What's your occupation??!

in a large financial products and services organization. Also a business student.

I am a funeral director/embalmer and play music with groups on weekends. Been doing it for 30 years.

Magician

Cabinet maker

Contractor, mostly replacement windows, bathrooms, kitchens. Before I touch any of my guitars I always clean my hands thoroughly after doing a bathroom.

College professor/visual artist.

I teach in the art and design department of a small liberal arts college, and supervise the student teachers in the art education program. And make art.

journalist (music writer/copy editor) who retired last February. currently a full-time music bum.

before that, i actually made a living in music for 20 years. then when i hit my 40s, the endless driving, squalid motels and crappy food for low pay drove me back into J-school.

Freelance photographer....

Translator of (mostly) fiction, from English into Swedish.

I owned and operated Louisville Metallurgy & Heat Treating for 31 years. I sold it in 3 divisions in 2004. Since then, I've been playing music & that's more of a hobby than a profession because of the part-time nature.

I build/manufacture model cars.

Network engineer..

Own my own industrial cleaning co specialising in extract ducting and fans, seemed a good idea when I was in my 20s hard work nobody else would do, charge enough to only work a few days a week and spend the rest of my time with my music.
Last month I was working in Soho London about 1am crawling through some ducting scraping out buckets of grease when I heard a band start playing at the famous Aint nothing but the blues bar next door. I laid back and listened for a while and wondered where it all went wrong.:sad:

Engineering department manager and musician.......

People Photographer,

I only "shoot" people, whether it´s catalogue, billboards, fashion, business portraits and image campaigns for insurance companys , banks and other clients. from time to time some nice reportages....

take careeveryone
zoppotrump
:O)

To my friends, I fix dry cleaning equipment. To my inlaws, I'm a mechanical engineer. To my bankers, I'm the owner. To myself, I'm a guitarist who pays the bills by doing that backbreaking b*llsh*t above. Oh and on full moons I'm an unemployed astronomer. John

Funny :lol:

truck driver, pretty boring but have to take breaks by law so what better way to get uninterupted practice

*twang with a bang*

Retired Department Of Veterans Affairs in 1999( GS-9) Currently working as a Operating Room Assistant four days a week (gotta love those ulcers). Spend alot of time playing my herd of Fenders and PRS's.:rolleyes:

I'm a "grease monkey" for chevy dealer in houston. Boy did I pick the wrong career:( Can anyone help me get out?????

I teach people how to put out fires ( literal ) - if that makes any sense..

There must be two of these threads because I'm sure I answered this once before, but can't find it on here. Anyway, criminal lawyer for 28 years.

www.leongrizzard.com

I'm a psychologist and photographer, and work for the Flemish government.

Waw, with the people in here, we could start a new society!

Hello Hello--
Man, I'm arriving at the party late as usual......
I've been a pro guitar player for a very long time and I also repair guitars.
Brian.

Wow, this thread is really old. I'll give ya the full description.

At the time this was originally posted I was a 17 year old high school student just trying to graduate and get into University.

Now, I'm a full-time University student at the University of Calgary studying biology.

Cheers Everybody,
Joel:wink:

funny that question should be asked... since I just lost my job, I started my own company yesterday. I am officially again an Ethical Hacker. Feels good to be back - now off to go find some clients! :)

Big rig driver:twisted:

Hmm, can't remember wehether I already answered this one, and I'm too lazy to look through all 14 pages of this thread, so here I go again:

I work at an institution for mentally handicapped elderly people (basically, organizing daily living for them - getting the people washed and clothed; cooking, organizing visits to the doctor, organizing leisure time activities, etc.); I'm also taking college classes in 'pedagogics for people with special needs' (sorry, not sure whether this is the correct translation from German 'Sonder- und Heilpädagogik'); and I'm a part-time photographer (though I don't make a lot of money with that; mostly band photos, and the bands usually are friends who pay with free CDs and places on the guest list).

But I had all kinds of jobs before - tour-guide on a 37-days bus tour from London to Athens with American college students; PR work for a travel agency; entering data (long lists of numbers...) for a computer company; stock-room clerk at a furniture store; working a gigantic hydraulic press at a factory that made fire-proof bricks for steel-mill furnaces (did that for 5 or 6 years in the summer holidays while being an English lit. major at university, I really bulked up doing that job, had to lift about 20 metric tons of these bricks every day...); night-clerk at a hotel; etc.

I work in middle management for a major retailer. I won't say who....

Been doing it for 20 years. Since I was fifteen. It was my fall back line when I was a musician. Now I make enough money to buy and play guitars for fun!

Disposable income, ain't it great!

Lion tamer, but I'm thinking about becoming a lawyer...

I have an industrial supply business.

I have worked for the same Mechanical Contracting business for 34 years as a department manager and engineer.

Professional salesman - for the moment; office machinery - multifunctional devices - Mailing meters, faxes, shredders and the likes....

The Official Secrets Act prevents me from saying any more than this:cool:

Architect

My dad was a pro musician all his life, which at 16 I also planned to be. Consider a career in something else he suggested, that way music can always be a fun part of your life and not something you learn to loathe to earn a paycheck. Thats what I did. Been playing for fun for 30 years now.

