Retired from my day job, and now growing old disgracefully.
Never worked full-time as a pro, but I've the strong impression that there are at least as many "amateurs" of professional quality out there as there as there are professionals.
i'm also (unfortunately) a junior in high school. i truly have no idea what sort of profession i want to get into, but music seems something of a possiblity. maybe editing.
I make Irish stepdancing solo dresses and team costumes, teach Irish stepdance for Heritage Irish Stepdancers here in Denver, teach classes on Husqvarna Viking machines and software, and sometimes I still build websites. Er...this all means I'm self-employed.
i'm an almost retired teamster warehouse guy who played in bars most weekends for 30 years. now teaching lessons on my instruments and playing itm and loving it. don
by day im a mild mannered high school junior. by night i roam the streets dealing out justice with brass knuckles and uilleann pipes. my future occupation involves ruling the world and operating a small rice farm out of a rural town in cambodia.
i've 3 hares, i mean part time things : house husband, reptile & amphibian ecologist (specialising in heathland conservation) and a semi-pro folk / rock head, just feeling my way back into acoustic sessions . . . acoustic sessions . . . acoustic sessions . . . ac/dc
i have to get my old yamaha acoustic mended i'm so caterpiller-brained i haven't got one decent instrument to play on
I trained as a geologist. Never got work, did science ed., and finally trained to be an elementary teacher five years ago. Never got a steady job at that either (or many chances to work music into lessons) and my science past caught up with me and soon I was teaching high school science and ducking flying objects. Then this year I was hired by a university geology department to teach...astronomy! Go figure. My first real job, at age 46. I'm learning my stars in a hurry.
It has come in handy, as our one local Irish-born musician studied astronomy (Trinity in Dublin, IIRC) so we talk about that before our local session gets going. Lithium synthesis in stars, stuff like that. He says several of the working astronomers in Ireland are also great musicians.
Finishing up a B.A. Music degree (harp, violin, and viola in addition to fiddle and tenor banjo...) gigging whenever possible on whatever instrument(s), teaching harp, and working part time at a French pastry shop.
Electrical engineer, used to design electronic communications gear but now working in defense systems engineering; music on an amateur-but-paid basis pulls in enough $$$ to make a difference.
Full time musician, playing at pubs, clubs, concerts, festival in Ireland and abroad and the likes also teach music and repair and make the odd fiddle and banjo if time allows.
Full-time college student getting my BA in psych that's useless for everything, except for serving lattes and playing in pub sessions. You know, the ones that serve free alcohol to musicians.
Graphic designer. Most jobs have nothing to do with music so I sometimes do nice (?) graphic work in my freetime. See Gerry O'Connor's new solo fiddle CD "Journeyman"...
With apologies to Guy Clark:
"I'm a drifter an' a driller of oil wells.
And an old school man of the world."
Well these days, I punt specialist tools to drillers in Europe, CIS and Australasia which takes me to many interesting places where they happen to have sessions.
I'm a better late than never professional failure! Flunked everything I've turned my hand at so far. Teach Humanities in middle school - nine school days to the Christmas Holidays (Yippee!!) and a 6,000 km session crawl before school goes back next year. Can't wait!
Trained as a mental health counselor...but never found good paying work, now I work for the government supervising a staff of doctors who are contractors (officially, I'm a project officer).
By night, I've decided I have the ability to restore an old cottage style home - but the home is evil and fights against me at every turn...thank goodness for ITM to take my mind off doctors, bad plumbing, and leaky windows.
I haven't decided what to do when I grow up yet, but at 46 I have a digital print and display company - www.filmtech.ltd.uk
Previous things I have done for a living:
Warehouse management
Growing Trees for the Landscape industry
Landscaping
Tree Surgery
Painting (houses, not pictures)
Truck Driving
Gardening
Viticulture (that's growing grapes)
Graphic Design
Reprographics for the print trade
BT\, unfortunately, that's probably so. ;) Someday I'll actually write that book I've been planning on solo dresses, complete with patterns and such. A lot of feis moms (and a couple of dads) I know would willingly make dresses for their daughters if only there were some easily available resources to help them out with it. It does take a lot of time, though, and you have to be a decent seamstress to be able to do it without some hair tearing, I've found, so there'll always be a market for makers, I'm thinking.
