I’m a trading specialist: I work with people who buy and sell mutual funds, stocks, and sometimes bonds in order to keep our clients’ portfolios in line with the models they’ve decided on. Sometimes, I do that job; usually, I check what they do to make sure they did it properly and that it actually gone done.
But I’ve always wanted to be … an editor! Seriously, I’d love to get involved in some proofreading. For words, instead of numbers. The degree in Linguistics would seem so much more appliable…
Of English, that is.
I am also a writer, editor and proofreader; assessment specialist (evaluator of placement exams for English); and faculty association Exec. board member and Rep.
I own and run a company that does artist management, concert promotion and club booking. I also spend a lot of time on the road with my acts.
Where my energies are focused depends on the time of year. In the fall and winter I’m promoting more concerts, and working with my managed acts to plan the next spring/summer tours and recording plans. In the summer I’m on the road a lot more. Regardless, I spend literally half my day on the phone - talking to lawyers, agents, labels, publicists and the like. It can be hectic and nerve-wracking, but incredibly fulfilling (for me, anyway.)
Most of the concerts I do are mid-sized - no crazy big acts, but quite a few mid-sized national acts.
I freelance as a producer and sound engineer during the slower times of the year.
Every blue moon I get out and play myself, but I pretty much retired from full time performance about ten minutes after I started the company.
I miss it a lot, but on this side of the business it’s a LOT easier to make a real living.
What I consider to be my profession is Oracle Database Administrator.
What I actually do is fill out applications, and Search job web sites, in between periods of carrying heavy things, Building fences, steaming carpets, entering in data, mucking cement, digging holes, cleaning yards, calling annoyed people, playing dice in bars, encouraging certain people to leave bars, gripping movies and tutoring computer students.
I was a software engineer for many moons. I haven’t worked for several years though, so I try to make money trading stocks online. I still post my resume to job openings, mostly just for grins, I know I will get a call-back for about one out of fifty postings. If only I had secret clearance, or so it seems here in FL.
I am a Systems Engineer. I do performance monitoring and capacity planning for the SUN and HP Unix servers. I also organize data center moves, order circuits and a bunch of other techie sort of things.
I teach preschool part-time, a Fours class (that means four-year-olds).
Three mornings a week, and an afternoon class on Fridays. It’s lots of fun - I get snack time and get to play on the playground everyday!
I’m a Program Officer (which has nothing to do with handcuffs) for a non profit philanthropic organization.
What I do is evaluate the applications of everyone who comes to the organization wanting us to grant them money for their agency. I read though the stuff, do site visits, critique their applications, and make my recommendations to the committee for approval (or not). I also spend some time researching current needs and programs locally and nationally so I can keep up with what’s really going on out there in the real world.
There’s also a bit more that goes into it all, but all of those are the minor details.
Project manager for an IT contractor that services the telecom industry.
Our biggest customer is SonyEricsson, the mobile phone maker. We run their web site (the “Fun and Downloads” part). We also make billing solutions for Telia, the biggest carrier here, and for a Sri Lankan company.
Digital Video Specialist - I convert VHS tape to DVD, create menuing, packaging, and a professional disc top. It combines my graphic design background with my love of video.
I’m a telecom project manager for state government. I build data centers, design fiber optic and digital microwave data transmission routes, and ride herd on contractors. Fun!
I wonder if you’ve sold us anything. We lived in Havre de Grace the first year I lived in the US.
I neglected to mention that I work only part time. I have a kid to boss around, and soon will have another one who will boss me around. When the new one comes, I’ll probably work for Weirddave on his home-based business.
Qadgop, I can’t remember the thread - I think it’s the one where your patient was bleeding into his urine - and you were asking about other doctors on the board.
Just curious - how do you pronounce “Havre de Grace”? I ask because I’ve noticed that American placenames aren’t always pronounced like I’d expect (like Cairo, Kentucky, which is pronounced “K-Ro”). I find the subject fascinating for some reason.
I do quality management audits - ISO 9001, second party standards, stuff like that. Like a lot of you I’m now spending a lot of my time managing people who do the audits, but I still do a lot myself.
I am what my firm calls a Production Control Planner. Very basically that involves preparation for and schedulding of processes that run on the firm’s servers, and also coordination of problem resolution when processes fail to finish properly.
I work with one other Planner. We are involved just about every business day in matters directly related to production of the firm’s products, and also with various business support systems.
One of us is on-call 24-hours a day, seven days a week for a month at a time, as we very frequently must schedule processes to be executed after regular business hours and during weekends and holidays, and one of us has to be available in case of any problems. I took over as on-call for September yesterday morning.
I work for a decent-sized Mortgage Company, in their back office. I determine the rates for the various loan products we offer, help manage our interest rate risk by analyzing the locked loans in our pipeline, and sell our funded or nearly-funded loans to various investors. I don’t quite have a title, but if I did, it would probably be VP, Risk Management.