The interesting thing is that there are links to my music life on my architecture website, and I get numerous comments on that, and I've actually been hired over the competition because of it a few times!

Credit Manager for a metal distribution company.

IT Project Coordinator/CERT Member/Church Elder

From '92-'05 I used to design/build/operate motion control systems to move motion picture cameras for use in special FX and animation. I've been employed in some form of camera work/engineering since I got out of college (way back when).

Now I collect rent checks and plunge toilets in the rental properties I bought when I was making REAL money.

I volunteer doing energy assistance for low income families and seniors. By far the most gratifying work I've done. I repair/upgrade furnaces and water heaters and organize a "parts bank" of spares for that equipment.

Wednesday night I made $60 playing a Thanksgiving party at our drummers place of work (a career high). Does that count?

CNC Manager

I work for a large scale steel fabrication company. Do alot of machine programming and things like that. Pretty good job so far. I went back to school to learn this set of skills, so it's good to get a job using what i learned.

Besides...when it's slow I can draw guitars and amps on AutoCAD :)

RD

Forensic Expert :cool:

Hey Arlo, did you see my post above? :smile:

My name is Duncan, Michael Duncan. I carry a badge.

I'm a grassroots level manager from a nation wide retail company who's profits are in the billions last year, and no it's not WalMart or Target.;)

Really looking to get out of retail, and even with a college degree it isn't easy to find something starting out that pays at least 35k a year. :(

Senior Account Executive for a Software Company, over major accounts and strategic initiatives, and I now report directly to the CEO of the company.

It sounds important, but basically it means, I am a put on very important accounts that must close...it is very stressful, but it can be very rewarding.

I would be interested in any resume of anyone with sales experience in technology. But you have to live somewhere near Houston. If you don't, your resume has to meet all other requirements.

I am music student/guitar saleperson/ minor repair man/ guitar slinger for hire. aka perpetually broke.

Engineer by profession and now in middle management in a utility

I work for a industrial and agricultrial fabrication and distribution company.

Engineering support services in openpit and underground mining operations.

System Operator, PC and network support, general all-around flunky for the past 20 years at a large Turkey processing plant... How did this happen?

Retired after 22 years as a US Army musician (yes, they have guitar players in Army bands), now just teaching about 50 students, playing gigs and surfing guitar forums. Life is good.

Artist is who I am
Toyota service advisor is who I was
Guitar player is who I will be

I'm an oceanographer, curently unemployed and waiting for my acceptance
on a Masters course (and a students scholarship). In the past, I've worked
on oil-related pollution and coastal erosion. I'll most likely focus on the latter
from now on....


BTW huge amount of diversity here, right? That's very nice...

communications consultant and writier. Book coming out May 22, 2007

Actually, I meant "writer" not "writier". Maybe that's why it took so long to produce a book!

Actually, I meant "writer" not "writier". Maybe that's why it took so long to produce a book!

Funny :smile: What kind of book are you publishing?

Regional manager for a national civil engineering merchant.

Forensics. If you have been a very bad boy or girl :twisted: we will be having a chat (or two).

Clinical Psychologist

... translating the customer´s IT demand to our engineers-language and foster the project managers to timely delivery and the customer for timely payment.

Another job with a built-in gastric ulcer - healed by my telecaster´s at night ;-)

I'm a printer.

Wednesday night I made $60 playing a Thanksgiving party at our drummers place of work (a career high). Does that count?

Yes it sure does count. I work for the IRS and I hope we see this extra income declared for 2006!!! :twisted:

Just kiddin ya!!! :lol: If it was $10, E.D. you're still livin the dream.



Me, a Regional Director for a winery.

Our motto "Takes a lot of good beer to sell good wine!"

Arbitrator/Mediator (Attorney)

O'Reilly Auto "Parts Specialist" by day... Honkytonkin Hillbilly by night :)

I once heard a very wise musician answer that question THIS way (and I'm paraphrasing):

"I'm a musician . Do I have a day job? Sure, I do. But I'm a musician. Superman was always superman...even when he was being Clark Kent. He had to make a living and fit into society somehow. But he was always Superman."

This was one of the most inspirational quotes I ever heard.

I'm a gov't drone. Don't tell my Mom. She thinks I play piano at a whorehouse.

Graphic Designer for 2 cruise ship companies—and it's only a 1/2 mile down the road from my house! 2 minute commute.
Also freelance, doing book covers. When the freelance slowed down last spring I got a "real" job. Then the freelance started picking up again recently and I'm getting busy. I should be working right now.

Oh, and I still play my guitars a lot.

Used to be a boatbuilder, carpenter, hardwood flooring installer/finisher.

Also worked at Toad's Place in New Haven as house artist and house lighting director. The first 2 shows I ever did were B.B. King and then the Kentucky Headhunters the next night. Met lots of the greats there!

Surplus Property Coordinator. Translation: "Fred Sanford With A Title." :lol:

For the last six months stay at home Mother.

Singer and guitarist.

I work in a musicstore. Specializing in homestudio equipment and software. Microphones, audio and midi.interfaces, Cubase, Pro Tools etc...

