Your Field of Study/Profession

[Tumah]

I have a high school regents diploma and that's it. The following 15 years I studied mostly Talmud in various Jewish seminaries.
About 3 years ago the money was starting to run dry, so I spent the year studying Cybersecurity and that's my current field and profession.

 

[Debater Slayer]

I have a high school regents diploma and that's it. The following 15 years I studied mostly Talmud in various Jewish seminaries.
About 3 years ago the money was starting to run dry, so I spent the year studying Cybersecurity and that's my current field and profession.

How effective did you find just one year of study to be in preparing you for a full-time job in cybersecurity? I'm curious because it's such a relatively complex field, and most people I know who work in it had at least four years of college prior to getting a job.

 

[Revoltingest]

Mechanical engineer for Northrup, Black & Decker, Koppers Co,
Knorr Bremse, GM Truck, Cox Instrument, & several small
companies no one would know of. I was an employee for the
first few years out of school, but switched to contract/consulting
work cuz I liked moving around....variety, ya know.
I did design work in flight controls, aerial refueling, orthopedic
surgical tools, heavy manufacturing machinery, hydraulic control
systems, air brake control systems, & misc.
Oh...BS & MS in mechanical engineering at UofMich.

Also was a licensed real estate broker, property manager (my own
company), lender, & investor.
These days I'm highly occupied at sowing political discord, exhibiting
scrap iron, shoveling snow, goofing off, & landscaping. The pay is
poor, but the hours are flexible.

 

[Revoltingest]

I was in graphics and animation from 1995 to 2015 then retired. To get there and stay there i studied right through from

B Unit, Mathematics in computing and B Unit Psychology in 1990 to get me into uni. After earning a BA Art and Animation and meeting future hubby we started a business and carried on study to earn a BSc in Computer animation.

Slowing down on study to build the business it was a few years to my BA in 3d Animation, followed by MSc in Art and Animation then an MSc Animation in Industrial Graphics.

Would you be able to animate mechanical systems?

 

[Revoltingest]

My original specialty was abstract harmonic analysis.

Modern classical music, eh.
Reminds me of an airframe stress analyst I once worked
with. He said his daughter was in a group playing that
kind of music. He once asked her how they'd know if
they ever made a mistake. She was not amused.

 

[Revoltingest]

High School Degree in just doing whatever people tell me to do, fill out forms, be a jack of all trades. Its not very lucrative. Also I have, yes really, an actual 2 year A.S.S. degree in Computer Science. Its literally an A.S.S. degree. I have earned the right to be called that. I worked hard for it, too, paid my own way with no loan.

So you're currently an A.S.S. but decided not to become B.S., eh.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm on RF Staff.

Pretty sure that's a field of study all by itself.

Does it pay as well as exhibiting scrap iron?
(I actually pay for the privilege to do that.)

 

[Rival]

Does it pay as well as exhibiting scrap iron?
(I actually pay for the privilege to do that.)

I think it takes days off the suffering I'm going to do in Hell or something...

I dunno, I didn't really read the...the thing.

 

[Secret Chief]

9th grade dropout, art school dropout, spent most of my life cooking for a living / managing small restaurants, if I wasn't doing that I was building things with my hands or apprenticing under someone to learn a new trade

Have worked in sales, worked as a cobbler, built homes, rebuilt homes / restored them, worked on farms / with animals, in orchards / vineyards, done graphic art / design, glass coldworking ( Grinding and polishing glass art pieces ), done menial lab work ( Chromatography, extractions, isolation ), built and sold a variety of random products online

I retired from the restaurant business 10 years ago after a battle with cancer, went into business for myself, from home ( Candy business, catering, pre-prepared meals ), do some occasional consulting for a friend of mine who is a biochemist

The past 10 years most of my interest has been in ancient languages / mathematics in the antiquities, linguistics, philology, comparative religion, and science history, with random excursions into whatever happens to strike my fancy

Impressively varied.

 

[Revoltingest]

well.. It's not very glorious, but I'm a material handler / forklift driver..

I guess being mathematically minded might help someone do the job actually, there are probably equations you could run to figure out how much material presses need, otherwise you have to empty them .. driving the fork truck is sort of 'mathematical' too, you have to know the limits of what you are doing weight wise from a fulcrum point

All that stuff I just kind of trust my gut on

A lot of times my clothes are black with oil, since I'm cleaning stuff

As a side project, I can play many musical instruments, though I don't know how to make money with it. Sometimes I make instrument tracks for people's songs online

I guess I am apparently some kind of 'thinker,' but I don't really know how to utilize that for money either

I really like driving a forklift. I have several at home.
And at a museum I volunteer using one to move
people's treasures (antique engines).

 

[Revoltingest]

I earned a bachelor of science in Agricultural Communications--I always tell people it's talking with plants and animals. Seriously, though, it was reporting, and I got a job at a newspaper with it.

I earned a master of arts in Environmental Studies, as it supported my role as a public information officer for a state agency.

I earned a Doctor of Public Administration, a specialty PhD, which qualified me to diagnose and treat the ills of public organizations. I taught at university for 9 years; I'm now retired, as I suffer from a general burnout of my mental abilities...

Are you "Doctor Pigeon"?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Are you "Doctor Pigeon"?

No, I was Dr. Pain(e)

 

[Rival]

I really like driving a forklift. I have several at home.
And at a museum I volunteer using one to move
people's treasures (antique engines).

My mental image was of you lifting a body in a coffin using a forklift, because one of our local museums has a skeleton at the entrance.

Forklift to heaven, I guess.

 

[Secret Chief]

My original specialty was abstract harmonic analysis.

Do tell.

 

[Revoltingest]

My mental image was of you lifting a body in a coffin using a forklift, because one of our local museums has a skeleton at the entrance.

Forklift to heaven, I guess.

I've lifted humans on occasion,
but they were alive...before and after.

 

[Rival]

I've lifted humans on occasion,
but they were alive...before and after.

Psh, that's boring though....

Death! Death! Death!

 

[amorphous_constellation]

I really like driving a forklift. I have several at home.
And at a museum I volunteer using one to move
people's treasures (antique engines).

Well.. it is a Beast I try to view with respect , I try to respect It otherwise it may eat me.

 

[Brickjectivity]

So you're currently an A.S.S. but decided not to become B.S., eh.

The point to take away is that every science degree includes an A.S.S. degree, though they don't always tell you. Its just added value. The same goes for Master's degrees and the presumed included B.S. I can't imagine how you have overlooked it all these years.

It does make me wonder who would want two B.S. degrees.

 

[Revoltingest]

Well.. it is a Beast I try to view with respect , I try to respect It otherwise it may eat me.

Aye, things can go very wrong given their strength & weight.

 

[Kenny]

3.3 years of Business - when something spiritual happened... now a Masters in Theology.