Nothing else to do for me since my comps busted... hope you guys can spare a little time for my survey... I just want to know how diversified are the Bryce artist... so i would like to know what you do for a living.... ME? well I'm an architect and content on building houses for now at the same time a Radio Announcer/ Disc Jockey on one of our City's FM RAdio.... When not doing bryce i try to learn other 3d programs, draw, paint and watch movies. And oh part of my job is to go to bars and party every wned. fri. and saturday... what about you?

I am a retired antique dealer. I love travel and movies. I am constantly taking online classes to learn new software and improve my skills. Diane

Right now I'm 20 years old and in the US Navy. My job title there is MSS, or Mess Management Specialist Subs. This basically means that I'm the Chef aboard a submarine. Previously I managed the kitchen in a Restaurant/bar in the lakes area in Minnesota. I planned on going to college in New York for culinary arts, but it got too expensive, so here I am in the Navy, earning credits and mulla so I can finish my college and hopefully someday own a restaurant I can call my own.

I am a clerk. My full time job, I am file clerk for social services. pays good. my part time job I'm a library clerk at the public library also pays good. My mother is naturally artistic and my daughter is planning on studying art. I'm more mathematical. But I love Bryce. I just need lots of help with it LOL. As a side note for all those Brycers who are having a hard time getting a job, look into county or state jobs. They pay well and there are usually openings every so often. Even tho they've been downsizing here where I am, people still retire, move on, die etc and they have to hire people. Good luck all. Ang

I'm a student in high school. Entering my junior year in the fall. I don't have a job, with the economy people around here aren't hiring much.

I run my own business creating custom stationery for small businesses/organisations. I edit newsletters for charities and repair/rebuild old photographs....the oldest one I worked on? ...1908! All done at home on my desktop.

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I'm a Purchasing Agent for a local company during the week and on weekends I'm a cashier at a local convenience store. Unfortunately, those two jobs and my 17 year old son and husband, leave little time for Bryce but hopefully one of these days I'll go back to just one job and will have more time to spend on here and working with Bryce.

Your husband is 17?

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Hangon! Let's read that again....your 17yr old son is your husband?

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Domestic Goddess-HAHAHAHAHA!! I put in 16 years working at the post office and walked away from it last year, good pay and benefits, but hey, life's too short to stay in a job you hate. So, for now I'm just hanging out at home.

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I feel for you squeeka. I hope that we both will be able to go back to just one job, its so hard to do after getting used to that level of income, seems like there's no way to do without the money (notice I didn't call it extra money). I had thought that I might be able to get a higher paying job and quit the library and spend more time with my family. So far the higher paying job hasn't come up and my husband walked out on me (I wasn't paying enough attention to him). Found himself a nice girl and they just get along so well. And my daughter is entering college in the fall. On a better note, we did get a wonderful letter yesterday, she's been picked for a scholarship. Every little bit helps. :-D As much as I hate working so many hours, I am very thankful to have the two jobs with the way the economy is. Best wishes for all. Ang

Well here goes... I'm 24 years old, basically unemployed, living in a wonderful coastal city called Wilmington, North Carolina. I attended high school and went to college in Fremont, Ohio. After getting my 2-year degree in Computer Information Systems, I moved to Toledo, Ohio in hopes of dabbling around in the computer industry. Not so...worked for Office Depot in the tech department for 3 1/2 years. Met my girlfriend through a mutual friend and moved closer to her in NC, we chose Wilmington as a destination. I have yet to find full-time work here, but hoping to get something soon. I often wonder if I went into the wrong thing, I seem to be really enjoying the 3D end of things, like gaming, but more school just scares me sometimes. :-/ Plus it seems like they all say you have to know programming, which programming doesn't appeal to me much either. Outside of that, I love Wilmington, the beaches, the historic downtown, nice friendly community. Outside of work and Bryce, I play softball and I am getting eager to coach youth baseball again (ages 14 and up). I was a baseball manager for 14 & 15 year old leagues in Fremont when I was 16-21 and loved every second of it. I love the competition. MD

I click buttons, oh and run and chairspin in continuous circles till I'm dizzy and go THUD!! :-)

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

Ang, I really hope we can both do that :) I'm thrilled to hear about your daughter. Give her my congratulations. One job would be great but as you say, you get used to the level of money and it's hard to walk away from it when it allows you to afford little extras for the family. Ahh well, enough of that...

