Yu left out any career in the arts. I'm a photographer.

I’m a community hospital-based pathologist. I met one other one on Bike Forums named pathdoc, who offered me to look at job down in Texas, but I didn’t want to change my user name. :innocent:

I spent 35 years as a Commercial Advertising Photographer. Now I work part-time as a custodian in a Library (until my wife retires). It's great in that I have time for home reno's and , most important, riding my bike.

Doug

House Husband, ie: Chief cook and bottle washer! I do it so my wife can come home and sit on her !@# after working like a dog at her "SLAVE WAGE" job! Many moons ago before the Reiter's Syndrome, I was a "FACTORY RAT", mostly supply, storekeeping or inventory work but all those skills are like dust in the wind and I'm of no use to our insane society!! YMMV ;)

Ready mix concrete, delivery and placement specialist.

So, which end are you working with? Or should I say top or bottom?

In reverse order over the last 50 years:
Computer Programmer,
Electric Utility Lineman,
Union Ironworker,
Typewriter Repairman (remember those?),
Stock Clerk,
Bank Clerk,
Retail Tobacco counter clerk (Leavitt & Pierce),
Sweater Factory worker,
Golf Caddy,
newspaper delivery (by Schwinn, of course).

And I should be retired Jan 25, 2011.

Worked in hi-tech for 24 years doing storekeeper to materials control back to shipping and recieving when laid off

wpt

I've spent the past 12 years as a county reference library assistant and hope, once I graduate in May, to spend the next 12 as a paralegal. Anybody need a freshly-minted paralegal? :D

Varied careers:
Typographer
Designer
Government
Free lance writer
. . . and best of all:
RETIRED!

I spent 10 years as a restaurant manager before switching to the computer industry.

I spent 40 years working in the computer industry where I started as a programmer and finished as a project manager. I loved the job but left when they started all the outsourcing.

I keep checking back on this thread hoping that the category I checked will move out of the minority position, AND it... wait for it.... hasn't. :(

In reverse order:

Current - Occupational Health and Safety Consultant (with a little bit of Environmental thrown in)
Former lives: Manager, then technician then truck driver, then yard dog/grunt/FNG...

40 years in different forms of management, I'm better at making work than doing it.

And, what conclusions could a social scientist draw out of the fact that we have only 3 responses in the human/social services field?

Didn't your parents try and tell you? The arts aren't a real career. ;)

I'm a commercial animator bringing those phrases like "Buy Now!" and "This week only!" to life.

I have a degree in engineering and an MBA. I usually call myself an engineer.

I've been working in oil and natural gas all my career, except for when I was in USAF.

I enjoy what I do, and, if I can, I plan to keep working at it until I come to room temperature.

I am a Mechanical Engineer and retired from the Navy where I was involved with engineering my whole career. Now own a small company that does marine electrical repair and renovations for private and commercial vessels. Still get to do a fair bit of engineering.

Charlie

That all the people-persons are out actually talking to people face-to-face, instead of on the Net?

I guess I would have to check off the "other" category since being a scientist doesn't seem to fit anything else. I have done both research and analytical chemistry for many years and held only 3 different jobs, the current one being the longest. I have one more regular working day to go. The powers that be saw fit to hire a new supervisor recently. He wasn't even alive when I started my science career but he sure knows a lot about everything and doesn't hesitate to let one know it. I was probably going to retire next Spring but instead gave notice two weeks ago when it became really intolerable. I've often worked for younger supervisors but the latest crop seems to be real winners. It is amazing how fast things can change.

Ok, I am definitely an engineer and NOT a computer!

I went from electrical engineering to systems engineering, now I do functional safety - i.e. don't worry about if it's hardware, software, or whatever, just make it safe.

I'd bet it's no conclusions - the sample size is too small. Now hypotheses, that's another story!

Cook - 7 Years
Automotive Parts - 20 years
Southern Baptist Pastor - 10 Years (although this is kind of like being in a biker gang, you aren't really out until you are dead ;-) )
Currently Sr. Systems administrator for a national company (14 Years)

English teacher, retired