dsurveyor Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Consulting Professional Surveyor in Michigan for 30 years and a Commercial Pilot. Experience - A list of non fatal mistakes. Quote
Team Kender Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jolly B Good:Cartoonist, Writer and Game Designer here. Been doing it fulltime for 12 years. I won't post any pictures here. If anyone is curious they can check out our website below. 2/3rds of my workday is from a home office. The other 1/3 is spent at my desk at the company offices working on various projects. I have a very flexible schedule (the neighbors all think I'm retired) so it's easy to make time for caching. Hey, small world... a workmate (Erol) painted a cover for one of your books a couple of months ago. -Dan Team Kender - "The Sun is coming up!" "No, the horizon is going down." Quote
+Lefty Writer Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Lab supervisor (Surgical Pathology gross room) at UTMB in Galveston, TX. carpe cerevisi Remove the NOSPAM from my e-mail to contact me. Quote
+Snoogans Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Aramco 15 Years!!! and man of many hats there.... Security Shift Supervisor (In house)& Classroom and Firearms Instructor Texas Security Officer Commision Instructor Texas Concealed Handgun License Instructor Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Instructor NRA Instructor: Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, Personal Protection, Refuse to be a Victim NRA Certified Law Enforcement Armorer Smith and Wesson Academy Certified SW-99 Armorer DPS Certified Civilian Fingerprint Recorder and soon to be Notary and also Verbal Judo Instructor (fingers crossed on that last one.) Wannabe SF writer........ Sngans The greatest labor saving invention of today is tomorrow.... Quote
auntyweasel Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Animal Control Officer Never invoke anything bigger than your head. Quote
Ruthfilled Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 I own and run a coffeehouse near Akron, OH. Its the dream job for me...I heard that dreams come true, not free. I wouldn't trade it for the world, though =) Quote
+BullCrab Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Me: Retail Exec Manager... Sandy: Helpdesk Fun Fun...and ya wonder why we love to cache instead... Cool deal. ~~Cache Money Bling Bling~~ Quote
+GoJoey&GoPollyanna Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Wow What a gaggle: Shure a lot of geeky types: Me A Building Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor who will be retired in 2 months at the ripe old age of 57 to pursue a full time career as GeoCacher when not doing the all important Honey Dew List. A CACHE A DAY KEEPS THE BLUES AWAY Quote
rothko-n-meta Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 rothko: edits college textbooks and the instructor's manuals, CD-ROMs, etc that go with them meta: builds websites and does other techie stuff to keep the sales force of a really huge hardware & software company informed about the products they're selling Quote
+Howie57 Posted June 16, 2003 Author Posted June 16, 2003 Yes it does seem like alot of tech's here......... and i'm feeling that pain about being indoors......... just have to get out, my job is making me crazy......now off to cache. Howie Thanks for posting all, the rest of you come on............... Quote
+woodsters Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Stay at home dad with my nearly 2 yr old daughter. Run an outdoors website as well as a website for medical coders (for my wife). Formerly a Correctional Officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and state of Georgia, Police Segeant for the Georgia Dept of Human Resources, and Secuirty Policeman for the US Air Force. Brian Wood Woodsters Outdoors http://www.woodsters.com Quote
+Tomebug Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Stay at home, homeschooling mom of 2. Although we're hardly ever home! Quote
Trogdor! Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Geologist When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout! Quote
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Disabled Measurement Tech.The Radio Activity and the Mercury got me.But I'm still kickin........................ THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE FOREST DOES NOT EVEN LIVE THERE*********WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS*GEOTRYAGAIN **1803-2003 "LOUSIANA PURCHASE" 200TH ANNIVERSARY AND THE "LEWIS AND CLARK EXPADITION" http://lewisclark.goeg.missouri.edu http://www.lapurchase.org http://www.msnusers.com/MissouriTrails Quote
+DapperDanMan Posted June 16, 2003 Posted June 16, 2003 Aglet Installer. Aglets are those plastic things on the end of shoelaces. Quote
+oregone Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Part-time Markweller. In my spare time, i dance. Seriously. I'm a professional and heterosexual dancer. Check me out. I'm the third guy from the left. all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed Quote
+jollybgood Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Team Kender:Hey, small world... a workmate (Erol) painted a cover for one of your books a couple of months ago. -Dan Team Kender - "The Sun is coming up!" "No, the horizon is going down." You know Erol, eh? Very cool. I'm a huge fan of his work. Getting him to do one of our covers really had me dancing in the halls. Tell 'em I said "Hey!" Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com "Never declare war on a man who buys his ink by the gallon." Quote
