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BS in industrial technology with emphasis on CAD and Electronics...

I design Printed Wire Boards or PCBs and housings for wireless products. These are all multi-layer complex designs that require the latest in Design for Manufacture processes... think of the heart of the iphone (good friend and former co-worker did that) or handheld Sat phones as examples of the kind of work I do. I joke with my family that due to the transmitter/receiver radio nature of my work, and the small designs demanded by the public, I essentially figure out how to put an elephant in a shoebox in a way that he can't smell his own butt.

OK, so now reading through several pages of this thread... it seems like there are an awful lot of professionals with degrees that bike commute... hardly the case that "if you commute by bike, you don't have an education."

So how do we convey to the world that hey, we cyclists are indeed not the lowlifes that some apparently think we are... we are regular breadwinners who are your neighbors and co-workers and we merely choose to bike rather than drive. (although I have to admit I do look rather scroungy when I commute in my t shirt and shorts on my comfortable old ride... )



Contrast that to my college days...

From what I understand, Chinese people see bicycle riding as a sign of poverty, so everyone in China buys a car if they're at all able to afford one and uses it as much as possible even if it's silly to do so. Take that in the country with a huge population highly concentrated in a few small areas, add in the fact that Chinese built cars have basically no pollution controls and you get the conditions that you see in Chinese cities these days, where there's so much pollution that you can't see across the street some days and there are estimates that it's taking 5 to 10 years off the lifespan of residents.

I was in Xiamen China about eight years ago. The stereotype image of bicycle clogged streets is stuff for the history books. Car has become king in China, and besides the perceived poverty issue, cycling in that chaotic traffic is seen as just downright dangerous.

I'm sure that taking every person off a bicycle and putting them in a car didn't help when the streets were already clogged when they were on bicycles.

I also proudly have a G.E.D., and an AA Degree. Been working in the IT department at a college for the last 22 years.. I commute 4 to 5 times a week on the bicycle. And my bicycle comes right into my office. No outside or rack parking.

I push buttons at a nice big public university somewhere in the Eastern Timezone.

BS in Computer Information Systems. I work primarily Systems and Software Engineering at an Aerospace company in Southern Ca. Been doing it for ten years, having fun with it still!

Sloughed through high school, graduated, but just barely. Technical training "A School" in the Navy. Community college, part time "high school do-over", this time college prep. Then real college work, all while working my way up as a machinist. Transferred, and eventually graduated from a State University with an engineering degree, nineteen years after getting out of high school.

Can't be cycling, on the clock.

It's kind of funny how the view of cyclists depends on where you are.

I have seen people who advocate better infrastructure chastised on online forums. They say wanting to get around by bike is a "first-world hipster" issue. Tell that to the billions of people that get from A to B on bicycles.

It's hard to do when you don't have much control over the dialogue. (I'm in the minority in a couple other ways, and it can be frustrating.) Even though educated professionals who bike because they want to are the majority posters on this forum, the homeless/poor are the ones that stick out in the minds of the public at large.

Here's a good link, if you like answering queries with those: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/...ch-with-bikes/

I've decided not to worry about it too much -- I ride to have fun, and if other people are inspired to ride their bikes because I look like I'm having fun, awesome.

I work on high end English/German cars doing autobody work. I usually get a good laugh out of people when I tell them that I'm a cyclist but fix cars for a living. Decent living and a very relaxed work setting.

Here...

I work at a small bike shop as a mechanic/salesman/janitor. (there are generally only two to three guys on the clock all day, you have to do it all)

I don't currently have a job. I am currently looking and have an interview tomorrow as a small engine mechanic.

I am a student at a local community college, soon I will be transferring to a university after I finish up some research at this school. I went to college early and I would technically be a senior in high school. Instead I am a sophomore in college. I am working towards an earth science degree, specifically geology, also possibly a minor in botany.

I cycle to school, and will cycle to work, when the weather is permitting, school is a 32mi RT, work would be 18mi RT from the school.

I'm a flagger at road construction sites, accident scenes, or for whatever other reason I'm needed. I've had other jobs along the way: Being a certified deckhand, I've worked on a ferry in Northern Alberta, been a call rep for FedEX (US customers) and worked briefly for the railway.

Hello Neighbor!

OK I'll play along ... currently a technical writer for a bank. Prior to that I did marketing communications for an insurance company and before that, I was a newspaper reporter for 11 years. I'm also a part-time photographer.

My shop has one employee... a curmudgeonly old guy that sometimes shows up late, takes too many breaks, but he does some fine work.

I don't know why we keep him around.

I was a submariner with a GED that took his binary skills out with him to the civilian world and builds large business phone systems (the software side) for fortune 500 clients. Until my recent gift of a real job commuting to an office 6 miles each way I spent the last 14 years working from home living the commuter lifestyle vicariously through you guys . Now I get to do it too.

Looks like my dining room (I'm a bachelor)

I work in one of those big companies that everyone loves to hate. I have a Masters degree from the University of Minnesota. This thread puzzles me though. It may be just an SF Bay area thing, but I have never caught the vibe that only poor, homeless people bike.

ENJOY THAT! I miss the bachelor days when my bike/trainer was set up on the "guest" side of the bed and I could wrench in the living room.

Mine also has a fridge...

Can't quite make that out. Is that a carboy of Molson Canadian?