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would it be an acceptable use of this forum to provide assistance with things we specialize in at work? ie...if there are plumbers on here and I have a question, i could look through, find a plumber and ask questions? Does this already exist? anyone opposed to this?

Might be useful....

....and no, I'm not setting you up to sell you anything!

Lumberjim

ok, i see people reading, but no replies. I'll go 1st

CAR BUSINESS ............. LUMBERJIM

I am a finance manager at a Jeep dealer in SE Pa....I can help with advice about interest rates, warranties, and general car buying tips.


how bout you?

Everybody knows me already: I do web stuff. Of every kind.

I commit people.

Damn...here, I was hoping to avail myself of Wolf's services, and then she reminds me that she does what my wife used to do...

I have been the office manager of roofing companies for 13 years. My skillset includes most areas of commercial roofing, and extensive experience with virtually every aspect of Federal, local and state regulation of construction and all that entails, right down to specing office technology and human resources and everything in-between.

Someone, for the love of the Gods, please give me a job...

I sit up all night reading the cellar and eating fatty food.

I wish the internet had been around 40 years ago when I knew everything.;)

I am an EMT - so if you have some sort of life threatening emergency, you could post the situation and I could get back to you within a week or 2. :D

I know very little about many many things, so if you want just enough info to get in over your head...

I'm a technical support drone, with an extensive working knowledge of Medical Assistance, HIPAA, and the ability to spell 'w'.

Oh, and people think I'm a bitch because I make them do their jobs themselves.

Dagney

I'm a nosey newspaper reporter, so be careful about what you post. Affairs with married women and advice on cheating the IRS might **somehow** land you on the front page of my very, very yellow newspaper.

Of course, if any of you pick up on interesting business news in the Philly or Bucks County areas, keep me posted. A few good story ideas have come from the cellar already - I'd like to keep that trend up.

I'm a wage slave at a very large corporation. I do software. If you need help with Perl/ksh/bash, I can probably help you. If you need help with C/C++/Java, I haven't done that in so freaking long that I might be able to help you, but I'll probably need to consult a book or a co-worker. If you need help with Visual Basic, I can help you, but you probably need to help yourself too.

I'm pretty good at basically everything to do with computers, but I really really *really* probably don't want to help you. Why? Because everyone asks me for help, and after doing the same thing for seven or eight years, one can get quite tired of it. Well, I'm real tired of diagnosing DUN issues on Windows 95B, so please... ask SteveDallas instead.

that's the spirit

I'm an odd jobs software man for a largish entity. If you need help with Java, Perl, PHP, any variety of HTML, Javascript, XML, XSLT, SQL or InstallShield, I may be able to help. I also have a lot of experience with software interface desgin, and graphics. Additionally, I've done a fair share of technical writing. Oh, and I've developed websites for the blind.

I worked as a PC repair guy for years, and I still hobby around with that stuff occasionally, so I may be able to help with computer hardware/software woes. I spent a while as a manager of group of support technicians, so if you're a supervisor having a problem with one of your underlings, my advice may not be totally worthless to you, but your milage may vary.

I have spotty knowledge on automobile repair, mostly confined to things I have had to learn to repair on my own over the years. This is also true of around-the-home repairs. Again, your milage may vary.

I've been doing ametuer (digital) photography for awhile, as well as photo retouching and modification, with surprising success. I've also done some heavy photo restoration.

Oh, I also shit rose petals.

The hell you say... what did I ever do to you?? :angel:

I'm a jack of all IT trades, master of none at a miniscule institution of higher education. I've done a little bit of everything, but I'm strongest in networking and systems administration. Although I'm candidly forced to admit that my administrative duties are causing my once-impressive technical skills to atrophy.

I'm an "Extreme Geek". If you ever need to know anything about something you will never need to know anything about, I'm your man. Or you can ask wolf. She's like 3 points geekier than me.

I am a scale tech , i work on truck, rail , and process scales , coin counters in casinos ( you don't get to see them , but they are behind the scenes ) In-motion truck , box , and rail scales ( i can weigh a truck at 80 mph , a loco at 3-5 mph and a box at 360fps). Hell if it wieghs i can generly work on it . I work for one of the Larger scale distrubiters for MANY brands of scales , Mechanacal Hydrolic and electronic . I am a jack of Many trades Master of a few . I am a guy that you can drop a box of parts on his desk and i can sort thru them and make all kinds of stuff .

That right there sounds like a fun job. :)

El sicómoro has a bachelors degree in psychology, management skills (3 years of that shit), could be a customer service consultant (over a decade in the field)...in general, just a think-outside-the-box kinda guy. In addition, he can provide fine insults, smart-ass quips and bizarre humor upon request or provocation.

It can be , I have gotten to mess with all kinds of wierd stuff , AEI equip , spread spectrum wireless modems , bar codes , PLCs , etc...
Then again it can suck HORRIBLY !!! like working to fix a rail scale after a de-railment in the snow rain and mud , or trying to figuer out why a casinos count is off just for one type of coin (some times i get comp meals in the steak and lobster tail restraunts in the casinos ) , or the all time worst going to a renedring plant ( for you folks that don't know what that is where the critters that are to sick to be slautered and all the parts of said critters gets cooked down to raw proten and bone meal ) . But hell some body HAS to do it and it HAS to be done correctly .

Oh you were serious... so was I. :) I've got book learnin' in electronics, history, education, and a Special Ed degree in the pipeline... but if you ever need to talk timber framing/ construction or bicycle maintenance [monty]man[/python], I'm your guy. peace out

Oh, and I know my music...name the mood, I've got the music for ya.

