My job is..?(Read ENTIRE thread before responding!)

[StephenG]

@liberty3701

Linguist, specifically a sociophonetician.

My degree is in Linguistics, and this sounds fascinating. I’d love to hear more about what you do/study…

[Katriona]

Technical editor for medical software certification.

[Czarcasm]

My apologies to all those that read all the way through this just to find out that someone posted with their job description just two or three posts from the end.

[liberty3701]

@Noelq

Sociophonetician - That’s the *COOLEST *word I’ve heard today!

Oh, agreed, glad to brighten your day. I could have left it at linguist, or said sociolinguist and phonetician.

@Ike_Witt

Is that studying something like why some people say ‘axe’ instead of ‘ask’?

That’s sort of what I do, though it’s more like who says what and when, with a smattering of why that relies on social and articulatory/acoustic facts. Though I work more on vowels and prosody rather than consonants.

@StephenG

My degree is in Linguistics, and this sounds fascinating. I’d love to hear more about what you do/study…

Yeah, I think it’s pretty cool. I mostly do work on varieties of American English, particularly those associated with people of particular ethnicities and/or regions. For instance, I’ve done work on regional varieties of African American English in North Carolina and New York City, looking primarily at variation in the vowel systems and, to a lesser extent, pitch slope.

[Rand_Rover]

@NinetyWt

So you gave up on snowmobiles?

Had to, what with the global warming and all.

[LH75]

Fire alarm technician

[CanvasShoes]

Environmental Scientist/Technician

[Colibri]

@Evil_Captor

But no one has claimed it yet, and I HAVE done it, and this is a liberal board goddamit and it would be nice if SOMEBODY held a low-prestige blue collar job.

I suspect most of us have, at one point or another. I’ve also been a doorman, porter, elevator operator, cashier, keypunch operator, and deliveryman.

[TravisFromOR]

@Evil_Captor

Professional dishwasher. OK, I bus tables to, but it was mostly dishwashing. And yeah, I don’t do that now, I did it when I first started out working after I left college. But no one has claimed it yet, and I HAVE done it, and this is a liberal board goddamit and it would be nice if SOMEBODY held a low-prestige blue collar job.

Vermin Control Technician (exterminator) isn’t low-prestige or blue collar?

:dubious:

[Cub_Mistress]

I’m a home health nurse (RN.) Ca3799 said Registered Nurse, but that’s way too general.

[DMC]

@Evil_Captor

Professional dishwasher. OK, I bus tables to, but it was mostly dishwashing. And yeah, I don’t do that now, I did it when I first started out working after I left college. But no one has claimed it yet, and I HAVE done it, and this is a liberal board goddamit and it would be nice if SOMEBODY held a low-prestige blue collar job.

Well, if we get to do past jobs, how about carhop when I was 13 or 14? Would you like a nice frosty mug of A&W to go with that Teen Burger?

I’m not sure it gets more low prestige than that.

[CanvasShoes]

@DMC

Well, if we get to do past jobs, how about carhop when I was 13 or 14? Would you like a nice frosty mug of A&W to go with that Teen Burger?

I’m not sure it gets more low prestige than that.

Oh yeah? Well my first actual paying job (outside of getting a few bucks for babysitting little cousinlets) was milking goats for one of our neighbors. I was 12.

I had to get up at 7am and milk them, and then go over and milk them again at 7pm.

[Cub_Mistress]

@CanvasShoes

Oh yeah? Well my first actual paying job (outside of getting a few bucks for babysitting little cousinlets) was milking goats for one of our neighbors. I was 12.

I had to get up at 7am and milk them, and then go over and milk them again at 7pm.

Just think, at age twelve, you already were a nipple expert!

[Palo_Verde]

I organize a science and technology summer camp.

[AHunter3]

FileMaker Solutions Developer

[Evil_Captor]

@TravisFromOR

Vermin Control Technician (exterminator) isn’t low-prestige or blue collar?

:dubious:

Depends on the vermin.

[Hilarity_N.Suze]

Water aerobics instructor (part time)

People have called themselves authors and writers. I’m a novelist. Mysteries.

[Reepicheep]

I am a Server Administrator in a team of 12 other Server Admins. If its hardware or OS it’s our problem. Together we administer over 25k server, Intel and various flavors of unix.

[Weedy]

Teacher’s aide at a signing deaf school.

[auRa]

Copywriter. I’m surprised it hadn’t come up before.