What do you do?

[freckle]

Ok so seing as were all being so open about what we look like ,when we get out of bed ,shoe size and nickname origins,what do you all do for a living?
And to make it more fun tell us your hidden talent that no-one knows about.

I'll start
i work for the DWP (dept of works and pensions) i calculate state retirement pension for UK pensioners....and i can juggle six balls at a time!!
your turn....

[scrape_medic]

Well fairly obviously, I am a Paramedic and I like building things, cars, kitchens, large credit card bills.

[janey_13]

I'm a webmaster for a software development firm.

[kymom5613]

Bookkeeper for a CPA part time and Customs Agent for UPS at night (no, they WON'T give me a weapon, the poo poo heads!) - I assign duties & tariff numbers to shipments coming internationally into the hub here in Louisville. Glorified data entry really, but good pay, great benefits...
I also, in my "spare" time, have kids...working on one now...hee hee!!!

[Ka D'Argo]

I am a Financial Sales Consultant for a bank in Florida
________
Prilosec Withdraw (http://www.classactionsettlements.org/lawsuit/prilosec/)

[Snoogans]

I'm a EOD Tech working in Iraq.

[LiLOrion]

I'm a medical transcriptionist/nanny. (I work at home, so I get to watch my nephew during the day.)

[Mazinkaiser]

Well fairly obviously, I am a Paramedic and I like building things, cars, kitchens,

:eek: wow. I can't even make coffee :D

[eta_carinae]

I'm an environmental engineer, I work at remediating contaminated sites. Mostly energy-sector - old gas stations, oil and gas pipelines, oil refineries, etc. In my spare time I practice Aikido, a Japanese martial art :) And I've just joined the local professional chapter of Engineers Withouth Borders, so hopefully I'll get to start working on one of those projects soon :aok:

[Ajarscape]

I've been a club DJ for over 20 years...
5 years in Buffalo, New York (Eggertsville Inn, The Chat N Nibble, City Lights, Cathode Ray and Cafe' Rumors)
And 16 years at TBL (The Bottom Line) in Fort Myers, Florida....

I worked for a small Graphic Design Studio (Grafix Shell) with fellow Scapers (Holly & Thomas - both have attended the Burbank Con)
Due to some poor business decisions, I was let go and then opened my own company last fall - Ajar Ad - Advertising & Graphic Designs...
And via one of my clients - a Model/Talent agency, I've become a photographer...

So, I guess when I took the FarScape Personality Test
http://home.earthlink.net/~kngobern/farscapetest.html
I was alot like Pilot.... so it was pretty accurate in my case...

Andy AjarScape
Creator of The Fairly OddScapers
http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31501

[DRDaid]

I'm a talentless grad student.

[BaseLine]

I'm a software engineer / architect working for a large international corporation that is operating in Europe and the US. I work closely with clients to design and implement software solutions. In my spare time I've recently started doing fitness again. Problem with office work is that you don't do a lot physically besides walking to the coffee machine and taking the stairs now and then.

[who45]

I'm a pre-K 4 teacher.

[MotorWerk]

I'm between jobs, but survive by DJing.

[TheBladeRoden]

I have no living

[Jim Reaper]

I work in theatres as an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP), which means I get to do scrub, anaesthetics and recovery. The fact that they let someone like me anywhere near patients is a constant source of amazement....;)

[MotorWerk]

Especially with your nick! :D

[Jim Reaper]

Well quite. :devil:

[Craistine]

There was a similar thread here once and I thought to dig it out in addition to this one, and for all those who are too lazy to repeat their postings or just to see what has changed in the last year:
and I´m Farscape (http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27730)

[mycattoldme]

I'm a Graphic Designer, I was working full time for a firm but now I'm self-employed which can be both very enjoyable and very difficut. I work with a number of different ad agencies around town and have some out of state clients. I work out at a local health club up to 3 times a week trying to keep myself healthy and centered - I've found that for me excercise is the best way to relieve stress and anixiety!

[trubador]

Marketing & Administrative Associate/Shipping Manager (basically a Jack-of-all-Trades) for a music software distributor. :D

I try to write on occasion in my blog, and I was a songwriter (lyricist) for a good number of years. Also did some screenwriting. After being out of the creative scene for quite a number of years, I'm now slowly beginning to write again (songwriting, and a possible screenplay idea - collaborating with my brother... maybe).

[IriS]

I'm a film student currently in my junior year in college :)

[BrowderChick]

Teachers Aide/Monitor/Mentor for an Elementery School.

[zahncrelnik]

'Scaper, scanner, oh, it gets boring after that I'm afraid...
I proofread documents and there are all kinds of grammar and spelling rules that the company wants us to follow. Some of it is interesting, a lot of it is boring.

