hands up if you're a scientist

[fuzzyyo]

MENG in civil engineering. Currently halfway through a microbiology related PHD thats looking at using bacteria to treat contaminated land

[Ross1988]

My housemate. Part time chemist, full time legend.

He doesn't have any qualifications, but does know how to make flare type smoke bombs of varying colour, thermite, and some of pretty funky stuff.

Don't think he counts actually...

We have a lot of fun out of it though.

[troc]

I'm a physicist, chemist and materials engineer (not bragging, just kept failing to leave university 'cos of all the cheap beer), currently employed at the European Patent Office as an Examiner.

Yes than means my Business card reads:


Dr Savage, Examiner.





BTW we are recruiting - anyone out there with a degree or PhD in one of the natural sciences and/or engineering AND can speak/read/write scientifically in English, French and German (one of the three can be a bit weak.....), let me know. Tax-free salary!




PS Except for the batch that were mis-printed "Exminer", people kept asking me why I had a previous job on my card......

[Use Psychology]

must be english, french AND german?

balls, got english, on my way to german, no french.

EPO was sort-of a vasgue back up plan for me.

[rhinochopig]

Talking of scientific foreign languages. When I was at R-R a mate showed me a document that talked at length about water-sheep. He explained it had taken them a while to figure out that they were in fact talking about a hydraulic ram design and had fallen foul of auto-translation software.

[Baron Greenback]

I have an enducation back ground in engineering surveying, industrial geology and underground surveying and working in geodesy atm!

[troc]

rhinochopig said:

Talking of scientific foreign languages. When I was at R-R a mate showed me a document that talked at length about water-sheep. He explained it had taken them a while to figure out that they were in fact talking about a hydraulic ram design and had fallen foul of auto-translation software.

Hehe, w had a fun one last week. Applicant had used auto translation software to translate fliegeruhr from German to English. Instead of "pilot's watch", he got" fly dysentery" because the software split the word into fliege ruhr instead of flieger uhr

Oh and yeah, we are strict on the language requirement but if you have 2 of the three and are otherwise a good candidate, we might say yes subject to a language course