Joined: Oct 15, 2005 Posts: 1561 Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
35 y.o with B.Sc. in environmental studies, masters in counseling...currently working as a therapist in a psych ward of a local hospital. I've also played in bands, made albums, written extensively about herbalism and have worked a great bit on my house prepping it for post PO. Married and thinking about having a child...hmmm....seems a bit crazy, but...
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
Cornelian wrote:
PhD - medieval history
Occupations ... too many to list From housecleaner to medieval professor.
Currently managing director of my own company.
Hi Cornelian--Welcome. You're a medieval professor! Which century did you teach in? That reminds me of a Stephen Wright line. "I went into a diner and they were offering breakfast any time, so I asked if I could have mine in the renaissance."
What got you interested in the topic. I mean the price per barrel is dropping, so does that give you pause?
Joined: Nov 20, 2006 Posts: 121 Location: Tasmania
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
I taught a great sweeping topic from the fall of the Roman Empire to the French Rev (ha! It was a nightmare) but I mostly concentrated on teaching subjects dealing with 'daily life' in the 13th to 15th centuries - lives of the ordinary folks kind of thing. I loved it. Intriguingly I did my PhD on medieval travel!
I've realised for many years that western society was frighteningly vulnerable due to its reliance on fossil fuels (probably helped by my understanding of how a medieval society worked) but I had no idea of the term 'peak oil' until last weekend when the local paper ran an article on it. Then it was a light bulb going off in my head and a "thank God I have a term to google" kind of a revelation. So in my own tiny little self-absorbed world I have been aware for about 10 years but have only just now realised there are groups 'out there' 'aware' as well. if you get my drift. Not coherent right at the moment. LOL
Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 228 Location: Australia
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
36 year old father of two (4 and 2 year old) with degree in metallurgical engineering and masters of management in technology. Farmboy come automotive engineer come research and development manager for an automotive company.
Hopeful about the future but quietly shitting myself about what's around the corner. And completely blown away by the 'sleepwalking to oblivion' situation we are in.
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:00 am Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
I'm thirty-something with a degree in maths, some knowledge of electronics, and a very sound base in science (physics and biology mostly).
Used to be a teacher in Spain, then moved to the UK and started working on computers, mostly generic tech support stuff, as opposed to deep black magic. Lately I'm working for an NGO, which is definitely a vast improvement over working for a corporation.
In my free time, I organize a small grassroots peak oil group in Brighton, where I live.
Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 1088 Location: Central Texas
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
I’m 48, divorced white male, no children.
Received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.
After graduation, worked for Continental Water Systems in San Antonio for six months. I prepared and tested deionization and organic scavenger resins for water purification equipment. Boring. Gf broke my heart in SA.
Got a job with Bandgap Technology in Broomfield, Colorado, synthesizing chemical precursors for gallium arsenide semiconductors among others, including trimethyl aluminum, trimethyl gallium, and t-butyl arsine. (Pyrophoric and very toxic chemicals, btw.) Went from boring to working in a bomb factory. Most of the batch syntheses were performed in glassware. Stayed two years. It was like going from accounting to lion taming! (Monty Python joke there, btw ☺ ) Gf broke my heart in Denver.
Moved to Houston and spent one graduate semester at U.H. in their chemistry dept. Hated it.
Worked for Exxon Chemical in Baytown, TX, performing polymer catalyst research for a couple of years, then worked at Lonza Chemical’s QC lab in Pasadena, TX for about a year. Gf broke my heart in Houston.
Mom in Austin got breast cancer, found a job with ATMI in good ‘ol Burnet, TX, to be closer to the family, bought a small country house near Oatmeal, TX, then got a job at an environmental lab in Austin. Lots of GC and LC work. Now learning microscopy as well. I received training certification from the McCrone Research Institute http://www.mcri.org/ in Chicago.
Mom did not survive her cancer.
Hate the commute to Austin, but the Honda Insight has been a good stepping-stone. Paid off the house November 1, 2006.
More gfs, more heart breaks.
Learned about PO around 2000, and have been focused on home and land improvement projects since then. Oatmeal has always been a small agricultural community, so I’m slowly working on making my little piece of land a contributor with a small orchard of pecans and peaches.
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
42 and living in Nova Scotia, Canada. Married with no children but 3 cats and a dog
Born in Uk and worked in software support analyst for 14 years. Then decided to drop out with my wife, so we sold up and moved to France to become as self sufficient as possible. Finally ran out of money and sold up. Now living on Cape Breton island studying for a Carpentry Diploma (House construction) Figure it will be a much more useful thing to know.
Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 298 Location: Toronto, Ontario
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
25
Masters in organic chemistry
now in 2nd year of law school in Toronto
will be working in intellectual property (mostly patent litigation) from mid 2008 on (provided there isn't a fast crash!)
single, will remain childfree
love fishing, and have a hard-work ethic physically and mentally, but otherwise no skills developed to deal with PO at this stage... will get onto that this summer
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From housecleaner to medieval professor.
