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Hi All,

Basically I started my new job a few weeks back but as a consequence all my hobby projects have ground to a halt due to lack of spare time or energy. (for the moment). It got me thinking what do we all do outside of the hobby for a living or studying to go somewhere? We all come from different walks of life and I thought it would be interesting to see what we all do and how we fit our hobby into our spare time.

Well then you ask, start the ball rolling - what do I do?

If you want me to upsell my career I am an 'Agricultural Operative Driver'. In other words I drive tractors for my living. I have forever been that person who doesn't know what they wanted to do and had no incentive to go to University because of that. I have grown up around farmland and with my Dad and Granddad doing contract work for farms. Unfortunately the work is too limited to support me so I have ended up at the local big farming corporation. The goings good but working the land is a very demanding job with time, I am getting up at 4.30 to start work at 6am and going home for tea at 8pm six days a week. Still I can't complain when the weekly payslip arrives!

- Well I can complain, my inherited tractor 'Big Blue' because its big and blue is the most diabolically unreliable machine known to man!

Anyway, what do you do for a living/studying for one?
   
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Denver, Colorado

I'm a mechanical project engineer for a city municipality.

It's honestly a pretty cushy government job (it's a stereotype for a reason!), and I get a lot more of a sense of accomplishment from building and painting my adorable trash robots than anything I do at work.

I also don't have a wife or kids, just my doggie, and other than him hobbying takes up a lot of my spare time, of which I have quite a bit.

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Maryland

I'm a clerk/administrative assistant for Public Works in a local township. Basically that means I'm either working on invoices or purchase orders for all the gak the guys buy, or working on their timecards so they get their pay on time.

I'm currently in grad school for a Masters in Library and Information Science, with a specialization in Digital Libraries. I'll have my Culminating Experience internship over the summer, and then I'll have my degree. The best part about my current job is that it let me get through grad school without any additional student loans, while also allowing me to save up some money.

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Building a blood in water scent

 Sentinel1 wrote:

- Well I can complain, my inherited tractor 'Big Blue' because its big and blue is the most diabolically unreliable machine known to man!
Anyway, what do you do for a living/studying for one?


Paint it red, cause red wunz go fasta!

After a few years of working slaving in kitchens and bars I got on as a labourer with a residential builder. After 6 years I had my carpenter's red seal and did that for 10 years, ending up as a foreman. Now I am working and studying as a quantity surveyor and while it's safer and the pay is better it's also boring as feth. I miss the site and the noise and the camaraderie of construction, especially on a gorgeous sunny day like today.

Do you like driving tractors?

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I study the science of digging up old trash (aka archaeology) at the university. This is my first year.
I think it is pretty neat because you don't just interact with the past through boring stuffy books that always rehash the same old information. Instead, you interact with the past by being outside and actually discovering new things.

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South Dakota

I work IT at a hospital, it's OK.

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Building a blood in water scent

 Iron_Captain wrote:
I study the science of digging up old trash (aka archaeology) at the university. This is my first year.
I think it is pretty neat because you don't just interact with the past through boring stuffy books that always rehash the same old information. Instead, you interact with the past by being outside and actually discovering new things.


Plus the hat and the whip and the Nazi-punching has gotta be pretty cool.

We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".

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 HunterEste wrote:
I work IT at a hospital, it's OK.

I work IT at a major hospital system.

I love it..

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About to study at acting school - aka, little prospect of actually getting a job in my field of study...


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Alaska

 whembly wrote:
 HunterEste wrote:
I work IT at a hospital, it's OK.

I work IT at a major hospital system.

I love it..

I work IT at a small clinic. I enjoy the getting paid part.

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Vigo. Spain.

I made a business in my early years, basically mussel farming, you know, some punts, 3 ships, etc.... I made it profitable, then I sold it, buy 4 apartment and now I live from the income of the rents and from the shares of stock I have. I have invested too in some bussines with my cousins and they are running well. A catering company, etc...

So basically I have all the time in the world to do my hobbys (If my wife don't want some of it!)

But I'm a very lucky person. My father was a mayor political figure in my city and my grandfather was a ... drug dealer of coccaine and a corrupt politician that flee to Brazil when I was younger and never saw it back

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 Crimson Devil wrote:

Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.

