Another attorney here....(consumer bankruptcy)
I remember way back in the 80s when rpg (DND to be precise) was being denounced as an evil influence and people who play it would not amount to much.
Fortunately the nay sayers are wrong and now twenty years later, I'm still playing and did not wind up a bum. So fellow gamers, let's disclose what we do when we are not gaming.
I confess I'm a lawyer.
Job after job turns out to be VERY respectable.
What a sorry lot we are.
Why? Because we have almost painfully normal daytime jobs? (Well, most of us - Chris West being one of the exceptions) What would you expect our jobs to be ? Full-Time ren-fair freaks? Stuntmen?Or why are we a sorry lot in your eyes?
Stefan
Stebehil, I just want to say that I love you, you really made me laugh today as I read through the lists.
As an explanation of my post: read the OP Stebehil, then the jobs, and perhaps the irony will sink in. Here's a hint: I respect everyone in here, even you.... and all the lawyers.
Next time I'll press the irony key, like this:
~What a sorry lot we are~
;)
A guy I game with occasionally is a security guard and ordained minister...
...to Demogorgon.
Senior Technologist at a commercial laboratory (environmental testing), i.e. glorified lab rat.
Film Writer, Producer, Director.
No, I'm not Vin Diesel.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 6
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Senior systems administrator. Thanks to being a D&D fanatic in high school, which got me into MUDs in College, which got me into UNIX, which got me into Linux, which lead to me knowing Linux system administration at the start of the internet boom, which led through several other hops to my current job. Nice reverse horseshoe nail story.
See, that's where the complicated part sets in: I *ahem* still live with my *cough* parents, so I don't qualify for a grant (my father makes a royal assload of money). However, said immediate family blatantly refuses to give me any sort of academic funding. At this rate, I'll be thirty before I have a year's tuition. I actually qualify for a few scholarships due to my high SAT scores, but they're peanuts compared to tuition prices. They wouldn't even pay for books.
Been there. I moved out and got the loans. I feel for you dude.
Well, I was a Computer Operator about 1/2 year ago.
Currently, a bum (not by choice).
Trying to get back into another Operator job (hard in the SE WI area), or Tech Support.
web designer, freelance writer, grad student, sexual assualt/domestic violence activist
See, that's where the complicated part sets in: I *ahem* still live with my *cough* parents, so I don't qualify for a grant (my father makes a royal assload of money). However, said immediate family blatantly refuses to give me any sort of academic funding. At this rate, I'll be thirty before I have a year's tuition. I actually qualify for a few scholarships due to my high SAT scores, but they're peanuts compared to tuition prices. They wouldn't even pay for books.Basically, I'm close to being broke. Not a good thing when one is trying to save up for college.Actually, it can be a good thing. The closer you are to being "working poor," the better your chances of obtaining a Pell Grant. Once you pass the magic, "I can't eat but I still make too much" line, you're screwed.
Of course, if the current legislation banning funding to educational institutions that refuse to crack down on filesharers goes through, you can forget scholarships...
24 is a magic number... once you hit it it doesn't matter if your parents are millionaires.
Trust me, my dad made a crapload of money, so all I got was loans until I hit 24 (I was a non-traditional student).... one I hit, the Pell Grant came. Thank God, my loans are enough WITH the pell grant.
Oh... and I am the assistant to the deans of international students and multicultural affairs at Smith College.
- Ashavan
Chemistry teacher.
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Jack-of-all-trades, sooth-sayer, number cruncher, voice of reason ...
My title is scheduling manager, but in reality, my department deals with database admin, forecasting, scheduling, call routing and anything-else-the-powers-that-be-throw-our-way. Murphy is our sidekick and the department mantra is "it should just work".
Also in school for web development and animation, but picking up some coding classes on the way ... is this sounding too geeky?
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My outer job is middle management at a yoga retreat facility in the high mountain desert in southern California(East San Diego County).
My inner job is achieving complete liberation in this lifetime-proof that I'm a starry-eyed dreamer because it's about as hard as rolling and confirming 3 critical threats in a row!(In reality, any mathy person can tell you it's inevitable if you keep rolling the dice!)
Go to Liberty Advance
Come visit us! Bring dice or just a burning desire to relax!
p.s. I love my job
job:Sayler's alter ego
job: yet another alias of Sayler
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My outer job is middle management at a yoga retreat facility in the high mountain desert in southern California(East San Diego County).
