out of curiosity

[SteveM(PA)]

I worked for a large ad agency myself until about ten years ago. I jumped ship to develop some media planning software which I eventually licensed back to my former employer, as well as most of the other agencies in the business. Your agency is one of our clients, Steve. 🙂

Ha! That's funny, that you probably know my managing partners, who are in fact in Oakbrook. Scary small world, this advertising thing 🙂

 

[PeterL]

Just a few weeks ago, I would've answered "student/unemployed". Now it's back to "employed non-photographically" (or something to that extent) 😀


Peter.

 

[sf]

whoops...I missed this thread and started another of similar nature. Sorry for the redundancy, folks.

I'm a student, mostly.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

International spy/secret agent!

Chris

 

[Vagabond]

Photogrammetrist. We create maps and GIS (geographic information systems) products from aerial photography and other remotely sensed imagery. Overlapping imagery is utilized in order to be able to view it in 3D and collect height information as well as the horizontal postion of the features.

 

[JeffGreene]

Management consultant/statistician slowly evolving into adjunct professor. I'm a Six Sigma Black Belt, and specialize in working with service-oriented for-profits/non-profits to identify and develop internal revenue-generating capabilities. We then work to develop a business/marketing plan for launch.

 

[Doctor Zero]

University Life for me - but not a student

University Life for me - but not a student

I do postdoctoral research. This means I'm neither a student nor a staff member and no-one owes me anything. And my contract ends in 6 months. Full stop. Depending on who has money, I've been selling myself as:
a chemist looking at protein aggregation or
a biochemist doing the same or
a synthetic chemist wanting to make drugs to solve Alzheimers etc. or
a chemist looking at soft matter or
a bio/chemist trying to make protein aggregates do tricks or
a soft matter physicist looking at the self-assembly of proteins or
a chemist using soft matter physics to study a biology problem or
(you get the idea - and they're all true, really 😎 )

I love the intellectual freedom to research things I am genuinely interested in and the freedom to spend my time as I wish. In practice this means I work long days and weekends on experiments that never work - and there is zilch job security.

Anybody know of a decent university that needs a lecturer/assistant professor in any of what I've mentioned? 😀 London (UK) or East Coast, north of Mason-Dixon (no offence!!).

Doctor Zero

 

[DMG]

Dr Zero try www.pharmiweb.com (lots of pharma research jobs, pharma companies, uni/hospital research)

 

[MadMan2k]

Student working on my associate's degree in IT, working part time in a non-photo related job. Well, I work at a store that sells some crappy digital cameras and a lot of other things, but that doesn't count.

 

[ajuk]

so where do you fall in this poll?

I'm a student, but I'm also enployed!

 

[ruby.monkey]

I'm a programmer, and I derive as much satisfaction from the work as I do from the paypacket (in a good way). 'tis a good thing that I don't have to try to earn a living from my photographs - otherwise I'd never be able to afford all these lovely cameras.

Or food, for that matter.

 

[richard_l]

I'm retired now. I taught college level mathematics. I loved the subject and most of the students, but about 10 years ago it started getting ugly, with students challenging their grades and such, so I retired early to keep from going bonkers. I now have borderline poverty income, but it's better than the alternative, because I can do all the photography I want, among other things.

Richard

 

[Finder]

International spy/secret agent!

Chris

Not that secret! :lol:

 

[Finder]

I work in hire ed-ewe-K-Sean. I teach others how to photograph. Actually, what I do is much broader, from DTP to DIC, there is nothing I don't tackle whether it be very technical or aesthetic.

I also work on my own stuff. Not enough income to call me professional, and too much in costs to say I am an amateur. I guess I am a Government as I work on deficit spending.

 

[mike goldberg]

Mostly retired... Volunteer at social agency for the elderly.

 

[robert blu]

chemist from the school, actually borrowed to the marketing for a multinational chemical company. Involved between marketing and technical aspect of chemicals for leather industry. Photographer in the time left free from work and family !
rob

 

[PetarDima]

working in day time
daydreaming in night time

 

[Nando]

I'm a high school teacher. I teach math, computer and business courses. I teach in the mornings and in the afternoon, I run our school board's e-Learning Program.

 

[planetjoe]

I Are an Engineer.

I Are an Engineer.

I'm an engineer at a national laboratory, lately doing systems engineering and materials research in the area of hydrogen storage for automotive applications. These days I'm busy, which is a good thing. Like many engineers I know, however, I have wildly varying interests, and I can't decide how to decide what to do next...

...so, like those have come before me, I simply do what comes next. C'est la vie.

I also teach math and structural mechanics in the evenings at a local design college - this is the bit that keeps me sane. Well, most of the time.

Somewhere in there I try and find time to enjoy photography, which is the part that keeps me creative. Such is sometimes difficult for the engineer.


Cheers,
--joe.

ps. somehow, i feel like i've posted in a thread like this before, but i can't find it. oh, well, the more the merrier.

 

[JeffGreene]

I'm a statistician by training and a management consultant by accident. I teach a few courses in the evening and try to fit my photography into the gaps! Like many of us, I'm looking forward to my vocation slowing down to provide more time for my avocation. 🙂