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StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:39 pm

I am a Chief Engineer based in Washington for a media company. I primarily work with digital technology over satellite. And yes, I am an introvert.

Cori · Post by **Cori** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 8:43 pm

I'm an online community forum host. It's a rather neat job, enabling me to live anywhere in the world there's a net connection. Now if only I had the 'James Bond' visas to go with that .... mmmmm - bliss.

BmacD · Post by **BmacD** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:46 pm

Working nite shift in a water plant all my life, or least the last 32 years of it. 28 years now with one company.Lousy pay but the perfect job for a studious introverted type B personality. Hey Blackhawk, how come there's never been a tv adventure series about the wild life of a waterplant operator?
My real life is in two parts.From age 28 to 42 I was a peasant farmer - no comercial crops just a full acre of garden and most common livestock except ducks and sheep.Widowed at 42. Single for nine years.Studied electronics ,got a ham license got a commercial radiotelophone license, met some insanely intelligent guys who said bacteria, virus and protozoa could be killed by pulsating magnetic fields and found by study and experimentation they may be right.Now the second part--Married to a smart funny lady with a PhD in education who likes to listen to me practice whistle and flute and encourages WHOA and FLOA. Life is calm, the kids are grown ,self supporting and producing grandchildren to go fishing with.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 10:24 pm

BmacD wrote:Working nite shift in a water plant all my life, or least the last 32 years of it. 28 years now with one company.Lousy pay but the perfect job for a studious introverted type B personality. Hey Blackhawk, how come there's never been a tv adventure series about the wild life of a waterplant operator?

Ain't it the truth?

I guess it'd just be too much glamor for the big screen.

clarinetnut · Post by **clarinetnut** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 1:33 am

Well, right now, I'm not technically doing anything for a living. I am a music performance major (studying clarinet, if you couldn't guess

), so I'm paying, not being paid.

BUT.....once I finish college (2 more years, then grad school), I want to play for a symphony and/or teach at a university. And yes, I've heard the "you can't make any money doing that" speech about a million times. I guess I'll just have to wait and find out.

Cheers!

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:46 am

tubafor wrote:I'm in radio production for His Kids Radio, a full-time national radio ministry for kids from Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, MI. And, I have the privilege of being an air host (as "Captain Cal"), as well as doing a weekly syndicated music appreciation program for kids called "Captain Cal's Classical Corner." (take a look at http://www.kidsradio.org to hear a sample of the program)

Cal

Capt Cal!!!! Wow a real Celebrity. I listened to Captain Cal once while in GR. I don't know if any Kalamazoo stations play it. WMUK? Maybe Thurlowe knows.

I have a couple friends who attend Cornerstone U.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:49 am

OH. The profession?

As a teenager I worked on a volunteer ambulance company.
I was a Hospital Corpsman in the US Navy for six years. Also an Ophthalmology technician for awhile and an optician.
Then went back to school for history major. Changed majors to computer science. Started programming about 16 years ago.

I've been with very large pharmaceutical company as system administrator for a UNIX and Win2000 based document management system for about 8 years. I'm exceptionally good at it I might add.
I will not be working here much longer however because this large company has decided to clean house in the Kalamazoo area and many many many good people are losing their jobs.

Frankly I'm getting sick of working with computers. This may be an opportunity to do something else.

What I would really like to do is teach history but I am not sure how to go about it. Not high school, college level. Say a junior college.

Either that or go back into emergency medicine as a paramedic. It doesn't pay worth a crap and the hours stink but at least it's helping people in a very direct way.

pthouron · Post by **pthouron** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 9:54 am

I am amazed and envious when I see there still are people who've had the same job for twenty years or more... Can't seem to be staying in one place for too long (sometimes my choice, sometimes not

)...

Over a span of roughly 20 years I've been:
1-A teacher (ESL) in Manhattan
2- A record store manager in Brooklyn
3- A production manager for a jingle house in Manhattan

I am now working as sales operations manager for a technology company in New Jersey. It's definitely one of those that fall in the "it's a living" category... and I guess I'm looking again!

JohnMulgrew · Post by **JohnMulgrew** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:27 am

Hi. Amazing thread. Anyway, right now I'm the operational risk guy for a global financial corp. If you have no idea what that is don't worry about it. My wife still doesn't either, she just says that I work at the bank. My music interests split between early music and folk. I am a avid recorder player (soprano, alto, tenor and just starting bass) who just got into whistling. I have played mt. dulcimer for a long time and about 18 months ago started attempting to play renaissance lute. My wife is a neurologist and awesome flute player (modern, baroque, renaissance and just recently irish). We have three daughters. Kristen plays violin/fiddle and mt. dulcimer. Kate plays cello and piano. Kelsey plays viola, piano, whistle and fife. Things are always moving rapidly and krazy but good.

lollycross · Post by **lollycross** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:48 pm

Hi,
Boy, everyone has such interesting things to say.
I waited and waited and didn't want to write in; but oh, well....
I am a retired office worker and I play Penny Whistle. Thats it, but
it is GREAT to NOT be working and just playing the whistle!
Lolly

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:50 pm

I don't know...sounds like a good gig to me, Lolly!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:05 pm

I am a professional altar boy.

maribeth95 · Post by **maribeth95** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:27 pm

Right now I am working as a Physical Therapy Aide, but I will be graduating from PT Assistant school in December of this year. After I pass my National Board exam I will be considered a Physical Therapy Assistant "officially"...

(-: Maribeth

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:28 pm

I'm a former advertising copy writer and editor happily turned full-time mom. I have a degree in English, and sometimes I even get to use it! (mostly by yelling " 'wherefore' does NOT mean 'where,' you moron, it means 'why'" at someone mangling Shakespeare on TV). I volunteer at my daughter's school as a yard duty supervisor, music teacher and Morris musician, sing in my church choir (between grumbles about the new Prayer Book) and, in my spare time (spare time?) like to wander around the Santa Cruz Mountains with a whistle in my pocket

Oh yes...I'm also a compulsive over-reader and a whiz at Trivial Pursuit.

I share my life with my precocious 10-year-old daughter, my hubby of 18 years (the wild and wonderful Werepoodle), a 16-year-old miniature poodle, a young and energetic black cat, two rats and a goldfish.

Redwolf

illuminatus99 · Post by **illuminatus99** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:12 pm

I'm a level designer at gas powered games, currently working on Dungeon Siege II. I also sell instruments on ebay and I'm lead vocalist and guitarist in my band which is actually finally starting to make money.

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