the what's your day job thread.

[Big Al]

apart from slacking on here... what do you do?

i'll start first... i'm a graphic designer for a print company. 08.30 - 18.00 mon to fri.

:)

the first dentist gets a prize ;)

[Quinny]

Technically, student.

Additionally, music production and a bit of I.T. consultancy.

Q.

[GaryNattrass]

Freelance Dubbing Mixer for Film and TV currently working on The Bill.

I also now build guitars when I am not in London.

[PRSKILLER]

Hotel Engineering.

[XBic]

I work as a punk, phone answering monkey solving computer problems for the ID10T users of a certain University in the heartland of the U.S. - many times I wonder how this place even operates with all of the morons here. And no, I'm not bitter ;)

[david eaton]

Dentist.



No, actually, I'm a Professor of Economics at Murray State University. I teach in the general areas of microeconomics and research in areas of taxation, charitable contributions, and the economics of information. A touch of research on religion and economics as well.

[goof1073]

"senior advanced quality engineer" for a medical device company...

...gee doesn't that sound important? :D

[Elgreco]

Stay at home Dad. A greatly underappreciated job!

[Goober]

:dude:
I work in the service department of an auto dealership 7:30 to 5
(with as much slacking as possible!!)

Dana

[Gavin]

I'm know by many names;

blue-bottle, bogey, bull, copper, filth, flatfoot, flattie, fuzz, grasshopper, man in blue, nab, oink, old bill, paddler, peeler, pig, rozzer, scuffer, the man and woodentop, to name a few.

Gavin

[Elgreco]

I'm know by many names;

blue-bottle, bogey, bull, copper, filth, flatfoot, flattie, fuzz, grasshopper, man in blue, nab, oink, old bill, paddler, peeler, pig, rozzer, scuffer, the man and woodentop, to name a few.

Gavin
Ahh! You are a postal worker!!!

[JGraham]

Aircraft Maintenance Controller, Independence Airlines, Washington Dulles.
5am-3pm fri-mon.

[Dan Desy]

Guitarist for Rush... Uh, no, wait, I mean...

Systems Architect (that's fancy talk for geek) for a global travel company.

[Chiba]

"Taxonomist" - yeah, go look it up. Basically I create/maintain/repair customized content categories that pull articles from several thousand worldwide electronic news feeds by teaching English to a piece of A.I. Day in, day out. That's my job.

Evenings I teach history at No. Virginia Community College - freshman level surveys in US History & Western Civilizations (basically European History with a little Egypt-Persia-Greece thrown in at the beginning). Last night we covered the rise & fall of Charlemagne and the emergence of Islam; Tuesday's class was on the Great Depression and pre-war FDR. That's my career choice...now if I could just find a full-time position :D

I wouldn't mind having Elgreco's job. One of my best buds is a stay-home pops and he loves it.

--chiba

[-CM-]

Systems Integration Specialist - i.e. bigtime computer geek.

[Ripcom]

I'm a Painter and Decorator and have been for 25 years now.

But more importantly I'm a Dad which is the most important job in the world. :)

[espo]

Interventional cardiologist (ie performing coronary stents/angiplasties etc) but hopefully one day full time guitar bum & Philly sports fanatic...

[Tom Gross]

"Solution Architect" - yet another fancy name for big time geek.

I work in the Consulting Services part of a large Computer company, that bought another large computer company that I worked for, that had bought yet another large computer company that I had just started working for.
I get new logo shirts and new cards everytime I'm sold.

And no, I can't help you with your printer problem.

[Bill McDowell]

contracts manager, software company

[Peter C]

Finance Manager for a consulting company


(i.e. the "money guy") ;)

[Dan Thrash]

"senior advanced quality engineer" for a medical device company...

...gee doesn't that sound important? :D

well, see....the word "quality" is in your title, so right away that makes you're position absolutely worthless. j/k ;)

anyway, right now i'm a plant engineer at a rocket motor manufacturing company. by the end of march however, i'll once again be a student at Drexel University in Philly.