Trained as an art historian (specializing in medieval Japanese zen-related arts).
Presently working part time as a bookkeeper and part time as the office supply stock manager for a stationer's shop. Both if those jobs are in the same space, since the two businesses are owned by the same family, so I change hats by going up or down stairs.
Trying to start chipping away at the prospect of making it as a writer. :p
Note to KenC: former geology students from Indiana hardly ever seem to end up actually doing geology. But see how clever and adaptable you are?!
Me: Did the biology/geology thing in school (in Indiana!), worked in various research labs until I couldn't stand it, mapped coal mines, now a land surveyor. Part of my job description: being grumpy and opinionated. So Ottery and Michael, you have to share. ;-[{
I work in hospital administration. It is my solemn duty to keep clinicians, the IT department, and the Powers That Be from killing each other. I love my job because no one knows how I do what I do, so everyone leaves me alone.
I am a student who is currently finishing his Associate's of Arts Transfer Degree from his local Community College here ni S. Oregon, as well as working at the college as a writing tutor (meaning I correct papers from fellow students) and also working at Kentucky Fried Chicken, working both as a cook, and as a bloke up front giving people their food. Fiends! Coming in and buying my chicken.... Grrrr....
I also play Fiddle, and may evetually be teaching Herself how to play the whistle....
Tried lots of things in offices but got bored too quick to stay so kept going back to being a self employed anything-to do-with-art-ist. Finding a niche in generally facilitating creativity and developing workshops to travel around the islands and highlands of scotland....U know... sort of a package deal of music,art,drama and writting for any health and well-being groups interested. Hopefully will build this next year to buying in the talent to do the workshops... so if any of you fancy a tour round the islands^^... I'll see what I can do.
I look after a couple of laboratories - one a Drosophila (fruitfly) lab and the other a Confocal microscopy suite. The range of duties range from anything from washing out bottles to literature survey and experiment design, execution and reporting...oh...and supervising students.
Nettle farmer.
Practicing to be a bar woman by doin lots of research on the other side of the bar. Getting very good at leaning on it in a constuctive and interested manner. Not ready for the other side yet tho...
Used to work in an M & M factory but got fired for throwing out all the W's.
Musician, also sound engineer in my own studio (Panchord Studio, Glasnevin, Dublin). Do some teaching and lecturing in both fields as well. You get the picture... can't hold down a steady job!!!
Currently working at a business answering the phones for their support network...not my life's goal. As soon as I finish my darned dissertation (grrrrrrrrr), I'll hopefully get a job teaching music theory/composition/history at a university somewhere. And then I can force (erm...expose?) more people to listen to the music.
RN-Manager of an ICU and ER, by day (really around the clock) and by at least once or twice a week a Solo Irish singer, guitar, fiddler and bodhran....a couple more contracts like this one I can give up my day job.....(despite many protestors!)
I design and make furniture, occasionally (occasional furniture). Oh, and I make bodhrans, honestly I do, just started making tunable ones. Not got round to marketing them yet, but they are pretty good. Play in a Ceilidh Band, mostly Irish tunes, some Scottish. Fascinating to hear what you lot are all up to. Doug
Geographer turned town planner when I realised someone would pay me for colouring in.
Play music, molly dance, do metal work, woodwork and climb in spare time. Wondering how to combine them - dancing up a cliff with a hand made wood and metal whistle possibly?
David (A), don't be surprised if you see a picture of Einstein hanging up in a patent attorney's office
I'm still not sure what level Einstein was in the Swiss Patent Office - a formalities clerk, or on the examining staff? I'll have to look it up sometime. Anyway, the great man played the violin in his spare time, so there's yet another example of a physicist with music as a hobby.
I've been retired from the profession for a number of years now, and don't particularly want to go back to it, though it was good while it lasted; I'm having much more fun now playing music.
Trevor
Trevor,
There's still lots of work for patent agents and attorneys - especially when even 5 year olds become inventors. Check out US Patent 6,368,227 "Method of Swinging on a Swing", apparently drafted by a patent attorney for their child.
