David. Don’t exagerate. You know full-well that motion pictures hadn’t been invented when you got out of school. 
I’m a professional numismatist since 1971. While I spend most of my day at the beck and call of anyone who comes in to buy a state quarter, I love the research side of the coin biz. At one time my library was perhaps 200-300 board feet. I still own the books, but don’t have the space any longer.
I also buy/sell diamonds and gold jewelry from the public in the store. I’m not a certified gemologist, but rather a layman with some pretty good knowledge and a graduate gemologist for a co-worker to whom I can turn.
Theatre Technician, basically I have done anything from sewing 40’ wide curtains, to building fake dollhouses, to figuring out how to drop 250 fake crows onto a stage full of dancers without hitting anyone. I love my job.
And yes I get plenty dirty 
Professional crafter. I work with polymer clay, demonstrate for the manufacturers and distributors thereof, and publish projects.
I also write regularly for a webzine, am a mostly SAHM, and in my spare time, I’m a groupie.
I’m an elementary school teacher, working as the school’s Science Specialist. It’s probably one of the all time great teaching gigs. All of the fun, none of the paperwork.
I’m a IT Consultant to large companies - I do a mix of business systems analysis and high level development.
Nothing shows a committment to family medicine any more than going after the difficult to reach members.
One of those editors/proofreaders checking in. Also: English professor, assessment specialist (for essays); freelance writer; occasional dog-, house-, and kid-sitter.
I have also been: caregiver; a short-lived medical transcriber (no training); grant researcher; fact-checker; library/textbook lackey in my old high school; I also had to do inventory, repair old textbooks, and clean out the old lockers–yecch!–as well as re-assign all the locks.
I do interaction design and usability for enterprise software products.
If I have to, I can also do tech writing. I prefer not to, though–I figure, why should I spend my time documenting crappy UI designs when I could be proactive and just design the crappy UI myself?
Train conductor trainee (freight)
choo choo
Staff nurse, NHS, medical cardiology.
I don’t usually get my hands directly dirty, but there sure can be some muck on my gloves…
philosophy professor
Just the first to admit it.
Contractor of the HVAC/Electrical & Plumbing Variety
Publishing Executive. If you want a magazine or newsletter developed, designed, staffed, marketed or managed I’m your man. I have experience in trade, news, and educational press with pubs ranging from 100 subscribers to hundreds of thousands.
I also write freelance when the occasion arises.
Technically I’ve been unemployed for the last 9 months or so as I’ve been doing the entrepreneur thing. The firm I founded finally got off the ground about two months ago and we’re in growth mode.
This is the best match of username and profession of anyone in this thread.
Knit designer - mainly accessories and I don’t do socks. Ever.
engineer, Traffic. (Ret.)
Specializing in Roadway/Intersection, Traffic Signal & Traffic Signal System design. Came up through the ranks as:
Painting the lines and messages on the road
Making/installing the signage
Supervisior of Signs/Markings
Traffic Analyst (yes, I put the anal in analyst)
Traffic Operations Engineer.
In order, more or less:
clerk in mom-and-pop grocery store (obviously a long time ago)
fast-food flunkey
secretary (and I’m a guy)
radio and electrical assembler for aircraft factory
Construction Superintendent (that was the job title, but since there was no one under me I was really just the company gofer)
broadcast radio (everything but sales)
broadcast television production (having directed some live newscasts I can now scream three cuss words simultaneously)
and at the same time with most of the above, church organist
I’m in between jobs - careers - lives right now. For some reason I like the idea of becoming a finish carpenter. Or a professional genealogist. We’ll see what happens.
Hasn’t Cecil Himself had a rather varied career?
Technical diplomat. That’s not what it says in my title, but what they pay me for is making people of various disciplines understand each other.
Scientific robot programmer is probably closer to my "official"job, but I don’t actually do it much.