Maddog, don't worry to much about going into the wrong thing. The way the economy is lately, I don't think it matters what field anyone goes into. So many places are closing or downsizing, there's a ton of people out there looking for work(especially in my town where 3 major employers are closing or laying off this summer). You'll find something eventually and in the meantime, enjoy Wilmington and coaching :) It's better than working 60+ hours a week and wishing you had more time to spend with the family and Bryce :P (I do agree with Ang tho, I'm thankful I have those two jobs)

Hugz to all of the Brycers in this forum. You all make it a great place to come and relax, post work, or just blow off some steam when things go wrong(big hugs to EYECON til the computer is fixed) :)

Squeeka

ps Clay, I want to do what you do :P Sounds like fun :)

Ang: Congrats for your daughter..what a nice birthday present for her!

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Tnx for the hug squeeka.... i need that.. the thought of no bryce is killing me! two more days.... two more

lessee..according to the 'people page' at work, I'm a Senior Helpdesk Analyst at the local corporate campus..I maintain all the Print Queues on the Print Servers (locally), work on printers, PC's, and software, and play in the company band..;). I (change to squeeky high voice..;) render things in between calls, and late in the evening (which is why everything gets rushed..and explains the 'quality' of my work sometimes..;), I make models and smart comments in the forums..;)

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Help Desk technician for state agency AKA Nick Burns your companies computer guy.

Nuclear Security Specialist... Basically a SWAT team guy that stops the baddies from blowing up nuke plants. It's been a dicey job for twenty years, but I must say, business has been a little "better" than I care for. As I tell my wife, "An exciting day at work is a really bad thing..."

Technically, I'm a Bible college student, although I'm only taking one class currently. I'm also an author and a songwriter.

I work in a mail house. (Ringbearer... Looks like you and I have something in common. heh heh heh ) I am an inkjet operator and work in the computer room cleaning databases of adresses, eliminating addresses that are not honored by the USPS ( US Postal Service) as legitimate addresses. So you never know.... some of the junk mail that you receive may have just come off my inkjet. Lol... The mailhouse I work in does a volume of about 15,000,000 pieces of mail per month. I also have 17 years experience in printing as a pressman working Offset web presses and 6 color sheetfed presses. ~ Swade ~

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Me.. I'm just a lowly factory worker. I just stand infront of a large plastic mold injection machine and wait for it to spit out parts, which i just make sure they are good parts then stick them in a box.. fun fun.... The parts are made for honda cars.

Self employed Contractor Since 85. New Construction & Renovation. I do it all(build,renovate,customize) but my specialties are: Flooring & Painting(Special Applications) In a short: I cover things that the traditional trades don't know how to or want to due to special licensing & regulations. I fix repair & bulid PC's on the side. Oh yeah my 3rd job is my home.

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I'm 46 and currently work at the UofA where I just got a promotion to Secretary II. Doesn't sound that grand, but it's a 10.7% pay increase. (Hurrah!) I work for three research writers who write curriculum on child development and childcare which we then train trainers on and who then teach it to caregivers and teachers throughout the state. I take their text and format it to be consistent within the series, add graphics and such (basically I make it pretty). I organize the train-the-trainer session, supply the trainers with the curriculum manuals and various supplies. Right now I'm struggling with three manuals that are in the final stages and trying to get the database of the students who've taken these classes in the last gazillion years together. Before this, in my past life, I worked in the travel industry for 20 years - 19 years with the airlines, 2.5 as a travel agent (one year was an overlap). Other than that, I make Ukrainian Easter Eggs (aka pysanky) and cook. And Bryce! :o)

At the moment I'm an attorney. Past professions were... EMT - ambulance medic. Offroad VW engine/trasmission Helo Mechanic / director of maintenance / turbine engine inspector. Helo pilot / flight captain / flight instructor. Fisherman (tuna super seiners) Church pastor Truthfully, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know that the student loans are real killers! I got into Bryce in 1998 and Poser in 2002. Not sure what the next horizon is with CG. EIU? Maya? Softimage? Some good CG school when I get tired of lawyering? Maybe I'll go to the Jamacian Blue Mountains and learn the secret to what makes really good coffee beans.