Writing (most recently "The Western Confluence: A Guide to Governing Natural Resources," Island Press, 2004), editing, planning consulting is what pays the bills. But money for new strings and a fresh cake of rosin every decade also comes from teaching music and playing a few gigs. And I'm heavily into home remodeling and construction....
I wonder if they carried out trials of the invention of USP 6368227 in their local playground _before_ the application was filed. If they did, that could be another patent that's not worth the paper it's printed on!
Trevor
Speaking of Einstein playing the Violin, I just found out last night that Thomas Jefferson use to fiddle as well. Chulrua apparantly has a track on "Barefoot on the Altar" and they play a tune called "Jefferson's March" it's a cool ditty.
And speaking of Einstein and Jefferson, I just have to mention for the Hell of it because it's so damn cool...
Wll, I for one didn't - as long as "celt crichie" isn't one of the legendary Session Police. We have ways of dealing with these gentlemen in Bristol. My Monday session pub backs onto a deep harbour, and it's very quiet there at night ... heh, heh
Well, that's what I used to be before I retired. Hence the "tongue in cheek" comments earlier about now joining the "session police". I used to practice my mandolin in the cell passage area much to the annoyance of the inmates, although it was a relief to my colleagues.
There are quite a few members of the force who play traditional music, especially pipers. Unfortunately, there's just as many philistines, bigots(against Irish music), and those who just don't understand.
Dave Burland, a fine performer on the English scene was also an ex policeman and Wattie Lees(Uillean piper) whose excellent album is listed here in the Recordings section.
Sean O'Shea (London fiddle player) was a policeman and so was Kevin Burke's father.
I've heard that Paddy Glacken's father was a garda, although I don't know for sure.
So... What's everyone's occupation?
So... What's everyone's occupation?
I'm a student right now in my Junior year of high school... Getting my license in two weeks so that's a coolness thing something!
Well, I plan on being a music teacher after college, hopefully that'll work out for me.
Just curious, mostly wondering if people have music related occupations.
Cheers and Christmas Decorating,
Armand
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by armandale
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I'm retired from my old day job and I now work for the "Music Police".
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Johnny Jay
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I'm a musician...
Oh yeah, and I work for Dutch TV
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Dark Raven
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I'm a professional musician, and finishing up a degree so I can teach in addition to playing. Cheers-
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by nfiddle
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Whelk collector who spends most days scouring the beaches around St John's Point, SW Donegal - and, boy, do I stink, but the money's more than good.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by MacCruiskeen
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I'm a Chef in a contemporary Italian restaurant who wishes he had more time to play his violin
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Sunnybear
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Last year of high-school. Planning on going into Biology.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Winnowill
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Retired from my day job, and now growing old disgracefully.
Never worked full-time as a pro, but I've the strong impression that there are at least as many "amateurs" of professional quality out there as there as there are professionals.
Trevor
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Unemployed programmer, with a background in bicycles and anthropology.....oh, and music.
Snorre
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by snorre
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i'm also (unfortunately) a junior in high school. i truly have no idea what sort of profession i want to get into, but music seems something of a possiblity. maybe editing.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Bard
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I am self employed, or, more accurately, unemployed. Check out my website, rockingbow.com for details.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by rocking bow
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I too am self-employed...mechanical engineer gone consultant...presently not consulting
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by _Steph_
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Me, I teach Spanish as a foreign language to high school students. More of an alter-ego though, my passion is Itrad.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by boxdad
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13 down, 14499 to go. I'm a math professor.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by GaryAMartin
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Language teacher and translator, with a strong interest in reflexology and reiki.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by murfbox
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I make Irish stepdancing solo dresses and team costumes, teach Irish stepdance for Heritage Irish Stepdancers here in Denver, teach classes on Husqvarna Viking machines and software, and sometimes I still build websites. Er...this all means I'm self-employed.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Zina Lee
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Sophmore in High School.
# Posted on November 28th 2004 by Why Bother?
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Pipe Welder / Astronaut
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by dean24
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i'm an almost retired teamster warehouse guy who played in bars most weekends for 30 years. now teaching lessons on my instruments and playing itm and loving it. don
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Dont
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by day im a mild mannered high school junior. by night i roam the streets dealing out justice with brass knuckles and uilleann pipes. my future occupation involves ruling the world and operating a small rice farm out of a rural town in cambodia.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by bmcclat
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welder, metallurical lab tech, carpenter, whatever to survive. humorist...
