What is your occupation?

[Anonymous]

Fire Fighter/ EMT

also do work for a large Automotive performance parts company

[fiatfan]

Another IT person checking in. I am the IT department for a dog food factory. There is very little disagreement in the department and I try to arrange frequent offsite team building exercises to maintain that teamwork. Funny how most of the excercises involve cameras and trains. [:D]

Tom

Aside to Archie - did you get my e-mail?

[darkstar974]

I'm a Journeyman Electrician
Currently unemployed and looking anyone looking to hire me.

Dark

[bikerraypa]

QUOTE: Originally posted by West Coast S

I'm employed by the Dept. Of Defense Security Services

contractor for same.

Ray out.

[Anonymous]

Like air737, I too work in the aerospace industry. Jig and toolmaker - 20 years

[1train1]

Civil Servant working for an Un-Civil Employer

[Anonymous]

I have a couple jobs.

I punched in student, I am a college sophomore, currently studying general subjects. Also a member of Student Govt. Phi Theta Kappa, and speaking and debate. Or Forensics.

My other job is part-time work at a bookshop. I like my job.

I'd like to be a photographer. Per suggestion of several friends.

Alvie.

[dave9999]

I am self employed in construction. I do subcontract work for a local business.
I specialize in garages, decks, sheds and carports. I used to
build houses... quicker turnaround now.

I have also worked in a machine shop and a warehouse in the past.

Bob K.
I really enjoy benchwork, although now that it's complete, scenery is my "thing". Dave

[Anonymous]

I work in the aerospace industry.

[twhite]

Who says musicians don't have great taste when it comes to hobbies, right? Ray, TStage and myself. Any other musicians out there (you listening, Jetrock?)
Tom [:P][:P][:P]

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JSoule

Oil & gas attorney. Before that Navy Pilot. Combine the two and you have Harmon Rabb from TV's JAG. Of course, I was only a prop puke, no F-14 on my resume.

John
Austin, Texas

A forward of the FS 288 bulkhead guy?

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxmu

I know what you mean I was in Bosnia for 10 1/2 months we were only supposed to be there for 6! I was lucky to get home then, only because I ETSed!

Tuzla...TF Eagle?

Yuck ......I was with the NATO guys...we had beer!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Favrefan04

I am in the Iowa National Guard. My unit was activated March 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. There were some changes and instead my unit was split into 3 groups, 1 went to Afghanistan, 1 went to California and did Maintenance work there, and 1 went to Washington state and did Maintenance work there. I was in the group that went to Afghanistan. I was there for 9 months (we were originally scheduled for 6 months) and was lucky enough to be in the last rotation that wasn't going to be there for 12-18 months. My interest in trains was rekindled while I was there.

As a civilian I am a full time guardsman the works on Iowa's equipment. In both functions I am an Electronics Technician.

I am proud of my service and would not change any of it. Well maybe except for my rank ( want more money for Trains)

I know what you mean I was in Bosnia for 10 1/2 months we were only supposed to be there for 6! I was lucky to get home then, only because I ETSed!

[Jetrock]

I work at a transitional program for homeless mentally ill adults. Sometimes I'll slip into my favorite Boris Karloff voice and tell people "I work in a maaaadhouse..."

[bogp40]

General Contractor, carpenter of 35 years. Specialize in kitchen/ bath remodel, stairs and ballustrade, doors and finish. At the club I don't want to look at benchwork- let others have at it- I prefer scenery and trackwork.
Bob K.

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by camarokid

I make Vise Grips. The world's most useful hand tool.
Archie

So, Archie. If someone yells at you to "get a grip"? You CAN! A great tool you make, Arch! I have 3 of them. [:)]

Tom

[selector]

Retired after 29+ years in the Canadian Armed Forces, much of which was as a Military Psychologist.

[mloik]

Assistant Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology.

[camarokid]

I make Vise Grips. The world's most useful hand tool.
Archie

[medic_149]

medic/ 911 dispatcher. I get to tell everyone where to go and how to get there...lol. Very stressfull job, but great pride in knowing you helped someone.

[Anonymous]

Oil & gas attorney. Before that Navy Pilot. Combine the two and you have Harmon Rabb from TV's JAG. Of course, I was only a prop puke, no F-14 on my resume.

