What do you do for work?
- Thread starter Vektus
- Start date
So tell me, please, is Deadliest Catch for real, partly real, or a bunch of BS????
I can tell you from experience that most of Ice Road Truckers is a bunch of Drama cooked up by an idiot producer, and the real thing--while being a challenge--is not much like the show.
Partly true. Fishing is undeniably, very hazardous. Add in poor weather conditions, rough seas, freezing temps , etc... Not much fun.
The drama however, highly fabricated. A close friend and fellow Skipper stars on a NatGeo series and has explained the ins and outs of making good television; mostly involving artificial drama and out of context audio/video insertions.
Personally, I fish in picturesque Alaska with only one, occasionally 2 crewman. Always in sight of many other vessels and seas never greater than 2-3', though usually flat calm.
Attachments
Kinda what I thought. I do not for a second question the dangers, but what I saw of it seemed highly dramatized.
Give mustache rides to widow woman during the week and on weekends free breast examines to coeds at the local university!
Product application, product development, and business development for a specialty chemical company.
I am a mechanic. I do not know what I want to do with the rest of my life but I love what I do and I have a houses worth of tools so for now ill continue to wrench
Currently deployed JFO certified Forward Observer, however on the civilian side I am a machinist (manual and CNC) looking to go back to school for mechanical engineering after I get back from the 'stan.
I am a Construction Estimator, I get to interpret computer renderings that they try to pass off as contract documents, negotiate with subcontractors, and bang my head into the wall all in the hope of making my Boss 3% on the job.
I detail pre-engineered metal buildings. Build working drawings for the fab. workers, erection plans and material list. If anyone needs a metal building hit me up and I can get you in touch with my boss for a quote. We are a small company in central Alabama but we have contacts all over.
Ken
Ken
I manage a group of animals the zoo kicked out, bring order out of chaos and make miracles happen on a daily basis.
Proprietary security officer for a local aerospace company and part-time LE/Security for Uncle Sam.
-Railroad; track maintenance.. waiting for 'em to let me go over to conductor-->engineer
-Volunteer FF/EMT; truck captain
-Help a couple guys with farm/ranch/trucking needs on occasion.
-Buy toys
-Volunteer FF/EMT; truck captain
-Help a couple guys with farm/ranch/trucking needs on occasion.
-Buy toys
Lots of cool jobs being posted.
I work in the semiconductor industry. My company makes the memory for a lot of your gadgets.
I work in the semiconductor industry. My company makes the memory for a lot of your gadgets.
1980 to mid 1998, plumbing. Late '98, started our own company. So, since Oct 1998, as they call it in Texas, a Responsible Master Plumber. Did mostly residential at first, till the crash, and got shafted by 2 builders. Went to Commercial, mostly tenant build out, but some ground up (BMW Dealership in Midland), but mostly in D/FW area. Now, mostly repair & remodels.
Enterprise Software Automation Engineer. I mainly focus on development of cloud computing technologies and process improvement automation. Among other things...
I design, maintain, and install radio networks for the department of state at the American embassies and consulates around the world.
Prior to that I was a wire dawg in the Air Force with a tour in iraq
Sent from my Galaxy S4
Prior to that I was a wire dawg in the Air Force with a tour in iraq
Sent from my Galaxy S4
Environmental compliance for petroleum products.
Trying to get into becoming a machinist in the aerospace industry.
Charles
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Trying to get into becoming a machinist in the aerospace industry.
Charles
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
FX TD (Effects Technical Director)
It's been my post-Army career doing computer graphics for movies. I started out as a 3D generalist but these days everyone is specialized and while I was building things and animating characters for a while, I found that I had more fun making things crash, smash and blow up...virtually. In the last five years or so I've specialized even further and have spent most of the time creating realistic water, smoke and other vapor effects. It used to be a much more artistic process, but these days it's heavily driven by fluid dynamics, so guys with math and physics smarts do well.
Some more recent examples:
[video=youtube_share;-F1-sTyGvwA]http://youtu.be/-F1-sTyGvwA?t=2m3s[/video]
My buddy and I made these ashing effects in "Shutter Island."
I was the FX Lead on the opening and this ending sequence in "Speed Racer", so the inner NCO in me was managing a bunch of joe's to get this stuff done
[video=youtube_share;a-LoWGsO93I]http://youtu.be/a-LoWGsO93I[/video]
I made the big flow of water coming out of the dam, among other things, in "The Adventures of Tin Tin"
It's been my post-Army career doing computer graphics for movies. I started out as a 3D generalist but these days everyone is specialized and while I was building things and animating characters for a while, I found that I had more fun making things crash, smash and blow up...virtually. In the last five years or so I've specialized even further and have spent most of the time creating realistic water, smoke and other vapor effects. It used to be a much more artistic process, but these days it's heavily driven by fluid dynamics, so guys with math and physics smarts do well.
Some more recent examples:
[video=youtube_share;-F1-sTyGvwA]http://youtu.be/-F1-sTyGvwA?t=2m3s[/video]
My buddy and I made these ashing effects in "Shutter Island."
I was the FX Lead on the opening and this ending sequence in "Speed Racer", so the inner NCO in me was managing a bunch of joe's to get this stuff done
[video=youtube_share;a-LoWGsO93I]http://youtu.be/a-LoWGsO93I[/video]
I made the big flow of water coming out of the dam, among other things, in "The Adventures of Tin Tin"
I fix / support hospital software - particularly in Radiology - most often dealing with imaging (verses non-imaging information systems). Our company supported some of the hospitals during 9/11 as many of the NY hospitals are our customers...
Went from USMC radio operator/doorkicker=>USMC rifle marksmanship competitor=> USMC Primary Marksmanship Instructor=> Imagery Intelligence Analyst (no squint jokes please 
).
Now, based on my wonderful life experiences, I'm a R&D systems engineer that comes up with newer concepts on how to better find the bad guys and remove their annoyances from the world.
i.e. I work R&D in defense (not gubmint, just a slimey contractor). Eh, it's a living...
).Now, based on my wonderful life experiences, I'm a R&D systems engineer that comes up with newer concepts on how to better find the bad guys and remove their annoyances from the world.
i.e. I work R&D in defense (not gubmint, just a slimey contractor). Eh, it's a living...
