What do Enworlders do in real life?

[greymist]

16 years with the Canada Revenue Agency, come October. I am supposed to be chasing down debtors, but instead I was webmaster for our office intranet for 5.5 years, and am currently on an assignment until September doing something that resembles Systems Analyst/Project Manager/Report Writer.

 

[orchid blossom]

Albany Web perhaps?

Nope. NYS Department of Taxation and Finance. I'm a good 'ol state worker. I'm loving the opportunity to learn this software though. I wouldn't mind taking some classes to learn more about desktop publishing, but I'm not even sure where to start.....

 

[Evilhalfling]

Just finished a City Planning graduate degree, and looking for work.
before that: Habitat for Humanity (voluenteer & paid staff), other construction, and Customer Service Temp.
-the wife has an MLS (library degree) but works for a consortuim that does artical databases.

 

[sniffles]

Absolutely... In fact, there's a good chance I may have met your acquaintances if any of them attended the recent conference in Wilmington, NC "Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006." Government docs librarians and archivists from all over the country were there.

Nah, the last conference they attended was in Seattle. My sister had to pay out of her own pocket because the University of Hawaii couldn't afford to send her.

 

[Alenda]

It's fun to see a librarian get all worked up.

Don't make me shush you!!

 

[Voadam]

Legal Editor

I publish environmental court cases, write analysis of the cases, write news stories about environmental court cases, advise reporters on environmental law issues, and teach a course on writing about court cases.

I'm a non-practicing attorney.

I've also been a contributing author on a few RPG books.

 

[Manzanita]

I'm an employee benefit software consultant. I was full-time. I've been getting more and more part time these past few years. Now I'm mostly a stay@home dad for our three little boys. This is what happens in our generation when your wife starts making more money than you....

 

[Piratecat]

For upward of ten years I was a management consultant doing sleep and alertness consulting -- designing biocompatible shift schedules for 24-7 companies and teaching folks how to be healthy on night shifts. I eventually left the job due to excess travel, started my own company doing something similar, and that died a slow and painful death due to not enough sustainable money for marketing. The side effects of this were a portion of the reason I took a sabbatical from the boards this last year. Failing business = unhappy camper.

Gleefully, however, I just got hired to design games for Nintendo products (the DS, GBA and Revolution/Wii.) My employer has the Pixar license, so I'll be working on games for the new Pixar movies. Fun co-workers, creative work, no travel or dress code -- I could learn to like this.

 

[genshou]

PirateCat, that's so cool! I'll be seeing games in the store that you were a part of. I probably won't play many (I'm not into games based on movies), but that's still pretty awesome.

 

[Piratecat]

PirateCat, that's so cool! I'll be seeing games in the store that you were a part of. I probably won't play many (I'm not into games based on movies), but that's still pretty awesome.

Yeah, the main market isn't hard-core gamers. It's people who say, "Oh, my kids loved The Incredibles!" and pick up the game for them. That being said, it's still possible to make a damn good game with those constraints. In some ways it's even easier, because game budgets are bigger for the highly-touted movie games.

Looks like I start mid-June. I'll let you know how it goes.