Thread: What's your occupation?

Far ago the owner of a workshop and weapon shop. Now the turner at military factory.

Age 21
Full-time student but I work in both the Sculpture studio helping students with what ever as well as setting up a new shop and building a new gallery and I work as a dark room assistant ming chemicals and building a light box.
I have had job ranging from fabrication and assembly of fiber optic splicing trailers to being a pantry chef. As for what I want to be when I grow up(not that I will) I hope to go to graduate school and become an art professor, so basically I never want to work .

Retired software engineer - worked in design of large software systems.

Currently a college professor teaching computer science.

Lou

Just a request ,but could we take it easy on the use of acronyms to describe what we do?It saves on keystrokes,but maybe the next guy (or gal)won't really understand it.








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Quality control inspector at a Single-farm chocolate, single malt scotch and high-end call girl conglomerate.








I'm a lawyer, working in securities/investment adviser/broker-dealer compliance.

Most recently I was Special Projects Engineer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Now I am nothing, nobody, an insignificant burden on society.

For the past 9 years I've worked for a competetive local excahnge carrier (CLEC); we rent copper loops from AT&T (who owns all the copper in the ground), then put our services on that. Currently I'm a Telephone Central Office Technician, dealing with keeping things in the switchroom happy (battery plant, HVAC, etc), transport (everything from POTS to fiber) and central office equipment installation (COEI). There's an insane level of record keeping, and audits are a regular thing. For the next month or two I will be auditing what loops AT&T is charging us for, versus what we show in service, then researching the discrepancies.

Hobbywise, I'm one of the instructors at Oklahoma City's oldest Japanese martial arts dojos. If I'm not on the mat, I'm probably working on things for our forum.

Retired, but earned my pension as an accountant (yes, qualified) with a big international chemical company. Catching air(o)planes was like catching a bus and I've been fortunate to travel to most places in the world. I really enjoyed my work immersed in the business problems of the day, but I don't miss it. I'd rather sit and have a cup of tea with my wife any day or go for a game of golf or visit my children and grandchildren. It doesn't hurt the brain so much just my wallet. Incidentally, my travel taught me that generally people are just fantastic but some governments and some maniacs in authority can be rotten to the core.

I also worked in Zambia Africa with a large copper mine for four years in addition to many fill in jobs e.g.
second man on a bacon slicer (I caught the bacon), flagstone maker, pilon drilling operative, second man on long distance haulage trucks, gardener, etc.,

Age, 60 next year and hoping to celebrate it on a vacation. India I think.

architect & amateur freelance assassin, 31

I'm a third year law student...Also have a degree in Economics
No lawyer jokes please!