What is your career background?

[Film dino]

Clinical pharmacist & grad student

 

[RussK]

Civil Engineer

 

[Paulbe]

Sales--all my life--even when I had a paper route 54 years ago..
Macon (GA) Telegraph and News...🙂
Now retired--and retirement is the best job I EVER had!
PaulB

 

[MikeL]

I mostly work as a piss boy during the day (see here piss boy)

 

[Sonnar Brian]

That sounds worse than having a job as a mushroom. Kept in the dark and fed poop.

 

[ZlatkoBatistich]

"Leisure" sounds really good. 🙂 But no one has picked it yet.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

In my Leisure Time I work on camera gear.

Something wrong with that.

 

[ironhorse]

Physical Therapist. Currently working on my Doctorate.

 

[Nando]

I'm a teacher. My background is computer science and math but I've taught everything under the sun from the 5th to 12th grades. The most challenging subject for me was 10th grade cosmetology during my second year as a teacher. I was the only one willing to take on the class after the regular teacher went on a lengthy sick leave. Now, I'm primarily a guidance counselor. I handle the counseling duties for our adult learners and our incarcerated students. In addition, I co-ordinate our e-Learning program.

Prior to teaching, I worked in IT for a few years as a programmer and website developer.

 

[Darkhorse]

As I mentioned before, I have a visual arts degree and a graphic design diploma. But professionally I photograph coins for a living - a really niche thing to do. I've been doing it for the past 6 years. I make a good living, but I can't help but wonder - is this what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life? I can't picture that.

But what else can I do? I think my degree and diploma are not at all that substantial.

I'm still pretty young at 30. So there's time for me to take a different direction. My wife and I can't imagine raising a kid here in Southern California. I don't know, today I've just been daydreaming of escaping to my homeland of Canada.

Sorry for venting like this. I love photography... but photographing metal discs for the next 40 years?

 

[Bingley]

<----- I'm a cat. Duh. You gotta problem with that?




Steve, the guy with the camera, checked the "legal" box, although all I ever hear him talk about is water...

 

[ornate_wrasse]

I'm a Certified Public Accountant. I started out working as a Tax Auditor for the IRS. Most of my life I've worked in public accounting, preparing tax returns (both individual and corporate) for clients. I sold my tax business a few years ago and now work for the state as an insurance regulator. I have, however, retained some of my clients for whom I still prepare tax returns.

Ellen

 

[farlymac]

My first career never really got off the ground, but I was going to be a printer. It involved being artistic and industrial at the same time, so it was a perfect mesh for me. Unfortunately, the military interupted all that, and after four years of trying not to sink the boat or ship I was on, it was hard to get a job as a printer.

So I hired on to the railroad, and worked in the Signal and Communications Dept for 28 years, until they said I was too sick to come to work anymore.

Now I take photos, and fix cameras just for the fun of it. And hang out here at RFf and a couple other joints.

PF

 

[Creagerj]

I'm a machinist.

Generally, I take a small to medium sized piece of round steal and cut into a smaller piece of round steal. Most of the stuff I make is a component of a larger part and will never again see the light of day once it is assembled.

So far I have made everything from backpack-able core-sample drill bits to helicopter parts. I've even machined manure pump housings. Now that I think of it, I can't remember everything that I have made. Most of the time I'm concentrating too much on a bore diameter that has a 0.0005" tolerance. As a result, I usually don't put much thought into what the part is for.

Education-wise, I have a BA in History. For the longest time I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, then a doctor, then a teacher, and now I don't know what the hell I want to do. On the bright side, I'm still young and I have only the smallest amount of student loan debt remaining so when I finally realize what I want to do I'll be free to do it.

 

[Johnny RF]

Fashion advertising. I work on seasonal fashion campaign concepts that eventually make the first few pages in every fashion magazine. I wish I could get paid to shoot one though...

 

[maddoc]

(mad)scientist ...

 

[healyzh]

Photography is what keeps me sane.

You're not the only one!!!

 

[tbarker13]

Journalist for about 20 years.

 

[semilog]

Molecular biology and high-sensitivity optical microscopy.

 

[semilog]

You're not the only one!!!

No joke, that.