What does everyone do for a living?

I often wonder what everyone on here does to be able to afford their herp pets/hobby. I realize some people turn it into a business but what about the other regular joes/janes, professionals ect.?

I am a secretary for a busy paving Company.

FedGov information technology contractor, aka "code monkey".

I'm a student. So how I afford my hobby is... With great care for budgeting haha

Retired Paramedic from the F.D.N.Y. After 30 years of service. Studying now for my LPN license.

So interesting thanks for sharing everyone...grateful to be employed lol cristacake what are you going to school for? Albert I bet people are very appreciative for your service that's a very rewarding career. Hahah code monkey waaay beyond my level of technology!

Hubby works for Rutgers, I coupon and budget and get free samples to cut back on spending. I use rebates, call companies directly and ask about products. Or I send hand written letters, and generally can get coupons for my efforts. I also stalk a listing site and a freebie site looking for second hand gear that can be sanitized.

i make my own cleaners and sometimes sell hand knitted or crocheted items to supplement income.

Network Analyst for Hospital System.

Microscope analysis of building materials for asbestos.

When I was on the ambulance or in the E.R. families were always appreciative of my services. Sometimes people would write letters of appreciation and my partner and I would receive commendation letters from supervision. Whenever I mention what my career was nowadays people are always appreciative. People mostly remember 9- 11.

I'm the Corporate Account Manager for an Atlanta based ticket broker. We specialize in providing premium seating to concert, theatre, and sporting events both nationally and internationally. I like to think I'm in the business of helping people have fun :D.

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When I was on the ambulance or in the E.R. families were always appreciative of my services. Sometimes people would write letters of appreciation and my partner and I would receive commendation letters from supervision. Whenever I mention what my career was nowadays people are always appreciative. People mostly remember 9- 11.

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I've only had 1 ambulance experience and wow was I grateful for their expertise and the care they gave me. Very honorable <3

When I got out of the Marine Corps I started working at a Bio-Medical R&D site, I have held many positions within the company, currently I manager the calibration program.

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I'm the Corporate Account Manager for an Atlanta based ticket broker. We specialize in providing premium seating to concert, theatre, and sporting events both nationally and internationally. I like to think I'm in the business of helping people have fun :D.

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That's SO cool Ziggy maybe I've had some fun with your help haha

I'm a buyer for a packaging distribution company. Love being able to buy kraft dunnage, singleface corrugated and foam shipper boxes at cost for my snake hobby! Moving at the end of the year to a very small town and no idea what I'll be doing besides keeping my fingers crossed I can find a decent paying job quickly.
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Self-employed/ small business owner of a company that's makes steel above ground storage tanks for petroleum products.

Risk Manager for a $500 billion dollar investment bank

I have a double life... I have a business making bicycle luggage and custom instrument gig bags, and I'm a musician. I teach some, gig some, and am in the process of finishing up my first solo album. My education is in music, but my bike bag business is mostly my "day job".

I retired after 27 years with the United States Air Force. I currently work as the Logistics Manager and Lead Roaster for the Opus Coffee Company in Gainesville, Florida.

http://opuscoffee.com/

I graduated college May 2015, and have been an artist at Disney TV Animation now on an upcoming series since then. =)

Medical billing for podiatry offices around the PA/OH area. Can be quite boring at times.

Everyone has such neat jobs, way to go everyone! Now for my next question...do your co-workers think you're odd for having snakes as pets? hahah I am the youngest at my company by quite a bit and do all sorts of odd hobbies I think everyone thinks I'm nuts.

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So interesting thanks for sharing everyone...grateful to be employed lol cristacake what are you going to school for?

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I'm trying to get a bachelors in Classical Studies, which is basically the history and literature of ancient Rome and Greece [emoji846] And since everyone asks, I hope to someday teach the very same subject at a college level

I manage the social media for The Reptile Report. If you follow The Reptile Report on Facebook that's me! (Well, not 100% me, all the posts with the links to The Reptile Report's website are Emily - the rest are me).