[Phil Macino]

Program Manager for a large software company. :)

[BIG GINGER GIT]

Principal Operating Department Practitioner in charge of Anaesthetics at my local hospital :D
Been in this position three months now and I love it. No more night work and 24 hr shifts, more teaching and organising and chilling out and time off :D

[TRandy16]

I have been a professional guitar salesman for the last 27 years. I work for an authorized PRS dealership in the midwest....Missouri to be exact.

[Jen]

I'm a psychologist. I work in a supervisory position for the behavioral health managed care division of a major teaching hospital in NYC. (When I'm not playing guitar)

[goof1073]

well, see....the word "quality" is in your title, so right away that makes you're position absolutely worthless. j/k ;) Offah!! Geez...someone wanna pull this knife outta my back? Tell the FDA my position is worthless though...bet they would say differently! LOL

[MVG]

General catagory: Lawyer. Specific type: Prosecutor (one of the good guys. I work with flat-feets like Gavin...:) )

[Brewer]

I used to be a burned-out IT manager. Now I'm learning how to be a burned-out real estate appraiser.

[Dan Thrash]

Offah!! Geez...someone wanna pull this knife outta my back? Tell the FDA my position is worthless though...bet they would say differently! LOL

hey goof,
no hard feelings 'eh? i was just kidding. at one of my previous jobs (a small company) we had a QA manager. all the guys there in the shop used to joke around that he didn't do a damn thing because we always caught him sleeping with his feet up....literally! truth is, where i work now, the quality and inspection guys are some of the most important people here.

i was actually preparing for a comeback like...."plant engineer? you mean maintenance right?" :p

[Thomas Hebert]

University Professor and Department Chair. I teach Psychology courses such as Experimental Psychology, Learning and Memory, Physiological Psyc, Sensation and Perception, Statistics--none of the 'touchy-feely' stuff. Semester breaks are great for catching up on my playing!!!

[mbpatsfan]

English Professor.

I get paid to make other people read my favorite books!

Great country!

[Phil Bennett]

Telecom Operations Manager.

Currently working on a Road User Charging Trial for the Dft (Dept for Transport).

Its only a trial.......:D

Regards

[Dan O]

still a student strong at 18!

[redmax61]

Satellite Communications Technician and Supervisor for the US Navy aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan.

I'm also a Daddy and part time punk guitar player.

[bryanrheem]

I'd love to be a stay home dad.. although I don't know if I have enough energy to keep up with my 21 month old daugther :D

I'm a contractor doing computer geek stuff.

[Ron M]

Father of four, own and operate a Mfg Company with 70 employees.

[Brian Yarbrough]

Father of 3 boys, and an Assistant Principal at a High School in eastern NC. I use to be a teacher/coach. I taught Geography, Govt. Econ.,and US History. Coached football and track. Now I am a bus coordinator, disciplinarian, target for anyone that is angry, custodian, chaperone, baby sitter, paper shuffler, bouncer, narcotics officer, gang expert, problem solver, cheerleader, coaching consultant, oh, and sometimes I actually deal with educating students.

[Dan Desy]

Father of 3 boys, and an Assistant Principal at a High School in eastern NC. I use to be a teacher/coach. I taught Geography, Govt. Econ.,and US History. Coached football and track. Now I am a bus coordinator, disciplinarian, target for anyone that is angry, custodian, chaperone, baby sitter, paper shuffler, bouncer, narcotics officer, gang expert, problem solver, cheerleader, coaching consultant, oh, and sometimes I actually deal with educating students.
So.... what do you do in your spare time?... ;)

[Donk70]

Senior production/technical supervisor for a large Japanese consumer electronics company. My hour's stink, but I get a 3 day weekend every other weekend.

[Dan Desy]

Senior production/technical supervisor for a large Japanese consumer electronics company. My hour's stink, but I get a 3 day weekend every other weekend.
Oh, I thought you played guitar in Pink Floyd???

[Big Mike]

Sales Engineer for an Electronic Compoent company. That Does not mean I know anything about electronics!

