Occupation?

[Bella]

Sorry for being a nosy bitch, but what do y'all do for a living?

[Farren]

I thought it was an Iraq thread...

I was working for myself until recently, doing analysis and software development, but have been forced by my massive financial incompetence, breaking my neck, temporarily paralyzing my arm, losing my car and just generally messing shit up to actually get a job. Well, a contract really.

So now I'm back where I was close to a decade ago, doing frickin' network support. Thank God I don't have too many "any key" customers*. The company I'm working for has just offered me a full time analysis and development job.

The owners are old friends and the office environment is such that some guys wear bright flowery shirts and shorts to work and drink beer at lunchtime. When people have their birthday's they don't just bring in cake, they invite everyone in the company (+-20 people) to their actual birthday parties because these people all socialise together.

No one wants to be the boss because they're all top flight computer guru's and want to work on computers, not people's nerves. Some of them are downright socialist. After much buck shifting, one of my childhood friend's was made MD, a position he stoically occupied for 2 years before rebelling and threatening to leave, so they hired an MD to be the boss of them. Said friend bailed out of his last employment with R3-4 million in exercised share options and still drives round in a beat up old boxy hatchback as a kind of anti-status thing (also to turn off gold-diggers). The office manager and the operations manager are also employees. All the owners are working on actual code and network infrastructure stuff.

I'm fairly certain I'm gonna say "Yes" to their offer.

*[edited to add cos I forgot to]
"Any key" complaints are when a customer phones up and says "The computer thingy says 'press any key to continue' but I can't find the damn 'any' key". The best response is "I'll be over shortly to fix your problem with a crowbar and a monkey's brain"

[seebs]

Freelance writer. And I just got paid today. First time since November, second time since April. WOO! I mostly do technical writing, but I will write nearly anything if it pays okay. My specialty is writing about stuff no one knows about yet.

[wildernesse]

I'm a perpetual student. Woohoo! Real world, you can't catch me.

[wade-w]

I am currently unemployed. But in my life I've had many different occupations including (in no particular order) tutor, cook (including at various times line, prep and kitchen manager), sales, construction worker, driver, assistant manager of a nightclub, bouncer, printer, sailor, stock clerk, and systems administrator.

[seebs]

See, I have writing and programming background, so I can combine them, and be a technical writer.

What you need to do, Wade, is find a way to combine your jobs.

Let's see.

tutor, cook (including at various times line, prep and kitchen manager), sales, construction worker, driver, assistant manager of a nightclub, bouncer, printer, sailor, stock clerk, and systems administrator

Okay.

Okay, let's see. You need a nightclub on a ship. It has to have a network, which you administer, and you can printt your own fliers, as well as being the bouncer. You can build the dance stage yourself, and make the food. I can't find a way to work tutoring, sales, and driving into this, but maybe someone else is more creative.

[CARLA]

:whup: Currently I work for the San Diego Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association as the DATA BASE MANAGER :yawn:

I moonlight as a PC consultant for those needing help, with just about anything.. Most of my business is by word of mouth...!! Make way more at this then my day job. When people are desperate they will pay anything to get their computer working..!! Love it will continue this work when I retire in 5 years.

My other jobs include:

22 year in a major local Hospital in San Diego. I was the Director of Information Systems (now called IT).

Broke my neck, disabled 10 years(1989 to 1999). During the 10 years of rehab, I did volunteer work for the Alzheimer's Association here is San Diego for the entire 10 years of my disability. I worked with families in all areas of the disease, still do. We who work at the Association have our speciality job, and all must work with families. I designed their Donor Database, and their Program Services Database.

I got tired of being broke on SSI disability so they hired me... been here since 2000....!!! :wave:

[Dingfod]

Title: Pipeline Controller (was Gas Controller)

Monitor (mostly) and control (very little, actually) crude oil, mixed petroleum product and natural gas pipelines, gathering lateral systems, compressors, and processing plants in various separate locales including offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, Western Wyoming, Southwest Colorado, and Northwest New Mexico on a 12-hour rotating shift, sapping the very life forces out of me in exchange for a few pieces of silver and the occasional carrot dangled on a stick over the last 15 years of my dwindling life.

