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Looks like all but one or two are either direct or indirect gov jobs....this is not a good sign.

Even I applied for a gov position, there is just nothing going on in Michigan right now. I am a firm believer in the ebb and flow but I think we have a ways to go before it turns.

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Old 01-20-2009, 04:43 PM
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****ing lovely. 800 people who think they can do my job flooding into the market.
C'mon. Something has to be said on your part for talent, right? You've been around. I'd be surprised if I didn't know you from WBTV or Klasky-Csupo.
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Old 01-20-2009, 04:51 PM
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How does one get into that line of work anyway?
You could search around online for wanted ads, but i got into it from being in the business and just pestering my former employer to let me do the company repos. Once he did, and i decided i could make a few bucks at it, i got a license.

Been doing it for about 12 years now i guess.
Old 01-20-2009, 05:04 PM
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Well, I picked up more clients over the weekend and a few more today (they are hiring my services. Our business has increase over 30% the last few months, of course, we have been busting our tails to get new business and increase old. DD74, what do you do at Warner Bros??
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Old 01-20-2009, 05:37 PM
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C'mon. Something has to be said on your part for talent, right? You've been around. I'd be surprised if I didn't know you from WBTV or Klasky-Csupo.

we should compare notes sometime.


last week i was cleaning out a file cabinet and found a bunch of stuff from "biker mice from mars". if talent counts for everything, explain that.


last year one of my bosses paid for me to start a series of courses. continued it on my own, and am just starting to feel comfortable with maya. gonna make an effort to break out of my little career rut.
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2 pages? How about 2 columns, and that's on Sunday!


Call one up. I'd bet some security work or PI work would help a lot. Also military police.
Our ads are all service industry and tourist stuff at $10/hour.
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Old 01-20-2009, 07:26 PM
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Environmental Consulting still kicking and we hired a new Geologist (PG) last week. The state funded underground storage tank programs spend millions cleaning up groundwater from leaking tanks. Its all paid by gasoline taxes (penny per gallon) and tens of thousands of sites still require cleanup nationwide.

I have had several friends laid off in the industry last year only to be picked up by EPA or consulting firms recently.

If Obama keeps environmental programs funded, especially superfund sites and base closure clean up work going, most will survive this mess. For now its USTs, due-dilligence (Phase I and Phase II assessments), existing federally funded clean-up work and compliance holding everything together in this industry.

If Obama pumps money into infrastructure as he says, a ton of work will be available not only for engineering and construction firms, but environmental consultants as well.

We shall see......
I've got 25 years in that industry....they looking for people in Enhanced Vapor Recovery, Asbestos and/or Lead?
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Old 01-20-2009, 07:28 PM
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Environmental Consulting still kicking and we hired a new Geologist (PG) last week.We shall see......
Nice to know. I was an environmental consultant for 25 years, did lots of UST work. I'm a CIH and my CA Registered Environmental Assessor # is 006 out of the 10,000 in the state. Hopefully I won't need it.
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Old 01-20-2009, 07:56 PM
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yea i was hired as a snowboard instructor at hunter mountain n.y as a second job...not really good pay but awesome benefits ski for free
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Old 01-20-2009, 08:33 PM
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we should compare notes sometime.
Most definitely. Beers at Farmer's Market. Not Molly Malone's though. I always get into fights in that place.
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Old 01-20-2009, 09:54 PM
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Not Molly Malone's though. I always get into fights in that place.
Really? Please elaborate if you're not lying.
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:02 PM
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Really? Please elaborate if you're not lying.
Do you know Molly Malone's? If so, what street is it on? (Don't google it, either - though that's probably what you'll do, right?)
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:26 PM
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Gee Heel n Toe. It takes you an awful long time to Google the name of a bar...
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:32 PM
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Do you know Molly Malone's? If so, what street is it on?
You're too much of a coward to answer simple, direct questions about things you have said.

I understand that.

Let me explain; I am not interested in knowing where the place is.

I am not interested in going there... for whatever bizarre reason you may have concocted.

I was merely interested in having you talk about what you said in your little girlieman statement; "I always get into fights in that place."

Like I said before... please elaborate if you're not lying.

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Old 01-21-2009, 06:36 AM
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This is what is posted on our region aia website.

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Old 01-21-2009, 07:09 AM
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This is what is posted on our region aia website.

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Ouch, that's incredible.
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Old 01-21-2009, 07:11 AM
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I was headhunted and just started a new job this week. Better environment and a huge raise.. Counting my blessings.
Old 01-21-2009, 08:29 AM
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I was headhunted and just started a new job this week. Better environment and a huge raise.. Counting my blessings.
What do you do?
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Old 01-21-2009, 08:33 AM
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Not architecture I bet!
Old 01-21-2009, 08:35 AM
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+1 to that!

This profession is DEAD right now!

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