This is a very interesting thread! I enjoy reading what we all are in our 'real lives'...heheh...this is fun stuff. :) It's like hearing what celebs and athletes do in their spare time (besides spend their endless amounts of money.) I think we're all celebs in some aspect. :) I once had a roommate who's girlfriend got a job holding those 'slow' signs at construction sites on the roadways. I told her, "You know, you make twice as much as I do and you could be replaced by a bucket of freakin' sand." Moral of that story, there's gonna be some sort of work anywhere, just gotta find it...that's the tough part. ;) MD

Hey EveryOne - Been Busy with.... My Commercial Fence Company, I am a self Employed Contractor for a cmpany hat was passed down from my grandfather to my father, and Yes The First Chick - Down to Me (Before that I was A bartender for about 10 years) Roch222

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I have an MA in history/egyptology, but working fulltime for a large can factory and am in charge of computerized quality control, with access to internet (writing this from work :-)) Also mom to 4 daughters aged 6,8,10 and 14. Turning 40 tomorrow.

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eelie, which UofA?

Happy Birthday - Have a great Day Creations Roch222

Right now? Probably that thing Clay does. But that's ok. I have "liberty savings" (didn't blow $ on trinkets or booze during my cruises) from the last 5-1/2 years I've spent in the Navy as a lowly MM3 (I felt more like a janitorial specialist, but they didn't have that rating. lol. Also did an out of rating thing as a techrep "parts guy" aboard ships Maintenance that I was pretty good at.) Anyhow got out, as I felt cooped up being there. I could go on about previous jobs I've had. So, I'm enjoying the summer. I'll soon be looking towards getting back into school and/or getting a job of some sorts.

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factory worker..10yrs.stand there and trim wires..very boring moderator at a Deltaforce Comanchee 4 site married 20 yrs..or so (hehehe) Tying to learn bryce,photoshop,lightwave,maya,zbrush,wings3d,and a host of others, besides making missions and terrains for the Deltaforce series of games (and Comanchee 4). Live 15 mi from where maddog used to live.

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Hmmm...well, I was a pastor for about 10 years, then I learned HTML out of a book and started a web design company about 7 years ago...company name: Claymor :) Then I started climbing the corporate ladder and most recently was Chief Technology Officer and VP of Product Marketing for two different software companies. All that means is that I climbed high enough that now my resume looks too pricey...been unemployed since last June. Oh, and Happy Birthday creations...I turned 42 on what is now yesterday...the 13th.

Happy birthday, Claymor and Creations! I'm a journalist. In print. Before that, I used to be TV and radio journalist. Translator. The editor of an SF magazine. And bouncer, for a summer. It was a way to have a free vacation. :-) This last year has been pretty hectic, so I changed the job a little. It will hopefully make it possible for me to spend more time on Bryce and learn more. Learning Rhino and MojoWorld. Have some knowledge of Photoshop and Poser, but I'm still learning. Finally, after buying a digital camera, I'm also trying to learn that. The current results can be seen in my gallery. :-)

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Right then, I work for a software company creating Web Portal Solutions for the public sector (mostly fire service) All began about 3 1/2 years ago when I was unemployed. I went on a traing course to learn the 'basics' of a PC (MS Office). Got a place ment with a web design company and it all snowballed from there. I write in HTML, ASP and SQL. Stash ;0)

Right now Im a proffesional layabout but back when I was employable I drove tourist buses all over the UK, showing our beautiful country off to our foreign guests. After that I drove a limousine doing the same sort of thing but also in central London and met some interesting people. I drove Sylvester Stallone when he came over for the premirer of Rocky, (didnt like him at all), Bette Davis when she did a stint at the London Palladium, (wonderful lady), Ray Charles, (boy, could he swear) and I was taking Carrie Fisher to drama school every morning in St Johns Wood when she got the part in Star Wars. And loads of others you`ve probably not heard of.

Unix Systems Administrator working for an international Computer Services company (EDS). Unix is good fun, pity it doesn't help me when Windows goes wrong, and that Bryce doesn't run on Unix or Linux.. 8-( In answer to the other survey I live in Basingstoke, England, which is about an hour's drive south of London. Not a great town, but surrounded by lots of beautiful english countryside.

