The Glade 4.0

I design switchable drugs- drugs that are able to turn on/off in response to specific intracellular stimuli so that they only target specific tissues.

Most of our drugs are anti-cancer/cancer preventive drugs, but I also am working on a side project that is developing influenza antiviral drugs & polymeric delivery systems for them.

An offshoot of the work is that we're also working to develop biosensors that can be used in the early detection of cancer through red-infrared fluorescent molecules. They'll probably be more useful for biologists probing tumor microenvironments, but there is potential to use them as a regular screening system in humans down the road.

I also teach/TA classes, and I have a few that I'm sitting in on as well, although all of the required coursework for my PhD is done.

I spend a huge chunk of my day keeping up with current literature, another part of it training the undergraduates that are working with me, and the rest either growing cells, making drugs, or testing the drugs/delivery systems I've made in cells.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

I point out the faults of others.

I work in software QA, currently my area is performance and capacity, but I have also done automation as well as manual testing.

Really all I do is attend meetings and plan out project schedules then I send my minions out to break things. They come back and tell me what broke and how they broke it and then I use that information to humiliate smug developers. Actually we work really well with dev since we help them to not look like idiots when their new code can't handle more than 5 concurrent users.

I have worked for small start up's and large multi-billion dollar companies, I have done consulting and had my own company. I have had teams of people across multiple cities and in multiple countries. I mostly enjoy it although less so these days since I am so removed from the actual work. I still roll up my sleeves on occasion and write a script or create DB queries or other things to help out my people. It gives me something different to do and they like to see the boss stumble around trying to figure things out - the older I get the rustier I get.

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I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil

Nine to five I work as the lead web developer (html, css, js, php, sql) at a small, niche marketing agency. Our clients are all based in elective healthcare or cosmetic dentistry fields. My day to day activities generally include a large dose of browsing, reading code or design articles, and trying to come up with new useful applications.

Every few months I teach a six week class on client branding, intermediate programming languages and content management systems.

Lead safety and airworthiness engineer for military commercial derivative aircraft at a large airplane manufacturing company by day, sometimes practice law or fix computers by night, but I'm finding I'd rather be a daddy than have three jobs.

I do "2nd Level" support for a major bank/brokerage in Canada. When the helpdesk monkeys can't fix it, they send it to me.

Usually, this means I never leave my desk. Currently, however, I am onsite for the week at a retail brokerage brange in the interior of British Columbia, in the Thompson valley, investigating bizarre crashing across the entire branch. (I seem to be the "go-to" person for when they want someone to travel.) Next week, I have an interview for an actual supervisory position.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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IT support for a mid-size civil engineering company in the process of being acquired by a larger entity. Scarily, Arathain could be a co-worker ... But in general, that's the type of folks I support. Actual definition of what I do is up in the air right now - I imagine I'll be moving over to more server and/or escalated support, which is what I'm technically supposed to be doing.

In a previous life, I was a university professor (political science, international relations, that kind of thing). Counting a job I had before grad school, this IT-thing is pretty much my third career.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Out of the jobs I've had, that was my favorite.

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I'm a field technician specializing in networking and telecommunications for a public utility. I cover south and western central Ohio.

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

I boss people around and check their process'.
I review tones of scientific data written by people with higher paper qualifications than me, and questions them as I see fit, or ask for more data.
I submit for new products coming onto the market and get to play with all the marketing gadgets and new toys.
I let people know their products are going to get recalled before any of the Competent Authority does.
I'm also the wielder of a big red pen, who stops marketing from saying stupid things on tv, radio or paper media.

I source large lists of MRO products for large customers/potential customers. Also, I manage a sub-process that involves combing existing customer databases in preparation for conversion to a different software platform.

I push the power levers forward until the engine(s) reach takeoff power, then I go *whooosh* through the air anywhere from 10mins to about 2 hours. Then I pull the power levers back until the plane reaches the ground...not quite a crash but not quite flying either. Then I either A) throw boxes out the back cargo door, B) load people in the passenger door, or C) throw passengers out the back cargo door. Rinse and repeat about 7-10 times a day

I have some videos in my desktop back home that I can share if anyone is interested. They have a bit more interest and depth.

Attend class for roughly four hours a day, then go home and study and/or game.

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

Read and answer emails
Attend meetings
Chat (work related)
Chat (not work related)
other arbitrary technical stuff
other arbitrary non-work related stuff

I'm a GS-301 Emergency Management Specialist specifically working in Knowledge Management on the Situation Awareness team in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevetion Emergency Operations Center.

Midgen's list (above) is pretty close, except for leaving out being responsible for building status update presentations for the CDC Director and handling the flurry of last minute frantic inputs from others that have already missed at least three other input deadlines.

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Gorse

I teach 105 12-year-olds geography, history, and world cultures. I am the building tech coordinator as well, which means I go around to the teachers, during my prep, teaching them how to incorporate more innovative ways to use technology to teach their lessons. BLOGS, PODCASTS, GLOGS etc. I also am the resident Smartboard guru, so I am chosen to train the entire district on Smart products.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

I am a target for middle management hostilities.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I pass meds, clean up bodily functions and keep people alive till 7:45.

In other words...I'm a Nurse

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Why only 7:45? Is that breakfast time? hehe

Quitting time

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I work in finance, and that's really all I can legally say on-line without drawing the ire of several regulatory agencies and paying hefty fines.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

You guys happen to have a branch in the Greater NYC area? I'm looking for a change of scenery and a new start. Mechanical Engineer.

I work in a nuclear power plant doing modifications and installing repairs to plant equipment while maintaining the Safety Design Basis integral to our license commitment. Occasionally, I get to crawl around in small, hazardous spaces and turn wrenches and calibrate instruments. That part is more fun.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

My brother does this in NC. His book concerning it was just published.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Doc coordinator/writer/publisher for big pharma, in R&D. I also am a user admin for our document management system, so I get to do most of the training for it. (21 people trained in March, oy!). I also get to let people in the archives when a backup is needed.

I had been a supervisor and in charge of SOPs, the archives, and the doc coordination group at my prior site, but it was closed & I'm now commuting to the site in central NJ. It's been a year, and it still doesn't feel like "home".

Then they flattened our org chart and got rid of the whole supervisory level. I used to write 90% of the text in our reports, and edit it all, but that's not how they do things at the NJ site. I just set up the template, make minimal edits (like adding cross-refs), and then publish it all. I'm woefully underutilized. My only involvement in SOPs now is reading and signing that I've read them. It's depressing.

I'm just glad I still have a job, though, after 2 or 3 rounds of cuts in my dept. I'm riding it out for the moment, as I have my daughter to support and am still trying to get out from under the debt left over from the aftermath of the divorce (plus home and auto repairs).

I won't lie, though, and say I don't read a lot of news online during the day. Even after bugging people for more work, and supporting more groups' documents, I still have not enough to do in too much time.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

VP in charge of creative at a new national music video television network. Been here for two and a half years now, came on well prior to launch. I was the sole person who created all of the initial branding, promotional, video, print, web, and corporate assets. I still do all of that, plus more now.

"What I do" is very...open. Does it need doing? Chances are, I'm doing it. Creative, traffic, sales, IT, programming...I wind up having a hand in everything.

It looks like I'm going to change my focus shortly; as we've grown, more specialized opportunities have opened up, and I may be heading up a different section. We'll see.