twiley Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Partner/Owner - Advertising agency and commerical printing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I have part ownership in a family owned construction company. We primarily build hospitals and schools, as a construction manager at-risk. I am a project manager. I manage 3 to 4 projects at a time. I am really busy the first couple of months and the last couple of months of each project. At the beggining of a project, I will review plans, and give suggestions to architects on how to make the project more affordable (this is all done in the design developement phase of a project). I also review plans and specs for errors and ommissions at that time, and help provid budget pricing. Once the plans are finalized, I do quantity surveys, and schedules for bidding purposes, and solicit bids from trade contractors. Once I've priced out the portion of the work that we will do with our own forces, our cost for supervision, and qualified the bidders, I provide the client with a gauranteed maximum price. Then me and my assistant send out contracts. After contracts are sent out, I have to review submittals from trade contractors. Once that is done, all I really have to do is update schedules, price any changes the client might want to make, and conduct progress meetings (usually once a month). I also have to deal with any problems that may come up durring the construction process regarding the contract documents. During the middle of a project there really isn't that much to do, so I have a lot of free time. At the end of the project, I'm normally lighting a fire under people to get them to finish on time, as well as doing quality control inspections. Most of the time I like my job, but when I get a couple of jobs finishing at the same time, or one finishing and one starting at the same time, it gets real hectic and stressful. During the month of October, I don't think I had a single night of good sleep because we were trying to finish a project on a real tight schedule where the owner made several changes, but did not want to give us any additional time to finish. While we were entitled to the additional time, and they could not have gone after us for liquidated damages, had we not finished when the client wanted us to, it would have been bad, as they are a large client of ours for whom we have done repeat business for about 20 years as their primary contractor. In addition to that, I was bidding out another project. That was real stressfull, so had you asked me then if I liked my job, I'd have told you I hated it. Now, I like it. I'm a slave to schedules, when deadlines are coming, I migh have to work 100 hour weeks for a month or so, but when the projects fall right, I might have a month or two where all I have to do is come in the office for a few hours a day or a few days a week, just to make sure everything is going smoothly and update schedules. I could probably take about 1 month off a year for vacation. The only problem is, because of problems that arrise on projects, or new projects that come up unexpectedly, it makes it real hard to schedule vacation time with out really dumping on someone else in my office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Development Engineer for a large telecommunications product company. I work for our managed services group. I'm responsible for the platform that knows when our stuff breaks in the field. Take what cliaz does, add in what CowboysDieHard does, then throw in some architecture development, coding (multiple languages including a lot of 4th generation BS scripting fekked up stuff some brainiac developed because he thought he knew better than everyone else) and documentation and that's basically what I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_bone65 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 How close do you live to Gaithersburg cliaz? I have 2 sisters who live there. Just curious. I am very close to Gaithersburg as well, Hagerstown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Not many teachers out there? What about anyone involved with the radio business? I'm planning on getting involved with the radio business after I graduate. I have an internship with ESPN Radio this summer so hopefully that will springboard into something. If not, I would love to teach too and would consider Teach for America. i think there areabout 5-7 teachers here... all of them very cynical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Holy Roller Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 i think there areabout 5-7 teachers here... all of them very cynical Well, when I'm not logging out of Coos Bay, Oregon, I'm a teaching machine. But I don't know if I'd call myself cynical, though. More like...aggravated that I'm home for another snow day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Well, when I'm not logging out of Coos Bay, Oregon, I'm a teaching machine. But I don't know if I'd call myself cynical, though. More like...aggravated that I'm home for another snow day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 If I tell you, I'll be finding another job (or playing the part of Daisy Duke in the prison version of Dukes of Hazzard). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Art and entertainment/intellectual property attorney/literary agent. Love it. So we send all of our manuscripts to you?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Partner/Owner - Advertising agency and commerical printing Twiley, Does your company do TV commercials or just print ads ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABearWithFurniture Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 On Mondays I am a PACS engineer for a medical image archive/application manufacturer. Tuesdays through Fridays I become a fishing guide... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I run numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Twiley, Does your company do TV commercials or just print ads ? TV, radio, print, and web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skins Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 So we send all of our manuscripts to you?? Only the good ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmarc117 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 im the beer ape on the weekends http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1728682 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Tuesdays through Fridays I become a fishing guide... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 i think there areabout 5-7 teachers here... all of them very cynical Yeah....RIGHT! I leach off the State of Illinois! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBalla Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) I run a sports store in Baton Rouge. Red Stick Sports Edited December 4, 2006 by SuperBalla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 i think there areabout 5-7 teachers here... all of them very cynical And have rainbow bumper stickers on their minivans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I do some football writing in my job and I love it. Really? Link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 And have rainbow bumper stickers on their minivans. wrong mines on my truck next to my " save the earth, kill a texan" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 wrong mines on my truck next to my " save the earth, kill a texan" Man you are cynical! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Holy Roller Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 And have rainbow bumper stickers on their minivans. Wrong. 4x4. But my rainbow sticker is right next to my Nuke the Whales sticker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Wrong. 4x4. But my rainbow sticker is right next to my Nuke the Whales sticker. that should read " nuke TEXAS, OUR TEXAS, OH HAIL THE MIGHTY STATE, TEXAS OUR TEXAS, SO WONDERFUL AND GREAT... save the planet" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 I sell recruiting software. The software will also integrate with your corp website to facilitate the application process. My newest web integration customer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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