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GreySoul

Mon Apr 23 2007, 02:17AM

Registered Member #546 Joined: Fri Feb 23 2007, 11:43PM
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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So this question came up in another thread and I think it's a cool idea...

what do you do for a living? obviously this is voluntary, you don't have to say if you don't want :) I've always found it interesting to hear what people do when they're not lurking on the Interwebs. I imagine this group has a pretty diverse selection of backgrounds.

I'm a full time Fine Arts student, I'll be getting my BFA in studio arts with most of my experiance in small scale metals (silver/gold smithing) and printmaking.

I also blow glass part-time at a local studio I help get started. I mostly make marbles and small cheap jewelry pieces en mass at a torch. It pays ok, but I'd like to get a bigger shop and a furnace/glory hole.

If anyone here ever needs Art, lemme know :)

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Mon Apr 23 2007, 03:16AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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This is probably the 5th time a thread like this has been created, but whatever, I can't pass up a chance to brag about my job

When I am not attending high school, I work at Ortel, a division of Emcore with a few PhD's that had created a startup called Phasebridge, but later got bought by Ortel (who had breviously been bought by Emcore) working on making a terahertz class spectrometer.

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I spend most of my time at a computer using SolidWorks doing mechanical design for parts of the system, some physical assembly/rework, and I spent about 2 week with an o-scope (and a u-scope for those 0603smd parts >.<), breadboard, and stack of chips designing a few circuits for it.

Not bad for a sophmore (at high school) summer job, $9.5/hr (about 30% over minimun wage), easy hours, low stress...

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HV Enthusiast

Mon Apr 23 2007, 03:21AM

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I just started a new high voltage job as well. I'm presently leading a team to redesign the high voltage transmitter on the MK-53 Nulka countermeasures missile decoy.

Nulka datasheet (big file 6MB PDF)
http://www.baesystems.com.au/webdata/resources/files/Final_Nulka_Fact_Sheet_Apr05.pdf

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Mon Apr 23 2007, 06:34AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
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not to argue, but the specs of the system have been released. It is the internal gizmos that are a secret...

I suppose I should add that while attending high school I have been working as slave labor to my father remodeling our house, haven't had a day to my self since sometime November last year

Been doing everything from moving mountains of dirt to configuring all the technology going into the house.

AndrewM

Mon Apr 23 2007, 06:47AM

Registered Member #49 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:05AM
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I work in spacecraft attitude determination and control here: http://www.ssloral.com

I'm responsible for the earth and sun sensing systems.

EDIT: well if EVR gets a picture then I do too:

Simon

Mon Apr 23 2007, 07:31AM

Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
Location: Australia
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Well, here's what I said in the other thread:

wrote ...

I'm currently living at a boarding house for a boys' school (fees >$10k p.a., Australian). I'm essentially there as a guy who's done a whole lot of maths and physics who can answer any questions the kids have for their homework. I also tutor chemistry.

On top of the tutoring, my job is to run the boarding house on certain days. I wake the kids up in the morning, supervise breakfast, make sure they head to school looking presentable, then do the reverse in the afternoon. I also have to deal with any issues that crop up during the day (or, sometimes, in the middle of the night when I'd rather be asleep).

ragnar

Mon Apr 23 2007, 08:53AM

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Steve Conner

Mon Apr 23 2007, 12:52PM

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OK, well you guys know what I am going to do (thanks for the cake Bjoern, I eated it) but here's what I did:

I just spent the last four years working for these guys:

where I designed a bunch of microcontroller and DSP-based instruments. The most complex thing I did was a tunable diode laser spectroscope for detecting natural gas leaks. It had a 40MHz DSP and about 10,000 lines of firmware that I wrote in assembler

Before that, I built laser drivers and did test and measurement programming for these guys:

I also like doing freelance consulting work, and have built some neat high voltage and computer things which I can't talk about because of confidentiality. :P

In my spare time, I play bass in a band

tinker with tube guitar amps and run a small home recording studio.

thedatastream

Mon Apr 23 2007, 03:38PM

Registered Member #505 Joined: Sun Nov 19 2006, 06:42PM
Location: Yorkshire!
Posts: 329

I work for the UK based tentacle of Echostar / Dish Network as an Electronics Engineer, currently hardware project leader on a satellite receiver product.

Jrz126

Mon Apr 23 2007, 04:19PM

Registered Member #242 Joined: Thu Feb 23 2006, 11:37PM
Location: Erie PA
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I've been interning at GE Transportation for the past 3 years, and will be starting there full time in about a month.
We build Locomotives. The one in the pic is a 4400HP AC locomotive, with 36 pizza box IGBTs. (I also managed to blow up the logic power supply on that particular unit

on accident of course)

I'll be doing some hardware design, and I have a choice in working on power supplies, analog cards, or CPU cards. No HV stuff though

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