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by clawhammerbanjo
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work for the NHS part time, part time piano teacher, full time wife of crofter fisherman , mum.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by gummidge
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Fiddler
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by aye
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Customer svc for a large landline phone co. Go figure. It pays the bills so I can dance, play music, eat.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by crazy
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i've 3 hares, i mean part time things : house husband, reptile & amphibian ecologist (specialising in heathland conservation) and a semi-pro folk / rock head, just feeling my way back into acoustic sessions . . . acoustic sessions . . . acoustic sessions . . . ac/dc
i have to get my old yamaha acoustic mended i'm so caterpiller-brained i haven't got one decent instrument to play on
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by lisaniska
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I trained as a geologist. Never got work, did science ed., and finally trained to be an elementary teacher five years ago. Never got a steady job at that either (or many chances to work music into lessons) and my science past caught up with me and soon I was teaching high school science and ducking flying objects. Then this year I was hired by a university geology department to teach...astronomy! Go figure. My first real job, at age 46. I'm learning my stars in a hurry.
It has come in handy, as our one local Irish-born musician studied astronomy (Trinity in Dublin, IIRC) so we talk about that before our local session gets going. Lithium synthesis in stars, stuff like that. He says several of the working astronomers in Ireland are also great musicians.
Life IS stranger than fiction.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by KenC
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Finishing up a B.A. Music degree (harp, violin, and viola in addition to fiddle and tenor banjo...) gigging whenever possible on whatever instrument(s), teaching harp, and working part time at a French pastry shop.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by violynnsey
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concertina maker music store owner former occupational therapist
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by bt
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Electrical engineer, used to design electronic communications gear but now working in defense systems engineering; music on an amateur-but-paid basis pulls in enough $$$ to make a difference.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Tish
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Full time musician, playing at pubs, clubs, concerts, festival in Ireland and abroad and the likes also teach music and repair and make the odd fiddle and banjo if time allows.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by compaqjohn
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Freelance fiddler and teacher.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by reenactor
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Full-time college student getting my BA in psych that's useless for everything, except for serving lattes and playing in pub sessions. You know, the ones that serve free alcohol to musicians.
Would you like a flavor shot with that?
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by DrSilverSpear
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Information jockey.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Q
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Graphic designer. Most jobs have nothing to do with music so I sometimes do nice (?) graphic work in my freetime. See Gerry O'Connor's new solo fiddle CD "Journeyman"...
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Irish Trad. Head
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Novelist, database geek, kitchen & bathroom renovator, "logistics specialist" (whatever that is), copy writer, hack.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by s1m0n
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Oh, I nearly forgot - I'm a cartoonist too.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Q
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I study social sciences at the University.............
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by DADdyGADdy
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I qualified as a music teacher but I'm actually doing transport planning! I didn't enjoy class teaching and hadn't discovered trad music at that time!
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Tarrantella
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I'm a clinical psychologist! can be useful in this field... mind you it's getting hard fitting the music in with the proper job these days.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Fionafiddler
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With apologies to Guy Clark:
"I'm a drifter an' a driller of oil wells.
And an old school man of the world."
Well these days, I punt specialist tools to drillers in Europe, CIS and Australasia which takes me to many interesting places where they happen to have sessions.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Bren
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Analyst Programmer. Sounds better than it is...I tell computers what to do.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Shrog
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Piano tuner.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Leftheris
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I'm a better late than never professional failure! Flunked everything I've turned my hand at so far. Teach Humanities in middle school - nine school days to the Christmas Holidays (Yippee!!) and a 6,000 km session crawl before school goes back next year. Can't wait!
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Clear Drops
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Trained as a mental health counselor...but never found good paying work, now I work for the government supervising a staff of doctors who are contractors (officially, I'm a project officer).
