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Post by oldholborn on Jan 5, 2017 12:15:55 GMT
Very interesting stuff here.
I'm 31 and I studied brewing technology. Yes it is really possible to study that in Germany at a state university:) At the moment I am in the process of starting my own little brewery, but I am still at a early stage and partly working at another small brewery.
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Post by imfishy on Jan 5, 2017 12:34:28 GMT
Very interesting stuff here. I'm 31 and I studied brewing technology. Yes it is really possible to study that in Germany at a state university:) At the moment I am in the process of starting my own little brewery, but I am still at a early stage and partly working at another small brewery. do you mind sharing, where you are studying brewing technology?
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Post by oldholborn on Jan 5, 2017 12:40:16 GMT
Yeah sure, I am already finished but I studied in Berlin at the TU.
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Post by imfishy on Jan 5, 2017 12:58:38 GMT
i was just curious because i have some friends studying the same thing in munich/weihenstephan. Sounds really cool.
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Post by Tsupernami on Jan 5, 2017 13:02:37 GMT
I'm 25 and have been working for the UK civil service as a tax specialist for three years. My department looks at the retail, media, technology and telecommunications sector, the 200 biggest companies (if you can name them I or one of my colleagues have probably been out to meet them).
My particular specialist area is Employment duties, so my areas of concern are whether these companies are deducting the right about of tax from employees earnings for all the money they pay them and the benefits they receive. If they don't, I give them penalties.
When I was 21, I left university with a BSc in Physics.
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Post by EDDI2142 on Jan 5, 2017 14:41:25 GMT
I'm 25 and have been working for the UK civil service as a tax specialist for three years. My department looks at the retail, media, technology and telecommunications sector, the 200 biggest companies (if you can name them I or one of my colleagues have probably been out to meet them). My particular specialist area is Employment duties, so my areas of concern are whether these companies are deducting the right about of tax from employees earnings for all the money they pay them and the benefits they receive. If they don't, I give them penalties. When I was 21, I left university with a BSc in Physics. Interesting, I'm curious about how you became a tax specialist with a degree in Physics. I assume that having a Physics degree would give you a lot of job opportunities and therefore your path of going for something completely different is quite fascinating.
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Post by Tsupernami on Jan 5, 2017 17:00:00 GMT
I'm 25 and have been working for the UK civil service as a tax specialist for three years. My department looks at the retail, media, technology and telecommunications sector, the 200 biggest companies (if you can name them I or one of my colleagues have probably been out to meet them). My particular specialist area is Employment duties, so my areas of concern are whether these companies are deducting the right about of tax from employees earnings for all the money they pay them and the benefits they receive. If they don't, I give them penalties. When I was 21, I left university with a BSc in Physics. Interesting, I'm curious about how you became a tax specialist with a degree in Physics. I assume that having a Physics degree would give you a lot of job opportunities and therefore your path of going for something completely different is quite fascinating. I was a very lazy student so only got a 2:2, which meant job options and graduate schemes weren't as varied or available as someone who'd got a 2:1. The problem we have in the UK at the moment is that so many young people are convinced into going to university to avoid having responsibility that the degree market is over saturated. Thankfully for me, my degree stands out on its name alone, so I've been quite fortunate. The reason I haven't actively sought a career in science is because on the whole, having to collect data and present findings bores me. I much more enjoy learning about what others have already discovered and why it matters and playing around with different theories. Unfortunately you can't have a theory without really testing it if you want to make a living. My dissertation was on Tidal forces. Mostly on that of our own tides on Earth. For example, little things like having two high tides at any one time, one towards the moon and one directly away from the moon. Spring and Neap tides caused by the Sun. How the Moon and Earth are directly slowing the spin of each other and in billions of years will stop spinning altogether relative to each other. (actually the moon doesn't spin relative to us for this very reason). Oh and why Europa as one of Jupiter's moons is highly volcanic due to Jupiter. Anyway, now that I've bored you, I fell into this job. I was applying for any grad scheme that I could find, and while I didn't get on the one here, there offered me a job anyway. Within 18 months I was promoted and I'm pretty much halfway along the grad scheme already without ever actually getting on it officially. Just two more promotions and I'm sorted 😊
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Post by EDDI2142 on Jan 5, 2017 17:28:46 GMT
Interesting, I'm curious about how you became a tax specialist with a degree in Physics. I assume that having a Physics degree would give you a lot of job opportunities and therefore your path of going for something completely different is quite fascinating. I was a very lazy student so only got a 2:2, which meant job options and graduate schemes weren't as varied or available as someone who'd got a 2:1. The problem we have in the UK at the moment is that so many young people are convinced into going to university to avoid having responsibility that the degree market is over saturated. Thankfully for me, my degree stands out on its name alone, so I've been quite fortunate. The reason I haven't actively sought a career in science is because on the whole, having to collect data and present findings bores me. I much more enjoy learning about what others have already discovered and why it matters and playing around with different theories. Unfortunately you can't have a theory without really testing it if you want to make a living. My dissertation was on Tidal forces. Mostly on that of our own tides on Earth. For example, little things like having two high tides at any one time, one towards the moon and one directly away from the moon. Spring and Neap tides caused by the Sun. How the Moon and Earth are directly slowing the spin of each other and in billions of years will stop spinning altogether relative to each other. (actually the moon doesn't spin relative to us for this very reason). Oh and why Europa as one of Jupiter's moons is highly volcanic due to Jupiter. Anyway, now that I've bored you, I fell into this job. I was applying for any grad scheme that I could find, and while I didn't get on the one here, there offered me a job anyway. Within 18 months I was promoted and I'm pretty much halfway along the grad scheme already without ever actually getting on it officially. Just two more promotions and I'm sorted 😊 Your dissertation sounds very interesting IMO. I've learnt these things by reading through articles and watching YT videos, but I imagine that doing your own research makes it a much better experience. Concerning your job, that sounds like a pretty good career, especially when you consider the fact that you got the job unintentionally. I guess the next step for you is family
