ps veganeric did you ever live in tampa?

multimedia content spec/film editor.

anthropology doctoral student just finishing up my dissertation research on extreme/far right-wing groups in Japan.
class of 2010! woo!

Geographic information systems specialist for a county health department.

^Nice. I did GIS for a while as well.

+1 yep.

I'm a senior software developer for a development house/consulting company. Desk jockeying pays well, so I commute - though my work is 66miles RT, so I do a bike/train/bike deal most of the time.

Woah dude. I grew up in Kalamazoo and went to Portage Northern High School. Where did you graduate from?

For now.. bike mechanic / shop facilitator / instructor.

i work in a cheese sandwich factory

Currently doing my job and other people's jobs for a software co. So basically doing what I really don't want to be doing.

mac technician for it department of media company

Good question. It's fun to learn how people got where they got.

I double majored in physics and philosophy, then got a free ride to grad school in philosophy. For a few years I did the normal Teaching Assistantship stuff that many grad students end up doing, but then money was so tight I got a regular job. Given my background in physics -- which involved using computers to run experiments -- and my background in logic -- from studying philosophy -- I was well suited to computer programming. So here I am.

In the past year, I have decided to take up philosophy again and finish my dissertation. My intention is to get back into teaching, particularly critical thinking / writing, within the next couple of years.

No way! I was born in Kalamazoo too! I moved away when I was young though I went to mooresbridge El in Portage though. Small world!

Yeah boy! I went there as well. Started there in 2nd grade when it opened. Who were your teachers?

did my bachelors in dietetics, and was doing a masters in nutrition science when I got offered a job to manage a lab at a university. Am doing that now, mostly nutrient analysis in biological samples as well as some basic molecular biology work. Moving back home to Los Angeles to finish my masters at the end of summer.

I went to University of Oregon, Math and Econ major. Right out of school, getting a job was tough and initially I sold mutual funds and insurance for 6 months out of school, which was the bane of my existence. My next job was at the HQ for Hollywood Video where I did financial/inventory analysis for their Game Crazy video game retail line of business. Then I used my experience there to arrive at my current position of financial analyst at a bigger company.

Corporate world is a strange, contrived place. Sometimes it zaps your self worth, other times it fuels it. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm doing here and other times I feel like there's nothing I'd rather be doing. My coworkers are odd people but that's OK because I am fairly autonomous over the business processes I oversee and no one micromanages me.

I wish I owned an online bike shop. That will be my next foray.

I do daily corporate safety videos for Shell Oil Refinery in Martinez. I am also a third year film student at the Academy of Art in SF. Awesome school, i love it.

Nope. I guess there's a MPLS messenger that goes by Vegan Ninja Eric. Perhaps he's who you're thinking of.

Thought that said dianetics. I bet if you try to tell someone that at a loud party, they'll make the same mistake.


I have conversations professionally. I'm going to school for new media production, which I like to call it. Basically making forms of news that work well on the interwebs, so photo, video, and a little bit of print. I work at an newspaper right now, which is pretty old media, and it sucks because I have a cubicle for a view. I also screenprint stuff and do freelance sound work for one of my professors.


I think everyone replies with their job, whether or not asked specifically, because that's what people do with a huge portion of their time. I think, also, that some people don't do anything but their job, and "oh, I watch tv" doesn't really start a conversation.

OK, yes, we should not be reductionistic in regards to equating what we "do" with our work...

But, to stick with the theme of the thread, I am a stay-at-home-dad of a three year old girl (Simone) and a ten month old boy (Gavin). During naptime I am trying to write my dissertation as I am a grad student in Philosophy. Doing work around the Phenomenology of Place coming out of the work of Martin Heidegger, Gaston Bachelard, with some infusions of Edmund Husserl and Walter Benjamin (for you Philosophy-nerds). My hope is to have it be rather interdisciplinary pulling in some aspects of city/place planning and human geography. I tell people at parties that I am a topoanalyst (taking from Bachelard).

I commute by bike.

I like this thread.

And because colloquially, "what do you do?" usually asks for your occupation. It's a fair enough assumption that, unless it's otherwise made clear, this questioner expects job-talk for an answer. Sure, sometimes the savage literalists are looking for a list of biological processes, but that's a somewhat rare event.

AAU has it's good qualities and areas of growth. I'm thinking of getting a second bachelor's degree here.

I'm a "interior horticulture tech." which means I water houseplants professionally. I have a mount to hold the watering can on my work bike. I get to play with plants and ride around Boston and Cambridge all day. I get a kick out of watering 30 foot palm trees in the snow.

You, sir, have won this thread.

yeah you are right...which was my point. it was just an observation. personally, i think that is a sad situation. so...take care.