What are your professions?

[Kintamayama 41,286]

I'll say it for the thousandth time. Reading what you people do for a living makes me feel so inadequate. Reminds me of those blind map quizzes where so many members knew world maps perfectly where I hardly knew 4 countries.

We are a nice group of people. (Reminds me of the joke-The ant and the elephant were walking in the desert, when after a while the ant turned to the elephant and said: "Look how much sand we're kicking up..")

[ilovesumo 12]

I'll say it for the thousandth time. Reading what you people do for a living makes me feel so inadequate.

Me too... :-D

So many IT-brains here...wow

Let's create something like google together...

[Iwagakki 0]

Back when I first joined the forum, I was an artist full time. Over the past few years I've had some kids, and now I have a real job. I'm a museum curator.

I design exhibits and lecture. I have been giving lectures lately at the University on the subject of Indigenous Art and a related topic, Cultural Trauma and Grieving. I have been working on a book about the subject of multiple string grief in response to cultural and social trauma. Boring and dry stuff, actually. I don't know what ever possessed me to start this...

I don't work in art much anymore, except to do some freelance illustrating and photography.

I am currently working on my MBA. I will be done soon, and THAT'S IT!!! :-D I hate school.

And...I am FINALLY realizing my dream...to be a brewer full time. I own a small (but growing rapidly) winery. Someday soon, I can quit all this fancy-schmancy crap, and dodder off into my winery, and forget about how important everything (supposedly) is.

[Harry 67]

I'll say it for the thousandth time. Reading what you people do for a living makes me feel so inadequate. Reminds me of those blind map quizzes where so many members knew world maps perfectly where I hardly knew 4 countries.

We are a nice group of people. (Reminds me of the joke-The ant and the elephant were walking in the desert, when after a while the ant turned to the elephant and said: "Look how much sand we're kicking up..")

But who is happier, the ant or the elephant?

[Pak 0]

Mom, former academic, now software consultant, doing part-time retail work on the side to force me away from our house and get myself away from the computer, LOL.

Harry, I have the same experience with the hardware grad work, its nice to know I am not alone :) I took out some of my old textbooks after reading your post -- I have forgotten a LOT.

One thing about the retail work, it's really helped me learn patience, but what I love about it is the people I work with. Like this forum, people from all sorts of backgrounds, but just really, really great people that I enjoy interacting with.

Regards,

Pak

[Mariomaru 0]

I'm a bricklayer currently working as software developer for oil industry.

[Fujisan 500]

I'm a bricklayer ########currently working as software developer for oil industry.

Awwww you had to go and spoil it didn't you.... :-)

I cant be the only one here who doesn't know anything about computers except how to switch them on.....

[Raishu 193]

University student (primarily).

Gardener, tutor and online poker player for my pocket-momey (secondary).

[Johnofuji 226]

Hitman

At least thats what I told anyone in Japan who automatically assumed that all gaijins working there were English Teachers from America.

Financial Adviser and occassional mawashi tieinguperer

off topic warning:

Yesterday at a lunch of bankers one fund manager suggested that we tell people we are "bottom pickers" .Luckily he meant picking the bottom of the market.("not yet" they say-thanks to those clever yanks packaging up and offloading their dodgy redneck or NINJA (No Income No Jobs and no Asset) loans on the rest of the world)

I hear they are giving away a free house with every loan over $1m in some states.Apparently more people have been displaced than from Hurricane Katrina.Some suburbs have had malaria outbreaks from swimming pool turning to swamps after they were abandoned when the owners simply handed back the keys.Perhaps a new master race will emerge from the sub-primeordial soup and take over the world!

[Jakusotsu 4,993]

Cobbled together a degree in physics till my late twenties, been butchering innocent data on a media wholesale company's payroll since then.

Yeah, looks like Fujisan is the only person around who is neither teacher nor techie. :-P

By the way, where's the doctor gone?

[aderechelsea 107]

we are too few doing manual labor around here ...

[Jakusotsu 4,993]

we are too few doing manual labor around here ...

I've been laboring with enough manuals already, thank you.

[Kotoseiya Yuichi 3]

Reading what you people do for a living makes me feel so inadequate.

If I could swap professions with anyone here on forum, I'd swap with you. You'd get nothing in return, though, but at least I could play guitar! (It was a sad attempt. Luckily the instrument survived and is now in hands of a more talented student.)

The doctor will resurface.

[Kintamayama 41,286]

Yeah, looks like Fujisan is the only person around who is neither teacher nor techie. :-P

Errrmm....

[Kotoviki 16]

Possibly I'm Sekihiryu's twin! When I read his post I thought I was reading my own!

My degrees are in business and public relations but after working in a bank for 6 months in Japan I realized my friends were making more money and having more fun.

Now the Japanese pay for teachers has rock bottomed to crap but I'm still having more fun than I was at the bank! (Clapping wildly...)

Like Seikhiryu I'm currently lecturing business and English at one college, teaching English for 3 Tokyo Metropolitan high schools, one private high school, two metropolitan elementary schools, one private hoikuen (nursery/kinder combined) and.. teaching business and TOEIC for two companies (Kajima Corporation and Mitsui Zozen Co. which are really famous here so I'm proud of those jobs!) Then there are some private elementary school classes, community centers and last but not least.. a mama's and babies class.

