What do you do??

I bet this has been posted before but i thought since there seems to be a bunch of us newb's here it would be cool to find out what people do for jobs, and other hobbies other than herps.

I for instance am a Turtle Tracking field Assistant for an endangered turtle population project.
Other than herps i use to be big into pole vaulting, I play and make didgeridoos, and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.

thats a little bit about me what about you all??

you make didgeridoos and you live in connecticut? LOL sorry, i expected you to live in oz.

i publish a magazine, run a few businesses, homeschool my kids and teach classes in tarot, meditation and reiki.

other than that... i'm a couch potato.

Nah i spent a semester in OZ and took classes on didge and expanded it to making them. Yea i think i am officially the only didge player in CT, we are few and far between:eek:


wildlifewarrior

I just got a new job doing accounts payable for a company called Innovative Stone. I start on Monday, kinda excited. They're a granite importer and just recently got comissioned the memorial for the freedom tower in NYC.

Other hobbies include my RC Monster Truck that is quite fun and my bonsai that is slowly growing. Can't deny video games as another big hobby of mine when I can find the time.

Are didgeridoos those super cool aboriginee musical things that make weird zingy noises? lol.. so descriptive I know. I've always wanted one.

As for me.. I am a professional dog groomer. I get bit a lot more by dogs than I do by the 27 snakes in my care.. but, I love making dogs look pretty.

I am also an artist/photographer, a video game lover, and I'm also just a general animal nut. I keep mostly snakes and inverts, but I'm very interested in all kinds of animals.

I also ride horses (I have a thoroughbred gelding) mostly I like dressage, but I do lots of things with horses.

I also love sports cars (I'm going to buy a used corvette in the relatively near future) and someday I want to get my private pilot's license like my dad has.

I've got a lot of interests for sure!

I am a full time college student for Multimedia. I love graphic and web design, and been getting into 3D modeling and animation.

I work a part time job to help out with the bills. It's a company that sells Nitrous Oxide performance kits.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Are didgeridoos those super cool aboriginee musical things that make weird zingy noises? lol.. so descriptive I know. I've always wanted one.

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It always amazes me how those guys are capable of circular breathing for extended periods of time when playing those things. Somehow my brain was never able to do breathing in and out at the same time.:confused:

I'm a full time student at OSU, going to graduate in Dec. with a major in English, Creative writing, and a minor in Aviation business. I also work two part time jobs totalling about 40-50 hours: one's at CVS/Pharmacy, the other is at Kuhn Honors and Scholars Center on campus (we do recruitment, incoming freshmen, that sorta thing). I also run a small sort of snake rescue/rehab, trying to get into breeding cresties---though that's on the backburner until I get more time and money.

I try to get out with my friends once or twice a week. I love going to the movies and going out to eat... just hanging out. Also like to play video games, computer games, read when I get a chance, and write every chance I get. Oh, I'm also a military jet nut! And a Buckeye nut! :P

Oh I love military jets too! If I'm ever rich, I'll buy an L-39 albatross.

I'm an F-14 girl all the way... though my close second love is the Russian Su-35

Interesting jobs guys.......;)


I get to do what I love everyday!Work with animals that is..
I own half of the reptile shop I work at....
Just a small place,but we do great business..
In fact we are planning on expanding to an on line site soon...
As soon as I get all my feeder colonies up in size:crix::mouse2: :rat: ...
And we match up a few more lose animals..:snake:

Yea a didgeridoo is that wierd sounding aboriginal instrument, that just about everytime you hear the background to jeff corwin, there is a didge in there somewhere. Yea circular breathing is a tough concept it can take years for some, or minutes for others. The best way is using water and spitting it out, Spaniard, if you ever want more info it can be fun to learn, i use to spit water all over the place until it clicked!


wildlifewarrior

Well I'd certainly never be able to afford an f-14.. not that there's any in private ownership anyway. lol they're beautiful though.

