Director of Operations for a Landscape Design and Services Company. Sounds fancy, but at root I do what I’m pretty much built to do. I do my best to make sure there are folks here to do the work and that they have the tools they need. Some days are diamonds. Some days…well… some days are days on end.
Currently I am acting as a “hired gun” in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs policy field.
Of course, that really is a career path that has seen the present triumph of necessity over desire.
At various points I have wanted or tried to be (but failed/gave up/moved on): centre half back for the Essendon Football Club; Marvin Hagler; opening batsmen for Australia who is also handy with the off spin but is totally ‘down to earth’ with the kids; a rock star somehow managing to effectively straddle the line between tons of money/drugs/babes and artistic respectability; urban cowboy; artist and provocateur; general freelance genius about the place; God; poet, lover and universal bon vivant; Ernest Hemingway (without all the guns); academic; stay at home father.
Yeah, but for now I am working in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs field.
Kris, our careers overlap in a curious way. Probably not in a way people might imagine. But I agreed (implicitly) to some degree of confidentiality, so this will just have to remain a mystery.
I teach American literature and creative writing at a university. Some people in my situation write in order to get a teaching job, while others teach as a means of supporting the writing habit. I fall into the latter category.
Technology Integration Specialist at a girls’ school in Pittsburgh. I teach teachers how to do cool things with technology and media in the classroom. I’m also a fellow at a place called the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon.
My title is Marketing Director for a commercial real estate brokerage, but I don’t really direct marketing as much as I create marketing materials. We represent sellers in apartment community transactions (100 units and larger),and all of our materials are created in CS3. What a sweet suite. Our office currently covers Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Illinois.
Renegade.
Also web designer, but mostly the former.
manager in a call center.
Libranigan™
Antiquarian Bookseller. 24 hours a day!
Web monkey.
Also, wannabe renegade.
Graphic Designer, and sometimes concert photographer.
Director of Operations for a Landscape Design and Services Company. Sounds fancy, but at root I do what I’m pretty much built to do. I do my best to make sure there are folks here to do the work and that they have the tools they need. Some days are diamonds. Some days…well… some days are days on end.
my fulltime job is being Jandek
Color me conflibberated.
Aaron Winslow: you live in Houston, yes? Is your night job ‘Jandek impersonator’? Yes?
I’m still thinking that either the real Jandek or a representative of his organization may have submitted the above comment.
I’m . . . conflibberated.
Currently I am acting as a “hired gun” in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs policy field.
Of course, that really is a career path that has seen the present triumph of necessity over desire.
At various points I have wanted or tried to be (but failed/gave up/moved on): centre half back for the Essendon Football Club; Marvin Hagler; opening batsmen for Australia who is also handy with the off spin but is totally ‘down to earth’ with the kids; a rock star somehow managing to effectively straddle the line between tons of money/drugs/babes and artistic respectability; urban cowboy; artist and provocateur; general freelance genius about the place; God; poet, lover and universal bon vivant; Ernest Hemingway (without all the guns); academic; stay at home father.
Yeah, but for now I am working in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs field.
[...] Anything is possible. [...]
Kris, our careers overlap in a curious way. Probably not in a way people might imagine. But I agreed (implicitly) to some degree of confidentiality, so this will just have to remain a mystery.
Sheila, let me guess, you wanted to be centre half forward for the Essendon Football Club as well as Tommy Hearns?
Close but no cigar, as the saying has it, Kris.
7th grade English teacher.
Product Manager for a fairly big audio electronics distributor.
My time is split between product development, content management, marketing, and advertising.
I get paid to tell sweet, sweet lies.
I teach American literature and creative writing at a university. Some people in my situation write in order to get a teaching job, while others teach as a means of supporting the writing habit. I fall into the latter category.
Technology Integration Specialist at a girls’ school in Pittsburgh. I teach teachers how to do cool things with technology and media in the classroom. I’m also a fellow at a place called the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon.
Director of Marketing and Brand Development for this here place.
It all depends on the day.
Now: Customer Service/Market Researcher for a small start-up.
Two weeks ago: Barista and Window washer.
Director of an academic medical library.
web developer for a big corporation
My title is Marketing Director for a commercial real estate brokerage, but I don’t really direct marketing as much as I create marketing materials. We represent sellers in apartment community transactions (100 units and larger),and all of our materials are created in CS3. What a sweet suite. Our office currently covers Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Illinois.
I push words around.