What kind of Day Job do you have?

[ragani]

Jul 25, 2009, 2:29pm, davekershaw wrote:Maybe this is all down to my previous job as an "adult movie" star! Maybe you've seen me, but don't realise!Well now... yes, I remember that movie. It was circulating among us lady dots last year at the Rally.

[suzdoyle]

Jul 25, 2009, 3:25pm, ragani wrote:Jul 25, 2009, 2:29pm, davekershaw wrote:Maybe this is all down to my previous job as an "adult movie" star! Maybe you've seen me, but don't realise!Well now... yes, I remember that movie. It was circulating among us lady dots last year at the Rally. Not to mention some of the men as well!Suz

[jauk]

I work in IT as a server admin. I've been doing that about 9 years. I also have a studio where I record and engineering other bands. I currently have two bands in there now. A lot of late nights and early mornings. mmmmm.....coffee! joe

[watksco]

I'm a school teacher - High School Maths/Science (all the cool ones )I like helping people. It gives me a sense of doing something worthwhile, plus it's not a bad lifestyle - 12 weeks paid annual leave! Leaves some space in my world for family and writing - my two real passions.Scott

[allends]

I am an accountant working as a controller for a manufacturing company and I am a former CPA. That's what I do 50-60 hours per week. I try to find the strength for music after I do my chores and love my family.Before all this I was a teacher of Transcendental Meditation for several years. Way before that I got a guitar for my birthday 41 years ago and I've been an active amateur musician ever since. I learned to play the sitar 20 years ago and most people assume that's the main thing I do. I like surprising people who think they know me. I am enjoying my new gig as the guitar player in a kirtan group. Seeing God in your eyes is my favorite hobby. BTW: If I ever see another butt dot at the Rally again it'll be too soon. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you don't wanna know. Namaste Y'all,Allen

[markjsmith]

I teach 50 guitar students a week! Which can occasionally zap my creativity, but I truly love it! I also teach mandolin, bass guitar, ukulele, and very begining banjo. I also play about 100 shows a year (mostly casuals, or private events). I sort of fell in with a few guys who play the steel drum, they keep me busy in the summer, and I play with a country artist (Peter Brandon). He just finished a new record it's GREAT! I consider myself extremely blessed!!!

[claire]

Brooklyn rocks!!!I work as a legal assistant specializing in patents, trademarks and copyrights. Did it in Miami, do it in Nashville, will probably still be doing it after I die (since I'm never going to be able to afford retirement)...I like the work because it combines the law with science, plus our offices are on Music Row - actually at the Roundabout at the head of Music Row - so I'm within walking distance of constantly being passed on Claire

[eokamura]

I'm a woodwind tech 3 days a week, fixing flutes, clarinets, saxophones and oboes. I teach guitar two afternoons a week and I gig quite alot. Barely pays the bills but I'm my own boss and I make my own schedule, could be worse. eo.

[gongchime]

Allends, my father was the senior vice president of the Golden Nugget corporation and then the president of the Circus Circus Corp. I used to have a window cleaning business in Vegas and then taught guitar at a music store and music at two different private schools. I was selling Balinese silver jewelry in Indonesia but after the global economic crisis have segued into teaching English in Thailand. (Shakes head in shame.)Raags, I used to go to an accupuncturist regularly in Arizona. I learned window cleaning from an American Sikh who had the leader of the Sikhs, come stay with him in Vegas on his trip to America to meet with a highly skilled accupuncturist, herbalist, Chinese medical doctor. Jeff, I used to teach guitar and help with music theory homework for two different blind students at NAU. They had the braille machine on their left forearms during class when they took notes. Then, when reviewing their notes, they'd ask me questions if they weren't sure about what they needed to know for the test. Suz, that ayurvedic chanting is the kind of thing my demographic shells out money for. Wings, my father has a small plane and flies it sometimes. Resulting $500 lunches in the next city due to the cost of fuel. CHE, I have a friend Chinese in Singapore who sells textiles. He was going the ebay route for a while but he said it's not viable for what he's doing. The customers want to specify the exact print but there's no such thing in the industry most of the time. The print in one square meter of a fabric will be upside down on the next square meter and backwards on another. So, what consumers demand makes the job too difficult. You can't just post and sell easily.

[didger]

I'm at home all the time, split between composing and caregiving. Let's see how short I can make this story, since I've never properly introduced myself to this forum. I've always been a musician, always into theatre and video, was always told I should be doing film music. While I was studying composition (UC San Diego), didjeridu took over my life. Cut to 2004, I got a Fulbright fellowship to do a master's degree on the instrument, and ended up staying in a remote Australian Aboriginal community and launching a multimedia centre, locally archiving documents of the culture made by others and training the locals to make short films to tell their own stories from here on out.It was awesome! If anybody's curious, the main website is http://www.yirrkala.com/mulka and the youtube channel is http://www.youtube.com/themulkaproject.While doing that and working with Aussie film professionals as mentors for Aboriginal students, I finally did some serious film scores and it looked like I was going to network my way into the much smaller film world in Oz.Then... last year my wife started feeling a bit sick, but went ahead on a trip to visit family in the USA for Thanksgiving. Ended up at the hospital Wednesday night and diagnosed with leukemia - and never got any Turkey! So I flew over thinking we'd be here for the first phase then go back to the wonderful land of national healthcare (which incidentally we found heavenly), but she needed to immediately get into a two year treatment program, and it just happened there's a fantastic specialist unit here doing the second phase of a Harvard-based trial having great results getting total cures for this type of leukemia, and everything is going great. The treatment is long and hard and really really sucks, but I have no fear she'll die anytime soon. And of course, we're able to be here where her large family is while she goes through this. And thanks to her boss strong-arming an insurance company to cover her treatment, smart savings while we were abroad, a sudden inheritance, and the depressed housing market, we were able to buy a great little place near the hospital that has a perfect finished basement for my home studio!SO! In the face of terrible tragedy, we have been incredibly blessed... especially me, taking advantage of the forced life change to focus on what I always wanted to do anyway. Some days (or late nights) I can work a lot, other days she needs lots of help and attention, depending on where she is in the treatment cycle.So there's my story, a bit more than the thread asked for, methinks!