Im sure this has been asked before, but I'm asking again. What does everyone do for a living?

either: A. I'm a filthy rich, philantopist who doles out large sums of cash to those I think deserve it or to whom can tell me in ten words or less why I should share my vast fortune with a complete stranger... B. I work in an office supply wholesaler warehouse on the recieving dock... C. I am the missing link between man and the lower species and am exhibited in side shows at carnivals around the world.... ...take your pick....most people think it's "c"

uh that's "-anthro-"...I think....(sp?)

I repair military tank engines and in 10 weeks time I will be made redundant after 13 years. Which Im exited about as I going to look for a job I might enjoy (after a take over 2 years ago they split the job into small peaces which made the job brain numbingly boring)

Me is a team coach in a call centre - which means when your mobile phone is not phoning or you don't like your bill and you call them, then want to speak to someone higher coz the first person couldn't do anything, I'm the guy you get. Amazingly people think I'm good at this, which is amusing, considering it's a hard fight not to advise people that there are millions of people in the world who don't know what a mobile phone looks like and would prefer to know how they are going to survive rather than worrying coz they reckon they've been overcharged 20p by a billing system that hasn't changed since they started using the phone 10 bills ago which they've never thought was wrong previously..... I hate customers. I'd much rather be a photographer. (",)

Up until 2 months ago... I spent the last 15 years as a DANB certified dental assistant/office manager. It was my first and last job in a dental office. My boss (the dentist) was rude to her staff, rude to her patients. One day she started her shit with me for the last time. I quit. She has left such a bad taste in my mouth that the mere thought of working in the dental field ever again makes me sick to my stomach..... So right now I'm a stay at home mom and loving every lazy second of it....and I'm working on making photography a career, because it the one thing in my life that I enjoy.

Software geek for Kodak and wannabe artist :o)

i get drugs pumped into my body every two months for money. Otherwise, I'm entering into Concordia's Specialization in Digital Image/Sound in the Fine Arts (BFA program) next semester, so the buulk of my time will be eaten up by school next threee years or so. but, however, (lol, two conjunctions one after the other) I will be a bum until september (Rawk, 120 day weekend!!!)

I fix computers at IBM (for pay) and conduct home Bible Studies (for free)

For the last 8 years or so, people have been paying me to use photoshop! go figure... yes yes, you can hate me all you want.

I just started a job as receptionist/secretary for a law firm after being cashier, filer, gopher for a car dealership. I also play in a bagpipe band and teach the pipes.

I'm a communications engineer and analyst for a branch of the military. Which over here means I actually hold 10 different but related jobs. :P =DarkPen=

i thought you looked scottish caledonia... DP, does that mean if I threaten to rage war on monica lewinsky through hotmail, yer gonna intercept the email, and I'm gonna see a white pizza van parked outside my house for several weeks? eartho, I hate you, but with luck, I'll be doing something similar in 3 years time... ryan, I'll bet you've grown an extra limb due to all those tests, or that you talk to yourself frequently without even realizing it by now eh?

Forgot bout me. Im unemployed! I got my degree in Computer Science last year and consider myself a Java2 programmer (certified and all that). Now just got to find a job! Odd jobs are only getting me so far:) So none of you guys are photographers for a living? I find that amusing.

i know one or two that are, they just haven't posted, and i won't say their names, they will if they want to.

People pay me to use PS, too! Hehehehe... I'm a freelance artist -- graphics, illustration, web, advertising, mural painting--, art director and a part-time band manager. I also do events management once in a while. Jack-- if you're (a), I can tell you in 10 words why you should give your money to me. But I will keep my mouth shut for now... hehehe... (*

I work as Radio Network Specialist in Finlands second biggest mobile operator. I'm the special guy who solves problems in our mobile network, try to maintain certain mobile service&quality level and watch that jobs get done. My sphere of responsibilities is our whole country, so I travel a lot and manage to get in the strangest places. Its actually pretty funny, I work with sharp edge hi-tech stuff and after all, I dont even like this technological rat race mambojumbo, needless needs that engineers create just for us. . .... .. .I would like to be a knight, and have a black horse named Devil, just ride and save beautiful ladies, get honor and rule my kingdom with big heart. Punish the bad and prize the good.... . . .. |||Ummm... Did I say that loud?||| And yes, I hate you guys who use Photoshop in yer work.(Jovan, not you, I luuuv ya bebe.) .n

