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    Default Re: Reductionist Job Descriptions

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    My five year niece plays these guessing games.[/QUOTE]

    She must be very bright to be using Socratic method. You should congratulate her.
    Some days, it's hardly worth chewing through the leather straps....

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    As for my job- managing uncertainty and managing expectations.
    Some days, it's hardly worth chewing through the leather straps....

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    My husband says he stood by the doors of life, noting the comings and goings.
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    As for my job- managing uncertainty and managing expectations.
    insurance?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deb View Post
    My husband says he stood by the doors of life, noting the comings and goings.
    "They also serve, who only stand and wait."?
    Is you husband a seventeenth-century poet?
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    My husband says he stood by the doors of life, noting the comings and goings.
    "They also serve, who only stand and wait."?
    Is you husband a seventeenth-century poet?
    Nope. He's old but not that old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldstoat View Post
    As for my job- managing uncertainty and managing expectations.
    Psychologist?

    Jop, maybe you could ask your niece to give us some help here.

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    My husband says he stood by the doors of life, noting the comings and goings.
    "They also serve, who only stand and wait."?
    Is you husband a seventeenth-century poet?
    Nope. He's old but not that old.
    My kids think I am that old. My joke that [almost[ never [always] gets old is to say,
    "I'm so old . . . that by the time I was your age, I wasn't even born yet."
    It means nothing, but when said with an old old man cackle, it gets a [fake] laugh almost every time.
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    I tell kids I sat behind Balboa in the third grade and Methuselah was still riding a hobby horse. Then, while they look up those names on their iPhones, I can take it on the lam.
    "Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." -Epicurus-

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paddler View Post
    I tell kids I sat behind Balboa in the third grade and Methuselah was still riding a hobby horse. Then, while they look up those names on their iPhones, I can take it on the lam.
    I'll try this one! The possible variants abound.
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    Air Controller / Flight Checker?
    Well done!

    I was an Air Traffic Controller. At different times during my career, I worked in flight service (flight planning, pre-flight & in-flight briefings, weather observation, flight following, etc.), en-route traffic control and terminal control (air traffic control towers) facilities controlling everything from bi-planes and helicopters to jumbo jets and supersonic military aircraft.

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    Extremelly stressful job, but highly enticing, no, An Old Bloke?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fountainpagan View Post
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    As for my job- managing uncertainty and managing expectations.
    Psychologist?

    Jop, maybe you could ask your niece to give us some help here.
    That's a big practical part of it, Fountainpagan. NHS GP ( family physician in other systems).
    Some days, it's hardly worth chewing through the leather straps....

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    Default Re: Reductionist Job Descriptions

    Oldsoat,that is a hard job. Indeed, also a good part of psychology in it.

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    The boses bitch is what I am affectionately as.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fountainpagan View Post
    I would say dermatologist.
    Fountainpagan has it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fountainpagan View Post
    Extremelly stressful job, but highly enticing, no, An Old Bloke?
    Job stress took a toll amongst my workmates. The odd thing was I never felt stressed and loved the job - most of the time. I thrived on the challenges of heavy traffic, inflight emergencies, training and supervising other controllers - and even managing facilities. It was the shift work and short staffing that wore me out in the end.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marsilius View Post
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    Mine is complicated and I never know quite what to say. Mostly its because because no one knows what a kaizen is (as well as Hoshin, Gemba, DMAIC & many others) and most hate statistics and data. My title is Sr. Continuous improvement Leader. I usually love my job.
    I didn't know what that was until I looked it up and only now have a vague idea. My Dad was a behavioral psych dealing in business productivity, to interesting to read this.
    Ours is probably very close, did he like his job, most of the time? My MBA is in Behavioral Psychology
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    Any suggestions for a description to match this job?

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    Any suggestions for a description to match this job?

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