What's Your Employment/Job?

[Mathuna]

Along with Beuth Sim & Dirk Skene, you can add another Locksmith to the fold.
I can't (at this time) wear a kilt at work as I am in and out of factories most days and OSHA doesn't approve of the kilt. Not to mention being up and down ladders and crawling through attic insulation running wire for alarms and access control systems. Sad to say, but there are times when trous are the wise choice.
I do have a couple of pics from a recent Penetration Party. (No, no, no you sickos, it's a class on drilling safes)

http://www.grovestreet.com/jsp/picview.jsp?album=82748

[kiltedflyman]

Hello,
I've been a Stagehand for 35 years, Roadie for 20 of that and a Flyman for most of that time. Kilted at work for about 6 years, kilted + flyman, get it?
Here's a pic with my local crew in Toronto.


Later,
Mo

[kevinkinney]

Me?

I cook, clean, raise child, and sew, and sew, and sew.

I'll make a lovely wife some day.



I think by age 6 he'll figure out that his peers aren't wearing these.

Kevin.

[Kiltferone]

This is pretty close to being in order, I think. (jack of all trades master of none)

paperboy
dishwasher
ticket taker at movie theater
gas pumper (when there used to be full service)
pizza delivery (thousands of pies delivered)
car stereo installer (including alarms, phones and such)
bagel bakery
both back and front of the house restaurant work (kitchen and waiter)
sheet metal shop
parts counter motorcycle shop
cabinet shop
small electric power tool repair (DeWalt)
retail woodworking tools sales (manager) Almost 10 years now!

In many of the food service jobs and the car stereo work I was a manager.

I did not get married until I was 39 and have a almost 3 year old daughter and another on the way.

Husband/father is my most important/cherished job yet.

On a side note I have really enjoyed reading all the different jobs/careers here. We are a very diverse group.

[emolas]

I currently work in the internal tech support group for United Parcel Service. Before that I worked for a webhosting company in Bulgaria (even though they claimed to be in San Diego) and before that a Marine for 12 years.

[KiltedTurtle]

I'm an application developer (read computer programmer) for one of the top 5 largest banks in the States.

[beverlonian]

Presently I'm a Maintenance Planner on a North Sea Oil Rig - previously an Engineer in the Merchant Navy.

[furrycelt]

Hello,
I've been a Stagehand for 35 years, Roadie for 20 of that and a Flyman for most of that time. Kilted at work for about 6 years, kilted + flyman, get it?

{sigh} i so miss that business.

i never wore kilts on any gig. of course at the time i didn't know about the neo-modern kilts like Utilikilts and the like. i think i had only one, and it was a wool great-kilt historical repro. now that i think about it; how does that work out for ya? kilted on the job? surely, you have run into problems, right?

i'm just thinking back thru my days in load bays, cat-walks, grids, fly-rails, climbing truss work and such. i could easily see a pleat getting caught on an arbor, and my kilt going "out" as a line-set is coming "in". well, now that would only happen in one house where it was a single-purchase system with no rail. (the brakes were mounted on the bottom shivs and the arbors were guided by air-craft cable; the place was built on a budget) the double-purchase system i was on had the arbor tracks set way back. but being a double-purchase system, it was common for me to ride the control line several feet into the air after fast scene changes with heavy set pieces. not something i would want to do kilted. and straddling truss work, definitely not good for kilts (or the parts inside). {reminiscing} of course while running spot, sound-board, or a light console, those are great jobs for kilts.

hey, up there in Canada, for lateral stage direction do you guys use (SR and SL) or (PS and OP) like in England?

[Canuck]

{sigh} i so miss that business.


hey, up there in Canada, for lateral stage direction do you guys use (SR and SL) or (PS and OP) like in England?

We use the standard tic tac toe SR USR CSR US USC DSC USL DSL
In Quebec they use Garden and Court as per the greeks.
Then if you are in the round, you use the clock.
We have restrictions now regarding Health and Safety rules and you are not allowed to wear shorts on deck. You need long pants, steel toes and hard hats on set-up. For awhile we got around the no shorts by wearing kilts. As a female could be on deck during set-up in a skirt. They've since changed that loop hole.
I have been involved with opera and theatre for the past 40 years. I still do the odd opera gig but am concentrating on the kilt business.
Cheers

[JRB]

I am a custom boatbuilder currently working for ELCO Electric Launch Inc. on the Hudson river. We build 19'-36' fantail launches utilizing electric drive propulsion.