What's Your Employment/Job?

[Dirk Skene]

I work the City Sales desk for a door hardware & locksmith supply company. I also am a utility person for a cooking school. "Utility person" is just a P.C. way of saying I am the male equivelent of a scullery maid The dishwashing job is actually my favorite. The cooking school staff is a true team. True gung ho. Everybody pulls together.

If this thread runs a few days more I'll post pix.

[Tartan Hiker]

High school biology teacher for the past twenty years. Two evenings a week I teach Anatomy and Physiology at the local community college. In the summer I direct a program that maintains the trail system, conducts public hikes, and does search and rescue ops in a nearby wilderness area.

Full-time husband to my lovely, interesting, and ever-patient wife. Time-and-a-half job keeping up with my two teenage sons.

In my free time (hah!) I make wooden arrows for traditional archery, Flemish twist bowstrings, and small leather archery accessories. I'm also the site manager for the local hawk watch site each Fall, where my volunteers and I count migrating raptors.

[katmills2005]

I'm a full-time mom of two very active children. The pay sucks but the benifits are outstanding.

I also work part time for a Singles-coach/author/columnist. I'm her personal assistant which means I do everything and anything. I maintain web pages, accounting, marketing, customer service, pick up the drycleaning and walk the dog.

[Andrew Green]

Student, and Faculty Assistant at my college library.
Up until the new year, I was also a security guard on top of that.
Pictures of me doing any of these three would be fairlty unentertaining.

[neo71665]

Electrician, volunteer fireman, soon to be dad.

[Abax]

I'm an air traffic controller (and trainer) at Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska. I'll be eligible to retire in just a couple more years.

About 100 other controllers and I work the airspace from the North Pole down along 141°W longitude to the Canada / Alaska border, then south to Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska, continuing west halfway across the Pacific Ocean towards Japan, north up the Russian border, and then finally back to the North Pole. We control both civil and military aircraft from the surface up to 60,000 feet.

An Air Route Traffic Control Center provides both terminal and en route IFR (instrument flight rules) control, so I handle aircraft in and out of lots of airports all over the state as well as aircraft on their way from one place or another. Most aircraft leaving the U. S. (east and west coast) for Asia fly through Anchorage for gas or, if they don't have to stop, for the most favorable winds aloft on the way to Asia.

Our facility is unique for its diversity of operations. We have extensive areas with no radar coverage and extremely rugged terrain hidden in severe weather. We're surrounded by foreign countries on three sides and an ocean on the fourth. We apply separation standards using radar and domestic rules, oceanic rules and ADS-A, Russian rules, Canadian rules, ICAO standards and a stack of waivers that address situations unique to Alaska.

Can you tell I love my job? I do

A picture . . . usually not authorized. It occurs to me I don't even have a picture of myself on the job. I'll have to work on that before I retire.

Abax

[sean_cummings]

I run the motorcycle side of the business for JC Whitney (catalog and internet marketers). We are the largest US aftermarket parts company for automotive and motorcycle parts. It’s pretty cool; I get to pick what we sell to millions of bikers. Previously I have had over 100 jobs, just got lucky with this one a few years ago. No pics of me kilted at work I haven’t had the guts yet. Still pretty new the kilted lifestyle.
Sean

[JimB]

Retired Navy, and now an educator/trainer for the Veterans Healthcare Administration.
I put on training conferences for medical folks throughout the southwest.

[Canadian_Kilt]

I'm an IT server specialist at a medium sized accounting firm. I do all the system administration and architecture for all of our servers, storage and e-mail system. Great job, extremely lousy company. Looking to move but haven't found anything appealing in Calgary yet. Thinking about making a move out to Vancouver later this year.

[irishrob]

ASIDE TO SEAN CUMMINGS: Welcome, Now I can put a face and a kilt on the catolog (wishbook) that I get periodically. You will find several bike riders of various ilks on this forum.

Back to JOB---I am a contract administrator for a government contractor at the place where the first plutonium bomb was manufactured. I write the contracts and chase the construction contractors who are assisting in cleaning the area up after over 60 years of existence.