I also sell guitars, and THAT´s the fun part! :razz:

http://www.4sound.se

Unemployed student of statistics at Athens University of Economics and business.

I program and operate a CNC machine for a custom cabinet shop.

2nd generation signmaker. I design, build and install neon and electric signs.

Teacher

I teach English to Taiwanese kids in K, grades 1, 3 and 5.

Majored in music.... teach English... what's the connnection?

Bob

Technology Manager for a large global multimedia provider.

I basically maintain a couple hundred web and email servers.

Snooze.

Artist and illustrator! I've done everything from portraits for the New Yorker to superhero comics. If anyone wants to do a google image search for my real name, Andrew Wendel, he'll be rewarded with a large sample of my work, although not necessarily my best...

Business student. Alabama

job changes will happen a lot from now on since i plan on a career change after 20 years

for next few weeks...i will continue to be a software qa guy for state of florida standardized tests

for all of january next year...studying like a madman for the lsat test to get into law school which the state will pay for

after the lsat test in february? well, that depends on if i get a good score or not and if i do then it's law school for the next several years with some pt state and/or federal jobs in there for extra cash

if i bomb the test, then i will do a non-legal civil service job or series of jobs until i find a niche

so i have a feeling i won't be buying or playing any telecasters anytime soon...sometimes i wish i was deep into a career and routine so i could plan on being a tele playing fool

i teach english, BUT my students are american high school students...

i really liked what esquirej said...SO i guess i'm a musician :grin: in a good month i make as much money (or more) playing guitar/singing, and in a slow month i thank God i went to college :wink:

despite my username, I am into all types of music (punk is great but blues and jazz are my true loves) and ways of thinking. But hey it is a privilege to learn as much about music and to listen to as much music as possible. I am a muscial ascetic praying for a desaturation of the boringly repetitive drivel played on the radio today.

Fighting crime, supressing evil with current assignment being midnights, supervising the assistance of drunk drivers to a safe place for everyone else.

I really practice Entertainment Law, although I do admire Willie Gingrich.

Computer programmer using a programming language called C#.

Civil Engineer....stormwater 'n grading and such...throw in some street improvements occasionally...

Playing guitar helps keep me sane!!! ...or reasonably close....

Professor of Composition and Theory

Own a bakery, raise a daughter, be a husband, feed a dog (not necessarily order of operations)

shipping cars, trucks & machinery all over the world

Staff Photographer for American Iron and RoadBike Magazines.

Clinical child psychologist. What could be better? A career which values being childish--now and then.

My friends describe my occupation as "Bottle'O' Boy"

I sell alcohol to the common man from a "drive-through" liquor store.

Since 1972, I've been self employed in the Film & TV industry as a Sound Mixer/Recordist, doing location sound recording!

Photographer. Lucky enough to travel around working for major newspapers, agencies and magazines - don't have to sell my soul shooting weddings and school dances (no offence to wed phogs etc - pers opp).

I am a Technician at a Pharmaceutical co. A Chemical Engineer (who was also a guitar player) told me that, after explaining a chemical process, "thats why I am an Engineer, and you play with chemicals". Guess who is still playing with chemicals for 26 yrs.
In my spare time, I play guitar, listen to music, collect vinyl records, and read music related books & magazines.

I'm a Corporal with the Orange County Sheriff's Office until I win the Florida Lottery. I will then be the richest member Orlando's only Buck Owens/Dwight Yoakam tribute band.

Have sold real estate in the past but am now in week 21 of a 24 week police academy, I graduate Dec 20.

I have dedicated nearly 20 years of my life to service with the New York State Police. 11 years in uniform(over 8 as a K-9 handler) and the last 8 as an Investigator. I'll have 20 in September of 2007. I could retire at 42.......but I won't. Good luck to the two before me. It goes by real fast!!! Be safe...

I sure am diggin' all the cop action we have going on here! It's just too :cool:

Like some others, I may have responded to this in the past, but I'm too busy with the Buttercaster Project to check. :wink:

I've been teaching HS science in Eastern Iowa for 32 years...6 years less then I have played guitar. Started out as a physicist but have more or less converted to Dirt & Rocks 101 (Earth Science.)

Also do the district's IT stuff... 4 buildings, 600 kids, 80 adults, lots of servers, and lots of computers.

More fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Still don't know what I am going to do when I grow up, but I bet it will have something to do with guitars.

In Boston....

Retired lecturer now house husband
Internet loafer
Songwriter/guitar player
Writing two novels and trying not to mix 'em up !

I work for a company dealing with mining/auto /and marine parts.
also play in 2 bands...one on lapsteel (western swing/rockabilly)and one on Tele (country/originals)

I'm the pastor of two small United Methodist Churches, and being a musician is a significant part of how I do my job.

of medieval Chinese history.

Comic book artist and Freelance Illustrator. (aka "buyer of guitars I can't afford")

www.warrenmartineck.com
www.myspace.com/warrenmartineck

I'm a Corporate Chef and Foodservice Director for a worldwide managed service company.

I do bond math at an insurance company.

And I'm a farmer.

Photojournalist for 30 years.

For the past six years, professor of journalism.

