ENWorld vs. Real World

[drothgery]

In-house web developer for a mid-sized biotech-related company (we mostly sell to academic biology researchers) in San Diego, CA. It's nice work if you can get it.

 

[alsih2o]

I am a potter. I make pots. (See sig link)

My players careers are also in my sig.

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

I work in a company that does translation/localization of computer software.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I work for the BioPharmaceutical devision of a big pharmaceutical company in - get this for an annoying deparment title - Quality Control Microbial Science and Technology: 2nd/3rd Party Support. Mostly I push papers around, answer e-mails, check out EN World, and observe how incompetent the management can be in a large corporation.

Starting this spring I will be persuing my Masters in Project Management on a part-time basis.

 

[JackGiantkiller]

I lift heavy things.

Actually, I work at a freight company. Forklifts and pallets jacks...and lifting heavy things. I'm actually making the most money I've made since leaving the military.


I've been a stay at home dad (3 years), an apartment complex porter (1 year), a supervisor at a UPS HUB (3 years), in home care for my father (2 years), nursing home direct care (3 years) and a combat medic for the navy and Marines (4 years). I worked in restaraunts before that.

I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I work as a GIS (Geospatial Infomation Systems) Digitizing site manager for the Farm Services Agency of the USDA (Department of Agriculture). I make sure that all the folks that work for me digitize hardcopy county maps properly and acurately for use in government farm programs. The pay is OK, the benefits kick serious tail (the only real reason to work for the government, IMO), and the hours are really flexible (allows lots of time for plyaing WoW).

I've also played around with the being a freelance game writer, but after a couple gigs, I decided that I want my hobby to stay my hobby. Although I am working on a few products that I haven't made up my mind on whether I'll put them out as free downloads or sell them through RPGNow... On top of that, I've been a substitute teacher, farmhand, childcare counselor for troubled kids, construction worker, landscaper, and a clerk at Wal-Mart. (What can I say, I went through a lot of jobs during college.) I hope to go back to college in the next year and a half once my girlfriend (soon to be wife) gets finished with her Masters of Education. I'll likely either finish my Social Science with an Emphasis on Education program or go full bore into CIS and focus on database management (which I'm pretty much doing at my job right now).

My group consists of:
1 High School Science Teacher
1 Park Historical Specialist for the Missouri DNR
1 Grocery store stock-boy/college student
1 full-time college student
hopefully 1 Middle School Band Instructor (I'm trying to get my girlfriend into gaming...)

Kane

 

[alsih2o]

I work as a GIS (Geospatial Infomation Systems) Digitizing site manager for the Farm Services Agency of the USDA (Department of Agriculture). I make sure that all the folks that work for me digitize hardcopy county maps properly and acurately for use in government farm programs. Kane

Dude! Can you get me a soil map of Fayette county TN??

Really hard to come by, and we seem to have some neat kaolin deposits around here.

Feel free to email me at myscreenname@midsouth.rr.com. I would REALLY appreciate!

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I work for Delta Airlines. Nothing fancy. :\

 

[Stormborn]

I am the Pastor of a rural Baptist Church and teach Public Speaking at the Birmingham campus of Viriginia College. In the last two years I have begun to have some things published proffessionally (2 things in Dragon, 1 in Pyramid, and a few others contracted but yet to be published) but not really enough to even consider it income. In the past I have been a missionary/proffesor in Kiev, Ukraine, a night manager at a University Library, a substitute teacher, held numerous church related positions, and a student for several long years (BA, MDiv).

I have been married a little over a year. We met gaming, BTW. She is a publications manager at a University.

We game with another couple, both of whom do computer stuff (web design and tech support) for local Universities.

 

[Ambrus]

I have a college degree in graphic design and have been working as a professional in the print field (packaging, publishing, billboards, advertising, newsletters, direct mail, ect.) for the last decade. I currently work as a semi-permanent contractor for a small agency (my boss and myself) in Montreal. I'd love to do design work in the print RPG field but don't really have any good contacts in the industry.