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I've been wondering for some time now what are the members professions, and do you fit Spyderco and other knives in it, or only during your free time.

I am an automation engineer working primarily in marine industry, half office - half terrain work mostly.

I started carrying Spydercos in my back pocket to work with a justification that I need to open equipment boxes (every 3-6 months :D), and now I just carry one everywhere. On rare occasions when I don't carry one, I usually need it most.

I'm a retired computer programmer and systems analyst, currently full time servant to a Miniature Schnauzer.

Retired state employee/correction officer

Also US Army vet, ex Police, security and numerous other jobs. Security was a second job that I worked 15 years at a one company at a plant here in NC while also working as a state employee. 2nd jobs were common for lifetime employees due to the low pay but good stability and benefits of the state workers. I knew very few permanent state employees who didn't work another job or have a business. More than a few were farmers who worked at the state job for benefits for the family. That was in addition to my (ex)wife working full time.

I'm a shipping/receiving coordinator as well as assistant warehouse manager for a paper mill. I use my knives all day/every day. I'd say 99.7% of the time I'm using a knife is at work. I don't carry one around the house with me unless I'm going to be doing some kind of project or doing outside work with the landscaping. I never use my pocket knives in the kitchen either, that's what kitchen knives are for!

I do reporting and analytics for a large bank.

Metallurgist

I run a small rural municipal water system. Sadly, I rarely get to use my knives at work. Thankfully that is my second job.

My primary job is father, husband, homesteader and wilderness junkie. I use my knives far more in my free time. :)

System administrator (computers PC's and servers), and infrastructure geek. When last employed in 3 days our team would install 2,500+ PC's and servers, PC's one by one and servers/routers/switches by rack and stack. This was all in very large moves for clients(in transportation, logistics, or commodities) that had employees with 2 laptops and one desktop system, and 3 to 4 - 20+ inch monitors.

Working in huge high rise building in the Chicagoland area, I use my knives to get to and from work safely, and at work to cut cellophane, cable ties, etc.

I work in an office /warehouse. I'm a "material specialist" but essentially I provide tools and equipment for use in the gulf of Mexico for the oil and gas industry. I use my knives pretty often for task around the office and warehouse.

I’m a 911 paramedic. I carry my knives at work, though admittedly I don’t need to use them too frequently. I also keep leatherman raptor shears in my pocket that get used when material separation is required. I have many many more knives than I could ever need in my lifetime, but I just can’t stop :) and that’s ok.

Until retirement last month, I was an elevator mechanic. I carried one knife for nearly all cutting chores. Uses could be as simple as opening a box, cutting traces or components on circuit boards, stripping wire of all sizes, cutting wire, carving chopsticks, shaping plastic, shaving copper surfaces, jimmying locked doors, or opening the all-important bag of trail mix.

Nowadays, yard work and culinary art are added chores.

I’m a software engineer in Fintech, based in Melbourne.

I was born and raised in South Africa, but now live in regional Victoria for the last 4 years.

No knives allowed in public here, so I enjoy them at home. Fortunately I am working from home a lot these days!

I work as a school counselor/therapist. I have literally no use at all for knives in my profession.

I work for a technical recruiting/staffing firm. My official title is "office manager," but that only describes a little bit of what I do.. the company has ~200 employees, but they are almost all contractors on assignment at various client locations. I work in the "company headquarters" which consists of about 10 people. Because the main office is so small, we all wear many hats.. on a given day, I could be responsible for customer account management, recruiting, payroll, security, etc.. whatever is needed.

My work environment is a typical office, but because I handle all shipping/deliveries, I do actually use my knives pretty frequently at work, if only for unboxing office supplies.. :p

IT pro here. I've been 100% remote for 15+ years and so cannot use my job for knife justification. Even when I was unboxing, racking and stacking, my Leatherman did the lion's share of the cutting.

I have a Master degree in translation, though I have never worked as a professional translator. Ever since I graduated in 2004, I had been working as a buyer for a tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. I quit in October last year (the company had turned sour over the last few years - more and more work for a stagnating and in the end even decreasing number of staff). I'll try to find something that gives me joy to do, as soon as I fully recovered from surgeries that needed to be done. There's still at least one more to go through, some time in May.

Foundations Engineer/Field Inspector - I need a cheap beater because too many times has a worker asked "does anyone have a knife?" and proceeds to use said knife to scrape something, cut against a steel beam, scrape concrete that got on PVC pipe, etc

Former retail management, currently tow/recovery. I also spent about 3 years in the corrugation industry (DON'T call it cardboard! lol) and a year in polyethylene extrusion (blown plastic film), both of which were pretty interesting jobs.

Surveyor. Various construction and property related roles, and since 2003 surveying & valuing residential homes for mortgage purposes.

I inspect a *lot* of buildings up to 200 years old or so, and some back to the 1400’s . My original Spyderco, a SG Delica was bought to dig around in old structural timbers. I’m more worried about legality these days, so I now carry a Tern, although the Delica is never too far away. All the others are just for fun.

I work at a metal fabrication shop. Most of what I do is run CNC lasers (6k and 8k) and CNC press brakes. I used to do welding too, but not so much anymore.

I don't use my knives at work as much as I'd like, or as much as I did in my previous job. (Construction)