What do you do for a living?

[GnarleyMarley]

Land Surveyor here

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Decided this weekend it's time to take the IRS Enrolled Agent (SEE) exam and start my own tax prep LLC... Good seasonal income to supplement my reef habit.

 

[blufin]

Firefighter/Paramedic

 

[madcanary]

Thank you for your service. Army vet here. 88-92.

Thank you for yours! 68w here.

 

[madcanary]

Railroad Conductor and Retired Military

Thanks for your service.

 

[madcanary]

Thanks to all my fellow brothers and sisters for your service. As well as all my fellow EMS, LEOs and firefighters. And all the other guys one here you guys are all awesome just shows how such a diverse group of individuals can come together in one place for a common goal, I think we should all run for office!!

 

[Steve Maxwell]

What is that? Can you tell me a bit more about it? The reason I chose Clinical Informatics is because it combined nursing and computers.

About which part....Epic or Beacon?

 

[HighTideCoral]

I sell corals. :D

 

[Lionfish Lair]

About which part....Epic or Beacon?

Like how they transitioned from being a NICU nurse to a Sr. System Analyst.

 

[Bdog4u2]

Are you a member on WAMAS?

Naw but i'll check it out

 

[GoFish]

Land Surveyor for a civil engineering firm

 

[taintstick]

Land Surveyor for a civil engineering firm

Good to see a fellow RPLS!! Haha

 

[tom reilly]

Landscape contractor

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Land Surveyor for a civil engineering firm

I was hired to survey part of the International Boundry between Canada and the U.S. for about 5 weeks in 2013. One week training by a lead surveyor and then left on my own to finish 53 miles of some of the hardest terrain I ever trekked using a sat based system. Helicopter was the only way in and out of work each day or to move the base station. I had to cut Landing Zones for the Heli each time we moved with a professional tree trimmers chain saw (8 lbs and 16" bar) and a machette. Some times our two man crew had to cut down and clear trees over 60' high and set a log landing pad to get back to camp that day. It was an incredible experiance. I was so impressed with the accuracy (0.0 in many cases) of the monuments set by mule team, chain gangs, transit, and clearing teams with just hand saws and axes over 100 years before. Now those guys were the real deal in surveying. I was just dependant on the training and the Trimble RTK 8 Rover Kit we rented for the contract. My sons worked on the crews clearing the 20' wide path on the survey center line. I will forever be haunted by the remote landscape between the AlCan Border crossing and Bever Creek, Yukon and the Alaska Range.

If I had it to do over again I might have enjoyed life as a suveyor! I was in great shape after 5 weeks and to walk where few have waked before is like touching history.

 

[Steve Maxwell]

Like how they transitioned from being a NICU nurse to a Sr. System Analyst.

Prior to going to nursing school I had done some data entry and got a business school certificate in programming, which I never really used. After a few years I went back to school for nursing and got an Associate's degree. I then started working at Texas Children's (TCH) on the Pulmonary/Adolescent unit and worked there for quite a few years until I started having a hard time with the passing of many of the Cystic Fibrosis patients that I had grown very attached to. At the same time TCH decided to move from paper charting to an Electronic Medical Record and they started hiring people for the project. When they started getting people for the project, the VAST majority of them were already TCH employees (RNs, RTs, system analysts, etc). So with my computer/data entry experience and my being the "go to computer geek" on my unit they snapped me up pretty quickly. After starting on the Epic project I got my Masters in Nursing Informatics and eventually spent some time as a traveling Epic consultant (Fresno, Des Moines, Seattle & Sacramento) before getting off the road and spending some time at UTMB (University of Texas - Medical Branch) and then finally back here at TCH.

Is that what you're looking for? For any RN (or medical professional for that matter) wanting to get into informatics, I would recommend talking with HR and/or the IT manager at their current organization and maybe even joining a local chapter of HIMSS (Healthcare Informations & Management Systems Society) and doing some networking. As another option, you could contact some healthcare consulting firms (The HIC Group, Nordic, Sagacious consulting, etc) and talk with a recruiter about becoming a traveling consultant...although most sites prefer consultants to be certified in a EMR (especially Epic), but not all of them do and some consulting firms might even pay for your certification.

 

[badstorm48]

Correctional officer

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Prior to going to nursing school I had done some data entry and got a business school certificate in programming, which I never really used. After a few years I went back to school for nursing and got an Associate's degree. I then started working at Texas Children's (TCH) on the Pulmonary/Adolescent unit and worked there for quite a few years until I started having a hard time with the passing of many of the Cystic Fibrosis patients that I had grown very attached to. At the same time TCH decided to move from paper charting to an Electronic Medical Record and they started hiring people for the project. When they started getting people for the project, the VAST majority of them were already TCH employees (RNs, RTs, system analysts, etc). So with my computer/data entry experience and my being the "go to computer geek" on my unit they snapped me up pretty quickly. After starting on the Epic project I got my Masters in Nursing Informatics and eventually spent some time as a traveling Epic consultant (Fresno, Des Moines, Seattle & Sacramento) before getting off the road and spending some time at UTMB (University of Texas - Medical Branch) and then finally back here at TCH.

Is that what you're looking for? For any RN (or medical professional for that matter) wanting to get into informatics, I would recommend talking with HR and/or the IT manager at their current organization and maybe even joining a local chapter of HIMSS (Healthcare Informations & Management Systems Society) and doing some networking. As another option, you could contact some healthcare consulting firms (The HIC Group, Nordic, Sagacious consulting, etc) and talk with a recruiter about becoming a traveling consultant...although most sites prefer consultants to be certified in a EMR (especially Epic), but not all of them do and some consulting firms might even pay for your certification.

Awesome! Thank you for that. So, it sounds like I'm doing right by going for my masters. Thanks for the tips!

Do you know Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi?

 

[GoFish]

I was hired to survey part of the International Boundry between Canada and the U.S. for about 5 weeks in 2013. One week training by a lead surveyor and then left on my own to finish 53 miles of some of the hardest terrain I ever trekked using a sat based system. Helicopter was the only way in and out of work each day or to move the base station. I had to cut Landing Zones for the Heli each time we moved with a professional tree trimmers chain saw (8 lbs and 16" bar) and a machette. Some times our two man crew had to cut down and clear trees over 60' high and set a log landing pad to get back to camp that day. It was an incredible experiance. I was so impressed with the accuracy (0.0 in many cases) of the monuments set by mule team, chain gangs, transit, and clearing teams with just hand saws and axes over 100 years before. Now those guys were the real deal in surveying. I was just dependant on the training and the Trimble RTK 8 Rover Kit we rented for the contract. My sons worked on the crews clearing the 20' wide path on the survey center line. I will forever be haunted by the remote landscape between the AlCan Border crossing and Bever Creek, Yukon and the Alaska Range.

If I had it to do over again I might have enjoyed life as a suveyor! I was in great shape after 5 weeks and to walk where few have waked before is like touching history.

That sound like fun! Thanks for sharing. Now hopefully that works president of yours doesn't feel the need to use that data to build a pointless wall between us ;)

 

[benapilot]

I'm in high-speed aluminum tubing (airline pilot!)

My office view:

 

[JBradford]

I'm in high-speed aluminum tubing (airline pilot!)

My office view:

So ******. I work for a place that make simulators for you guys. So I see this view a lot but it's fake. lol

Mechanical Designer. Currently in school to become a Mechanical Engineer. Would have been way easier had I not waited 15 years to start college.