What's your day job?
09-12-08, 09:33 AM
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09-12-08, 02:52 PM
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"I work to ride; I wish I could ride to work!"
Why can't you ride to work?
Why can't you ride to work?
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09-12-08, 05:45 PM
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Sr. Quality Engineer, Quality & Food Safety. Basically my job is to make sure the ingredients we import are produced in a sanitary and safe manner and meet all of our specifications.
09-13-08, 05:56 AM
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09-15-08, 01:24 PM
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I am an ceramic artist, doing the gallery thing and also started doing some speciality work which takes me to trade shows around the country(about four a year so far)
I am using the traveling as an exuse to take my bike and ride it home after the shows, claiming that actual interaction with people for three days makes this a mental health write off.
the drawback is that the routes home are not on any major bike routes, and the time of year is out of my control... so far I have frozen my but off, cooked my brains out, gotten rained on for two weeks, been stuck on roads with no shoulders and lots of drunk rednecks on the 4rth of july, and generaly managed to have a pretty good time anyway. I email and call my agent, deal with insane gallery owners(trust me they are nuts, but they have rent to pay so they sell the work), and have taken one of my largest commisions ever on a cell phone, in the rain while lost as hell, about 900 miles from my studio and office while fixing the third flat of the day. I tried to do the crazy guy journal thing, and had to dedicate to much computer time to emailing for my work.
that said, I am a terrible slacker and would rather ride my bike all the time rather than do anything like work. I taught at university but hated only having summers off, plus the real word called.
I am using the traveling as an exuse to take my bike and ride it home after the shows, claiming that actual interaction with people for three days makes this a mental health write off.
the drawback is that the routes home are not on any major bike routes, and the time of year is out of my control... so far I have frozen my but off, cooked my brains out, gotten rained on for two weeks, been stuck on roads with no shoulders and lots of drunk rednecks on the 4rth of july, and generaly managed to have a pretty good time anyway. I email and call my agent, deal with insane gallery owners(trust me they are nuts, but they have rent to pay so they sell the work), and have taken one of my largest commisions ever on a cell phone, in the rain while lost as hell, about 900 miles from my studio and office while fixing the third flat of the day. I tried to do the crazy guy journal thing, and had to dedicate to much computer time to emailing for my work.
that said, I am a terrible slacker and would rather ride my bike all the time rather than do anything like work. I taught at university but hated only having summers off, plus the real word called.
Good for you. Great you can involve your cycling in the work. I'm with you on being a slacker who prefers riding to working. I suspect it's an art thing.
09-15-08, 09:59 PM
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Now I need a bigger suit.
09-16-08, 03:09 PM
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I am a student at UNC Greensboro.
I also work at a bike shop here on the weekends.
On the weekdays, I intern at the Bicycle & Pedestrian planning departement at our DOT.
I also work at a bike shop here on the weekends.
On the weekdays, I intern at the Bicycle & Pedestrian planning departement at our DOT.
09-17-08, 08:03 PM
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I'm a firefighter/paramedic(24 hrs on/48 off)+parent of 3 active kids(24-7). I manage to get in about 3500 miles of riding a year with alot of those mile coming from long am commute rides before my shift. I also try to get away for 3-5 day tours once a year and hope to take some longer ones after the kids are grown.
