What do Enworlders do in real life?

[Ahnehnois]

Currently halfway through my BA in Psychology and Biochemistry. Where does that lead? Hopefully somewhere interesting.
Taking a couple summer classes but not working due (mostly) to medical issues. Fortunately my family still pays for things.

 

[KB9JMQ]

I got my Photojournalist degree from Ball State in 92 and was the head photographer for a small daily for 8 years. Mostly shooting sports ( IE Notre Dame football, Indy 500, Brickyard 400 and 10 local high schools for the daily grind )
I did that until in the paper in their infinite wisdom decided they no longer needed ANY photographers (which years later they still don't have).

Now I co-own a very very small ISP so I do tech support, accounting, web stuff, etc. All the fun stuff of owning your own business.

I would love to get back into sports photograpy again more than anything.

 

[fusangite]

I returned to university after a 12-year absence and am currently a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Toronto where I work as a teaching assistant.

 

[dragonhead]

Im in school studing to be a history teach. one more year and i get to shape the minds of the future of america.. Muahahahahahahah!!!!



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"Fenominal cosmic powers, ity bity living space"

 

[CarlZog]

Which outfit? Ocean Classroom?

Among others. Also worked for SEA and a number of other boats that run shorter, localized programs on the U.S. East Coast.

Then, it's on to captain. Deliveries before the season begins, then find a job with a charter company. It's a brilliant racket: go sailing in a vacation spot, food and accomodation included, and you get paid for it!

It seems that way, and it can be at times. But it's also a LOT of hard work! You'll find sailing professionally is quite a different experience than sailing just for fun. The change in your responsibility and approach to everything that happens on board is akin to becoming a parent.

Good Luck with the RYAs.

Carl

 

[Mycanid]

I really only went to about 1 sememster of college. Most of the rest is really self-education. Not only reading the classics, but things like The Teaching Company, talking to professors and having them send me recordings of their talks, etc., etc. I also talk and interface with other "degreed" individuals and such.

My main job description would be Sys Admin for a small company, but I'm also the network admin, webmaster, hardware tech, etc., etc., etc. ... which basically means "It's my fault." No problems though. I like it though and everyone is good to work with. (I discover most of the time that when problems arise it's my bad attitude anyway!) Much of my learning here was also from books and talking to other techs.

On the side ... I guess I would be a sort of unofficial "visiting speaker or even a teacher" for a small group of churches and such. There's nothing regular or steady about it all, and I don't ask for payment and such, but every once in a while I'm asked to go somewhere and give a talk or series of talks, they pay for the plane ticket, and I can go and see some old friends. My most recent trip was to Alaska.

I am also the official "free local tech support" via phone or such ... which also can keep my "free time" (Hah!) quite busy.

 

[Psion]

Software engineer. Principally involved in object oriented design of real time systems.

 

[Ambrus]

I've been working as a graphic designer professionally for over a decade now. I work as a contractor for a guy who owns his own little design studio in Montreal, consisting of just him and me. Our big client is a local coffee company who are making good advances into the US. We design packaging, promotional material, sales material and whatever else needs doing from day to day. I enjoy working with my boss, the work is interesting, the money is good and the hours flexible. No complaints.

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).

Okay, my one complaint is that I'm not doing anything nearly as cool as what Arravis is doing.

Don't worry, we wont' tell.

Yeah, if you can't trust the internet community who can you trust?

 

[Infiniti2000]

I, for one, would like to donate 1 day of vacation time (8 hours PTO/Paid Time Off) to Richards. People like that deserve all the vacation time they need. Just please make sure none of the 150 missiles is 'accidentally' tuned into Disney World.

 

[sniffles]

Before I was promoted from 'Senior Analyst' to 'Specialist' I could joke that I put the a-n-a-l in analyst.

-Dave

LOL Before I changed jobs, I was a Contract Analyst. We used to say we put the 'anal' in Analyst!