Hmmmm... where shall i start ? Daytime job : producer DVD-video and CD-ROM presentations (mostly corporate communication stuff). I get to play with high end AV equipment and 3D software (and getting paid to do so). But, i'm also a lawyer dashing from one client to another negotiating and drafting contracts. I think i found some kind of balance between my creative urges and "the power of the dark side" (the legal profession). May the force be with you all.

puff puff... i'm late?? What am I? someone could tell me, please... after 1 year of stand-alone work i've not get the point of my own work. =P I'm a multimedia artist/programmer/producer. my workshop do everything from digital imaging to business-related programming. Multimedia presentation, video production and post-production, press, pre-press, graphics, Virtual Reality, Web development, and whatever. The funny thing is that i'm studying as Archeologist...

oooo....an archeologist! Now that's something I would absolutely love Artax.....! Can I come with you on digs when you finish your studies?

And don't worry peterke and Artax, I hate you two too. ;oP .n

I'm one of those engineers who create the needless needs for Niko. ;-) I used to work with electronics and write a whole lot of software; now I mostly do PowerPoint slides that put people to sleep in meetings. [If Niko saw how the rat race mambojumbo Process really works, he would go out and bash something with a pointy stick!] I (rarely) get to do something creative at work. Right now I'm diving into writing drivers for Linux, which is more fun than it sounds. On the bright side, photography and computer imaging are only hobbies for me. Since I still have a day job, with my hobbies I can do whatever I want without having to please anyone else!

Michelle: absolutely... to be honest i think i'll do fewer "digs" when i finish my studies... he he he... i'm the Phylologist-Type... not the Indiana Jones one... ;D BTW... if you wanna come in Oman this fall... i can bring 2 "tecnicians/photographers" with me... if you don't mind to use the showel a bit... ;)

Nothing excitin here...I work in the epitomy of corporate america for an Acct firm...No I'm NOT a CPA....I work in Technology Support which deals mostly with customer service...stuff like that! Its okay..work with some great people...but I gotta tell ya when 4:30pm comes around...I'm outta here! Nothin like bein home! (wish I could get paid to do that) L8r!

Wow, interesting shyte going on here... I wish I were an Archaeologist, musician, music store owner, dancer, sculptor or a photographer (not necessarily in that order). sigh (*

wow, we gots some really interesting people in here.... the stories you all must have!! me... i am a frusterated landscape designer who is doing deli work right now since business is soooooo sloooooow. gotta pay the bills. sigh oh and on the weekends, i am a punk nightclub manager.hehe how i got all my stickers on my car ( which is getting fixed starting tomorrow!! yay) so lets do coffee you guys!! between all of us, we can dominate the world! hehe niko gets to ride his horse around Finland...

hummm... punk nightclub... kewl... where? since?

Work as a programmer/support person for a Medical Lab.(going on 6 years) Mostly do simple report programming, and some interface work between systems. The company I work for has just been bought out. So I do not know what I will be doing in a couple of months. Before my current job, I worked at a RV dealership.(13 years) Mainly sales. I really liked that job (except I worked all the time). I got to meet some very nice and interesting people. Photography has always been a hobby of mine. Worked on the Yearbook staff in college as a Photographer. Actually have shot 3 weddings (got paid for) and other odd paying jobs in college. As I got married, kids and all my photography was been mainly snapshots. But my new digital camera has sparked my interest in photography again :) --Randy R

i'm a cad designer for an auto manufacturer... some interesting jobs in here...

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Registered nurse, in a busy Emergency Department, and all that that entails...I also have this new thingy that I do at Renderosity, it's called being a "Moderator" (in the 2d Graphic forum)....which is why you haven't seen as much of me here (in the photoforum) lately! ;-)>

I work at 2 TV stations doing programming, marketing, and general station operations. Burned out, but not sure how to start over (wife, kids, bills...) Oh well. There's always my camera.