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Post by Tsupernami on Jan 5, 2017 18:08:21 GMT
I was a very lazy student so only got a 2:2, which meant job options and graduate schemes weren't as varied or available as someone who'd got a 2:1. The problem we have in the UK at the moment is that so many young people are convinced into going to university to avoid having responsibility that the degree market is over saturated. Thankfully for me, my degree stands out on its name alone, so I've been quite fortunate. The reason I haven't actively sought a career in science is because on the whole, having to collect data and present findings bores me. I much more enjoy learning about what others have already discovered and why it matters and playing around with different theories. Unfortunately you can't have a theory without really testing it if you want to make a living. My dissertation was on Tidal forces. Mostly on that of our own tides on Earth. For example, little things like having two high tides at any one time, one towards the moon and one directly away from the moon. Spring and Neap tides caused by the Sun. How the Moon and Earth are directly slowing the spin of each other and in billions of years will stop spinning altogether relative to each other. (actually the moon doesn't spin relative to us for this very reason). Oh and why Europa as one of Jupiter's moons is highly volcanic due to Jupiter. Anyway, now that I've bored you, I fell into this job. I was applying for any grad scheme that I could find, and while I didn't get on the one here, there offered me a job anyway. Within 18 months I was promoted and I'm pretty much halfway along the grad scheme already without ever actually getting on it officially. Just two more promotions and I'm sorted 😊 Your dissertation sounds very interesting IMO. I've learnt these things by reading through articles and watching YT videos, but I imagine that doing your own research makes it a much better experience. Concerning your job, that sounds like a pretty good career, especially when you consider the fact that you got the job unintentionally. I guess the next step for you is family Great, you too? My partner is literally going to love you if she saw this. She's wanted kids for a while now. But yeah, I'm almost at the place I want for stability. I think our own mortgage and not renting may be our next step though. It's a bit more secure financially.
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Post by positivetension on Jan 5, 2017 20:16:37 GMT
I am "kind of" back into GTA so I figured it would be appropriate to write something about the reason I was away from playing. And this is the perfect topic for it. I am 25, im working on my Master thesis, like my buddy EDDI2142 . But on a different subject: Electrical Engineering. Im working on (and my thesis is part of it) a government funded research project for the electrical supply of critical infrastructure (hospitals, water supply etc.) in case of large scale blackouts by using renewable generation systems(PV-Systems, Biomass- and Hydro Power Plants). Ah cool had wondered where you had gone to as I occasionally see an alert that you've logged in. To comply with the thread, I work in web development.
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Post by EDDI2142 on Jan 5, 2017 20:53:48 GMT
Your dissertation sounds very interesting IMO. I've learnt these things by reading through articles and watching YT videos, but I imagine that doing your own research makes it a much better experience. Concerning your job, that sounds like a pretty good career, especially when you consider the fact that you got the job unintentionally. I guess the next step for you is family Great, you too? My partner is literally going to love you if she saw this. She's wanted kids for a while now. But yeah, I'm almost at the place I want for stability. I think our own mortgage and not renting may be our next step though. It's a bit more secure financially. No no, I'm far away from having a family. I've only started my career very recently and I think that in about 5-10 years I will start thinking about the rest. Mortgage is good, however you lose a lot of flexibility (in terms of moving and such). Also owning property is not always cheaper than renting (check Google scholar for more information).
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Post by firefly on Jan 6, 2017 8:34:22 GMT
21y/o studying Technical Business Engineering. (Technische Bedrijfskunde in Dutch) Right now I am doing my internship at KLM cityhopper as "assistant material manager" at Schiphol-East Basically I have to create insight in the material processes, locations, quantity's and who is the owner of what. Shit isn't going very optimal at some points so there are some big rework changes planned. imgur.com/a/ZbloaThere are always some aircrafts in the hangar here, which is cool. This is also where the Dutch government aircraft is being parked and maintained when not in use. (It's called the KBX)
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Post by GalantEvo on Jan 6, 2017 16:15:14 GMT
21y/o studying Technical Business Engineering. (Technische Bedrijfskunde in Dutch) Right now I am doing my internship at KLM cityhopper as "assistant material manager" at Schiphol-East Basically I have to create insight in the material processes, locations, quantity's and who is the owner of what. Shit isn't going very optimal at some points so there are some big rework changes planned. imgur.com/a/ZbloaThere are always some aircrafts in the hangar here, which is cool. This is also where the Dutch government aircraft is being parked and maintained when not in use. (It's called the KBX) Oh snap you work at Schiphol? Might visit ya one day. I live fairly close by, about 30 minutes by car.
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Post by firefly on Jan 6, 2017 16:33:05 GMT
21y/o studying Technical Business Engineering. (Technische Bedrijfskunde in Dutch) Right now I am doing my internship at KLM cityhopper as "assistant material manager" at Schiphol-East Basically I have to create insight in the material processes, locations, quantity's and who is the owner of what. Shit isn't going very optimal at some points so there are some big rework changes planned. imgur.com/a/ZbloaThere are always some aircrafts in the hangar here, which is cool. This is also where the Dutch government aircraft is being parked and maintained when not in use. (It's called the KBX) Oh snap you work at Schiphol? Might visit ya one day. I live fairly close by, about 30 minutes by car. goodluck with that. Im behind security
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Post by jeffreyb1990 on Jan 6, 2017 16:39:37 GMT
Oh snap you work at Schiphol? Might visit ya one day. I live fairly close by, about 30 minutes by car. goodluck with that. Im behind security Well you've seen how good that security is
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