This Is What I Do

[Chinorlz]

no, it's not like a management agency or gallery. i work directly with the artist (now dead) but the collection is huge and the work will most likely last a lifetime..

chinorlz, how do you manage your time as surgeon and work on collateral at the same time? it's like living a double life..

That's very cool! To be involved in the preservation and continued exposure of such an artist sounds very noble of a pursuit.

These two aspects of my life are quite intertwined. Without my medical training and my past experience in research, Collateral would not have developed and at the same time Collateral is my creative outlet/stress relief that allows me to do my best in the hospital and maintains my mindset of wanting learn ever more and think outside of the box when the opportunity arises :)

[BeauIXI]

Will begin my General Surgery residency in July likely either in Houston or in NYC. This will be the beginning of a track into plastics and reconstructive surgery likely at an academic institution which is my ultimate goal.

That means you can finally wear those jointed boots comfortably!

[endersgame]

yeah, the preservation part is serious business. temperature, humidity, lighting conditions are all considered.

i think what you have going is something i'd given up years ago. a steady day job and a creative outlet that i can nurture in my spare time. when i started working, i thought i might work for a year or two and break out on my own... it's been over 5 years and i've totally lost track of what i really wanted to do. i'm just scared to leave the comfort zone of steady paychecks, health insurance, peace of mind…

[Faust]

I wield the ban-hammer. People don't like me. It's a hazardous job.

[zamb]

I wield the ban-hammer. People don't like me. It's a hazardous job.

Oh come on...............
you do way more interesting things than that.............tell us what you do.

As for me, I live never to die.......................and everything I do is to that end.

[neonrider]

great thread.

i'm an economist. our theories and models helped break the economy. these days, i give lots of talks and lectures about how to put it back together again.

[kirkmitchell]

I'm an educational assistant working with children with special needs. I implement programming to facilitate their eventual integration back into a regular classroom.

[Faust]

great thread.

i'm an economist. our theories and models helped break the economy. these days, i give lots of talks and lectures about how to put it back together again.

I have always dreamed of having Milton Friedman on SZ, alive or in spirit!

[neonrider]

^lol. i can bring the friedman (but let's save that till we need to sort out who pays for classifieds :)

i was (pleasantly) surprised by the econ mini-thread (and eton's very nice research post) that broke out in one of the other threads recently, totally unexpected!

[Faust]

Yeah, that was cool. If we had a "This is what I used to do" thread, I'd tell you that I have a degree in finance and spent 10 years selling my soul to the devil on Wall St. But we don't, so I won't. And anyway, I'm a commie and at heart align more with the amateurs like Naomi Klein.

[MetroBulotDodo]

^lol. i can bring the friedman (but let's save that till we need to sort out who pays for classifieds :)

i was (pleasantly) surprised by the econ mini-thread (and eton's very nice research post) that broke out in one of the other threads recently, totally unexpected!

Haha. Friedman and his crew once accidentally stumbled into an exam I was administering. I can attest to this: that man had *back*. it was like Jay Z walked into my class...if Jay Z were an elderly, balding Jew.

I actually had Eton send me the Spain document he wrote because I happen to work there. I mentioned to my partner/boyfriend/whatever that I had this interesting document for him to hand out as a case study for his Macro class (he's an economist, obv.) He loved it.

More importantly, SZ use vindicated!

-MBD

[eton97]

hadn't seen this interesting thread......
Well...I have been working on various trading floors ever since leaving university, but have always worked in the same markets: Emerging Equities...basically broking Russia, Turkey, Middle East, Africa and Central Europe to instutional investors.
Used to be something i was proud of, but more and more we have all been tarnished with the same brush as the handful of bankers and institutions (and governments) that resulted in a credit bubble and the eventual debt crisis (which is still playing out in a 'death by a thousand paper cuts' kind of way)
The most interesting/rewarding part of my career was working at Lehman Brothers when it went into bankrupcy and started a chain of events that nearly broke the financial system....Interesting because of the incredible bonding you go through with a group of colleagues when you are all up shit creak together, and rewarding because it was, in a strange way, one of the most humbling and liberating experiences I have gone through....
getting emotional now , and as i'm still lucky enough to be sitting on a trading floor i should get one with what i am paid for..and certainly before somebody sees SZ up on my screens....

[Ivans On High]

I'm a mechanical engineer specialising in building services. Currently designing a fitout for a major bank, where traders like eton consume most of my time.

I have been in the industry for a little over 2 years and don't want to stay a second longer. I am, however, paid quite well and so have decided to stay until after my wedding and honeymoon next August.

I will then hopefully come back to this thread with a slightly more optimistic response.

[eton97]

MetroBulotDodo - how did Haaretz come into the conversation?
Will be spending New Year in Tel-Aviv

[Faust]

And Faust: a finance degree?! How, may I ask, did you become a journalist for Haaretz? Do you have a regular byline there? I read it when in Tel Aviv. (please, the both of you, no need to reveal anything in public if you would prefer not to. PM if you'd like, tho. I'm quite interested...)

OK. Back to procrastination...tomorrow. Thanks for enabling friends!


-MBD

I had another life before I rose up from the ashes and unleashed my fashion ninja sword on this lamentable world. The Haaretz job, as many, many other amazing things and people, came through this wonderful institution you are perusing right now, through a former member who has become a dear friend. Lesson learned: mouth off in a funny and smart way and it will get you places.