Thread: What you do for a living?

Originally Posted by Walterbowens

And you are working, and not depending on the government!!

Unless you are working for the government.

i'm an industrial chemist (bachelor degree 3 months ago) and currently unemployed...it's hard find a job.
at the moment I can earn some money doing private lessons in physics, mathematics and chemistry
waiting for better times a greeting to all of you friends!!

Im a very humble working man. Nothing special I'm a Gym Attendant and football coach for a high school

High school music teacher and free-lance musician. I spend summers in Italy, performing and eating gelato.

Originally Posted by cosperryan

Some of you guys have some lists of jobs but I guess that some of you guys are quite a bit older than I. Makes me jealous of some of your careers.

very humbling to see the varying backgrounds. it made me think of a letter a man wrote to an eclectic group of people about 1,960 yrs ago....
"12 For just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of that body........
19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be? 20 But now they are many members, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” or again, the head cannot say to the feet, “I do not need you.” 22 On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary, 23 and the parts of the body that we think to be less honorable we surround with greater honor, so our unseemly parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 whereas our attractive parts do not need anything. .........
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but its members should have mutual concern for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all the other members suffer with it; or if a member is glorified, all the other members rejoice with it."
different context but it fits here as well. every one of us fits a purpose and we might think it to be an unglamorous one but without we would all surely notice the impact! AND NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL READING THIS THREAD SHOULD FEEL EMBARRASSED OR ASHAMED TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE. thanks to all of you for being so open!

Driver's Ed Instructor, 3 out of 6 high schools and instructor /trainer. Prior Beautycare Proctoid/P&G Bar Soap Division / Ivorydale at Cinn.Ohio Managed Quality and Micro Daily Management and shipped releases globally at all contract mfg. sites for Oil of Olay Daily Facials that I invented.
MHW

My name is Tom and I am a senior programmer/analyst for a major casino entertainment company.

In "my past life" I have been a software designer and developer, mainly for computer music, operating systems, computer cryptography and security, distributed systems, columnist for many international computer magazines as well as an international lecturer on those subjects.
Today I am a wine writer as well as a wine, beer, distillates, tea, coffee, cooking, olive oil and cheese professional taster, critic, researcher and consultant. I organize public and private events about these subjects as well as classes about sensorial wine and food tasting and pairing. I am also a consultant in enogastronomy and restaurant personnel training and education.
I love writing music and writing comedies (in the past I have also been an actor and director) I always had a passion for history, in particular for my city (Perugia and Etruscans), cooking, pastry cooking, ethnic cuisine and, of course, shaving and pogonotomy.
I am also interested in astronomy, eastern and Chinese philosophy, culture and martial arts: I have a black belt in Mei Hua Xiao Lin Quan (a Kung Fu style) TaiJiQuan and QiGong. I love the game of WeiQi - also known as Go - as well as Italian card games "tressette", "scopone" and "scopone scientifico".
In my spare time, I love inventing new recipes - this is also part of my job - as well as entertaining my friends by cooking for them (they always want me to invent new recipes all the times) and pairing food with wines.

Currently, I'm a kitchen and bath designer (though the company I'm working with now has me doing more system implementation for their ordering software) and have been involved with cabinets in one way or another since 2001. It started with being a remodeler, during which time I installed many kitchens, then progressed to working in a furniture shop about mid 2005. We built more industrial type furniture, such as workstations and conference tables, but also did occasional high end kitchen cabinets as well. It was here I took an interest in the design aspects, and actually started working towards a degree in drafting. In 2007, SWMBO and I moved to Alabama from Georgia, and the only work I could find was working in the kitchen cabinet department at Lowe's. Later that year, I went to work for a local cabinet company doing design and sales until the beginning of 2009 when I got laid off because of the housing market downturn. I ended up back at Lowe's for about a year and left to work at one of the largest cabinet manufacturers in the U.S. at their production facility. Mid 2011, we ended up moving back to Georgia, and I came on with the company I work for now as a designer and estimator.

As others have said, though, my most important occupation is being a great husband and father... it's certainly more rewarding than my 9 to 5 is...

[QUOTE=razorguy;1314269 I am also a consultant in enogastronomy......... and, of course, shaving and pogonotomy.[/QUOTE]
am I the only one here that googled those terms? hahaha