What do you do for Living?

[Brad Bowers]

Gee, ProperRogue, I've got a lot of catching up to do. I turn forty this year, and I've only completed my first Master's last month!

Sounds like a fulfilling life!

Brad

 

[Ferragamo]

Banking Consultant, I help advise where and when my Bank should build new banks, move existing banks or just plain tear down a bank thats just not performing well.

Working on opening a "Speak Easy" in the next 2 years or so! :cheers1:

 

[Cabinetman]

The singing woodworker

I am a self-employed cabinetmaker, operating a one-man shop for almost 8 years now. This is mostly by day, and sometimes by night...and sometimes during the wee small hours.

Every chance I get, I also head up a small jazz combo I call The upStandard Citizens, "Swinging the Great American Standards of the 30's and 40's" (motto seen on forthcoming business cards).

 

[indyjim]

Self employed photographer

 

[matei]

Greetings all,

I'm a Data Storage Analyst for a gigantic financial entity in order to pay the bills. I work to live - not the other way around.

Here is a list with some of the things I've done in the past:

• Intelligence Analyst for the military (very interesting job - changes your perspective on life and current events)
• Translator/Interpreter - both civillian and military (even better job - got to travel and meet all sorts of interesting people)
• Long-haired rocker in in a loud band (got to do all sorts of wild things... )
• Network Administrator
• Stockboy/Warehouse person
• Sample Cutter in a picture frame factory (amazed that I still have my fingers)
• student

The warehouse jobs were the bottom of the barrel. I vowed never, ever to work in a warehouse again. The sample cutter job was a close second.

Granted, I was fresh out of school when I took those jobs, but still... you encounter a lot of people that you can learn from - I mean, learn what not to do with your life.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Illustrator and animator. Recently finished working on "A Scanner Darkly", and animated telling of P.K. Dicks novel. Due in theaters in July.

www.stovepipe.net

 

[Serial Hero]

Warehouse manager by day.

Comic book artist by night (and weekends). I'd do it by day but it doesn't pay the bills yet.

http://www.evolutionstudios.org/

The "Midnight Judge" is mine (if you care).

 

[JPS]

Environmental geology keeps bread on the table. Otherwise I enjoy motorcycling, singing with 2 choirs (church and civic), and backpacking in the mountains.

 

[Novella]

College student - history major and loving every book I read and paper I have to write (oh, okay, well not every paper but I do really enjoy the major). I have an excuse to spend lots of hours researching and writing. I'm taking a class that I'm absolutely in love with - last week we watched clips of My Man Godfrey and a week or so before we spent part of lecture listening to jazz music from the 1920s and 1930s. If only all classes were like that!

 

[EL COLORADO]

You dont wannna know.


Heh, heh, heh,..................heh.




EC

 

[Burma Shave]

Have done many things

I'm a writer and photographer, currently editing a monthly newspaper. Write two-thirds of it, edit the rest, sell ads, do the photography, and layout and design for the whole thing.

I've worked for three other papers -- a daily, a weekly, and a small-town twice-weekly.

Other than that, I've been a landscaper, a tree surgeon, worked in the X-ray department of a major trauma center, a deckhand on a Tennessee River tow boat, barista at a coffee shop, late-night security guard at a retirement village, a pre-press tech at a printer's shop, and the list goes on.

I continue with the photo stuff, though. Currently working on a new collection and trying to find an appropriate gallery. Have done about a dozen one-man photo shows in the last six years.

 

[ronjohn55]

I guess you would call me a project manager for lack of a better term..

The actual job title is technical specialist, but it doesn't mean anything to anybody outside the company. I work for an import car company and develop the A/C related portions of the dealer parts catalogs for all of our N. American built vehicles.

It's nothing fancy, but it's a decent living.

By night, I like to consider myself the beer baron - brewing and fermenting the night away! [angel]

John

 

[Nathan Flowers]

I'm a writer and photographer, currently editing a monthly newspaper. Write two-thirds of it, edit the rest, sell ads, do the photography, and layout and design for the whole thing.

I've worked for three other papers -- a daily, a weekly, and a small-town twice-weekly.

Other than that, I've been a landscaper, a tree surgeon, worked in the X-ray department of a major trauma center, a deckhand on a Tennessee River tow boat, barista at a coffee shop, late-night security guard at a retirement village, a pre-press tech at a printer's shop, and the list goes on.

I continue with the photo stuff, though. Currently working on a new collection and trying to find an appropriate gallery. Have done about a dozen one-man photo shows in the last six years.

Howdy to another S. Carolinian. I'm about an hour to your east, in Florence.

 

[Burma Shave]

South Carolinian, indeed

Pleased ta meetcha, Zohar. I wondered where Stumpwater was

Been in SC for only a few months. Moved down here from the DC area, and thankful to get away from there before it got cold this year. But I guess I'm a Tennessean, first and foremost. That's been home for most of my 33 years.

One of my favorite things about this site: There are people in all walks of life, all across the country (and in many other countries) interested in many of the same things, style and accoutrement-wise.

Best to all--

 

[Pilgrim]

This post has been re-written because it was much too stuffy.

I HAVE been: a radio DJ, newsman and sales person; a car salesman; a reserve deputy (7 years), a service station attendant back when they really took care of your car; a Sonitrol security system salesman; a producer of educational radio and video programs; and a producer and host of satellite teleconferences.

But NOW - I manage distance education programs for Colorado State University: learn.colostate.edu. This year, I also am Vice-President of the Washington State University Alumni Association; my Alma Mater. I'm ending a three-year term as president of a homeowner's association...and I'm glad to wrap it up.

I came to CSU in 1998 to kick-start their process of getting courses and degrees online, and we're doing fine - we have 16 distance degrees now, and should have about 20 distance degree programs within the next 2 years.

Oh, and I teach online graduate courses for Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey, play electric bass in classic rock and surf bands, do my own car maintenance and repair (since 1968) and home repairs. I ski as often as I can (I'm in Colorado, after all).

Aside from that, I just try to find something to do with my copious spare time. Like surf Ebay for hats...and bass guitars...and electronic gizmos.

 

[Jessica]

I am a Marilyn Monroe tribute artist, actress, and Pinup Model. (and loving it!!)

 

[LaMedicine]

Dispense drugs. Stick pins and needles and knives into people. Or give out orders to do so. All legal.
Oh, I do do my best to abide by my license, and keep the ancient vow: "First, do no harm."

 

[Pen Collector]

Director - Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council

 

[Captain Krunch]

I'm a customer engineer for Boeing Delta II and Delta IV launch vehicles. We're the ones who've launched satellites such GPS, the Mars rovers, Landsat, Deep Impact, and Stardust, amongst others. I work with new customers who are looking for a launch and provide them the technical data they need to design their satellites to fit our rockets. After many years of hard work, the results look like this:

And yes, if you want to get technical, I am a rocket scientist.... :cool2:

 

[VivianRegan]

Historian (National Register Nominations, neighborhood surveys and pre-mortems of buildings to be razed) and grad student, with coursework to be completed this semester.

Sometimes, it really DOES feel like a racket. They PAY me for this? Sweet...