By night, I've decided I have the ability to restore an old cottage style home - but the home is evil and fights against me at every turn...thank goodness for ITM to take my mind off doctors, bad plumbing, and leaky windows.
eric
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Jayhawk
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Paramedic
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by meemtp
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Primary school teacher
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by kuec
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newspaper and magazine designer
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by ...
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I'm more or less the same as Michael, that's probably what makes us both grumpy, self-opinionated and intolerant ...
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Ottery
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I hear there's to be a new magazine called "Bodhran Monthly". Maybe, you could get a job there.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Johnny Jay
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Yes, that explains a lot.
I haven't decided what to do when I grow up yet, but at 46 I have a digital print and display company - www.filmtech.ltd.uk
Previous things I have done for a living:
Warehouse management
Growing Trees for the Landscape industry
Landscaping
Tree Surgery
Painting (houses, not pictures)
Truck Driving
Gardening
Viticulture (that's growing grapes)
Graphic Design
Reprographics for the print trade
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by showaddydadito
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Christ John, if it was only monthly it wouldn't be so bad
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by ...
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Patent agent. Previously biochemistry research.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by ian clark
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hmm Zina...
No one but you would believe what I shelled out for for a barely used Solo dress for daughter.
Do you suppose anyone from S.org will be at the Charlotte Oireachtas?
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by bt
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Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office with emphasis on agriculture programs
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Jiml
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Chemical engineer. Currently involved in sales support for process control consulting services. (Professional airline passenger, in other words.)
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by grego
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(Whoa, this one sure got everyone's attention)
Software dweeb
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by ralpheym
A strange combination...
Make money...
As a professional gambler...
http://www.cardcounter.com
http://theblackjackzone.com
As a consultant ...
http://www.integrity-intl.com
As a lecturer in computer science and engineering...
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~teliot
And, as a musician ...
Yeah, it's true, I used to take a lot of drugs.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Eliot
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I'm sure you've all already heard - as I mention it more than is healthy. (Piano accordion teacher/player.)
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by kris
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a. Chemical safety "advisor" and pt statistician.
b. Domestic child entertainment unit.
c: pt music teacher, if there's any time left over from a & b.
"MMMMM, drugs..."
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Gzeg
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Rats. Jeremy swiped my "Homer Simpson" and "End Homer Simpson" tags from the previous message...
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Gzeg
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BT\, unfortunately, that's probably so. ;) Someday I'll actually write that book I've been planning on solo dresses, complete with patterns and such. A lot of feis moms (and a couple of dads) I know would willingly make dresses for their daughters if only there were some easily available resources to help them out with it. It does take a lot of time, though, and you have to be a decent seamstress to be able to do it without some hair tearing, I've found, so there'll always be a market for makers, I'm thinking.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Zina Lee
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Gzeg, if you put them in "greater than" and "less than" brackets, they won't show up. PHP stuff, I think.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Zina Lee
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Chiropractor.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by goatwhacker
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I just noticed that I said what I wasn't, but not what I was before I retired.
I was a patent attorney.
Trevor
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Trained as an art historian (specializing in medieval Japanese zen-related arts).
Presently working part time as a bookkeeper and part time as the office supply stock manager for a stationer's shop. Both if those jobs are in the same space, since the two businesses are owned by the same family, so I change hats by going up or down stairs.
Trying to start chipping away at the prospect of making it as a writer. :p
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by sara g
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Note to KenC: former geology students from Indiana hardly ever seem to end up actually doing geology. But see how clever and adaptable you are?!
Me: Did the biology/geology thing in school (in Indiana!), worked in various research labs until I couldn't stand it, mapped coal mines, now a land surveyor. Part of my job description: being grumpy and opinionated. So Ottery and Michael, you have to share. ;-[{
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Michele Sims
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(Waves) Hi Sara!
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Michele Sims
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I work in hospital administration. It is my solemn duty to keep clinicians, the IT department, and the Powers That Be from killing each other. I love my job because no one knows how I do what I do, so everyone leaves me alone.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Ailin
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I am a student who is currently finishing his Associate's of Arts Transfer Degree from his local Community College here ni S. Oregon, as well as working at the college as a writing tutor (meaning I correct papers from fellow students) and also working at Kentucky Fried Chicken, working both as a cook, and as a bloke up front giving people their food. Fiends! Coming in and buying my chicken.... Grrrr....
