Waning Moon Conrad

Psychiatric nurse

Arvel Joffi

I'm the Assistant Director of Audio/Visual Services at a Portland hotel! That means I wear a suit, but all I do is plug in microphones and set up easels and projection screens.

Pays the bills.

godfry n. glad

At present, I'm a "Library Technician II", which is a fancy bureaucratic title for a middling library clerk. I work at the
only medical/nursing/allied health institution of higher education in my state. So, I'm a paper-shuffler (and fine collector!) in a health sciences library.

I've a B.A. in economics, a Certificate in Urban Studies and a M.S.T. (that's Master of Science in Teaching) in Secondary Social Studies, with subspecialities in American history and Asian history.

I've been a "Economic Development Research Specialist" and a political lobbyist's assistant with the local Chamber of Commerce, a display advertising salesperson with a struggling new community newspaper, a worker/owner with a cooperative refuse and recycling hauler (a garbage hauler, in other words) and, yes, a middle-school and high-school substitute teacher (fresh meat, in other words) for five years.

If you think that fundies are bad, you should try substitute teaching in an inner-city middle-school (that's the preadolescents) drama class....I only did a half-day, but I barely got out with my sanity...

godfry n. glad

Ab_Normal

Let me guess, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong: From my experience in hospitality hell, you're also paid salary, not hourly, and are expected to put in more than 40 hours a week.

Arvel Joffi

That would be my unfortunate boss. I am officially a free lance technician, I just come in when there's work to be done, or when my boss wants the day off, and I get paid hourly. Luckily, he guarantees me around 20 hours, although I usually get more. I call my boss unfortunate, but he has benefits and vactaion time and his parking is paid for. I get dirt and a small paycheck.

I get to take home neat stuff, though! I got to take home a 12-channel mixer and some mics to record some guitar music, I've taken spotlights and mics and mixers and audio recorders to loactions for a film I'm shooting, AND I watched the extended version of LOTR with a 3000 lumen data projector on a 5' portable screen at home. I could have taken home a bigger screen, but it wouldn't have fit in the car. hehe. Fringe bennies.

EDIT: And I get to spend all friggin' day on the internet when we're at 13% occupancy! (insert sleepy-faced emoticon)

jjbettis

I'm a project manager in the telephone customer service department of the 7th largest bank in the United States.

Prior to that I was a Supply Corps Officer in the U.S. Navy.

Demosthenes

Ulp, I realized that I haven't replied to this thread

I'm a second year undergraduate student at UNC/Carolina double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.

After I graduate, I hope to go to the graduate programs at Berkeley or Stanford or some other universities.

never been there

I make drugs. So far, nothing I've been tempted to sneak out in my lunchbox.

Jackalope

Me? My twisted sense of humor is what's kept me alive though everything that's happened to me. It also keeps me from becoming homicidal in the face of egregious stupidity. I just make fun of the idiots instead.

When I'm not so dead tired, I'll post my report of the gig we did on Sunday. "Partying with the Lutherans." There seemed to be one guy there who made it his duty to make sure the musicians didn't draw a sober breath.

--Lee

Hayden

I'm a DBA and developer for a medium-sized manufacturing company, specifically in VB, VBA/Office, SQL, ASP, XML and HTML.

It's not my fault!

HR