People you've met with interesting jobs

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I met this guy who is some kind of structural engineer. He works for GE. His job is to go into the core of nuclear power plants and inspect them. He wears a radiation badge and everything. He said his radiation exposure is the exquvalient of like 5 x-rays a year (ie. not high).

I was impressed.

― supercub, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

I met this one dude who PWNS internal Microsoft systems for internal security. Sounded like fun.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

That is pretty cool.

Last week I met the author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook (I don't think I've met a novelist before). He was interesting because it was like he was on all the time, every sentence was some kind of hilarious anecdote. I didn't think art reflected life that closely.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

I liked that book a lot, but I'm not surprised the author is a bit of a twat.

― supercub, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I met a gravedigger, am friendly with a guy who works for Lego, have an acquainatnce who decorates homes for members of the D00bie Brothers (among others) and FWIW, I currently deliver candy to maximum security prisons.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

I've a female friend who does some kind of work for UN research or something, and in the last 2 years or so she's been in Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Pakistan, other assorted bits ov middle east. She loves it - seems to thrive on danger.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

is someone having an interesting job a good or a bad reason to be attracted to them?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

my definition of an interesting job might be a little idiosyncratic btw

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

congrats

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine's sister works as a dominatrix. Apparently it pays quite well too.

― mouse (mouse), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

did that sound really self-congratulatory, RJG? i guess it was an irrelevant comment. sorry.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

it did sound, a little, like a boast.

sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

I know this gorgeous, super-friendly young woman who manages a morgue. she fascinates me.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

i don't get how it was boastful...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Amateurist, are you one of those people who apologizes for apologizing too much? :) I've done that.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Amateurist doesn't apologise too much.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I don't even know what this thread is about

― Amateurizt (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

I have a friend who's an anesthesiologist. It's not such an interesting job, per se, but he has a whole lot of *fascinating* computer and stereo equipment, and his high rise apartment is to kill for.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

I met a guy who was a "reporter" for The Sport (the National Enquirer with breasts for you non-UK types). He was freelancing for them and had a job reporting on the story about a guy from Rochdale who was busy having his wicked way with a goat when a train full of soon-to-be surprised and nauseated passengers broke down on the line next to the field he was deporting (despoiling?) himself in.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Rochdale? I thought that happened in Hull?

(and the train wasn't broke down, it had stopped at a signal)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I met a girl who designs manchester. I thought that was pretty ace.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Fairly certain it was Rochdale, he was given the job because Manchester was the nearest place to the story that the editor of the Sport could think of in which he knew someone.

I also know a guy who works for one of those *ahem* Private Security Contractors in Iraq. He has stories to tell that are absolutely terrifying.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

As Google will tell you, it was definitely Hull.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I stand, or at least louch behind my desk hoping my boss won't spot me, corrected. I love the fact that the next link to that one is entitled "Deviant Homosexual Practices!"...I'm guessing that had it been a female goat, that would have been okay in the eyes of whomever the link belongs to.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

supercub - oh, no, i didn't mean he was a bit of a twat.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

1/4 of my job is photographing food. Most people think that sounds pretty wacky.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

However, it's not as fun as it sounds.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Someone I knew in college has become the world's first tea sommelier, as I've mentioned before. (I haven't spoken to him for years though.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

(He totally has the charisma and eccentricity (and knowledge of tea and Asian culture) to pull that off.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I have a friend who's an anesthesiologist. It's not such an interesting job, per se, but he has a whole lot of *fascinating* computer and stereo equipment, and his high rise apartment is to kill for.

I once went out with an anesthesiology intern. Don't know how good he was in the operating room, but he had me nodding off over dinner.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Well, he does put people to sleep for a living! (wokka wokka)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I had a friend in college who went onto get a job at Hanna-Barbera. Oddly enough, his job was to drive around the country, going to state fairs and carnivals and whatnot, to MAKE SURE THAT THE HANNA-BARBERA CHARACTERS WERE BEING ACCURATELY AND APPROPRIATEDLY REPRESENTED! I bolded that, because I cannot believe such a job existed. So yeah, it was his job to look over the paintings of Fred Flintsone on the Tilt-a-Whirl and make sure he wasn't depicted with too many or too few toes.

At first, I thought this was just one fucking hilarious job.....but I could see how it could swiftly transform one's life into a heinous facsimile of self-loathing hell.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

my girlfriend's ex was a psychic reader for Miss Cleo

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

caitlin, while I applaud your ardor for the truth, I am concerned that you seem so acquainted with the minutiae of an episode of railside man on goat action.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I also knew a guy who inspected nuclear plants and had to wear one of those little tags. Had a friend who was a dominatrix but we've lost touch. Met a guy once who was an organ courier.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

A next-door neighbor of mine had a second job doing phone sex. (Her first job was with Planned Parenthood.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

one of my friends is a gadgets editor for p0pular sc1ence, so he gets to play with toys all day long.

another is a model booker, and another got hired to be a "hipster researcher" for qu33r 3y3, but then they cancelled the position before it started.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

my mother is a tree geneticist and keeps large vats of white pine pollen in a walk-in. The busy time at work is "tree sex season" when they have professional tree climbers come in and pollinate specific white pines with specific pollen. A lot of her work is boring statistics, but coordinating the tree sex is sort of interesting.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

A guy I went to college with gets paid the big bucks by B0se to blow up their stereo systems and other products.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

I have a sculptor friend who makes models of mundane office products in Silicon Valley. His boss will say, "We need a model of this TP965-2 telephone, but drop the MIC button and add a SPKR button with a calculator..." or whatever, and he'll make one that doesn't function. Just for looks.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

my friend distributes controlled substances within a black market economy.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Amateurist, are you one of those people who apologizes for apologizing too much? :) I've done that.
-- daria g (daria_gra...) (webmail), March 1st, 2005 4:52 AM. (daria g) (link)

yes and YES

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

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