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Bubba Ho-Tep
(DraicKin) - F

Locale: Southeast
Re: What do you do for a living? on 12/04/2011 17:34:11 MST Print View

I make car parts.
Angelo Radano
(zalmen_mlotek)

Locale: New England
RE: What do you do for a living? on 12/05/2011 08:48:36 MST Print View

I am a QA manager for a recruitment software company.
Erik Danielsen
(er1kksen) - F

Locale: The Western Door
 		... on 12/05/2011 15:21:52 MST Print View

I'm a barista/cook.
James C
(folde) - F
Re: What do you do for a living? on 12/09/2011 19:23:22 MST Print View

aeromechanical engineer!

Edited by folde on 12/09/2011 19:28:20 MST.
Matt Lutz
(citystuckhiker) - F

Locale: Midwest
re: What do you do for a living? on 12/11/2011 15:21:20 MST Print View

Attorney - one of five or so here, apparently.
Preston Dudley
(pjdudley) - F
re: What do you do for a living? on 12/12/2011 13:42:58 MST Print View

Mechanical Engineering & Physics double major: student, graduating spring 2012
John Vance
(Servingko) - F

Locale: Intermountain West
 		Day Job on 12/12/2011 13:45:57 MST Print View

I am a business and marketing analyst in the soft drink industry.
Kevin Ridge
(Dblcorona) - M

Locale: Southeast MI
Job on 12/13/2011 17:47:00 MST Print View

Pretty interesting. Not the engineers, because most of the guys I backpack with are engineers, but the people that aren't.

I was a journeyman welder. Went back to school, now I run the welding and metallurgy program at one of the local community colleges. I also run the metal art program. On the off time, I also am a photographer.
David Thomas
(DavidinKenai) - M

Locale: North Woods. Far North.
Re: What do you do for a living? on 12/14/2011 12:16:54 MST Print View

Environmental Engineer - designing the remediation of toxic waste sites.

I studied Chemical Engineering at Berkeley so now I'm cleaning up after my former classmates.

But I've also worked as an (exploited child) computer programmer. And have been the Treasurer of an electric utility.

Does cover all the possible geek bases?
James W.
(jimmyjam)

Locale: Mid Atlantic
 		What do you do for a living? on 12/14/2011 13:41:30 MST Print View

I'm a construction project estimator.
D W
(Arapiles) - M

Locale: Melbourne
Another lawyer but ... on 12/15/2011 05:44:45 MST Print View

Am now a finance lawyer but my first degree was in Fine Arts and English and I actually started a career as a curator before switching to law.

I also started at uni in a science degree and then switched to Arts after a couple of years - I've always straddled the science/engineering and humanities divide.

My father is a farmer/electronics engineer.
Richard Lyon
(richardglyon) - MLife

Locale: Bridger Mountains
Another attorney on 12/15/2011 07:22:34 MST Print View

Of the corporate variety.
Brian Keith Gunter
(bkgunter) - M

Locale: Midwest
What I do to afford new equipment on 12/15/2011 08:15:00 MST Print View

I am a head golf professional at a private country club...with a BFA in Visual Communication.
Laurence Beck
(beckla) - MLife

Locale: Southern California
re: What do you do? on 12/15/2011 14:37:21 MST Print View

Embedded Firmware "Engineer". (Guilty as charged)

I was at Purple Lake on the JMT this summer and we had a little camp fire which attracted everyone camping there to come by. We did a poll and found that out of the 8 of us around the fire we had 6 engineers, 1 accountant, and one Microsoft PR person.

Your logic holds up :)
Clint Wayman
(cwayman1) - M

Locale: East Tennessee, US
I'm on 12/15/2011 14:48:40 MST Print View

a Landscape Designer and going back to grad school this coming fall for Landscape Architecture/Urban Planning
Mark Krotine
(mkrotine) - M
What do you do for a living? on 12/16/2011 00:39:24 MST Print View

Similar response, guilty... I am a Controller of a real estate company with a CPA background. My skills at work do come in handy since I use spreadsheets to compare gear choices and to track the total weight of my backpack. Obsessive compulsive?? Maybe... I've got to make my pack lighter...
mathew macdonald
(kaymat) - F

Locale: PNW
 		re: What do you do for a living? on 12/16/2011 02:41:43 MST Print View

I'm an RN.
Karl Gottshalk
(kgottshalk) - M

Locale: Maine USA
Another RN on 12/16/2011 04:14:56 MST Print View

Critical care nursing for 20 years with a 12 year break when I had a computer repair business for 7, then did Hospice for 5. Now back in critical care with a great schedule of working 6 on followed by 8 off (12 hr days). My wife is a nurse too.

Edited by kgottshalk on 12/16/2011 04:15:51 MST.
Aaron Croft
(aaronufl) - M

Locale: Colorado
Another healthcare worker on 12/16/2011 22:25:34 MST Print View

About to finish up my last semester of graduate school. Then (if I pass the boards), I'll be a physical therapist.

While I do enjoy school, I enjoy the amount of free time it gives me to get outside even more...
Dennis Park
(dpark) - MLife

Locale: San Francisco Bay Area
 		Re: Another healthcare worker on 12/16/2011 23:21:57 MST Print View

Regretfully I can't join the group of engineers/accountants. I can't even have an association through family members. I spend most of my time praticing orthopedic surgery.