What kind of Day Job do you have?

flyingtadpole · Post by **flyingtadpole** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:07 pm

Hell why not... no-one I work for can believe that I'm the same person as Tim Fatchen/Flying Tadpole anyway and all the work has dried up for a few months while the Big GFC rolls on...Consulting ecologist. Not as glorious as it sounds, people, I did my apprenticeship in the science while it was still science and not politico-religious wishful thinking. Lots of maths, lots of computers, lots of crawling around in strange and often dangerous places. I still do, I suppose, but most ecologists now seem to be wholly urban in their habitat, and wholly consensual in their expression. Boat rockers not welcome! And Flying Tadpole was originally a boat, work it out.

feaker · Post by **feaker** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:30 am

RaggsI bet your profession has helped you in your music. That is why you are so "picky" about your songs. Ker tunkI go around helping other folks. I can build or fix anything.Paul

wings · Post by **wings** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:41 am

Jul 25, 2009, 1:45pm, hurowitz wrote:Jul 25, 2009, 12:09pm, wings wrote:Aside from music:http://www.altitude9.comI own an IT company:http://www.rendezviewinc.comBut I'm also a commercial pilot around the NYC area, and I own this too:http://www.photofromabove.com So I'm not fixing computers, I'm flying, and if I'm not flying, I'm writing music. And this doesn't happen in any particular order - so whatever's more of a priority - that's what gets my attention! ~wings~Hey Wings!I'm from NY (Brooklyn) and lived in North Jersey after college-- Paterson and then Verona... Not far from you. I had some friends in the Fair Lawn area. And now I know why your nickname is "wings"! Got to go... There is a bug crawling on my screen... CaseyVery cool! Yeah, I grew up in Prospect Park! I know Verona very wel too! I fly out of Caldwell Airport (KCDW). ~wings~

drew · Post by **drew** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:38 am

Jul 25, 2009, 3:21pm, ragani wrote:I work as an acupuncturist I read an article last week that they are now using acupuncture to help women get pregnant, but I'm sure this isn't the first time a little prick has caused it to happen.I make a good living as a biker pirate (aaarrrhh), looting & pillaging small towns pays well. When I'm not doing 3 to 10 in the slammer I am also in the oil & gas business, leasing and such, well... I guess that's pirate work too.

adrienne · Post by **adrienne** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:30 am

Jul 25, 2009, 6:00pm, claire wrote: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 ClaireI think it won't be long before that all changes and Music Row realizes how talented you are! I know it'll happen soon for you!!

squids · Post by **squids** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:48 am

Jul 25, 2009, 11:50am, hurowitz wrote:Jul 25, 2009, 11:40am, squids wrote:Oh, almost forgot. In my spare time, I crush on Dave Kershaw. I'm very jealous. Actually, names of crushes should remain secret. I have others but I must be circumspect; half the fun is wondering. Dave jes outed me the other day (he's teasing, he's teasing!!) so I'm sorta stuck gettin ribbed by someone from anotha country. (would my neighbors think I'm a wuss?)

squids · Post by **squids** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:52 am

Jul 25, 2009, 7:27pm, didger wrote: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!Now, THIS is a good story! Thanks for sharing it. I hope your wife is getting along okay in treatment. It's a slog right afta, I know. Po baby. And kudos to you fo doin her right.

squids · Post by **squids** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:53 am

Jul 26, 2009, 3:30am, feaker wrote:RaggsI go around helping other folks. I can build or fix anything.PaulIf I wasn't married.........

aprilshowers · Post by **aprilshowers** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:40 am

Full time singer. I have a 10 piece band. We perform at Weddings and Special Events. I also do a lot of studio recording and have a home studio...and write music every chance I get.

elser · Post by **elser** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:50 am

Jul 25, 2009, 5:50pm, markjsmith wrote: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!!!Hey Mark, is that Steel Parade you're playing with? Is Georg Dum still with you guys?Elser

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