Nothing.And I really, really like it that way.
The only thing I wish is that I'd listened when people gave me good advice on saving towards getting a better pension.
And a chapter which is not relevant to this thread lead to me living in India... a ten-year niche... and counting.
web developer
Question: do you prefer working in Javascript or PHP?
I have the opportunity to sort of find employment with an advertising agency that works on WordPress with PHP+SQL and I am going to cram the PHP basics to at least show my potential. I started with HTML+CSS and I blog on WordPress so I can give it a try.
There is long-term potential to grow with the company as an developer and/or designer.
Calculus Teacher/ Cross Country Coach
Lots of Cs now that I think about it.
Violin Luthier, specializing in bow repair and restoration. This time next year, a full fledged bowmaker.
The side wall of my violin under the chinrest has warped and pulled away from the top, I guess due to heat and moisture. Fixable?Sounds like the chinrest was on too tight. It will likely be an involved repair (not cheap, and not easy), so take it to a qualified luthier, preferably a violin maker. If you can post a picture I can give you more information, probably.
I mesmerize unwitting Head-Fier's with IQs less than 90 to create an army of sycophants that subscribe to my biased views on audio.
I'm a resident physician at a university hospital working my ass off (officially 80 hours, but unofficially 100+ hours a week) in the department of internal medicine, currently hemato-oncology. Apparently labor laws are very leniently enforced when each doctor has to look after around 30-40 "life-or-death" patients admitted in the ward. Doesn't have much time for high-end audio stuff right now as I only get one day off per week, but hoping this career pays off someday. Surprisingly, a lot of colleague and senior doctors are into hifi audio hobby.
I mesmerize unwitting Head-Fier's with IQs less than 90 to create an army of sycophants that subscribe to my biased views on audio.
Awesome to see fellow pirates in the health field! Third year medical student here. Yes, hope this career pays off too, so I can maybe afford some nice toys one day.
Please Master, tell me what to think. p:3
Wow. What made you settle in India? Not that India is bad, just curious.
Private equity investor in India; previously portfolio manager/investment banker on Wall StreetThat's why he has more headphones than I do . Wish I had some knack/skill with cash/economy/finance, but my only interest in money is spending it.
Violin Luthier, specializing in bow repair and restoration. This time next year, a full fledged bowmaker.
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itsJokko, don't believe Thad. Its the colonial thing with him. :)p13
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Pass me that HD800. Boy.
No effing way....I am a US citizen :))
Former molecular biologist, then information security consultant, and now in house-attorney.
All this by age 12! :-00
No effing way dude
I earn my living playing shit tennis with Kothganesh. It is not very interesting and it doesn't pay well. This weekend we are going to play Schiit tennis instead. Things are looking up.
:)p7
I'm an electrician... It's a four year trade in Canada, and I got into it shortly after high school in 2001. Started doing industrial electrical work up in northern Alberta in 2007, and I've been working in Oil/Gas since then. Most jobs are fly in/fly out on different shifts (1 week in/1 week out, 2 weeks in/1 week out, etc).
The Oil and Gas industry in Canada was kind of driving our economy, and it's quite cyclic. In 2007, I was on a $6b project that was the largest in the world for a while... Then a couple years of slowdown, and recovery. Back at $40 something oil now, but things are still progressing.
Our plant uses SAGD to recover the oil from the oil sands near Fort McMurray. Basically, two wells are drilled at a time, separated vertically from each other by a couple of meters. One is injected with steam, the other has a pump where the oil flows into. No solvents or "fracking" fluids are used, so it's essentially a clean operation. The steam generators use natural gas as fuel, and the larger sites also produce electricity from their steam generators (they cogenerate power for use at the site, and also to go back onto the grid).
As for energy prices in Canada, natural gas is quite cheap, as is electricity. The cost of recovering the oil from the ground varies depending on the methods used. Our oil is considered on the "thermal" side, as opposed to "light oil" found in southern Alberta, where traditional pump jack style wells are used. The difference being that thermal oil is heavier/thicker, referred to as bitumen. The thermal recovery cost is around $30-$40/barrel, whereas the lighter stuff costs a bit less.
Our plant basically uses a lot of electric motors, instrumentation and controls, and pipes/tanks. Nothing too crazy, but it's cool working on all the different electrical technology. We have a substation, which takes high voltage off the distribution grid, and we distribute 25kV, 5kV and 600V for our plant loads. I find that industrial work is where it's at for myself... I also worked construction on high rises in Vancouver, but the pay is a lot better in Oil and Gas.
