Occupation: Mathematician
Hand: Left
The rest of my family are all humanities majors, and all right-handed.
I too put the mouse on the left but with the regulst button config. It feels so natural. I look at the way right handed people hold a mouse and it looks, well, dorky. Their hand is parallel with the mouse. But us lefties hold the (‘right-hand configuration’) mouse like a pen (with the finger nearest the thumb on the left mouse button, and the same finger is used for right-clicking too.
Well, in my Dorm (Engineering Hall) almost everyone, including myself, is right handed.
Leftie (when writing and eating - anything else I’m a rightie), non-techie. Actually, there’re 5 lefties in my family and none of us are or were doing anything remotely related engineering.
related TO engineering
Lefty who used to be a theatre lighting technician.
I probably should have mentioned in my OP that my University class (about 30 people) had a 40-60 (roughly) split of lefties-righties.
I probably should have mentioned in my post :smack: that my University course was an Engineering course (Software Engineering)
Lefty. Not a real techie (engineer, software developer, what have you), but I built my own computer, work(ed) as a web developer, etc., so I guess I’m techie enough.
You’re right about being wrong, that’s something, isn’t it 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=more+male+lefties They estimate male lefties out-number us leftie chicks by 2 to 1. http://rough.catharsis.org/dd/ll.html
Although, from something else recently in a GQ thread, it does seem that the latter half is sort of correct, if you take gender out of the equation. Only “true” or “natural” lefties- those of us who don’t hook(curl) our hands while writing- are actually right-brain dominate. The other 60% of lefties are left-brain dominate too, just like most righties. Of course, they can’t even decide what makes a leftie become one in the first place, so it has to be taken with a grain of salt.
I’m definitely not technically inclined, for the record; I’m good at analytical scoring of writing but that’s as analytical as I get on a daily basis(only for those who wonder what on earth I’m talking about- holistic scoring is giving a summary grade for content and another for surface features, while analytical breaks everything down, giving seperate scores in: purpose/voice, organization, topic development, sentence structure, word choice and conventions.)
On the flip-side from engineering, I noticed in college that a larger than you’d expect from sample size percentage (generally ~40% instead of 10%) of people in each of my writing classes were fellow lefties. I can’t think of traits techies and writers share, though.
Southpaw Unix geek checking in here.
I use my left hand for writing, throwing and most anything else that requires fine motor control except when it comes to use a mouse or a gun. I mouse rightie primarily becuse that’s just the way I’ve always done it so that’s how I’m more comfortable, though I’ll use the pointer stick on my laptop with either hand no problems. The reason for shooting rightie is pretty much the same, it’s how I was taught plus a lot of rifles are impractical to shoot leftie. Shooting handguns one handed I’m just as good leftie as I am rightie, though when shooting two handed I do so rightie.
In my experience most lefties tend to be better at using their right hands than righties are at using their left. Anyone else notice this? Also when are we going to follow through with our plans to take over the world and enslave the righties? I’m getting tired of waiting 
I’m a techie and somewhere between a leftie and ambidexterous.
I’m right-handed all the way except I’m a left-handed mouse operator.
I used to call my left hand “my stupid hand” but now I call it “my teckie hand”.
I’m right handed.
At UW-Plateville, I worked as a computer consultant (check out disks, help people with programming. Moost of the cimputer consultants were Computer Science majors, but a few of us were Electrical Engineering majors. Of the EE computer consultants, more than one would expect were left handed. 3 or 4 out of 7 maybe. They formed the Platteville Left-Handed EE computer consultants club. (PLEECC).
Brian
I forgot to mention though, that my dad, also a leftie, is a techie too.
TheFunkySpaceCowboy reminded me about this. My dad was a software engineer and right handed in almost all regards. He did, however, shoot pool and guns left handed. And use a trackball mouse leftie. Regular mouse would be rightie though.
May as well fire off all the family handed/profession information that I can think of:
Mom- Software engineer; right handed
Step-dad- Writer; “write” (HAHAHA! Aren’t I clever?) handed
Me- Unemployed college punk; right handed
Uncle- Nurse; left handed
Useless leftie trivia: 1/4 of Apollo astronauts were left handed. I got that little tidbit from a book of random facts about left-handed folks that I read in Borders a few years back. Anyone know of what I speak?
Female, mechanical engineer, ambidextrous. For some reason, I can draw better with my right hand, but I can write faster and more legibly with my left hand. I was also exclusively right-handed until the ninth grade.
My parents are both right-handed. Mom majored in Psychology and English; Dad majored in Food Science and Zoology.