I couldn't resist this topic! I am a IT/Networking junkie who works in a health care facility. hahaha. Employment for IT is so so difficutl here in Southern California. MadDog31, I know exactly how you feel. I finished top in class but the only job I could find was a technician! They need experience and lots of certs, also I can't stand being so "professional", I hate wearing a tie! I am also a college student going for a degree in... ummm I don't know but something in the medical field where the job market is so much better. Yeah I don't really, really like the medical field but I do like(and need) money and stability, so I'm fishing where there's a lot of fish. Other odd past jobs include: fast food (KFC), autoparts warehousing, postal, airport security, child counselor... and others i don't even want to remember right now.

We ( Willem and Madeleine ) are retired sculptors. Mainly due to a serious lung-disease ( Willem ) we were forced to find other means of being creative. About a year ago we've bought our first computer in a attempt to translate our language in stone/bronze and acrylic into 3D computer art. A dear friend gave us Bryce 5 because he thought it was the right program for us to create the world where our sculpture forms could be living. He was right! It was however a great culture shock for us. Coming literally from the stone-age into the computer world. We are trying to find our way in Bryce/Amorphium and Xfrog. In the southern part of The Netherlands were we live we opened our own gallery and at the end of this year we will exposing our first steps in 3D images.

This thread is interesting indeed! It's nice to get to know you better... I'm a writer and a translator, both job concerning fiction. I started when I was 19 writing some essays on Stephen King and then moved on writing my own stories. So far I have published three novels, two short stories collection and three novels for children. Next year I'll publish other two novels. I translated in Italian books by very cool people, like Jeffery Deaver ("The Bone Collector" was a hit even in Italy), then JG Ballard, Poul Anderson, Douglas Preston, Peter Straub, JR Lansdale, Jonathan Coe, Isaac Asimov etc. This (the translations) is my main source of money, but I hope I'll sooner or later be able to write for a living. Ah, btw, today it's my 37th birthday... Creations, we were born in the same day! S.

For Creations and DoubleCrash Oooohhhhhh, he's a jolly good fellow, Oooohhhhhh, he's a jolly good fellow, Oooohhhhhh, he's a jolly good fehellooow, and so say all of us! Happy birthday you two!

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Happy Birthday! Claymor, Creations and Stefano!

Happy birthday folks, as to work I'm a Tools Manager / Process bloke. I create/manage the tools and processes the company I work for use in systems engineering. i.e. I do a bit of programming, a bit of processy stuff, a bit of web design and a lot of shouting when things hit the fan :-)

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Happy birthday guys! :) Im infact an alien, from a binary system not so far away. While conducting some surveys for a possible invasion, some street punks busted up my craft pretty good, and im stuck here ever since. Doing Bryce just to kill some time until you guys invent an anti-matter reactor...

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(bows to all of you!) Ahh, but my theory about all of you being 'bots is getting dim...! It's good to see that you ARE people, with real lives, and not just a collection of super-artists out to make me feel inferior! I co-own and operate Dragon PC, a local computer company we bought back in January. Mostly we make gaming and graphics rigs locally, some small business stuff... But my main job is at Northwest Exteriors here in Auburn. We design and make and sell new, well, Exteriors! Steel roofs, vinyl windows, stuff like that. Vinyl siding. Japanese-style steel tile. I do the brochures and promo graphics, and lots of pre/post shots of model homes. But mostly I convert Rhino models into real objects that can work on a real house... Which means I do just what Clay does. No sense trying to be TOO original! (grins at Rochr)

I build cars, and contrary to a rather spiffy advert (Honda's Cog!) it takes a bit more than rolling parts about! :)

I work on the management side of the house for a company that provides Satellite Telecommunications services to companies in remote locations. Very challenging and rewarding work. I love my job.

I make advertisements, promotional works and small commercial publications (the latest being the "NVM-special" wich was quite a succes and will be published two more time this year :) and such for a local newspaper in "Zuid-Holland". The newspaper is called "The Haagsche Courant. I also do some free-lance work for a "Dutch Anime-fan magazine called "Aniway", but that is work that i do for free, keeping a fulltime time job and paid freelance work is not an ideal combination, unless your happy with 12 to 16 hour working days, wich i am not. Bryce is actually a kind of a distraction for me :)

Robert van der Veeke Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! "Better is the enemy of good enough." Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau.