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Texas

Work as the QHSE Manager for an Oil and Gas services company that is mostly focused on offshore upstream development.

Took a very winding path to get to where I am. Started off in IT in the mid 90's, moved over to manufacturing management in the early 2000's (that happened to be very IT dependent at the time), which lead into compliance management about 12 years ago, that then lead into dedicated QHSE Management first in manufacturing and now oil and gas.

I can certainly commiserate with the OP and as I am sure many of our fellow posters can attest too in how changes in our work can cause participation in our past times to ebb and flow considerably. Throw in getting married, kids, etc... and it should surprise no one least of all me why my Imperial Fists project continues to be incomplete. Though my magpie tendencies certainly have something to do with it too.

To the OP....hang in there and don't let the machine beat you.

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Somewhere in south-central England.

I work at the Oxford University Press as a digital products coordinator in the English Language Teaching division.

All those people around the world, teaching or studying English, I help them get the digital course books, readers, dictionaries, audio files, videos, and vocab testing apps they need.

The other part of my job is anti-piracy. I spend some time every day checking torrent sites and the like for copying OUP books, and slap them with DMCA takedown notices.

I'm writing a load of fiction. My latest story starts here... This is the index of all the stories...

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3D Model designer for Pipeline Studios. I make souless saccharine cartoons for 6 year olds.

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USA

I think it is pretty neat because you don't just interact with the past through boring stuffy books that always rehash the same old information. Instead, you interact with the past by being outside and actually discovering new things.


Hey now XD

Historians like me interact with the past through old boring stuffy books looking for details that all the previous readers missed, and finding new old boring stuffy books you archeology blokes found last week* to write boring new stuffy books that only rehash some of the same old information

*Librarians too. Amazing how many sources end up being refound in the back shelf of some library no one has catalogued in 200 years. Basically happens in the Vatican's archives on a weekly basis, cause that place is huge and almost none of it is properly referenced in any modern sense.

   
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Vigo. Spain.

 LordofHats wrote:
Historians like me interact with the past through old boring stuffy books looking for details that all the previous readers missed, and finding new old boring stuffy books you archeology blokes found last week* to write boring new stuffy books that only rehash some of the same old information


So you are basically like GW's Codex/Armybook writers?

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 Crimson Devil wrote:

Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.

ERJAK wrote:
Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.

 
   
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This Is Where the Fish Lives

I'm a shift tech at a huge data center in Northern Virginia. Basically, I'm in the building in case something goes wrong so I have a lot of downtime. I work twelve hour days, four on four off, switching between nights and days. It's pretty boring for the most part, but I get paid well and I get a four day weekend after every shift. I sometimes have to work holidays, which sucks because I have two kids, but my wife knew that was part of the deal when I took this job.

I'm a steamfitter by trade and a member of Steamfitters Local 602 of Washington, DC. I worked in construction for twelve years before I got my current job.

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USA

 Galas wrote:
 LordofHats wrote:
Historians like me interact with the past through old boring stuffy books looking for details that all the previous readers missed, and finding new old boring stuffy books you archeology blokes found last week* to write boring new stuffy books that only rehash some of the same old information


So you are basically like GW's Codex/Armybook writers?


Yes, except we remember what fun feels like!

Spoiler:


The history of sick burns is particularly fascinating

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Bristol

I'm currently studying for my MSc by Research in Physics, looking at X-ray reverberation from black hole accretion disks.

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 LordofHats wrote:
I think it is pretty neat because you don't just interact with the past through boring stuffy books that always rehash the same old information. Instead, you interact with the past by being outside and actually discovering new things.


Hey now XD

Historians like me interact with the past through old boring stuffy books looking for details that all the previous readers missed, and finding new old boring stuffy books you archeology blokes found last week* to write boring new stuffy books that only rehash some of the same old information

*Librarians too. Amazing how many sources end up being refound in the back shelf of some library no one has catalogued in 200 years. Basically happens in the Vatican's archives on a weekly basis, cause that place is huge and almost none of it is properly referenced in any modern sense.

