What is your career background?

[PatrickT]

I'm a Mechanical Engineer! 🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

The only background my career has is this college degree I can't seem to pay off.

 

[finguanzo]

Ex- audio post production editor/ recording engineer. Moved over to broadcast engineer /system design once I realized the music industry is dead. damn computers..

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Ex- audio post production editor/ recording engineer. Moved over to broadcast engineer /system design once I realized the music industry is dead. damn computers..

Actually, the music industry was slowly killed by ClearChannel and the FCC. And the people who sought to charge $21 per CD. They got too greedy. Slaughtered a whole range of talented people, performers and engineers alike.

 

[skibeerr]

Since three years i have been a traveller and unpaid housekeeper 😀 also doing odd jobbs
to supply some pocket money and doing a part time course in Photography / arts.
Before that I worked as a Butcher, 35 years, employee and self employed.

W

 

[finguanzo]

Yes, thats a big part of its death. I think computers killed more of the studio/engineering side of it. Quality isnt respected/wanted as it used to be. A pc, soundcard, and a 96k mp3 is good enough for the masses.

 

[jesse1dog]

I find it easiest if people don't know about my working life and background. Looking back I realise how fruitless it seems and wonder if for all my efforts I made any positive difference - but I tried! I was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time.

jesse

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

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

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

Oh man, that was wild! I studied in the morning and in the evening (classes), and then by 7PM I had to hurry up to arrive on time to do a night job, from 7:30 pm to 3:30 am! (I had to pay my flat and my career: not only the courses, but lots of materials and gear!) I'm so glad those really hard years are gone long ago! By the end of my career I started to earn money with photography. The worst times were those when I was doing my architecture course, and the practices were for one year every Saturday from 8 am to 4 pm... I literally had no time for sleeping, and I was exhausted and started to get sick, and the practices were tough: carrying a LF camera suitcase under direct sun shooting for 8 hours... That year I went to the hospital with horrible respiratory problems (and it wasn't on winter!) because of the constant daily change from air conditioning to hot weather... I was close to give up then... 🙁 I also remember one day on winter: Barcelona collapsed because of too much snow and rain and lightning storms for several days, and there was no electricity in the city for some hours. That was hell! There was no one in the streets, and no public transport (buses or taxis) at all (it has only happened once) so I had to walk under falling snow on a white gelid city for two hours: I could barely see close to me and was freezing wet, and the winds were wild! I really thought I could die, seriously. I also thought, this is how nazis must have felt like when going into Russia... I confess that's the only time I've thought poor nazis, all this killing cold for weeks just for being finally gun killed! 😱

Cheers,

Juan

 

[fuji645]

Branch Banking manager. Now, full time photographer.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

What a great idea. Concentrating on form and light first I presume?

Yes.

B&W and color photography are two universes that exclude each other... The idea of converting color images to B&W was simply prohibited and laughable...

When we communicate through B&W we use contrast, basically, to tell our story. Zones of lights and shadows are the effective way to create order and communicate feelings opposing them, so when we do B&W we look for light contrast WHILE composing...

For color photography (third year and above) we're taught to use (look for) a very different kind of contrast while composing: color contrast. It's the clean use of warm and cold colors and the way we separate, contrast them, what allows us to make it easier to the viewer to feel emotions with color photographs: never the light contrast as in B&W.

That, and the very different ways metering/development huge/reduced options we have for working on each of both fields should be treated, makes studying them for separate, really an academic necessity of first order.

Cheers,

Juan

 

[mathomas]

Enterprise software developer.

 

[skibeerr]

I find it easiest if people don't know about my working life and background. Looking back I realise how fruitless it seems and wonder if for all my efforts I made any positive difference - but I tried! I was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time.

jesse

I could say the same, a lot of people could, nothing wrong with trying.

Somehow this makes me think of "A prayer for Owen Meany"

W

 

[brainwood]

Art College - Animation

 

[raid]

Only possible option here for me: "Science and Engineering"

I am a Statistics Professor.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Raid- you are a Scientist. No doubt about it.

 

[Freakscene]

Marine biology, analytical and photo chemistry, optical engineering.

Marty

 

[Michael Markey]

Government (Health) now retired and looking after horses.
The 40 years of government work covered a multitude of sins from mainframe application design and, in the final years, holding the legal line on information access.
In short saying no a lot to the police and government ministers.
Great fun (not).

 

[RobertB]

Architecture, the last months working at this project:

http://www.greenmuze.com/build/design/2774-the-wuhan-energy-flower.html

 

[ricnak]

Background in Applied Science - Horticulture but have spent most of my days in the coal industry. Now retired and looking after family.

 

[rsosa]

Science & Engineering 32 27.35%

oh my... this means nerds rule rff 😀

im an electrical engineering too 🙂

ps: no offenses were intended with the nerd word, I always joke about myself with that