what do you do for a living?

[sishac]

Hi everyone....I'm an investment manager/financial planner for a large investment firm. I manage money for large endowments and foundations. I deal mostly with investment boards. It always surprises me that many of these big CEO types are wearing a cheap quartz watch (sometimes even digital) and not something more unique.

[Slartibartfast]

I'm a bespoke tailor with my own practice on Savile Row and I'm also a modestly well known psychological entertainer

Forget the psychological entertainment.... if i come into your 'practice' and flash my MBW (not that I have one) do I get a discount?

[ebzen02]

I run money at the big, mean US investment bank that was just 'bailed out' recently.

To address my two most frequent questions as of late: No, I did not sell your mortgage to China...And no, I do not contribute to high oil prices (at least not directly...)

Our team manages a global investment fund; I am portfolio manager/trader responsible for our currency and interest rate exposures.

Wow!! And you still have a job with the new landlord!! Good luck and stop trading up them barrels!!

[slai]

Sales engineer for telecomm solutions.

[Ztech]

After a 10 year stint in the military I went back to school for my masters in business. Yeah, I felt I needed more skills than killing people. Currently I work in the institutional/retial side of the investment banking industry. Boring really as they're not too keen on letting me blow things up now and then.

[thetwins]

I'm in-house litigation counsel for one of the larger insurance companies on the planet. (And you thought pharma sales was evil!!)

[HauteHippie]

OK...Over the Sierras a couple weks ago...doesn't look that much different than over the Pacific

Now THAT is a wrist shot!

[jfreeman420]

Concierge to wayward women....................

Oh, and I play poker and dabble in Real Estate.

[LordRasta]

Concierge to wayward women....................

Oh, and I play poker and dabble in Real Estate.

j, we'll open a new thread for the pimps.

[fotoman]

You're the new and improved jetmid. Post more pics of you in the "office", those are always awesome.

i was thinking the same thing!

- fyi, having flown private, its the only way to go - if a genie in a bottle asked me for 1 wish - i'd ask for a G5, with a pilot and unlimited fuel !

now that we have a Forum pilot - i say we start planning a real GTG - jetzeus, your boss actually keep track of the gas bill?

FYI - Phoband = International man of mystery

[Trevor52]

I am the CFO of a seed company. Great topic!

[boncovi]

ebay...

for a living

[TeeJay]

Great to know who is doing what wearing those lovely watches...

I'm a TV series director (mostly programs for people ages 15 - 30) made a film a few years ago - starting a new one soon (yes, there will be at least one watch close up in it!)

Sounds awesome, might I have seen any of your projects here in the UK? (maybe on satelite?) I studied film-making at college, never took it further, but am still interested in the 'behind the scenes' aspects of the industry

[pete2528ca]

morning everyone...

I am a tax man...so I work for the Federales...

(sometimes it feels like I get paid to be an @$$hole.)

I really love my job.

[georgegrasser]

After five years of unemployment I can finally add myself to this list.

I teach Chess. I am a USCF Certified Master and just booked my first student. I hope I get more clients, because if Rolex ever sells a Shackdweller, they will be able to name an edition after me.

[Everythingape]

A lot of diversity! ..where are all gold-rolex-wearing used car salesmen?

I am a sailor.

I'm a ship's engineer on a fishing vessel, it's a 250 ft purse seiner/trawler plying its trade in and around the north sea.

Forget all your visions of dirty grease monkeys and soot angels.. I sit in a well lit control room with my feet up, surfing the web and looking at a few monitors.

It can get dirty (usually does), but it's very well paid and I love the ocean.

A thread with a few pics from my job:

Pics from the sea

Oh.. and I am trying to get a small business going when I am at home.

[dvn]

I am a software engineer. I develop various software applications, web application...

[Cats]

I'm a senior key account manager for the biggest Electronics firm in the Netherlands.

I didn't sell a single "light bulb " for 5 months now recovering from some health issues.

Hope to start working again after the summer holidays.

Carpe Diem

[sulone88]

Marble Mason

[omegaunit]

Tool & Die maker, and maybe someday I will teach this trade.

[bubu]

Retired dentist/ Part time adjunct at university dental school

[Bansenshukai]

SOLDIER.

[Bansenshukai]

Tool & Die maker, and maybe someday I will teach this trade.

When I was a young cadet in military school there was an older gentleman by the name of George Watson who ran our "shop" classes. He was a tool and die maker and that man could literally make anything from a wrench to a sound suppressor for any caliber firearm. He was an old WWII veteran who worked on artillery pieces. He told us that his was a dying art. I have not ever met a tool and die maker since then. Wow! You have to pass that down.

[pafre]

Ingenieur minier senior (senior mining engineer) for a gold mine in northern Quebec.

[rodwc]

He told us that his was a dying art. I have not ever met a tool and die maker since then. Wow! You have to pass that down.

It certainly is a dying art.

In Australia, the federal government has neglected for over 15 years to secure manufacturing apprenticships.

The outcome now , very little home manufacture and a major shortage of skilled labour.

The result , go have it made in China. Pass it down, no, pass it over.

Toolmakers worldwide, have never been in a protected industry and paid what they are worth.