Started out driving truck,then to farm machinery mechanic and sales, then trained to be machinist/welder, then to Ma Bell, then sold Bolagna for 25 years and am now retired at 70 years old. Majored in art in high school, does that count?
Started out driving truck,then to farm machinery mechanic and sales, then trained to be machinist/welder, then to Ma Bell, then sold Bolagna for 25 years and am now retired at 70 years old. Majored in art in high school, does that count?
Originally Posted by Karen kc
That is brilliant!
Guess i'm an artist after all!
Cassie
For a living I'm and I.T. Manager but I am a natural born artist but never made it a career. Things I have done within art and now as a hobby..
Pencil Illustration
Airbrush
Computer Graphics
Photography
Here is the thing IMO, CD's are all artists. This is creation and each and everyone of you create yourselves. Art is about creativity despite the tools used. You all crate yourselves
Day job?
I don't got no stinkin' day job. I am a retired prevaricator, and darned proud of it.
I work in management for a large beer company, but I have an engineering background
Heavy engineering! To me ships are an art form - especially those built in the 1930s thro' to the 1950s. And as for steam locos on UK railways - there's a real art in maintaining and driving them and I know some of the smaller ones quite intimately...
xx Polly R
On a journey from here to there. Mostly here but sometimes there....
i am a self employed general contractor. A one girl band. from footers to finish cabinetry. Definatly have some artsy stuff going on designing everything from top to bottom.
I have a BS in Communications but it never paid to well.
I was a soldier. Now I have the best job in the world, retired. I know, I know it's very hard but I seem to taking to it very nicely. I am a musician also and a thread like this is one I have been wanting to do because I often see some of you with instruments. I play guitar, drums and I sing also. Oh and I play bass guitar but only when threatened with my life ( I suck as a bassist). Everyone here is talented in their on way and being a CD is just another way to express the inner self that we feel and we see.
Jeannie
Last edited by Jeannie; 01-11-2011 at 09:12 PM.
Nope, I think the majority of CDs seem to be from fairly technical backgrounds. I'm a Clinical Biochemist, though there are a lot of women in the profession, it needs a good grasp of chemistry.
Nope, not me. My work has nothing what so ever to do with art, architecture or artistic design. I must be in the minority. I am involved in a Mechanical engineering industry with qualifications in Science and a number of post trade qualifications involving mechanics across a number of areas like marine, forestry, agricultural and construction.
My hobbies are 3D art, graphics and virtual worlds with respect to content building and envy those who are employed within these industries. However I guess that the thought of doing art as a career and working within a time frame does not appeal to me at all.
I'm in Sales. I do build creative displays. Drive Trucks. Split wood. Play with explosives. And maybe a little bit into computers.
Here are my 2 computer desks.
I agree. What we see here are the fields of CDs who tend to be on-line enough to want to spend time on a forum. We would have to compare that to non-CDs that are on-line enough to spend time on a forum. Quite different than just comparing to everyone everywhere. But the point is that it is fun to see that we are from all slices of life. Pretty normal, aren't we?
And on the artistic note, I am no where close. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler. Maybe that is why I am a minimalist when it comes to make-up. My job is an engineer working on communications systems.
IT field, "customer engineer" for EMC.. i get to work with petabytes of storage
New query
Thank you everyone for the responses. Although, after reading these posts I've come to some conclusions. First and foremost, I think that Maslow's theory applies here. Something about basic needs being met before finding true inner self. I think that's why so many here are retired or in their careers, and few of us that are college bound.
Secondly, I think the common thread between all of us is careers in complex problem solving. The majority, if not all, of the jobs listed are occupations which require us to solve a problems using advanced reasoning or a higher brain functions.
None of the jobs listed seem to be in fields where you do a mindless repetitive task 24/7. And even the ones that did seem to have a creative outlet that must be met.
Is the conclusion here that maybe crossdressing is the result of more areas of the brain functioning?
The other thing that noticed throughout this forum is the lack of crappy spelling, jive talk, and just uneducated speech (which I'm so thankful for). I think this adds the conclusion I came to above.
I am a firefighter/emt and work at a hardware store..... I guess not very fem jobs but I do love them
not even close to art. i am a medic / FF for one job and elf employed on the other.
How do we know you aren't "keeping your hand in" on that prevarication? :D
I still cringe every time I recollect that the people who took over my old job aren't doing backups for our hundreds of terabytes. Out of my hands now, though.IT field, "customer engineer" for EMC.. i get to work with petabytes of storage
HOLY SH#$.
You have more computers than I.
Not many people do.
Your electic bill must be HIGH!
Could be, I for one do have an exceptional high IQ.
I by the way am a software developer with my own company.
Last edited by annabellejorden; 01-12-2011 at 01:50 AM.
I'm just a dumb ol' hillbilly.
I am an attorney now, but I started out as a computer geek (building 'em to programming 'em). Computers are OK, but not diverse enough to stimulate my mind. I love to sing and act, when I get the chance, which is seldom, unfortunately. I sew on occassion, but it isn't a "femme" thing... it's more of a project to tackle that keeps me engaged.
I would change just one word in the above sentence - "technical" would become "diverse".
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My great uncle is a mural artist. My grandmother was an oil painter and interior designer. My mom was an interior decorator and sketch artist. My cousin owns an art gallery. Her daughter (my cousin) is a glass blowing artist. In the late 80’s I owned a stained glass art studio for many years, then started a “stained glass” lamp manufacturing company ( “tiffany lamps for lighting stores). I have an art studio in the bottom level of my house. I am just beginning my next creative project…making a life sized human figure out of 100% platinum cure silicone! All members of my “family” have been serious art collectors for many years. Oh, and I can also write my name in yellow letters in the snow… :D
I've never called anything I do a "job". I just call it "making money".
In the corporate world, I was a “start-up/turn-around “specialist”. (Start new divisions for big companies…save the smaller ones from financial failure.) Also was heavily vested in IRL racing for a few years (team owner).
Last 15+ years I am self employed. Specialized security/personal protection consulting to confidential clients…start up companies of my own, sell antiques & fine art I collect, and wander around parking lots looking for pennies…you know…the usual stuff…
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Me too except substitute the hardware store part for the military. A fire house is very close quarters so doing something femme (like shaving full time) would warrant attention I don't need. There's been several threads about this over the years I've been on and I've never answered until now.
Not me, I work with bookkeeping and some IT...
I agree with two of Briana's points. I'm new here but I have already been impressed by the generally high level of literacy compared to most of the other fora that I have sampled (on a whole range of subjects). Second, I have also often wondered if we get to access more areas of our brain - not necessarily through any superior intellect but maybe by remaining open to a wider range of possibilities.
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