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I have abbreviated your names as to how I think of them

Here is who I think I know:

Dick- runs a non profit
Billy- retired UPS
THN- small business ops/admin
RH- Healthcare finance
Strum- musician, luthier and reseller of guitars
Boy- musician
HIS- attorney (area of practice?)
Bleed- health insurance broker
mtPeke- accountant
Irby- pastor
Cory- teaches and lays pipe

Sort of know:

Heelman- pools, karate and something else
Nuk- some sort of shipbuilding consulting
Louigi- financial advisor
GTee- workers comp fraud investigations
Greyhead- contractor (GC?)
Julez- Marketing for a small college / boat broker


Dont really know:

Cool- he does something that requires a lot of Excel
JLucci- investments (wholesale?)
Key- something with golf
St8Grad- Ukraine- where did he go anyways?
Hook- bookie?
PRLyles- runs a general store in the mountains
Heelz2345- on the hunt?
Wayno- retired?
Mark- no clue
Transplant- no clue
Taz- no clue
92- no clue
Grill- no clue
Gac- no clue


Who did I forget?
 
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Mine is close. The college job is public relations/communications, related to but slightly distinct from marketing. I also write for and edit a community magazine. As of about a year ago I am no longer directly involved in dad's boat stuff, save for helping him with social media and the occasional delivery.

You didn't post yours.
 
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JuleZ '02 HEEL said:
Mine is close. The college job is public relations/communications, related to but slightly distinct from marketing. I also write for and edit a community magazine. As of about a year ago I am no longer directly involved in dad's boat stuff, save for helping him with social media and the occasional delivery.

You didn't post yours.
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I'm a shepherd.
 
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GC is correct for me. Started a little over a year ago working vendor contracts for Dook energy at one of their nuclear power plants. Top pay in a good work enviorment.
 
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Taz used to work for FedEx . .

Wayno is a sales representative for a big power tool company or something of the like.
 
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I wasn't on the list either, but I manage the Credit and Accounts Receivable functions for a 100 million dollar a year company. Im a weekend warrior musician playing in a gigging band
 
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UNC71-00 said:
I have abbreviated your names as to how I think of them


Hook- bookie?
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Haha, amazingly @UNC71-00 you are dead center but not in the sense that you think. "bookie" could be a slang term for what I do. I will tell you that I'm "Certified", not to be confused with "certifiable.";)
 
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DeanFor President said:
I wasn't on the list either, but I manage the Credit and Accounts Receivable functions for a 100 million dollar a year company. Im a weekend warrior musician playing in a gigging band
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Damn Dean- I knew I was forgetting someone. I mostly used the pick'em thread for names.
 
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Aside from being Batman, I work with reporting for a mortgage company in Charlotte. I don't really use Excel much except for stuff that I just need to send off to someone quickly. I code and write SQL queries every day to provide the VPs and their teams everything they need to keep track of their business. In other words, I am the keeper of knowledge and I know everything.
 
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UNC71-00 said:
Heelz2345- on the hunt?

Grill- no clue
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Well, you're not that far off on me. I was job searching for a while (read: a very long time) out of college, and have worked various odd jobs in the interim. I worked for a very small, weekly newspaper for a few months as a combination ad sales/journalist position before the paper downsized and let me go. I worked for my dad & uncle at their pharmacy for a few months, so that answers what Grill does. The pharmacy was owned by their father before them, but none of their children followed the pharmacist trail. I then got on the Wayne County substitute teacher list at the start of the 2014-15 year and subbed at my old high school. After a few weeks, I ended up getting put in a permanent sub position for a semester for a teacher on maternity leave, so I had to actually teach & plan lessons as opposed to "Here's what your teacher left for you to do, I will do my best to help you." That was quite the experience, particularly since it was a math class and I hadn't taken a math class since I was in high school. Since the school year ended, I've been working at a place that screen prints t-shirts as the graphic design artist, so that is currently what I do. In my free time, I try to do what I would like to be doing as a career, and that's writing (hence why I took the newspaper job). So that's a long-winded way of saying I've had a weird job history, but you were basically close because I haven't been at any job over the past 3 years more than about 6 months (hopefully the current one, which is in its 6th month, makes it past that mark though!)
 
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heelz2345 said:
Well, you're not that far off on me. I was job searching for a while (read: a very long time) out of college, and have worked various odd jobs in the interim. I worked for a very small, weekly newspaper for a few months as a combination ad sales/journalist position before the paper downsized and let me go. I worked for my dad & uncle at their pharmacy for a few months, so that answers what Grill does. The pharmacy was owned by their father before them, but none of their children followed the pharmacist trail. I then got on the Wayne County substitute teacher list at the start of the 2014-15 year and subbed at my old high school. After a few weeks, I ended up getting put in a permanent sub position for a semester for a teacher on maternity leave, so I had to actually teach & plan lessons as opposed to "Here's what your teacher left for you to do, I will do my best to help you." That was quite the experience, particularly since it was a math class and I hadn't taken a math class since I was in high school. Since the school year ended, I've been working at a place that screen prints t-shirts as the graphic design artist, so that is currently what I do. In my free time, I try to do what I would like to be doing as a career, and that's writing (hence why I took the newspaper job). So that's a long-winded way of saying I've had a weird job history, but you were basically close because I haven't been at any job over the past 3 years more than about 6 months (hopefully the current one, which is in its 6th month, makes it past that mark though!)
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Good luck becoming getting a job writing :/

I majored in journalism and now I have no desire to pursue that anymore. Scarcity of jobs and awful pay.
 
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TarHeelNation11 said:
Good luck becoming getting a job writing :/

I majored in journalism and now I have no desire to pursue that anymore. Scarcity of jobs and awful pay.
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Yeah, I hear you. My major (well, one of them) was actually in Communication Studies with a focus in media production, so the writing I'm talking about is more fiction, but trust me, I know it's not exactly a field with a lot of job opportunities at every turn. Which is why I'm designing t-shirts at the moment :confused::p
 
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heelz2345 said:
Yeah, I hear you. My major (well, one of them) was actually in Communication Studies with a focus in media production, so the writing I'm talking about is more fiction, but trust me, I know it's not exactly a field with a lot of job opportunities at every turn. Which is why I'm designing t-shirts at the moment :confused::p
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Don't worry.......I purchase acrylic and plastic sheeting every day at my job. As well as doing, basically, secretary work -- which I know we're not allowed to say in 2015, so I mean to say admin assistant stuff.

I would love to write fiction as well, especially short stories. But I don't want to end up homeless :p:eek::oops:
 
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Being a writer (or any other creative endeavor) is not the kind of thing where somebody's going to chase you down as soon as you graduate and beg you to come work for them. On the other hand, you can take it in almost any direction you want, and as you build experience and various skills there is a world of career opportunities out there for writers in almost any industry. It is sad how few people there are these days who are able to write well, including many who are very talented in their field and/or have advanced degrees. And so all of those people need to have people on their team who can. I have taken a bit of a winding road myself, and who knows where it will lead from here, but I have never regretted my decision to pursue the degrees that interested me - English and Creative Writing - rather than being miserable doing something that might have paid better but that I didn't find interesting.
 
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