What are the neatest things you've done in your career?

[DGuller]

  Damn, reading all these accounts makes me realize that actuarial profession doesn't tend to generate interesting neat stories.

[Eddie Teach]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBttKoetqo

[katmai]

Flown out on USCG SAR missions in H-60 helos, flown with them to Russian-us border when they were conducting law enforcement missions, drove to Arctic Ocean with BBC crew, drank some beers with Johnny Depp on day he was nominated for oscar.  Those would be highlights I guess.

[Caliga]

Damn, reading all these accounts makes me realize that actuarial profession doesn't tend to generate interesting neat stories.

I'm kind of in the same boat, since I'm an IT guy mostly supporting finance operations.

I guess working with Jane Fonda was pretty neat, but that was more than 10 years ago now.

I also expanded a telephony system from US and Spanish voice prompts to Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Vietnamese (or was it Hmong?) and Haitian Creole once.  That was pretty neat.

Recently I modified our accounting and finance ERP to be able to transact in Pounds Sterling.  That was kind of neat if you're an accounting and/or FX nerd.

[Eddie Teach]

Would've been even neater if it had been around the time Barbarella came out.

[Caliga]

Would've been even neater if it had been around the time Barbarella came out.

Dude, here's the fucked up thing about Jane Fonda.  At the time I worked in Alumni Affairs and Development, which might better be described as 'Sales for Non-profits'... meaning that the profession attracts a lot of hot chicks.  We did this event that she came to, and I swear to you that she was STILL the hottest woman in the room and I believe at that time she was 64.

[Viking]

I jury rigged a seismic air gun, the kind usually used on large offshore operations to do a seismic land survey on a gas well right in the middle of a dairy farm by digging a 1.5x1.5x1.5 meter trench, filling it with water and then firing the air gun in the ditch with the wrong kind of cable. The wrong kind of cable meant that the signal wasn't strong enough on one wire, I tuned the differing delays on each of the 7 wires of different length the an electronic delay apparatus usually used to fire dynamite charges. The air gun was fire with a 1.5 mile offset from the wellhead to be directly above the downhole seismic tool.

The dairy cows were not disturbed.

[DGuller]

I'm kind of in the same boat, since I'm an IT guy

[Monoriu]

I have yet to be fired

[jimmy olsen]

Last year's summer class I had the students practice and present "High School Musical".

Watching them practice was funny as shit.

I was very proud when two of my students last year made the national English contest in Busan. There were only 20 contestants so it was a big accomplishment.

[jimmy olsen]

I defended a lawsuit in which my client was sued by Jesus Christ (a/k/a The Son of Man).

And no, it wasn't a frivolous suit, or brought by a lunatic - millions of real dollars were at stake. 

I also participated in defending a lawsuit in which it was determined, as a point of law, that Martians did not have standing to sue in Ontario. That one was more, well, frivolous.

Racist! 

[fhdz]

I managed a complete physical inventory and trained the inventory tech in Mexico City. Ate and drank like a king. Worked my ass off, too. Smoked Cuban cigars and bought porn from the hotel lobby. It was incredible.

[Eddie Teach]

Last year's summer class I had the students practice and present "High School Musical".

Why on earth would you do that? 

[DGuller]

I was very proud when two of my students last year made the national English contest in Busan. There were only 20 contestants so it was a big accomplishment.

Сапожник без сапог.

[Monoriu]

I have yet to be fired