Tell me about your job

[The Johnny]

I live and breathe qualitative analysis of discourse of schizophrenics while trying to not go insane.

Im not sure how that last part is working out though 

Oh my, wow.

I mean, analyzing their speech patterns is certainly bound to be useful, but fuuuuck.

Missed that. Johnny, if you can/want to go into more detail there, I know I'd be interested to read it.

We have one 3 hour session every week with around 15ish people with "psychiatrical experience". Psychiatrical experience denotes someone who has included but not limited to: schizophrenia, bipolarity, depression, ADHD.

After everyone arrives, they propose subjects to talk about, then we make a general vote to see which ones will be talked about that day and then we start the 1st subject... the person that proposed the subject makes a long introduction of it and then the rest give their opinion on the matter. There is no limitations as to what is the subject to be discussed.

Everything is recorded and then transformed into text.

Since our objectives as a project revolve around social inclusion, de-stigmatization and possible redirection to treatment, our analytical categories are composed in a matter oriented in that manner. Since the team of the project does not choose the subjects, the analytical categories are created post-factum, which means that we create categories of important things besides the core ones which is exlusion, biography, delirium.

Any given paragraph can range between 0 to 13 markings related to a certain category, and a paragraph is not a totality, rather, sentences are the totality. The test run is being done by hand and pens with different colors, once we get the hang of it, im going to do the "marking" with a certain program which will, upon request, make a big compilation dump of everything marked in a certain way... for example: "person X" "biography" "2012" would dump all the markings pertaining to a specific person's biographical text from 2012, and finally, that is analyzed with a social sciences, qualitative analysis approach.

So yeah.

[The Johnny]

Technically i could do this with a person's facebook wall, or with post history in a forum, but by fuck would i do it because of the difficulty in systematizing and formatting the text and doing the analysis itself. The ideal format is interviews, just mentioning what is possible.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'll be interested in hearing more as you move along.

I just started on a Photovoice research project.

[Telarus]

Interesting work there Johnny, thanks for taking the time to tell us about it.

[Reginald Ret]

Quite interesting.
I am looking forward to hearing more about your work.

[The Johnny]

Thanks y'all, most material in its pure form is non-distributable cause privacy of clinical material... but the idea is to first make an academic paper, and later a book regarding the effects of the dispositive and matters of exclusion and inclusion and life trajectories... delirium and clinics is strictly internal or therapeutical use.

[Junkenstein]

Technically i could do this with a person's facebook wall, or with post history in a forum, but by fuck would i do it because of the difficulty in systematizing and formatting the text and doing the analysis itself. The ideal format is interviews, just mentioning what is possible.

The thought occurs that your skill-set is probably pretty close to what the NSA/GCHQ would look for in regards to certain roles.

It also occurs to me that if you ever wanted to do a hatchet job on someone it'd be a thing of beauty. I'd just like to take a moment to encourage that.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Technically i could do this with a person's facebook wall, or with post history in a forum, but by fuck would i do it because of the difficulty in systematizing and formatting the text and doing the analysis itself. The ideal format is interviews, just mentioning what is possible.

The thought occurs that your skill-set is probably pretty close to what the NSA/GCHQ would look for in regards to certain roles.

It also occurs to me that if you ever wanted to do a hatchet job on someone it'd be a thing of beauty. I'd just like to take a moment to encourage that.

seconded 

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

i work three very part time jobs(move out of my parents house? HA YOU'RE FUNNY)

The job i love most is being a tutor at my local community college. I tutor Psy 161 which is statistics as it applies to psychological experiments. I don't like the subject of statistics much (It's pretty much all the more persnickety parts of doing math and lumped them into one discipline) but i love the act of actually tutoring. I get my own office(while i'm in it), i get to help students one-on-one, and most importantly, i get to teach without an entire legion of ill-informed idiots telling me how to do it. A person comes in, I ask what they need help understanding, i explain it to them patiently, they thank me for my help, and at no point does anyone push an agenda on me our my students. Plus, it's the only one of my jobs that keeps me on a regular schedule, everywhere else i work is event based, meaning i dont have work when they don't have an event lined up.
Second place is my job at my church as Sexton. Basically in the event of a wedding or similar event, i'm the dude that sets up the chairs  tables and also i work the sound system. Had a bit of fun at this job a couple weeks back as i basically got to dj a gay wedding between two very nice ladies from my church who were nice enough to tip me 60 bux after the whole thing. Lots of physical work, but cool perks also.
The job i'm trying to leave is as an event specialist for a marketing firm (see, guy who gives out food samples at supermarkets) i actually used to enjoy this job a lot more than i do now, the work isn't too strenuous, i get to talk to people now and again. What ruined it for me was finding out about their pay practices. For years they told me they couldn't give me a raise because of a new "wage freeze" policy wherein apparently everyone's not getting a raise because reasons, yet I found out they're hiring a bunch of new people at 15 bux an hour(which is four bux more than i make) Couple that with the promises they made when i was hired that i'd get raises every year or so and  you can see why i'm on the lookout for something better. Hopefully more tutoring work.

[The Johnny]

nevermind, thought i found some creepy NSA connection but it just ammounted to this:

Dedoose project data is also very secure as all protocols and policies meet U.S. National Security Agency standards and project administrators control the levels of access for all users linked to a project.