@jasonmit UofA = University of Arkansas And I agree, this is a very interesting thread. I expected to see most saying they are the geniuses who created amazing software by day or who were equally amazing 'tradition' artists. Sometimes I feel like I'm odd-man-out because of the standard of creativity around here. While I still feel a bit inferior and definitely humbled by the brilliance in this forum, I like that ya'll are really just people too. I know just what shadowdragonlord meant! :o) And Happy Birthday to all the July-ers. Looks like there's bunches of you.

I'm a technical writer. The company I work for makes Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers - a fancy peice of equipment to measure the currents in water. Fun place to work for, love the people, and my job. Been here 9 years. Don't get to use Bryce too much in my manuals, but I try every chance I get to put in a render. Peggy

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This is a really cool survey. I kinda feel the way eelie thinks of it...how I was ready to hear all the new software you all came up with, or all the top-paying cushy jobs you all have...but wow, you all are just like me! I think this thread alone shows the support we have for each other because we're not afraid to say what we do. It also allows us to learn more about each other so we can kinda understand where a person is coming from. Alvin, I hear ya on the low IT job stuff...I'm still looking (along with 5,000 employment agencies for me) but still nothing. I have a 3-day temp job coming up where I'm making labels on a computer. I was thrilled when they told me because at least this time I'll be touching a keyboard and not restacking a semi full of Coke products or hauling a regulation-size hockey rink around. It's tough times, and here I thought Southern Cal was invincible to the weak economy...guess I was shamefully wrong. :( Hang in there man! :) I see everyone is listing what they did in the past...I'll elaborate for me. I started work at Wendy's in high school. That was one of those jobs where it was a thankless job, but I was the clown there which made it fun. We had fun because there was little turnover for a while. Met a couple of girls there I really liked but they always thought I was a great friend instead...haven't talked to them since basically...haha...how nice. Also, I used to work at an appliance store delivering a full range of appliances. My worst memory (but still love to talk about it) is having to hoist 125-gallon water heaters from basements...heavy as hell, had to have an electronic stair climber help us, which was hardly any help. My best memory was witnessing a hit and run (not good) but then when the guy took off, we got into a high speed chase through town and in the country (good stuff)...finally got him to veer off into a corn field after 45 minutes of chasing. I felt like a hero that day. Oh, and we did all the chasing with someone's refrigerator tied to the back of the Ford pickup that we were taking back for repairs (great stuff)...hehehe :) MD

Happy Birthday to all the July babies! I'm a project manager working in the legal field. I create CD's that contain the brief that attorney's write for submission to court, then hyperlink everything referenced in the brief. So basically all supporting paper documentation is on a single CD. Very much fun because cases can be very interesting. And I have to agree it is nice to get to know a bit more about everybody. :) Cie

Sheesh, forgot about previous jobs..lessee..hardware technician, software installer, PC temp work, security guard, Beverage maker (we're back to the mid-70's now..;), camp counselor (fired)..that's about it. Used to work on PC's at the local nuke plants, so I may have walked by one of you and had my bags searched..Mr. 'dawg', good thing to be in Wilmington, there's about 3,000 unemployed IT folks in the tri-county area..if ya think things are tough in Wilmington...;) but good luck, hope you find something soon..GE has a jet engine plant there, and one of the movie studios has some places there..ya never know.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Pakled...yeah, I'm gonna give the movie studios a call this week, hopefully something opens up there either as an extra or what the hell, maybe they have some sort of need for computer people...hahah...who knows. I hope to find something. I know they're bringing in GE headquarters here soon for the Nuke Division or something, it's been in the news. Haven't heard more on that yet. MD

I was born a poor white boy in the middle of a blizzard... :) Ok. Seriously - I'm a LAN Administrator for Lexicon, Inc. in Bedford, Massachusetts, which is a subsidiary of Harman Industries. We make high-end sound-gear for home theaters, such as receivers and DVD players. By high end, I mean our DVD player costs $8000. That's the right amount of zeroes there. Lexicon also makes signal processors and reverb units for recording studios, but that's all done in Utah. Previous to this I have been: tour guide for the Boston Tea Party sign-maker for Charrette night manager for Tower Records petroleum transfer engineer (read: gas station attendant)

