# Post your occupation... here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942 "2000-07-26T18:02:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/21 "2000-07-26T18:42:24Z")
Corporate Accountant/Program Administrator. Picture equal parts tax and payables guru along with the guy who runs two different accounting applications for the company. My typical day includes lots of numbers and fixing lots of bugs. Wheeee. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite\_Joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/13edae/32.png) [@Yosemite\_Joy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosemite_Joy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/22 "2000-07-26T18:42:48Z")
Sailor in the USN, Personnel Man=Paper Pusher. I do nothing, but surf net all day and sometimes I salute people stand at attention, and parade rest. I am also a Mommy. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/23 "2000-07-26T18:44:23Z")
Iā€™m a legal editor. I edit books that tell lawyers what the hell it is theyā€™re supposed to be doing and how to do it correctly. I spend much of my time **not** correcting mispellings and grammar errors in The Pit. Byzantine is doing that quite nicely without any help from me. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/24 "2000-07-26T18:44:35Z")
Right now Iā€™m occupied with trying to eat sushi with my left hand in order to keep my right hand free for mousing. Oh, you mean my _job_? Iā€™m a software engineer. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/26 "2000-07-26T18:46:54Z")
My job. Good side: I get to spend quality time on this board with cool people. Bad side: That hard-earned education and hunger to write has got meā€¦spending quality time on this board with cool people. Chef, need any copywriters? ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/27 "2000-07-26T18:48:57Z")
Iā€™m an Oracle database analyst for the Very Big Corporation of America. Well, actually not them, itā€™s only very big as copper mining corporations go. [Butthead voice]Huh huh. Beavis, he said ā€œanal.ā€[/Butthead voice] ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/28 "2000-07-26T18:50:42Z")
Accounting- usually with some crappy title like Junior Staff Accountant. But Iā€™m currently not working (other than mom/housewife) so Iā€™ll have to get back to you on that in September. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/29 "2000-07-26T18:54:45Z")
Iā€™m a jazz musician. Har har, I only wish. No, I work in advertising at a magazine. But once Iā€™m in my bedroom alone, I turn on the smoke machine, put on a slinky dress and practice my saxophone. ---
**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/30 "2000-07-26T18:56:30Z")
Corporate Cost Accountant for a manufacturing company where two plus two is whatever the heck you want it to equal. Regards. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/31 "2000-07-26T18:56:46Z")
> [@](#): > > But once Iā€™m in my bedroom alone, I turn on the smoke machine, put on a slinky dress and practice my saxophone. Is that what they call masterbation these days? Looks like I need to catch up on the lingo. ---
**Author:** ![Eissclam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@Eissclam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eissclam)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/32 "2000-07-26T18:57:36Z")
Psychologist, Drug Abuse Research Scientist, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Lots of research and writing, a little teaching. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/33 "2000-07-26T18:58:54Z")
Freelance translator. ---
**Author:** ![LocalLoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@LocalLoop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LocalLoop)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/34 "2000-07-26T19:01:21Z")
Data Network Consultant for a very, very large communications company. My job entails me knowing everything about all forms of Data Communication. Seriously. This usually translates to me pulling data off the coporate intranet and training locations and reading doco about 4 hours out of every 8 hour day. Someday I will be able to produce this info at the drop of a hatā€¦oh well, I still get paid in any case. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisP_One_Kenobe)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/35 "2000-07-26T19:05:01Z")
Thank you for calling technical supportā€¦what? I am a support analyst. Yes I have anal in my title. Also the proud father of a a 9 year old Springer. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/36 "2000-07-26T19:09:50Z")
Xizor and Vash, I need to talk to you!!! So many people have recommended an engineering program for me, that Iā€™m seriously starting to think about it. Soā€¦ whatā€™s it like? Give me the down and dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/37 "2000-07-26T19:10:52Z")
Iā€™m a banker, but I donā€™t get to play with the money anymore. In my job I get to do such things as: best practices, standardization, process planning and design, end-to-end process reviews, and staffing to volume analysis. In other words, you tell me where the paper (or electronic bit) is coming from, where itā€™s going and what needs to happen to it in the mean time. I figure out what you really meant, design and test a process to make it happen, tell you how many people itā€™ll take, and what it will cost. But mostly I do meetings. ---
**Author:** ![Spolvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spolvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spolvy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/38 "2000-07-26T19:12:24Z")
Commodity Broker/Trader, Market Strategist and Analyst for A Very Big Name in the industry (or so he thinks) I absolutely love what I do, just not where I do it (lately) Anybody need a guy who can read Candlestick Charts? and moreā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/39 "2000-07-26T19:14:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doctor Jackson \* > \*\*Iā€™m a banker \*\* Well, then Iā€™m canceling that appointment for my yearly check-up! ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/40 "2000-07-26T19:15:52Z")
Ex Bartender (7yrs) while going to a Big Ten ā€˜Uā€™ for advertising. Didnā€™t like it. Now, soon to be starting school to be MS certified, yada yada yada. I guess Iā€™m student bound for life. In the meantime I deplete my savings account and help friends and their friends navigate the PC and the Net for a nominal fee (_their_ friends, that is). _Hijack_ Sax-- Fog machine in your bedroom? And here I thought I was the only one! ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/41 "2000-07-26T19:16:24Z")
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