I'm a Research and Development Chemist in the industrial coatings sector. I'm a scientist with a lab coat and everything . Most of my day consists of talking with my mates, reading my book or surfing the internet occasionaly interspersed with some actual work,it's awesome.
Well physics and comedy do go hand in hand Their both cool in their own ways. BTW what kind of comedy?
It's not a serious thing, to be honest, more of a pipe dream. I'd love to do something like sketch/panel shows, along the lines of David Mitchell (if you know who he is?) What about you? Any ideas?
Well physics and comedy do go hand in hand Their both cool in their own ways. BTW what kind of comedy?
It's not a serious thing, to be honest, more of a pipe dream. I'd love to do something like sketch/panel shows, along the lines of David Mitchell (if you know who he is?) What about you? Any ideas?
Hard to describe; I'm part of the "institutional research" arm of a university, specifically making sense out of a ton of data, programming various bridges to pull everything together, and establishing a series of web services for reporting and related matters. I'm often at the midpoint between the faculty and the administration, which means that I deal constantly with internal politics.
I'm also working on my PhD in education policy, in the few hours left outside of that full-time+ job.
Zzzzzzzzz.......
I kid, of course. I'm sure your job is plenty interesting, but that description made it seem awfully dry.
Rephrase: In the imperfect, chaotic world of a university and its data, I help make the dreams of the upper administration possible (adherence to standards, uniformity of practices, transparency and accountability, etc), sometimes thereby drawing the ire of the faculty.
Rephrase 2: Nonsense comes in, reasonably meaningful information comes out, but some stepping on toes or challenging the status quo comes first.
Rephrase 3: I don't really know what I do. I end up on every kind of project you can think of, but somehow it all involves improving transparency or internal reporting of data.
PS: It's dang hard for me to answer the "what do you do?" question at a bar, as you can see.
Have you ever seen "That 70's Show" episode "Career Day"
Haha, fantastic, that's a pretty accurate representation of me trying to explain my work.
Except my office has windows and I don't dress like an accountant, because university statistical or data work is like a bit of corporate without the corporate, if you know what I mean. Extremely flexible schedule, tons of vacation time, and all those other university perks.
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