What do Pentaxians really do for a living? - Page 3

Ahab · 11-07-2009, 08:56 AM

I don't do anything for a living. Just a bum and professional volunteer who made a small stash some time ago.

flippedgazelle · 11-07-2009, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by Ahab

I don't do anything for a living. Just a bum and professional volunteer who made a small stash some time ago.

I thought you hunted whales...

*straightshooter* · 11-07-2009, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by flippedgazelle

I thought you hunted whales...

That's where he made the stash....white whale oil.

My full time job now is as a caregiver for an elderly parent with some dementia.

Prior to this I worked 34 years for an airline (4 years of that on military leave of absence).
I worked ramp (loading and unloading aircraft, ripping the handles off suitcases by hand when the machine that was supposed to do it was broken

), ticket counter, air cargo, load desk (weight and balance), reservations sales, customer service desk in reservations, management in Reservations and retired 12/31/2002. Worked for about a year and a half for T-Mobile until they closed the office in Jacksonville in favor of building a new one in the southern part of Texas for cheaper labor. Then worked for a website company for about a year until I started with my parent.

CW

*smc* · 11-07-2009, 05:21 PM

I'm currently a project manager in IT, and have been with the company for about 14 years. I started as an Oracle DBA and UNIX Sysadmin. Before that, I was on Ambulance in Vancouver (EHS) and was in a Fire Dept here on the island. I did that for about 10 years before I fell and broke my back, sending me back to collage....

Other than work, my son wanted to join Beavers (Scouts for 5 to 7 year olds) but there weren't enough adults to run it...so I ended up joining as a leader. Ends up it's actually a lot of fun, especially since I like acting like a goofball. I took 30 6 year olds camping a couple of weekends ago....running around in the rain playing toilet tag...what could be better?

*monochrome* · 11-07-2009, 05:48 PM

By day I am a Certified Investment Management Analyst / Institutional Investment Management Consultant for Endowments and public and private Foundations. Really interesting work, if more challenging than usual recently.

I also spend a great deal of my time volunteering as an adult Scouting leader, although now that my son is grown I spend most of my time training new leaders how to lead. High point - I served as Crew Advisor for a group of 12 teenagers on a 21 day paddle and portage TREK in the Quetico Provincial Park - coolest thing I have ever done in my life. Didn't see any other human beings for the middle 9 days of the loop.

Once in a while I get out to take photographs, but mostly (truth-telling) I just buy 'em, hold 'em, and sell 'em.

*ve2vfd* · 11-07-2009, 06:09 PM

Monochrome and SMC, join the club

I've been a Scout leader for 20 years... you know you've been in it too long when kids you got as 11 year old Scouts are now turning 30, getting married and are leaders in your group

Pat

ps: I hosted a visit for a group of beavers at the station last night

*monochrome* · 11-07-2009, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by ve2vfd

... you know you've been in it too long when kids you got as 11 year old Scouts are now turning 30, getting married and are leaders in your group

My specialties have always been Advancement and Training. In addition to training adult leaders I coordinate +/- 125 Eagle Scout Boards of Review each year (and lots of other stuff - it is really 1 hour a week of volunteering per Scout).

Pat, something like this happens to me one or twice a year:

I was sitting on a bench in the little train-watching park near City Hall when a young man, his wife and 6-year-old son approached me shyly. The man introduced himself (I remembered him right away although it had been a decade), then introduced me to is wife and son as the Asst. Scoutmaster who guided him from Life Scout to Eagle Scout. His son had just joined Tiger Cubs, and boy, was his father a proud papa!

To my mind, I haven't been in it long enough, yet.

*geauxpez* · 11-07-2009, 07:13 PM

I thought that I did this recently -- here's the thread that was started this past August.

At any rate, I am an Audiologist for an ear nose & throat practice in Atlanta.

Cheers,

Adam

*hwblanks* · 11-07-2009, 07:30 PM

I'm a librarian at a local public library. Specifically, I am a cataloger (of books) and also do some other things behind the scenes with the library's online catalog. It's a pretty decent job--good pay and good coworkers, but it's not really my passion.

Photography is my passion--the challenge right now is figuring out how to find more time to do it.

Heather

*smc* · 11-07-2009, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by ve2vfd

Monochrome and SMC, join the club

I've been a Scout leader for 20 years... you know you've been in it too long when kids you got as 11 year old Scouts are now turning 30, getting married and are leaders in your group

Pat

ps: I hosted a visit for a group of beavers at the station last night

It's a small world! My 6 year old can't wait to be old enough for cubs and I have a 1 year old...I might be active in Scouting for a while yet! I can't recommend being a leader enough.....what a great way to stay active with your kids. I think I get as much out of it as the kids do.

I'm about an hours drive from my old fire station....a little too far to get the Beaver group to, but my little guy has had his fair share of time on the trucks. We do take the group to the local station once a year though...

Monochrome....I know what you mean about taking pictures. It can be hard to get the time away from everyone (at least in this stage of my life) to take pictures. I go through spurts depending on how demanding work is. At least we can enjoy the gear when we get a chance.

*mba1971* · 11-07-2009, 09:33 PM

Hey!

I am a senior technician and chief of produciton in an architectural practice, plus father of one, stepfather of two ( sadly, one deceasesd) ans boyfriend to one lovely gal.

*straightshooter* · 11-07-2009, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by geauxpez

I thought that I did this recently -- here's the thread that was started this past August.

At any rate, I am an Audiologist for an ear nose & throat practice in Atlanta.

Cheers,

Adam

Adam, I need to bring my brother to see you. LOL His TV in his room drowns out ones on the far end of the house. We have to keep telling him to turn it down as he seems to be half deaf. (He's 54, not a teenager)

CW

*newarts* · 11-08-2009, 03:16 AM

I'm retired from Materials Engineering teaching/research at Iowa State University. That was fun.

I'm more of a photologist than photographer. I just made up "photologist" & don't really have a good definition for it - mostly I fool around with equipment & simple analyses about the process.