# What is your profession? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 2, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685 "2004-09-02T01:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/221 "2004-09-15T00:20:37Z")
> [@wheelie](#): > > I’m a motorcycle technician. BMW, Triumph and vintage British bikes mostly. > It’s all **unclviny** ’s fault. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!, this is the second crapola job that I have sucked \*\*WHEELIE[/] into. I drive to various Shitholes (generally in Texas) and live in crappy conditions for weeks at a time while pretending to be a Geologist (officialy I am a “Senior Mudlogging Technician”), I monitor various parameters and look at rocks during the drilling of oil and gas wells, I am changing areas soon moving from South Texas to Northeast Texas. But my dream (I am less than a year away) is to be a self-unemployed small business owner and that is my focus right now. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/222 "2004-09-15T05:46:49Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > But my dream (I am less than a year away) is to be a self-unemployed small business owner and that is my focus right now. Heheh. Self unemployed sounds much cooler than plain old unemployed. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/223 "2004-09-15T06:44:21Z")
> [@auntie em](#): > > I am an editor at a company whose name is often used as an adjective synonymous with “schmaltz”. 😉 Heh. I guess that would make me a graphic designer at a company whose name is often used as an adjective synonymous with “schmaltz”. ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/224 "2004-09-15T10:28:58Z")
> [@maeglin](#): > > Any chance you work in the New York hub? Hehe, no, that would be too much fun! I’m UK based, Brighton. Was over in NY last year for a vist. The Tower is rather nice. Was up on the 38th I think with the Compliance crew. Anyway, shouldn’t you be working 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/225 "2004-09-15T13:46:26Z")
> [@BadBadger](#): > > Hehe, no, that would be too much fun! I’m UK based, Brighton. Was over in NY last year for a vist. The Tower is rather nice. Was up on the 38th I think with the Compliance crew. > > Anyway, shouldn’t you be working 😃 Working? Nonsense. I don’t start until the 27th. 🙂 But now I know that at least one person in the firm already knows about my SDMB habit… ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/226 "2004-09-16T00:10:45Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > I’m a medical technologist in the pathology department of a VA hospital. I’m not a medical technologist, but I bet you _hate_ it when people call you a “medical technician” because they don’t know difference. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/227 "2004-09-16T00:50:24Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I’m not a medical technologist, but I bet you _hate_ it when people call you a “medical technician” because they don’t know difference. After a while, it isn’t worth the breath to try to correct them. However, people get really interested in what I do when I say I used to do urine/blood analysis for drugs… Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/228 "2004-09-16T01:44:58Z")
At the moment I’m a full-time (and then some) SAHM with twin babies. When the kids are old enough that Daddy is willing to spend a whole day watching them all by himself, then I’ll go back to being a professional artist doing quick-sketch portraits at art fairs, craft fairs, etc. I’ve also sold a few paintings and drawings here and there. Prior to self-employment, I worked at 38 different jobs (counting temp assignments and teaching). I’ve worked for architects, accountants, marketers, a pharmaceutical company, a lawyer who wouldn’t wear shoes, the two big soft drink companies, the public library, University professors, and a luxury home builder; I’ve done fast-food, telemarketing for the Symphony, accounts payable and receivable, retail sales, service coordinating, payroll for a real AFL-CIO union, proofreading for a leading provider of weather forecasting, taught some art classes, and sold bird houses and (now banned) ant poison to hardware stores over the phone. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/229 "2004-09-16T05:10:50Z")
I’m a writer for a community college. Slightly more specifically, I’m the communications person for a grant-funded project with the general goal of increasing student success. ---
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/230 "2004-09-16T09:10:47Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Inspired by a discussion started by Qadgop the Mercotan (MD), what is your profession, job, career? Currently, I teach English to Chinese kids at an primary school in a suburb of Shenzhen, out near Hong Kong (and by “near” I mean “close enough to see the barbed-wire fence guarded by soldiers with AK-47s”). _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/231 "2004-09-16T22:40:16Z")
I teach 7th Grade Reading. I just got my Masters’ in Guidance, so I hope to be a Counselor soon. I also work the Front Office at a supermarket on weekends and school breaks. My husband has a slightly more interesting career; he’s an over the road truck driver. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685.md?page=11)