[Ab_Normal]

I'm a CRUD programmer writing client-server apps in VB6 for the (spit) telemarketing wing of a web-enablement company. The rest of my illustrious careers, in chronological order:

* Federal investigator (doing background checks for security clearances) - 6 months. I found out that investigations require talking to (gasp) *people*

* Motel front desk clerk/catering assistant

* Receptionist

* IT assistant -- this is when I started programming

* 6 months as a network administrator/programmer/bottle washer at a telemarketing joint

* Programmer -- been doing client/server since 1999. Man, does it get boring. :yawn:

[Ymir's blood]

I'm a Project Inspector for the NCDOT. My 'position' involves a lot of killing time, acting as a liaison between the Dept. and the contractor, a little material sampling and testing, some measuring and record keeping and a lot of killing time.

[lady cop]

. :miranda: :cop: :ladycop: :sirens: :policecar: :jail: :shackled: :copter: :twoguns:...i refuse to tell.

[Godless Wonder]

I program computers, but I'm ready to give up on it. I've been programming computers since I was 13, (professionally since 17). Now I'm 36, and there is not one damn thing computers could possibly be programmed to do which I would wish to program them to do. About 2 years ago I woke up one day and all my interest in the topic had just vanished. I keep plugging along, waiting for it to come back, but it doesn't seem to. Not sure what to do instead though.

[seebs]

I program computers, but I'm ready to give up on it. I've been programming computers since I was 13, (professionally since 17). Now I'm 36, and there is not one damn thing computers could possibly be programmed to do which I would wish to program them to do. About 2 years ago I woke up one day and all my interest in the topic had just vanished. I keep plugging along, waiting for it to come back, but it doesn't seem to. Not sure what to do instead though.

If you can write competently (and it seems that you can), technical writing can be a bit of a break from programming. Sucky pay, most of the time.

[justaman]

I'm an officer in the army (Australian of course).

Y'all can call me sir. :drillsgt:

[SharonDee]

I also program computers and have been programming the same line of them for over 22 years. Like GW, I......woke up one day and all my interest in the topic had just vanished. I keep plugging along, waiting for it to come back, but it doesn't seem to.
I'm also waiting for my skills to atrophy since the drive to keep honing my craft died before my love of the work did.

The money is too damned good to warrant my even thinking about doing anything else for a living, though. :deepsigh:

[Godless Wonder]

If you can write competently (and it seems that you can), technical writing can be a bit of a break from programming. Sucky pay, most of the time. Can I be a sarcastic technical writer? :)


(Edit: Don't really know why I wrote that, seemed like a funny idea at the time.)

[Petra]

. :miranda: :cop: :ladycop: :sirens: :policecar: :jail: :shackled: :copter: :twoguns:...i refuse to tell.


LOL!

[viscousmemories]

I'm an officer in the army (Australian of course).

Y'all can call me sir. :drillsgt:
:chuckle: I hope nobody in your unit reads your "why we should all die" posts. :D

[Petra]

I've been...a hotel receptionist, a barmaid, an advertising sales rep (a few times with diferent media), a dope dealer, a prostitute, a student, a radio dj, a music retail sales person, a music retail sales manager, a band manager, a sales and promotions rep for a record company, a cleaner, a backpackers hostel manager, a tour guide, a fruit picker, a factory worker, a "girl friday", a door-to-door sales person, a self-employed street vendor, a copywriter, and gawd knows what else!


Right now, I'm an unemployed single mum, but I'm looking to be back in full time employment as soon as Zoe starts the new school year in Feb. I'm hoping to get a job back at Telecom - either as an ad sales rep with Yellow Pages, or just generally with Telecom in some capacity. I'll let you know how it goes.

