What do Enworlders do in real life?

[Pseudonym]

What do you do for job/career/school/training?

I work as a chemist in the microelectronics field. My undergrad degree is in Environmental Science with a focus in environmental policy and activism, but this pays much better.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

I'm an administrator for a medical equipment manufacturer that is part of (arguably) the world's largest corporation.

GE or Phillips?

 

[der_kluge]

As Dave Stebbins pointed out on CM, I spent most of my time looking for a new job.

I'm an IT consultant. You know, *in theory* one of those guys who comes in, gets paid the bigs bucks, solves problems, and then moves on to another gig.

Mostly, I hate it. I'd prefer to find something permanent. It's just not very easy in this day and age.

My last few job titles have been Data Analyst (currently), Systems Analyst and Data Architect.

Mostly, I work with databases, specifically data warehouses and operation data stores.

It's a living.

 

[Graybeard]

I'm currently a manager at Borders. I've been there for 5 1/2 years. Very convenient for buying RPG stuff.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I work very part time as a vet tech, and am starting to make decent money dog walking. Which allows me to contribute to my family's finances while also being a full time mommy. (And Kahuna Meatball likes visiting his doggie friends.) I'm slowly and sadly coming to terms with the fact that while I have the talent to be a freelance writer I simply do not have the self discipline.

 

[Richards]

I'm a Major in the Air Force, working in the ICBM codes section. I started my career as a missileer, pulling 24-hour alerts in underground bunkers monitoring up to 150 missiles at a time. Now I'm one of the guys who provides launch and enable codes to the ICBMs. I once got to "turn keys" on a missile and launch it on a test flight from Vandenberg AFB, CA. Pretty cool stuff.

Johnathan

 

[Nellisir]

I'm slowly and sadly coming to terms with the fact that while I have the talent to be a freelance writer I simply do not have the self discipline.

Me too, me too! We should start a club or something!

(Incidently, my wife was a vet tech for 8 or so years).

Cheers
Nell.

 

[Agamon]

I'm an engineer that does contract work in the oil industry.

English was my best subject in high school/university, and I hated it (I was more into physics). I'm a fairly good writer, I just dislike writing. Kinda sucks realizing that.

 

[Jdvn1]

I'm currently a manager at Borders. I've been there for 5 1/2 years. Very convenient for buying RPG stuff.

I've worked there 8 or 9 months, and I'm still learning new things there! I learned, recently, about how to work with TLU. In the search bar, you can do a search:

a=albom t="five people"

And you can narrow down a search that way. I was always taught that you could only search for one thing at a time (either author or title, etc).

I'm excited about that.

Also, my store was recently named the best (#1, none better) urban store in the US! So cool.

I like working for Border's.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Me too, me too! We should start a club or something!

(Incidently, my wife was a vet tech for 8 or so years).

Cheers
Nell.

Yeah, I need a freelancer support group or something where we meet once a week and provide social pressure to send out query letters and get project goals met.... :\

Vet teching is kinda cool, there's always new situations, and you're constantly helping people and spreading knowlege. Euthanasias suck, though.