Well guys, I clean windows for a living. Great in the summer but bone chilling in the winter. I've only been doing it for 8 months, I just fancied a change from my last job in a health spa. That I stuck at for 6 years, the pay was shite and unsociable hours. The only perk was meeting Johanne Cruyff. For all those that don't follow football (soccer) he was one of the best players the world has ever seen. Work to me is just a way of paying the bills, I prefer to spend my time Brycing, listening to music, and watching movies. Born to chill that's me.

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Reading the previous it is clear that I must be the official Lazy Old Fart amongst the Brycers here! Left school at 16 (1972) before taking exams and blagg"d my way into a job as Data control clerk in a Stockbrokers. Basically I took care of the punched tape that ran the programs for dealing. I had no idea what I was doing! One year later I was working in a publishers dealing with the advertising and ( believe it or not! ) painting the big advertising safety curtains that they used to have in theatres. Two years later I enrolled at St Martins School of Art here in London. Got in on the strength of my portfolio ( my file was stamped "Academically Deficient*. Those were the days when one could get a full grant for tuition and living expenses. Great stuff! Half way through my BA I started doing freelance work designing and painting theatre backdrops and staging for fashion shows. One company that I did work for went bust, so I bought the staging equipment and did fashion shows for ten years. After junking the fashion shows ( the fashion folks were really flaky! ), I moved into designing and building exhibition stands at trade fairs etc. I only do about 8 weeks of design work a year now, I earn my crust as a consultant, which basically means I charge a lot of money to tell people the bleeding obvious! It's my unwavering confidence that I am right, that keeps my clients in line, that, and the fact that I can charge 600 a day for talking and 5000.00 just for a concept, keeps my interest going. At the moment me and my sister ( she is a printmaker ) are caring for my cranky old mother and building an extension to the house that is fully adapted for a wheelchair-bound mischief maker. All along I have also sold my paintings but have never had the time to get sorted with enough back catalogue of work to make the transition into full time painting and exhibiting. I plan to change that in the next couple of years. At 48, there is still time to do the stuff I want to. The plan is to design and build a home in the country and retire from the Rat-Race in London. Painting and gardening= Bliss! Can't wait!

eelie: Cool. Around here, UofA is University of Arizona, my former university's (Arizona State University) rival. So I can still speak to you. ;-)

woohoo! Think Im the only pizza delivery man here :-) ...wait, I shouldnt be proud of that should I? :- I'm 21 and yes a pizza delivery man for the wonderful company of Dominos. I go to the art isntitute here in Portland, OR and have to live at home so i can afford to go to school. Really lookin forward to moving out for the 2nd and last time (previously attended school on eastern side of my state.) Bout it for me at the moment :-)

Great thread, Eyecon! We really are a diverse bunch. I'm a physiotherapist (or, for those in the US, I think they say physical therapist instead). Basically, when you all get carpal tunnel syndrome from too much Brycing, I can help. Used to be an ambulance attendant/driver (hi EricofSD), worked with handicapped (both mental & physical) kids, did casualty simulation, and teach chess. I work for a hospital in Toronto (where I am also the coordinator for the program that I work in).

How do you top all this? Right! I was an astonaut, and then a nuclear physisistist, I spent 2 years working as a brain surgeon, then an Admiral on a Nuclear aircraft carrier, while running the bank of England I did a bit of ......just kidding! Wow, you just never can tell from the crazeeness that goes on here that people have real jobs...or sadly not as the case may be....

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

I'm a high school student, but I design web pages so I'm ridiculously rich for my age group(but I've earned it!!).

mloates...worked at a hospital in Toronto? Did you have to deal with SARS directly? MD

MadDog, Yup, had to deal with SARS--the masks, the screening, the whole bit. However, the program that I am with is for out-patients (people not staying in the hospital), so we actually moved our program to another location so that we could continue to function. Many other programs were not as lucky (some had to shut down totally). Having said all that, SARS really wasn't as bad as many people think--I definitely wasn't walking around the city wearing a mask, etc. It was tough for the city, though. Lots of businesses were hit hard and many will not recover.