[justaman]

:chuckle: I hope nobody in your unit reads your "why we should all die" posts. :D
Bah, a healthy dose of despair is good for the men. Builds morale. :P

[Petra]

:chuckle: I hope nobody in your unit reads your "why we should all die" posts. :D
Bah, a healthy dose of despair is good for the men. Builds morale. :P

You need www.despair.com

[seebs]

I've been...(...) a prostitute, (...) and gawd knows what else!

So, does this give you any cool stories, or is it really dull and unlike TV? :)

[Petra]

I've been...(...) a prostitute, (...) and gawd knows what else!

So, does this give you any cool stories, or is it really dull and unlike TV? :)
I once wrote about my experiences at IIDB - nothing specific, just my attitude toward it.

I'll go see if I can find the post and link you to it.

Edit: there ya go (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showpost.php?p=635981&postcount=48)

[justaman]

:chuckle: I hope nobody in your unit reads your "why we should all die" posts. :D
Bah, a healthy dose of despair is good for the men. Builds morale. :P

You need www.despair.com
hehe I love those calenders! We had them pinned up all over the office, was gold :P

[Petra]

:chuckle: I hope nobody in your unit reads your "why we should all die" posts. :D
Bah, a healthy dose of despair is good for the men. Builds morale. :P

You need www.despair.com
hehe I love those calenders! We had them pinned up all over the office, was gold :P

Livius turned me on to the despair site when I was feeling particularly bitchy and crap one day. I refer to it often when I'm in 'despair' - it's such great therapy.

:giggle:

[viscousmemories]

I love those despair.com posters. I can't remember when I saw the first one, but it was when I was working a desk job. Absolute treasures, they are. :)

[freemonkey]

I am a printer/graphic designer/artist type person. I barely make any money at it. I have a very relaxed partnership-type relationship with my employer, due to the way circumstances have played out with the business over the last few years. I really like what I do, but I hate having to deal with many of my customers. I'm trying to find the motivation, energy and know-how to really make an effort to get something more lucrative going with it. I have tons of ideas, but I don't really have the focus to see them through right now. My husband and I have talked about making an offer on the business lock, stock and barrel, because that may give me the kick I need. :vibes:

I've been...a hotel receptionist, a barmaid, an advertising sales rep (a few times with diferent media), a dope dealer, a prostitute, a student, a radio dj, a music retail sales person, a music retail sales manager, a band manager, a sales and promotions rep for a record company, a cleaner, a backpackers hostel manager, a tour guide, a fruit picker, a factory worker, a "girl friday", a door-to-door sales person, a self-employed street vendor, a copywriter, and gawd knows what else!
You are just so darned interesting!

I've done a lot of advertising sales myself, mostly for newspapers. I tried selling yellow pages for a short time for a newcomer book. It didn't go well for me, but you'll probably do well, Luna.

Although I did pretty well in sales, the only things I liked were the ability to have a bit of control over my income, and employers are lenient if your sales are good.

[Petra]

You are just so darned interesting!

LOL! Thank you, freemonkey, but I wish I'd had the wherewithall to actually have a steady career. Believe me, I envy those who have a vocation.

I've done a lot of advertising sales myself, mostly for newspapers. I tried selling yellow pages for a short time for a newcomer book. It didn't go well for me, but you'll probably do well, Luna.

Although I did pretty well in sales, the only things I liked were the ability to have a bit of control over my income, and employers are lenient if your sales are good.

I am good at sales, but often have conflicts within myself about it - however, the money is good and the work dynamic, so I guess it's the best I can expect considering I've never actually worked at anything remotely worthwhile or career building.

