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Who has the strangest job on AT?

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Neuroscientist-

I gently removed Rat brains, slice them in physiological artificial cerebral spinal fluid. Mount them in a chamber attached to a microscope. Then I take a tiny needle and Patch Clamp them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_clamp

Then I record neural firing patterns in regards to temperature changes of the spinal fluid in attempt to figure out how hypothalamic neurons control temperature within the body.
 
zinfamous said:
Time to lay down the gauntlet:

previous job found me spending most of my work days inspecting mouse vaginas.

yeah, that's right: licensed mouse vagina inspector.

also saccing ~100 pups and various other useless (too old) mice per day, injecting ES cells into blastocysts, impregnating lady mice with my little Frankenstein blastocysts, etc.

All regular duties working as a microinjectionist in a transgenics facility.


what do I win?
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You should add that you were inspecting mouse vaginas for plugs, aka dried semen 😛

At my old lab I used to work with people who did the original knockout mice work (they used work for Mario Capecchi), heard some good stories of the old days.
 
i sit in a cube all day and nef on atot. being a business analyst is oh so challenging and rewarding :-/ bleh. wish I could go back to dev.

its not even a full cube, its half-height 🙁
 
I'm forced to travel the entire globe in the search of gravity stations left behind by scientists of the past 50 years, who left them behind as plaque's in the middle of nowhere, in random places next to the bush in some hotel room, etc... No lie. It's a constant "treasure" hunt, but in reality, is to make sure our gravimeter on the ship doesn't phase out of calibration too much.
 
kami333 said:
You should add that you were inspecting mouse vaginas for plugs, aka dried semen 😛

At my old lab I used to work with people who did the original knockout mice work (they used work for Mario Capecchi), heard some good stories of the old days.
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yep, good 'ol semen plugs. of course, they also have to be checked out prior to the ah...coupling to make sure the ladies are ready to receive.

One must tune one's eye to the subtle differences between a regular 'ol mouse vagina, and the reddish, slightly swollen vagina of a mouse in heat.
 
Emergency physician,- get to:

cut open abscesses
put tubes into peoples chests and tracheas
pull feces out of old ladies rectums when they get impacted
Hunt for lost tampons
remove foriegn objects from rectums
administer eletric shocks to peoples hearts
give medicine that stop the heart
Baby sit drunks
remove ticks

Everyday holds something new

How many people do you know have had their arm half way up in a human vagina
 
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I work on path planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles (our is named Skynet, no joke).

I'm sure I'm not the only engineering grad student that posts here, though.
 
I used to work on a lobster boat as a stern man. I was 15 my first year, then 17 and 18 (I worked the summers), 6 days a week in the beautiful sun, plenty of breeze and a nice workout to boot. I loved it for that time and place.
 
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