vocation

[kentauros]

Draftsman

How 'bout y'all? :hi:

[onestepforward]

1. I'm out-of-date now,

but I was a Physical Therapist. I had to quit 11 years ago to take care of an elderly parent. Now, a (very) small business owner.
:hi:

[kentauros]

2. Maybe out of date for gainful employment

but never out of date for knowledge and skills you'll continue to use for yourself and loved ones :hi:

[Roon]

3. Institutional cook/driver..cab and deliver driver

My dream job is to work in a school cafeteria. City jobs are impossible to get. Plus, I am a male. Unheard of.

[kentauros]

4. I worked in a school cafeteria for a couple of months.

However, it was the teaching kitchen that served as the cafeteria kitchen for the college (San Jacinto College, North Campus, Houston.) An additional however, was that the regular cooking class didn't get enough students to make a class, so it was just me (a pastry major) and the other cook that had gone through all the cooking classes. So, he had all the recipes and we did every day's meal choices and planning with only the help from the Exec/Instructor taking care of purchasing. Fun! :P

Still, it can be a great job, so I wish you luck in finding one :hi:

[Roon]

14. Thanks Kentauros

[Ptah]

5. Machinist

In the shop the other day. {3:53 video}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if7W2YGpEuk

[kentauros]

6. That's some part!

What's it for?

Also was wondering about the drilling portion: was that a CNC machine?

[Ptah]

7. It's part of a new instrument for a telescope.

The focal plane will have one billion pixels.

http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/ODI/





And, yes, it is a CNC mill.

[kentauros]

8. Even cooler!

And a gigapixel CCD at that! :thumbsup:

Have you ever looked at the Gigapxl Project site? They've got some great images :D

[arbusto_baboso]

9. Social Worker.

With delusions of being a beer writer (I actually do write for a well-known beer blog).

[kentauros]

11. Ah, a beer hunter!

[arbusto_baboso]

13. Indeed. Michael Jackson (the English Beerhunter) is my hero.

He left us too soon.

[Mike 03]

10. I've been struggling with this question for years.

I was trained to be a screenwriter, did that for a couple of years, moved into trying to write novels, then non-fiction books, then very long essays published online, and now I am a blocked writer who lives on investments. So I guess the honest answer is that I am investor. Basically, I am confused as to my occupation.

[kentauros]

12. People keep telling me they like my writing.

Just have to get it all to the publishable part.

Maybe you can write about fictional investments, that is, the current American Banking System ;)

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I worked as a legal secretary/paralegal/court transcriptionist

for 35 years, but I think my true vocation is photography. Too bad I didn't discover I had some talent for it until I was in my late 50s, but I'm enjoying it now that I'm retired, so I guess that's all that matters.

[kentauros]

16. From what I've seen, you're doing a fine job in photography, too

:hi:

Start publishing! ;)

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Thank you.

I think I'm going to have to publish SOMETHING one of these days just for my resume. I just tried to get a media pass for the Iditarod this year and was shut down because I hadn't published anything, even though I directed them to my website and my Iditarod photos from previous years http://www.northernvisions.smugmug.com/Sports , from which I've sold several prints to mushers and fans. People with media passes can go "behind the ropes" to get their shots while the rest of us poor schmucks have to "make do." I think part of the issue, too, is that the Iditarod has an "official" photographer - with a staff even - who has some sort of exclusivity agreement, so he probably doesn't want the competition. He takes great shots, but if I had his access, I'd have great shots, too. :evilgrin:

[kentauros]

18. Are there any other races than the Iditarod that you can cover,

say for a local paper? Maybe just publishing in a paper is enough. Either that or becoming friends with the official photographer so you can show off your fantabulous photos to him :)

[Blue_In_AK]

24. There are the world championship sprint races

here in Anchorage and then various mid- and long-distance races throughout the winter, but most of them are in localities that are quite a ways from here, for instance the Yukon Quest which is going on right now, another 1000-mile race that runs from Fairbanks to White Horse.

I think what I'm going to work on this year is becoming friends with more of the mushers. I actually had some good rapport with a couple of them last year who were going to help me out, make me an official dog handler or whatever so I'd have an armband, but both of them decided not to run this year.

I do have some very nice little business cards (with sled dogs on them, of course) which I'm going to be passing out all over the place this year, especially in Nome where the mushers are a lot more relaxed after the race, so hopefully when 2011 rolls around I'll have an "in."

[blockhead]

19. Union Bricklayer

[kentauros]

20. How long have you been doing that?

Do you ever take photos of buildings after they're completed? I've only rarely had the opportunity to see the fruits of my drafting labors...

[blockhead]

21. about twenty years.

I should take more pictures and like you, I don't get to see the end product a lot of times either.

[kentauros]

22. That's nice!

Is that actually brick or stone? Even if it's brick, it's got a good look to it. I do prefer the look of stone over brick, especially limestone :)

[Forkboy]

23. Trouble maker/seeker.

Like Popeye, I yam what I yam. :)

[kentauros]

25. You get paid to do that?

You must work at a circus. I'll ask my past-wife if she ever sees you :P

[Forkboy]

26. Sadly it's all on spec.

I will do it for money if the right person asks though. :)

[kentauros]

27. Maybe the Daily Show has an opening

or perhaps Conan :D

[KG]

28. unemployed architectural drafter.

[LeftyFingerPop]

29. Degreed Accountant/Trade schooled Carpenter...

Retired/Disabled.

[rrneck]

30. Artist

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