Own and run an environmental services firm.

James-

My God, you stole Andy's avatar. Have you no shame.

 

Supply Chain and regulatory compliance guru

 

Risk analyst and cost estimator - most of the time.

Mathematics teacher - part of the time.

Magician - the rest of the time.

I'm hoping to get back to my favorite full-time job: warhead design. The greatest job there is: you get to exercise your analytical skills and your artistic ones, you get to travel, and you get to blow things up.

Background: BA Business (Accounting), BA Math, MA Math.

I also worked for five years as a mortgage securities analyst. Good money if you enjoy that sort of thing. (I didn't). Should you be interested, get a degree in finance and learn (really learn!) math.

 

I guess I'm an engineer. I guess I'm not so good at it though 'cuz now I manage a bunch of them.

In my life I've been (full time jobs only):
hockey referee
waiter
telephone man
brick layer
service manager
report center manager
engineer
program manager
(director type variations on the last two)


Think I like brick layer best so far. Want to be a teacher when I grow up.

:thinking teaching sounds like a good idea:

 

<~~~ Outbound Planner for Nike Inc. North America Footwear

 

I'm a contract animator for the leisure resort industry. My current consulting contract is "offsite" with Disney World Canada. You will see the ad clips for the new resort in the lower BC mainland this fall. In keeping with EuroDisney, Disney World in Florida and Disney World Japan, DW Canada will have a distinct Canadian flair highlighting the culture of our indiginous and Inuit peoples.

 

public relations/marketing communications for a semiconductor company.

Before that, I was a product manager for network adapters for laptops ... and before that, I worked in technical support helping people get their network adapters working.

If you're technical, pursue a technical job at least for a few years, and then you can move into some type of marketing role, which usually pays better. Engineering (at least in high-tech) has historically been a pretty secure job, because even when companies are hurting, they always lay off all the admin, sales, marketing, and any other type of job, and keep the engineers.

PR can be fun or not ... for a startup, it's fun because all you have to say is good stuff about the company. Once it's a larger (or public) company, you often have to deal with managing bad news (missed earnings, products not shipping on time, products with problems...)

What interests you? That's always a good place to start. (Unless it's only things like "watching TV," "wishing I had an S2K," etc.)

 

Oh, yeah, education. BS in business, MBA in finance, MS in urban land economics, doctoral credits in microeconomics.

 

Network engineer


I would suggest forgetting about the money part for now and choose something that makes you happy. Remember...you will have to get up every morning and go to work so choose something you actually want to crawl out of bed for.

 

architect