So, what do you do?

Some people actually have to work for a living. :rolleyes:

Hey Gary, some do work.. I spent 37 1/2 years at AT&T/Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. So it was time to do something else for a change. Oh PS: since retirement the honey do list does seem to work its way into larger items :evil:

Hey Myles, your older than dirt retire and move somewhere sunny. :hi:
 
Paul, for you, wouldn't it be "graphene". No wonder you are taking so long to put a system together, you have to pay for the new modulators to make it.Carbon fibre is so yesterday.


Haha! We do use carbon nano-tubes in plastic for static dissipation but 2D one-atom-thick structures haven't made it to a commercial level quite yet (at least for us). Funny though, the conversation I noted from The Graduate is similar to the one I had with my son a few years ago (if you substitute the word graphene for plastic). He graduated from USC in Chemical Engineering with a Concentration in Nanotechnology last May and knows more about working one atom at a time than I ever will.
 
I'm now on my third career.

I started in academics (that is if you don't consider training for the Olympics in Fencing and ass't coaching at Barnard College of Columbia University for two years a career) and was involved in cancer research both at Columbia's University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York Medical College from 83-97. My research centered around using combinations of different drugs including a newly discovered class of drugs called hypoxic cell sensitizers and ionizing radiation as well as 'exotic' types of ionizing radiation (neutrons, protons, heavy charged particles, negative pi-mesons) to treat tumors.

From 1996-2001 I published Ultimate Audio magazine (actually The Audiophile Voice was the first magazine I started). Pretty nice magazine (we were nominated for several design awards), great staff of writers and learned a lot about the publishing field. At it's peak, we were distributed in 30 countries and were publishing 20,000 copies for each quarterly issue. Not too shabby for a self financed rag. A divorce after 22 years and having to pay the bills ended that career.

Life's too short to do something we don't like doing and ended up returning to my true passion, athletics. For the last 14 years, have been working as a Personal Training Coach at Equinox Fitness Clubs that has in that time expanded from 13 clubs in the NY Metropolitan area to a world-wide chain encompassing 75 clubs (and growing) plus a secondary line named Blink as well as Soul Cycle and Pure Yoga. I work with a wide variety of clients ranging from teenage athletes to weekend warriors to people needing to lose weight to people with different kinds of issue eg. back, hip/knee replacement, shoulder, etc. Very fulfilling and and in this ever changing health care climate, important. After all, most people see their doctor once, maybe twice a year; they see their coach three times a week. Who do you think can have a bigger impact on their lives? :) And after all, went into cancer research to help people; currently, I'm helping more people than I ever imagined besides spreading the word about the importance of exercise, diet and regeneration.


Geez Myles I had no idea! Pretty cool stuff. We do have a little in common, I used a combination of different drugs when I was a kid, got my own business after that and now just try to stay in shape.

You got me on the helping people part though. Good for you Myles!
 
I'm now on my third career.

I started in academics (that is if you don't consider training for the Olympics in Fencing and ass't coaching at Barnard College of Columbia University for two years a career) and was involved in cancer research both at Columbia's University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York Medical College from 83-97. My research centered around using combinations of different drugs including a newly discovered class of drugs called hypoxic cell sensitizers and ionizing radiation as well as 'exotic' types of ionizing radiation (neutrons, protons, heavy charged particles, negative pi-mesons) to treat tumors.

From 1996-2001 I published Ultimate Audio magazine (actually The Audiophile Voice was the first magazine I started). Pretty nice magazine (we were nominated for several design awards), great staff of writers and learned a lot about the publishing field. At it's peak, we were distributed in 30 countries and were publishing 20,000 copies for each quarterly issue. Not too shabby for a self financed rag. A divorce after 22 years and having to pay the bills ended that career.

Life's too short to do something we don't like doing and ended up returning to my true passion, athletics. For the last 14 years, have been working as a Personal Training Coach at Equinox Fitness Clubs that has in that time expanded from 13 clubs in the NY Metropolitan area to a world-wide chain encompassing 75 clubs (and growing) plus a secondary line named Blink as well as Soul Cycle and Pure Yoga. I work with a wide variety of clients ranging from teenage athletes to weekend warriors to people needing to lose weight to people with different kinds of issue eg. back, hip/knee replacement, shoulder, etc. Very fulfilling and and in this ever changing health care climate, important. After all, most people see their doctor once, maybe twice a year; they see their coach three times a week. Who do you think can have a bigger impact on their lives? :) And after all, went into cancer research to help people; currently, I'm helping more people than I ever imagined besides spreading the word about the importance of exercise, diet and regeneration.
i love to train people too.its the only thing i am good at.!
 
Chemist by formal education but haven't been in the lab in 30 yrs. Found myself in the Marketing and Strategy world of the Chemicals and Industrial Gases industry. Pretty boring on some fronts, rewarding on others and it has paid the bills, raised two daughters and put them through university. Productive I would say!


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This is my 25th year as a high school English teacher. For the most part, I teach honors and AP classes, so most of my students are motivated and want to succeed. Some even complete the reading assignments! :)
 
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