Why’s that? I can’t imagine the pay is better.
I’m a process engineer at a research and design facility for an automotive supplier.
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The pay is much worse, but the job is more rewarding.
However, I’ve done my time, I’ve got 20 years in engineering and it’s time to move on to something better and more fun. I’ve always wanted to do it but never really had the opportunity until now.
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Quality Manager in the Embedded Computer industry.
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Wrestling, not Wrastlin. I was 186 in high school. Won 3rd in state
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Very nice! I knew absolutely nothing about wrestling before I started working here.
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Geologist
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I love it man, congrats!
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That rocks!
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Physics teacher
Lots of yoyo applicable examples
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Laundromat Attendant. It sucks, but it pays the bills, mostly. Associate’s degree is useless and where I live you are lucky to have full time work.
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I feel ya mine too, no one wants a chef making more than 30k here …
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Yoyo string maker. (This is the only crowd I can tell that to without a long explanation.) Oh, and for additional fun I do retirement plan administration for MDs & DDSs.
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“Additional fun”
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I knew nothing about wrestling until I started shopping at Walmart on Black Friday.
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I can only imagine “Wait you do wha? Stri…string maker?”
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Plant Ecosystem Ecologist. Focus on ecosystem recovery after disturbance (clear cutting, slash-and-burn farming, land abandonment) and climate change over the past 50 years and 50,000 years from pollen records and ice cores and predicting future trends.
A contribution I am pretty proud of is my work was cited in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report (AR5, 2013). We found trees in eastern Canada weren’t taking in as much CO2 as models and theory predicts with the steady linear increase in atmospheric CO2 observed today. Open-access article found here: Recent Widespread Tree Growth Decline Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2
Studying ecology has even brought me abroad to study in neotropical forests, where I lived in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil for 4 years and worked at the Federally-funded University of Rio Grande do Sul in the Ecology Department.
Photo of the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Tropical Rainforest and our team about to set up litterfall traps in the forest (I’m taking the picture). Litter weighed monthly for 12 months to obtain proxy annual production.
I currently characterize hazardous waste for proper disposal and destruction from hospitals, labs and stores in Canada. It is cool as I am learning a lot about chemistry and ensuring haz waste is destroyed/recycled properly. I still think I have more ecology science research to contribute.
I am now relearning math and science for fun, like the physics and math of yo-yos, and the chemistry of their production. Also looking through this thread I’ve seen there’s a lot of really smart people in yo-yoing, I read that André Boulay has a Masters in Neuroscience? I’m a biologist but I’m definitely not a neurobiologist lol. I think we all have our own genius in us to share, and now that I’m orchestrating haz waste movement I see it’s important to share your work while it’s relevant and of current discussion. I’m also still paying off student debt.
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I help mentally and physically handicapped to live independently in their own home. Stressfull sometimes but fun.
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I’m currently a freelance videographer. But I will be starting a job soon for a company that edits video ads for real-estate agents.
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Man all these impressive careers have made for an interesting read. Sorry but I’m just average Joe, grocery chain warehouse worker, not great but once you’ve experienced the bottom being unemployed and at the edge of being without a place to live, well you learn to appreciate having a job at all.
Also as a bonus if I’m caught up and it’s slow I can go throw inside the coolers LOL. 
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@c0dy46 in 2016 I drove to local grocery store loading docks to pick up their haz waste, so if we’re living in the same area then I bet we may have even crossed paths with me being the haz waste guy requesting your signature on the waste manifests!
Also in 2015 I washed windows of houses and cleaned house eavestroughs, usually by roofwalking, full-time and overtime 6-days a week sometimes.
You put it really well. For me, if it is bringing you closer to your goals then that’s what is important 
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