CDers, what is your vocation?

[sarah-cd]

Police detective and SWAT Officer for a regional team.

[StarrOfDelite]

Student, professional variety (Eleven years and four universities, BA, JD, MA, and some of the course work and research for doctoral dissertation which never got written).

Infantry platoon leader in wartime (Between BA and MA).

Trial Lawyer for a dozen years, from the point where the GI college benefits ran out and I had to get a job (ugh!) up to the point where I got the much prayed for Big Verdict and got out of the Rat Race while I was still sane.

Unpublished Novelist (actually unsubmitted due to anxiety and compulsion to continually rewrite and self-edit)

College Professor, American History.

Defendant in Divorce Case (Three times).

[Shari]

I guess the left brain continues with me.

Once I cuddint even sphell enjaneer, now I are one.

Oh, I be a lectrical injuneir

[Rebecca Jayne]

Me?

I'm a professional shopper.

Nothing else matters but happens because of...

[xdbiker]

for me lets see
pressmen sales the last 7 years running my own head shop and makeing glass pipes and love toys

[Jilmac]

I am a retired carpenter/structural mechanic. I have worked most of my life in the building trades in both new construction and building repair and maintenance.

[MyBlackTights]

I dabble in everything, right now i own an auto repair shop.

[Rebecca Jackson]

Military Policeman
firefighter (wildland)
environmental clean-up and demolition for the Gov

I now do administrative work for a university

Hopefully I'll have another job to add to the list that I enjoy more and find more fulfilling.

[Granny Gray]

Full Time Retiree... best job I ever had.
Life Guard, Referee, Umpire, Judge (diving). Plastics plant shift worker, Air Force Officer, (Retired Reserve 0-6), Instructor Navigator, Instructor Pilot, Avionics Instructor, Avionics Engineer, Trainer (Electronics systems. AF) Air Operations Command, Grad Student, Clinical Psychologist, Several years computer consulting. Ran an Auto repair shop, ran a Motorcycle Repair Shop, Been retired since 1981.. Author, publisher, Editor, Publication layout designer for a quarterly mag for crossdressers. Avocation: Theologian, fill-in "preacher", comparative religions teacher, and even an occasional stand-up comedian... FULL TIME being ME. Oh, I did my own "lawyering" in the one divorce I had which taught me how stupid it is to make the same mistake twice. Father of 4, two of whom are Ph.d's. Been happily single since 1977. Granny

[shannon81]

I am a civil engineer.

[Janine cd]

I'm a retired high school teacher who has taught history, science, and computer technology.

[Melanie R]

Retired but former psychotherapist, CEO of several health care companies and now part time cruise/travel agent.

[dutch-anita]

electrical and mechanical engineer (the new word is mechatronical engineer but I do it since 1991) I use both my R and L side (lol)

[Marcia Blue]

[SIZE="3"]Automotive technician fo more than 30 years.
Dabbled in construction and tool and die on the side.[/SIZE]

[JoAnne Wheeler]

Farm hand -> Funeral Home worker -> Equipment operator -> public speaker --> ambulance chaser

JoAnne Wheeler

[sarah_tx]

I was a gravedigger once, no kidding.

[DiannaRose]

I work in the tech industry, but my passion is writing. (Four stories published this year, as Mr. Me.) Assuming I can start exploring my feminine side a little more openly (meaning, at all), I hope to dive back into my writing with a bit more passion and confidence, and really make it fly!

Years ago, I gave a left/right brain test to my co-workers (again, in the tech industry), and the overall results showed we were a more right-brained group than left.

...don't know how significant that is, but there it is.

[Aska]

I am a computer networking/security specialist, I also do photography and design tattoo's.

[suchacutie]

Vocation: Chemist

Avocation: Violinist

both sides

tina

[Karen__Starr]

I teach defensive tactics, specialize in empty hand combatives, firearms, edge weapons, batons and handcuffing (hehe on handcuffing). Also part of a specialized executive protection group catering mainly to politicians and professionals.

[PretzelGirl]

20 years in the Army starting with being a Tank Gunner and finishing operating/repairing communications systems.

Then I was an Operations Manager.

Now I am a Communications Engineer.

[TSchapes]

I work for a Fortune 500 company who's managed to name the Detroit Tiger's Stadium after themselves. Before this I was a lounge musician (drums). Before that, a public school music teacher.

Other jobs: motor route newspaper salesman, department store salesman, car wash slave, and a bee hive maker (you know those wooden ones that farmers use? yea, I worked in a factory that made those).

So I think I'm middle brained...

Or is that muddled brained...

-Tracy

[Kimberly Marie Kelly]

Mostly field service positions where I travelled extensively, sometimes internationally.

Cardiac Ultrasound Tech support specialist (servicing)
Gamma Camera Tech Specialist (servicing)
Training instructor for Cardiac Ultrasound (Trained other Techies on how to service them)
Network / PC hardware & Software support tech;
Servicing Office copiers and printers
Janitorial / cleaning between my major jobs during layoff's.

Presently doing Network / PC / Software support. (no travel anymore thank you.)

Kimberly Marie Kelly

[Charla]

Scientist in plastics for twenty-some years

[tinalynn]

6 years working with SONAR systems on a fast attack submarine (that was sweet, if I was only more mature when I left I would have stayed in!)
5 yrs of shift work operating/maintaining high density recorders
~14 yrs in various engineering positions with a large defense contractor