+hmarq Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 I'm a web/code monkey ... Quote Link to comment
+Cloudchaser Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Unemployed network engineer. Was looking for work until I discovered geocaching! (hehe just kidding, still looking but haven't been lucky enough to get a new job since I got laid off in October of 2002.) Quote Link to comment
+Hiemdahl Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Retired, US Army Infantry - 32 years Retired, Lockheed ADP (Skunkworks) - 14years Currently fielding Precision Targeting System for Close Air Support mostly in Europe Provides numerous opportunities for international cache hunts. Quote Link to comment
+Lone Duck Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 You unemployed IT techies scare me. I'm a wannabe network administrator persueing that career change by taking classes. That Quack Cacher: Lone Duck When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Retired (?) and working as wine tasting associate at Chateau Thomas Winery. ==============="If it feels good...do it"================ **(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")** . Quote Link to comment
+T-Mac GH Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 I'm a CPA currently working as a director of internal audit for a manufacturing company. I used to be in the tech biz, but went belly up like everyone else. "They don't serve breakfast in hell" - newsboys Quote Link to comment
+Gizzys Dad Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Gizmo, AKA, Gizzy - pet dog Me - Retired, I do what ever I want for the day. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 quote:You unemployed IT techies scare me. I'm a wannabe network administrator persueing that career change by taking classes. Learn Assembler, COBOL and mainframe OS and the world will beating a path to your door in about 6 years. Unfortunately, I don't have 6 years to wait I shoulda been a cop. My brother and I took the test on the same day. He came out a few places higher than me. He was 18 and I was 20. He got the job and when they asked me, I turned it down. Heck, I was 20 and saw him working nights and weekends. I didn't want to deal with that crap. Now, the joke's on me. He can retire next year at 3/4 salary, w/full benefits and I'm looking for a job He'll be 43 when he retires. Ya know what, Lone Duck. Get a gvt. job! "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry [This message was edited by BrianSnat on August 20, 2003 at 07:30 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Cache Pirate. Sorry, just read another thread and couldn't resist Seriously: Unemployed eMarketer. One of the last dot.com survivors to go down I suppose.... Much like BrianSnat, my brother is a cop too. Quote Link to comment
+hmarq Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: quote:You unemployed IT techies scare me. I'm a wannabe network administrator persueing that career change by taking classes. Learn Assembler, COBOL and mainframe OS and the world will beating a path to your door in about 6 years. Unfortunately, I don't have 6 years to wait I shoulda been a cop. My brother and I took the test on the same day. He came out a few places higher than me. He was 18 and I was 20. He got the job and when they asked me, I turned it down. Heck, I was 20 and saw him working nights and weekends. I didn't want to deal with that crap. Now, the joke's on me. He can retire next year at 3/4 salary, w/full benefits and I'm looking for a job He'll be 43 when he retires. Ya know what, Lone Duck. Get a gvt. job! _"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry_ [This message was edited by BrianSnat on August 20, 2003 at 07:30 PM.] Well ... think of 'nights and weekends' over 25 years, the hazards and such and weigh that against coding COBOL ... you're right, COBOL's worse ... you get my point though. But you're correct in your guidance ... the Assembler/COBOL/Mainframe folks are retiring ... a young guy that knows that stuff (and the new stuff) can probably today (and moreso in the future) name his/her price ... Quote Link to comment
+BusBoy Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 I work in the Service Planning Department of the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA). If anybody in the previous/or future responses is a bus operator, you know that we are inherently evil people that are only happy when we are making the lives of others miserable . I schedule service for one of our divisions, administer many of our production Transit Information Systems and our GIS basemap using ArcView and get to play with an $8 million AVL/CAD system from Orbital . Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Right now I'm just a geocacher, but if there are any Ph.D.'s or M.D.'s looking for a lab tech, specifically in cancer research or molecular bio, I'm currently available. "The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." - Louis Pasteur Quote Link to comment
bmcilvoy Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Kealia, "One of the last dot.com survivors to go down I suppose...." I'm just looking at your photo - are you sure you survived? Bernie Quote Link to comment
+FerretFinder Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Wow I feel like I'm not worthy around all you people. I work in the Country Music Industry and don't have a title because they keep throwing to many different things at me. Website Manager, executive assistant, Broadcast studio engineer, accounts payable, and the give it to her she can to it person. Quote Link to comment
