What's your background?

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Hello All!

Another poll to satisfy my curiosity. I've noticed that there are a lot of really detailed replies to some of the forum questions. We've got vets (both kinds), PhDs and all sorts of other folks with widely divergent backgrounds. I was just wondering what the distribution was :)

Feel free to comment on the specifics if you'd like! For me, I'm just a chemist and outdoor enthusiast :geek:

April 25, 2016

Apparently I completely forgot about the arts! Oversight corrected :)

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As @cekivi pointed out, I'm a veterinarian. Currently I work for a computer corporation selling computers, phones and tablets and teaching newbies how to use them. I'll let you figure out which one. B|

Had horses for eighteen years, rode dressage during that time (hence the rather vague reference in my profile name - dressage is sometimes referred to as haute ecole equitation. Still miss it. 

Before I got into writing, photography and cooking for my creative outlets, I used to draw. A lot. More than anything else in school. Thanks to TLD, I'm slowing getting back into it.

Not worth bragging about in a survival situation, but my three post graduate degrees (B.A. Biology, DVM, and MBA) do reflect the wide range of my interests up to a point. Basically, in a nutshell, I love learning how things work. Not just guns, animal behavior and climate mechanics, but also psychology, government, and physics.

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Started out in ROTP in the Cdn Forces in Mech Eng then switched it up for computer hardware at IBM and later software engineering. Some of my fond memories were of fishing and hunting with my Dad as well as being on the farm as a kid.

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Oh boy. I hate this question lol.

As a kid I did Boy Scouts for 7 years, martial arts for 8 years (with significant overlap).

Did robotics, drafting, and as many shop classes as I could take in high school.

Started off in retail, went into construction, manufacturing (multiple disciplines), printing, nuclear engineering (got a degree), QC/QA, medical software, and now I'm a white-hat hacker... a long, strange trip it's been...

Still go out and hike and/or camp out as often as I can. I usually try to be as minimalistic as safely possible, but I don't quite get to TLD levels of desperation ;).

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I'm not sure what to pick in your vote, @cekivi.:big_smile:

I've been studying Biology, Molecular Biology (both B.Sc.s) and Biomedicine (M.Sc.) and am currently working on my PhD in (onco- and virus-immunology). I guess medicine might fit to some extent as I'm basically doing biomedical (translational) research, but I'm definitely no physician but a biologist.

If you could add "natural sciences" to engineering (math, informatics, natural sciences and technology are often combined as "MINT" here in Germany, the English equivalent of that seems to be "STEM"), I would gladly pick that. 

Unfortunately, I neither fish nor hunt nor have any other hobby particularly useful for survival. Except one wants to count hiking in the local vineyards, picking a grape every now and then.:silly:

Oh, and once a year I enjoy gathering king & bay boletes in the forest with my whole family. Kind of a tradition of ours.^^

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Scyzara said:

Oh, and once a year I enjoy gathering king & bay boletes in the forest with my whole family. Kind of a tradition of ours.^^

I must admit, I've never even heard of boletes before :)

I don't know what mushrooms in Ontario are edible so I just avoid them. When they're bright orange and covered in white spots something tells me that they're not fit to eat!

The Physical Sciences (depending on your definition) encompasses all the "lab" sciences with biology, chemistry, biochemistry and physics being the most well known. I never know how to classify math though :geek:

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I'm a software automation engineer in the aerospace industry.  I grew up in Colorado, and lived 8 years in Washington State where I was a member of an outdoors fun club.  We kayaked, camped, hiked, skied, and snowshoed.  I'm currently living in the Southeast US, but I'm eager to get back to the West one day.  I feel lost without the mountains.

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Well, currently I am a freshman in High school and my favorite things to study are Social Studies and English. I typically read the news every day when it comes out, and them my teacher tells me to write a paper regarding a specific event that came from the paper. Indeed, I do respect the PNW for its natural beauty but it gets super rainy year round in Seattle and then it gets really humid in summer. Thinking of Arizona or Wyoming one of these days....

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i'm in the second year of university studying humanities (History mostly,with a focus on Archives and stuff like that) But i've Enrolled in it a bit late. I'm 24 and i'm going to get that degree in a year and a half if everything goes the right way. Then i'm planning to pursue further studies abroad if i manage. S. Andrews in scotland would be a fine choice for my Studies. On the antropological side of things i would love to study precolombian societies in the Americas. :) Sadly i reckon that my degree won't help much in finding a job. We'll see. Moving out would be the best tho.

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2 hours ago, stapeliad said:

wow no other artists? plein air painters? :( 

 

This is a recent play on negative space...little bit of TLD inspiration...oil 8x10

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I dabble in art myself, but I wouldn't call myself an artist. I lack the vision good artists seem to have.

You, my friend, on the other hand, have that vision. This is beautiful!

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I guess "The Arts" is the closest fit, since there wasn't a "Humanities" category. I have a PhD in English and I teach composition and literature at the university level, and I also work in intellectual property (specifically plant variety protection), and dabble in writing.

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