<p>MOT: yes, I did major in a science, which is how I was able to enter my current profession. However, I was not good enough at it to become a practicing scientist. I’m able to use my knowledge and liking of it in another way.</p>
<p>If you have questions about patent law, I have some posts on the current law school forum as well as in some threads on the old CC. If those don’t provide answers to your questions, just let me know.</p>
<p>Went straight from grad school to teaching, first at a big State U, then a well-known eastern LAC, where I taught the Shakespeare course, 18c novel (a tough one because the books are so very long), and, like everyone else in the English dept, English 105. Then, about 25 years ago switched to a financial career, which pays the bills (currently over 80k/yr in education expenses. Invested heavily a few years ago in a start up company that is developing a tiny, implanted, continuous blood glucose monitor, which will be invaluable for diabetics. Hope to retire on the proceeds</p>
<p>Idler – Don’t want to hijack the thread but I wish you best of luck with the tiny, implantable continuous blood glucose monitor. My college age son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 8; my mom has had Type 1 for over 40 years, lives alone, but has frequent lows where she passes out. Of course, my family is hoping for THE cure.</p>
<p>3boys, thanks: originally conceived with the hope of rescuing children and their parents from the horrible finger-stick ritual. Of course, good for adults, too. The ultimate hope is to connect it to an insulin pump, thus creating an artificial pancreas. Not a cure, but maybe the next best thing. In early FDA testing now.</p>
<p>Academic medicine: basically never left school. mediocre carreer in high school. Small LAC in California. Medical School in Texas. Six years of Residency in the South. Year of Fellowship. Teaching in a Medical School for 20 years.</p>
<p>Idler, let’s just say if D makes it past med school she’ll be trying to race you on your “project”. I hope you beat her to it.</p>
<p>Age 10-14 watermelon field hand. $7.00 a day ,sun-up to sundown. From sundown till the melons sold at market I’d free-lance by throwing melons into semi’s with a partner for a penny a piece, sometimes a penny and a half. Biggest rush-avoiding the rattlesnakes in the vines (only struck once, and he didn’t reach meat) and trying not to fall off the ton and a half “load” of slick melons stacked on a 1/2 ton pickup at highway speeds:eek:.</p>
<p>Age 14-16 worked in an air-conditioned hardware store for 85 cents an hour.
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<p>Age 16-17 Worked in a very nice men’s clothing store. Saw my first rich people. Didn’t like them much, still don’t but it was $1.35 per and I had a $735.00 motorcycle note on a brand new Suzuki.</p>
<p>Age 17-19 College work-study while attending undergrad to afford seriously debauched party habit.</p>
<p>Age 20-22 Law School ,well-respected regional law school with an emphasis on producing litigation attorneys, while working at a blue jeans store and a life insurance company (For those doing the math-yep, High school-May 74, Law School, J.D. May 79. I didn’t and don’t sleep a lot.)</p>
<p>Age 22-40. Full Time Lawyer. Nothing special. No big cases or famous clients. Just a pretty decent country lawyer.</p>
<p>Age 40-today. I still practice about half-time, sometimes more. All of my clients have very poor taste and most of them have almost infinite patience, for which I am eternally grateful.</p>
<p>Tommorrow-or Someday, if God’s willing and the creek don’t rise-I’d like the opportunity to teach, in an air-conditioned classroom. LOL.</p>
<p>Finally, a rattler expert on cc. Closest I’ve come to one is when he was on land and I was on raft on Tuolomne River. But on a Ca. jogging trail I frequented, there were demure little signs re “Beware of rattlesnakes.” Used to spend most of my run wondering if it were really true that if you stood stock still and slowly backed away, you would be safe. Seriously interfered with runner’s high. But is it true?</p>
<p>jmmom, I’m an expert on that snake only and all I can say about him was I saw him through some rank vines and mistook him for a hat. I literally said “Hey,look at this hat” and reached down to pick it up. As my eyes focused on the hat , I saw the hat’s eyes looking back at me. I jumped high in the air, he struck and hit me in in my pants leg at the front of my leg where the bone is closest to the skin (my shin). </p>