Now, if I could be an artist like you...DAMN! I'd be happy! :)


And, freemonkey, thank you. I love you, too. :yup: :wave:

[freemonkey]

You need www.despair.com
:biglaugh:

[Dingfod]

I've been...a hotel receptionist, a barmaid, an advertising sales rep (a few times with diferent media), a dope dealer, a prostitute, a student, a radio dj, a music retail sales person, a music retail sales manager, a band manager, a sales and promotions rep for a record company, a cleaner, a backpackers hostel manager, a tour guide, a fruit picker, a factory worker, a "girl friday", a door-to-door sales person, a self-employed street vendor, a copywriter, and gawd knows what else!Holy crap! You're willing to do about anything. I think I'm in love... or, at least would like you as a close friend.

My own job history is quite a less exciting, but rather lengthy: newspaper motor route carrier, gas station attendent (2x), truck driver (5x), farm tractor driver (2x), combine harvester operator (5x), homebuilder general flunkie and gofer, pizza delivery driver (3x), industrial construction laborer (4x), pizza restaurant dishwasher, cook, cashier and assistant manager, fertilizer truck loader (2x), construction site night security guard, house painter, grocery bagger, convenience store clerk, department store clerk and manager, Herb Tarlek leisure-suited Ford car salesman, oilfield roustabout, oilfield wireline truck operator, lab analyst (2x), chemical plant operator (3x), oilfield pumper, all led to my current position, corporate whore and general fuckwit.

[Sweetie]

I am trying to raise three bright, healthy, strong and well-adjusted children. I find it so difficult though because I find myself useless to teach them anything. I sat down and tried to help along their learning to read and I was utterly useless.

One time when I was young, a neighbor asked if I would come help her daughter with math. I said sure, so I went over and what she was supposed to do was say 1,657 is one thousand six hundred fifty-seven. I looked at her, it's like to me girl, if you can't figure that out, you are on your own. There is no way I can explain that to you.

That's unfortunately though, the same thing that happens with my own children. It's alright though, I guess. They learn most of what they learn from what you do and how you act and who you are so they should get by alright.

Other than that, I quit my job two years ago, it was just too difficult with the kids and my son was so demanding. I've had two jobs since, one in the spring and another that was seasonal that I just finished Dec 24 th. Just department storish stuff, nothing special.

I am hoping to start up my schooling again now that my youngest is five. He starts Kindergarten next September and that was always the goal, get them into school and then get back to my own education. I'm twenty-six at present so. One of the problems is that I have never known what I wanted to do though I think I know now, I want to go into psychology. I think I can handle it, people and their problems and their pain and the disturbing depths of some minds. I hope so, I want to give it a try at least.

[Sycophant]

My turn!

Right now, I am a TV Editor. I have worked mostly on reality TV (oh god) but also the occasional doco, some ads and who knows what else. I have just started at a new company where hopefully I will have a little more variety, and a little less reality TV.

Previously I have been a web applications developer, systems administrator and database designer. Before that I ran a small PR company. And I was a talkback radio host. And before that I was a graphic designer and marketing person. And then before that I was a DNS administrator and also sold domain names for an ISP. And before that I was an accounts CSR and the same ISP and before that I worked on the helpdesk at that ISP. And then before that I built and upgraded computers for a dodgy prick who never paid me.

And before all of that, I dropped out of high school at 15.

[xouper]

... Herb Tarlek leisure-suited Ford car salesman, ...
:banana: :banana: That one made me chuckle.



Two of my most favorite jobs earlier in my "career", both very low paying:

Weilding a cutting torch in an auto recycling facility (aka junkyard). To customer: "Here's a marker, sir, show me where you want me to cut this car apart for you."


Skydiving jumpmaster (civilian) and jump pilot. And once I did both on the same flight as part of a prank on a newbie (but that's another story).
Currently I'm an independent code monkey.

[Kilted_Canuck]

1st year University Student, BSc., majoring in Chemistry at the moment.

[viscousmemories]

My first job (at 15) was at a printing company. I stuffed a lot of envelopes and put plastic spiral binding on a lot of books. There is no more mind-numbingly repetitive work in the world.