The company is http://www.lmconsultants.com/ --the website is the best explanation of what the company does. Basically all kinds of property assessments for investors, banks, purchasers. Really mostly businesses and apartment complexes and highrise buildings, etc.


Oh yes, at home I am a semi-professional procrastinator and can often be found napping or channel surfing when not on the Internet.

[JadeScape]

MEP design and Cad operator for Engineering Firm
I do Mechanical , Electrical, Plumbing design on Apartments

[scrape_medic]

There was a similar thread here once and I thought to dig it out in addition to this one, and for all those who are too lazy to repeat their postings or just to see what has changed in the last year:
and I´m Farscape (http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27730)
I loved that thread.:D

[Jen10122]

I'm a dogwalker and I love my job bacause I love working with animals.

[Milaya]

I work in my dad's company and do everything I can.
I make the best coffee and meatloafs.And I can sleep eat.

[freckle]

wow everyones job sounds so much more interesting than mine!

[freckle]

I'm a talentless grad student.

i take it by 'grad' you mean your at university.Therfor you are not talentless!! ;) By the way all students can juggle,they just dont know it! ;) ;)

[RustySlinky]

I'm a cashier at Borders Books !!! :P

My hidden talent: Hint :): Over the last ten years, I've been working (off and on) on a pencil sketch of a medieval city that is now currently 10 feet wide by 7 feet tall. :) I've think I've spent at least 2,000 hours on it so far.

[skchwojko]

There was a similar thread here once and I thought to dig it out in addition to this one, and for all those who are too lazy to repeat their postings or just to see what has changed in the last year:
and I´m Farscape (http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27730)


Oh, yeeeaaahhh. I remember that one.

Let's see, I'm a nurse in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). I get to care for sick & wee little narls.

And my special talent . . . my special talent . . . Hm. . will have to ask Scott about that one :whisper:
Oh, I know. It's probably when I :censored: right before I :censored:
Yup, that's it!


Sherry

[eta_carinae]

Over the last ten years, I've been working (off and on) on a pencil sketch of a medieval city that is now currently 10 feet wide by 7 feet tall. :) I've think I've spent at least 2,000 hours on it so far.
:eek: wow

[madmat]

Now to bore everyone......

Im an Automotive Service & Quality Assurance engineer for on of the worlds biggest automotive suppliers.......

I play with new cars all day long.......... GREAAATTTTTT! :D

Hard work, long hours and tonnes of stress...... i must be mad :eek:

Matt :D

For those interested, the company I work for can be seen behind the drivers head on the Toyota F1 car and on all of the clothes they wear......

[Jim Reaper]

Oh, I know. It's probably when I :censored: right before I :censored:
:eek:


You know, my imagination is gonna make that ten times worse than it probably is...;)

[MadWombat]

ATF agent.

[Milaya]

:eek:


You know, my imagination is gonna make that ten times worse than it probably is...;)
Now take it easy,Reaper...

[Jim Reaper]

Ah, 'tis the burden of possessing a mind so filthy it would make a bum look well groomed. Besides, life would be so dull without my imagination. :D

[Milaya]

Imagine our imaginations together...

[DRDaid]

i take it by 'grad' you mean your at university.Therfor you are not talentless!! By the way all students can juggle,they just dont know it! -

Actually, I meant I'm getting my MA. And I really am completely talentless. I tried juggling once, and I was great at bouncing the balls off my head, but only so-so at actually catching them and tossing them back in the air.

[Kurt_eh]

I look a squiggily lines, draw and colour maps, and tell the drillers where to drill for oil and gas!

[Xev]

I am a Financial Analyst. I work nights processing literally hundreds of millions of dollars in (mostly) credit card charges from around the world every night. But it is processing, so it's largely repetative and boring. Except where there's system problems, which are more frequent than they should be, but they provide the much needed change from the nightly routine.

I'm *hopefully* going to be moved to a project liason position soon, provided funding for the position is approved. That would be a sweet job though. And I'd report directly to the departments VP (my company has sooo many VP's).

[Zutulu]

I'm a history student, and having just returned from a year in Germany, I can finally speak German! yay

[Zimtsternchen]

ok I`ll play... I went to college to get two associate degrees, drama and radio/television communications... and with that I currently work at biggest flower auction in Holland, hoping to make it as a singer if I ever get my act together. However I am pretty good at sabotaging myself (but I am working on that :D). In between I have worked a hundred little jobs, I have many talents but no place to belong. Hidden talents? I guess I am a peacekeeper really...

[fiona-maria]

I am Parish Secretary at the small Twin Cities metro church I attend, started here last November after being unemployed for 8 months from my previous job of 3 1/2 years.

Something no-one knows about me?*laugh* Well, I think most of you all know by now that I like finish carpentry, renovating my late-Victorian farmhouse, laying brick paths and patios, pouring iron, landscaping and gardening.