I did a few years full time teaching junior high school and a few years teaching almost full time high school.

Like Sekihiryu said I never know if I'm coming or going and have shown up at the wrong school on more than one occasion. :-P

I do not know anything about computers except how to turn them on and type. I can't even figure out how to use my photoshop program or my Nero Dvd burning software. I'm a dork in the computer area! B-)

But speaking of smart computer people I will toot the horn of my twenty something cousin who dropped out of university when he got hired by Facebook. He is a computer God, PC, Mac.. had his first computer at like age 6 and took it apart and put it back together. He makes more than $100,000 a year plus benefits. I'm jealous. My grandma can't understand the difference between us. She says "but you use computers why can't you get a job like Thomas?" (Arguing...) >:-( ;-) :-) We have this discussion every time we talk. For her computers mean the same thing.. using, programming, making, fixing, whatever!

[Jakusotsu 4,993]

Yeah, looks like Fujisan is the only person around who is neither teacher nor techie. (Arguing...)

Errrmm....

You, Sir, qualify as a teacher. A teacher for happy thoughts, just like Jonosuke. :-P

[ilovesumo 12]

My degrees are in business and public relations but after working in a bank for 6 months in Japan I realized my friends were making more money and having more fun.

I wonder what I may do after I finished university...

it's not that I study economy...just something "useless".

Japanology, time history, translating...obviously not an English-native, female, well...I am doomed :-P

[Murakami 0]

wow. we do have lots of IT people. If didn't make the stupid decision and switch my major, I could have been a good software developer, working somewhere in Silicon Valley, making 200Ks a year. I was a super geek, better than Kintamayama, believe me. But hell no, I end up being a lowly project manager in the least known country with a company that does the least interesting, and tons of work. Not that bad actually, at least I get the freshest air and most organic foods. Besides that I am picking up my eldest son from kindergarten today. I am so excited about that. Haven't seen him in 5 days.

My degrees are in business and public relations but after working in a bank for 6 months in Japan I realized my friends were making more money and having more fun.

I wonder what I may do after I finished university...

it's not that I study economy...just something "useless".

Japanology, time history, translating...obviously not an English-native, female, well...I am doomed :-O

You could spy for Germany in Japan. That would be so sexey.

On the other hand, you could be a diplomat in Asia. That's a job most dream of. You might kick Christopher Hill's ass.

Or a specialist in Japan Affairs in the German government. You tell them that when a mawashi gets loose it's only mawashi getting loose, no boobies, no assies, no deedees. Just maybe assies from behind.

[Mariomaru 0]

I'm a bricklayer ########currently working as software developer for oil industry.

Awwww you had to go and spoil it didn't you.... :-O

I cant be the only one here who doesn't know anything about computers except how to switch them on.....

Fujisan,

I was also chainman, sound technician, foreman and soldier before even starting with IT. Also have 6 years stint as policeman in between.

So, its never too late. Manual in the hands and heat the chair.

[Itachi 343]

I'm not a techie or a teacher either but I have been a teacher.

I got a math degree, got married, went to Japan to teach languages (ok, mostly English but I did get to teach some French and I taught myself enough Japanese to get by).

Then I got my B.Ed. and taught math for a while and had 3 kids. Somehow it wasn't as much fun teaching math in Canada as it was teaching English in Japan. I switched into accounting which is probably what I should've done in the first place.

I enjoy working with numbers and organizing information into a useful structure.

I've worked in warehouses, in greenhouses, in restaurants, even for an ISP in Japan. I think I'd enjoy working at a museum. I'd also like to be required to travel to Japan occasionally. I haven't been there for several years and I miss it a lot.

[Fujisan 500]

I was also chainman, sound technician, foreman and soldier before even starting with IT. Also have 6 years stint as policeman in between.

So, its never too late. Manual in the hands and heat the chair.

I know...

I once told a friend I could be anything I wanted if I put my mind to it...

Unconvinced he asked me why I hadn't then...

My answer...

"I cant be a**sed."

Window cleaning was the easy option for me and I took it.

Edited September 5, 2008 by Fujisan

[Yangnomazuma 59]

I've got a rather interesting job...you could classify me as teacher, techie, manual labor, middle management or a leader in my field. I've been called a "technically and tactically proficient Soldier linguist", but that's only the tip of spear....

[Gunterao 0]

I am designing and commissioning control systems for power stations all over the world.

Since a couple of years my job has concentrated to control systems for steam turbines in oil- or coal-fired power stations.

If new power plants are build or old-fashioned control systems need to be exchanged then it smells like work for me.

Control systems enable the operators of power stations to monitor and navigate all processes there.

Depending on what degree of automation is wanted, a power plant unit can be even started up by few mouse-click!

But first of all the operators and electricians have to be skilled to use the control system's software and hardware.

So that's why i have one more job within my job - a trainer. The training sessions are usually done on site when

the control system is installed and run. So if i do the commissioning, then the chances will be high to carry out

training sessions for the customer's personnel.

The utilizsation of IT in PPs has become even more necessary in the last years.

So the knowledge about computer hardware, software and networks is also necessary in my job.

And that kind of work I like more than anything else - though my boss don't like to hear/see that! (Holiday feeling...)

[Takanobaka 0]

Attorney....

[Kotononami 76]

Psychiatric nurse in prison.