gilkman Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Guns and knives 4: Special Agent with the USG... gilkman www.gilkeson.net/geocache Quote
+Florafloraflora Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 I work in Geographic Information Systems for a large local government. The people are great and the work is varied enough to stay interesting. I'm working on getting my coworkers to join me in my caching addiction. So far I've recruited one person who has joined GC.com - my boss, evilwoman - and others who go along on cache hunt but aren't joiners, not yet anyway. Quote
+team travel pig Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 journalist here, my husband is a photographer, adn the pig just sticks around as long as we're travelling... ___________________________________ who's got the pig? Quote
+NevaP Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Blissfully Rretired and free to cache: From careers as: Entomologist, full time stay home Mom, part-time income tax consultant. Spouse and sometimes cache-hunt helper is a retired entomologist who is still submitting grant proposals to finance Black Fly research. Quote
Team Kender Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jolly B Good: quote:Originally posted by Team Kender:Hey, small world... a workmate (Erol) painted a cover for one of your books a couple of months ago. -Dan Team Kender - "The Sun is coming up!" "No, the horizon is going down." You know Erol, eh? Very cool. I'm a huge fan of his work. Getting him to do one of our covers really had me dancing in the halls. Tell 'em I said "Hey!" Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com "Never declare war on a man who buys his ink by the gallon." He says Hey back. I'm glad we talked about this, I knew he and the owner of my company go way back with TSR but I had no idea that Erol did the original cover for Deities and Demigods... geeze I'm surrounded by living history! -Dan Team Kender - "The Sun is coming up!" "No, the horizon is going down." Quote
+jollybgood Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 quote: I'm glad we talked about this, I knew he and the owner of my company go way back with TSR but I had no idea that Erol did the original cover for Deities and Demigods... geeze I'm surrounded by living history!-Dan Team Kender - "The Sun is coming up!" "No, the horizon is going down." Wow. Now I'm curious. I'm trying to think of ex-TSR folk I've lost track of. Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com "Never declare war on a man who buys his ink by the gallon." Quote
+GatoRx Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Poor college student with less than a year to graduation. I dream of making the big bucks, so that I can pay off six years worth of student loans ---- When in doubt, poke it with a stick. Quote
padrefan98 Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Hi, Me: Material Specialist Her: Court Clerk Them: Driving me crazy, "Daddy can we go find more treasures?" hahah have I got them fooled!!! Quote
+Spzzmoose Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Ok all you techies...especially engineers and auto related. Check out this add. Its all car parts shot in real time. It took 606 takes to shoot. Pretty cool!!! Honda add Spzzmoose & "the monsters" Quote
+Web-ling Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 At the moment, I'm a ComputerGeek/InventoryAnalyst/Trainer in Texas. Starting in August, I'll be a 7th-8th grade Science teacher in Cincinnati. Quote
+Web-ling Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Sugar Kane:So far I've recruited one person who has joined GC.com - my boss, evilwoman You work for my mother-in-law? Quote
+wimseyguy Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Very lo-tech. Use knives and fire, but no guns. I'm a chef/restaurant owner. These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes; Nothing remains quite the same. Through all of the islands and all of the highlands, If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane Quote
Astropilot Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Unemployed mainframe & client/server programmer. Looking for gainful employement. Good enough... Never is!! Quote
+Team Og Rof A Klaw Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 A software architect and a penetration tester (another "white-hat hacker" like RuffRidr.) Yep, a geeky crowd, but I think the place kinda filters for that. ____________________________ - Team Og Rof A Klaw All who wander are not lost. Quote
+mogolloyd Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Crew Scheduling Duty Manager for a regional airline. I make sure there are crewmembers on the flights and that they (the crewmembers) or my department don't break any rules set forth by the unions or the Federal Aviation Regulations. (BTW BrianSnat, our IT dept is hiring, the pay is ok, and you get to fly for free) Quote
+J. Galt Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 I am a sales manager for Lamar Billboard advertising. Wanna be geek, but never had any training. We use gps in my work to catalog locations of our displays, so this was a cool and fun progression, plus I get my gps for free. Quote
zilla Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Me? I work in an eraser recycling plant.. We take all the old, used pencil, and art gum erasers and re-cycle them into new ones. Quote
