What do you do for a living?

**J.B. Simpson** · 28th January 08, 12:19 AM

WOW there is a large diversity of occupations on this site!! It is truly a pleasure to get to know you all.

**James MacMillan** · 28th January 08, 02:42 AM

Retired Marine - Now volunteer for many organizations and am secretary of my Masonic Lodge.

**Frank McGrath** · 28th January 08, 03:00 AM

Field Service Technician (Road Mechanic) for large material handling company in Baltimore/Washington area.. From the bay to the mountains, and from the Pa. line to Virginia. Fork Lifts, dock boards, and any thing DC powered in the warehouse. BTW......company is looking for a few experienced techs.

**David White** · 28th January 08, 03:47 AM

5th grade Special Education teacher, working with ED students.

**BonnieT100** · 28th January 08, 05:29 AM

I'm an airborne Signal Officer, hoping to move into Psychological Operations. Was an air assault infantryman before that. I preferred the simpler days.

**Howard Clark** · 28th January 08, 05:40 AM

Full time bladesmith, specializing in high performance Japanese style swords for the last decade. Previously a mechanic of all things in the trucking industry. Started out working on ThermoKing refrigeration units that keep your perishables from perishing on the truck.

**Rampant Lion** · 28th January 08, 08:16 AM

I'm an electronics technologist currently working for a small, but growing contract manufacturer.

**mbhandy** · 28th January 08, 08:56 AM

Owner of Bill Edwards Handyman
My Business card is:

But the almost part of my slogan can get me out of almost anything.

So I guess I am a jack of all - master of none.

I like the verity of my work because day to day it changes and makes most of it fun and challenging.

Prior to that I:

Managed Park City Pizza Company (worked up from Delivery Driver)
Mentored for the Norwegian School of Nature Life (Taught outdoor education to Middle School thru University Level)
Bus driver for Park City
Bartended
Drove long haul
Lift operator for the resort in Park City
Managed a Topless joint in Houston (no longer there- Not my fault)
Played in a band for money and did sound.
Photographer For Exxon and USAF.
Clerk at Sears
Paper boy

Damn I can't keep a job

Guess that is what a Liberal Arts Degree will get you. What chips with that Pizza?

MrBill

**Hachiman** · 28th January 08, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by mbhandy

Guess that is what a Liberal Arts Degree will get you.

Mate, don't disparage your Liberal Arts degree too much... I've got a Bachelors of Psychology AND an Honours degree in Psychology, and I'm having a difficult time finding work.

I guess having a degree (or two) isn't the 'guarantee' of a better job that universities tend to imply.

cheers

Hachiman

**Ian.MacAllan** · 28th January 08, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by Hachiman

. . . I guess having a degree (or two) isn't the 'guarantee' of a better job that universities tend to imply.

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True, a degree is not a guarantee, but it is a hunting license and it can be a help in retaining a job once you have it.

In my salad days I was first an electronics technician, then an electronics engineer, and then a software engineer. The first of my programs that worked properly I wrote in 1964, so I was a software engineer before that name was coined. Since I retired in 1994 I have written no code but a few BASH scripts, so I am now hopelessly behind the state of the art except for one fact: because FORTRAN will never die, we who can write FORTRAN in any language will never cease to be functional.

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