I am currently a non-commissioned officer at the Sheriff's department in this county working in general population of inmates at the County Jail. I am not old enough yet to go to the academy, so I am working as a non-commisioned officer until I can go to the academy and become commissioned. I am in sort of a law-enforcement limbo.

Tefoe - you've got the job I'd really like. I work at Oxford University in the UK - office work and I'm sick of it. I'd love to work in a reptile store or a zoo - I'd really be much happier mucking out enclosures and stuff than paperwork.


Shelby - I love video gaming too - that's my other hobby apart from reptiles. My favorites are the Legacy of Kain series, Prince of Persia, Devil May Cry. And Jak & Daxter for fun :D

I am a fulltime student at NAU (Northern Arizona University) with a major in Psychology and a minor in Criminal Justice. I ultimately want to become a criminal psychologist/profiler. I also work part time at Hot Topic at the mall as a sales kid. I just got hired, but everyone that works there is totally cool, and as I mentioned in another thread, my manager has 5 BPs!

In my spare time I work on my ongoing musical project with my friend down in Mesa. Sort of corespondance jamming. I play the electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, I can sing to some extent (both heavy metal and normal), and I'm also learning the tin whistle and the Bodhran (a celtic hand drum). I think that is everything.

I work as welding dept. crew boss. My hobbies are showing dogs, horses, and collecting antiques. Mostly animal figurines and mannequins. In the past I have worked as a professional groomer, dog trainer and rehabilitating problem dogs. Have done great dane, whippet and borzoi rescue in the past. Love working with about any type of animal. Have a variety of pets.:)

I work for a collections agency; started as a collector, now I help people who are in payment plans to get their credit cards paid off, Kinda like helping the economy, lol!

I work with animals, never plain and never simple, lol. I work with animals and do my time (lol) at the animal shelter, which btw Im volunteering for on weekends. :shrugs: hmm.. this is my career I suppose you can say. Im not planning changing it. But I do plan on starting to stay at home a bit more and spend more time with my 4 snakes, 5 birds, 2 dogs, 3 cats, 6 hamsters, 2 ferrets, and fish. lol.

I work for Radiant Systems, Inc. We manufacture Point Of Sale Solutions (computers, software, etc) for the Entertainment industry (movie theatres such as AMC use our outdoor kiosks where you can buy your tickets at the machine rather than the window), Hospitality (Chick-Filet, Dunkin Donuts, California Pizza Kitchen, Rubio's, etc all use our touch screens and back office solutions) and Convenience Stores (Sheetz, Exxon Mobile Malaysia, Shell Canada, Shell Europe) use our solutions as well.


I am a buyer and have a set of commodities that I purchase (last count I was responsible for about 1100 individual parts and there are five of us with about the same number of parts).

In my spare time I volunteer with Canine Assistants that trains service dogs for the physically disabled.

I'm a stay at home mom, but ironically I don't stay at home very much. :rolleyes: I'm assisting with a reading program at my son's 1st grade class, coaching my daughter's soccer team, mentoring my son's sunday school class, assisting with the cub scouts, and not to mention all the chauffering, laundry, and general grunt work. ;)

Before all that, I worked as an Entomology lab manager, wildlife rehab volunteer, and even as a vet tech. I whole-heartedly enjoy any work with animals.

I work as a software support analyst (phones! =P) but before that, I was in software development for the same company. Will have been there 12 years next month.

Wedding planning rules my life at the moment and destroys my sleep most nights...can't wait til this planning crap is done (wedding is next month).

Other than that, Rick and I play computer games (currently Battle for Middle Earth 2), I used to quilt (Carmen's cage is now on my quilting table, so hard to quilt these days) and before that I did community theatre costuming (got tired of the slavery).

I am a computer dweeb. I am currently working for Information Builders as a Quality Assurance Analyst, but I have run the full gambit of the Software industry - programmer, application developer, consultant, QA, Network Administrator (hardware), product management and MIS manager -- everything but sales.


