# What field of work are you in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 2, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050 "2010-03-02T22:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/61 "2010-03-03T19:14:13Z")
I’m a secretary for a little local company comprised mostly of my friends. I do a little of everything. (and a lot of nothing 😃 sometimes, like now) The business I work for is a sound company, we provide sound, light, staging etc for events, so my occupation is secretary but my business field is entertainment support. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/62 "2010-03-03T19:33:23Z")
I stuck down R&D 'cos that’s what the organisation does - emphasis on the “R” - but I’m actually a management/management systems/quality/process imprvcement sort of person these days. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/63 "2010-03-03T20:25:49Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Aren’t we all, really? Hardy har! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/64 "2010-03-03T20:27:32Z")
I wish you’d said “Legal Field” instead of “Attorney” in your options. You forced me to be an “other.” I’m a paralegal. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/65 "2010-03-03T20:32:46Z")
I’ve never understood R&D in these categories. I’m somewhere in the middle of Engineering and Information Technology, but really do R&D in these areas. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/66 "2010-03-03T20:36:21Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I’m an attorney, but I work for the government. I picked the former, but the latter applies as well. Likewise. I’m a big-city muni court magistrate. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/67 "2010-03-03T20:40:57Z")
I’m an electrician. ---
**Author:** ![Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diver)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/68 "2010-03-03T21:02:12Z")
Left me out - retired . Was an electrical engineer. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/69 "2010-03-03T21:48:46Z")
I’m a management consultant who works for a Big-4 accounting firm that provides litigation technology consulting services to the banking and insurance industry. So I can check off “information technology”, “finance”, “insurance / risk management”, “accounting” and “legal”. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/70 "2010-03-03T23:21:34Z")
Mathematician ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/71 "2010-03-03T23:27:19Z")
Ms Hook and myself are both retired and sucking lustfully on the public teat. Ya’ll just keep those cards and letters coming every month, ya hear. ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/72 "2010-03-03T23:27:41Z")
I’m a production editor for a magazine, also in publishing. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/73 "2010-03-04T02:35:19Z")
Librarian; depending upon the day, several of those job categories could fit, but I’d need more than one to describe my job in general. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/74 "2010-03-06T07:12:22Z")
My title: Wellsite Geologist or Senior Mudlogger or Logging Geologist or Oilfield Trash. Any of the above work for me. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/75 "2010-03-06T14:33:39Z")
Education/librarianship - like nashiitashii I could be in several categories depending on what I’m doing that day. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/76 "2010-03-07T00:03:11Z")
I’m of the opinion that Information Technology is too broad of a field these days. It would have been nice to either have it by sub category or by industry. ---
**Author:** ![banjoDavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@banjoDavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjoDavid)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/77 "2010-03-07T00:41:26Z")
A type of Artist Professional musician, teacher, recording engineer and producer, radio DJ ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/78 "2010-03-07T07:57:08Z")
Geologist. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/79 "2010-03-07T11:54:45Z")
More oilfield trash here as well… I am an engineer by background, then moved into management now I am doing a human resources type job so I voted for HR but I am at heart an engineer… ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050/80 "2010-03-07T14:06:33Z")
There doesn’t seem to be an option for a person with multiple jobs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-field-of-work-are-you-in/531050.md?page=5)