<p>My uncle , the melon clipper, reacted like a film martial artist and when I hit the ground sans snake he had already grabbed my jeans leg and pulled the material away from my body. He had a watermelon knife at the ready and in his hand (to clip the melon stem), and sliced the jeans off my leg like he had a razor. No blood -no bite. I got the rest of the day off! (There is more to the story but we’ll just say the snake didn’t fare well.)</p>
<p>We have had it lucky on the ranch but D and W own there own snake gun , and we have killed 2 in the past year , on the same night. One coiled up by some clay pots at the front door my daughter had just walked through. One in the front yard two hours later. We live far from anyone else. There are only 10 families living on the adjoining ranches in 18 square miles and it’s a mile and a half by road to our nearest neighbor. Snakes are a fact of ranch life in rock and scrub juniper country. You just have to stay aware.</p>
<p>Again , not an expert but I would say that generally if you can avoid sudden movements and Zen out while slowly leaving his space -that’ll work. Jumping in the air over him and screaming “snake” didn’t seem to do the trick.</p>
<p>Curmudge: When I was first married 30 some years ago, my wife took me to visit her sainted 80 year old aunt, who lived alone with her animals up a long dirt driveway in wild Blueridge country. We first encountered her about halfway up the drive, whitehaired, standing ramrod-straight and trancelike, and we stopped the car and started to get out to greet her. She raised her hand, palm out, and froze us without saying a word. Then she reached into her coat, produced a shockingly large six-shooter, and blasted a sizeable rattlesnake at her feet. What a woman!</p>
<p>idler, Your w’s auntie had excellent technique. Zen and massive firepower.</p>
<p>Lawyer- Aspire to Retire. Sick of corporate America. If my kids weren’t so expensive I would be living in western Colorado and doing college counseling for Colorado Rocky Mountain School.</p>
<p>1988-1992: Tennis coach in the UAE. It was unpaid but still a lot of fun. Most of the kids I taught were physically handicapped. Great bunch of kids.</p>
<p>Every summer between 1992 and 1995, summer jobs are vairous banks in Europe and the UAE.</p>
<p>1996-1998: Lehman Brothers in London and Paris. Financial Analyst</p>
<p>1998-1999: Goldman Sachs in London and Germany. Financial Analyst.</p>
<p>Summer of 2000: Charles Schwab in San Francisco. HR Intern.</p>
<p>2001-2002: Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI. HR generalist.</p>
<p>2002-2004: Eaton Corporation in Western Michigan. HR Manager.</p>
<p>2004-Present: Emirates Holdings in Dubai. HR Director.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I am very curious as to how you got to be a moderator - you are in Dubai so must be living the life of Riley (whoever he was) - you aren’t old enough to have college age kids unless you were VERY precocious - so are you a CCer’s relative or just a Renaissance Man?</p>
<p>im only 22, so my list wont be as long as everyones… </p>
<p>1/97-8/01 first job - 14 years old, grocery store, stocked shelves, made hoagies, various other things. worked there till college</p>
<p>8/01-5/04 second job - IT computer help desk, worked there during school frosh, soph, and junior years.</p>
<p>5/02-8/02 third job - summer after frosh year - photographer and cashier</p>
<p>5/03-8/03 fourth and fifth jobs - summer after soph. year - photographer, and waitress</p>
<p>5/04-11/04 - summer after junior year - retail supervisor… 21 stores</p>
<p>8/04-present - RCS - senior year of college (current job). do various business tasks…</p>
<p>i also have been doing various web design/web development for the past couple of years on and off</p>
<p>i graduate in may… and i’m currently job hunting for then :)</p>
<p>Yulsie, I am neither related to anyone CCers, nor am I a “renaissance man”. I am, however, fascinated with universities, I love giving advice on universities to high school students and I guess I was in the right place at the right time. </p>
<p>And no, I do not have any children…thank God! LOL</p>
<p>After college I had a “good time” for awhile and worked odd jobs. Then I decided I should have a ‘career’…</p>
<p>I made the mistake of getting my real estate license shortly before the early 80’s real estate ‘crash/correction’ and so as not to ‘waste’ the license, went into Escrow. What a mistake for a non-math type. I think the manager hired me as she was looking for a someone to party with after work…!</p>
<p>Eventually wound up a journalist… as I was always interested in current events. Started litererally at the mailroom’ at a local TV station in SF, took some journalism classes at the local community college and worked my way up into news coverage. now work for major network in the News division. And I love it, although the hours suck as it is a 24/7 gig sometimes.</p>