What does everyone do for a living?

[m.and]

This is one of my favorite off-topic threads on a photography forum that I frequent and thought I would introduce it here.

So, what does everyone do for a living. Or, if you were recently laid off, what did you do.

I am a photographer and freelance photographer's assistant. I can't wait to find out what everyone else does.

Regards,
Matthew

[SlideTechnik]

Engineering, work in defense.

[Sequimite]

Retired CPA

[ColonelX1]

Professional Magician

[Bluntrauma]

I supervise a bio-medical research facility.

[lerman]

i'm a carpenter but only for one more year (hope to become a knife maker one day :) ), i work for a big furniture factory.

[Jimd]

I travel to Alaska every year and club baby harp seals to death for their pelts.


LOL, just kidding!
I'm actually a corrections counselor and I run cognitive treatment groups for inmates.

For sixteen years, I was a corrections officer and a member of a tactical unit for a government agency. I've been a sniper, firearms instructor, tactical trainer, gang/threat groups instructor, defensive tactics instructor, and a pile of other stuff.

These days, I just want to be left alone and in peace, and want to retire from my job. I still train in tactics and such, and participate in training others.

[RJNC]

CCS Coding Specialist at St. Vincent's Hospital

[psimonl]

I am a high school teacher for kids with motivation, familly, mental and attitude problem.... Very hard, bad pay, éI've seen many coworkers cry, but very rewarding when you succed in "saving" a child from the street, gangs or drugs...

Simon

[rosconey]

during the day-union tile marble setter

at night i develop new types of blade steel like v8-10 :)

[Dr. Snubnose]

Martial Arts Instructor, Shaolin Kung Fu ( Hong Style), Combative Tai Chi Chuan (Sun Style), FMA ( Lanada System), Knife Fighting, Defensive Tactics Instructor and Firearms Instructor for Law Enforcement Agents and Civilians..I own the Dragon Tiger Kung Fu Center (link below) and also have two PhDs one in Clinical Psychology and the other in Social Psychiatry....Former U.S. Special Agent...Doc :D

[thibaud.1.80]

builder

Tibo.(France).

[tonydahose]

fireman on a truck, i break things for a living

[RJNC]

I figured you were a firefighter by the name and avatar, guess I was right, lol.

[KaliGman]

This one surfaces every so often on this forum, and I did not reply to the last one or two times this one came around. I think that this is a pretty decent topic to be resurrected every now and again, though, especially so some of the newer members can share information and get a bit of background on some of the people who have been around for awhile.

In any case, rather than post my bio again on various forums, these days I tell people to go to my website or to read the "condensed version" here:

http://www.blackbeltmag.com/jon_holloway/archives/746

[tonydahose]

I figured you were a firefighter by the name and avatar, guess I was right, lol.

good guess :D the avatar is actually a few still shots put together of my swimming pool...here is a vid of it.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SJxsJTRlk

[RJNC]

Thats a cool idea!

[Fred Sanford]

I'm a network / server dude. I work on Cisco equipment and servers for a living. I am one of 4 guys at a hospital that handles all the servers, routers, switches, etc. VMware ESX servers etc. EMC Storage. We have 6 locations, about 1400 workstations, and about 140 servers. We have about 40 different pieces of Cisco equipment from ASA's to VPN Concentrators, to routers, switches, oh my...

I love my job by the way.

[FLYBYU44]

For two more weeks I'm a vac truck driver for an environmental company. After those two weeks are up I'm going to school to take machining and hopefully next year I will be starting an apprenticeship.

[vampyrewolf]

Electronics Technician working as a Quality Analyst for a major OEM in telecomm after a year in production and 2 as a Repair Technician in the warranty dept.

Have been the IT dept for the family courier company for the last 5 years. 4 workstations, 1 server for both file and printer (3 printers), laptop and on-site backup. Go in once a month for maintenance and full backup unless something goes wrong before.

Also do IT on the side as customers call me. There have been stretches where I work for 6-7 weeks of 7 days a week.