and military/police training simulators are created with our application that is able to render a virtual tree and foliage in real time.

'Real' job is still in IT but not as interesting... I run a specialized development group within the IT department for a large company.
 

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Originally Posted by AintDatRite
I render trees - but only on the side. For those of yall that play video games, if there is a tree in the game, theres a very good chance that my company helped create it. Our most publicized deal was with Grand Theft Auto, so the next time you are riding around ****** and robbing people - slow down and look at the scenery. Yup - some of those trees were 'grown' right here on this computer... For the most part, the trees in video games (PC-based, XBox, PlayStation, etc) and military/police training simulators are created with our application that is able to render a virtual tree and foliage in real time.

Scenery rendering FTW
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Originally Posted by MetroStyles
How did you get into that field?
You see things in a different angle, get told, "no" to a lot of your creations and create a portfolio that everybody will find not impressive. A college degree will help a bit. It's not the paper they want, it's the work.
Originally Posted by thekunk07
me too. i an 50% owner of an interactive advertising agency. everything from enterprise level site development to banners, facebook/iphone/andrioid apps, planning and strategy, online video. my uncle is the personal bodyguard of one of the 10 richest men in the world but i can't divulge too much. that is an interesting job.
I have a question, because someone discussed this with me earlier. Who pays for the ads to run on the sites? The client or you, the advertiser?
 

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Doesn't the advertiser own media and sell it as a markup?
 

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No mean to derail a thread but how exactly did one get on the pathway for advertising? Did anyone currently in advertising take Business Marketing classes at all in college?

As for on topic, I worked in an ice cream shop during the summer. I dealt mostly with little kids and moms but every now and then something interesting would happen.
 

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I'm in business and though the line of work I am in is not something one would think of as "interesting" what I do at work is.
 

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