What is your career background?

What is your career background?

  • Photography

    Votes: 42 7.8%

  • Art & Design

    Votes: 45 8.4%

  • Science & Engineering

    Votes: 138 25.7%

  • Medical

    Votes: 40 7.5%

  • Legal

    Votes: 21 3.9%

  • Information Technology

    Votes: 78 14.6%

  • Leisure

    Votes: 3 0.6%

  • Retail

    Votes: 9 1.7%

  • Government Service

    Votes: 18 3.4%

  • Military

    Votes: 12 2.2%

  • Something else. (tell us what)

    Votes: 96 17.9%

  • Career, what's a career?

    Votes: 34 6.3%
  • Total voters
    536
  • Poll closed .
NickTrop, I like the up/down aspects of your career, especially

Executive-level
Unemployed - "Mr. Mom"

Entrepeneur-web business
Bankrupt entrepeneur

College dean
College instructor
 
It depends on who you ask. Military followed by security/political analysis, now running concurrently with photographer. With every day I find more I want to know and so my career path has not exactly been 'sensible.'

I just don't really know what I am and I have slowly come to terms with the fact that I will never know. I am currently working on not caring. I hope to slowly drop the non-photographic income, but know it will take time and a lot more work. The uncertainty gets to me at times, but at least I feel alive.
 
When I retired from college teaching in 1996 I had the same problem: who am I now? No more tweed jacket with suede elbow patches, no more friendly English professor, no more easily defined persona. I actually became mildly depressed (a first for me). Like you, I decided, finally, to not care, and instead forget about myself and focus on the world around me (and outside of the college classroom, which had been my daily environment for 25 years). When people asked me - post academia - what are you doing now? I would answer, "entering bumhood." Another one for the dictionary.

Yesterday I got a Leica III and a couple of lenses and I've been having enormous fun fiddling with the kit and learning how to use it, and imagining what it must have been like in 1938 to own something on the cutting edge of photographic technology. Tomorrow perhaps more fun. As in walking down the street with the Leica and having someone say, "Wow, I've never seen one like that. How many megapixels?
 
tedwhite said:
When I retired from college teaching in 1996 I had the same problem: who am I now? No more tweed jacket with suede elbow patches, no more friendly English professor, no more easily defined persona. I actually became mildly depressed (a first for me). Like you, I decided, finally, to not care, and instead forget about myself and focus on the world around me (and outside of the college classroom, which had been my daily environment for 25 years). When people asked me - post academia - what are you doing now? I would answer, "entering bumhood." Another one for the dictionary.
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Oh boy. As a future former English professor, you are making me nervous.
 
I am an accountant. Well really more of a finance person that now works as a project manager for strategic projects. The joy is I get to travel a lot internationally and bring my camera to take photos. Good times.
 
Previous career(s)

Previous career(s)

Private security 1970-1991. During this time I had a "part-time college career", and graduated magna cum laude, finishing with a BA in sociology with a minor in criminal justice. Law enforcement with the YPD from 1991-1999. I had to retire on disability due to permanent injuries sustained in several injured-on-duty (IOD) incidents.
The streets are mean in Y'town.
 
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Vagabond said:
Photogrammetrist. Basically making maps from aerial photography for engineering purposes and geographic information systems (GIS). Have also used some of the above Wild, Leica, and K&E equipment for field survey. And I have to admit that I also used pen & ink on linen - way back in the day. Of course, everything is now done digitally using CADD systems.
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That's a tough choice for me. I'm kind of a mix of science/engineering, IT and government service.

In the late '70's I became an airport bum when I was about twenty years old and got my commercial ticket with single and multi-engine land and instrument ratings when I was 22, then flew charter and managed a small general aviation airport for a few years.

After flying a couple of aerial photography missions I went back to school and studied geography with an earth science/environmental studies concentration which included a lot of cartography, photogrammetry and remote sensing, then went to work for a surveying/engineering firm.

Somewhere along the way I also got an associate degree in Horticulture and Landscape Design but soon went back to surveying. It kind of gets in your blood.

Now I work in Mapping/GIS and land records for the county I live in. Though part of the job involves keeping our GIS and tax databases synched up, I concentrate mainly on quality control using surveys and NCDOT plans tied to the NC State Plane Coordinate System in order to make our cadastral layer fit the imagery. People tend to get upset when they look on our public GIS Data Viewer and see property lines going through their house!

I'm glad to see that there are several surveyors, cartographers and GIS people represented here.

I know Raid said that photography keeps him sane. Well, it might be too late for me, but maybe it does help me keep a tenuous grip on sanity, or enough to fake it anyway!
 
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I ticked "something else". Self employed landscape gardener. However, as there is a strong bias towards engineering in this poll perhaps I should mention my Mechanical Engineering qualification just in case it matters in the poll.
 
career

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I'm a Trainer/Consultant in Lean Business Systems & HR, although I originally trained in Fine Art, although a part of that was in Photography. Hope this helps with your theory, let us know.

Mamiya RB67
Sony A100
FED 2
Minolta Dynax 500
Yashica Electro 35
 
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