OT: What does everybody do for a living?

For the last 10 years I have worked as a videographer/video crew manager at ballroom dance competitions. Prior to that I worked for many years at a large mutual fund company as a middle manager in their retirement plan recordkeeping area.

I'm a professor of American history.

I have been a GIS mapping technician in the county engineer's office for twenty one years.

Basically, I draw legal lots and right-of-way on a computer, one square mile at a time.

Everything we do is linked to the GPS network of monuments, which have been captured at centimeter accuracy.

We have very high standards because we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

I have just under two years to go before I qualify for Medicare--I'm 63.

I guess I'll just wait and see if it is worth waiting for.

I'm an loss prevention consultant for a national commercial insurance carrier. I work with our policyholders helping them reduce their risk and control their Workers' Compensation, General Liability, and Auto Liability claims. I cover all of Arizona and do some specialty disability management work in southern CA, Nevada and Utah.

First post - awaiting cpap study to get first cpap machine - Occupation - unemployed disabilty pensioner suffering mental illiness of {rapid re - cycling bi - polar 1 and schizoaffective disorder } to crazy in the head to work lol

Cheers Mark

Court investigator, primarily dealing with guardianship applications.

Senior IT Administrator (from hands on to consulting) - under contract to the largest telecom corporation in the country; licensed Real Estate Broker; Small Business Management Consultant (after running 7 Bell stores for almost 25 years); Professional Photographer

Main effort directed towards IT Administration for that is my bread and butter contract just renewed for another 5 years and 'part time' effort which suits me well considering my affliction. The rest I take on as time and energy permit these days for the same reason but I prefer to be a 'busy person' and look forward with great anticipation to the day when my energy and vitality returns so that a full day or two of effort does not result in a day or two of raggedy-Anne syndrome. I have great hope that I am approaching the magic bullet and it is only a matter of weeks. (My AHI is down to <1.0 all the time and is 0.0 on many nights - and is mostly hypopnea events causing SaO2 desaturations which cause awakenings... just waiting for a pulmonologist consult and another sleep study only this time with titrated oxygen being infused into the CPAP line. I saw my records yesterday and APAP DOES make a HUGE difference in my desats and resultant awakenings from REM sleep.... but not enough due to lung damage. Thus the O2 consideration. We are also trying a major increase in pressure of some 25% and that made a difference last night... albeit a bit confusing. Only had two desats. One at 80% for ten minutes and one at 60% for about a minute or so.)

Research Study Coordinator currently working on studies in ophthalmology in a hospital based practice. Volunteer EMT/paramedic for 17 years - finally came off the road 2 years ago.

City Planner for a mid-size southern city. Started as a Technician 20+ years ago, and now Deputy DIrector.

I am a CPA who is been a Tax Accountant for a large publicly traded company for the past 12 years. Basically I handle corporate and international income tax. Before that I worked in public accounting for 3 years.

I am currently working as a Designer/Drafter for a big office product company; I do everything from designing the product to making the Instruction sheets (that includes translating from English to French and Spanish). I have been doing this for almost 2 years. Before that I was a professional painter for 12 years.
I would have to say though that my favorite job is being a dad.

I'm a senior marketing writer for a company that produces tax and accounting software, and I'm also the managing editor of the magazine we send out to our users. Before that, I was a marketing communications specialist in the credit union industry for several years. Oh, and once 5:00 comes, I'm an aspiring chick lit novelist.

State Police Bomb Tech. Basically I drive really fast, carry a gun and blow sh!t up. I've found it's really nice to be as well rested as possible and clear headed. Now if I could only remember red wire or blue one...

Trained as a Chemist - Currenrtly doing DNA Analysis of fungus. A pretty cool job!

I've been an independent documentary filmmaker for many years. I've got a wall full of lots of awards for work broadcast on national PBS, BBC, and translated into many languages for distribution to other countries. They also are distributed to universities and all kinds of groups.

Still doing some of that, but now I'm getting hired to produce videos: corporate videos for on-line annual reports, promotional videos for non-profits to raise funds, family legacy videos to chronicle the family history, etc.