[daddycam]

Network Administrator for an accounting firm. I guess that means I fall into the geek category.

[todd kester]

I work for SYSCO FOOD SERVICES of INDIANAPOLIS driving a truck and delivering tons of heavy groceries one cartload at a time.

[psxguru]

IT Contractor - various skills, currently looking after unix servers, and coding web based applications.

[kev]

Another IT geek here, currently titled as Project Planner.

[bullfrogblues]

Digital Tech with the major baby bell in the southeast. Includes installation and maintanance of ADSL systems, repeater systems, T-1,T-3, OC12 to OC48 multiplexers, and other aspects of the fiber optic arena.


Allan.

[Andrew Chen]

I'm one of the faceless cogs in the financial systems machinery.

[Aldwyn]

By day, I'm a Unix Systems Administrator for Verizon Communications. On call 24 hours. Sometimes have to travel at a moments notice (though was in Tampa a couple of weeks ago for work... that was nice!).

Nights and weekends, I am a Wiccan high priest. On call 24 hours. I've been told the only traveling I will do with this job is going to Hell in a hand-basket. ;)

Peace,
Aldwyn

[Baba]

Man, alot of geeks here, I wish I was one of them!

Sales/Tech support for a Philly-based music store's e-commerce site.

I check the orders for fraud, deal with returns, test gear, ship items, etc.

[Dan Desy]

Man, alot of geeks here, I wish I was one of them!

Sales/Tech support for a Philly-based music store's e-commerce site.

I check the orders for fraud, deal with returns, test gear, ship items, etc.
Test gear? Doesn't sound like such a bad job, Baba! :)

[Jay Warren]

Another UK based Dubbing mixer, but work on films.

[SteveK]

Nurse Manager for the Spinal Cord Injury/Ventilator Dependent Unit for Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. They have somehow lost any common sense;) and promoted me again!:eek: In 2 weeks I will be the Spinal Cord Injury Co-ordinator, and will have offices in 2 separate hospitals, co-ordinate outpatient clinics, and be the research co-ordinator for the new activated macrophage trial that is a new experimental treatment for spinal cord injuries.

[Taller]

Astronaut and test pilot for the United States Air Force.


OK. No I'm not.

But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

:p


For real - I do work for NASA. I'm an Electronics Technician at Langley Research Center. At least for the next 18 months or so, when I expect to be laid off.:mad:

[TRandy16]

Donnie,

I have a very good friend who works at LRC....he is also a very fine jazz guitarist and just released his second CD...name is Nick Kepics. Know him by any chance? He used to work over in the wind tunnel testing area but now he's doing something else....not sure what exactly. He's an older guy like me....been at LRC about 30 years or so.



Astronaut and test pilot for the United States Air Force.


OK. No I'm not.

But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

:p


For real - I do work for NASA. I'm an Electronics Technician at Langley Research Center. At least for the next 18 months or so, when I expect to be laid off.:mad:

[Donk70]

Oh, I thought you played guitar in Pink Floyd???
HaHa, and I thought you played guitar in Rush????:D

[LSchefman]

My day job is composing original music for television commercials, and I produce records when the mood strikes. I also make a lot of telephone calls to my clients, doing what I call, "Begging for projects."

It's also my night job. Come to think of it, it's my weekend job. In fact, I haven't been outside in several days.

Not going outside leads one to become depressed after a while.

I would hang myself, but then everyone would say, "See, I told you not to leave your law practice and become a composer. It's made you go mad."

Of course, then I'd be dead, so I'd have the last laugh.

[Rusmurf]

I am a runner and tennis player, and I sell equipment for those sports, when I'm not playing guitar. Mainly what I "try" to do is put people in Running shoes that don't hurt. You can take a look at RnJsports.com, we also have a stores in Rockville and Bethesda Maryland.


Reu

[Tom Gross]

Astronaut and test pilot for the United States Air Force.


OK. No I'm not.

