Teacher. College level. English; mostly literature, preferably medieval.
While I am a professional poker player, I’m no Daniel Negreanu.
I work hard, 40-100 hours a week, and earn an average of $17/hour (over the last 2400 hours) (according to my poker spreadsheet). No shit. Anyone who plays poker should use it because you’ll play better if you know you have to log a crap loss.
Sometimes I get really drunk and agressive and earn $1,000 in 2 hours. Sometimes I get really drunk and agressive and lose $1,000 in 1 hour.
Point being, don’t play poker when you’re drunk, but always log everything.
I teach the English language overseas. I am also the author of the now-out-of-print Codeword Dictionary and am the self-appointed World’s Leading Authority on the subject.
I am a retired US Army Infantry officer. I have lived in Panama, and now live in Saudi Arabia.
A wasted life. 
Another blue collar here, forklift driver. Before that, delivered pizzas for Domino’s Pizza. Have also worked retail (Not bad except for the costumers) and was a dorm director for a college.
Let’s see, I have been:
a stablehand
blood donation center volunteer (the one who gets to process and pack the baggies in ice)
comic book background artist
house painter
dog washer
secretary
administrative assistant
published author
The husband has been:
draftsman
robotic assemblyline engineer
MIDI musical instrument designer
professional bagpiper
toy store owner
builder of custom models
technical illustrator
I’d also like to add that among the pilots we have not only guys flying for passenger airlines but also cargo pilots and, gotta love 'em, flight instructors.
When you have the other half of the rule, it makes more sense:
“I before E, except after C, when the sound is long-E”
I am an administrative assistant and co-ordinator for the sales department of a Plumbing & HazMat company. That’s my title and I’m stickin’ to it!
My hubby is a butcher
Rodeo clown.
Currently: Reference Librarian, Business specialty
Previously - internal auditor
Well, I used to be mostly a new media software developer, creating CD and web based educational software, but lately I’ve become more of a problem solver for other people doing the same thing who got themselves in over their heads.
Farmer. The dirt never gets off my hands.
I’m a CSA for an industrial supply company. We have a small branch(five employees, including the manager), so we do everything from unloading freight (Look ma! No forklift!), to answering phones. My hands get plenty dirty.
I sometimes get Sharpie marker ink stains on my hands.
And despite the way it sounds, “winemaker” actually = farmer. The wife has to use citric acid to scrub the juice stains out of her hands.
Production control planner. Which in my case means, at the most basic level, setting up and determining proper scheduling for batch processes that run on our servers and do updating and manipulation of our product databases and other systems. Also coordinating troubleshooting when those batch processes fail to complete properly.
I could ramble on at extremely great length about the details of what I do, but I’ll restrain myself.
I used to be a computer operator.
Physician, resident in Emergency Medicine.
Can we get the compilation list with screen names so we can have some database to refer to if we ever have a specific question?
computer programmer, mostly website application programmer.
While I might push paper most of the time, field work, which is my favorite, is plenty dirty. Sometimes diplomacy means that you spend two weeks walking through minefields to escort your visitors and to ensure compliance with international humanitarian standards. Wow, did that get old fast. Then there was my work as refugee officer, which meant sitting in internally displaced persons camps talking about toilet facilities. My favorite time was when the leader of the camp was talking with some Washington weiner and a landmine cooked off 200 yards away. The drivers and bodyguards freaked out, the IDPs didn’t even pay attention. I asked one of them if that happened often, and she said “Oh, about once a month or so.”
SGT, US Army.
Psychologist, private practice.
Financial journalist. I’m an editor on a team following European consumer-related companies, which is to say businesses in industries including food and beverages, retailing, hotels, tobacco and luxury goods. My work has taken me abroad - I’m American and will have been living outside the U.S. for 12 years as of the beginning of December. (Not what I was planning on at the start, but these things happen.) My colleagues (just those on my team, that is to say) are Canadian, English, Irish and Welsh as well as American.