Awhile ago you had a thread on what Msties find funny. Along that same line, I’d like to know what Msties do for a living. Are we computer-hacking photophobiacs who live in our parents’ basement, or are we other societal cornerstones like firefighters, police officers, professors, or clergy? What do we DO?
Interesting! Okay, don’t give out more info than you are comfortable with. And you don’t need to say WHERE you do it or give specific company names or anything.
Me: I’m an editor at a newspaper. Yes, they still exist. You?
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Smog Monster #118 – Well, shoot. You stole my thunder.
P.S. Frosted Mini Wheats.
I’m a police dispatcher/911 Operator in Los Angeles. I have a degree in filmmaking, and finally got a chance to make a film four years ago… I’m still in post.
As the name suggests, I’m a Mass Communications professor at a public liberal arts college. I teach media theory, media writing, media history, etc. and my research is in satire and parody as rhetoric.
Great thread!
“Tree wizard puretongue
The digger of holes
The swan king
The Elf lord
The eater of souls
Lithon the black
The rider of stars
Tyrannosaurus Rex
The eater of cars.” — Marc Bolan
My hobby gallery:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-user.jsp?u=13937
I am all around Gal Friday for a small company selling wire rope to the West Texas oilfield. Screaming mad at monsters!
We (hubby and I) own/run a printing business in SW Montana
I already posted my current employment at #14 but I wanted to mention that I was a Renaissance Festival wench for two years when I was younger. Whenever the guys make fun of Ren Fest actors or say, “See you at Community Theater practice” I practically die laughing.
“It’s funny because it’s true!”
I’m a project manager at an engineering firm. Won’t you?
I’m a special education teacher currently working with middle school students with behavior issues. :eek:
I have my own business servicing swimming pools in sunny Southern California. Leaves me plenty of time to listen to MST episodes on my Ipod while I work. And no, I have never had a bored housewife come on to me while I work, that’s only in the movies :(
Assistant Manager of logistics for a transportation company. (In addition to dispatching, there’s also customer service, trouble shooting and some project planning.)
I work a dead-end retail floor job with hours sporatic enough that I have time to make phone calls for charity.
I majored in broadcasting, thinking I could somehow build a career around my good radio voice without any people skills. When the Incognito Cinema Warriors beat me to my genral idea for movie riffing show, I decided to abandon all hope of using my major, and will likely join bobhoncho@#116 at Scraft for paralegal studies next year.
If only it weren’t a community college between our two proud cities, Northville might still have a damn video store I could work at. Working for that Caldean family at Top Hit Video in Novi back when stores just had a “DVD Section” will always be my greatest job ever, since I have a deep emotional need to be surrounded by neatly arranged VHS tapes, so I’d never get tired of it. (sigh) At least there IS one rental place sort of near me where that’s still possible…
@ Zap Rowsdower (#125): OOOH, an ELECTRICIAN! Think you’re soooo smart! Wait….you don’t have a deal with the dolphins, do you?
I’m a supply planner at a large publishing company. Heh heh heh…it’s fun! (no, it’s not.) :neutral:
i’m an 8th grade student
Farmer
Philosophy professor at a small state college in Wisconsin.
@94: I used to play upright myself, just sticking to electric these days.
I’m a bookkeeper/customer service clerk for a grocery store. My goal is to become an accountant.
I saw my first MST3K a couple years ago while studying Fine Art in University (the perfect time to be introduced to a cult hit)
I recently graduated and am seeking employment with whoever will pay me enough to sustain my DVD-buying habit.
I live in the land of Rowsdower :smile:
Wine department director for liquor store chain in Indiana.
I’m a manager in a used entertainment superstore. I manage the people who manage the music, movies, magazines, board games, puzzles, RPGs, maps, posters, and comics. Conveniently we just call it the Music Department.
In my hobby life, MST is second only to music itself. I horde recorded music like a madman. Then I unwind with MST3K each night.
Sorry . . . I hoard recorded music.
Oh yeah, I have two degrees. English Education and German. I married my favorite study partner. We fell in love while diagramming sentences.
I’m a manual clerk for the US Postal Service.
“Now I’m a doctoral student studying to become a professor in a psychology or education department specializing in methodology, statistics, and psychometrics.” —Creeping Terror
Mayhap the guy specializing in statistics can come up with some sort of graph showing how many of us work in which generalized fields? That’d be mighty interesting.
Being a very mediocre software developer at a wonderful cardiac device company finances my true calling, having my sanity slowly ripped to shreds by my beautiful wife and three children.
I’ve worked at the local hospital for 25 years where I’m an I/T desktop support analyst.
…also an off-hours vocalist/songwriter/recording engineer for a local studio band.
I work at a video store, where I’m forced to watch cheesy movies, the worst you could find, but I maintain my sanity with the help of my robot friends.
I’m also a fine art photographer.
Chemist doing a post-doc in biomedical research. Rediscovering MST3K was really the only way i got through grad school.
Mechanical engineer by day (with focus on processes, statistics, and design of experimements)/Seminary student by night
Although…
I have an interview with an underground lab. The job looks promising, but there’s this guy in a jumpsuit that I just can’t stand…
I’m a doctor specializing in infectious diseases.
@ 171-If the jump suit guy’s name is Calgon, dont take the job!
I’m a Master Control Operator at a Christian TV station.
I am a general contractor in nyc. I work with my family, generations of it. My hobbies are controlling my blood pressure, getting a good pastrami and healing from the occasional welding burn.
Who do i do? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
I’m a library clerk at a tiny library in a tiny town in the midwest. I used to manage an anime store.
I find this thread interesting. I teach English as a Second Language at several elementary schools. It is interesting seeing everybody come out of the woodwork like this. And Mr. B(ob)from #146 is quoting the band T-rex!? That’s always nice.
UPS man here in Green Bay. Spend my days delivering to the overpriced gift shops in Door County.
I’m a video game programmer in Japan.
Tsuburaya Productions, which owns Fugitive Alien (Star Wolf), has basically disavowed all knowledge of it in favor of their pet IP: Ultraman.
I’m an editor of hospital brochures.
“Passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it!” (Space Mutiny) Yep, that’s how I feel about the stuff I have to edit most of the time :)
US Army for the last 15 years….My job in the army is Human Resources (Chairbourne Ranger as we are affectionately called).
I’m an unemployed elevator mechanic in Detroit. If not for MST I think I might have lost what little is left of my mind.
I write and draw comics for D.C. Many books make deadlines thanks to MST.
Attorney
fiction writer/graduate student/teacher.
I get stories written and in the mail in spite of watching too much mst3k.
I’m Cherokee Jack!
seriously, I’m a video producer in the Bay Area.
My 11 year old daughter is currently a 6th-grader and I have successfully passed on the genome that makes people love the show. And she is recruiting her friends, who all love the show. My wife, however, seems to be immune to the spores…
#118 ? is next week’s discussion thread ‘What you had for breakfast?
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Thanks for asking. A poppy bagel with butter and a green tea.
I just had a slice of toast with jam and coffee. I’m going to a chili cookoff this afternoon, so I want to go hungry.
I do contract work in data management for pharmaceutical firms.
@159: I used to play upright too, but now mostly prone.
I do nothing because I just graduated highschool and have no job yet. I’m kind of an artist, I guess.
@108 Really? I’m an interpreter too! What a small world. :smile: