What do you do?

Sabrosura

Sabrosura

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Salsa brings together people who would otherwise perhaps never meet each other. :) A lot of us SFers might never get to meet in real life. Just to get to know people here a bit more, I would love to hear what your job is (or field of study if you are in school), i.e. what you do when you are not dancing. :) And if you'd like to share more, such as whether you like your job or it is just something temporary until you can get your "dream job", I'd love to hear about that as well.

I'll start: I work in investment banking and our clients are U.S. universities that need to issue bonds to raise capital for all kinds of projects (this is unique to the U.S. as universities and other non-profits have certain tax advantages here when issuing bonds that corporations do not have). It is interesting, and I get to work with smart, motivated people, but the hours...let's just say they do not make it easy for me to spend as much time dancing as I would like. :rolleyes: I was planning to go to most of the NJ congress this weekend and only made it to a couple of workshops due to having to work all weekend (including Sunday night).

Your turn. :)
 
I am currently retired... :)

I'm on a sabbatical at the moment, so I'm just travelling around and dancing a lot. I also partake in sleeping, showering, drinking and eating as and when appropriate (sometimes inappropriately...)
 
I'm an economist currently working at my university where I also write (or try to write) my PhD thesis. Officially I am a research associate but I basically do stuff in support of our faculty's internationalization strategy like coordinating some of our exchange programs, counseling for our international students, a lot of marketing or PR, once again for international target groups, some teaching, as well as administration for one of our MA programs.
I like my work, there hasn't been a day yet where I felt like not going, the hours are flexible and there is a degree of freedom or independence to it that I probably wouldn't find anywhere in a private sector job. Thus it's clearly the best thing I could find being a single mom wanting to achieve a PhD degree. However, this is obviously nothing I'd want to do for an awfully long time since it has virtually nothing to do with my actual career goal and education.
 
Installation and Repair Technician(for now) at telecommunications company and non-practicing attorney....(i.e. not practicing law at the moment-probably to change soon)
 
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Installation and Repair Technician(for now) at telecommunications company and non-practicing attorney....(i.e. not practicing law at the moment-probably to change soon)
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Wow! That's kinda awfully cool to be so multitalented, in such different areas, too! And not just talented, but to be able to do things that far apart from each other for living... Kudos!
 
IT consultant, mostly working with creating graphical user interfaces for IMBi and mainframe applications, primarily in the banking, insurance and credit card industries.
 
I worked as a wildlife biologist in Alaska for several years, then worked as a public schools teacher until a bunch of us were laid off after 9/11. Now I have a less exciting job working for a soulless corporation, though I actually like it in some respects; it's virtually a five-hour workout, and I have more free time to work on my websites, which I consider my real job.
 
Professional procrastinator.




When I'm not procrastinating, I'm a freelance translator/writer working for whoever pays.
 
I work in the field of database analytics, studying customer behavior and supporting marketing decision-making within financial institutions.
 
Development worker (German "Entwicklungshelfer") trying to advise my partner organization on corporate-community partnerships for sustainable economic development.
 
Hmm ... how to answer this, what do I actually do? As little as I can for the maximum return, whatever anyone will pay me to do as long as it's lots of money !

I run two (or three) businesses, a web hosting company, a property company and I guess also an IT consultancy. As a job I am/was a computer programmer.

Having spent years pumping all hours god sent into building my businesses, they are now established and provide enough income for us (family) to live on with not too many hours input. To keep things ticking over I guess I need to work 2 days a week on average. It's just admin, nothing interesting in content, the only thing I enjoy is reading the P&L sheet.

Before I just continued working for the rest of the week, but now I do the minimum and take the time for myself, my family and my dancing. This is unfortunatly not sustainable in the long term - if you don't continue to invest in especially an IT business, it will get left behind and the income will dwindle. But I have so much dancing to do !!! Wish someone would pay me for that instead
 
I work for the Federal government, use to work in a Pharmaceutical Company for Public Relations until laid off because of downsizing. My current job just barely pays the bills, but gives me time to Dance Salsa.
 
I used to be a spy when I was in the UK.
Now I'm retired, working as a part time gigolo :banana:

Unfortunately I'm not doing stg that enjoyable.
I'm an IT projects manager. i used to be a software engineer. I managed financial projects, here in istanbul dealing with telecom projects.
 
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