Personally, I grew up on the west coast, and have an appreciation for nature and our environment. Most of the people in our industry seem to be fairly out of touch with the environment in my opinion. Our industry could be regulated much better, and held to higher standards to prevent spills. As an example, there have been two fairly major spills in Alberta in the last month or so. The thing about oil being on the ground is that it's extremely nasty shit...
Anyway, we'll see what happens in the next while. Should be interesting times!
I sell my body to the unclean.
Tennis and Schiit; will the balls be solid state or tubed?
Why do all the Canadians have the awesome jobs?
The coolest Canadian job is killing wolves for the oil companies like Master Liam did.
The Oil and Gas industry in Canada was kind of driving our economy, and it's quite cyclic. In 2007, I was on a $6b project that was the largest in the world for a while... Then a couple years of slowdown, and recovery. Back at $40 something oil now, but things are still progressing.
Former Jesuit.
My father before he married trained to become a priest. "Devoted" priests, especially Jesuits deserve a lot of respect for the work they are willing to do. Many historical academics and scientists either have been or have had a relation with Jesuit priests in their career.
Respect, that decision holds many consequences.
Our plant uses SAGD to recover the oil from the oil sands near Fort McMurray.
Recording Director of a well-known conservatory of music.
Adjunct faculty teaching a course in digital audio.
The last few years, I was in charge of equipment, facilities, training etc. for a division within said conservatory that dealt with audio and video primarily.
Little bit of freelance video editing work on the side but that was dull stuff to pay the bills - new position means I don't have to break my back trying to get cash. Looking forward to NOT doing that unless I want to.
Please keep your back whole. As the skinny guy in hospitality and catering I could lift many heavy things because I did not give a fuck until a light soda crate got out of balance. Physical and mental health are your first assets to survival in the civilised and uncivilised world.
After a few near serious injuries I stopped chasing my limits. I am happy to still be able to recover.
After a few near serious injuries I stopped chasing my limits. I am happy to still be able to recover.
The cruel irony of the injuries though is that I did the most damage to them while building a dance floor.
I'm a doctoral student in philosophy.
Ehhh I work in marketing & PR. Basically, I'm pretty good at taking a public lashing and working with Facebook and stuff......I think that was even part of my job description at one point...... p;)
May Kotler be with you...
Who doesn't love Phil Kotler :-)
Saw them all last week. I got called out four times between 10pm and 2am last shift. Took a few pics of my own but they are incredibly hard to capture with an iPhone. Here is mine for comparison lol
http://imgur.com/b1JQoEY
http://imgur.com/DDhblnw
I'm a blast effects engineer. I perform forensic investigations of explosions and calculate blast loads for design purposes.
Profession headphone geek. headbang
no.. really dude.. what do you do for a living?
hope you are feeling better by the way Tyll. heard something about you being sick recently.
Physics PhD graduate student specializing in quantum computing.
Also a substitute teacher for high school math and sciences.
After 4pm, a private tutor for physics, math and chemistry grades 9-12 and first and second year undergraduates.
On weekends, teach ESL for immigrant newcomer adults in the government ESLA program.
- Ph.D. in molecular biology
- Worked my way to Big Pharma doing diagnostics
- Hated, hated, hated, hated the environment, the ethos, the management.
- Became a HS Science teacher teaching physics to normal students (Texas mandates all students must take physics)
- No teacher wiling to teach AP Physics C, so I did even though no background. Relearning basic calculus while teaching E&M was ... interesting
- Embracing the AP ethos of open and welcoming classroom to all students willing to learn.
- Growing the AP Physics program: AP Physics C has tripled enrollment from 6 to 24 students in 3 years (Awesome kids, top of their class), AP Physics 2 went from 1 student to 26 in 3 years (Awesome kids, not top of their class), AP Physics 1 went from 120 to 200 in 1 year (wide range, from top of their class to first timers in an honor/AP class).
- Open tutorial hours from 6:30 am to first bell and then last bell to 4:45 pm. Work on stuff until about 6:30 before leaving school.
- Ph.D. in molecular biology
- Worked my way to Big Pharma doing diagnostics
- Hated, hated, hated, hated the environment, the ethos, the management.