My inner job is achieving complete liberation in this lifetime-proof that I'm a starry-eyed dreamer because it's about as hard as rolling and confirming 3 critical threats in a row!(In reality, any mathy person can tell you it's inevitable if you keep rolling the dice!)
Go to Liberty Advance
Come visit us! Bring dice or just a burning desire to relax!
p.s. I love my job
p.p.s. they told me I'd amount to nothing-now I am working hard to amount to nothing so there ya go!
common: Higher Ed Administrator
officially: RHRAC&RD (and you want me to spell it all out?)
usually: Scapegoat
practically: the "my-roommate-is-from-hell' guy on campus
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Production worker in a meat snack processing plant.
I make beef sticks and pepperoni sticks. My job is to hang the casings that are stuffed with the raw batter on the cooking racks. I am also a backup operator of that machine. I get to wear a hairnet and earplugs all day. And I go home with raw meat on my clothes.
Impressive, no?
Well see, back in school I didn't play RPG's, I was too busy trying to be a good kid. See where it got me?
Production worker in a meat snack processing plant.
I make beef sticks and pepperoni sticks. My job is to hang the casings that are stuffed with the raw batter on the cooking racks. I am also a backup operator of that machine. I get to wear a hairnet and earplugs all day. And I go home with raw meat on my clothes.
Impressive, no?
Well see, back in school I didn't play RPG's, I was too busy trying to be a good kid. See where it got me?
~laughter~ I see you "meat" their expectations.
common: Higher Ed Administrator
officially: RHRAC&RD (and you want me to spell it all out?)
usually: Scapegoat
practically: the "my-roommate-is-from-hell' guy on campus
~WEG~ So you are the scapegoat? Good. ~hands you a list~ Here is the first page of what you are now officially guilty of.
So fellow gamers, let's disclose what we do when we are not gaming.
I confess I'm a lawyer.
Pop/World Music composer. Also a professional musician by night.
Never played a bard character!
Pathfinder
or Pipeline Surveyor
I get to run around the woods and swamps with a machete and a tripod mounted laser gun, and flag a path for archeologists and enviromentalists to follow.
and I too love my job
I are an engineer.
But really what I do is go places and measure things.
Police Dispatch Supervisor.
Ah . . . . Rookseye . . . you have what I've decided would be my dream job . . .
Sadly . . I'm an insurance agent (which is still fairly entertaining . . . what? you mean your job doesn't entertain you? Why are you forcing yourself to do it?)
I'm both impressed and depressed by the list of jobs people have here.
Impressed because it's great to hear that most of you are so gainfully employed (and some with very interesting careers!).
Depressed because it's all the things I'm not.
I'm unemployed.
Haven't finished any education above high school yet due to illness (okay, so technically our last year of high school is the equivalent of the first year of college in the US) - did start university, though... twice (first time around it was for a degree in education, second time around it was for an English degree).
I'd love to go to the US and take a college degree over there, but with the cost of education I'd need a grant and/or scholarship of some kind. I might have been able to get a football scholarship - I'm basically the prototype offensive lineman - but at age 32 that's not going to happen, especially not since I'd be an international student too (I guess there's only room for one great Dane in the NFL ;-)).
Oh well, at least education is free over here, although everywhere I've visited it's been... uninspired.
And I wouldn't even be able to make do with a bachelor degree (3 years). Over here that amounts to zilch, you have to have a masters degree (5 years) to be able to use it for anything - at least if you go the traditional university way, there are, of course, shorter, more specialized degrees.
Hmmm, maybe this should have been posted in the "Things that suck" thread...
Supervisor in Human and Environmental Dimensions Lab for the United States Forest Service
We do environmental law research based on data we collect. It's mostly changing laws based around what we have found out about animals and plants in certain areas. ie. changing hunting/fishing bag limits, changing zoning laws for and against development, what chemicals can be put in a river etc.
I'm also a law student. I'm not a hippie, but just fell into a job involving law. I hate hippies...
Fizz
Many different facets to my job:
Excel Specialist
Diplomat
Scapegoat
Recruitment Sarge
Point Man
Bad Guy
Social Worker
...
I could add many more
My job title being "Compensation and Benefits & Human Resources Projects Manager" in an international firm with HQ based in Paris, France.
Film Writer, Producer, Director.
Hmm...let me tell you about this script I wrote...
Film Writer, Producer, Director.Hmm...let me tell you about this script I wrote...
