Profession

[CTG]

Easy question: what's your job/profession? I know it about some of you but not everybody...

Let me start: I got my M.Sc. degree in chemical engineering last year and now I'm a PhD student of the university in co-operation with a giant international company's (General Electric) lighting factory.

[zaqrack]

currently I have two independent jobs, and this will go on until  next summer at least.
I like them both, though its hard to earn a decent salary, but I enjoy not having a 9to5 job and setting my daily schedule on my own.

1. I'm a soon to be vice president (I'm already nominated by the president, on Sept 29 will be the vote) of the Hungarian Cyclists' Club. I'm in charge of bicycle tourism and you can enjoy the results of my work soon at http://www.hunbike.hu
2. I'm the webshop and marketing manager of a small company which is selling used computer products. Access us here: http://outlet.77.hu

From next summer we'll might go abroad for the duration of 1-3 years with Andi and try our luck and life there. We are considering Denmark too

[Argammon]

@ Zak: I thought you studied hotel management. Don't you want to work in that field?
Not that I have a deep knowledge in those fields, but the job's you currently have sound like jobs you could have done without studying at all? Or am I wrong about the management job?

@CTG: Nice career 

About me: I got a master in economics this year and am now studying/working at a graduate school.(PhD) 

[JTK]

I studied science of education and have got a Diploma on that (Dipl.-P?d.). Now I am product manager and consultant at b+m Informatik AG for health care software and medical process management: http://www.bmiag.de/index.php?id=2747.
I've also got my own company: Böhm-Kalpen-Maass GbR (http://www.boehm-kalpen-maass.de)
For more professional stuff see https://www.xing.com/profile/Oliver_Kalpen

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

I have a MSc diploma in environmental studies, specialized in ecology, plus a two-year special translator course for this major (providing me an advanced written language exam in my major). I'm looking for a job now as a newly graduated man. If I don't get a job around my hometown, I'm going to try to remove to Debrecen or Budapest. Firstly, almost any kind of job would be fine.

[Usrin]

I got my MSc degree in geology one year ago, than I started a PhD project. We are also co-operating with some oil companies (MOL and Norsk Hydro), but unlike CTG, I got my scholarship from the university. However, they will probably offer me a job after getting the degree. (This summer I was working for Statoil in Norway, but it was only a temporary job, not related to this project.)

Btw, I would prefer to make a career as a researcher at a university or an institute, but nowadays there are much more possibilities and higher salaries in oil industry...

[zaqrack]

@ Zak: I thought you studied hotel management. Don't you want to work in that field?
Not that I have a deep knowledge in those fields, but the job's you currently have sound like jobs you could have done without studying at all? Or am I wrong about the management job?

I studied tourism and hotel management. The job I'm currently having at the cyclists' club demands all my abilities and skills I have learned. I have to coordinate volunteer workers, have often meetings and have to  sign contracts with hotels, restaurants and companies, explain them why it is financiall good for us to become bike friendly, and help them do investments correctly.
I absolutely don't want to work in a hotel unless I have to. I'm planning to open my own hostel in Budapest maybe, I have a nice concept, which would be surely succesful. I only miss around 200.000EUR to start

But most importantly, I do not care about my salary at this point. I can earn enough to live along, and to see that the results of my job end ip in something useful for a whole country, and not just a company makes me incredibly happy. Honestly.
 

[Chulk]

I'm a student of (Argammon will like it) economics at UNLP (La Plata National University).

[JTK]

I'm planning to open my own hostel in Budapest maybe, I have a nice concept, which would be surely succesful.

I'll be first guest!

[Krys TOFF]

I only miss around 200.000EUR to start

"only" ?

I've got a diploma in biology but didn't want to do a PhD. I'm working right now in food industry as quality/formulas manager after spending some years in R&D department as a project leader.

[CTG]

I've got a diploma in biology but didn't want to do a PhD. I'm working right now in food industry as quality/formulas manager after spending some years in R&D department as a project leader.

Ah so your job is tasting yoghurts.

[Krys TOFF]

No, my job WAS to prepare fuit preparations and test them in yoghurt/fromage frais when I was in R&D department.
Now, my job is to be sure that the 2 French plants produce properly the food preparations validated by our clients after R&D samples.

[CTG]

Why do I feel that you were removed from your previous job because of having sex with yoghurt jars? (something like Akoss Poo and CDs)

[Krys TOFF]

loooool ! No.

[zaqrack]

So as you know I have changed my profession, so now I'm a vice president assistant at a company specialized in consulting and commerce between China and Hungary.