However, I did spend two years working at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, working mostly with Cats, Dogs, Rhesus Monkies and Rabbits. Other people worked with Rats and mice. We did not work with snakes or spiders of any kind (although I did hear the occasional "gee it would be good if we had a spider to try that out on"). Yes, I am one of those EVIL laboratory research analysts that did experiments with animals. I think that it is better than testing on humans, although my sergeant wanted to use death row inmates to test on.

Before I was an Army Lab Tech, I was an Attack Helicopter Repairman & Crewchief, and also a Cavalry Scout Team Leader -- I had fun on the Korean DMZ and in Germany.

My wife is responsible for our getting our first snake. She has been asking for one for years. I always balked until we went to my daughter's sleep-away camp for visitors day. They had a beautiful 5' boa and I got to hold it -- sold me on a snake as a pet immediately!

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I forgot, for fun I am a serious D&D player and Game Master -- two nights a week!

For work I manage our business from my home office.
For fun I like to read (mostly non-fiction, but also some fiction), I play some video games, love wine tasting, work out at the gym 3+ times per week....but my biggest passion is shopping. I can shop all day, even if I don't end up buying anything. I love fashion, I love looking good, and I LOVE sales.

I am a computer programmer(software developer). I mainly use C#, C++ and (server side) PHP.

Cassandra when you say "Software Developer" you mean you write syntax (as I do) or instructions that when compiled and executed will be sent to the processor to be acted upon?

Hi all! I work in quality assurance with O-I, inc. We make all sorts of glass and plastic packaging for everything from pharmaceutical to beverage to food to household stuff. I am currently in Milwaukee working with the Miller Brewing account. Yeah!! Free beer!!

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Cassandra when you say "Software Developer" you mean you write syntax (as I do) or instructions that when compiled and executed will be sent to the processor to be acted upon?

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Was...past tense.

And no, I was not a coder. I did everything else; testing, bug tracking, interfacing with other humans since coders lack that ability, UI design, presentations, doc writing, interfaced hardware manufacturers, etc.

I'm a stay-at-home Mom, with all the multitude of hats that that entails. I like computer games...but not a lot of them. I have a tendency to get hooked on one game and play it for a LONG time before finally moving on to something else. I love to read, and will read just about anything except hard-core horror and romance.


This past year, I did volunteer work with Team In Training, which is an organization that raises money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is the largest endurance-sport training organization in the world. I trained for a 100 mile bike ride one season, and supported the cycle team the next season. Because our military life is in serious flux this season, my TNT efforts are on hold, but I do plan on picking it up again next year and am eager to start training again myself.

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Because our military life is in serious flux this season

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Military? Details if possible.

As a veteran, I am interested in all families who support the US with service. I am just curious.

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Military? Details if possible.

As a veteran, I am interested in all families who support the US with service. I am just curious.

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:) Happy to provide details. My hubby is an officer in the AF. We've been in for 16 years. He just pinned on Lt. Col. I'm SO proud of him!!!

The "flux" part was that he was supposed to deploy this fall...and that date got changed multiple times....and then suddenly they tell him "Oh, there's a command job opened up in San Antonio, so you have to take that and PCS this fall..." But we don't have orders yet....and he still may get a short deployment before we PCS. Driving me NUTS at the moment to not be able to plan or count on anything for the next few months! :rolleye2:

Hey everyone,

I am a full time herp lover and keeper first off. I currently work for General Motors Corporation as an International Parts Wholesaler, that is what takes home mega bacon baby. I am a DJ on the weekends for some extra snakey cash. I also am a full time college student (started my first semester two weeks ago), therefore probably will not be on this lovely website as much as I want to (but you never know). I know I have other things to talk about in my big bag of tricks, til next time.

Rock on :partyon:

-Danny

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I did everything else; testing, bug tracking, interfacing with other humans since coders lack that ability, UI design, presentations, doc writing, interfaced hardware manufacturers, etc.