Heh, I do love reading the occasional stuffy history book. A good knowledge of history is pretty much mandatory when you study historical periods. Besides, historians sometimes come up with pretty nifty theories that we can also use in archaeology, so history and archaeology kinda help each other in improving our understanding of our past. But even though I love history books I wouldn't want to make my job out of them. I get distracted really easily and reading (or writing) history books is often too monotonous a task to hold my interest for long. Never have been one for book learning. I'd rather shovel dirt
I also really like the idea of being in direct contact with the remains of the past. When you dig up a piece of a pot and know that the previous time it was touched was by someone who lived 2000 years ago, that gives you a special feeling. Kinda like you have some direct connection to the people of the past.

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Outer Space, Apparently

I'm a Customer Service Rep for motor insurance at LV. It's the biggest mixed bag I've had for a job so far, but 17,500 a year is nothing to sniff at for a 19 year old.

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USA

 Iron_Captain wrote:

Besides, historians sometimes come up with pretty nifty theories that we can also use in archaeology, so history and archaeology kinda help each other in improving our understanding of our past.


There's a lot of historical periods that simply don't work without archeology as well. We had a speaker over at my university last month who was giving a lecture on the luxury culture of Roman Britain, and almost no written sources really exist to get to that. Her presentation was almost nothing but archeology.

The Humanities: Where you go when presented with 20 different fields of study and you just can't stand to pick one

I also really like the idea of being in direct contact with the remains of the past. When you dig up a piece of a pot and know that the previous time it was touched was by someone who lived 2000 years ago, that gives you a special feeling. Kinda like you have some direct connection to the people of the past.


I know that sensation. Why I'm going into archives instead of academic history. Got to play with some 150 year old newspapers last week, and a ledger that was so brittle I decided to just leave it alone. Ain't no one gonna say Hats broke that gak XD


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 A Town Called Malus wrote:
X-ray reverberation from black hole accretion disks.


I have no idea what this means but it sounds like it should be weaponized and equipped to a Gundam (i.e. awesome)

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Bristol

 LordofHats wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
X-ray reverberation from black hole accretion disks.


I have no idea what this means but it sounds like it should be weaponized and equipped to a Gundam (i.e. awesome)


It's just astrophysicist speak for x-rays being reflected off the dust and gas being sucked into a black hole. Sorry

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North Augusta, SC

I'm an Electrical Engineer for a large electric utility company in the southeastern U.S.

I work on line equipment (relays, breakers, reclosers, regulators) in the field. I'm based out of my house and I get to work alone where no one bothers me. Sounds boring, but I love it. I get to see the aftermath of some pretty cool explosions every once in a while. I work 4 10's so I get to make time for fishing and (trying) painting my IG.
   
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Alaska

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
It's just astrophysicist speak for x-rays being reflected off the dust and gas being sucked into a black hole. Sorry

Yeah, sure. You're just trying to cover your tracks so that when the portal gets ripped open to the Hell dimension we won't think to come after you with our torches and pitchforks.

I'm wise to you sciencey types.

YELL REAL LOUD AN' CARRY A BIG CHOPPA! 
   
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Bristol

 Dakka Flakka Flame wrote:
 A Town Called Malus wrote:
It's just astrophysicist speak for x-rays being reflected off the dust and gas being sucked into a black hole. Sorry

Yeah, sure. You're just trying to cover your tracks so that when the portal gets ripped open to the Hell dimension we won't think to come after you with our torches and pitchforks.

I'm wise to you sciencey types.


You won't find my secret lab. It certainly isn't in the decrepit castle with the large lightning rod protruding from one of its crumbling towers...

The Laws of Thermodynamics:
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Alaska

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
You won't find my secret lab. It certainly isn't in the decrepit castle with the large lightning rod protruding from one of its crumbling towers...

That's a relief, that place is spooky and I'd rather not go up there.

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I work security in a large multi-national bio-medical company.

I guess that makes me the jack-booted enforcer of Big Pharma.....or something.

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Beijing

I'm a chemistry teacher.
   
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Oxfordshire

There's a lot of military guys around here and I'm one of them. I used to be a fairy (fixed the electrics on aircraft), now I sit behind a desk and talk about exciting things like Quality Assurance and Human Factors. What went wrong? Oh, I remember, I'm in a pension trap.

I don't post in most of the other sub-forums on Dakka, just lurk to read the news. But it's the diversity of backgrounds and ideas that fill the off-topic forum that keep bringing me back here, especially when I think the only connection most of us have is we paint little soldier toys.
   
 
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