What is your career background?

[JeffGreene]

Trained as an industrial engineer. We're called operations researchers now! Two of my sons have degrees in operations research. Work as a statistics professor.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Career, what's a career? got my vote. Most of my good friends, and a good percentage of my acquaintances, are where they are today as a result of a series of accidents. Me included. I originally studied sciences with a view to medical school, but didn't get in, to a considerable extent because I made the mistake of saying at the interview boards that I wanted to be a psychiatrist, which you didn't admit in the 1960s at respectable English medical schools. I therefore read law instead, with no intention of practising, just to show I could do a 'difficult' degree.

Since then, pure chance. Accountancy; teaching; IT; audio-visual production; technical copywriting; for the last 30 years, photography and writing. My oldest chum (similar background) is a carpenter; another old mate (master electrician) is a lecturer at Dartmoor Prison; my wife has two degrees in theatre; one of my fellow assistants when I started in photography is now Head of Personnel at a hospital...

Cheers,

R.

 

[patois]

I have a useless degree in sociolinugistics but I work day to day with homeless people and designed a super successful rapid rehousing program. So good we have beat New Orleans and other key american cities. i also build websites and help people integrate facebook (yuck) into sites they already own.
Gordon

 

[Arlen]

Geologist here.

 

[tlitody]

I have a useless degree in sociolinugistics but I work day to day with homeless people and designed a super successful rapid rehousing program. So good we have beat New Orleans and other key american cities. i also build websites and help people integrate facebook (yuck) into sites they already own.
Gordon

I see the problem 😀

 

[valdas]

Finance. Maybe this is the reason I prefer analogue in my off job life - have enough 0 and 1 in my day time job...

 

[Snacks]

Science and Engineering

Al

Hi Alistair! I am an Alastair in science (but not engineering) too.

 

[Mlehrman]

Nurse Practitioner, specializing in Geriatrics (for the Veterans Administration).

 

[David67]

I'm a banker !

 

[Re Konn]

3D computer graphics artist currently in the video game industry.

 

[Ade-oh]

I read philosophy at university, then went to Sandhurst to train as a professional officer, ending up with a gig in military intelligence, working mostly in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics. I left the army to become an author and historian, which is what I've done for the last sixteen years, together with a bit of news and features journalism, a sprinkling of photography and a dash of illustration on the side. Occasionally I get called back to the army to participate in the wars that our political masters are so fond of.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I read philosophy at university, then went to Sandhurst to train as a professional officer, ending up with a gig in military intelligence, working mostly in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics. I left the army to become an author and historian, which is what I've done for the last sixteen years, together with a bit of news and features journalism, a sprinkling of photography and a dash of illustration on the side. Occasionally I get called back to the army to participate in the wars that our political masters are so fond of.

Interesting career indeed!

 

[tlitody]

I read philosophy at university, then went to Sandhurst to train as a professional officer, ending up with a gig in military intelligence, working mostly in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics. I left the army to become an author and historian, which is what I've done for the last sixteen years, together with a bit of news and features journalism, a sprinkling of photography and a dash of illustration on the side. Occasionally I get called back to the army to participate in the wars that our political masters are so fond of.

Should be some work right now then 😀

 

[Ade-oh]

Should be some work right now then 😀

Funny you should say that...

 

[ndnik]

I'm an astronomer (physicist by eduacation) working in academia.

 

[ebatche]

Something else? ...Anthropology

 

[Peter Klein]

I'm in IT (network admin and PC/network support). But my degree is in theatre and music, and I have (not very lucrative) sidelines composing music, writing about the arts, and of course, photographing.

 

[limr]

I have to say, I'm a bit shocked to see that I'm not the first person with a degree in Linguistics to have posted.

I have a BA plus grad work in Linguistics, an M.Ed. in Deaf Education, a couple of certifications for teaching English as a Second Language, and am now teaching writing and English literature at a community college.

The original theory was that these forums attract more technically-minded people rather than "artsy, creative" types, which may not completely be true, but at least in the poll, "Science and Engineering" certainly holds a firm lead. I suppose I'm somewhere in the middle (story of my life - which is probably why I ended up in linguistics!). I have a bit of a tendency to shoot "by feel", but I'm also interested in the mechanics and how they can be used to create more consistency in the quality of my shots. And that's why I joined (as of a day or two ago!).

 

[NickTrop]

Yeesh - who has one career these days?

- Operations manager
- Project Manager
- Executive-level
- Unemployed "Mr. Mom"
- Entrepreneur - web business
- Bankrupt entrepreneur
- college instructor: math, comp, economics, (assorted other classes), video production, Multimedia: Flash, Director, Photoshop, In Design, Quark, Dreamweaver, After Effects...
- college dean
- college instructor

 

[DanOnRoute66]

I'm with you, NickTrop. I am a recovering journalist (mostly a writer and editor and occasional photographer) who, the past 2 1/2 years, has worked as an address canvasser for the Census Bureau, scanned Census forms, taken calls from Medicare beneficiaries and worked as a substitute teacher, among other jobs. I have had the opportunity to also shoot photographs from time to time.