What do Enworlders do in real life?
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Lord Mhoram
Hero
Personal Assistant, Bookeeper and Graphic designer for a small businessman.
Not the most glamorous of jobs, but it pays well enough for me to keep collecting way too much RPGstuff.
Recently left a 5 year part time job at a comic/game shop. Was spending my time working at a hobby shop, and getting hobby stuff, but not having enough time to actually do the hobby.
Not the most glamorous of jobs, but it pays well enough for me to keep collecting way too much RPGstuff.
Recently left a 5 year part time job at a comic/game shop. Was spending my time working at a hobby shop, and getting hobby stuff, but not having enough time to actually do the hobby.
Pbartender
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I'm a Technician at a government laboratory that makes antimatter, neutrinos and physics post-docs.
If our laboratory was the Death Star, I'd be one of the guys in the big black helmets pushing buttons and pulling levers.
If our laboratory was the Death Star, I'd be one of the guys in the big black helmets pushing buttons and pulling levers.
I'm a graphic designer for the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA to the rest of you), at Marshall Space Flight Center. I do a fairly wide-ranging set of projects such as posters, logos, patches, brochures, etc. I specialize in cartoons, vector-based graphics, and photoshop goodness (I don't do much in the way of large layouts such as books, etc).
MavrickWeirdo
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drothgery said:
So it's your job to set up and maintain the website that lets ceratitis order his fruit flies online?
Infiniti2000
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I design/write surgical software for refractive laser surgery (you know, LASIK et al). I have several patents in the field. I've been doing this for 10 years. Prior to that I was a graduate research assistant at UCF writing high performance IGs for the DoD (on the soon-to-be-defunct SGI systems). What a change of pace that was, let me tell you. But, I'm much happier now (and richer), especially when I see people crying after a surgery (in a good way). There's immense satisfaction in being the designer for the system responsible for someone going from 20/40 BSCVA (with glasses) to 20/16 UCVA (no glasses).
sniffles
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Wow, people have some interesting jobs!
I just changed jobs 6 weeks ago. My title is Document Specialist System Analyst. I do some programming and provide technical support to a small group of users who create insurance policy documents for an insurance company. Before I moved to this position I was one of the end users I now support.
I just changed jobs 6 weeks ago. My title is Document Specialist System Analyst. I do some programming and provide technical support to a small group of users who create insurance policy documents for an insurance company. Before I moved to this position I was one of the end users I now support.
MonkeyDragon
Explorer
Let's see. I have a BA in English with a specialization in creative writing (fiction and screenwriting). I also did some art.
What I WANT to do: write RPG stuff, write fiction, write screenplays for my friend's movies, own a cafe.
What I DO do: Barista. Which is a fancy way of saying I make coffee. I work for Caribou Coffee, and as frustrating as it is to come home tired and dirty every day, and know that I'm not doing what I went to school for or earning enough to actually become independant, it's a good company and I like making coffee.
I DO, however, get a table at the Motor City Comic Con every year (this is my second year) and I'm actually procrastinating getting art done for it AS WE SPEAK. So I do a little bit with my art, I spend my writing time designing rpg stuff for my own games, and I'm also an editor for Creative Mountain Games on the Cooperative Dungeon project. Which may not be a job to most, but it gives me warm fuzzies inside.
When anyone hears I have an English degree, the first question is usually "do you want to teach?" Noooooo way. I DO like to teach people things, but only people who actually want to be learning what I'm teaching. I would like very much to do creative writing workshops and things of that nature, and am thinking of putting a screenwriting workshop togetehr. But not until after the Con.
What I WANT to do: write RPG stuff, write fiction, write screenplays for my friend's movies, own a cafe.
What I DO do: Barista. Which is a fancy way of saying I make coffee. I work for Caribou Coffee, and as frustrating as it is to come home tired and dirty every day, and know that I'm not doing what I went to school for or earning enough to actually become independant, it's a good company and I like making coffee.
I DO, however, get a table at the Motor City Comic Con every year (this is my second year) and I'm actually procrastinating getting art done for it AS WE SPEAK. So I do a little bit with my art, I spend my writing time designing rpg stuff for my own games, and I'm also an editor for Creative Mountain Games on the Cooperative Dungeon project. Which may not be a job to most, but it gives me warm fuzzies inside.
When anyone hears I have an English degree, the first question is usually "do you want to teach?" Noooooo way. I DO like to teach people things, but only people who actually want to be learning what I'm teaching. I would like very much to do creative writing workshops and things of that nature, and am thinking of putting a screenwriting workshop togetehr. But not until after the Con.
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