"sorry, off topic, but what do you guys DO for a living?" Topic

History Teacher

Lieutenant,Commander Of Detectives, NYPD Homicide…Retired.

But, I really wanted to be a Pirate.

Special Agent

Formerly:
Sailor USN ( Naval Veteran )
Systems analyst , Graphics support programmer, Worked on software that displayed data from the SR-71
laid off from Lockheed-Martin
Returned to college to get a culinary degree
cooked for 13 years

Retired and loving it. Planning trip to Australia with my wife.

Criminal defense Attorney

Enlisted Infantryman then Military Intelligence Officer

ran conventions for Games Workshop then general manager of Agents of Gaming

Now a stock broker for a large discount borkerage firm working and living in Indianapolis

Thinking about another career change to teacher

I work in a big warehouse and I repair and maintain the conveyors and forklifts (and anything else that breaks).

Answers phones for an independent broker-dealer (back office). Was at one time a HS Math Teacher, and before that, served in submarines for the USN.

Was a Police Officer, now in Corporate Security. Less hassle, more $$.

Revenue Manager onboard cruise ships. Before that ran casinos for many years, mainly on ships. So, somewhat sadly, not only does my dice rolling border on the pathetic,I can also work out the odds of being so astronmically unlucky very quickly in my head! "Wow my unarmoured peasants armed with rolling pins and beer tankards just routed your Super Heavy Knights with Army Banner, what were the chances of that" >>grits teeth<< "Oh about 538 to 1, but who's counting?".

Sr. Venture Support Integrator

(ie enviromental due diligence and Non Technical Risk assessor for Oil Exploration Company…also not bp)

Chief Probation Officer

Attorney, Educator, Historian, Gym Owner, Veteran, and enjoy most being a father:-) Growing up in Newport, RI as a boy, my mother used to take me to get shoes next to a toy soldier shop (it was in the late seventies). Anyways I was transfixed for life – my mother could never afford any of those toy soldiers, but I would run off and stair at those figurines every chance I could. Sadly the store is long gone…

Wow…
This is a REALLY interesting topic.

Senior Archaeologist.

Got three degrees in 3 different Liberal Arts fields of study, plus certificates in two others.

Formerly (in no kind of order):
USMC enlisted
USNR enlisted
Defense contractor (not doing anything related to prior service in either branch) in 3 places for 4 different companies
Made and sold reenactor armor for a decade
UPS unloading trucks/loading semis, driver for a very short time (still got my Teamster's card)
Bookstore worker drone
laser assembler and parts tester
Eagle Scout
Small-batch home-brewer

Fire Protection Property Specialist & Safety Consultant for an Insurance Company.

I also run a terrain business……………..

Don't work anymore, but volunteer fulltime as treasurer of a foundation, see: cosmicfirefoundation.nl

As such, I run two webshops and write and edit publications as well.

Trainer/Coach/Mentor to Computer Data Storage Engineers

In house lawyer.

Until March of 2012 I was an aircraft structures technician working on airliners. Then the company I worked for imploded and ceased operations, throwing 2800 people to the street (Yeah, I'm bitter about it!!). I am now on a career break as I decide what to do with the rest of my work life.

I work for an international military alliance located in Western Europe. Before that, I worked for the USG and in the dim past of university days was a silver/gold cutter and designer for a silversmiths.

District Crown Prosecutor

Oceanographer.

Full time god to cats, part time psychiatic nurse…

Worked in retail for 20 years. Lost most of my eye sight. No one would employ me after that so now am a self employed Polymer Clay Artist.

26 years in the Army, now a consultant,

Tally Ho!

+1 to the lawyer brigade (commercial, not rules…).

Police officer for 10 years; before that I was a police officer for 16.5 years somewhere else. I like to do something different…..
Had a 5 yr stint in the army reserve in that time.

Printer, for about 30 years now. I spend my days designing cardstock models, and my nights running a printing press, so I'm pretty much all about ink-on-paper, all day, every day.

Admin based retail. Not the most exciting job in the world, but it helps to pay the bills!

I write ads to sell toothpaste in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

IT manager, used to be an Oracle database admin. Oracle financials, SAP, stuff like that.

In the dim and distant past I was a teacher.

Sculpt minis, and a bit of writing on the side.

Now unemployed, 18 years as distribution manager, warehouse manager, stock controller, with various evening/weekend work in motorbike industry. I have a very promising interview tomorrow, so tentacles crossed.

So TMP is mostly military/police with a fair slice of medical, teachers,scientists and less IT than I would have presumed with a few guys doing weird and whacky stuff. What a varied pack of loons we are. :)

Brewery manager, in charge of getting YOU 100,000 cases of beer every 8 hour shift!

You sir, are THE most important person thus far!

Prison Officer (retired)

Previously, in no particular order… and this isn't a comprehensive list..

Superannuation adviser
Baker
IT Consultant
Peat digger
Night Supervisor in youth care hostel
Infrastructure Manager
2nd Hand Car Salesman
Bartender
Funds Manager
Help Desk Manager
Roadie for the least successful rock band ever
Social Security Clerk

Now I have the title of Manager, Knowledge and Information Management Services in a Civil Aviation Safety regulator

Ex- IT Director, now disabled after spinal injury full time Dad at home of two little boys 5 & 7. Just created a new business to get young adults with no or little qualifications, or who have little opportunity to work in a large corporation, trained up in the hard skills of IT and the soft side of IT then seed them into large organisations. It's damn hard creating a business from scratch, looking for that first contract to employ staff and then get them their first big job at a large corp.

Oh and big thank you to all those who are in the armed forces or ex-vets, in the Police, Education, Medical establishments, and for any others who do work for the greater good e.g service sector – retail and hotelier, manufacturing, civil avaition etc.

System Analyst / programmer. Jobs over the years.

Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Substance abuse client billing tracking system.

ERP program support specialist. Biggest clients were Campbells soup and Matsushita Electronics Corporation of America, Bristol Myers Squib too.

Cheese Pricing for Land O' Lakes. (out of all of these this was the most complicated, salesmen are bonkers)

Federal Air Marshal inventory tracking system. (slightly after 9/11 when the program expanded, that was fun)

Airport Traffic Flow Management system. Atlanta, DC, Chicago, LAX, LAS, and a few others.

Retired USAF. Last job Child Support Enforcement Agency – Hawaii. Stay at home Dad.

Was in retail management for a long time. Now I drive new cars about!

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I am retired but I used to make drugs( 35 years).

Sales Adviser in a DIY store

Manager for emergency rental dept of heavy equipment (industrial air compressors)

General Manager of Truck Leasing Co as well as retail truck sales professional.

….and amateur gynecologist. :)

Research scientist in environmental toxicology.

Hey we should get a grant consortium together!

IT Business Analyst