Great thread!

It's amazing how so many people from so many walks of life can share a love of music, and of teles!!!!!!!!!

As for me, I am INSURANCEMAN. I own an insurance agency here in KC. If you guys have any questions about how your gear is covered (or not) by your homeowners/renters insurance, send me a note and I'll let you know how it generally works. I'd also be happy to post a new thread if ya think it would be beneficial... I know I was shocked the other day when i added up how much gear I've accumulated in the last 6 or 8 years, especially some guitars that have gone up in value..

cheers

Semi-retired after 31 years as a potter following 10 years as an electrical engineer.

Musician. Five years full time in May. Most terrifying thing I ever did, also the best.
Pete Baker

i teach high school art mon-fri. and give guitar lessons on saturdays...

[B][U]Transport Operator
Based in the Removals Industry. I move people all over the UK, and then I get to play gigs about once a week..which keeps my sanity!!:wink:

I'm a middle-aged college student. I'm just a student loan away from my next guitar!

Construction Project Manager - 27 years so far of mostly schools, hospitals, government buildings, big box retail, etc.
It's kinda like playing with Lego's, only on a bigger scale !

a maintenance specialist at a state park for the last 11yrs.

I'm a middle-aged college student. I'm just a student loan away from my next guitar!
Ha! Every month a student loan payment stands between me and my next guitar....

That's why I'm gettin' 'em now... :lol:

I'm a Firefighter, doing this for over 27 years now.....


MAN ! ! !, that's a LONG time, ain't it?

I guess I'm a gettin' old. :sad:

I'm a master builder/carpenter that restores old homes and I also restore old cars and guitars. I run a repair shop for guitars too.

I'm a middle-aged college student. I'm just a student loan away from my next guitar!

man, i am jealous

my student loan for college will cover just the tuition and books and that's all and the money is sent straight to the school...but it's a great deal being that i don't have to pay back that loan (it's on my employer's dime)

if i had an open ended loan where the money came to me, he he, it would be a temptation to get a telecaster:smile:

slot technican when not playing music

My wife and I own a kid's toy and clothing store. Been doing this for two years now.

Before that I was a full-time stay-at-home dad for 3 1/2 years.

Before that I was a graphic designer... Well that's kind of a fancy title, I guess you could say I was a production artist (that's like a piss-boy graphic designer) /typesetter/keyliner (keylining was before computers) since 1990.

Mechanic.My 52ri playes great even when I come home from work at 5:30 in the morning.Nightshift sucks!

Sales Assistant at a Publishing Company

Retired tool design engineer and luthier.

Hmmm let’s see:

Been a Bus Driver
Been a Faucet Fixer
Been a Store Stock Boy
Been a Mixer of Alcoholic Elixir

Been a Donut Maker
Been a Dishwasher
Been a Professional Baker

Been a Cake Decorator
Been a Short Order Cook
Been a Night Janitor
Been an Inventory Clerk

Been a Waiter
Ran a Business as a Disc Jockey
Been a Painter

Been a Bar Bouncer
Been a School Bus Mechanic
Ran a Business as a Shed Builder

Been an Apartment Complex Maintenance Man
Been a Photographer
Ran a Business as a Handyman

PROFESSIONALLY (no poetry here…):
Industrial Engineer
Engineering Department Manager
Unemployed
Web Developer
E-Commerce Applications Manager
Consultant
Unemployed (not again…)
IT Department Manager
E-Commerce Applications Manager (again)
Unemployed (again…unbelievable)
IT Project Manager
Next…TBD

I was an Electrical Engineer for 20 years. Then, I became a Network Administrator, which I'm currently doing. Also, I own and operate a guitar and amp repair shop. If that isn't enough to fill my plate, I'm also on part-time staff at our church as the band pastor.....whew.....do you reckon I ever get to sleep? :shock:

Company Director for a multimedia production company.

I salt crackers as they go by on the assembly line. Official title: Sodium application engineer. Just Kidding...I own a contracting business. An gig weekly playin' Rawk.

I salt crackers as they go by on the assembly line. Official title: Sodium application engineer. Just Kidding...I own a contracting business. An gig weekly playin' Rawk.

i believed you... :)

in one field i am retiring from...IT department dude and overall computer guy with home side biz, well, many of us are called "network or systems engineers" and/or "computer scientists"

translation:

hardware technician who does networks and usually does not have a bachelor's degree (or has a useless liberal arts degree, maybe two)

and/or:

someone who is a coder who knows very little about math and science like the real scientists who are electrical engineers, electronic engineers, physicists, chemists, mechanical engineers, etc

graduate student in biochem/molecular bio.

"professional slacker"

uncivil civil engineer in a former life

Director, IT for a large company.

I'm a full time musician. My day job is teaching jazz composition at Berklee.

Distribution clerk for US Post office for the last 29 years. They now call us mail processors. Whatever.

DELIVERY of beer wine and related.

Idling:rolleyes:

For the last eight years or so I have been training developers and database specialists in the wonderful world of Microsoft .NET and SQL Server.

