# Post your occupation... here!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/162 "2000-08-01T22:49:50Z")

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Karl said

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> I used to work with my Uncle Max helping inspect mattresses for the Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law tags. That was too stressful so I decided to go into medicine and become an endocrinologist.

Do you have ANY IDEA how many people around here would kill for a job as a matress tester?

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**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/163 "2000-08-02T10:01:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by activgurl \*  
> \*\* Whoooo! Gotta help out that poor blue-collar construction worker! Too many white-collars in here! I’m your totally essential WASTE TREATMENT OPERATOR! Now, that’s show-biz! Oops, gotta dip the bugs & pull some samples. \*\*

I’m the guy in the lab who runs those samples. My official title is Water Quality Technician.

Also, I pretend I’m an attorney at night on my computer.

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**Author:** ![Bluemonchichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bluemonchichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluemonchichi)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/164 "2000-08-02T10:45:40Z")

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Another computer chick checking in…I work as an analyst in a NOC.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/165 "2000-08-02T17:24:26Z")

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Aerospace structural engineer - working as a civ for the Navy - usta do design work, but now I just research and write short, boring documents, and then I surf. Shoulda married for money instead of for love…

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**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-occupation-here/26942/166 "2000-08-02T18:25:45Z")

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Jack of All Trades, Master of None.

Currently an Account Mangager for a small software company. I do customer relations, tech support, and both inside and outside sales. I travel about 50% of the time, so am absent from the SMDB a lot.

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