Here i was expecting that my job was like a big bore! but hey! where can you find a job that makes you go to patrties every wendnesday, fridays and saturdays and pays you at 2,000 to 5,000 a night? thats my job... wanna do architectural stuff, like i was supposed to do yet tides are against me nowadays.... mostly what i do for work is play music, talk on air, play more music for 4 hours. i also do a few Emcee/hosting jobs for a variety of programs that pays quite well, and make radio commercials/ads for different business firms with a nifty lil program called COOL EDIT, its a nice audio editing program. WOW! i was like expecting to see... "Hi im a computer guru making great images and programs since i was a baby" stuff, but later realized that WE ARE ALL HUMANS! yeah... ordinary people with extra ordinary skill and a love for art! Im going to save this thread it makes me feel good all over... and tnc for the support guys... makes me feel good since my computer is still down and out... one more day, one more day...

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Another "Brief Survey" eh? I am a student majoring in biophysics. But first, I am heading for UC Davis in Davis, California as a physics major. I don't work right now...trying to find one in the Sacramento area. I am new to Bryce...received my copy of Bryce 5 on the 8th of July. If you're a student, try AcademicSuperStore.Com to buy some softwares. Great Education discounts. I got my Bryce 5 for $49.00 (shipping and handling included).

Self employed Communication Tech, ( for 25 years now )

Stephen Ray

I am a design engineer responsible for the electrical systems and avionics on the commercial Bell Helicopters. Previously I was one of the folks responsible for the overall combat system design and it's integration (both functionally andf physically) into the Canadian Navy's City class frigates. Also worked on the mod's requyired to adapt the EH101 helicopter for Canadian Armed forces use. Back through High school and University (both degrees) I ran the darkroom/graphics design/layout (and occasionally a press) of a Commercial job printer. Bryce is my spare time safety valve. (I also do exotic stuff (over at 'rotica) and B&W figure photography - it's my uncle's fault! he got me hooked on nudes, he was a painter).

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

...and I still can't typ!

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

Well, now that we're also dwelling in the past - and doing asides - I'll add that I have a BA from Southern Cal in Business Administration (done me no good), I'm an ordained minister (just married some friends of mine three weeks ago - 105 degrees in the shade at 1700 hrs!!!) Sambucus - when I was twenty, I worked in a gun store in Hollywood, sold Stalone a $1200 shotgun. He suffers from "Little Man Syndrome", he stands 5'6" wearing heels... and he does wear heels... Stephano - can you get me a good translation of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum? I lost the story about half-way through, don't know if it was the translator or Eco himself... Rochr - there was a similar thread quite a while ago where you also protested to be an alien. I'm thinking your either Michael Jackson or Bill Gates... so you may be right. Brendon - I REALLY want to become a consultant. Here, you usually take an early retirement package, the company finds out that no one knows what you know, so they hire you back at twice the wage... how do you avoid the wait? Digitalphotography - Physics? I thought UC Davis was Ag and Viticulture... Do you ever go to Sudwerks?

I worked for Burger King during High School. Part way through college I did assembly in an underfunded venture to make subliminal suggestion devices to go into stereos at businesses. Did you know that the phrase "mommy and I are one" played under music will make women loose weight? After school I made B4C control pellets for reactors for about 4 years. The NRC shut down all reactors in the area for about two years which effectively shut us down. I spent about 9 months building bearings for SKF until the plant closed and went to Mexico. The next 18 months I did 6 paper routes. I was up at 2am and drove through two neighborhoods, then room to room at a hospital til 10am. The change I made was usually enough to buy me breakfast from the machines on the second floor. I then did the early edition of the afternoon paper downtown on foot going up 24 flights of stairs with a 60 pound bag I covered about 24 miles a day. I did the final driving route and finished about 5pm. I got on with the post office as a substitute carrier for Saturdays and gave up one of the paper routes. About 6 months later I got on at ORNL in fracture mechanics. I was still to low on seniority to get a full time postal route so I stayed on till they could train another sub. I've been at the national lab every since. I did charpy and crack arrest testing on heavy section steel (boilers basically). After it became painfully obvious that we would never build another nuclear reactor again Fracture Mechanics was dissolved and I joined the Ceramic Surface Systems group where I made Silicon Carbide composites. We changed our name to Surface Processing and Mechanics (thats SPAM). I've worked on a bipolar plate that was licensed to porvair for Hydrogen Fuel Cells. I worked with Rick to make the green bullets that nukeboy uses. Every three to five years the programs change. It's always intresting, but the pay sucks. Because I'm not a PhD I get treated like the bishop's bastard.