I used to work in social services, but I don't want to go into it again, as much as I admire people who do. I recently had a short (1 1/2 yr) stint as an IT technician. Now I'm trying to get a start in graphics (getting my 2 yr degree in December).

I do web design, but I still have a lot to learn there. I want to go into video and motion graphics. After I showed my video projects recently (especially "Malaika"), I had people tell me I should try making family slideshows for people.

But, what I want to know is, is there a plumber around here? Because I really need one. :D

I program in COBOL (seriously).

I also know VB (more VBA), but I get paid for mostly COBOL.

hi! i'm new....i am presently a stay at home mom, but i was in the navy and i ran a couple of pizza joints...ever have any questions related to those three things and i might could help you. incidently, i am musically addicted and there is a green tinge to my thumb...in the right light at least :D

...where do I start?


I do all sorts of things. .I've worked on : optical systems, circuits (both A & D), controls, software development (varying from tax assessor's software to business systems to embedded systems to HMI to web stuff ), DBA stuff (Oracle. SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL), writing technical documents, and data analysis.

My workload now is mostly software, some HMI, some controls, and pre 802.11 ISM wireless ....but I'm moving ever so slowly back to engineering.

(Programming Laguages: Basic , Assembly (6502, Z80,68XXX,X86), Pascal, FORTH, Fortran, C/C++, PHP, Python )

I'm a computer programmer. Java at the moment, but C in the past. I don't do VB, I don't do .NET. And I don't do COBOL (but for different reasons), so Rich's job is safe from me.

computer programmer, how much do u make?

Heh... my mom passed me a system administration job opening at a local college (local to her that is) half-jokingly suggesting I could get the job and relocate where she could see the grandkids more often. She was a little taken aback when I told her I wasn't qualified because they were insisting on lots of experience with Exchange and other M$ products that I've never had the pleasure of using.

bmgb, I just watched "Malaika". It was obvious from your DoDads post, you have a great deal of respect and admiration for this woman. However in "Malaika" the love just flows. It is a fantastic piece, you should be very proud of.:beer:

This thread was the SDRTP pick of the day. I thought it was a good idea, but it doesn't seem like it went anywhere.

I've spent the last 10 years or so as an engineer in the field of renewable energy - working primary in biomass heat and power.

I've spent the past 5 years in art. That's a useful one, right? Because there's a real shortage of people with opinions.

HLJ, did you read Michael Yon's dispatch on biogas digesters in Nepal? I thought they were interesting and exciting, but aside from farting a lot, I have no sense of the reality of things: Gobar Gas, unabridged

Thanks gvidas, I hadn't read that but I just started it.

I've worked a little with anaerobic digesters at a hog farm here in Colorado, and did some investigation of AD on dairy farms, so I know just a little about the technology.

It's interesting that you brought that up because I was just discussing AD with some people from the Department of Homeland Security this afternoon.

I have that Michael Yon article open in another tab and keep thinking it would be better called Goober Gas.

Are you kidding? Maybe not in this thread (but it'd be sorta confusing with all people posting requests for diffferent types of advice and all the answers in the same thread), but I've seen the experts here helping people in the other threads with all sorts of questions -especially Jim with the car buying stuff.

I'm an expert in finding ways round things and scheduling. And a bit knowledgeable about non-profits and the politics involved. (ugh)

I like this thread. I'm in Healthcare IT. Kind of an oddly specific skill set. Oh, I play drums too.

I run a beer and wine store in a hotel here in town. <-It pays the rent.

I am a certified Esthetican with 20 years experience (facials, pedicures, manicures, body wraps, waxing, electrolosis, lash/brow dyes, make up artistry)
I also do crystal healing, rune readings etc... <-hard to break into this field in this town, seems there is a salon on every corner.

My husband and I are just starting a web store for lingerie and adult toys, costumes and club wear. We do home parties as well. <- this is what we want to be doing!

pics!

Special education assistant,dorm counselor, H.T.T, American sign language translator,deaf/blind asl translator and sometimes computer lab and school library assistant and sometime retail worker to get through the summers when needed.

Now I am unemployed and retraining in computer software applications because those above services just keep getting,cut-cut cut and possibly the ones I am training for now.
*shrug*

My flecking bleeding heart got me here.

I am up to my eyebrows in cuts. :mad:

Photonics/optics engineer, specializing in free space optical comms at the moment.

Frickin' lazer beams.

PHP programming, Linux sysadmin, internet marketing consultant.

I love this thread. So great to see such a variety of things people do.

I'm a perpetual college student, myself, gone back after working for ten years. I've done market research(phones, person to person, business to business, focus groups, etc), quality assurance for cable TV (i got paid to watch TV, no kidding), worked in a government mail room during the anthrax scares, worked in a data mine, done data processing, been a medical assistant, security guard, and I love to cook. I volunteer with a local animal shelter, so know a little bit about animal health and handling. I can run a LAMP server, program a bit, build a computer, and raise insect larvae for fun. The Bobs say hi. (All my larvae are named Bob. They like to eat carrots. And each other.)

I also like long walks on the beaches, world peace, and kitty cats.

How deep was the data mine?

frighteningly deep. definitely no windows, secure facility, the works. every day we went down to the mines and came out, a grimy coat of data dust from head to toe. a lot of people got sick from Data Lung - all those loose bytes and no PPE to speak of. You just breathed it in and got sicker and sicker. Horrible place.

Translator from Russian to English. I'm also fast becoming an expert on Letters of Credit and Export documentation.
And I play a variety of instruments and am interested in a broad range of musical styles.