[homeyjosey]

as of right now im student majoring in manufacturing engineering…i have 4 more classes left…and i have an engineering internship on the side….(tried to get an internship at progressive suspensions…but they denied me haha…is it even a big name in the motorcycle world?)

[eon]

International Playboy

[fireball]

I’m a CNC machinist responsible for an automated machining cell. I also attend Embry-Riddle online majoring in Technical Management. I’ve been in the Army (11B), in law enforcement, a dive store manager, retail gun dealer, but above all a Dad.

[gsmurfette]

Awesome fireball! I can’t wait to x-fer to E-R. I’m taking as many math classes as I can now, all I should have to take when I get there is aviation applied statics. ick (I hope it doesn’t kill the ole gpa). I’m doing aircraft maintenance, and then decided (and see about this whole post-9-11 GI Bill stuff) and which one is a better deal…..can’t wait to get back in the air!

[WeaponZero]

I’m a clerk at the Allegheny County Health Department’s Tuberculosis Reasearch & Treatment Center in Pittsburgh, PA. I mostly just do data entry and answer phones, but there have been a few occasions where I had to play Doctor. You’d be surprised how many doctors out there are idiots. It’s scary. Also a student going for a degree in Computer Engineering Technology.

[bigguybbr]

Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition Engineer. Basically the eyes and ears controlling the bulk power grid.

The rest of the time is fixin’ houses. Anyone wanna buy mine????

[wbsprudels]

I design and analyze data from clinical trials. Most of my work has been in depression, schizophrenia, insomnia, and Alzheimer’s Disease.

[Munch]

so your studying the numbers on people who are scared about something they can’t remember but is pretty sure it has something to do with someone following them and they are losing sleep about it and generally aint ot happy because of it…. that’s gotta suck.

[wbsprudels]

interesting way to look at it, but actually those patients are in separate trials. Some patients may exhibit symptoms of more than one of those disease classes, but not all of them.

[eon]

Despite my flippant comment earlier, I am actually a computer programmer specializing in databases, designing/programming etc. Your line of work is interesting to me as I have been roped in to helping out a friend analyzing the past 25 years of mortality data reported by the US National Statistics bureau (I would post the website link but I have been procrastinating for the past few weeks and cannot find it now). It’s been interesting delving into death certificate reports going back to 1979. Almost like being a time traveler at times.

Specifically, I’ve been digging out information on the deaths of children related to dental issues. Around 20 deaths in the US each year that are related in some way to dental issues.

[Amoryl]

I could describe what I do in great detail, but I think a picture can be worth a thousand words…

[wbsprudels]

Wow, 20 seems high. How do you assign causality? Has the rate decreased since 1979?

[eon]

I extract records where the ICD-9 codes are between 520 and 529. Very few are the direct cause of death, most of the 20 records are the related records (I forget the terminology used on the death certificate, it’s been a couple of months since I looked at this). I have not been analyzing the data, just extracting it but my casual glance told me that a high percentage of the deaths were in very young infants, almost new born. In other words a large percentage were born with a condition that would cause death and this condition affected the mouth in some way.

The rate has remained approximately the same over the years though it does range from about 12 to 26 each year.

I need to stop procrastinating and finish my data extract. The last 10 years or so they moved to ICD-10 codes and the file layout is shuffled once more. More work for me

[yugen852]

haha, nice one.

[yugen852]

Student/sand filter joiner/tennis racket stringer. I am student by day, joiner by the afternoons and a stringer by… uh, well, when they pay me to do it. I’m halfway through my bachelors degree, I also volunteer assembling some construction tools and I also play tennis and I learned to string rackets.

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