- Became a HS Science teacher teaching physics to normal students (Texas mandates all students must take physics)
- No teacher wiling to teach AP Physics C, so I did even though no background. Relearning basic calculus while teaching E&M was ... interesting
- Embracing the AP ethos of open and welcoming classroom to all students willing to learn.
- Growing the AP Physics program: AP Physics C has tripled enrollment from 6 to 24 students in 3 years (Awesome kids, top of their class), AP Physics 2 went from 1 student to 26 in 3 years (Awesome kids, not top of their class), AP Physics 1 went from 120 to 200 in 1 year (wide range, from top of their class to first timers in an honor/AP class).
- Open tutorial hours from 6:30 am to first bell and then last bell to 4:45 pm. Work on stuff until about 6:30 before leaving school.
I was sure that the fifth bullet point was going to be "Purchased an RV and started a mobile meth lab with one of my former students." But then I looked again and saw "teaching physics" :)p8:)p13 I actually suck at chemistry. Do well on tests, but no idea what's going on. I think I was just good enough at the math for Chem101 to fly through without truly understanding the concepts. The chemistry for "Breaking Bad" is obviously dead simple considering the number of meth lab busts that occur everywhere.
- Ph.D. in molecular biology
- Became a HS Science teacher
- Relearning basic calculus
- AP Physics C has tripled enrollment from 6 to 24 students in 3 years
All those creds and yet you got the math wrongI TOTALLY meant 300% increase. Totally.
But seriously, great work there. I run a non-profit children's education centre on the weekends. Being a teacher is one of the most thankless jobs out there. I am grateful for all my staff who volunteer their time to help wrangle the 180 or so kids we get every year.
- Ph.D. in molecular biology
- Worked my way to Big Pharma doing diagnostics
- Hated, hated, hated, hated the environment, the ethos, the management.
- Became a HS Science teacher teaching physics to normal students (Texas mandates all students must take physics)
- No teacher wiling to teach AP Physics C, so I did even though no background. Relearning basic calculus while teaching E&M was ... interesting
- Embracing the AP ethos of open and welcoming classroom to all students willing to learn.
- Growing the AP Physics program: AP Physics C has tripled enrollment from 6 to 24 students in 3 years (Awesome kids, top of their class), AP Physics 2 went from 1 student to 26 in 3 years (Awesome kids, not top of their class), AP Physics 1 went from 120 to 200 in 1 year (wide range, from top of their class to first timers in an honor/AP class).
- Open tutorial hours from 6:30 am to first bell and then last bell to 4:45 pm. Work on stuff until about 6:30 before leaving school.
I went to high school in Texas in the 90s and physics wasn't required. When did they start requiring physics for everyone?2010. Texas decided to raise standards so they implemented "4x4": 4 years of math, science, English, and social studies (core classes). Physics became required and not just "Integrated Physics and Chemistry". If you opt-out of taking physics, you graduated on a minimum graduation plan, making you ineligible to directly attend a 4-year institution. You have to attend community or junior college first, then transfer to a 4-year institution.
2010. Texas decided to raise standards so they implemented "4x4": 4 years of math, science, English, and social studies (core classes). Physics became required and not just "Integrated Physics and Chemistry". If you opt-out of taking physics, you graduated on a minimum graduation plan, making you ineligible to directly attend a 4-year institution. You have to attend community or junior college first, then transfer to a 4-year institution.
What places Physics above Chemistry, Biology, Programming, etc?
What places Physics above Chemistry, Biology, Programming, etc?Many countries do teach physics as the first science in secondary education. Some countries actually teach physics. Others are more like physical science, which is an on-level 8th grade class here in Texas. Many students are not mathematically ready to take physics as freshman, which is why physics is on-level for 11th grade in my school district. Is the issue on the education side or on the mental development side? Many people have opinions. I honestly think both. Abstract thinking in terms of variables and unknowns appears to be very hard for many students.
Many countries do teach physics as the first science in secondary education. Some countries actually teach physics. Others are more like physical science, which is an on-level 8th grade class here in Texas. Many students are not mathematically ready to take physics as freshman, which is why physics is on-level for 11th grade in my school district. Is the issue on the education side or on the mental development side? Many people have opinions. I honestly think both. Abstract thinking in terms of variables and unknowns appears to be very hard for many students.
