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[Taco Dan]

I thought I'd make a QotW to help me and others get to know the Bay12ers around here.
Feel free not to answer if you don't want to, the questions will be varied so I understand if you might be uncomfortable with some of them.
I'll update the thread every Friday.

This week's question:
What to you do for a living? If you don't have a job, (still in school) what to you want to do?

I want to go into game programming/design, I hear it can be lucrative.

[Vector]

Sure, why not.  This sounds like a nice idea.

I'm currently training to become a mathematician, as everyone here probably knows >_>  I'm pretty sure it will work out, but if it doesn't I'll probably go into writing.  Money's important, but I'd go crazy if I had a normal job--and my two favorite things are words and numbers, so I think the career choices generally make sense.

The other thing is that the mathematics department at my university is the most welcoming place I've ever found, so I'm also doing this for the improved social atmosphere.

[Realmfighter]

I wanted to be an engineer, but then i realized if i didn't get motivated and work hard in school, i just wouldn't have the marks.

And god knows i'm not getting motivated, so i have no idea what ill do.

[silverskull39]

I also want to be an engineer. I'm currently in my first work term at college, but I start school again soon.

[Itnetlolor]

Unfortunately, thanks to the economy and how competitive my field is; I have an A.S. Degree in Graphic Design, and can't find a job that lets me apply it and gain experience for better jobs. So, unfortunately, I'm working at a Deli.

Originally I wanted to do some game development or at least design for games, but I realized I lack some of the necessary skills to make it official (trig and such). It seems I overlooked the amounts of programming involved along with designing games. At least I got Graphic Design under my belt as a backup plan.

If anything, I think what I really wanted to be was an inventor of sorts. Nowadays, considering just how f***ed up the processes and economy is and gets, I'm sticking to freelancing whenever I can. No office politics or bureaucracy to get in the way. Finding the work is the next challenge.

[Jude]

I have a crappy temp job right now, that I'm using to save up to go to Palestine this summer. Well it's not actually a crappy job, I get paid a ridiculously high amount of money for what I do (a fifth grader could do it) but it has no status and I'm not getting any useful experience or skills.

Oh well. Once I'm on a plane to Tel Aviv, it'll be worth it.

I'm also picking up other work whenever I can, since this job is only 20 hours a week.

Eventually I'll go back to grad school to get my doctorate in experimental psychology and go into some branch of that field.

[chaoticag]

Hmm... currently at a petrolium engineering university, at the insistance of my dad, and trying to transfer out to the university of oregon.

I'm waiting for an acceptence right now, then I'm going into computer science, and go from there into video game programming as a profession.

That makes me something of an oddity here, since there is no game design studios in the country that I'm aware of. Perfect excuse to get away from here, but I digress.

[ToonyMan]

ENGINEER.
I MAKE SURE YOUR GEEK TOYS WORK.

[Virex]

I'm currently at a technical university studying Chemical Engineering. What I'll next I'm not quite sure yet, but it'll probably be something with chemical plants, catalysis or material sciences. Besides that, I've got a parttime job at a local home implements store and I'm also active in our study ascociation. I help organising some activities with a small group and with another group, we're in the process of setting up a little symposium at our university, comming somewhere in februari 2011.

[chaoticag]

From what I hear, the petroleum industry need more engineers of all kinds. The pay is good, or so I hear.

[Armok]

I'm in school.
I hopefully want to work on AI, and I guess I have many of the skills and talents needed for marketing stuff (the actual art that is, 3d animation and such, as well as psychology and how to use peoples brains against them).

[Wiles]

I study English Literature (I'm a bullshit artist in training).

[sonerohi]

Software programmer for some company. A Greek guy I know through my family owns his own company and wrote me a letter that I can just give him when I've got my degree and he will hire me.

[Virex]

From what I hear, the petroleum industry need more engineers of all kinds. The pay is good, or so I hear.

Well, there are companies from all over the range of chemical subjects in need of engineers, so my first priority is getting into something I like and then look for what pays the best.

[Tofu]

From what I hear, the petroleum industry need more engineers of all kinds. The pay is good, or so I hear.

Move to Norway, they'll give you more money than you can shake a stick at...I think (?)

Anyhoo, to contribute to this thread:
I'm still in school, just general education for the moment, and I'm just in the first of three years.
Though I'm taking this education, it's mostly for the novelty. If  I don't I won't get into universities and the like, even though I have no use for most of the subjects here, and learn mostly nothing new. Only subject  I think I really need is math.

I'm trying to train myself up to be a concept artist, for games, movies, and other things. Probably an illustrator for various other things too. I'm doing pretty good for the moment, although I don't get much practice due to general mental fatigue....yeah, insomnia and depression is a bitch.