I am an commercial/industrial electrician. I work all over the metro detroit area. My co-workers definitely think I am odd for having reptiles, but in the construction trade, if you think someone is normal they are just hiding something from you :)

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I am an commercial/industrial electrician. I work all over the metro detroit area. My co-workers definitely think I am odd for having reptiles, but in the construction trade, if you think someone is normal they are just hiding something from you :)

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LOL this is very true. Great job, I bet you will always have work.

No one knows I have anything other than dogs. If I don't want you to, I can have you in my house for hours and all you will ever know about is my dogs. And you won't even see them, just hear their feet and barking. I leave them upstairs. You have to earn access to my upper floor.

Note: we own our home, so we aren't hiding animals from landlords lol. I just don't want to deal with the drama most people bring with them. I get enough crap for having a garden. Just wait until I expand the plot this year! They've whined enough that I've decided I want cucumbers and pumpkins. I don't complain about their peaches and rotten fruit in my yard giving my dogs the runs, they can just hush about my veggies.

If I thought I could get away with it i would have chickens. Or at least quail. But well... I still get peta stuff about that time I came home with a deer carcass. Smh.

so yeah, I don't share with my neighbors lol.

Served 4 years in the Marines and used some of the money I saved up to get started. Now I am a certified personal trainer about to launch an online trainer. :D

I'm an aircraft mechanic. I've only told a couple people at work about my snake. One thinks it's awesome, he wants a green tree python and has a bearded dragon. The other thinks it's weird/creepy and doesn't like snakes

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I graduated college May 2015, and have been an artist at Disney TV Animation now on an upcoming series since then. =)

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My bosses daughter said today her goal is to work for Pixar. Super talented young lady, still in high school. Sounds like a pretty good gig you have there. lol.

I work with a good group of guys... We're all IT guys, and I think each one of us has our own unique hobbies... nobody really bats an eye about my reptiles. The ones that don't like snakes don't really come around anyways, so I don't care.

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Served 4 years in the Marines and used some of the money I saved up to get started. Now I am a certified personal trainer about to launch an online trainer. :D

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That would be such a fun job - very ambitious of you! Send me the link once you have it up and going - I'm huge into fitness.

Up until vary recently, I did cabinetry refinishing and built custom cabinetry. After 6 1/2, I Now I have been forced out onto greener pastures ( boss is retired and is folding the business). I am now in residential and commercial construction, and have gone back to school part time to get my highschool, so I can go to college for HVAC.


Only my boss know about my hobby, as I don't really get into my personal life with clients ( I made the mistake of telling a client that I'm a hunter and we lost a contract because of it:rolleyes:)) most people who do know are either scared and won't come over or think it's cool, or have weird questions like "are they venomous" or "aren't they illegal".

Oh and of course my landlord knows, she's not please but when she said I had to get rid of the Snake I offered to just move instead lol.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

FedGov information technology contractor, aka "code monkey".

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well, a monkey could do a lot worse than hooking up with the feds. I do the same thing minus the FedGov clients.

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

... Whenever I mention what my career was nowadays people are always appreciative. People mostly remember 9- 11.

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it's unfortunate that something of that magnitude is what it took for so many to appreciate those who serve us daily. I guess even the darkest of clouds has a silver lining.

I am a HS Science teacher. A lot of my animals moonlight in the classroom most of the year. Right now I have a cornsnake, a blue-tongue skink, a crested gecko and five turtles in my classroom, along with some furry animals (hamsters) and 19 newly hatched baby chicks which we will keep for two weeks until they grow wing feathers.

My coworkers see my zoo of a classroom and so it never shocks them that I have a home zoo, too. In fact, I bring a lot of my home animals in for school events.

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Everyone has such neat jobs, way to go everyone! Now for my next question...do your co-workers think you're odd for having snakes as pets? hahah I am the youngest at my company by quite a bit and do all sorts of odd hobbies I think everyone thinks I'm nuts.