I'm making a living graphic designer and photographer. I studied Corporate Information Management and also Economics at university, but I've always been busy with graphic design and photography. That's just a fate I couldn't walk away from, cause we have designers, painters, illustrators, etc all over the family. :) Photography is much more fun, cause I know my camera and can concentrate on the thing I want to shoot, while designing a site involves a lot of sitting behind a screen - it's no fun having to script or run through some other piece of code or whatever when the sun is shining. I'd like to either do photography full time or do less site design (cause I hate having to compress and cut my stuff in to pieces everytime) and perhaps do more covers (cd/music covers that is). Well, you just never know what life's got in store for us all next I guess :) So no need to spend too much time on that stuff :)

this way cool! got to learn about everybody's jobs... now next question... what is your favorite color? what is your favorite song? what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

Lilgooser, I'm glad you asked the question. Its fun find out more about everyone and turn names into real people. What other interesting hobbies can we share? I draw, write poetry, ballroom dance, play paintball as well as more mundane things like gardening, cooking & baking from scratch, knitting, crocheting... I just got my dad's '73 Yamaha Enduro fixed and will be learning to ride it (with a helmet, PC) I also just started a correspondence course to get a degree in business management. Hope that wasn't too much, I just felt like being sociable.

LOL, glad to hear it (the helmet thing) Cal!! :-)>

Slynky: don't know about the pizza van, but the Flowers By Irene truck does a great job. ;) It's even more inconspicuous in Canada! :P It's interesting how photography pulls just about anyone from any field, though. =DarkPen=

Well here's my not very exciting work story. did a fine arts degree & worked full time as an artist & made a living!! for a while, stopped working because of health problems & chickened out of jumping back in, became a homoeopath & now I'm trying to get back to doing the art stuff, I guess photography has always been a hobby & part of the art thing & I'm only just getting back into that too. I don't know about hobbies but I do a lot of walking, I live in such a beautiful place you'd have to tie me up to stop me!!

Oh yes, I fogot, I do the modertor thing too, which is why my message replies get shorter & shorter & I say odd things because I don't even know where I am half the time!!

LOL! Yeah, they try to tell you this moderator stuff is just "part-time".... ;-P I spent 15-20 years doing admin asst, office management, etc, at one point did a year as an exotic dancer and another 3 as crew/driver for a racing team, 5 years as a stay-at-home mom, then another 3 or so as a "faxette" - spent the day sending out 1,000+ faxes on one computer and playing with graphics on another, decided I liked the graphics better, so now I stay at home and take photos and make pretty pictures and try to figure out some way to actually make money with them! :-)

Well, I'm a bit late on this thread, because I've been on vacation all week. Which means that (for a couple more days, at least) I do as little as possible, in as much sunshine as I can stand. Back in the real world, I'm a single father (my fun job), and a telecommunications and network specialist (my pays-the-bills job). Both of which I find strange, since I went to school to become an architect, and never planned on having kids till I was at least 30.

Wow. Can we ask the rest of the question higher up in the thread. sorry I'm late. I'm a analytical chemist-robotics jock, lab techinical computer person for a research drug company. Really I'm a maniacal wizzard alchemist. Photography is just my hobby. Bsteph

Little late, but...... Im a mover:)....at the moment....but i did landscape design and lawncare for 10 years....looking to get my own lawncare bussiness started up soon...i can make grass grow in the middle of the desert:) but i also do pencil and ink drawings, photos and bryce...few times for pay, mostly a hobby.

Talk about late! This thread is 2 years old! I used to be a software support and call center manager. I have been downsized so many times that I feel like Papa Smurf! So I went back to my former career optics. I sell and make glasses. On the side I do web design, graphic art, database creation, and spreadsheet creation and developement. I am also the Treasurer for the Diabolique Foundation (www.diaboliqueball.org). My long term goal is to make enough of a living in photography to avoid the rat race until I die. Or at least make photos that make people think or at least feel something. my short term goal is to just get time to shoot someting! (with a camera that is!) Magick Michael

Wow! Nice to see you made it Michael! Looks like mine needs to be updated.... Unemployed (gladly) and currently going to the University Of Rhode Island in pursuit of a Bachelor Of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Photography... In the process of starting up some sort of Photography based business.... shooting portraits here and there for chump change to pad my portfolio.... and dreaming of someday being the next Joyce Tennyson or Dorethea Lange.....