I also play Fiddle, and may evetually be teaching Herself how to play the whistle....
-Padraig
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Pádraig
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Oooooh alot of variety here! I didn't expect these kind of jobs =P
Cheers and Low Whistle Time!
Armand
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by armandale
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Tried lots of things in offices but got bored too quick to stay so kept going back to being a self employed anything-to do-with-art-ist. Finding a niche in generally facilitating creativity and developing workshops to travel around the islands and highlands of scotland....U know... sort of a package deal of music,art,drama and writting for any health and well-being groups interested. Hopefully will build this next year to buying in the talent to do the workshops... so if any of you fancy a tour round the islands^^... I'll see what I can do.
Helen
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Skigersta
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I look after a couple of laboratories - one a Drosophila (fruitfly) lab and the other a Confocal microscopy suite. The range of duties range from anything from washing out bottles to literature survey and experiment design, execution and reporting...oh...and supervising students.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Rudall the time
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Nettle farmer.
Practicing to be a bar woman by doin lots of research on the other side of the bar. Getting very good at leaning on it in a constuctive and interested manner. Not ready for the other side yet tho...
Used to work in an M & M factory but got fired for throwing out all the W's.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by anniejryan
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Oh yeah - here's a bio (tongue frimly in cheek):
http://internal.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ipublic/staff/view/?go=10487
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Rudall the time
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Heehee, Danny. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like bananas.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Michele Sims
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Musician, also sound engineer in my own studio (Panchord Studio, Glasnevin, Dublin). Do some teaching and lecturing in both fields as well. You get the picture... can't hold down a steady job!!!
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Muireann
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Database developer and data extraction and conversion programmer.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by c_ya
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Currently working at a business answering the phones for their support network...not my life's goal. As soon as I finish my darned dissertation (grrrrrrrrr), I'll hopefully get a job teaching music theory/composition/history at a university somewhere. And then I can force (erm...expose?) more people to listen to the music.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Crysania
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RN-Manager of an ICU and ER, by day (really around the clock) and by at least once or twice a week a Solo Irish singer, guitar, fiddler and bodhran....a couple more contracts like this one I can give up my day job.....(despite many protestors!)
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Tim_Fiddler
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I design and make furniture, occasionally (occasional furniture). Oh, and I make bodhrans, honestly I do, just started making tunable ones. Not got round to marketing them yet, but they are pretty good. Play in a Ceilidh Band, mostly Irish tunes, some Scottish. Fascinating to hear what you lot are all up to. Doug
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by curlew
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Geographer turned town planner when I realised someone would pay me for colouring in.
Play music, molly dance, do metal work, woodwork and climb in spare time. Wondering how to combine them - dancing up a cliff with a hand made wood and metal whistle possibly?
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by lemming
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David (A), don't be surprised if you see a picture of Einstein hanging up in a patent attorney's office
I'm still not sure what level Einstein was in the Swiss Patent Office - a formalities clerk, or on the examining staff? I'll have to look it up sometime. Anyway, the great man played the violin in his spare time, so there's yet another example of a physicist with music as a hobby.
I've been retired from the profession for a number of years now, and don't particularly want to go back to it, though it was good while it lasted; I'm having much more fun now playing music.
Trevor
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Trevor,
There's still lots of work for patent agents and attorneys - especially when even 5 year olds become inventors. Check out US Patent 6,368,227 "Method of Swinging on a Swing", apparently drafted by a patent attorney for their child.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by ian clark
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I'd like to see them enforcing the claims down at their local playground.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by ian clark
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PhD student studying population genetics of North Sea cod. Without regular fixes of tunes, I would be a complete looney by now!
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Cod Fiddler
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Writing (most recently "The Western Confluence: A Guide to Governing Natural Resources," Island Press, 2004), editing, planning consulting is what pays the bills. But money for new strings and a fresh cake of rosin every decade also comes from teaching music and playing a few gigs. And I'm heavily into home remodeling and construction....
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Will Harmon
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I wonder if they carried out trials of the invention of USP 6368227 in their local playground _before_ the application was filed. If they did, that could be another patent that's not worth the paper it's printed on!