cool_and_the_gang Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Me: Architect. Any others out there? Wife: Mom Kids: Professional kindegarteners. "Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing know happiness!" Quote Link to comment
+WildGooseChase Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Me- AS/400 Programmer/Analyst Better Half - Legal Assistant w/ Engineering Degree getting ready to start Law School. Quote Link to comment
Laogai Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 CEO of a small travel company. We take folks on bike rides in China. 老盖 Quote Link to comment
jarja_grl and G-man Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Regional Manager for a property management company - apartment communities...which means I can generally discuss anything from stopped up toilets to operating budgets to paint colors. Mom to an 18 year old son(daily proof there is a major difference between adult and grown up) and 13 and 12 year old daughters. I have no techie skills so I married them. Quote Link to comment
+Pathfinder & Cowboy Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Metallurgist (27yrs.) One hides a thing too close for the person seeking it to find. Quote Link to comment
The Gingerbread Man Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Why ye cry 'bout an empty cache, but say nothing 'bout the naked pictures that the nudist leaves in them? Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 quote:Originally posted by bmcilvoy:Kealia, "One of the last dot.com survivors to go down I suppose...." I'm just looking at your photo - are you sure you survived? Bernie Yep, you should see the others Quote Link to comment
The Gingerbread Man Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Thats why I got me a standin' order fer all me crew to keep their pantaloons on. Quote Link to comment
+2CacheSharks Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 My husband and I both are heavy civil construction engineers. In other words we build the super highways and big bridges that we all use to go caching. We used to be directionally challenged, now we are GPS challenged. At least we know where we are when we are lost now. Quote Link to comment
+ChrisCindy Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 C1 is a blacksmith, metal artist. C2 is a cancer nurse. The Ugly Puppy-is a rug ornament. When in doubt...hit it with a big hammer. Quote Link to comment
+Cap'n Cache Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 I'm just a high school kid. I'll be a senior this year. After high school I'm looking into an education in computer engineering or something like that. Along the lines of computers in any case... quote:Dan: Animator on video games. Our latest one is wrapping this week!I'm so jealous... That would be so awesome. Quote Link to comment
+GroundClutter Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Cue the scary music... I'm a tax agent. I used to work in Air Traffic as a Flight Service Specialist (sister job to Air Traffic) "You are cleared for geocaching." Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Biomedical Engineer Quote Link to comment
runner_one Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I am basically a one man IT department for a sleep apnea testing company in Tennessee I do everything from database and website design to telephone service. Basically if it runs on electricity I maintain, install repair or write code for it. Quote Link to comment
The Franco Expeditions Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Aerospace Engineer, working on flight simulators. Currently the B-1 Quote Link to comment
+Strapped-4-Cache Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Wow... Until I saw T-Mac GH and GroundClutter's responses, I thought I was the only accounting-type person answering this thread. I'm a payroll accountant for a rapidly-growing service company. Never a dull moment. I HAVE to get out in the real world after sitting behind a desk in artificial light all day. This hobby is helping to keep me sane! S-4-C Quote Link to comment
+GIDEON-X Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 34 Years Aerospace Last twenty worked as a "QE" (quality engineer), Bailed out of the corporate world August 25 1989 ~~~ for the last 14 years I've been doing what ever ~ 3 years in Africa with the Peace Corps, Relief / Developmental work (water sector) in Mexico and Central America And just all around enjoying my self. Mzee ~~~ "And now where" [This message was edited by Mzee & Associates on August 22, 2003 at 01:36 PM.] Quote Link to comment
DiverMan Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I am a Software Quality Assurance Engineer (AKA: Nerd), They write it, I break it. But of course the code that I write is perfect DiverMan Dive Down, Dive Deep Quote Link to comment
SombreHippie Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Freelance Slacker available for hire. Current domain: Retail/Service Slave Most formerly: Sandwich Artist Extraordinaire Schooled in: Retail Marketing Future: Entrepreneur Puppy is also well-versed in slack-ese. "Retired" jazz student, who plays trumpet and bass, former labour/retail slave. Both unemployed. Both have recently returned to mooching from parents. (Ugh.) A great serial killer once said, "Beauty is only skin deep. Trust me, I've looked..." Quote Link to comment