But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

:p


For real - I do work for NASA. I'm an Electronics Technician at Langley Research Center. At least for the next 18 months or so, when I expect to be laid off.:mad:
Hey Donnie -
I did a bunch of work for NASA Langley back in the 80's & early 90s, doing and teaching Solid Modeling and CAD for them as a contractor. A lot of cool stuff was going on there - hypersonic jets, WMDs, etc.

[merkenball]

Retail Logistics Manager

[Layne]

Please God; do not let them slam me!





























I've been selling guitars with Guitar Center North Dallas since shortly after I got my B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of North Texas.



I KNOW! I KNOW! Guitar Center is supposedly the "devil" in the big-box musical retailing industry. However, I believe myself to be one of the "good guys" that does know more than the average "monkey" with absolutely no sales experience and no paper to back up it up either. Having said that, I apologize to any of the above said. ;)

I conclude this message by inviting you to come see me if you would like excellent customer service and product knowledge from a Guitar Center salesperson (myself). I work all week except for Wednesdays and certain Thursdays.


Sincerely,



Layne

Guitar Sales - Guitar Center North Dallas

* Please, please, please do not slam me for my current working situation! Remember, I'm one of the good guys!

[Donk70]

Please God; do not let them slam me!





























I've been selling guitars with Guitar Center North Dallas since shortly after I got my B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of North Texas.



I KNOW! I KNOW! Guitar Center is supposedly the "devil" in the big-box musical retailing industry. However, I believe myself to be one of the "good guys" that does know more than the average "monkey" with absolutely no sales experience and no paper to back up it up either. Having said that, I apologize to any of the above said. ;)

I conclude this message by inviting you to come see me if you would like excellent customer service and product knowledge from a Guitar Center salesperson (myself). I work all week except for Wednesdays and certain Thursdays.


Sincerely,



Layne

Guitar Sales - Guitar Center North Dallas

* Please, please, please do not slam me for my current working situation! Remember, I'm one of the good guys!
It's ok Layne, all is forgiven. Someone has to be the devil:D

[Old Fuzzface]

Here's a sign of the times for you...

I just had to go to our HR web-site to look up my job title!

Apparently, I'm a "Remote Engineer, Expert". I work on chemical analytical instrumentation, mainly Gas & Liquid Chromatographs and Mass Spectrometers.

So I guess I fall into the category: hardware geek, non-computational.

[NakedJim]

I'm a geek for a living too. I run an IT department. When I'm not involved in management issues I'm usually doing development work in SQL Server these days. I also do a lot of server admin, network admin, unix admin, PeopleSoft and a bevy of programming in several different languages. Hmmm... come to think of it, maybe I'm a turbo geek. :D

Jim

[Taller]

Hey Donnie -
I did a bunch of work for NASA Langley back in the 80's & early 90s, doing and teaching Solid Modeling and CAD for them as a contractor. A lot of cool stuff was going on there - hypersonic jets, WMDs, etc.
Weapons of Mass Destruction??
So you're the one who knows where they are!!:D;)



Nick Kepics - Yeah, I know of him. The one time I tried to talk to him...well, he seemed to have a pretty high opinion of himself. That's all I can say about that. He's a good guitar player, to be sure.

[data187]

i'm a web/graphic designer by day, photographer by night.
oh, i'm a hack on the guitar too... :D

[Dash_Doc]

I'm an broadcast engineer (big time geek) I work in the broadcast facuility of the Staples Center in Los Angeles if you've watched a Kings, Lakers, or Clippers game on FOX Sports West or West2 I likely was involved in getting the game on air. The good side of the job is that sports entertainment is a very insulated sector of the economy, very unlikly to get laid off, the bad side is it's sports which I really just don't understand. Also run my own independent service company. I work on recording consoles and tape machines in several major studios in Los Angeles. One of my specialities is the DASH (Digital Audio Stationary Head) multi-track tape machine hence Dash_Doc.

[DaveMetta]

Gov't. type Safeguards and Security.

