What does everyone do for a living?

I'm sure I've said this before, but I'm a chemist, currently a senior PhD candidate (should be finished """soon""") which is in large part a full-time research assistantship. Money is not much but it's enough to be somewhat comfortable and I hope to be doing something less stressful and better compensated before long :ROFLMAO: hopefully still doing active research/bench chem because I really actually enjoy it. I've always said that when I retire (ha) I want to get into luthiery - I think it would be so much fun.
 
mkstewartesq said:
Thanks, man! Mine is a 1977, which my parents purchased secondhand for me for Christmas1985 (Andrew’s is a 1985 Strat bought new). I still have that 1977 Strat, and it’s the one guitar I would never give up, both because of its playability and its sentimental value.

(sorry for the thread derail)

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My eye is always drawn to 70's natural/maple fenders. My p bass is the same finish but with a dingy white pickguard.
 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
My eye is always drawn to 70's natural/maple fenders. My p bass is the same finish but with a dingy white pickguard.
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LAST derail:

My guitar has a nice finish, basically a satin/almost matte. I happened to message with someone who worked in the Fender plant in the 1970s and he told me that, in 1977, all of their finishes were a very thick gloss poly. No matte, no satin. Sure enough, when I did a Google search and Reverb search, every single guitar I found in this color was gloss.

So whoever had it before me did what the Fender guy called “a hippie strip“ on the finish sometime between 1977 and 1985 – but damn, he or she did such an amazing job I honestly didn’t realize for almost 40 years that the finish wasn’t original.
 
benny_profane said:
Would you be interested in an Eames group buy?
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Ha, I wish! Only another 20-25 years, and I'll get one! Funny story about those, back 20-25 years ago, they couldn't get people to take used and tested ones off their hands. Now, people definitely sniff out when one is coming back as a return or heading to the company store, trying to get a good deal on one. Me? I'm just trying to build myself one, one piece at a time :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
I collect about $3000 a month, tax free from the government. Which is about 1/3rd of what I'd get if I put the money I gave them into the stock market.

Before this I was a multivalue programmer using Unidata, D3 and um..ahhh.... some other variant of PICK and specialized in customer service, multilevel bill of material manufacturing (as opposed to discrete manufacturing), shop floor control, forecasting, sales analysis, inventory control, accounting, customer relationship management, Enterprise Requirement Planning, data analysis, system integration, system upgrade, system conversions, PC support (yuk), warehouse management systems, logistics including hazardous material handling, and probably a few other things I forgot about. Oh, yeah, programmer utilities including my own full screen word processor that I wrote and using that as a base converted to a full screen command line editor - a first in PICK.

I started before PC's existed, which I've been building and using since DOS 1.0. In 1978 NOBODY was using printed shipping labels, they were typed on a typewriter and used in a type of hand held silk screen which the operator would roll in ink and then roll onto each box. I automated that and we were the first in the hardware industry to have computer printed labels! Cost about $400 and saved about $25,000 a year in labor costs. I got a pat on the head, and a 3% raise, lol.
 
RetiredUnit1 said:
Cost about $400 and saved about $25,000 a year in labor costs. I got a pat on the head, and a 3% raise, lol.
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I get it. In 1999, I saved my boss' ass when he spent $10,000 on a consultant that didn't know what he was doing. At last minute I stepped in and saved the day by pulling an all nighter to save a production that was going to fail. The entire production crew thanked me for fixing a bad situation, and my boss told me that I would be rewarded from my efforts, and then he gave me a 3% raise. I quit the next year.
 
I would love to get a new job- one that’s just me creating and making stuff. Or helping people. I’m 50 and have been staring at computer screens and code for much too long.

Plus, my entire days are remote- dev team is in UK, Vietnam, boss is on the other side of the country. No one I work with directly is even in the same state. It’s getting old, but I don’t know what to do.
 
peccary said:
I'm an academic advisor for production majors in a film school. Very glamorous!
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I LOVE making films! This is the last short film I made. I got it up on Amazon too before they stopped taking unsolicited material. Brings in about a buck or two a month in royalties from them. It's not much but it's the right direction from them for sure!
Amazon link
Free on youtube also.
 
PunchySunshine said:
I LOVE making films! This is the last short film I made. I got it up on Amazon too before they stopped taking unsolicited material. Brings in about a buck or two a month in royalties from them. It's not much but it's the right direction from them for sure!
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Free on youtube also.
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My wife and I watch a lot of horror movies - I actually remember this one being recommended to us not long ago (I remember the description). I'll have to check it out, thanks!
 
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