Many countries do teach physics as the first science in secondary education. Some countries actually teach physics. Others are more like physical science, which is an on-level 8th grade class here in Texas. Many students are not mathematically ready to take physics as freshman, which is why physics is on-level for 11th grade in my school district. Is the issue on the education side or on the mental development side? Many people have opinions. I honestly think both. Abstract thinking in terms of variables and unknowns appears to be very hard for many students.
In the US high school physics usually means mechanics starting with Newton's laws, which requires an absolute grasp of algebra and eventually some calculus, so saying that other countries start with physics as freshman (13-14 years old) is extremely advanced compared to US standards. IS that what you mean?Even when I was in high school, there were 2 levels of AP Physics: Algebra-based (physics and AP Physics B) and Calculus-based (AP Physics C). In my high school in the 1980's, my physics teacher flavored his lessons with calculus, but it was still mainly algebra. I was not in AP Physics, just regular physics. Physics was pretty much an honors class as only honor students took it back then. I actually can't remember if he taught AP Physics C or just AP Physics B as a second year course.
Caveat: the above description was my experience many years ago in high school.
edit: just saw that you're the physics teacher. I see the AP curriculum has changed, just curious what countries teach their freshman physics which I assume require a grasp of algebra and calculus?
From the POV of school curriculum, mastering algebra 1 is the key to teaching real physics. Countries that teach algebra 1 earlier also teach physics earlier. In Texas, there are mumblings of pushing algebraic concepts down to 6th & 7th grades and making Algebra 1 on-level for 8th grade instead of 9th grade. I think this would be a good thing, but there will be pain and a certain percentage of students are going to be classified as not-on-level (yay for PC terms!).
One thing that really helps is to make the abstract more tangible and/or visual. That made me pay attention and learn again.At least with motion and forces, its easy to link an abstract variable to something concrete. I make them see variables as numbers, in graphs, walking it, throwing it, graphs of them walking it, graphs/numbers of them throwing it, graphs/numbers of them pushing it, etc. Labs are very important in my classes, but "lead a horse to water..." Making kids actually think and link what they are doing to the numbers and the graphs and variables is not easy for some students. Getting that last 10-15% to buy-in is very tough. I tell them why we are doing this lab and specifically make it a point to say they are to link what they see with the concepts and math that we are working on. It doesn't get more tangible than seeing displacement and velocity change in real-time as you move around a sensor.
Xen were those foreign students average status quo or advanced ahead of their class versions? As we get super ambitious types from the immigrant pool the actual populace of China is not nearly as impressive as the immigrants who make it here.(based on my personal experience of course but it should be common sense that not everyone in China is math enhanced)Due to language, even with physics, the Chinese students do struggle. Also their physics is on par with the way I taught normal physics. I expect most of the Chinese students are coming from better socioeconomic status than the average. They are not all geniuses, but they are generally above average. The students from Egypt and Saudi Arabia seemed like normal students in capacity, above average due to maturity and work ethic. The Egyptian had an easier time since he had real physics (wanted to stay in the class). The Saudis had trouble with the math since they had some of the concepts from physical science and very little of the math.
Btw thanks for the breakdown, i do find it interesting because my impression is that most HS students don't even get to physics before graduation.
- AP Physics C (calculus-based, on-level 12th, for all student who have completed a physics) - Kinematics, Dynamics, momentum, energy, rotational mechanics, electrostatics, electricity, capacitance, electromagnetism, magnetic induction, LR/LRC/RC/R circuits
I took that test in '98 and goddamn if it wasn't the most difficult and humbling exam I've ever had to endure. I had aced the underlying course at my prep school (which was taught by a Caltech prof), but I was so frustrated with the actual AP, compared to the half dozen other AP's I had knocked out with relative ease, that I only answered half of it, snapped my pencil in half, threw it off the front wall, handed in my test 90 minutes early and stormed out. Figured it was the one AP I had bombed. Instead, when the results came in, I got a 4 out of 5 (3 was passing at the time). Can't imagine how badly most students must have fared that year if I got a 4. Whoever wrote that test, particularly the E&M section, deserves a sharp stick in the eye.
Did you go to Polytechnic School?
My situation was (luckily) better. My AP teacher had no idea how to teach Physics C, and had no way of teaching Calculus-based Physics (the only way to teach Physics, if you ask me), so I had to study on my own. I came out of the test thinking I'd be luckily if I got a 3, but ended up with 5s on both sections. (I think that counts as a humblebrag, whoops)