So, what is your profession?

swampgator

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I'm a Cardiovascular Tech. I'm the guy standing beside the Cardiologist during cardiac catheterizations, stent placements and pacemaker insertions.

I was too poor to go to Med school. Too dumb to go to Nursing school. Too smart to stay in the Army.
 

msm1018

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toll and equipment grunt,
I maintain a warehouse full of tools, (mans ultimate playground)
but on a side note I do also wind up cables (not fun and pick up trash)
 

Sarratt

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Well , since you asked ....

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang-gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.
I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby ****, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college

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Not really.... The above was allegedly written as part of a college entrance application.

Not by me.
 

dulridge

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Chronologically

Student
Shop assistant in camera shop
Lab technician in sewage works. (3 above basically concurrent)
school technician - basically getting the science teaching kit to where it was needed.
unemployed - about 18 months
missionary/teacher of chemistry (and anything else that they were short of)
student again
pastor
hospital chaplain in a psychiatric hospital for the last 17 years

Also director of an about to be wound up company that exists to teach Hebrew to tourists in Scotland (Thereby hangs a very long tale)

And p/t IT contractor - started out sorting Macs (did some helpdesk stuff for an ISP - Never again! My experience with the less well in the hospital did come in useful, but you can't give paraldehyde to "customers" over the phone :( ). These days a sort of general purpose network and internet guy. My main customers are print and design outfits but current Macs are far too reliable for my income's liking...
 

Sarratt

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aikiman44 said:
Podiatrist

Is there a reason why people either hate or love feet ?
I mean, have there been studies done on feet-phobia ?

While I appreciate your work and understand it's a valuable service ..... "ewww"

How come there isn't a "hand-oligist" ?

No snickering :ohgeez:
 

Glock40

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I work for a large paper company. I make about 5 million paper towels each day. Think of me next time you dry your hands with paper towels. Someone has to make em. Might as well be me.
 

PlayboyJoeShmoe

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I THINK I already posted to this.... but maybe my reitteration will be funnier....

I work on (and sometimes even FIX) Pressure Washers, Steam Cleaners and other things that pump hot or cold water. This is what I have done for the vast majority of my time here on the home planet!

I have also been: a surveour HELPER.... (mostly the first one carrying the "chain" out into the freaking swamp, or being left behind to fix the truck while the others did nice DRY surveing!)

A delivery driver of cleaning goods up to and including bulk delivery of some NASTY smelling tank cleaning stuff!

A "test" driver for Shell Oil Company gasoline (where I really messed up a '95 Dodge Intrepid SE by falling asleep at the wheel - only time I've ever done that!)

Vending machine deliverer/repairer/server...

Best man at two different weddings. One of the couples is even still married!

And I know just enough plumbing/electrical/carpentry stuff to get me in BAD trouble!!!
 

jayke

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I'm a web developer & server engineer for Emerson Communications Corp.

I'm also the operations manager at a hotel in Orlando and the network administrator for 2 resort hotels.

Joe
 
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depusm12

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I did 13 1/2 yrs in the Navy, first 11 yrs as a supply tech, last 2 1/2 as a Master-at-Arms (Cop). Got out in 2002 worked for Home Depot for 3 months, got a job with the Dept of the Army Civilian Police and been a cop again ever since.
 
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cdosrun

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A perpetual student. I qualified in Biochemistry (after not getting into medicine), worked in IT (mainly Linux server stuff) for a year or so, converted to law (after not getting into medicine again), and now I am doing my law vocational training (LPC). After all that, I still don't know what I want to do. Testing torches for Fenix does seem to be a new part-time occupation though :)

Andrew
 

DasRonin

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U.S. Army - 4 years - Electronics Instructor

Police Officer - 8 years - Field Training Officer

Deputy United States Marshal (retired 11/05) - 20+ years - Lots of really COOL stuff

Licensed Private Investigator - ? - more cool stuff
 

fuelblender

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Chemical lab technician for a petroleum additives company in Richmond, Virginia. Oil cooker - yep, I cook oil as in oxidation testing. I deal mainly with industrial oils - turbine, hydraulic, gear and transmission.

I used to be a Fuel Blender - hence, my name but I got burned out (no pun intended) after 10 years and applied for this job with the same company.

Been with this this employer for ~28 years. My, how time flies ...
 

Goran

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An administrative job in an insurance company (Generali). Hmm.. I always considered an office job something I would newer do :ohgeez: :laughing:

I'll have to change it for something more (physically) active and less stressful before I start spending money on shrinks :thumbsdow :grin2:

Hmm too bad solitary lighthouses are all automatic now, that would be just about perfect. :drool:
 
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