what do you do?

[Andre]

I always enjoy seeing threads about what people do for a living. The diversity is always interesting. I'm 56 and work as a psychotherapist, not a psycho therapist as some suggest. I also play basketball during the winter for my mental health

 

[C&R]

I'm 32 and I'm a software engineer/developer for a defense contractor. If you've ever seen the movie Office Space, I deal with the same style of management. :bang:

I guess you could say that's what drove me to find a new passion in life this year, that of fly fishing and fly tying.

 

[Jonboy]

I'm 29 and I am a scientist. Right now I am discovering pre-clinical biomarkers for novel cancer therapies. :thumb:

 

[sstasiak]

I'm 24 and am a computer analyst, but trying to get my business off the ground installing networks for home/business so I don't have to work for the man all my life.

 

[jcstikfish]

My full time job is a public school music teacher. I also am a free-lance trumpet player and conductor.

As a part time job, I have the fly tying and river guide business.


~James

 

[RedTag2000]

I am 29 yo software developer for investment bank, looking forward to my retirement and full time fly fishing :fish:

 

[just dave]

I'm a printing estimator. I spend my days pounding a keyboard, wishing I wasn't a printing estimator. edit: oh, yeah, I'm 48 in Feb.

 

[Pete]

I'm a sixty-something retired Project Engineer (Mechanical/Manufacturing). I spent most of my career in the Gravure Printing industry.

I'm currently suplementing my SS & Pension doing some part time work (3 hrs/day) for the local school system. Even if you're retired...work interferes with fishing.

 

[fcch]

Hey I almost atarted the same thread last light !

I'm a forester who only gets into the woods about 5-6 times per year now. Office bound, I work on forest management information systems and try to actually do some forestry work now and again.


As y'all know I also guide part time for Atlantics and sea run brookies.

 

[Fly Ty R]

JD:
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! imp:

I'm 27, work for a non-profit conservation org doing maps, GIS analysis, science, buying land, and managing land, and pretty much anything else that you can think of. I also like long walks on a moonlit beach, preferrably with my girl in one arm, and my flyrod in the other...

 

[flyin]

49, doing software "quality assurance" or what we in the telecom industry call "system testing" which is a brain-boring job but pays ok.

been in this business (AT&T/Bell Labs/AT&T Information Systems/Lucent/AT&T Computer Systems/AT&T Microsystems) for 25 years doing software development from pdp11 assembly language, firmware development, c/c++ and a small cup-o' java, now I write sql scripts and analyze business/system/user requirements and test code.

been a manager twice, now just a Senior Test Engineer

and Andre', I didn't know there were any therapists other than "psycho" therapists

 

[Harry]

I'm 62, retired for 4yrs. Fish roughly 180 plus days per year (seldom weekends), ski and volunteer for US Forest Service PIT projects(with my wife). Also do the house & yard work (wife works). :applaudit


______________________
"Quit Wishing" "Go Fishing"

 

[babyblue]

i'm 44 own my own contracting/remodeling business. i get alot of time to fish! when you control the schedule, it's easy to get time off. andre, how do you deal with your profession on a day to day basis, seems it would be depressing. how many of us on this website do you deem in need of your services?

 

[GARYB]

I'm 56 and a structural engineer doing mainly commercial buildings and some residential.

 

[JOE.T]

I am known as the Shadow Ranger.I protect all that is good from the Evil that lurks in the shadows. :indian: ----------> sama:

 

[cingras53]

52 years young, former Prosecutor turned personal injury attorney. I spend most of my time flyfishing for trout and stripers, grouse and turkey hunting and keeping my yellow lab, Daisy, happy. Right now I am figuring out how to pay for Princeton and Fairfield and still buy fishin stuff.

 

[RedTag2000]

Even if you're retired...work interferes with fishing.

Pete, You're killing my dream...

 

[RickW]

I'm a Lab Supervisor in a large Pharma company.

(58 yrs old, trying to position myself for retirement in a year or two.)

 

[The_Sib]

What we'd rather do is fish

I am almost 55.
I'm a Network Engineer employed by a technology consulting company
specializing in the financial services sector.
Currently assigned to a major brokerage house.

 

[bjmiller]

I am 56, we used to be called System Programmers but now we're IT guys, work on large systems. Been with the same company for almost 33 years now. I fish as often as I can both fresh and salt, and play racquetball 2 to 3 times a week after work.

Bruce

 

[sstasiak]

Seems like there's a lot of us "IT guys" here

 

[Johnw]

I'm 69 and a financial consultant - we used to be called stock brokers and a few other things. I have no plans to retire but have been known to disappear from the office for a few hours at a time to stock the local rivers or, as I did today, catch a few stripers in the surf.

 

[Olive Drab]

Ship Driver

I am a retired ship driver and teach others how to drive ships.

 

[rford]

Age 42, After a brief stint in the adult film industry, and another 8 years selling womens under garments ( wholesale ) I settled down and have spent most of the past 15 years as an account manager providing Information Technology proffesional services and executive search services to the Pharma/Telcom and Finance industries in the NY/NJ area. That means I am a pimp.

Ralph

 

[dcabarle]

Listen... I'm not sure how to tell you this, but we're putting new letters on the TPS reports, didn't you get the memo?

I'm 32 and I'm a software engineer/developer for a defense contractor. If you've ever seen the movie Office Space, I deal with the same style of management. :bang:

I guess you could say that's what drove me to find a new passion in life this year, that of fly fishing and fly tying.

 

[dcabarle]

I'm a software integration person / scripter. I use whatever tools available to make the software you're installing onto your system do magical things. I can write a virus that would take out Manhattan in a heartbeat. Wise for Windows Installer, Winbatch, VBScript, wmi... Basically, I take existing vendor applications and rewrite the installations on them. Used to package up Market Data apps (Reuters / Bloomberg, Bridge / Fidessa / Cantor... to name a few)... Now I do the same job for a large Pharma. I'd prefer to be back in the Financial sector so if anyone wants a resume, please ask!


(this also means that I can potentially be one of ralphs elves ).

 

[Fly Ty R]

Yeeeeeah..... I'm going to need you to move your office to the basement. If you could do that, that would be great. Thaaaaanks...... Oh, is that my stapler?? :dizzy:

 

[C&R]

Listen... I'm not sure how to tell you this, but we're putting new letters on the TPS reports, didn't you get the memo?

Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. The problem is, I just forgot this one time. And I've already taken care of it so it's not even a problem anymore.

This is just one of the great lines from that movie. :rofl:

 

[Andre]

Babyblue, have been doing it for 25 years. The key is to take care of yourself and remember you can't "fix" people. It's also important to have a life outside of it, hence, flyfishing, bamboo rods, basketball etc,. No I think most people here are pretty weel adjusted. I am amazed at the number of computer people that have responded. I guess they were right 25 years ago; that's where the jobs will be.

 

[oasis man]

I'm now 65. Been retired for ten years, after working at Bell Labs for 35 years, the last 20 of which I developed optical fiber transmission systems. When I'm not fishing on the WB/EB/MS, I'm running Oasis models, trying to get more/flexible water to manage the Catskill rivers. I'm also a serious piano player, having recorded two CDs. And am grateful that I can still play tennis...but I'm slowing up just a wee bit.