What do you do for a living?

Hello..

Jan here, what do I do?

I arrange debt financing for institutional owners of real estate assets like shopping centres, office buildings, and industrial properties. I do it because it's one of the few things I'm good at and interested in doing. But I'd rather have all my bills paid, throw a tent in the back of my truck, load a couple of cameras and hit the road for a month or two (in winter I would opt for Motel 6 or Super 8) just like everyone else on this site, I'm sure.

Now you know!

Jan
 
I am (Oracle) DBA (database administrator), web-app server administrator and Unix (Solaris and Linux) systems admin. So, I've very little time for photography, mostly at night 🙄 , my main "photo-targets" are my two kids, my dear wife and, well, "macro-non-rf" flowers and mountainscapes.

Somebody said something about trusting in digital-data-storage. Khm... , I do not, sorry, I have some pretty bad experiences with digital technology, as far as reliability is concerned. 🙁 Digital data storage for (photo)archival purposes is especially problematic, at least for the time being, IMHO.

I am great admirer of Freud. Roman knows, that Vienna was the city where psychoanalysis was born, and great music of course. (Mozart's Requiem is my favourite)

He (Freud) was also an avid collector of antiques, so I don't need a therapy! 😉 I have 55 years old Leica ; and Summar from 1934 is more than 70 years old; and I like that special look on portraits, made possible by using that little precious lens. 🙂

Regards, t.

p.s.: Bruenhilde (Yes, I like Wagner's music too.) is BMW R65 bike on my avatar, another antique, oh well...., and, Yes, I am not a woman,... talking about therapy.... 😛

p.p.s: Pozdrav Denisu u Zagreb !
 
I'm a graphic artist for an architecture firm that specializes in building schools, churches, courthouses and jails (great combination, eh?)

my job (and similar jobs with other companies in the past) have always been very closely related to photography, but I've never owned a camera until last year. I was always directing the photographers, instead... I still think I'm much better at that than actually taking the photos, but I'm improving
 
I'm retired, ex WWII torpedo bomber pilot, ex aircraft carrier skipper, etc. - 37 years worth. Always a photo nut and enjoy 35mm and MF. Currently in the boat business.

Dusty
 
Sawdust said:
I'm retired, ex WWII torpedo bomber pilot, ex aircraft carrier skipper, etc. - 37 years worth. Always a photo nut and enjoy 35mm and MF. Currently in the boat business.

Dusty
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Sir, for someone in the elderly care business I must salute you for being the role model for all elderly people. In Singapore, most retirees just hang around doing nothing for the whole day. 😀
 
I am an accountant with a firm that specializes in the medical field, ie. doctors and dentists.

I have recently renewed, with the help of greyhoundman, a keen interest in photography and have fallen in love with my Oly 35 RC! 🙂
 
I work for a small liberal arts college in the study abroad office. Half of our 1200 or so students study abroad for at least one semester of their four years, and I'm in charge of publications, orientations, and, my favorite part, helping students do special projects while they're overseas, which often includes photography. I also help students figure out what to do with the rest of their lives when they come back from abroad.

I'm a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Slovakia 99-01) and before that I worked in the human rights movement in Washington, DC. I've been taking pictures since about 1989, when my dad (a Secret Service agent) brought home from his office a NIB (but 25 year old!) Beseler Topcon D-1. That was my first camera! I cut my teeth on that camera in Seville, Spain, on a study abroad program. An FM-2 brought me through Peace Corps, and now I'm jumping into RF.
 
Doug it sounds like you've been in some interesting locales with plenty of photo ops! Hope you've been able to keep the Topcon. I see you've updated your location info... My Dad grew up in Auburn NY, and I flunked out of college in Ithaca... ;-)
 
Whilst I've already posted here, it seems the right place to let you guys know I've kinda changed jobs.

I've just accepted a role with a franchisee of the same organisation I'm currently with, which means I'm no longer an assistant manager at an automotive aftermarket retailer - in two weeks time I'll be a store manager at an automotive aftermarket retailer! 😀

Which means, amongst other things, I'll be able to save for a nice Canon, and I'll be moving close to the beach - which should be good for all kinds of photographic reasons! 😛

Cheers,
Steve
 
I still have it. The meter is long gone, and the blades of one or two of the lenses are a little sluggish, but the glass is still nice. I actually plan on using it for astrophotography, soon as I get to mount it on my telescope platform.

I guess one of the reasons RF is so interesting to me at the moment is that my environment here is more familiar to me (having grown up north of Albany), and therefore I believe, in some ways harder to image. In places like Turkey you kick up nice photos just walking down the street. Here you have to really look around and try to keep the lenses fresh, mine and my camera's! I loved my Meopta TLR for that, the totally different interface with the scene.
 
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