Hmmm let’s see:

Been a Bus Driver
Been a Faucet Fixer
Been a Store Stock Boy
Been a Mixer of Alcoholic Elixir

Been a Donut Maker
Been a Dishwasher
Been a Professional Baker

Been a Cake Decorator
Been a Short Order Cook
Been a Night Janitor
Been an Inventory Clerk

Been a Waiter
Ran a Business as a Disc Jockey
Been a Painter

Been a Bar Bouncer
Been a School Bus Mechanic
Ran a Business as a Shed Builder

Been an Apartment Complex Maintenance Man
Been a Photographer
Ran a Business as a Handyman

PROFESSIONALLY (no poetry here…):
Industrial Engineer
Engineering Department Manager
Unemployed
Web Developer
E-Commerce Applications Manager
Consultant
Unemployed (not again…)
IT Department Manager
E-Commerce Applications Manager (again)
Unemployed (again…unbelievable)
IT Project Manager
Next…TBD

Man, now that was creative! And maybe one of the only listing more stuff than what I've done... Guess I'm not the only ADD guy around!

I started in Fine Arts school
Was a photographer in the Army (If you Google my full name, you get links to my photos! Pretty cool even if it don't earn me a dime)
Was a fiber certified network nerd on Gov Contracts.
Owned a graphics and multimedia company.
Was the Online Marketing Director for an online university.
Got laid off and became a finish carpenter who owns a small remodeling firm.

So basically I'm a creative slacker who changes job fields every five or six years!

Latent Examiner :roll:

http://www.forensicsrus.com/images/SupergluePrint.jpg

I'm a middle-aged college student. I'm just a student loan away from my next guitar!

You think like I think!:mrgreen:

Last installment bought me a Gibson LP Studio.:lol:

I play bass in a Beatles tribute band.

I own a small company, went full time in 2000, that designs and builds guitars and amps. I really like the custom work, Tele "types" and Resolectrics are my mainstay. I still occasionally log and mill my own Western Big Leaf Maple and the occasional lucky find like a nice big Western Red Cedar or Walnut tree.
I also sponsor and help organize a Gospel Blues Festival every year,,, http://www.Back2Blues.com although it takes a lot of time this I do it for free so they even let me play there! :cool:
I was, up untill last year, the chairman of MaxFX Productions. A not for profit corperation that I started to organize benefit concerts for chartiable purposes.

Currently I am a full-time student in Electronics Technology, but soon hope to be a pedal builder for the stars as I just got a inquiry about one of my pedals from a somewhat well-known rock/metal band....

I'm an air traffic controller.

Guitar repairman

I work in a San Francisco medical center involved in repair and calibration of patient care equipment used in surgery,icu,emergancy room,etc.
An old fool from the old school

Been in the Air Force for 15 years. Jet Engine Mechanic..worked E-3 AWACS, F-15's and now KC135R Tankers. 5 yrs to go!!!!!!

I am a Bachelor of Graphic Design Arts, and I am working for an architectural advertising agency as Creative Director and designer. We are doing full marketing and advertising for residential home builders. I am a hobby musician, playing Rockabilly, Psychobilly and other styles, and recording music in my little home studio in the basement. Before I moved to Canada from Hungary 7 years ago, I had a band called "Gorilla". We jam every year, when I visit my home country.

I'm a veterinarian
I specialised in companion animals.
I own a 3 vet clinic in the eastern part of Holland
Besides my love for guitars ( tele and also to some extend strat)
I love my pets ( you can only choose one hobby to make it your profession)
Next time around I'll be a guitar hero

I work as a housing designer/draftsman. I used to do high end homes, but it got to the point where it was morally wrong to work there, and at my current job (comming up on 4 months here) I primarily design Ready to Move houses.

I also work during the summers and occasionaly through the winter as a Sound Technician. I mostly do Front of House mixing, but I got my start doing sidemixing.

I own a repair shop that specializes in high-end and vintage audio including tube and solid state amplifiers and, of course, vintage and new guitar amps. Also the tech.Have this business thirty years, but been doing this since I was fifteen.

I've been flying helicopters for 25 years now. I'm presently flying 18 seat helicopters to natural gas platforms 200 miles out into the North Atlantic, and my Tele is often behind my seat! (We often shut down with the work crews for a few hours). Flew in the Middle East for awhile but most of my flying has been in the Canadian North.

I teach English and social studies to "at-risk" high school kids. I also work as my building's union rep and may be moving to the position of vice-president of my union next yet.

The most important work I do, though, is being a dad to two great kids - my seven-year-old daughter and four-year-old son - and husband to my wife of eight and a half years.

Full time novelist.

Part time website salesman and project manager.

Part time musician.

Having great fun!

Completing a Master in Philosophy at Université du Québec à Montréal in order to be a college teacher.

&

Hotel clerk to pay the bills

:grin: I get to work with cattle and horses for a living, but also In the fortunate positon to record albums and tour. plus I get to work with some unreal guitar pickers. Think I'll keep my job.:cool:

I am an English teacher in Holland

i dont know how i missed this thread

when i was young i taught guitar and played with bands

then i got the idea to get married and have a family

so i stopped the musican thing and started working a standard job

the last 17 yrs i been working as A SLOT MACHINE TECHNICIAN

Composer in residence, Sound Designer for a gaming company.