[jaycee]

I'm called a "growth coordinator" which basically means "team leader" for m.i.t.'s center for genome reasearch. We sequence (uncode) dna from diferent organisms ( human, dog, chimp, fungi, viruses, and many others). What we produce is data. We were the biggest contributer of data for the human genome project that was recently completed. :dude:

[Ripcom]

We were the biggest contributer of data for the human genome project that was recently completed. :dude:

Good work chap!!!!:cool:

[tmoore]

I work as a punk, phone answering monkey solving computer problems for the ID10T users of a certain University in the heartland of the U.S. - many times I wonder how this place even operates with all of the morons here. And no, I'm not bitter ;)
Yea...I think I've talked to you a few times. ;)


I do cost/budget analysis for some Army weapon system contracts.
When the Government doesn't waste money, that's me TCB. :rolleyes:

[Brian Yarbrough]

So.... what do you do in your spare time?... ;)

Listen to my wife fuss at me about something I didn't realize I had done :p

[jbird]

I do Ultrapure Water Treatment at a large Semiconductor Facility.

[grovedale]

General Sales Manager at a 3 brand auto dealer. I'm the guy the salsman goes into the "back" to get numbers from. Please don't hate me. http://forums.birdsandmoons.com/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Andrew]

Technical Assistant in the New Business division for one of the top insurance companies in the world.

[aleclee]

Code slinger for a financial data provider.

[Doug Lewis]

3 months after graduating with a BS in Aeronautical Studies I started a fence company. I dig holes April thru November. (Minnesota) December thru March I work on my car http://home.earthlink.net/~dlewis64/index.html , play my guitar, and watch a lot of TV.

[Buffalosix]

Active duty US Army, going on 16 years now. Currently an Infantry officer.

Trying to figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up in another 4 years... but hoping it has something to do with a small horse farm in upstate NY. :D

[Mike W]

same as MVG, Prosecutor.

[Hugh]

I'm a broadcast operations manager for a small-dish satellite company. My department handles the PPV, promotional and other switched channels for the entire network.

I'm a mid-level geek...

[Schroeder]

Single dad of 2 beautiful kids (Andy and Katie)
California Registered Geologist (True day job)
Guitarist, Manager, Producer for my band (Shameless plug - CD "Clear Cut - California" drops March 17, 2004!! www.clearcutmusic.com):D
Guitar Forum junky

[jda]

Software Engineering Manager/ Team Lead (got promoted! :dude: )

[gemal]

Director of New Business Development for a large NYC private label ladies denim manufacturer. Responsible for working with the large chain stores in supplying denim for their private national brands. Not a geek but a garmento...playing guitar for 30 years and PRS's for 7. Currently jam with other working stiffs in a midtown rehearsal studio a few times a week.

[kingsleyd]

Curriculum & assessment specialist (mathematics) for a company that does custom designed academic testing, mostly at the state level. I "write" and put together the maths tests, in conjunction with teachers and state dept. of eduction people. Guess I'm a geek too, although a math geek rather than a computer (or rocket science) geek!

And I manage to find time to play guitar. Released a solo CD last fall on Alchemy Records that gets some airplay late at night on weird syndicated radio programs such as "Echoes."

Oh: and father of two boys, 18 & 19.

[kro]

Portfolio Manager - I manage money for large corporations, pension funds, and municipalities

[PRSpark]

Regional Business loan center manager for Bank Of America in sunny Tampa, Fla

[John LeQuire]

Student, currently avoiding employment as long as possible.

[workrelease]

Sales Manager for a software company. We make model-based process control, and fault detection software for the semiconductor industry. I get to go around the world and chit-chat with folks about our stuff.

-work

[Jhigley]

Broadcast Engineer.



Jeff

[Peter]

Home builder, of custom homes in the Monterey Peninsula.

[Zach Trowbridge]

Technically, I'm a full-time student at the University of Iowa. I also work about 18 hours a week at the University of Iowa Hospitals Gift Shop installing a barcoding/point-of-sale system that needs to be done by about mid-July. Lots of fun. At least I get to be the only male on staff while working with 10 college-age girls. :)