What is your career background?

[maclaine]

Great idea for a thread. It looks like it brought out a lot of RFFers who don't post veery frequently. Its cool to see what everyone here does. Unfortunately, I can't bolster the original poster's theory (which doesn't seem to need my help anyway). I went to college for music, spent most of my 20s trying to be a rockstar (with general success in all ways except financial) while working various dead end retail/office jobs, and in the last couple of years have put my travelling road show days behind me and transitioned into doing audio (non-musical) for video games, which is just as fun as it sounds.

 

[hteasley]

Art Director in the video game industry. Been making games for coming up on 20 years. My degree is a BFA in Drawing.

Never took a photography class in school, to my regret. Started taking photos to get material reference to make textures for 3D models, to use in games. I have thousands of photos of rocks, tree bark, brick walls, grass, cement walls, manhole covers, whatever, all for the purpose of turning them into textures to be used in games.

But since becoming an Art Director, my long career of actually making art as part of my job stopped. Now I tell other people to make art, and I spend my days in meetings and using Excel. So the photography that used to be entirely a technical reference exercise has slowly become my artistic outlet.

And I'm loving it, even though I'm pretty poor, by my standards. I like the learning I'm doing.

 

[Contarama]

I am a car upholstery guy which is very technical and artistic at the same time. It is a dying trade I think particulary on the furniture side.

 

[Chris101]

Not much happening at your end?

Yeah, maybe. I'm a chemist who does art with exotic elements - uranium, vanadium ... and things like ferro-titanous ferricyanide complexes to create my own color palette. And I've worked with several designers that have engineering degrees. I guess I just think this whole public connection of science and engineering is wrong. Science is an Art.

 

[malcD]

I use to do it for a living but I now do it for fun

 

[Rogrund]

Lexicography.

 

[migtex]

Photography, News PJ, Air Traffic Controller, Programmer and finally heavy IT (Networks, Datacenters, D&R), being a CCIE for the last 16 years... I should retire in 20 years or so to get back to photography....

 

[robin a]

Retired Navy aircraft mechanic in the Egress/Environmental field for 23 yrs.,and for the last 22 yrs. doing the same thing as a civilian contractor.

Robin

 

[nimcod]

unwise attempt at comp sci degree,dropped out, did Photo ba ,job loss,back to home town living at home working as a minilab tech/op in high-street lab.

In the position of wishing to do Photojournalism/Photography/Printer(at a higher level than highstreet lab). But with no clue how to and no finances to to do so either it seems, joys! ha!

 

[rbiemer]

Been working in restaurants for the last 30 years or so. Did some other things along the way but got very bored very quickly.
Rob

 

[tlitody]

Yeah, maybe. I'm a chemist who does art with exotic elements - uranium, vanadium ... and things like ferro-titanous ferricyanide complexes to create my own color palette. And I've worked with several designers that have engineering degrees. I guess I just think this whole public connection of science and engineering is wrong. Science is an Art.

And we eventually get to everything is Art. A sophisticated society has ways of categorising things so once everything is Art we have to start categorising areas of art so we know what we are actually talking about. Then we find that it's convenient to call things science or engineering or maths or chemistry or photography otherwise we would only need one word to describe everything which would be "Art" and we wouldn't need any language except for "Art". We could all walk round saying "Art" to one another in the knowledge that we are Art. Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art ******* Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art **** Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art **** Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art ****** Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art Art.

 

[Mohan]

I'm a motion control operator, basically I do precise and repeatable camera movement for film using a veriety of tools ranging from single stepper motors to £250,000 robots. I'm working on a feature film for a multi oscar winning British stop motion animation studio.

 

[atlcruiser]

Undergrad medical anthropology
MFA sculpture
Years as a lighting designer for R+R and events
Now own a land cruiser restoration business

 

[rover]

I'm a motion control operator, basically I do precise and repeatable camera movement for film using a veriety of tools ranging from single stepper motors to £250,000 robots. I'm working on a feature film for a multi oscar winning British stop motion animation studio.

Wallace and Gromit?

 

[Mohan]

Wallace and Gromit?

The film I'm working on is not a Wallace and Gromit but I am working at Aardman.

 

[mangie]

I trained as a Primary school teacher and taught in a Junior school and then for over 30 years managed my husband's Dental Practice.
I am now back to "children", working as a very "hands on grandmother"!!

mangie

 

[filmtwit]

Creature Comforts TV series? or are you working on the feature Pirates?

The film I'm working on is not a Wallace and Gromit but I am working at Aardman.

 

[Papercut]

historian and (soon to be) professor.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I'm a writer and I teach English at a college...

 

[rramig]

Med School professor - Genetics and Molecular Biology