What do you all do?

I used to work for the Tim Taylor gallery, now i work for the Lisson Gallery. Totally different approach to the type of art sold which is good as too much painting makes me sad! Glad i started working for what is essentially a sculpture gallery as they are not afraid of the "Installation" word. ASM which college are you at? Seems to be a nice mix of jobs on here, makes for a well rounded forum i think.

currently
freelance location sound recordist (TV and film),
occasional dv director,
cycle trainer.

ex:
photographer
courier
bike mechanic
bar staff
art student

asm Heh I get one lecture a week on a monday morning, and so far none have been worth getting up for.

Blimey, if I miss one or fall asleep I'm pretty much screwed for the rest of the lecture course and have to spend ages catching up!

eeehhhh [quote]piran [quote]eeehhhh I'm a chemistry student.

What is that like? - the work I mean...[/quote]

Usually a couple of hour long lectures in the morning. 6 hours of lab time a week (two 3 hour sessions), 3 hours of tutorials in which you get grilled on the lecture stuff, 1 hour philosophy lectures (I chose to do it), 1.5 hours maths lab a week.

Tomorrow I've got a 10am lecture on "chemical equilibria and thermodynamics" then 11am "atomic structure" which is basically quantum theory. Then I'll spend my afternoon writing a lab report from last friday....

I like it :) especially the labs. In my fourth year I'll be doing my own research. philosophy keeps me on my toes mentally as well, you have to think in a different way. I did it at A level so I've got an advantage over everyone else :)[/quote]

I'm a fourth year chemistry student. It's good. Intelectually stimulating etc. but It'd definitely not what I want to do as a career. Currently on a 1 year work placement and have decided to go back to uni when I graduate to study medicine.

Hope chemistry's working out for you eeehhhh

part time DJ
part time muscician
part time office monkey (the job that pays the most)

scott not scot By day i make bags....but by night....i don my ninja costume,and ninja hip bag(now available at all good 'Archie's Grobags' stockists) and i prowl the streets of london,sneaking into peoples houses...then armed with my unpicker,i secretly unpick just a few stitches of each persons bag....just enough for it to fail when used...and i leave an 'Archies Grobags' sticker by their bed...kinda like the cadburys milk tray man....but a bit more deformed.....mmmwwwuuuuhahahaha

You come to London every night. How rude, you could at least come on the night social rides...

As a few of you know...

1. I work in Magma the design bookshop / product shop. Work between all 3 London stores.
   
2. I have 2 small streetwear / t-shirt labels that I design and make stuff for. Wish I could make a living from it though.
   They're steadily gaining pace ;-)
   

long gone are my uni days while i was a courier/part time video games tester... now am a computer geek for an infamous japanese video games company... but hey, on the plus side it pays me well enough to afford a lot of bike parts ^ ^

andrewleitch86 [quote]eeehhhh [quote]piran [quote]eeehhhh I'm a chemistry student.

What is that like? - the work I mean...[/quote]

Usually a couple of hour long lectures in the morning. 6 hours of lab time a week (two 3 hour sessions), 3 hours of tutorials in which you get grilled on the lecture stuff, 1 hour philosophy lectures (I chose to do it), 1.5 hours maths lab a week.

Tomorrow I've got a 10am lecture on "chemical equilibria and thermodynamics" then 11am "atomic structure" which is basically quantum theory. Then I'll spend my afternoon writing a lab report from last friday....

I like it :) especially the labs. In my fourth year I'll be doing my own research. philosophy keeps me on my toes mentally as well, you have to think in a different way. I did it at A level so I've got an advantage over everyone else :)[/quote]

I'm a fourth year chemistry student. It's good. Intelectually stimulating etc. but It'd definitely not what I want to do as a career. Currently on a 1 year work placement and have decided to go back to uni when I graduate to study medicine.

Hope chemistry's working out for you eeehhhh[/quote]

Hmm that's interesting, there seems to be a lot of freshers on my course who want to do medicine as well, but they're not allowed to transfer - only biochemists are. They say they'll just stick it out for the next 3 years (no way could I do that).

hmm what uni are you at? where i am, it seems not even biochemists are allowed to transfer...

My Uni doesn't do medicine but I think at most you're not allowed to transfer. Depends on the way the medicine course is taught. Most are Problem Based Learning and so you start learning in clinics from day one. Maybe I'll end up in London doing medicine but I doubt it. Probably Dundee.

probably, but you'd think that the basics would be taught in lectures.

I'm at Imperial.

For the first 2 or so weeks I believe biochemists were allowed to become medics if they had sufficiently good grades (basically, straight As) and had done the usual work experience in a hopsital/hospice etc, because they do have some overlapping lecture courses to begin with but any length of time after that it just becomes too difficult.

I'm not surprised chemists aren't, we haven't even touched on anything inorganic yet, let alone biochemical!

andrewleitch86 Maybe I'll end up in London doing medicine but I doubt it.

Go onnnnn... you know London is far better than Dundee :P

to get into medicine at imperial you'll need to be from an ethnic background ;)

not being racist at all, just facts.

haha, pretty much!

I noticed in my lecture today that about 75% of people are from abroad, of which about 60% are Chinese/Japanese. Pretty much everyone has brown/black hair. From what I've heard in the maths department it's just Chinese guys.

This week I am mostly studying George Berkley, Albert Camus and the nature of documentary cinema..

Albert Camus is stunning! Berkley had a his fair share of interesting ideas.

At the moment I'm trying to get my head round Wittgenstein's ideas on philosophy of mind.

Currently:

Paramedic (Full Time)
Duty Event Medic at The O2 (Part Time)
Bass Player (part-part time but it's paid so I put it down)

In a previous life:

Courier (Motorcycle)
Messenger (cycle - 20 years ago, employed by a financial printers in Waterloo)
Retail Manager (BORING)

dogsballs to get into medicine at imperial you'll need to be from an ethnic background ;)

not being racist at all, just facts.

Is Scottish foreign enough? I have a mate at UCL and I've wandered around there quite a bit so if London's on the cards it'd be UCL I'd choose. Maybe I'll shoot an application down as a wild card.

mr bojangles Currently:

Paramedic (Full Time)

Do you see a lot of injured cyclists? If it's a yes, how do you avoid the jitters every time you get onto your bike?

eeehhhh Albert Camus is stunning! Berkley had a his fair share of interesting ideas.

At the moment I'm trying to get my head round Wittgenstein's ideas on philosophy of mind.

Give up now.

Hammo, I'm at saint martins doing sculpture. I work once a month for the alexia goethe gallery on dover street envigilating. Got to help take down & set up a few exhibitions during the spring. It was interesting, despite being a primarily commmercial gallery. Dont know if you've been there before/recently, but it's changed its setup considerably and actually looks like a gallery now. A welcome change compared to before summer!

asm [quote]eeehhhh Albert Camus is stunning! Berkley had a his fair share of interesting ideas.

At the moment I'm trying to get my head round Wittgenstein's ideas on philosophy of mind.

Give up now.[/quote]
From the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicius:

Proposition 6.54: My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless

Proposition 7: What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence.

Proposition 7 is my favourite, I think it's very profound. Needless to say, I don't understand him.

"What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence"

I am guessing he means to avoid the metaphysical when you do not have to tools to deal with it (necessarily always !).

Just a guess though, these kinds of nebulous, seemingly profound messages are largely worthless, posturing even (?)

Reminds me of the Sokal (Social Text) carry on, now that was fucking funny.

:)