BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 05:31 PM

I am a researcher, presently working on Indian claims against the Canadian government re residential schools. Used to be a legal executive, a professional singer (mostly educational gigs) and a grade school teacher. Throughout it all, househusband, folk club organizer, archivist, editor. My REAL life is all of this, actually: I feel I've been blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 05:45 PM

Hey,Linda:

I've had a couple of friends who were bank managers and I really liked them. One of the best things about them was that they never asked me to loan them money. :-) I have a dentist who I find so entertaining that I *almost* enjoy going to him. We have so much fun laughing about stuff that before I know it, I'm out of the chair. It's tough, laughing with all that equipment in your mouth, though.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:04 PM

I am an Executive Secretary to a VP at a major movie studio! Sounds better than it actually is.

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:20 PM

tech support...the art of telling people how stupid they are....as nicely as possible....

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Socorro
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:33 PM

Well, I used to be a Registered Nurse/Case Manager; I held on for 20 years, to get my daughter educated and off to a good start in life (i hope it worked; i think it did). Now, I have 2 "small-potatoes" jobs which i do enjoy, but don't pay much. But what I REALLY do (aside from music) is make greeting cards. If you'd like a peek, here's my 1st attempt at blue-clicky - look at the very last item, "Native Notes". Click here

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 06:48 PM

Very nice, Socorro. Looks as though Hecate might be able to use some of the other products listed there.

Hecate, congratulations and pleae let us know when you are done being an "incubator!" BTW, I think keeping bees would be fascinating!

Forgot to say, my current "jobs," the ones I really love, besides writing, which pay nothing, are family archivist; internet researcher; and, genealogist for myself and friends.

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 07:05 PM

Linda...there's hope. Become a Credit Union Manager! It's worlds different, and generally, people like you.

Speaking as an ex-Credit Union Manager, current Loan processor/member service representative.

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 09:19 PM

By Day

I play at being a Prognosticator and Soothsayer Extrodinaire proficient at peering into the mists of time using modern Difference Engines to fathom the future meanderings of our children's children at they scurry hither and thither in response to the stimuli of life. I also attempt to fathom how extending the eyes, ears, and "intelligence" of these new golems of the modern world can help each of us to minimize the impact of our scurrying on others.

(I forecast future land use and travel patterns, and also pretend to be an expert in Transportation Planning and "intelligent transportation systems".

GutBucketeer (JAB)

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Robin2
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 09:33 PM

GutBucketeer,

uh?

I do traditional puppet theater during the day.

Really.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Socorro
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 10:33 PM

katlaughing, Thank you for the kind words - discount to Mudcatters :)

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 11:07 PM

oh, forklifts!...I have driven forklifts in 3 different jobs, but never ran thru any walls!..I have driven outside in snow & mud,(in a surplus store yard in Kansas) and hoisted pallets full of Pork & Beans into the rafters

hey!...just as I was about to post, I had a hunch!...EVERYONE is on the WWW now!...here is the place where I drove a forklift in the mud...The Yard Store

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Jul 02 - 11:36 PM

You people are something else !!! Turns out I'm mesmerized by this thread. Who'd a thunk it?

Art

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 12:22 AM

We have been making a living by playing folk music in schools for more than twenty years. But we are in the process of retiring from that because we've run out of places to store all the money we've made.

We are now pursuing an even more lucrative career as - Town Criers. In fact, we are the official Town Criers of San Luis Obispo County in California and the first husband and wife Town Crier team in the western hemisphere.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 07:27 AM

Playing folk music in schools. What an honorable profession! How many 'Catters had the spark ignited by someone at school or camp when they were a kid? We need more igniters. As I say, you can play for love or money, but very rarely for both. Some of my best paying jobs don't pay a penny.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Fortunato
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:08 AM

Jerry, I'm impressed. Hypnotizing chickens, eh.