I inspect residential and commercial construction from foundation to roof and everything in between. Currently assigned to the U:razz: nsafe structures unit. Basically that means I go and condemn all sorts of buildings, most get demolished. Not a lot of fun but it keeps the kids fed.

I'm the General Manager of a furniture factory in Dongguan, China. At night I play gigs in foreigner bars.

Complicated but here goes:

Mornings 5 days a week accounts / computer work in Furnishings store

3 Afternoons a week I teach guitar at 2 private schools.

Most weekdays I teach private guitar lessons.

Weekends I play in a semi-pro duo.

My accountant loves me!

working for a booteek IT consultancy

Police Sergeant in the Town where the West Begins, Fort Worth , TX.
Husband to the wonderful woman God allowed me to meet, and Dad to the greatest little four year old girl God could have given us.

:grin:

Copywriter

Been freelance for about a year, so far so good:grin: Been working on aproject for a major bathroom company for the last few months; I now know more about toilets than anyone strictly needs to :shock:

I WAS a technician in electronics until a few weeks ago...

I was recycled into a postman when they shut down the operation where I was working. :sad:

Not easy getting up at 5:00 am instead instead of 11 am :shock:

The worth is having no more time for Tele building on the job :sad:

I play, teach and transcribe guitar. Never had a real job!

I have not paints nor canvas bare
Or nouveau friends who put on airs
Haven’t hung on museum walls
In gilded frames so wide and tall
Never waited on perfect light
For soul to unfold wings in flight
My art lives in prose and lines
Songs of loss too soon in time
Where lovers cheat and live in sin
As others drown their ways in gin
These things I write and sing for you
Perhaps you’ll like the songs I do
But artists live with spark of flame
That one day all will know our name
So paint a stroke I’ll write a line
Maybe we’ll meet somewhere in time

© 2006
Colonel Robert Morris

I drive a lot of people really fast. I have my ups and downs and my wife says I have my head in the clouds a lot of the time when I'm working. My job is 99% pure joy and 1% shear terror!
(Airbus 320 Pilot)

My card says "assistant art director," but usually I feel like a fire extinguisher, babysitter, tech support guru, emergency release valve, and master complainer. :smile:

I am currently a mortgage broker training officers. means, I train mortgage brokers accross the country. Really exciting stuff......

The new carreer is survicing salt water aquariums in FL.
Sometimes I get to swim with sharks!!
Now thats a fun job!!!

IT Tech Guy for a local school district

...of really BIG things. My works sometimes cost many millions of dollars to produce and it doesn't cost me a dime. In fact people pay me pretty good to spend THEIR money. In the end, my works shape their lives and have profound psychological effects on their being. Oh, it keeps them dry too. :grin:

http://www.nettally.com/bosely/gigs.htm

Hugh

...of really BIG things. My works sometimes cost many millions of dollars to produce and it doesn't cost me a dime. In fact people pay me pretty good to spend THEIR money. In the end, my works shape their lives and have profound psychological effects on their being. Oh, it keeps them dry too. :grin:

http://www.nettally.com/bosely/gigs.htm

Hugh

You've got some cool designs there, Hugh! The ex-husband of my former neighbor works for Richard Sera (a sculptor of a different sort :smile: )

I have a Bachelor's degree in Biology, but have been working for 3+ years for a paper & plastics recycling company, doing IT and accounting work.

Full time guitar player, part time guitar instructor, some time guitar repairman.

Retired Air Force, now a High School teacher, and git teacher on the side

Sargeslide

History Prof.

I test music software - audio recording, MIDI Sequencers, Software Synthesizers, Effects Plug-ins, etc. and I play guitar in a couple of bands on the side.

Respiratory Therapist..If all these people would quit smoking I'd have to go out and get a real job......Currently Frankensteining a couple of Copycasters. Love lookig in jJnkshops and Flea Markets for guitar deals.....You should too.

I am an English teacher in Holland

My son n' law is from Holland, he grew up in " Herde" (s?)....

I am a genetics/Genomics graduate student in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Wyoming. If I didn't suck at guitar, Id play music all day and build things in the wood shop.

I'm a graphic artist/musician. I work full-time for a small one-to-one marketing company. I design direct mail for high level clients and I also run, maintain and repair our digital press here at work. My job is very flexable with my music so I am able to travel to play when necessary. I play maybe 10-15 gigs a month depending on how hot the band is getting booked at any given time.

I service commercial aquariums. Including selling, installing, and maintenance. When the tanks big enough, I get to suit up my scuba gear and hand feed fish and sharks. check out the site!!

http://www.poseidonaquariums.com/

Boy, this is a long thread. I'll have to read it in stages. I been every where. IBEW. Tramp. Ended my career writing safe work procedures for the projects division of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. The Alaska Pipeline company. Froze my ass off most of the time. You guys ever work at -66F? Me either, we just sat inside and played on the internet when it got that cold out. But if it warmed up to -40F "Get to work you lazy b***ards!"

Husband to the wonderful woman God allowed me to meet, and Dad to the greatest little four year old girl God could have given us.