To Nukeboy, UC Davis started way, way back as a agricultural university. Now, the university is the ONLY Vet school in CA along with its own Med School and Med. Center. I am iffy about their physics program...it is close to home!!! 30 min. drive from Sacramento.

I've been a teacher for the past 7 years, but now I'm seriously thinking of going into translation - I'm supposed to have all the qualifications needed, so Josselin

I've been a police officer and SWAT Team sniper for 8 years in an urban North Jersey City. Currently working narcotics. Yeah, I keep rather busy, hence the lack of any postings since the beginning of Spring. That's when business picks up. We were busy as hell after 9/11 and I was right in the middle of Ground Zero after it happened. An experience which will stay with me for the rest of my life and one that I am glad that none of you had to experience. It changes you. Changes you forever.

Because I like to blow $%&# up.

Don't fear the night.  Fear what hunts at night.

All these people with interesting jobs, or even jobs at all. I used to be a contract manager for a very large cleaning company, but for the last 18 months or so I have been a carer, which in the UK means you are there 24/7 for almost no money. The alternative would be for the old lady (93 and mother-out-law) to go into a care home, and for me to get my life back. Oh well at least I get to spend lots of time with my computer, and hopefully improve my art.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Well.. Actually I'm video department manager for French company , I also work as a designer for a big game company ( s..y ) and for some french TV programs. rest of the time I do a lot of music and work with my brother on some musical videos..I try to save time to take care of my beautifull wife and my 3 kids.. I'm 36 years old.

Boomer, very interesting career there. We all thank you for being there to help out at Ground Zero, what a tragic mess that was. :( You're a SWAT sniper, eh? :) I always thought that would be a cool job, but very very detailed and accurate (of course.) What's it like sniping if you don't mind me asking? MD

Not a problem, MadDog. Everyone gets satisfaction out of their job in one way or another. I get satisfaction by coming to this forum on a daily basis and seeing everyones postings/names here on a semi daily basis. That's one way I know you're all alive and well. Sniping....very exhausitng. It may not seem like it, but the mental AND physical stress drains you. The two are intertwined and to help me deal with it, I hit the gym 5 times a week. You have to concentrate and stay extremely focused for long periods of time sometimes. I've never had to shoot anybody and I hope that I never have to, either. But yeah, it's a pretty cool job.

Because I like to blow $%&# up.

Don't fear the night.  Fear what hunts at night.

Boomer - I took the sniper course at Quantico on the M82A SASR which we've now deployed, what a blast (litterally)! Stay Safe!

What I would give to use that puppy. Most of my shots are are no more than 200 yards tops. Granted, the shot HAS TO BE a 1 inch by 3 inch area to hit the no reflex zone. I can do the shot up around 700 yards with the gear (standard issue) I have now. But hell, with a .50, I can take my same point of aim and take of the whole thing. You be careful, too, Nukeboy. I know you get the same intel I do, so...just be careful.

Because I like to blow $%&# up.

Don't fear the night.  Fear what hunts at night.

Man, interesting stuff! I like sniping on Team Fortress Classic but that's nothing compared to real life stuff. Being able to hit a target that small from that far away...absolutely amazing! It'd be fun to just try once to see what it's like. I couldn't make a career out of it...but I thank you guys for being part of the force that protects all of us! :) MD

Well, I actually do work for a computer game company and do some of the graphics work. I also do the customer service stuff and occasionally update one of the websites. I have a BA in Anthropology, and some classes in html and computer programming, no art though. My previous jobs have been processing payments for a hospital, secretary to a lawyer, and adding information to databases for the university (a laboratory and the library). With some people out of work, and others working two jobs, I won't moan about wanting to get paid more. ;) Lin