Well, if you want to talk about animal husbandry, or was that animal flimflammary?
You see about 10 years ago I took one of my children to one of the last circuses still under tent. It was the real thing, you know, roustabouts and tatooed ladies and the dog-faced boy who doubled as a fire-eater and barker for the Mystic Ladies of the Nile and all the animal smells you can imagine. Anyway we got there a bit early and were drifting around the tents, digging the scene, when we came upon the elephant area. So we stop to watch a guy give a bath to an absolutely gigantic bull elephant. He's washing him down with a fire hose, and the elephant seems to like it. But then the guy goes around behind the elephant, lifts the pachyderm's tail and shoves the fire hose up the elephant back stairs, so to speak, and turns on the water. Well, pretty soon the elephant starts to trumpet and stamp and look extremely annoyed and the guy yanks out the fire hose. Holy mackeral you should have seen the shit fly. It shot out twenty feet if it was an inch and just covered this poor guy from head to foot. He goes over to a pump starts washing off his face. We're still watching, somewhat awed by now, and not a little disgusted, when suddenly I realize I know this guy. It's Stevey Dodson, with whom I was a boy back in school. So I go over to him and said, "Hello, Stevie, it is I, Chance from back home". He looks up in surprise, wiping the effluvium from his neck and ears, and says right back, "Well, Chance, I'll be damned, how are you?" "Fine, Stevie," I say, "but great time of day, man, can't you find a better job than giving elephants enemas?"

And Stevie, he says to me: "What? And give up SHOW BUSINESS?" <

cheers, Chance

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:08 AM

I just retired (in March) from 30-odd (and I DO mean odd) years as a Graphic Artist/Designer/Lackey in marketing and promotion. I've also taught Art (and art) and loved teaching (university level) but hated the politics and the rotten pay. I have both BA and MA from San Francisco State where I minored in Geology (really!) and in Student Uprising (for which I received numerous bumps, bruises and a few stiches). I've played "semi-professionally" in "outfit" owned establishments in Chicago but also made artificial Christmas trees, worked as a security supervisor for Pinkerton's and the Bechtel Corporation and even sold vacuum cleaners and worked in a Fosters restaurant. I am an amateur photographer and desert lover (Eastern California/Western Nevada - high) and travel as much as income allows. Next summer I'll be working up in Yellowstone, hopefully as a "Trail ride musician". I'm a kinda biker, riding an Indian Chief and also a "bikie" riding a Trek.

This is fun! I have found (in my travels) that the best way to get "into" a place you are interested in knowing more about is to ask people you meet what they do for a living. We love to talk about ourselves. Some of the stories that I have heard "on the road" are just amazing.

Thanks Jerry, as usual you seem to be able to get to the heart of things.

CB

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: dwditty
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:11 AM

Robin, I would love your opinion of the film "Being John Malkovich"

dw
Art, me, too!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:35 AM

Hi, Breath of Coyote: Good to see you around! Retiring is great, but it's a little like having a tooth filled. Leaves a hole that you keep running your tongue across to figure out what's missing. :-)

Anyone know how to make this a Part II thread with a blue clicky thing? I think it's about time.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:39 AM

Oooh, I like that! You're right! I keep thinking I gotta get back to work!.

Well the coffee's ready and I gotta go hang up some laundry before it gets too hot out to do anything but gasp.

CB

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:44 AM

I trained as a theatrical costumer so I'm.... Research and Development Officer for a non-governmental advocacy organisation promoting the interests of rural Wales. To be fair, I did work in theatre for the first few years after university, then arts admin., then I managed a film company, then European Telematics development and then here. I also seem to sit on a whole lot of committees; part of the job but one wonders if we couldn't live without one or two of 'em. Still, as a friend once told me, democracy is a messy business...

sian

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:58 AM

Faceless bureaucrat in the European Commission.

I'm in the Education and Culture department which promotes cooperation between European universities, youth exchanges etc. etc., also some activities involving coperation with other countries including Canada and the US (note my scrupulous adherence to alphabetic order).

But we work through national agencies in participating countries, hence the facelessness.

BTW, I'm intrigued by Jerry's reference to being a navigator on an iceberg above. What exactly does that involve, is it something like learning to cope with thread drift?

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 10:30 AM

Hi, French sounding phrase! The summer I was navigator on an iceberg, I plotted the postion of the iceberg twice a day. The ice station I was on was originally part of the glacial shelf off Greenland. When large areas of ice break off into the Arctic Ocean they start a slow clockwise journey around the pole. The ice station I was on was about a mile by two miles in area. There was a lot of research going on from the Underwater Sound Laboratory in New London, Connecticut, Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Southern California. The research would be meaningless without an accurate trace of the direction of the iceberg. It was up to me to pinpoint oour location a couple of times a day. We were surrounded by pack ice, so I couldn't actually steer the darned thing. I also took core samples of the bottom of the ocean floor,chased polar bears(no exageration) when I was out on the pack ice, and worked with dynamite to send signals for studying underwater sound.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What Do You Do In Real Life?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 10:46 AM

As per your request, Jerry, here is Part Two.

Please post to the continuation thread, folks.

Thanks