Comments on: Best/Worst http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/ Mystery Author Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: elizabeth http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7117 elizabeth Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:54:07 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7117 :) Aimee! And Margo, I'm glad you found us. We have a fun group of folks who frequent this blog. So come back, okay? :) Aimee!

And Margo, I’m glad you found us. We have a fun group of folks who frequent this blog. So come back, okay?

]]> By: Aimee http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7092 Aimee Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:00:38 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7092 Okay, picturing Laura sipping from a bottle of corn syrup through a straw now and massively grossed out. Okay, picturing Laura sipping from a bottle of corn syrup through a straw now and massively grossed out.

]]> By: Margo Berendsen http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7086 Margo Berendsen Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:06:16 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7086 Found you from Sharon's blog and I loved this post about our jobs! Even with the list of worsts with your job, I'd still take it - I would love to be full time writer! my job bests: using maps almost everyday going to the library to do research pretty much getting to make my own schedule my job worsts: occasional stay up all night kind of deadlines staying motivated when I don't have deadlines (I am a research analyst at a university in geography, specifically geographic information systems) Found you from Sharon’s blog and I loved this post about our jobs! Even with the list of worsts with your job, I’d still take it – I would love to be full time writer!

my job bests:
using maps almost everyday
going to the library to do research
pretty much getting to make my own schedule

my job worsts:
occasional stay up all night kind of deadlines
staying motivated when I don’t have deadlines

(I am a research analyst at a university in geography, specifically geographic information systems)

]]> By: elizabeth http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7084 elizabeth Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:40:54 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7084 Perhaps, Keith. But then I couldn't bite each color--white, orange, yellow--in order. And then I'd actually have to WRITE! Sheesh! Perhaps, Keith. But then I couldn’t bite each color–white, orange, yellow–in order. And then I’d actually have to WRITE! Sheesh!

]]> By: Keith http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7078 Keith Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:17:49 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7078 Candy corn? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just keep a bottle of corn syrup by the computer? Candy corn?

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just keep a bottle of corn syrup by the computer?

]]> By: elizabeth http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7056 elizabeth Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:14:37 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7056 Very cool, Aimee. It must be a little daunting to have that many people needing you, though...yes? Very cool, Aimee. It must be a little daunting to have that many people needing you, though…yes?

]]> By: Aimee http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7055 Aimee Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:14:06 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7055 I'm a statistician. Not a super rare job if you work in professional sports, sports journalism or insurance but at a defense contractor, it sure is. People have very immutable ideas about math and numbers and my job is to tell them that numbers can mean anything they want them to mean. I’m a statistician. Not a super rare job if you work in professional sports, sports journalism or insurance but at a defense contractor, it sure is.

People have very immutable ideas about math and numbers and my job is to tell them that numbers can mean anything they want them to mean.

]]> By: Dru http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7038 Dru Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:38:13 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7038 Let me know and we definitely can do lunch. Let me know and we definitely can do lunch.

]]> By: elizabeth http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7037 elizabeth Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:01:45 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7037 These are cool! Aimee, I'm curious. What do you do? Lynn...I know what you do. Dru...I'd LOVE trying all the new restaurants at lunch time. One of these days (probably Fall), I'm gonna have to come down and meet you for lunch!! Chris, I'm glad you're not a spammer! :) These are cool! Aimee, I’m curious. What do you do?

Lynn…I know what you do.

Dru…I’d LOVE trying all the new restaurants at lunch time. One of these days (probably Fall), I’m gonna have to come down and meet you for lunch!!

Chris, I’m glad you’re not a spammer! :)

]]> By: Chris C http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/2010/07/22/bestworst/#comment-7034 Chris C Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:36:06 +0000 http://elizabethlynncasey.com/blog/?p=1261#comment-7034 Funny you mention a chocolate shop. One of the perks of a previous job was we worked in food manufacturing facilities. Warm Oreos are the best ;-) Fresh, warm Little De bbie snack cakes are also really good. Downside of that job was you saw how food was made. Sausage isn't nearly as bad as you would think and smells really good as they are packing it. Coffee on the other hand ... I still can't stand the smell of it. And the contact sugar highs in the Kool Aid plant were interesting. Current job: Best - many of the people are smart and we've worked together so long we can solve/invite things really quickly - get to try some really cool technology even if we don't use it - a couple of times in the last 10 years came up with industry changing ideas Worst - commute (seeing a pattern here ...) - growing pains mean/meant long hours and long weekends - sometimes so isolated on a project I don't 'work' with anyone else for days at a time. - explaining I'm not a spammer ;) Funny you mention a chocolate shop. One of the perks of a previous job was we worked in food manufacturing facilities. Warm Oreos are the best ;-) Fresh, warm Little De bbie snack cakes are also really good.

Downside of that job was you saw how food was made. Sausage isn’t nearly as bad as you would think and smells really good as they are packing it. Coffee on the other hand … I still can’t stand the smell of it. And the contact sugar highs in the Kool Aid plant were interesting.

Current job:
Best
- many of the people are smart and we’ve worked together so long we can solve/invite things really quickly
- get to try some really cool technology even if we don’t use it
- a couple of times in the last 10 years came up with industry changing ideas

Worst
- commute (seeing a pattern here …)
- growing pains mean/meant long hours and long weekends
- sometimes so isolated on a project I don’t ‘work’ with anyone else for days at a time.
- explaining I’m not a spammer ;)

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