Between 16 and 18 I mostly worked at a fast food place.

Between 18 and 20 I was in the US Army.

Between 20 and 23 I worked temp jobs, construction, landscaping, deli cook, cafe barista, security guard, customer service... a bunch of places.

Between 23 and 24 I was incarcerated. Kinda.

Between 24 and 33 I was a computer network engineer and related jobs.

For the last three years I've been mostly unemployed.

[Goliath]

Right now, I'm an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of South Dakota.

Before that, I was a Teaching Fellow at North Dakota State University, and before that, a Teaching Assistant.

I've also worked at a few hotels, a few convenience stores, and I've worked night security.

Oh, and I worked at a porn store once...not as a janitor, but as a night clerk (sadly, I found out that the janitor made $0.25 or $0.50 less per hour than I did).

[Dingfod]

... Herb Tarlek leisure-suited Ford car salesman, ...
:banana: :banana: That one made me chuckle.I wasn't kidding. At that time, Fall of 1976, I had two suits, one a baby blue polyester double-knit leisure suit with a wide white brass grommetted belt and white patent leather platform shoes that were all the rage at the time. I would've done a disco proud. The other was a beige 3-piece much more conservative suit I wore with brown suede Earth shoes. (http://www.earth.us/Spring05shoedetail.asp?Gender=men&cat=casuals&offset=6&ID=536) I very quickly became embarrassed both by the occupation and the leisure suit that I stopped wearing it and after just a few months quit the job. After that I went to work in occupations where jeans and a T-shirt were the standard wear. A year and a half of relatively low wage jobs that required shirt and tie were enough for me, jeans and T-shirt are much more my style if I even have a style.

[Sonnet]

I'm an actor (some really AWFUL movies - and a stint as background on an episode of ER - but mainly theatre and mostly Shakespeare), writer, stripper, striptease teacher and webdesigner. I also do TV and radio commercials (mostly voice-over work) and used to be the #1 morning radio personality in my market. I've worked as a radio sex guru as well, and through that company was actually peripherally involved in a celebrity sex-tape scandal that made the tabloids (I was mentioned by description :yup: ) and eventually resulted in cease-and-desist orders from DiCaprio and Jerry Seinfeld. I've also been a copy editor for a local paper, a retail sales clerk in a game shop, a Girl Friday-type in a bank on Wall Street, a cleaning lady in the houses of the very rich, a waitress and a bounty hunter's decoy, and just lately it seems that my sole and all-consuming occupation is dead man's girlfriend.

I think that about covers it, but I'm still on my first cup of coffee.

[JoeP]

... technical writing can be a bit of a break from programming. Sucky pay, most of the time.
You make it sound so desirable.

[JoeP]

I worked in a computer shop for a bit. I odd-jobbed and tweaked some programs in Surry Hills, NSW, Aus for 8 weeks. But most of my life I've been a network pre-sales engineer (designing the stuff the salesman gets the credit for) and a consultant trying to advise people how to manage their IT services better, or some combination of the two. In 2 countries (plus an assignment stint in Raleigh, NC, USA), for several companies and many many clients. Not the stuff exciting bios are made of.

[Shake]

I worked in a restaurant off an on for 5 years, and was a maintenance person for the local Assn for Retarded Citizens for a summer. After that, I joined the US Air Force, where I had dreams of flying. :pilot: After becoming too old to qualify for pilot training, I stayed in the avionics technician job that I got when I joined (first choice).

Right now, I'm an engineering technician (a step up from the manufacturing test tech position I started in here). I do all sorts of things from ordering parts, to cutting new circuit boards, populating them, changing parts, fixing radios (what we build, primarily) and building cables or test boxes. Basically, I do anything that the engineers either can't do themselves or that I can simply do quicker (saving the company money).

