# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/41 "2004-09-02T03:13:58Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > I’m a newspaper marketing analyst. I tell retailers where to stick their ads, but rarely in the place I’d really like them to do it. Nice one! I ought to be in advertising, but work as an in-house propagandist for a rather large corporation. Have published a couple of books, which no one else wanted to publish, including a children’s book about a cat called Piccolo. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/42 "2004-09-02T03:14:17Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Inspired by a discussion started by Qadgop the Mercotan (MD) For the life of me, I can’t place the discussion. Linky? 😕 I think you all know what _I_ do. 🙂 I doubt many of you out there would _want_ my job. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/43 "2004-09-02T03:15:18Z")
I somehow thought this little bit from the Brak Show would be appropo. War is my profession. War is my obsession. Nothing I like better than a violent intercession. Blood must be spilled, thick enough to swim in As I hear the lamentation of my conquered foes’ women. War! It’s good for me! What’s my name? THUNDERCLEESE! You want a battle? Take this! It’s come to my attention that you have no aggression No time for second guessin’. You need a secret weapon. AWAY! -Thundercleese. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/44 "2004-09-02T03:22:15Z")
Um. As with Wallflower, I’m a retail drone for a college bookstore, but I will soon (crosses fingers) be assistant textbook manager. I’m also a photographer, very amateur artist and I used to be a cinematographer. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/45 "2004-09-02T03:22:39Z")
Machinist. I make weapons components. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/46 "2004-09-02T03:24:26Z")
Publishing Executive. Currently running Circulation and Marketing for a boutique magazine publisher (specialty interest - in this case bird watching, feeding, etc. It’s for bird fetishists). In the past I have been in publishing doing… Marketing Advertising Network Admin/Webmaster Editorial (covering the White House) Fulfillment and System design It pays the bills. But most of my off time seems taken up trying to get the capital to launch a set of pubs of my own. That’s where the real fun is. ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/47 "2004-09-02T03:28:27Z")
I am a software engineer working on marine systems. More specifically I work on autopilots for commercial vessels (at least thats my current role). ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/48 "2004-09-02T03:30:33Z")
I am now entering my third year of working in copy centers of varying sizes and types. I know the ins and outs of small binding machines, laminators, Xerox Doc12s, Canon imageRUNNER series copiers, and various other copying and finishing machines far better than I’d really like to. I have no intention of making this my career. As soon as possible I will be returning to school so I can proofread for a living. As odd as it sounds, I actually enjoy correction spelling, grammar, and usage. I have a +10 Red Pen of Apostrophic Doom. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/49 "2004-09-02T03:33:06Z")
I’m an internal medicine resident. That is, I do exactly what J.D. and Elliot do on “Scrubs”, except that in real life it involves a bit more outpatient work and a lot less sex with co-workers. Internal medicine, by the way, is like pediatrics for adults. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Peter\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/50 "2004-09-02T03:33:50Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > For the life of me, I can’t place the discussion. Linky? 😕 > > I think you all know what _I_ do. 🙂 > > I doubt many of you out there would _want_ my job. :dubious: Well, not _your_ job, but do you have any thoughts on jail/prison nursing? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/51 "2004-09-02T03:34:05Z")
Except, of course, when it comes to rereading my own posts on the SDMB. That should, of course, read “correct\ing\,” not “correction.” :smack: I normally don’t go in for the typo-correcting sort of post, but it would seem especially stupid if I didn’t, in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/52 "2004-09-02T03:53:39Z")
I spend much of my working day playing this weird-ass video game on three big monitors in my office. When I score, we drill new oil and gas fields (exploration geophysicist). But much like **Grant** , I’m being sucked into management, and spend much of my time herding our other geophysicists and wheedling money for new video games for them. This is also supposed to produce new oil and gas fields. ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/53 "2004-09-02T04:23:57Z")
I manage DNS and DHCP servers for a midwest university. Sometimes I run screaming from the room. -mdf ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/54 "2004-09-02T04:52:43Z")
Work for the California Legislature, manage a political campaign and am a part time law student. No, I don’t have a life. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/55 "2004-09-02T05:03:10Z")
The title does not even remotely begin to describe my job. Portfolio Services Supervisor. What is that?? I supervise all the outsourced collection agencies working our credit card accounts. My job is comprised mostly of tons of phone work, email and coordinating spreadsheets. It can be emotionally draining and spiritually depressing. But I get to work with interesting people, and I am the client. ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/56 "2004-09-02T05:04:41Z")
I do tech support for a sales company with about 500 employees. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/57 "2004-09-02T05:04:45Z")
Business owner of a day program for developmentally disabled adults. My wife is the program half of the company and I’m the fiscal half of the company. A very fulfilling job since my clients and employees are happy to see me, whether it’s payday or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/58 "2004-09-02T05:06:34Z")
I am a registered nurse. I work for a private catastrophic care hospital and run a program designed to keep people with catastrophic injuries out of nursing homes and in their own communities. My program is a collaboration between my hospital which is a tightly run, responsive _(think it, prove it, do it)_ organization and the state department of health _(think it, write a proposal, prove it, have a committee, have a sub-committee, have a task force, lobby the legislature, beg to do it)_ kind of environment. It helps to be schizophrenic. It helps also that I love my job. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/59 "2004-09-02T05:21:33Z")
Currently, I am a _Alternatively Employed Geologist_ working as a _Technical Document Analyst_ way more boring than it sounds. After September 30th I will just be an unemployed geologist looking for work. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685/60 "2004-09-02T05:24:23Z")
Owner of a general contracting firm catering to absentee landlords, bank foreclosure departments, and property managers. Locksmithing, burglary/fire alarm, CCTV, and access control system design and installation. Principal in company manufacturing and installing automated fume removal systems for fire stations. Instructor-adult evening education. Volunteer firefighter/haz-mat tech. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-profession/262685.md?page=4)