I am a landscape designer - I’m pretty sure we don’t have many of those on the boards. Heck, other than my instructors, I’m the only one I know. 
(So many yards, so little time.)
Funny, featherlou, I know at least 10-12!
Can we count jobs we’ve held in the past? I’ve got some fun ones, but as I work seasonally, by the time I’d remember to post them, they’d be over!
I’m a high school student, at least until the middle of June.
I am a professional exhibitionist.
That is, I’m currently working on museum exhibitions.
Besides my main job of ornithologist, other jobs I’ve held in the past have included doorman, elevator operator, botanical artist, and wildlife service officer.
Well…
I manage a veterinarian office- kinda mundane- but on weekends I’m a shepherd and sheepdog trainer.
I’m a Finance Manager for an auto dealership.
Before that I was the Production Planning Manager for 2 different textile plants. Also while in the plants, I was a Machine Operator, Machine Technician, Research and Development Manager, and Shift Supervisor.
Before that I made Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters on an assembly line.
During college, I worked in an extremely small movie theater where I was the Manager, Projectionist, Ticket Taker, Concession Stand Worker, and Janitor all in the same night. I’ve also had the misfortune of working in retail.
I’m in sales management now, but I used to be a roustabout. Not unusual where I’m from, except that I’m female. Maybe unusual for the Dope?
Mike Rowe should be a doper, because that would cover a lot of ground in this category. To introduce him to the boards maybe he should run a spot on his show where he has to become a SDMB moderator. Giraffe or **Frank ** should invite him over to show him what a dirty job it is to moderate on the boards.
Yep, still am. I’ve also branched out into doing off-site presentations with the animals at schools, birthdays, etc.
The zoo also led to my second job. Couple of years ago, I got a knock at the door from a fellow who wanted to rent a snake. Seems he needed one for his Alice Cooper tribute band. As it happened, I had “Sick Things” happily blaring on the zoo stereo and every single Alice album in my tape/CD box. The upshot is that I’m now the Executioner, Frankenstein, Doctor and propsmistress for the band! I’m also going to be doing our fanclub page.
I’m pretty sure I’m the only actress in a band around here!
It was in high school. Sorry…no photos 
.I was the Ground Round Clown. Complete with rubber nose and big shoes. It was a lot of fun for a short time. Paid well, too!
As **Struan ** said, **Abbey ** has a porn site, but also **Guanolad ** works for her as a photographer.
My parents were missionaries but obviously I dodged that gene.
I was a guidebook writer for a few years and published.
I used to sell radioactive exploding waste. I mean other people called them “safe equity derivative investments” but I never did, and boy did they turn radioactive right about Oct 1997
some other stuff I did bumming around in Asia that I’m not about to post on a message board.
I also worked at a dry cleaners. Talk about your rock-bottom shit jobs! Nothin’ like picking used snot rags and tell-tale phone numbers (scribbled on the match book from the lounge at the No-Tell Motel) from the pockets of sleazy guys to make a girl feel like she’s arrived.
Besides a politician, you have at least one translator.
Is it the one I’m thinking of?
Gosh, I love winters, but I hate the wintery weather. I wish winter would end.
I have heard that it is not unusual to find female rousties or drillcrew members offshore Norway, but in US land operations (I assume), that is rather unusual.
I think there are still a few other O&G industry dopers kicking around, some Dataloggers, geologist and me, ex radiation safety engineer, logging while drilling engineer, directional driller, drilling engineer/manager/mouse jockey.
How does a directional drill work? The kind with the long segments that they might use to get across a road or some such. How do those segments turn underground?
I am not sure about river crossings, but for oil/gas wells you use a rotary steerable system or a positive displacement motor (aka mud motor) or a turbine. You can also just use the correct positioning of stabiliser to get the bend you need and let gravity sort it out.
It is quite difficult to explain how these work without pictures, and given my ability to obfuscate the simplest of explanations I probably should not try. however.
The drill bit is attached to the PDM, which has a small bend at the end where it connects to the bit.
The PDM is attached to the surface by sections of drillpipe. The drill pipe whilst looking rigid is actually quite bendy
You pump fluid down the drillpipe, and through the PDM which causes a shaft rotate by the hydraulic force which in turn rotates the bit.
You point the bend in the direction you want to go, and drill away, that small bend will cause the hole to deviate as you drill along thus drilling a curved section of hole.
When you want to go straight ahead you rotate the drill pipe. Now the small bend is point in all directions as it rotates around so no direction is preferentially drilled in, so you go straight.
As mentioned the drillpipe is bendy and it just follows the curve of the hole. If curve in the hole is too great you can end up fatiguing the pipe and snapping it. When this happens there tends to be a lot of shuffling of feet and an awkward silence.
ok sorry to hijack - I’ll end now.
Stoid also used to run an adult-oriented site, if I recall correctly. Might still. Haven’t seen her around recently.
One time, I posted a question in Cafe Society about the Quincy Jones song “Ai No Corrida”. A few folks kicked it around, not really getting anywhere near an answer.
Then a super-low-post-count lurker named q_jones jumps in and posts the exact answer. I always wondered about that one 
Could just be a fan, of course, like our Roland Orzabal isn’t really half of Tears for Fears (right? ).