Lay it on me, Fletch (unless your script was written specifically for Chevy Chase, in that case, send it to me right now!!!!!!!!!).
Non For Profit Theatrical Artistic Director, Voice Actor
Museum Gopher and part time student.
I take care of Off Campus Services at the local university - books at home, books at work.
Stebehil, I just want to say that I love you, you really made me laugh today as I read through the lists.As an explanation of my post: read the OP Stebehil, then the jobs, and perhaps the irony will sink in. Here's a hint: I respect everyone in here, even you.... and all the lawyers.
Ah, ok. My irony detectors were obviously "off". I never get it in written conversation, much less in _english_ written conversation. (I had messy e-mail conversations with good friends - I took it all too serious, it turned out)
So, my bumbling around was at least good for a laugh - not that bad.
Oh, and while I´m at it: sorry for the toes I stepped on with the "ren fair freak" remark. All I wanted to point out was that folks who do that for a living are normally not quite your average working Joes.
Many of the other jobs mentioned here seemed to be quite "ordinary". At least no politicians or used car dealers - yet. :-) But lawyers come close, AFAIK ;-)))
Stefan
Lay it on me, Fletch (unless your script was written specifically for Chevy Chase, in that case, send it to me right now!!!!!!!!!).Film Writer, Producer, Director.Hmm...let me tell you about this script I wrote...
For serious? I'm currently working on a zombie/western, a biofic of Mlle. Maupin, and a Muppet adaptation of Hamlet, any one of which could include Chevy Chase.
Take your pick. Do you have a preference of undead cowboys, transvestite swordswomen, or the Great Muppet Tragedy?
High Priest of the Temple of Demogorgon
Retired Tree Surgeon
Flight Dynamics Analyst
Primarily I determine where satellites have been, are and will be, and I make sure they stay in their prescribed orbits. (Plus some other stuff relating to the development and operation of satellite ground systems - i.e. the hardware and software on the ground needed to keep a satellite going.)
Greg
Lay it on me, Fletch (unless your script was written specifically for Chevy Chase, in that case, send it to me right now!!!!!!!!!).Film Writer, Producer, Director.Hmm...let me tell you about this script I wrote...For serious? I'm currently working on a zombie/western, a biofic of Mlle. Maupin, and a Muppet adaptation of Hamlet, any one of which could include Chevy Chase.
Take your pick. Do you have a preference of undead cowboys, transvestite swordswomen, or the Great Muppet Tragedy?
Marvelous, marvelous, things, Fletch. I'm especially intrigued by the transvestite swordswomen! Yeah, I'm for serious, but keep in mind you probably want to keep these things to yourself rather than splash them on the boards (copyright problems and all that).
You can send me anything you'd like via the satellite company email ftbprd@gmail.com - I'd do my best to protect your work, but don't trust anyone with your creative property, not even me. You learn that very fast in Hollywood.
As a kid I wanted to slay dragons.
Now I am a firefighter.
Occasionally I get to run into burning buildings but mostly I get lied to "Honest, I've only had two beers!" thrown up (on see above), a grease monkey "fix the pump on engine 4-2!", career counselor "Listen buddy, if you keep drinking like this you are gonna die, or kill some one and go to prison for the rest of your life", landscaper "the station looks like $h!# outside go mow the grass and clean it up. Rake the leaves too!", janitor "these bathrooms are disgusting!", car wash guy/detailer "these trucks look like crap! Wash'em!".
Some times are pretty cool like making scarecrows for the harvest festival scarecrow contest, or kid tours at the station or at thier school. Other times are super cool, like when ,my partner and I did a Raise Dead on a witnessed heart attack and ended up talking to the guy all the way to the hospital in the back of the ambulance. (as a side note the last thing that guy ate before he died was a "baconator" burger. I ain't sayin, I am just sayin...) Sometimes are not cool, such as having to tell a parent that their child just died.
But mostly I get lied to: "We on the town council really respect and appreciate the hard work you guys do but we just do not have the budget to give you guys a raise to $10.00 an hour."
I'm an editor.
I... uh... edit things.
C'mon! Tell us what you REALLY do!
I confess, I'm a bum!
Well, I've been an actor, an administrator, a bank clerk, a waiter (briefly and badly), a teacher, Head of Drama at a summer camp, acting teacher, box office assistant; currently coming to the end of a contract with a theatre company where i've mostly worked box office but have also put together a post-production script for a short film, arranged future work with a high-security prison, organised schools performances etc etc Phew!