John
Austin, Texas

[howmus]

Retired music teacher here!!!!!!! (Musical Genius RETIRED) LOL. I love it, I love it, I love it.......... Actually I still have my part time business of: on location recording, live sound, DJ, desktop publishing, design, video, etc, etc, etc. Still work at school on occasion doing sound (brand new 40 channel Soundcraft Board and a 16 times 2 Digital Board and all sorts of neat stuff to play with) and other stuff. I also donate time to the Boy Scouts of America, the local Martin Luther King Committee, The Presbytery of Geneva, serve as a Deacon in my Church, play in the Bell Choir (specialize currently in F#4, G4, G#4, and.... A4. It takes some practice but I can get it ) AND!!! once in great while actually do some work on the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western Railroad (SLO&W). [bow]

[Favrefan04]

I am in the Iowa National Guard. My unit was activated March 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. There were some changes and instead my unit was split into 3 groups, 1 went to Afghanistan, 1 went to California and did Maintenance work there, and 1 went to Washington state and did Maintenance work there. I was in the group that went to Afghanistan. I was there for 9 months (we were originally scheduled for 6 months) and was lucky enough to be in the last rotation that wasn't going to be there for 12-18 months. My interest in trains was rekindled while I was there.

As a civilian I am a full time guardsman the works on Iowa's equipment. In both functions I am an Electronics Technician.

I am proud of my service and would not change any of it. Well maybe except for my rank ( want more money for Trains)

[tatans]

Retired human cannonball.

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FundyNorthern

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

#^&@ing TAB key--! My next keyboard is going to have one well out reach of my little finger!!

You can go back and edit your own personal messages, no need to get upset![:D]

Bob Boudreau

Tom,

Bob's right. If you click on the EDIT button, in the top right corner of your post, you can change or edit your post to your heart's content. [:)]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

#^&@ing TAB key--! My next keyboard is going to have one well out reach of my little finger!! Anyway, I might take the position if there's not TOO much touring involved, right now I don't want to get too far away from my model railroad.
TStage--Bachelor's in Music Performance? How very COOL! Instrument or voice? Inquiring minds want to know!
Tom [:D][:D]

Tom, I knew YOU would be the one who asked. I graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Music, with a Bachelor of performance degree n trombone - actually, bass trombone.

Moving from musician into a technician's role isn't really as far removed from music as some might think. In order to be a good musician, you must "wood shed" a passage or piece until you "perfect" it, or at least know it to the point where you can play it consistently without error. As a technician in research, we develope or perfect an idea, process, or protocol to the point where it can be fabricated consistently "without error".

As a trombonist, I sometimes had to move my slide ever so subtly in order to be precisely in tune with the rest of the musicians or orchestra. As a technician, I work often under a microscope on devices that will be implanted in the human body. Therefore, I have to utilize "subtle" hand and finger movements in order to precisely manipulate a tweezer or scalpel blade to perform my task correctly.

How did I get involved in Biomedical Engineering? I had three Biomedical Engineers as roommates. One day, one of them asked me if I was interested in interviewing for a technician job that had opened up. Truthfully, I was a bit weary from freelancing and working 3 other part-time jobs just to make ends meet so I did. They saw my hand skills and hired me. That was almost 16 years.

All my training has been on the job - so I have had NO other schooling to be where I am at right now. It's been a good job and I have very few complaints. I do miss the day-to-day musical interaction and camaraderie with other professional musicians though.

Well, Tom, does that satisfy your "inquiring mind"?

(Midwest) Tom

[SilverSpike]

I selected other!

I am a Network Administrator for the Technology Department at a large national restaurant company.

Ryan

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

#^&@ing TAB key--! My next keyboard is going to have one well out reach of my little finger!!

You can go back and edit your own personal messages, no need to get upset![:D]

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

I couldn't answer your poll because you left out "Computers/Information Technology" - a HUGE field (at least before many of the programming jobs got outsourced to India[:(] ).

[MisterBeasley]

Software Engineering. These days, I'm working on big military radars. (Well, at least I know my job's not moving offshore.)

[Virginian]

I've been in industrial production, engineering, and/or maintenance management for 25 years. Mechanical Engineer by education and license. I like to troubleshoot. (you make trouble, I shoot you.)