i'm finishing up undergrad and starting a grad school program this summer.

in the meantime i work in boston as a messenger two days a week (probably four in the summer), drive kids twice a week to hebrew school, and tutor another kid in spanish on the weekends. i might also be picking up a paying position as program director at wzbc in a couple months.

not as many folks in the live end of the entertainment industry responding this time around, so here's me:

current: BFA student in Tech Production (building theatrical scenery) minoring in sound design, and the assistant tech director for the Huntington theater on their current show, and next year I'll be a TA for the welding/general metalworking class and the freshman shop classes for the BU theater department

previous: scenic carpenter for various summer events or theaters, sound technician for a wide range of shows (dinky highschool stuff to massive **** at Rockefeller Center), a little lighting tech work related to the above two, and roofer.

future (when I graduate): marines? (still deciding on that one), might start an indoor rock gym with some friends, some part time bike shop work this summer, I'm also interested in marine salvage/underwater welding and cutting work (need to get scuba experience and certs) and commercial construction and structural welding, but I have no idea how to get into either of those from where I am.

using your degree in it's intended field, or at all, is overrated.

Currently work at a pretty fantastic Seattle bookstore full-time, while studying film scoring and composition part time. Moving back to Boston next year while my gf attends grad school where I'll in all likelihood go back to school full time. In the future I'm hoping to compose for games/interactive media, and film.

We'll see.

man there is alot of production folks on this forum I don't call what I do scoring I don't write music I program I am more a technician than an artist but it definatley reqires skill its fun oh here is a free hint try and get ftp work where you work from home and work off uploads and downloads thats the jam man

I'm a Special Educator working with teenagers who have emotional disturbances. It's never boring and I have great job security.

hopefully a body guard as well

I work with an ex-pro-football player so I'm usually not too worried about my safety. If I get bored I'll sing the bodyguard song to him like whitney.

Taking six months off of school right now for an internship as a mechanical engineer. A week and a half into it, and it pretty much rocks. Maybe luck of the draw because it is an awesome company, I'd like to think I just love engineering. If all of my plans come to fruition, I will end up developing wind power, ocean power, or *giggle* the space elevator, or some combination thereof. I've been driving since I started this internship, but when I get my **** together and fix my light I can start biking again. The hours are flexible, and there is a shower with lockers. When I need to sit at a computer, I share a cube with a friend who wears a sugar glider.

I'm a bike mechanic. Go figure.

Design/Art direction.
Enjoy getting up for work every day. Aided by my ride to work.

amen to that.

Im a bike mechanic 18 years old going at it since i was 16. Live in orem utah. Kinda wish i didnt work at a bike shop. Or i wish we would close earlier. never enough time to ride. usually ride my puegeot around at night.

Right now I am going back to the whole student thing, which makes me feel *OLD*...

Up until last semester I was doing the whole Chef gig at a little cafe here in Minneapolis, I just realized that I could probably find something that pays as well, with less hours and just as fulfilling if I was to go back to school. In the meantime for work I have been working as a butcher at a different little MPLS cafe that just got nominated for a James Beard award...

mmm...decoupage away!

Ha ha!

In the A.M. I work at a ****ty chain coffee shop, but I don't have to do much and I get pretty decent tips for what it is. This free's me up in the afternoon/night for Recording(music). It started as an internship(though i went to school for it, which is debateable if it was a good idea or not, i think probably yes) but now i'm doing more of the engineering and less of the interning, which is great.

Ideally, I'd play music and tour and when I came home, make records for myself and other people. That's a way's off probably though.

I you plan to move to Philly, PM me. I work for a consulting engineering firm that needs CAD drafters. Like my previous post says, I do airfield work, but we also design windmill production facilities, mass transit projects, airport terminals, and higher ed buildings. I've been here for almost a year, can't beat riding to work every morning. We're right on 18th and Market. WooHoo!

Muthaf*ckin' Yeah! Who loves the Space Elevator?

Full time student - BFA photography

Part time:
EB Games 'Game Advisor'
Assistant to the university's photographer
Second shooter for a girl in my class (she has her own wedding photo 'business')
Oxygen technician

(yeah I know, weird collection of jobs. :/)

Sorta relevant: Just got back home after my first interpreting job. Spanish to Hungarian, and Sp is my weaker foreign language by a looong way... but I did OK (which is about as good as an interpreter can ever do). The client is a cool guy, and we share 3 languages to different extents They pay well, and possibly there's a ****load of the same work coming up. On balance, this interpreting thing is pretty cool. Also, next time around I can wear jeans and a mostly clean t-shirt, no ironed shirt and ****... Yessss!

Biotech Engineering.
Specifically: Autoimmune diagnostics manufacturing engineer. I design solutions to production issues involving large scale cell and viral cultures.

Currently a chemist in a division of a European oil company. I work with waterbased polymer dispersions. It's not too bad. Past favorites include: working at a non-profit childrens science museum, a genetics lab that studied salmonoid sex chromosomes, a family owned bakery, and my favorite: a year on a nsf grant where I followed bumblebees and hawk moths.

Does this mean you get paid to breathe?

Freightliner straight truck, no semis for me, but I ride shotgun in them all the time. I work for a foodservice distribution company.

I maintain Surveillance cameras in San Francisco on behalf of Lockheed Martin, Dept. of Homeland Security and the City of San Francisco........FYI, those Red Light Cameras do more than snap license plates. Living in 1984 is reality!