# Do we have any of the following professions here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966 "2006-06-16T17:41:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/1 "2006-06-16T17:41:06Z")
This is a little bit of a contest, with no prize beyond the warm glow our winner will undoubtedly feel. That winner will be the first SDMB member who can legitimately say he or she belongs to one of the following professions: Circus acrobat Professional athlete City dogcatcher Stonemason Tobacconist Astronaut Gravedigger Ethnomusicologist Manicurist White-collar criminal Supreme Court justice Ethicist Hobo Bassoonist Voodoo priest/priestess Harbormaster Matchmaker Crowned head of state Urchin diver Any adjudication will be by yours truly. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/2 "2006-06-16T17:44:38Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > Ethicist You ra… oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/3 "2006-06-16T17:51:24Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > White-collar criminal Well, I have a white collar job…and I have taken office supplies. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/4 "2006-06-16T17:57:59Z")
I’m not an astronaut per se, but on my resume, someone suggested I list “Space Case” as a full-time occupation. Tripler Oh, and I once took a class in ‘Orbital Mechanics’, so I’m a Rocket Scientist too. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/5 "2006-06-16T18:00:04Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Well, I have a white collar job…and I have taken office supplies. Does that count? I say no, unless fencing Post-It notes counts as your principal means of support. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/6 "2006-06-16T18:00:16Z")
I’m not an acrobat, but I can juggle! Does that count? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/7 "2006-06-16T18:01:12Z")
OH! OH! Where can I study to be a professional hobo? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/8 "2006-06-16T18:04:23Z")
Why, at Bindlestiff U.! ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/9 "2006-06-16T18:06:04Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > Voodoo priest/priestess I’m a practicing pagan. Does that count? Down side of religion is that you keep practicing, but you never get any better at it. A friend of mine describes what I do at work as “mouse peeling”. Do I get a prize for that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/10 "2006-06-16T18:11:16Z")
Well, you get… something. Maybe calluses. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/11 "2006-06-16T18:17:33Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > Well, you get… something. Maybe calluses. Five years, no calluses. 🙂 I did get pamplet on animal rights from a religious studies professor once, but that’s another story. . . ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/12 "2006-06-16T18:20:58Z")
> [@Mouse\_Maven](#): > > A friend of mine describes what I do at work as “mouse peeling”. Do I get a prize for that? 🙂 :eek: Should I be taking this literally? What do you do after that, roll them in salt? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/13 "2006-06-16T18:30:17Z")
Is hobo a profession? Can you take it as a minor at clown college? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/14 "2006-06-16T18:32:51Z")
> [@hawksgirl](#): > > I’m not an acrobat, but I can juggle! Does that count? 🙂 And I met my current boyfriend in an acrobatics workshop at a juggling convention, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/15 "2006-06-16T18:34:09Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > Urchin diver So close! Last time I was diving in a nuclear reactor there where no urchins. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/16 "2006-06-16T18:40:09Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > :eek: Should I be taking this literally? What do you do after that, roll them in salt? I do pathology and sometimes surgery on mice for research. Rolling them in salt may help the smell but ruin the tissues. Its a standing rule that I don’t discuss work with my friends. (I met a USDA beef inspector at a party once. There was a people-free bubble around us as we compared notes!) ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/17 "2006-06-16T18:48:41Z")
I once had a roommate who was a trapeeze artist (in a real live circus, yes), and my friend’s mom is an ethnomusicologist. Do I get half points? (I have the most mundane job title you can imagine, although it is actually very interesting.) ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/18 "2006-06-16T19:06:08Z")
My co-worker was married to a circus acrobat - he works with Ringling Brothers etc etc etc. They used to live in a trailer behind the bear cages and everything! During the summer, when the circus is on the west coast, their daughter goes off to visit him, and live the circus life. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/19 "2006-06-16T19:09:40Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > This is a little bit of a contest, with no prize beyond the warm glow our winner will undoubtedly feel. That winner will be the first SDMB member who can legitimately say he or she belongs to one of the following professions: > > Circus acrobat > Professional athlete > City dogcatcher > Stonemason > Tobacconist > Astronaut > Gravedigger > Ethnomusicologist > Manicurist > White-collar criminal > Supreme Court justice > Ethicist > Hobo > Bassoonist > Voodoo priest/priestess > Harbormaster > Matchmaker > Crowned head of state > Urchin diver > > Any adjudication will be by yours truly. Not an astronaut, but I do list time with NASA as an engineer on my resume, and I’ve met several… ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966/20 "2006-06-16T19:14:26Z")
I was Assisitant Harbormaster for 1 year and Harbormaster for 3 months at the Pioneer Marina in Oshkosh, WI from 1987-1989. So, while I am not currently a Harbormaster I was once. Do I win the warm glow? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-of-the-following-professions-here/360966.md?page=2)