Trevor
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Don't forget the 1-year grace period in the US for prior disclosure by the inventor!
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by ian clark
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!
Speaking of Einstein playing the Violin, I just found out last night that Thomas Jefferson use to fiddle as well. Chulrua apparantly has a track on "Barefoot on the Altar" and they play a tune called "Jefferson's March" it's a cool ditty.
And speaking of Einstein and Jefferson, I just have to mention for the Hell of it because it's so damn cool...
Charlie Chaplin played the Cello and Violin!
Ok, homework.
Cheers and Chulrua,
Armand
# Posted on December 1st 2004 by armandale
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Guitarist, bouzouki-ist, semi-retired audio recording engineer, broker of acoustic instruments and pro audio gear.
stv
# Posted on December 1st 2004 by stv culchie
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hacker
http://www.vitanuova.com/company/other_staff.html
# Posted on December 1st 2004 by rog
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It is "broker" and not "breaker"?
Trevor
# Posted on December 1st 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Nice one, rog. Cool layback (is it?) picture.
# Posted on December 2nd 2004 by Rudall the time
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and what on earth was I doing when you put this thread up?
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/2236
# Posted on December 2nd 2004 by Rudall the time
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musician, student (6th form), photographer, website designer, have applied for Limerick and Newcastle Uni for next year...
# Posted on December 2nd 2004 by Lizzy
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Ex private music teacher (Lever Harp) turned Exec Support officer to support my musical instrument habit.
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by Ptollemy
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Marine Biologist by day...musician by night...the only one at work that travels with an instrument (lately the fiddle)...always a good ice-breaker
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by zoukmike
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Police Officer
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by celticrichie
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Not many would divulge that, but I would be interested in how many other cops play music. Particularly ITM.
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by celticrichie
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lol how many people felt a weird guiltly sensation when "celti crichie" posted his job discription ;))
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by Skigersta
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Wll, I for one didn't - as long as "celt crichie" isn't one of the legendary Session Police. We have ways of dealing with these gentlemen in Bristol. My Monday session pub backs onto a deep harbour, and it's very quiet there at night ... heh, heh
Trevor
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Jiggers - it's the fuzz! I'm off!
# Posted on December 4th 2004 by Q
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Tommy Peoples was once a copper in Dublin, so it's not unheard of.
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by Rudall the time
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...and what about the O'Niell's (as in the book)
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by Rudall the time
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Well, that's what I used to be before I retired. Hence the "tongue in cheek" comments earlier about now joining the "session police". I used to practice my mandolin in the cell passage area much to the annoyance of the inmates, although it was a relief to my colleagues.
There are quite a few members of the force who play traditional music, especially pipers. Unfortunately, there's just as many philistines, bigots(against Irish music), and those who just don't understand.
Dave Burland, a fine performer on the English scene was also an ex policeman and Wattie Lees(Uillean piper) whose excellent album is listed here in the Recordings section.
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by Johnny Jay
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Sean O'Shea (London fiddle player) was a policeman and so was Kevin Burke's father.
I've heard that Paddy Glacken's father was a garda, although I don't know for sure.
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by murfbox
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I'm Woody Allen's stunt double. Oh, and an IT trainer between takes.
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by Conán McDonnell
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there's an old irish waltz about a policeman : 'Are you there, Moriarity?' by Louis A. Tierney
it's a lovely tune, no doubt an 'obscure song', and my dad has played it (on the box) since the 1950's in 'waltz medley's' with music hall dance bands
i found the words recently ( _only 10 verses) in one of those little 'Walton' song books (1966) and the 'chorus' goes :
I'm a well-known bobby of the stalwart squad,
I belong to the D.M.G.
And the ladies cry as i pass by,
''Are you there, Mo-ri-ar-i-ty.''
# Posted on January 4th 2005 by lisaniska
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We met an excellent sean-nos singer called Séamus in Donegal in December who was the local policeman ... just thought I'd join in
# Posted on January 11th 2005 by Lizzy
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Software engineer - embedded systems. Previously musician/guitar teacher, sleep research, high school teacher.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Bob himself
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Professional in-call and out-call breast examiner
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Phantom Button