Where do you work?

[The Wizard of BC]

Is there anyone that has not guessed what I now do for a living?

My boss requires me to wear a kilt at work.

I also vollenteer as a Docent at The Royal BC Museum. I did not wear my kilts at the museum until the director asked me to.

Prior to this job I have been; A yacht designer/boat builder, An Apache Helicopter Test Pilot, A teacher, (College/High School) A live-aboard sailor/beach bum, A mechanic, A fork lift driver, An interesting person, and once, just once, I got to be a dad.

[nixphotography]

I got to be a dad.

THis is by far the best job I ever had or will have.

[thekiltedmortician]

I am a funeral director/embalmer here in town. I do mostly embalming, work lots of hours, but I have no chance of ever wearing a kilt where I work.

[Erisianmonkey]

I'm a full time student right at the moment, so I'm as close to full time kilted as two kilts will permit.

[Frog]

I work for a developmental disabilities agency as an intensive behavioral intervention professional (I call it "kiddie wrestling") working with kids with mental retardation/cognitive impairment, autism, etc. who engage in aggressive, self-injurious, or other maladaptive behavior. I wear my kilts to work when I don't have kids scheduled - I do a lot of my work in schools and other community settings, and never know when I'm gonna find myself on the floor or climbing up on playground equipment fetching a runaway, for that matter - one of my kids had figured out that if he bolted quickly enough, school staff usually assigned to work with him weren't able to climb up and get him down safely, so he didn't have to go in to do more school work - I've pretty much broke him of that habit, now.

Frog

[Sciuropterus]

I work at a kilt-friendly company (SWK), I am responsible for prototype development and design (yes, I know how to sew), web/graphic design, marketing, product photography, order fulfillment/customer service, purchasing, accounts payable.

I also have a small airbrush repair business, our main customers are bakeries/cake decorators from all over the country, they use airbrushes to spray food coloring on cakes.

I worked for ten years as an airbrush artist/sign painter/decorative painter. I taught evening airbrushing classes for 3 years at the local tech school as well as teaching workshops all around the country, I also wrote many magazine articles on the topic back in the 90's. I finally got sick of coughing up paint and being filthy all the time.

Before that, I worked in the automotive field for a few years, I was eventually a GM (Chev/Olds/Cadillac) service advisor, glad I got out of that.

My wife is a commercial tile setter for a big union shop, she will become a journeyman this summer, I can already see our daughter at school saying "My daddy sells dresses to men and my mommy is a construction worker"

[David Dalglish]

I am a retired engineer,for safety reason's it would not have been practical to wear kilt's at work.I now have a part time job( delivering rental cars), which I like doing, I could wear a kilt if I wanted, but choose not to as sometimes we assist in valeting the cars, the kilt would get dirty.

[Zyzzyx]

Hmm, interesting to come back to this thread. I posted in it already, back in April '06. Back then I was full-time kilted in my UKs.

Now I've moved to eastern Washington. I'm still in I.T., one of three folks in our Help Desk/Call Center/Service Center. Dunno of any precise restrictions on commenting about my employer, but I work for the primary contractor for a nuclear waste cleanup project in southeast WA. And technically, I don't work for them. I'm still hired through a temp agency. As such I haven't even inquired yet about wearing a kilt to work. As annoying as it is to sit in slack and jeans all day, I can put up with that to have a job. For now. I'm still looking around at other ideas for employment, including getting out of I.T. somehow.

[Alan]

I have three jobs. As you can guess, on one job I wear my kilt all the time, and since I am the boss, I require it . My job with the Navy Reserves I am not permitted to wear a kilt. I also have a Part time job as a handy man for a large company. I can't wear a kilt there either. I also have another job, the most important one, I am a father to 5 children. That one takes up most of my time.

[PiobBear]

I'm a former firefighter/paramedic. I've been disabled (in the great state of Florida, a "right to work" state, without the benefit of disability or pension), downsized, outsourced, laid off and outright fired so many times, I simply work wherever I can now...being white, male, middle-aged, and (formerly) middle management (often with a noticable limp), that generally means nowhere; I'm not exactly a hot commodity in the job market. Mostly I'm a piper; weddings, funerals, formal dinners, corporate events, all sorts of things. Usually pays as much or better than my last demeaning, menial, servile, and dead-end job (where getting ridiculed, humiliated and snarled at (and cheated; yelled at if lunch took longer than ten minutes, with the caveat to make damn sure I put a whole hour down on my time card, with constant reminders during ten hour work days that if I put more than 8 down I'd be fired) was part of my job description), but for a greatly reduced B.S. quotient.