Man... I sure hope you don't enter the Fund Raiser Draw - with that sort of help on your side nobody else will stand a chance....:wink:

I work for a home builder and business is tough right now. Which is why I have more time to spend here these days.

I want to be a translator English/Dutch or vice versa.

Contract Specialist/Procurement Analyst

I'm a freelance sound mixer, doing location sound for film, tv and video!

The guitar. I do as little in the real world as I possibly can as it gets in the way of my guitar playing....I used to be in retailing 'til illness caused me to have to take a rest for a while.

I run the computer network for a financial services company.

Please don't tell my Mother I sell Real Estate for a living...She thinks I play piano in a brothel!

I maintain helicopters. Luckily for me, several of my co-workers are fabulous guitar players, and we generally we get a little time to play every day.

Currently unemployed due to company downsizing.

Sales Engineer, I sell CNC Machinery (the job I set my sights on 10 years ago). Been in this industry 20 years, was a Machinist, CNC Programmer, Applications Engineer, Carbide Tooling Sales, then Machinery Sales. Aside from being a guitar fiend, I'm a gear-head, anything with big power has my attention, current build is an 800hp street/strip Ford.
It's interesting, but i guess not too surprising what a diverse group this is.

Professional luthier, and in my spare time I work as a color commentator on guitar forums like this one...:grin:

Jobs I have had...
Restaurant Manager
Chef
Line Cook
Dishwasher
Stock Broker
Investment Analyst
Accountant
Business Manager
Sales
Machinist
Metal Fabricator
Construction/General
Bricklayer
Carpenter
Baseball Memorabilia Event Organizer
Baseball Player (Pitcher)
Guitarist
Band Manager
Guitar Tech
Sound Tech

And quite a few others that wouldn't be appropriate to list here...

Yes, I'm serious...and I'm still young, and still learning ! :cool:

Gigging musician,playin guitars,keyboards and singing.
Freelance artist/illustrator.Notable work are some of the murals and paintings on NCL cruise liners.

Fascinating stuff... I thought I'd posted on this but must have been an older topic. Police Officer. Frontline serving, not pen pusher.

Journalist
... he writes as he ducks and runs for cover ...

Im a bag carrying sales guy working in the software space. I cover the information management space.

Mak.

I am project leader at Swedish Software/Finance company at Serbia. Also, I like rowing and other sports like basketball, soccer, swiming etc.

I am working for this company (http://www.orcharddesign.ca) I am leading the art and advertising production at the marketing department.

The website was finalized yesterdat

For the past 2 1/2 years I have been manufacturing computer boards. Before my current job I cooked in restaurants for over ten years working my way up to pastry in a four star restaurant. I got really burned out, but I have since stopped drinking leaving me with more money for guitars.

Federal Public Defender.

Wish the money was a little better, but I love my job.

I am an attorney also. I do civil litigation in Kansas City, Missouri. I hope to one day chase more ambulances. Just bought a years worth of TV ads.

I would rather be a federal public defender, in all honesty.

I calibrate air pollution analyzers for the state of "Kahleefornia"...I can pass four Guitar Centers in a single day when I drive out to a job. Lucky me.

... at the radar station :mrgreen:

Clinical Psychologist

Audio Engineer for a 4 hour morning news show in Boston (Fox25 Morning News if anybody cares) , It's been the best job I've had in the last 22+ years, even if I have to wake up at 2:30 AM and drive 45min to work. I get to work with a lot of state of the art equipment (Euphonix System 5 Mixer 45 channels) and work with bands when we get them in for our show (once or twice a week, the best was Johnny Hiland) . I work with a great bunch of people and the nicest personalities in the business...

I've been on that show and it was totally great- everybody was totally cool. It was just a real surprise to find ourselves on live TV with those bookshelf speakers you guys use for monitors and a 7 piece band. Luckily, we've got some experienced lip readers in the band 'cuz there was zero chance of hearing the singers. What's up with that, anyway? They can't get you one decent monitor to work with?

Secret Agent.

A Pastor

I work for an international alcoholic beverage manufacturing conglomerate who shall remain nameless. I'm not paid to advertise.

LOL I work as a physiotherapist learning people to work the right way, and design working places..........part time. In the weekends I heal myself playing my tele.

Baard

Just a little help with your English my friend, You Teach people,they are the ones who are Learning.

Full time novelist.



I have actually written and teach a six-week course on Gothic Lit; we hit all of the biggies, Walpole, Poe, Lovecraft, King, and a few others.

I would love to read some of your stuff. Can I get it at Barnes and Noble or Amazon?


I am an English teacher in Holland

Do you know what I would do to be able to teach English in Europe?!

I work for US Postal Service at our local mail processing and distribution plant. Been there for 30 yrs.

Was in the hi-end hi-fi/video business (retail) for 35 years and I am now in the bicycle and fitness gear business (retail).

Retired Network Engineer. Used to work for a major university for 28 years, retired, helped to start a company in 2000, retired once more after 7 years.

Now I just get to play guitar, drive my Miata and spoil my granddaughters.

