I voted for other...

Currently a student in EE.
Working at a liquor store when at home.

I'm not complaining.

I am a Professor at the University of Hawaii. It is a tough life but someone has to do it.

Artist: Sculpture, Painting, Graphics Design
Interesting to see what a large percentage of engineering/computer tech people on this forum. Paraphrasing George in Seinfeld, I always wanted to pretend to be an engineer. Seriously, I have always admired the commonsense and logical useful minds of tech people.

True, but don't ever let commonsense and logic creep into your art.

Diplomat, but not quoted in wikileaks. Not sure whether that's a good thing or not.

Seismologist, with the U.S. Geological Survey. I didn't see a science/research category so I chose Social/Human Services.

Interesting but your categories don't address the range of stuff we 50+ folk have been engaged in.

By being forced into the closest choice [Computer/Engineering], I must neglect Project Management, High-Level Cyber Security in US government, a career in Clinical Microbioligy, a career in Medical Technology. . .ALL of which were experienced in the context of cycle commuting and cycle fitness.

i hear ya, i hate that i always get classified with the IT folks because i use a computer to create art. i didn't click anything, because other is associated with potpourri, wtf? i hate the smell of that stuff

So, why don't you develop 10 responses (that is the maximum number allowed by the poll software) that captures what you want to capture.

Go ahead, give it a try, and then you can write your own poll that satisfies you.

I figure, as long as one of the choices is "other", you're covered.

There were two MacDonald Foresters in Kamloops. Bob, and Rob. I know Bob.

Yeah - that's why I include it in every poll that I originate.

It's awfully easy to take pot shots at someone else, when, likely, the pot shooter has never attempted a poll themselves. But, if they do, watch out 'cause I'll be waiting for that poll. Heck, that will be a lot of fun --- shoooting holes in someone else's poll!!

Interesting thread.
I wonder if it is our computer geek nurdiness that links us together, or biking?
One person said they were a psychologist. Maybe they have the answer.

dude-ness, where's the love?! we're a dyin' breed here.

Not sure where I should vote except "other". The majority of my career was as a parks and recreation director buying property, planning and building parks and rec facilities and the programs that go in them. The last 6 years I have been working as a operations director in a county board of DD with responsibilities much the same as when I was in P&R.

I thought it was for both ... I'm a Chem Eng who went over to the dark side and developed software.

Worked as a nurse with adult patients in hospitals from 1976 until two years ago, when I moved into a patient safety position. Have been biking to work off and on all that time.

Everything has a price, my friend...

Structural engineering, design, retired now.

Im "Other" for sure!

40 years working in production at a large (smaller now) company.

I spent 25 years Coating light sensitive emulsions onto film. I actually enjoyed working in total dark. I found it to be relaxing for my eyes and I never really had any issues doing my work by feel. I became skilled at conveying webs of thin material through the use of idlers, driven rollers, and air bars just to name a few of the devises we used. I learned how to multi-task and to prioritize. We needed to be able to make decisions in an instant that could cost or save the company literally 100's of thousands of dollars of waste.

When I finally left I had held a job that was just too much for me to stay with any longer. I was responsible for 12 operators, co-ordinating the arrival of up to 25 layers of emulsion with the raw rolls of film awaiting coating for the next 18 hours, all automated flow delivery system performance issues including trouble shooting and repair, maintaining control of the drying machine (all 3700 linear feet of it), and recognizing and resolving all coating, conveyance, and drying issues.

The stress was starting to wear on me so I transferred to another department that did the same operation, but with flamable solvents. All I had to do was run and maintain the automated solvent delivery systems. After four years that department showed signs of dis-appearing so I transferred to the Solvent Recovery Operation, Distilling.

I've been hanging out with these distillation columns for the past 10 years.

I don't really consider the job as a career. The pay sucks, the hours suck, but it's a living. I actually understood job satisfaction towards the end of my 25 year stint in Film Emulsion Coating. I knew my job well and the folks I worked with respected me as a person and as a knowledgable operator. I was beginning to reach that point in the Solvent Coating area just before I left. I'll never see that where I am now. The company has beat everybody down so badly that the job seems more like a punishment than a career.

So even though I've never strayed more than three miles I've seen a lot and picked up several skills. I get my satisfaction in the knowledge that I can probably hold my own in the printing industry, food processing industry, chemical plants, refinerys and some more that don't come to mind right now. I just need to learn to speak Chinese.

My daughters will have much more neatly catagorized careers. One is currently a Model Design Engineer at a prominent Aerospace company. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace option having graduated 'With Highest Honors'. Another has just graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology 'With Highest Honors' and starts Grad school in January. The third will graduate in May with a Bachelor's Degree in Architechural Engineering and has a job lined up in Chicago.

Thank goodness they didn't follow my bad example!

Computer tech. When I started I was working with punched paper tape and 80 column cards. Things have changed.

Chemical engineering undergrad, MBA finance/marketing masters, retired entrepreneur (founded a specialty chemical manufacturing business). Just turned 50.

I resemble that remark. I have worked in semiconductor design and verification for 30 years. I have also been teaching part-time at UCSD for 18 years, so I could mark "eduation," as well.

Laser system design and prototyping.

I remember when they added 1s. Writing programs in all zeros was tedious.