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Ahhh ... the "light" work. :sweeet:

-adam

I am a banker that spends his spare time flyfishing and building custom Cigar humidors for Lawyers and doctors to show off.

Im a medically retired stay at home father/grandfather. Dont do alot due to medicall reasons but love to fish and enjoy the outdoors. It's not much but I wouldnt have it anyother way.

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Military? Details if possible.

As a veteran, I am interested in all families who support the US with service. I am just curious.

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Since your curious....:-}

I served in the Army from 1979 to 1983 and was discharged with the rank of SP5. I have two son's, the oldest is a Ssgt in the Airforce and my youngest son is a Lcpl in the Marines presently serving in Iraq in Fallujah. I also have 4 nephews also serving in the Army, Marines and Navy. Long history of military in this family.

I am an Oracle Database Administrator/Oracle Applications Administrator for Travelport Corp. (Formerly part of Cendant, Formerly Galileo, Formerly United Airlines Res Systems, Formerly Covia, and Formerly United Airlines). And yes, all of that from the same desk .....
I spend most of my time either with the kids, or the snakes, or both. I love to play golf, and am terrible at it but getting better. I used to love ATV riding, but my back can't keep up with the way I ride, so I have given that up.

Neil

Right out of college I became a Naturalist and taught Outdoor Education to 6th graders in CA, OH, and MA. I currently work at a large tree/plant nursery doing landscape design for people.
My hobbies include: mt. biking, running, and spontaneous road trips. (I love to travel)
I recently got into this snake keeping thing but, plan to breed in a few years. Nothing large scale or anything...just for myself.

Just graduated from college this year with a B.S. in civil engineering. Currently working in the field of civil engineering and preparing to become a licensed professional engineer.


On the side I am a hockey fan and a snake fan.

I work at the CBS television station in NYC as an international video techinican, I edit shows for international distribution ...basically that means I get to watch TV all day and get paid for it. (Its cool, because I get to see a lot of shows before they air). At home I have a variety of pets, a wife and 2 sons.....

I am banana hammock quality control specialist by day and a reptilian waste disposal manager by evening. I enjoy sled racing, competition scrabble and pretty much anything on ESPN 8, "the ocho".




Seriously, I am a Network Engineer always trying to find a way not to go back to work the next day...Exciting stuff!

I am a civil engineer that works mainly with urban design, land development, and subdivision design. However, I do get my hands in something else every now and then ;)

Tack another one up for what the general population calls "computer guy". I've had my hands into just about every aspect of technology there is to be dealt with in public education. I'm 26 and have been serving in the technology field of public education for almost 10 years. Yes that would put me starting out as an employee of the high school I graduated from at the same time I was a student. My last district I was the technology Director for 3 yrs before the people managing money where found not to be doing that so well so there where alot of cuts :( Right now I'm with a great ISD and responsible for the technology needs and support for two specialized schools. One is an all special education school and the other is a career technical center (trades school), both have students coming from all over the county encompasing 12 local public school districts, as well as charter and non-public area students. Its quite a large are of west MI we cover. We are also progressing on what has become a long and difficult (political) project of building up a stronger fiber network not just for the schools in our region, but 911 services, as well as being a major POP that will tie into some of the other major POP's to provide faster more direct routing.

Oh I almost forgot my personal business! As some of you know I also do web hosting...I am big on the fact that I am not reseller of some data warehouse I've never seen before. I build my own web servers, I manage them, I configure them, I set you up and provide all the support personally.

My herps aren't business, they are pleasure for sure, although I have done some buying and selling. That is not to say that those who can make a business out selling herps don't love what they do...we have plenty of examples here that paint a clear picture of both quality and love for animals.

I go to school, but when I get older I want to get into herp medicine and study boids.

