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PART 2 - What do you do for a living?

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im englesh teecher and educater at locle grade shule. aal my studunts luv me.
Just kidding, I'm a general contrator and a bad speller.
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Thanks,
JR
 
It beats me why you still insist on an insurance-based healthcare system.

You get soaring costs, doctors earn less every year. Patients pay more all the time, and now they can't even get an obstetrician cause he's too afraid of being sued. Only insurance companies benefit from that.

What worries me is that they are beginning to dismantle our functioning health systems in Europe to appease the insurance companies, and make a copy of what you have.
chris said:
Jettubby said:
Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. I'm in that hell right now
@ AAA. Sucks don't it? I should have become a doctor.
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I am a physician-OBGYN. This is the only profession that insurance
company cut reimbursments to docs each year (yes each year I make
less), my malpractice company left town and dropped all its clients
(too many suits), a new company wants (300,000K per year-yes US$),
I am on call 24/7 (no partner)-no one wants to move to the State
(FL), because of the malpractice crisis and cost of insurance.
I love, my profession, but it is no longer fun to practice.

Photography helps me unwind and relax- I have an E1 and 300D that I
use for various things. I also take pics of my patients (with their
permission), and give them the pics and email them especially the
newborns so they can email them to family-they seem to enjoy it.
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RLH said:
Stay away from the airlines.

The responsibility, skill and years of training and experience that
go into being able to qualify for those jobs and then have to deal
with a 30 - 50% pay cuts while management walks away with millions
in their pockets, loose your house, car, ect.... just so the
general public can fly across the country for $39.00...... isn't
worth it.

That's what today's airline pilot is dealing with.

Enjoy your flight.
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That pilots in the US are very mistreated. I am so sorry to hear about that.
But, believe me. That is not the case in our national flag carrier.
Jettubby said:
One of the worst places to be a pilot these days is in the US. It
all stems back to deregulation but during the big economic boost of
the 90's, airlines hired at a record rate in this country so
everyone wanted to become a professional pilot. Most didn't realise
that it was much like becoming a doctor; many years of no pay just
to reach that final goal of making it to a major airline where the
big bucks were. So in 2001 not only were there a large amount of
trained pilots but the events of 9/11, greedy managements, and the
lowering economy forced a layoff of nearly 10,000 airline pilots.
Most like myself had been flying more than 15years and since there
were no jobs, what else are we to do? Flying airplanes certainly
doesn't qualify you to do anything else. Like many companies in a
recession, employees are the first to be affected because
management can easily cut costs by laying off, cutting salaries,
and cutting retirement and benefits. As you read in the news last
year Delta and American management personel were receiving million
dollar bonuses while they were cutting the pay of flight attendants
making $18K a year. Pretty sick. The CEOs of most airlines are no
better than the CEOs of Enron but the government won't go after
those guys in fear of bad airline publicity and further hurting of
the economy. Anyway....

You are exactly right. Most countries don't treat their pilots as
shamefull as they do here in the US. At least in some places there
is still just a little bit of respect for those that have spent
their lives flying hundreds of people around at a time at 500 miles
and hour and in all sorts of weather where the penalty for a
mistake is death. Worst thing that can happen working in an office
is that you trip over your chair. Now please don't get me wrong,
pilots are not super humans. We are just people that master a
trade. The difference is that we are held to such high standards
that with each day you go to work you risk not only your life but
your profession. If you have a bad day and fail a checkride that
happens every 6 months or have even the slightest medical problem
you could lose your career. If your credit gets bad, you get in
trouble with the law in any way, you get more than 3 automobile
speeding tickets in a lifetime, if you are human and make one
little mistake in flying or in your personal life, you get canned
and you may never fly again. Certainly if you ever get fired or any
of the above happens no airline will EVER touch you. Essentially
you have to be a perfect person. It sounds ridiculous but it's
true. All that with 20 years of flying and thousands of hours and
you are offered a job paying $18K a year. Mine as well work at
McDonalds. I know a space shuttle commander who was laid of at
American Airlines and can't find a flying job. He's only been
offered flying jobs between $18K and $30K. It's a pretty sick
business all the while airline managements fill their pockets with
6 & 7 figure bonuses. I absolutely LOVE flying airplanes but doing
it for a living is a whole other world. That love of flying is the
only reason that keeps pilots in cockpits, otherwise we'd have to
be crazy to go through all that. And that is why flying is the
safest transportation in the history of man. God bless to all in
these trying times. :-)
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Ephsns611 said:
Continued from the previous thread which has now hit 150...

I'm enjoying the thread and responses. It's interesting to see
peoples backgrounds and where they might be "coming" from with
perspective.

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ie the Photoshop Guy

ieRetoucher

10 yrs in the biz. started on photoshop 2.0, no layers!!

also used barco creator and Live Picture

jim
 
Where did you find all those nifty girls?
That One Guy with the nifty camera said:
Ephsns611 said:
Continued from the previous thread which has now hit 150...

I'm enjoying the thread and responses. It's interesting to see
peoples backgrounds and where they might be "coming" from with
perspective.

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PJ
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Check out my nifty website....

http://www.onemodelplace.com/photographer_list.cfm?P_ID=6108
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I am a newbie in photographing. Some of my not-so-great shots are here:
http://www.pbase.com/kaihui
 
Doing photography all day, surronded by beautiful scantly clad women.
You must have a very tough life.

You're the envy of this forum ;-)

In any case, excellent pictures. Did you do any of those with the 300D?
That One Guy with the nifty camera said:
Ephsns611 said:
Continued from the previous thread which has now hit 150...

I'm enjoying the thread and responses. It's interesting to see
peoples backgrounds and where they might be "coming" from with
perspective.

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PJ
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Check out my nifty website....

http://www.onemodelplace.com/photographer_list.cfm?P_ID=6108
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http://www.malaquias.net/en/joseluis/
 
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