Respiratory Therapist..If all these people would quit smoking I'd have to go out and get a real job......Currently Frankensteining a couple of Copycasters. Love lookig in jJnkshops and Flea Markets for guitar deals.....You should too.

You guys! When I was hospitalized with Guillain-Barre last year (leaving me paralyzed for two months) you guys would come around every 4 hours asking me to breathe in breath-o-meter. I really did appreciate you guys. A series of low numbers would have meant intubation, which, thankfully, I avoided. A thankless job you have, if you ask me, and a vitally important one. Get it?

Well, take yer pick. Unfortunately I have another guitar tree off camera...
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:shock:sorry i didnt meanto quote in this thread.

I'm a university tutor and currently a masters student as well.

Catholic School Central Office Admin. Personnel.
Been in a band since the 80's.
Love my new telecaster

I'm a designer. I love what I do. http://www.jamiehunter.co.uk

Full-time;Self employed Industrial Electronics/Automation Design/Repair, Design/Install Audio Systems (Church,Clubs,Sports Arena's).
Part-time; Musician (2-4 Nights week),Audio Production,Instrument Repair.

Director of Fundraising for the emergency food bank in Pittsburgh

Im a phlebotomist at a hospital in the cinci area.. Basically im the most hated guy there.. I draw blood.. LOL

Heavy Equipment Operator

Install underground utilities(gas, electric, tv, tele, etc.).


Pretty much the same as Kev, but for a Water District.

And, sometimes I actually de-install other utilities (but we're not supposed to)!:oops:
PG&E affixes little orange stickers with their number on it for locations of utilities (kinda like little bombing missions) to the boom of our backhoe.

So far in thirty years of operating I have two such stickers on my boom (for a couple of 4" gas lines)!:roll:

I work as a drug and alcohol counselor at a Detox unit. I work with the homeless and others with severe addictions and some also have mental health problems. For every one person I can help there are 40 to 50 who don't make it. I see people waste their lives, I see people go to jail, I see people OD, I see people die, I see the walking dead. I have saved a few.

The BLUES seem to creep into everything I play!! It's great that my amp goes to 12!

I'm a Mechnical Engineer, currently working in the drilling (oil and gas) industry.

I keep an eye on everything in orbit from a very small, very isolated coral island in the middle of the Pacific (which, for a chronic impulse buyer like myself, is actually a good thing!). I also have an acute case of G.A.S. but can't play for beans. Go figure...

Army for the past 13 years and some change Patriot Missile Operator Maintainer currently the Platoon Sergeant but fixing to move to a staff job for a year since they are getting someone in that out ranks me. I was recruiting before this in NJ for 3 years now in Okinawa as the PSG.

Storekeeper (warehouse) at a power plant...

maritime vessel captain

I teach English and social studies to "at-risk" kids at an alternative high school.

A safe cracker,legally!

Business researcher and consultant. Eventually, after the school bills are paid, I'd like to do this part-time and work with dogs (training) part-time.

I'm a Mechnical Engineer, currently working in the drilling (oil and gas) industry.Kool man. I finished up my career with Alyeska Pipline Service Company as projects superintendent and safe work procedure writer for line wide electrical. True living. Bears and all!

Dan

There's such an amazing wealth of knowledge here! TDPRI folks near about got it covered, huh?

Yeah, I answered this thread already... just a flunky in the IT/MIS dept of a Turkey Plant... Well, not just any Turkey Plant... Actually we're kinda THE Turkey Plant! We keep the world awash in birds...

psychologist and counselor

Mathematician.

Consumer Relations rep for Fender Musical Instrument Corporation...maybe I've talked to some of you.

I'm a Technical Advisor for a shop that makes plastic parts and also makes electric phase converters for 220 volt industrial applications. I also do whatever else might need to be done at any particular moment.

Jack of all trades, master of none? Yeppers, that's me.

I study literary theory and history. Tomorrow is the deadline for my Master's Thesis. Two more pages to write, and my 100-pages paper (I call it the bear) will be finished.Now what I am I doing here?

I study literary theory and history. Tomorrow is the deadline for my Master's Thesis. Two more pages to write, and my 100-pages paper (I call it the bear) will be finished.Now what I am I doing here?

You're recharging your batteries, drawing inspiration from us, whatever. :lol:

Good Luck with your thesis. :smile:

I study literary theory and history. Tomorrow is the deadline for my Master's Thesis. Two more pages to write, and my 100-pages paper (I call it the bear) will be finished.Now what I am I doing here?


Good luck!

I'd love to have a Masters under my belt after I finish my Degree (Creative Music Technology). But I'm not sure I could write that much..

Full time literature teacher, part time consultant for the American Council on Education, part time doctoral student in psychology. One day I'll sleep.

Deputy Sheriff for past 10 years.
Oddly enough, I studied classical guitar and music business in college.

....just like it says below..."full time, amateur, tele-whacker"....21 year retired Federal Civil Servant(Cdn.), retired at 45, lots of time to practice!

Store Support for over 6,000 Walgreen's Drug Stores (it can be pretty boring, but pays the bills). Have thought about building/modifying/repairing instruments part-time.

Lawyer, but not the kind you should hate.

Cowboy. The real kind.

I am the president's bodyguard.