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

[Ann_Onimous]

@maisoui

QA for medical transcription at a multi-site hospital system.

(I get all the stories and don’t have to deal with all the blood.)

@smithsb

Quality Assurance Specialist Ammunition Surveillance - QASAS - actual job title. I play with bullets and explosives from .22cal to nuke weapons spanning R&D to demolition. (One time bangup amatuer golfer - 0.9 handicap:D).

Considering QA can span multiple job duties, I do not believe I’m breaking the spirit of the thread here.

Quality Assurance for a medical supply call center. I listen to customer service calls all day and make sure our customers get the right information and have their problems handled correctly. When you call into a call center and hear, “This call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes,” think of me.

I have some stories that will curl your hair.

My husband is a caregiver for his mom and a stay-at-home dad. We also homeschool our two children.

[infinitii]

I didn’t see my job anywhere, but 6 pages is a lot to go through thoroughly:

Crew Dispatcher for a towboat company

[WordMan]

@DrumBum

A few years ago, a couple of my colleagues transferred here from Louisiana where they played guitar in a band that had semi-regular gigs the local bars. They started coming to my house where we could make some noise and drink beer. The Belgian embassy is across the street from my house and one afternoon, a staffer walked over and asked if we would play for a party. We agreed and had great fun and good food then thought that was the end of it. A few months later, we got a call from the Finnish Consulate with a similar request which, of course, we accepted. We call ourselves “The Turbo Kings”, a name we took from a West African beer that is distinguished from other regional beers by its very low concentrations of formaldehyde, and play the occasional party or local bar. The music is rock & roll - any vintage - and the occasional jazz/blues tune. Absolutely no Country/Western.

It’s fun and occupies the weekends, but most of our compensation is in the form of food and beverages, with the occasional cash payment.

Playing rock music for foreign consulates in Angola - now there’s a real Doper’s job…

[Mona_Lisa_Simpson]

Like two others in this thread I am a Registered Nurse, but currently I am a Clinic Coordinator. I deal with a lot of staff issues, and some quality assurance/supervisory review of clinic issues.

[Arrogance_Ex_Machina]

Early morning distributor … which translates to newspaper boy I guess, even if I’m old enough to be the father of one. :dubious:

[Superdude]

If past jobs count, I was a professional stand-up and improv comic for about 6 years.

[pulykamell]

@WordMan

Cool - What instrument(s), type(s) of music, setting(s)?

And **chacoguy **- **pulykamell **is a photog but not on the thread yet…

Yes, I’m also a resident photographer. Editorial photography is my background (worked with wire services [AFP in particular], at a newspaper [Budapest Business Journal for a year and a half], and freelanced for magazines and papers from 1997-2003-ish [Business Week, Car and Driver being the biggest clients, but have been published in most major American papers at one time or another, including getting four columns in the New York Times]), but now I’m about 90-95% weddings (influenced heavily by my photojournalism background, but has evolved beyond just a pure PJ style.)

[Hockey_Monkey]

I run a small used car dealership.

[flatlined]

Records Management. My degree is Library Science. Is everyone properly impressed? What it means is that I manage a warehouse full of boxes.

[sinjin]

Tribologist.

[Woeg]

Full-time: Technical Illustrator & Senior Editor for military tech manuals.

Part-time/Freelance: Medieval armourer (Only do this professionally on rare occasions, but I used to make regular, supplemental income doing this part time. These days, I give away more work than I sell.)

[Czarcasm]

Note to all: Previous jobs do not count, and thus are still open for listing.

[drachillix]

@sinjin

Tribologist.

Study of Tribbles?

[big_alex]

Apprentice tailoress and shop assistant in a gentleman’s outfitters.

[krisolov]

director of telecommunications infrastructure for a state agency. I build and maintain data centers, fiber optic cabling plant and communications towers.

Really more construction management than traditional IT/Telecom jobs, but it’s usually pretty interesting.

[Lightnin]

@Czarcasm

Less blood-more body parts, o.k.?

I am constantly pushing for more gore (hey, it’s fun to do, and I do disgusting really well), but I keep getting stuck working on T-rated games, which means I’m lucky if I get to do blood at all.

[Misnomer]

@Soliloquy

@Misnomer

I think you should be more specific: there’s lots of different types, and other LEOs should be able to post. Are you a county sheriff? State trooper? FBI agent? Director Mueller?? :eek:

Sorry. Was kinda trying to be vague on purpose, but I can see your point. I’m a Sheriff’s Deputy. Nothing terribly glamorous. Well, maybe a little. Hehe

Believe it or not, just this morning someone on the radio said “sheriff’s deputy” and I thought, “that’s what I meant to write in that thread; not ‘a sheriff’!” Ah well…at least I spelled “sheriff” correctly…

[SciFiSam]

Subtitler. I got the job via a lovely Doper, actually.

I’m also sometimes a secondary school/high school teacher, but that must have come up by now. EFL teacher too. Census collector might be a more unusual one, but it’s not a permanent job.

[Uncle_Jocko]

Full time: Air Traffic Controller.

That earlier comment about loud noises and screaming being a bad thing? Really bad, in our line of work.

Part time: Actor (both paid and unpaid) … also, radio play-by-play for high school football.

I used to hold lots of various on-air radio and TV jobs at dinky stations, but I don’t know how anybody can live on that.

[bouv]

Biomedical Technician.

I repair, install, test, inspect, and maintain all sorts of medical equipment. I work primarily in hospitals (mostly one hospital, though sometimes I travel to others,) though I sometimes go to small clinics and have even done work for labs on the university campus I work for.