Its been 10 years on and off around here and I find myself curious of the vocations of those who are mostly all way better than me at online risk.
Me, I'm a chemistry professor.
Interesting thread, thanks Xrayjay for this prompt
I'm an interpreter and translator, and before I started on this second career 4.5 years ago, I worked as a jack of all trades for 20 years in nonprofit organizations (community organizer, executive director, paralegal, "bilingual staff", project manager, etc)
Aerospace Engineer by education; spent ~5yrs at NASA, the rest at a military GPS company in various roles (engineer/testing/manager).
I am a software engineer that works for a non-profit that is a FFRDC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_funded_research_and_development_centers
Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
I am a business controller.
M57 wrote:Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
Awesome for you!
I started teaching High School Math for a few years and then taught at a Community College for about 12 years, and then was a mid-level administrator for another 7 and then went back to teaching HS for a year and a half. (Oh boy - what a time to do that!) This may have been my last year in education though - thinking about trying something else.
Congrats M!
Amidon, two of the three best math instructions I ever had were at community colleges.
I'm a systems analyst at a technology company. I think when I started at WG I was a pizza guy.
M57 wrote:Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
25 years, one month, 6 days and 5 hours for me! Not that I'm counting....
M57 wrote:Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
Have a happy retirement :)
Youth football coach
GIS Specialist currently working with electrical utility
Litotes wrote:M57 wrote:Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
Have a happy retirement :)
Yeah, congrats on that milestone!
M57 wrote:Math and music teacher. Well ..I was; I retired about 2 weeks ago :)
That's a really fun combo. It seems like a lot of people wouldn't think math & music go together, but they are two of my favorite things too. Maybe WarGear attracts people who are both creative and analytical...
Litotes wrote:I am a business controller.
I have no idea what that even means... You control the business somehow?
Ozyman wrote:Litotes wrote:I am a business controller.
I have no idea what that even means... You control the business somehow?
Mostly it's analyzing the numbers, for a firm with 2500 or so employees. I'm good with numbers. Others make the decisions based on my reports. Started as an accountant and advanced from there, without getting very far as I have no leadership skills.
Litotes wrote:Ozyman wrote:Litotes wrote:I am a business controller.
I have no idea what that even means... You control the business somehow?
Mostly it's analyzing the numbers, for a firm with 2500 or so employees. I'm good with numbers. Others make the decisions based on my reports. Started as an accountant and advanced from there, without getting very far as I have no leadership skills.
Thanks for asking Ozy cause if nobody else did I was going to.
I own 3 businesses (which sounds much more impressive than it really is), but my full time job is working for one of those three businesses. I'm a contract Network/Systems Admin building custom automation systems for heavy industry.
M57 - Congrats on the retirement. I hope that this opens you up for even more great map building!
XRay - Is that 25 years of a career, or 25 since retirement? :)
Litotes - Would that mean that you essentially report to the CFO? You (business controller) would be more responsible for accurately reporting financials, while the CFO is more of a strategic planning job? Is your company public traded (because I know that the financial reporting requirements are VERY strict when a company is...)
Ozy - What kind of software?
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Boris, yes, my company is publicly traded, and yes, i sort under the CFO. I'm not the only business controller we have, though, there are three of us.
BorisTheFrugal wrote:I own 3 businesses (which sounds much more impressive than it really is), but my full time job is working for one of those three businesses. I'm a contract Network/Systems Admin building custom automation systems for heavy industry.
M57 - Congrats on the retirement. I hope that this opens you up for even more great map building!
XRay - Is that 25 years of a career, or 25 since retirement? :)
Litotes - Would that mean that you essentially report to the CFO? You (business controller) would be more responsible for accurately reporting financials, while the CFO is more of a strategic planning job? Is your company public traded (because I know that the financial reporting requirements are VERY strict when a company is...)
Ozy - What kind of software?
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25 years to go. All going to plan at least.