My plan right now is to go back to school to get an EE degree and just skip right over the next step -- which in my current position would be an engineering aide; someone who could do simple design work and be of more assistance to the engineers -- and jump right into a junior engineering position.

I still don't know if that's what I want to be when I grow up, though ... and I'm 35, so we'll see.

[livius drusus]

I think you're pretty damn awesome, Sonnet, no matter how many cups of coffee are fueling you.

[Dingfod]

I worked in a restaurant off an on for 5 years, and was a maintenance person for the local Assn for Retarded Citizens for a summer. After that, I joined the US Air Force, where I had dreams of flying. :pilot: After becoming too old to qualify for pilot training, I stayed in the avionics technician job that I got when I joined (first choice).

Right now, I'm an engineering technician (a step up from the manufacturing test tech position I started in here). I do all sorts of things from ordering parts, to cutting new circuit boards, populating them, changing parts, fixing radios (what we build, primarily) and building cables or test boxes. Basically, I do anything that the engineers either can't do themselves or that I can simply do quicker (saving the company money).

My plan right now is to go back to school to get an EE degree and just skip right over the next step -- which in my current position would be an engineering aide; someone who could do simple design work and be of more assistance to the engineers -- and jump right into a junior engineering position.

I still don't know if that's what I want to be when I grow up, though ... and I'm 35, so we'll see.
There was a time, say 25 to 40 years ago, back before degreed engineers have taken over management of many large corporations, when a person like you would've become an engineer without the degree. In the oilfield they were often called wildcat engineers, most of whom garnered more respect from the people doing the actual work than the degreed engineers. I worked directly with one of these guys just before he became the very last wildcat engineer for Schlumberger Well Services, he knew his shit.

My uncle, who was a Navy radioman around 1960, worked as a lineman for Western Union for a few years until he got his Associates degree in electronics, then got a job with Ford as an engineering assistant. After about 10 years he was given the title of Engineer, even though he never had more than that 2 year degree. He worked in emissions controls and fuel systems design until his retirement about five years ago, frequently travelling to Germany and Australia as part of his job.

[AspenMama]

I have two full time jobs: Single Mommy of two young children and Development Director for a non-profit organization. (I raise money and write grants and newsletters and such).

I've worked a bit of retail in the past and odd office jobs. Nothing too thrilling. I dream of writing for myself rather than others... but by the end of the day, I'm lucky if I make it up to my own bed. Hear the violin?

[ceptimus]

I'm an engineer programmer at the moment. Previous job was teaching people how to fly radio control helicopters. That was more fun, but didn't pay as well.

The place I'm working for looks as though it might go tits up at any moment (lots of people have been made redundant already) so I might be unemployed soon.

[Dragar]

I'm in my second year at university, studying for my MSc in Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics.

[Ensign Steve]

I'm an airman in the US Air Force. I work in communications.

[Sonnet]

The place I'm working for looks as though it might go tits up at any moment...

Wow. I guess our occupations have that in common, then. Always nice to meet a colleague. :wave:

[viscousmemories]

:roflmao:

[BigBlue2]

Sorry for being a nosy bitch, but what do y'all do for a living?
Computer programmer by profession. I was retrenched in mid-2002 and now work in retail to pay the bills. The demand for my particular IT skillset isn't exactly overwhelming, so I've applied to go to University to do a Bachelor of Education course, with a view to becoming a primary school teacher. If that all works out (and it should) then I'll say good riddance to IT forever.

[Shake]

a "girl friday"
... a Girl Friday-type in a bank on Wall Street...
OK, somebody tell me what this "girl Friday" thing is, please. This is the first I've heard this term.

Thanks.