+Pat Patterson Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Millwright for Canada Bread. Basicaly I fix bread machines. Pat Patterson Garmin 12XL 82CJ7 & 79F250 Herd of Turtles 4x4 club Quote Link to comment
+MNMartian Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I drive a schoolbus. 13 years Quote Link to comment
+The G Team Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 G1: Technology Coordinator for a private elementary school part time and Technology Integration Specialist for a public school district full time (manage the ATM facility and community outreach program). Do consulting, networking and computer repair on the side. G2: Ed Tech for a Third Grade class G3: Fifth grade student "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."--Sherlock Holmes Quote Link to comment
+Juggling Kenai Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Kenai: professional daycare attendee - working on his alphabet The two folks juggling him: mathematicians for DoD who often play code monkeys. Quote Link to comment
+Squealy Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I'm an Assistant Principal of a middle school with 1500 maniacs in the heart of Brooklyn. 1625 if you count the teachers too. Shut up and cache! Quote Link to comment
+MNMartian Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 [This message was edited by MNMartian on August 23, 2003 at 07:51 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+MNMartian Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 OOPS! I was trying to edit my first post and totally messed up! SORRY! [This message was edited by MNMartian on August 23, 2003 at 07:53 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+M-Class Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Me - Unemployed Software Developer My wife Luvzbooks is an Ultrasound Technologist. Quote Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Both pharmacists. Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 Quote Link to comment
+Scoobie10 Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 I have the coolest job.....I own a Dairy Queen! I use DQ coins (aka, Scoobie Snacks) as a sig item for caches. I'm also a firefighter. Scoobie Livin' & Dyin' in 3/4 Time Quote Link to comment
Mr. Big Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 Hate it when people ask, because before I get 30 seconds into explaining, their eyes start to glaze over. Paying job: I'm a project manager and editor for a firm that handles a lot of educational data. Much of my work is in administering evaluations of teacher training and educational initiatives. In other words, is what we're doing to all those poor little kids (and their teachers) having any impact? Past lives: newspaper editor, high school English teacher. Not paid: volunteer doing birding tours. Not paid but most important: mediator, psychiatrist, chef, housekeeper, general manager, janitor, carpenter, gardener, handyman -- I'm a dad. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone really isn't out to get you. Quote Link to comment
Team Titus213 Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 Me - unemployed (since 02/03) IT Manager with 35 years experience. Trying to convince they government they should retrain me as a woods product worker or commercial fisherman... She - professional landscape artist at www.thenorwoodstudio.com Together - working on year 36 as a team. Finally getting the hang of it. I think. But then the guy is the last to know..... ------------------------- What are you looking for? Quote Link to comment
+Troop Willow Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Me, I'm a Service manager at a Macintosh Reseller. TRG Computer Solutions. I get to play with G5's and iPods and stuff like that. I only wish there was more GPS software for the Mac. Quote Link to comment
+Huntforit Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 U.S. Navy....read my profile. ************************************************************ "Sometimes you gotta look like an *** to get that cache!"...huntforit ************************************************************ Quote Link to comment
+yummykaz Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Howie who started thread...you sound like Homer Simpson. Me...I have worked 18 years in the Financial Industry at one of the largest investment firms. I love it...everyday is new.I have worked for 10 years for the best boss ever and I drive over 40 miles just so I can be his employee. My job has helped me raise my great kids, pay for college and put some away in the 401k. As much as I would like to be a stay at home mom, I don't like the jobs of the stay at home mom. I hate laundry, dishes, housework. My amazing husband helps me with those things! Dream job: Park ranger in the Guadelupe Mountains. But I do not have a college degree. Girls did not go to college in my family. Quote Link to comment
Colonel Mustard Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Colonel Mustard: Maintenance Supervisor for a LARGE hospital Miss Scarlett: office manager for a drywall company <YAWN> Quote Link to comment
groundhog123 Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I am a Project Manager/Construction Inspector for the Texas Department of Transportation. Quote Link to comment
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