+Team GeoCan Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Past? 16 year USAF SSgt. Aircrew Life Support, and Physiological Support. Survival instructor. Workedon many systems for USAF, including the STS (First five Missions) and the Sr-71, U2R, and TR-1A. Full Pressure suit technician. (Space suits, environment suits, Eva Suits... Those thingies) Later- Worked security as a supervisor, then Managed Mobilehome Community. Still later, and Current Mr. Mom to three "special Kids" and full time Genealogist and Internet researcher. Oh- Yeah,I run the International Blacksheep Society. Favorite quote: Genius: Noun; a person with the innate ability to reach a wrong conclusion faster than anyone else. Jeff Scism, IBSSG http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/ Time to hide a treasure inside, and what will we find? A dream a trinket, stimulation for the mind? Log: Neat stuff, Thanks!! Log Two: Took serial number keychain, put stuffed dog back. Log Three: Took log pages, No TP. Log four: Took Ammo can, Left nothing. Quote
Team Domino Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 I'm transitioning from Network Administrator to Video Production. I have found the IT market to saturated here in Wisconsin to continue on with it. One half of Team Domino Quote
+TeamBoonieHat Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 Department Supervisor at Home Depot( we use computers there so ...nah) and Avenger Platoon Sergeant in the Florida National Guard. Daughter is an aspiring middle school musician and son is an aspiring elementary school artist. Wife doesn't do swamps, snakes or gators. Those are the main ingredients in Florida caches. Quote
www.wheresgeorge.com Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 I'm one of those people who listen and try to communicate to another as to what you want and how you want it... I take orders all night long and try to get them right and right away... So you will leave me a great tip to log into WHERESGEORGE.COM and spend it on the way to a cache tomarrow... I am a waiter and I want another job, GOT ONE? Quote
+TexDoc Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 Material Planner/Buyer for a semiconductor manufacturer. I get my techie fix through ham radio. Quote
+The Outlaw Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 International Product Support (Sustaining) engineer for a computer company. Wayne (The Outlaw) Geocacher, Poison Ivy magnet, and Chigger food. Quote
puckstopper29 Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 I'm a FedEx driver, and I go caching occasionally on my lunch, unfortunately, there are scarce few caches in my area. I've planted one and have a few more in mind to hide. Quote
Blackfoot Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 Well I guess me and the wife are really outside of the mainstream here! Me: I stay at home and take care of our animals, and Farm our five acres, and am an artist when I feel enspired. My wife, Keeperofthehorse: Works for the Idaho State Department of Agriclture during the week, and helps with the farming and animals on the weekend. When we find a berak. We Geocache. Blackfoot Life is a gift, unwrap it and use it to the fullest! Quote
+Zoraima Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Me: Rehabilitation teacher for the blind and visually impaired. I work with senior citizens who are losing their eyesight. I go to their homes and teach them adaptive living skills they need to stay independent and live at home. Husband: Unemployed network security admin. Hopefully about to be re-employed which will make me the unemployed one in the house! ----------------------------------------------------------- Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. --Galadriel, "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship Of the Ring" Quote
+cachecrazies Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Mrs. Crazy - Chief Court Clerk of Distict Court in an Arkansas county - Good guys, Bad guys - who knows the difference??? Mr. Crazy - 1 man show - CEO, President, Janitor, Designer, Builder, Manufacturer of custom furniture & cabinets Geocaching expands your horizons - not your butt! Quote
+Nurse Dave Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Um, I'm a nurse. Not too techie here. ---Real men cache in shorts. Quote
+Houston Muggles Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 Me - I am the Assistant Director for the Ronald McDonald House at Texas Children's Hospital Ronald McDonald House My wife - Customer Service for SBC Quote
+Webfoot Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Howie57:What do you do for a living? Teacher. School starts on Monday. I report back to work tomorrow. It's been a good summer, but I'm looking forward to going back to work. I like my job. Webfoot Yeah, sure....but did he use a GPSr to find it? Quote
+The Marauders Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 Cultural Resources Managaer (Archaeologist) Quote
bmcilvoy Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 I'm retired. Some of my friends (who are still working) say I'm retarded. In any case: Active rock climber past 38 years. Civil Engineering for a local government - 31 years. Head rock climber for Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit - 20 years. Placing quality caches - just over 2 years. Bernie Quote
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