I work on whatever I have around!! I LOVE to build things...and animlas are always a must to have around and to work with!!! School is mostly my occupation. Im willing to work....lol!!:gj: I want to grow up and become a Pro football player.Have a decent size collection of EXSPENCIVE retics and a nic collection of balls.:)

Cage cleaner/critter breeder (snakes & rodents), photo cropper & organizer, e-mail answerer, website builder, runner-of-many-errands, tamer of the endlessly-ringing phone, Kev's personal assistant/secretary/babysitter, and the hundreds of other unforseen tasks that come with being self-employed.

And that's just my day job! ;) There's also the domestic side of things - full time household management & all that entails...homemaking, lovebird & kitty-cat mommying, etc.

My hobbies are varied (in no particular order)...wine collecting, cooking & entertaining, hair growth & maintenance (see my profile pic before you decide that sounds weird), reading, singing, playing guitar, studying classical dressage, field herping, yoga, and of course, strength training & masochistic levels of cardio.

Whew!

K~

i go to school. i think thats my main job right now, to get a good education. thats only in preperation for the good stuff = herpetologist. i wanna be a college herpetology proffesor (atleast highschool) or own a serpentarium/breed monitors and boids.

my other hobbies are field herping and studying my ackie behaviour (he's AWESOME). my "normal" hobbies include football, dirtbiking, and hanging out with friends.

What do I do, what dont I do.

What pays the bills, plumbing contractor.spent most of my life working on weekends as pro expert motocross racer. traveled the country and have seen some of the better hospitals the US has to offer. still enjoy mountain biking and just getting out into the woods. field herping, few people would understand how diverse the reptile and amphibian population in N.J. really is. pythons have been a constant with me ever since i was a young boy. started keeping and breeding ball pythons in the mid. 80'S, and its more fun now than ever. I could ramble on about life guarding and bartending. boy the memories there. Yep thats me. ED CLARK

division of internet terrorism :p

My life is pretty boring as of now.:P

I currently work at a new aquatic shop in town (freshwater & saltwater livestock) as "livestock manager" which basically means that I do most of the ordering, tank cleaning, water changes, and general sales. Its not all bad as I love what I'm doing, and I love working with people. I do have to admit that I've heard, "Nemo, Nemo, Nemo!" one too many times, but I still like to see kids enthusiastic about fishkeeping. Being the only employee keeps me quite busy.

I did the college thing for roughly two years, few more credits to receive my AAS degree...however I'm taking a year or so off just to work. I started into college focusing on an advertising major, then switched to graphic design, and then business management... Basically being confused with what I would want to do with the rest of my life I decided to take some time off of school.

My dream job would still pertain to the similar avenue I'm working with now...however more of the custom setups for businesses/private aquariums working on tank design and fabrication, and filtration systems with acrylic. Also something along the lines of those fake decorations you would see in a public aquarium on a smaller scale. I just need to discover an avenue to study and learn about the business...and continue writing my business plan.

As to some of my interests and hobbies outside of work. I'm getting back into the gym scene, weightlifting is invigorating! I love keeping saltwater reefs, and conducting research. I'm the new VP of the Rochester Marine Aquarist Club, and moderator on a saltwater forum. My other loves are drawing/sketching, photography, reading, and fishing. I thoroughly enjoy reading about Eastern cultures and religions, with a current kick on Zen/Chinese Buddhism, Shintoism, Daoism, Meditation and the practice of Tai Chi. (In need of balance and peace:P ) I of course also love reptiles, mainly geckos...eventually I would love to work with some more pythons and boas, hopefully blackheads start coming down in price.

Just a little bit about me. Thanks for listening.

-Jason

Shoot the hostage

I've been in the Coast Guard for 15+ years...started as a Radioman, then Telecommunication Specialist, now Operations Specialist...Soon to be Intelligence Specialist...


For hobbies I paint (Oil/Alkyd), mountain bike, try to work out, I have an R/C 4x4 truck, love cars, hate yard work, love music, hate yard work, love fishing and outdoors stuff in general.

In less than 5 years I can retire from the CG and do what I truly believe I'd love to do....drive a beer truck...:D