But I am also a typographer who lectures in business card design, a published poet, accomplished singer/songwriter, aspiring novelist, freelance graphic artist, and single mum of 3 extraordinary children.

[freckle]

i take it by 'grad' you mean your at university.Therfor you are not talentless!! By the way all students can juggle,they just dont know it! -

Actually, I meant I'm getting my MA. And I really am completely talentless. I tried juggling once, and I was great at bouncing the balls off my head, but only so-so at actually catching them and tossing them back in the air.


Whats an MA? And hey you managed to hit your head ,that takes talent! :D

[StephX]

I have a BA Degree in Journalism. lol What good that has done for me. I've been home with my daughter for the past 5 years and now I sell stuff on ebay.

ooo exciting!

Before I came to Texas I was working my way up (for 3 years) to being a TV News Director, but, that was a long time ago in a lot smaller market in Indiana (NBC). http://www.wfie.com/

[trubador]

Whats an MA? And hey you managed to hit your head ,that takes talent! :D
An MA is a Master of Arts degree. :D

[Kurt_eh]

And here I always thought that MA was the opposite of PA! ;)

[ConnieLyn]

Well, I am a secretary/admin.assistant/executive secretary/office manager. You put the title on it, I am it. I also do the reception work and bookkeeper duties. I have worked in the same place for 20 years and with an employee number of less than 10, we are more like family than co-workers. In fact, my boss and I will try to see who can sneak up on the other and "tag, you're it." It is a lot of laughter here and I love it.

Hidden talent? Well, I type 100+ WPM and in the 6th grade, typed faster than my teacher. If that's not what you meant, I play the piano and the violin and sing with my mother and sister at church often.

[StephX]

I forgot to put my hidden talent.

hmmm.. I can sing pretty well, but, I won't let anyone hear me.
I can dance. but, the only people who knows this go out with me to a dance club. Oh, and, I can act (more so if I did it often).

Hardly anyone knows these things about me. Most see me as "quiet" or "reserved".

hmmm.. yeah :rolleyes:

[Owlman]

I'm suposed to be a detective of some kind, but I haven't found any of those jobs I can get yet. Or a bodyguard, but I need more schooling for that.

I'm thinking about working the rail at concerts or doing some bouncing as well, but it looks like security guard right now. I just have to find one close enough, where I won't be spending as much on gas as I get paid!

Still trying to get my writing career going as well.

[Clarsax]

Well, I've got a B.A. in English and a B.S. in biology. Fat lot of good that's done me so far. I've been drifting between dead end low-level jobs and chronic unemployment since graduation. But as soon as I can figure out what I want to do with my life, I'm going back to school and you can call me a grad student.

As for hidden talent? Well, I'm an as yet unpublished author, so I guess to all the editors out there that still counts as a hidden talent. And I can play about 3 and 1/2 instruments and write my own music for them.

[Saajak]

I have a BS in Biology but that hasn't helped me much. I started out as a C/S Rep in a call center and moved quickly up to Dept Assistant. THis mostly entailed reports, reports, and more reports. We went through several layoffs and I ended up taking on the other two Dept Assistant jobs as well as back up for the warehouse and front desk. Recently our telecom engineer left the company and I got that job too. Oh, and I have a part time job as a cashier at Wal-Mart.

eta: I used to draw alot, and I sometimes make jewelry.

[freckle]

I forgot to put my hidden talent.

hmmm.. I can sing pretty well, but, I won't let anyone hear me.
I can dance. but, the only people who knows this go out with me to a dance club. Oh, and, I can act (more so if I did it often).

Hardly anyone knows these things about me. Most see me as "quiet" or "reserved".

hmmm.. yeah :rolleyes:

its always the quiet ones you gotta watch out for! :D

[tacklingmonkey]

I am a senior in College I am graduating in Poli Sci enviro issues with a minor in World History. I have no idea what I want to do with my life and I guess a "hidden" talent of mine is the fact that I can breakdance

[freckle]

COOOOOOOOOLLL !!!!

[Mrelia]

I work in prepress a at newspaper, mostly building ads, sometimes paginating, scanning, checking negs and other stuff like that. When I'm not at work, I'm doing the wife/Mommy thing.

In my spare time (Gee, what was that? I think I remember...) I like to practice photography and needwork.


My hidden talent: Hint : Over the last ten years, I've been working (off and on) on a pencil sketch of a medieval city that is now currently 10 feet wide by 7 feet tall. I've think I've spent at least 2,000 hours on it so far.
Are you gonna show us what it looks like?

[ChianaMuse]

I work for my mom's web design company doing whatever she feels like not doing and I'm going to college for Criminal Justice.

I don't really have hidden talents...the only other things I do are theatre related (sing/dance/act/instroments) but anyone who knows me knows that :D

[Nutty_Angel]

I'm a music technology student (It itsn't as clever as it sounds), and I can put things off forever, with very good excuses!!