What do you do for a living?

[Surly Dave]

Currently an unemployed sign builder and installer. Once was a chef at a fairly upscale hotel and had a catering company.

Now, I'm looking for work. I can't decide where to put my energies: Sign industry? Food Service? Self employment? Who knows. Follow the money I guess.

[RakesOfMallow]

Right now, I teach Art and Enrichment at an Elementary School...I work part-time at a vineyard giving tours, educating people about wine, and learning how to make wine...I am also a volunteer firefighter...and I somehow found some time to play the bagpipes.

[Riverkilt]

Hmmm. I have 27 years experience as a functional alcoholic in corporate sales and marketing. After sobering up I went back to college and got a master's degree in professional counseling.

Now those two areas of expertise combine and I'm a licensed professional counselor, licensed independent substance abuse counselor, national certified counselor, certified advanced addiction counselor, and certified criminal justice addiction counselor for a rural behavioral health agency.

That means I do a LOT of DUI screenings for the courts...educating folks that just two or three beers is enough to make most anyone too drunk to drive legally as far as their blood alcohol content goes....doing individual and group counseling to help folks get clean and sober, or at least stay clean and sober until they're off probation or parole.

Despite all the education, experience, training, licenses, certifications, and street smarts just ain't no way I can get anyone else clean and sober. I can only show them where the tools are for them to do it themselves with support from the folks in those meetings they hate.

I do get to spend a lot of time in jails, prisons, emergency rooms and psychiatric units. Occasionally staff will screw up and let me out.

Also sit on the board of directors of our local domestic violence shelter and treatment agency.

See a lot of sadness and death. One thing I like about kilts is they are a metaphor for there being more than one way to live.

Ron

[Casper]

Geez, Ron, you're a tough act to follow... ;)


Customer Service Supervisor for the non-prime automotive finance division of the Bank of Nova Scotia. I run a call centre.

I also regularily dabble in both gynecology and being a gigolo on a pro-bono basis.


- Chris

[Clockwork John]

Ron, I think I need to send my mom your way next time she goes to visit family in Arizona...

[Rex_Tremende]

...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.

You know, there are 10 kinds of people in this world...

[string]

I am a student of anthropology and history. I am also a knitter. Other earning opportunities have yet to arise. In the past I have been...

Younger
Camp Counselor
Assistant in the Acquisitions Dept. of a library
Clerk, seamstress, and gift wrapper at a teeny dept. store
and unemployed, which essentially is what I am now.

[Mr. Kilt]

Currently between jobs, but I'm a jack of all trades and master of none.

[Kilt TN]

Currently - Vice President of Sales and Marketing for an interstate rental company.
Before that:
Regional Sales Director for a national linen rental company
Vice President for a state wide rental company
Comptroller for a riverboat company.
Comptroller for a Hotel
Asst. general manager for a hotel
F&B Director for yet another hotel
Caterer (my own company)
Caterer
Catering sales manager you got it a hotel
Banquet Manager - hotel
Waiter
Teacher - 1 year not for me
Asst. Manager at a drug store (don't know how I got that job, also during college)
Waiter - College
Sale person at Opryland USA - an amusement park in Nashville

[Standard]

Been working for a civil engineering firm for 18 years as a surveyor and construction inspector for water and sewer mains, roads and various other projects as well as property boundary surveys. Love being outdoors, so the job suits me well. Before that was a banker for 6 years.