[Roland98]

I'm currently an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, specializing in infectious disease. My most recent job was as a research fellowship (necessary in my field between getting your doctorate and getting a professorship); before that, I was a grad student. I've been working since I was 13 (well, 11 if you count babysitting); worked at good ol' DQ all through high school; at my college's Telefund my freshman year (begging alumni for money); at my college's dining hall freshman through senior years; and waitressing in a local restaurant junior and senior year in college as well. I waitressed during grad school as well; it's been wierd the past 2 years, because this is the first time I've only had one job (although technically I guess I still have 2, since I'm a paid writer on the side, but it's writing that overlaps with my research, so it doesn't seem quite so separate).


Oh, and a "girl Friday"--isn't that just kind of a personal assistant or something?

[viscousmemories]

Oh, and a "girl Friday"--isn't that just kind of a personal assistant or something?
From dictionary.com:

girl Friday

Also, gal Friday. An efficient and faithful female assistant, as in I'll have my girl Friday get the papers together. The expression plays on man Friday, a name for a devoted male servant or assistant. The name Friday comes from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, whose shipwrecked hero named the young native who became his faithful companion for the day of the week when he found him. In the mid-1900s Friday was applied to a male servant and then a women secretary or clerk who works for a man. The expression girl Friday gained currency through a motion picture starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday (1940). Today it tends to be considered condescending and, applied to a woman, sexist.

[livius drusus]

That's a great movie, btw. One of my favorites.

[Clutch Munny]

I'm a husband, a father, and a recreational unpaid hockey player. In my spare time I am an about-to-be Associate Professor of Philosophy.

Edit: Oh, employment history. In order:

Heavy farm equipment assembler; convenience store clerk; grease monkey; newspaper white-space-filler; tree planter; high-rise construction worker (specifically a stripper, though not like others here who've used the term); musician (coffeehouse solo type and weekend gigging band type); ESL teacher; teaching assistant; lecturer.

I know I'm forgetting some stuff, probably for good reason.

[godfry n. glad]

I'm the majordomo, massuer, chef and doorman for a domestic feline.

To earn a living and pay for the catfood and fishy treats, I'm a "library technician". Others refer to my work as "library paraprofessional", but I've never jumped out of a plane. Basically, I'm a non-librarian working clerical support in a science and healthcare university library. I run the reserve libraries, count beans, shuffle paper and wrangle a group of college student flunkies. The pay sucks, but it's a great environment, particularly for someone with compulsive taxonomic tendencies.

My employment history is as long as CMs, the high points being an economist, a Shakespearean actor, a substitute teacher, and a garbage hauler/recycler with a worker-owned and operated recycling cooperative. I know trash when I see it. I can sort trash with the masters.

In my spare time, I'm an activist. Neighborhoods, trees, parks and hostelling currently top my list.

godfry n. glad

[Weaselboots]

I'm a Lab Monkey. I make sure that the water in my fair city (whats left of it) isn't infested with Cyptosporidium and Giardia. Also microbiology, algal toxins and field sampling. Soon to be trained up in macroinvertebrates.
If i was independently wealthy i would volunteer a lot more.
Going to the Carribean mid year to help with turtle reseach.

[Brimshack]

I'm technically a College Instructor, but really I just entertain people for a few hours a week and occassionally manage to ruin a portion of their weekend by making them almost read something. I haven't had too many jobs, having spent a fair portion of my time in school. I worked as a food prep guy in my dad's Submarine sadwich shop when I was a teen, had a paper-route for awhile, worked as a teaching assistant in a history department, got paid $6 to $10 an hour to blow money on slot machines one summer, and did a stint as a research assistant for some people who didn't really want any research done. Oh, and I spent a month as a clerk at a Union 76, which oddly enough I found to be quite interesting, if not particularly rewarding.

[Ab_Normal]

In the oilfield they were often called wildcat engineers...

Cool, I'm a wildcat programmer! (my degree is in Criminal Justice) Mrowr! :D

[CARLA]

:bow: :bow: I must say it's an honor to among such sucessful people. What a great diverse group. I have enjoyed reading everyones occupations.

EDUCATED, TALENTED, AND A GREAT GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS.. BRAVO.. :yup: :yup: