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10-30-2005, 02:54 PM
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Re: Coolest job i ever had.
Damn ninja bumbers, but ok I'll bite.
It's a toss up between commercial fisherman and Marine Combat Correspondent. Combat Correspondent is the best job in the Marines. You show up for the fun stuff, only do the actual fun stuff, and leave before the clean up begins. I got to do a lot of really cool stuff with a lot of different units. Plus a lot of unit commanders kiss your ass to get their name in the base paper. Commercial fisherman - We'd go out for a week or so. Spend all day out in the sun drinking and fishing then eat like kings at night. At the end of the trip, we'd go sell the fish for cash, have a big roll in our pockets and spend the next 3 or 4 days spending the money partying, then back out again. Good times. 
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10-30-2005, 03:54 PM
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Re: Coolest job i ever had.
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I was a Holiday Rep in Ibiza for 4 years.... Sooooooooooooooooooo many memories.... [/ QUOTE ] I think you need to tell us your filthiest story about that, just to show what a great job it can be [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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#25
10-30-2005, 06:55 PM
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Re: Coolest job i ever had.
After getting my degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science my first job was at a large computer hardware/software maker. They were just getting into the Unix workstation biz. Not PCs. High end Silicon Graphics and some early Sun systems. I got paid to play.
They wanted cool graphics stuff like solid modeling, virtual environments, and similar flashy things to display at various industry tradeshows to show people what the new technology could do. This was back in the mid-late 80s. Serious hardware graphics engines were just hitting the market. I got 2 $75,000 systems to work with at any given time. One for working at the company and one for home to simply play. I would take hardcore math for modelling/ray tracing/whatever from the supercomputers (Cray mostly but the early connection machines as well) and crank the data through various libraries on the workstations with my graphics development. Did VR, Nuke simulation, weather simulation, real time 3D models (cars for Detroit and airplanes for Boing, Northrop, and Lockeed) ... Man that was fun. Getting paid to develop the coolest [censored] I could think of. Then showing it off and wowing people.
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#26
10-30-2005, 07:04 PM
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Re: Coolest job i ever had.
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After getting my degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science my first job was at a large computer hardware/software maker. They were just getting into the Unix workstation biz. Not PCs. High end Silicon Graphics and some early Sun systems. I got paid to play. They wanted cool graphics stuff like solid modeling, virtual environments, and similar flashy things to display at various industry tradeshows to show people what the new technology could do. This was back in the mid-late 80s. Serious hardware graphics engines were just hitting the market. I got 2 $75,000 systems to work with at any given time. One for working at the company and one for home to simply play. I would take hardcore math for modelling/ray tracing/whatever from the supercomputers (Cray mostly but the early connection machines as well) and crank the data through various libraries on the workstations with my graphics development. Did VR, Nuke simulation, weather simulation, real time 3D models (cars for Detroit and airplanes for Boing, Northrop, and Lockeed) ... Man that was fun. Getting paid to develop the coolest [censored] I could think of. Then showing it off and wowing people. [/ QUOTE ] Being a fellow nerd, that is pretty cool. What the hell was your home electricity bill like?
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#27
10-30-2005, 07:19 PM
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Being a fellow nerd, that is pretty cool. What the hell was your home electricity bill like? [/ QUOTE ] Well the early ones were room heaters and sucked lots of juice, I lived in an apartment with utilities covered by rent. But I'm sure I cost the landlord bucks on that. I also would have been able to expense stuff rather than take the hit myself. If it came to that.
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#29
10-30-2005, 07:44 PM
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Re: Coolest job i ever had.
I got to rip down a 200 foot barn with an excavator. Then I got to burn it. The burning took about two weeks, each night my friends would come out and be "fire spotters" for me while we had beers. They got paid $10/hour to stand around massive bonfires and drink, I got paid $5k + expenses for two weeks of "work."
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