Professions not represented on the Dope?

Pretty offbeat.

Why, got photos of any samples?

I know we have other electronics techs and programmers on the board. How about locksmiths? Buskers?

I can cover “freelance security consultant”, if no one else has it. It’s been a while, though.

I can represent the union campaign organizer crowd of one here.

I worked as a job trainer type for a while and unrelatedly had told my co-trainer about how our family often ate turkey roll for Thanksgiving. She refused to believe there was such a thing. Until we were looking through the job title book and saw “turkey roll maker”. Told her!

Also, one from the U.S.:[

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We have no zookeepers!! :frowning:

Yes we do. Zoogirl is a zookeeper or at least was in '04.

I paint murals.

I’m guessing we don’t have any televangelists.

I’ve wrestled in jello, but that was more of an avocation than a job.

Do we have any missionaries?

An excellent source of Doper professions is Idle ThoughtsThe “Ask the…” Anthology Version 2.0 thread. There was serious work put into that thread. From it, we have:

Not-for-profit employee
Artist
Children’s Book Editor
Environmental Psychologist
Guy who just finished writing a book
Guy who works with marine mammals
Service Dog Handler/Trainer
(big chain) Video Store Clerk
Barista… (Coffee girl, to you)
Bartender
Bookseller
Bra Professional
Cab Driver
Car salesman
Direct Marketing (Call Center, Telemarketing, Junk Mail) Professional
Ex phone sex operator
Fast food manager
Former Phone Psychic
LensCrafters eyeglasses consultant
Person who works in the adult industry thread.
Pest Control Guy
(former) Professional “Psychic”
Remodeler
Server
Sunglass Consultant
Termite and Pest Control Guy
Theme Park Character
Underwear Sales Girl
Hotel Night Clerk
Waiter
Waitress
Starving Opera Singer
(word) puzzle editor
Aging rock star
Ballerina
Blackjack Dealer
Broadcast Professional
Former news reporter
Poker Dealer
Pornographer
Pro-Wrestler
Professional Belly Dancer
Radio Host
Technical theatre guy
TV News Guy
Former prison guard
911 Dispatcher
Air Force Guy
Cop
Debt Collector
Draft Board member
Firefighter!
Future Peace Corps volunteer
Internet Abuse/Fraud Investigator
Lawyer
Maximum security prison physician
Militia Guy
Murder trial juror
Newbie Politician
Private Investigator
Reformed debt collector
Tax lawyer
Doctor with first-hand SARS experience
Emergency vet tech
Forensic pathologist
Guy who makes Adult Spaces FUN
Medical Billing Specialist
Student
Optician
Drummer. aka Ask a semi-successful musician.
Singer
Copy Editor
Graphic Designer
IT Guy
Product Standards and ISO Guy
Software Engineer/Developer
Structural Engineer
Sex therapist
(student) Vet
Anime Student
Biologist
Virologist
Culinary School Student
English teacher
Exhausted grad student
Middle School Teacher
Peace Corps Volunteer/TEFL teacher in Bulgaria.
Airline Pilot who just switched from Passengers to Cargo
Fed-Ex guy
Freight train conductor
Guy who works on an oil rig
High-performance driving instructor
Small airplane pilot
Trainee traindriver

Ha ha, that was me. I suppose you could count me twice, if you wanted to.

C’mon, you can’t make a wild claim like that without posting photos!

C’mon, you can’t make a wild claim like that without posting photos!

You can never have too many bassonists.

And if we don’t, does that mean the position is available?

politician-I used to serve on the local school board. That was an elected position. I lost re-election to my best friend on the board-by one vote. It was a redistricting thing. And I was the board representative to the group that redrew the lines. The expression on the consultant’s face when I told him he had just put the board president and myself in the same district was priceless. But any other configuration would have been gerrymandering so we went with it.

Farmer. Well I spent ten years looking at the wrong end of cows :smiley: . Now I’m a part time agricultural contractor - silage, hay, fencing, ground work, fertiliser etc. Also qualifed quarry shot firer, rural construction and land blaster.

I’ll be taking the missionary position tonight.

You didn’t, by any chance, write a novel based on that experience … did you?

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