Members' Occupation

I'm paid to be an Accountant.....

However, my first love is Music. I was a Music major in college for 5 years, before switching to Accounting.

I love my job. I work for a group of 30 young creative architects. We specialize in school buildings. Several of our architects play music, also, and we have an "office band".

Seeing the sorry state of youth - kind of wishing I had taken the teacher path.

P & L
what do you play?

Steissd-Your assumption is correct. The Air Force is a part of the armed forces, as are the navy, the army, the marines, and the coast guard. Your poll, however, lists "army" not "armed forces"

OK, the mistake is corrected, I changed "army" for more general term "Armed Forces".

Wouldn't 'military' have worked as a catch-all?

Well, you are right. But the Armed Forces are basically the same.

Just checking, because I always lump them into the word 'military'.

When I was a kid,..I wanted to be a space-man,..it didn't work out

I did follow my second choice, which was cooking, and have been doing that since I was thirteen years old.

I've been working for the last two years as a personal chef for a family. I never considered working in a private home, but was helping a friend cater a party at their house, and they wouldn't let me leave.

I had planned on opening my own restaurant, but have since decided that I want to "work to live", rather than "live to work", so I am currently in the planning stages of catering business.

I like the business because I love to cook, it's a good creative outlet, and everyone's gotta eat, so there's always work.

And Jerry's good at it too!

You don't want to "live to work," so you're opening a catering business? Although it might not be as day-to-day as a restaurant, that's still a tough-ass business. I worked for a catering company for a summer...13-14 hour days, it was tough.
Then again, there's different kinds of "catering," I guess.

The only thing I can cook is "skillet sensations."

Hiya Slappy!

It's MUCH less intense than restaurants are.
I guess 12-13 hour days, beat 24/7, which is what I'd be doing if I had a restaurant

It's alot of schlepping stuff around, but it is definately easier to take time off.

Mmmm,..skillet sensations!!

that's right, if you don't want to cater, you just don't book that week....

I agree...restaurants are a crazy business...plus many fail.

I work for an NGO. Was hired as web editor, originally, but now do more allround work - writing funding applications, organising a conference now and then, co-ordinating a project, and still trying to maintain a website or two ;-)

That's "other", i guess ;-)

after training as a Librarian, I'm now a nerd!

Started as a medical reseach/clinical lab technologist, studied art at night for years, switched after 15 yrs in lab to landscape architecture school to make a living somehow by drawing, now am a landscape architect and painter, and have a gallery, and still don't make a lot of money, but am pretty happy with what I do. But..as seal said, I am not what I do either. What I really wanna do is write...

Hmm, did this and that before starting a social services agency from scratch, directed that for 3 years, left to be a full-time mom, have done several consultant-type gigs from home. Have been approached about writing (BA English w/ an emphasis on creative writing, M.Ed deaf ed) a magazine article about sozlet and signing -- have been kinda sorta working on that (should buckle down) and would love to get into that, career-wise.