What do you do in real life

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ZOID

Sunday, January 8, 2006 1:39 PM

subtorpman wrote:

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For Twenty years I chased Russians under the Oceans with enough destructive power to level the Western Europe. Now I still work for the Feds (Sorry Mal)

What's long and hard and full of Seamen?

Sorry, couldn't resist...

v/r,
-zed

P.S.
Wasn't "Western Europe" on our side, at that time?
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

CAUSAL

Sunday, January 8, 2006 2:21 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:
What's long and hard and full of Seamen?

Grrr...worst Navy joke of all time (though I don't blame ya, Zoid).

10-year Navy here. Carriers and Special Warfare, so at least I avoid the above joke.

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

SUBTORPMAN

Sunday, January 8, 2006 3:20 PM

Oops! Good thing we didn't shoot.

CAPTKAR

Sunday, January 8, 2006 6:15 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:
CaptKar:

I was in the USAF, doing ATC, from Jun '86 'til Jan '00. It's not a bad life for enlisted folks, and I suppose it can't be much worse for commissioned. The pay's definitely better; but I don't think I could've dealt with the 'weasel races', so you've got my sympathies on that.

Planning on staying in longer than required (6 years, right?)? Have they given you any idea what you'll be doing after you graduate? Have you been to BMTS or any other training schools yet? Any lingering dreams of being a pilot? Okay, that's a lot of questions, but I really enjoyed my time in service, and I hope you will too.

Good luck in future endeavors, and thanks for serving America. "Fly, Fight and Win!"

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
Any time an Airman Basic used to complain about having to salute so much, I'd ask her/him: "Do you know who salutes more than anybody else in the entiredam Air Force? Butter bars (2nd LTs). Think about it. They have to return salute to every enlisted person they cross paths with, and initiate a salute to every officer they meet. I'm surprised their little arms don't fall clean off. Everytime they go outside, they about rupture a rotator cuff. So don't cry to me about having to salute, Airman. At least you don't have to salute every swinging (genital reference) 'buck airman' you meet." Heh-heh.
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"Hey, I've been in a firefight before. Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired, from a frycook opportunity..." -Wash, Firefly, "War Stories"

I plan on staying in the 20yrs and retire. Ill put in for jobs my Junior year wo two more years. Ill go to "Field Training" the college version of boot next summer, and tech school and ots and the like after i get to my first assignment. And yes i want to be a pilot just like about 60% of the people in ROTC lol, I want to be a pilot and am going to try for it, but i understand where I stand and my chances so im not getting my hopes up. But no matter what i do in the USAF i know ill like it unless im a TI (please God no!!!) hehe.

-When you can't run you crawl, and when you can't crawl you find someone to carry you-

KIBBSTER

Sunday, January 8, 2006 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by Jax:
To the guy who said he's studying video game programming in college, I have some advice for you:

1. Have a solid grasp of how to debug with tools that people actually use, which means MS Dev Studio. This is terribly important. No debug, no job, no exceptions.

2. You’ll be interviewed by people who have been in the business for years, have published many games, are probably self taught and have just under zero respect for that degree you’re pursuing. So don’t walk in like you know anything because honestly, you don’t. What we’re looking for in a junior programmer is your potential to learn on the job and your ability to get along with people in stressful situations.

3. Have a relevant demo. What do I mean by relevant? When you get out of school you will not be hired as a core engine tech programmer. You just won’t, so deal with it. We really don’t care that you have a cube bouncing off a wall because we already have a collision detection system. What you should do instead is use the SDK from something like Unreal or HL2 and put together a 1-map mod of actual gameplay. Why? Because you will most likely go to the gameplay/level scripting team as your first job, so mod=job.

As for what I do for a living, uh, take a guess :)

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Smoke me a kipper; I'll be back for breakfast!

Cool a fellow games industry worker type person

Who do you work for or would you have to kill me if I knew?

KHYRON

Sunday, January 8, 2006 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by subtorpman:
Oops! Good thing we didn't shoot.

lol!

--- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

DARKJESTER

Sunday, January 8, 2006 11:32 PM

Currently, I'm working in the Shipping department of a brass forging plant, primarily maintaining the warehouse. My training and job experience is in Inventory Control, especially in a manufacturing workplace (I worked for an RV company). I tracked on-hand inventory and work-in-process.

Think of a huge jigsaw puzzle, except that you also have to account for a time factor. To make an RV at my old job, you'd need the tires about a day and a half to two days before you'd need the window curtains. And those are two parts out of around 500 that make up a camping trailer.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

GELASSENHEIT

Monday, January 9, 2006 1:18 AM

Pirates, Seamen, Flyboys and Gameboys kidnapped my thread!!

Gelassenheit means Serenity

MER

Monday, January 9, 2006 1:54 AM

Right now I'm getting my BFA in Illustration.

RKLENSETH

Monday, January 9, 2006 2:03 AM

I'm a Media Editor and Ingest Operator for Capital New 9 in Albany, NY and News 10 Now in Syracuse, NY which are 24 local news cable channels which is owned by Time Warner Cable.

I also work closely with NY1 in New York City and RNews in Rochester, NY which are just like the two stations I work for above.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

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