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some think it's odd, some think it's scary, it seems most are semi fascinated. most co-workers I've had who've thought I was odd thought so before they found out about the snakes.

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Originally Posted by cristacake

I'm trying to get a bachelors in Classical Studies, which is basically the history and literature of ancient Rome and Greece [emoji846] And since everyone asks, I hope to someday teach the very same subject at a college level

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I bet the snakes are named after the Greek/Roman Gods.

this has been a surprisingly fun thread.

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Originally Posted by DennisM

some think it's odd, some think it's scary, it seems most are semi fascinated. most co-workers I've had who've thought I was odd thought so before they found out about the snakes.

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Lol this is great and probably true for me as well I've juggled and hula hooped on lunch since I've started there so that description of me might have already been formed haha. Most do seen somewhat fascinated, but they also seem to think a ball python can kill you LOL just the typical unknowing.

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I am a HS Science teacher. A lot of my animals moonlight in the classroom most of the year. Right now I have a cornsnake, a blue-tongue skink, a crested gecko and five turtles in my classroom, along with some furry animals (hamsters) and 19 newly hatched baby chicks which we will keep for two weeks until they grow wing feathers.

My coworkers see my zoo of a classroom and so it never shocks them that I have a home zoo, too. In fact, I bring a lot of my home animals in for school events.

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I wish I was in your class lol

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I bet the snakes are named after the Greek/Roman Gods.

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:laughing: That was my plan, until I made the mistake of telling everyone the breeder's chosen name for my first BP. I was considering naming her Persephone, but once I had introduced her to people as "Donuts", it stuck! Maybe another species will take the Olympian route :rolleye2:

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.... I've juggled and hula hooped on lunch since I've started ..

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well, apparently you are a more talented oddball than me:rolleye2:

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:laughing: That was my plan, until I made the mistake of telling everyone the breeder's chosen name for my first BP. I was considering naming her Persephone, but once I had introduced her to people as "Donuts", it stuck! Maybe another species will take the Olympian route :rolleye2:

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LOL! i named one of the first snakes I owned Persephone. she was a Cal king. I gave up on real names a long time ago. now I name them clever things like BPF17 (Ball Python Female # 17)

Not a very popular profession right now.

Im a Police Officer.

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LOL! i named one of the first snakes I owned Persephone. she was a Cal king. I gave up on real names a long time ago. now I name them clever things like BPF17 (Ball Python Female # 17)

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My clown female's name is Persephone :cool:


I'm a massage therapist. I work in a small multi-disciplinary clinic with chiropractors and acupuncturists. All my co-workers and some of my patients know everything about my slither-babies. In fact, one of the other massage therapists and I got on the conversation of snakes two years ago and realized we'd both always wanted one. We egged each other on to get one. I got my BP first, then he got his shortly thereafter. We're now growing our personal collections, while starting to get into a few hobby breeding projects together. Our co-workers are quite used to our constant snake talk ;)

@ AL & KMG- I appreciate your service.

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Not a very popular profession right now.

Im a Police Officer.

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I hear it's especially unpopular with criminals. Keep up the good work KMG.

ER Nurse here.

I think everyone pretty much knows about my snake obsession! Some love it and some hate it but most will look at my pics haha! I work with a Doctor that has snakes too so we talk a lot and people listen in. I ride horses competitively also and now some of the barn girls are picking up the random King snakes that they find in the stalls and one of the girls now has 2 BPs. :)

That's awesome everyone! I'm still a bit young to have a profession but I do help people with their stable or ranch all the time. So, I guess that would make me a stablehand. I do want to become an animal control officer though. If that doesn't work out, I do want to join the police force. Small but mighty :)

Back in the day I Flew the Friendly Sky's I was a Flight Attendant then Married had my Children and co owned three Taco Bell Franchise,s now Im retired and a full time Snake Mom and Grandmother to my Grandsons .

Sent from my SGH-T999

i'm a soldier.

trying to set up this reptile thing to be a full time business capable of paying the rest of the bills my pension will not cover once i retire.