What is your career background?

[MC JC86]

6 years in various photo retail jobs, Emergency Medical Services in 911 and non-emergency transport positions since then.

 

[Morry Katz]

Advertising copywriter.

 

[porktaco]

winning, tiger blood and goddesses

 

[bolohead]

Bean counting.

 

[zauhar]

I'm a molecular biologist who works in scientific software development.

Interesting that so many tech types here are attracted to minimalist hardware (thinking here of pre-autofocus rangefinders).

 

[rpilottx]

Photojournalism for two years out of college. Then the US Marines and pilot training at Pensacola followed by eleven years active duty. Then 22 years as a pilot with Customs fighting the drug war and then airspace security with Homeland Security.

Since they don't want old guys carrying a badge and gun, retirement is mandatory at 57. I beat them to the punch and retired 3 years ago. Now for revenge, I want to live a LONG time.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Photography, a six-year career where I coursed it. To get the diploma we must do -during the last years- three one-year deep training in three major fields of photography with real good active pros as teachers. First I did architecture with view camera. Then fashion. And the last one was product. In which one did I learn the most, both about light and visual narrative? Product by far, no doubt. If someone is looking for a place to study photography, with special attention to B&W, aesthetics, technique and history of photography, it's a great place for it. It's called IEFC in Barcelona... I've heard it's the biggest school in Europe, with more than 1000 active students, and photography is all that's taught. I mean it's not a place that offers other careers... The first two years you're not allowed to use color, by the way, and that's good IMO. Every year, the new students for first year are 500+ from all around the world, and only a 50% get to pass to the next year: as Chris said in other thread, LOTS of people think it will be easier and funnier than it is. There's a very high exigence level from the old teachers... If one year you're out, you're out forever: you can't try to get into the school any other time or year in the future. Finally, to get the grade we must do a one/two-year final project series: the only totally free subject work we're allowed to do! First it's proposed to the teacher's council in a “pre-project” plan both with text and initial photographs, and if they approve it ,you have from one to two years to accomplish it. If when you show it, the final project is good enough for them, you get the diploma. If not, you can start and propose a new pre-project... In the end, 10-15 people get to the end of the career every year. They're also a photographic archive in Barcelona (huge) with millions of photographs since the XIXth century, and all the photographs by the students during their career years, become property of the institution. You can study from antique manual and chemical processes with plates, to digital war photojournalism... It was a nice experience, though a bit hard, with many hours of classes everyday from monday to friday, and even saturday for field practices.

Cheers,

Juan

 

[oftheherd]

Well, I went with other. I spent 30 years in the military, but for most of that time I was a criminal investigator. Stopped just short of a degree in IT. The last 20 years I have worked as a car salesman (not my cup of tea), private investigator, security, an office manager, information systems, and physical security. Some day when I grow up, maybe I will get a real job. 😀

 

[chrismoret]

Working for a steel and non-ferrous recycling company, for over 26 years... Got a degree in photography, though (Fotovakschool-reportage class '92)

Didn't made the Magnum-selection by a hair -lol-

 

[oftheherd]

Juan Valdenebro - what did you do with all your spare time? 😀

That sounds like an impressive school with lots of braggings rights for finishing.

 

[pismo923]

civil engineer

 

[filmtwit]

Media Librarian/Archivist with about half my life working in film preservation and restoration work.

 

[hipsterdufus]

A tape on a loop would just about do it 😀

Someone's been watching "The IT Crowd"!

 

[t.s.k.]

I'm presently a self-employed wood carver.
In a previous life I was a fashion designer.
It gets even weirder before that.

 

[SciAggie]

"Other" for me. Science degree followed by 20 years self employment in agriculture. I am currently in education teaching science.

 

[__hh]

Where are all the doctors and dentists? 😉

 

[degruyl]

Chemical Engineer (although I play a computer scientist/IT/programmer on TV).

I would have rather been able to select several of the listed careers... (I chose Sci/Eng).

 

[degruyl]

Where are all the doctors and dentists? 😉

Playing golf

 

[Calzone]

My current position is Cyclotron Engineer at a major Cancer hospital; but when Ronald Ray-gun was President, I was part of a team building a partical beam accelerator that would shoot down intercontenental ballistic missles (LOL), and I helped build a Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Labs.

Funny thing is my technical educational background is limited to a six month vocational school in electronics, but somehow I recieved an education in science by working one-on-one with Ph.D scientists and recieved an education you can't get in a grad school while working at a major Fortune 500 aerospace company doing research.

BTW I have a BA in the visual arts, a MA in TV broadcast journalism and a MFA in creative writing. It seems my creativity and my communication skills were regarded as great assets to problem solving in a research enviornment.

Cal

 

[alistair.o]

Playing golf

Now you've gone and done it! 😀😀