What does a mudcatter do?

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Duane D.
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:49 PM

Was an electro-mechanical technician, spent about 13 years in aerospace and about 4 years in biomedical equipment companies, worked a couple of years maintaining a retreat facility, recently retrained as a computer tech./network tech. and looking for employment in that field in NY state. Folk music hobbyist and amateur astronomer. I also fix old computers as a hobby and lend them out on long-term loan, mainly to students and senior citizens.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Family Court manager
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:40 PM

...is what I'm presently paid to be (and does not reflect my full identity).What I "do" and have "done"(including unpaid work) is a little more expansive...psychopaedic nursing, craft tutor,relationship counsellor,and most importantly- parent!!

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Huzzah! to the parents who put family first!
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:40 PM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Family Court manager
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:24 PM

...is what I'm presently paid to be (and does not reflect my full identity).What I "do" and have "done"(including unpaid work) is a little more expansive...psychopaedic nursing, craft tutor,relationship counsellor,and most importantly- parent!!

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Panic Attack
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 07:04 PM

Doctor

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 02:12 PM

M-F during the day I work for a large company that’s getting larger every day, leading a Y2K replacement project in the information technology department. I also do several of the usual female things like being a wife, mother, sister, daughter. And then there are the creative things like playing guitar and fiddle and singing in a bluegrass band, writing songs, running a musical arts group in town, and writing (several books in progress). In my spare time, I spend hours on the Mudcat. . .

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Film Programmer
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 12:03 PM

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From: project worker
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 11:46 AM

I work for a social services dept. in a north of England town. My job is helping young people who have been in the care of the local authority to set up on their own, when they leave care. It's not easy to become a householder when you are 16-17 most of them are sad rather than bad and some have had an awful upbringing I am constantly amazed at how well some of them do cope, In spite of having the cards stacked against them. I play a penny whistle and do a bit of woodwork and leather work in my spare time

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: K-ZOO
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:41 AM

Orientation and mobility instructor; teach the blind travel skills. Continue to try and learn as many songs as possible to amuse myself. Play guitar, harmonica, sax. Fish, mountain bike, hide in the woods,X-county ski,go to Vermont as often as possible, raise a 9 year old and be an all around great husband. Thanks for asking.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: living off child support until I can teach
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:17 AM

B.K. (Before Kids) Banker D.K. (During Kids) Raising them A.D. (After Divorce from 20 year marriage) Computer salesperson A.I. After Inheritance (Small but sufficient to pursue better living) Student taking classes to get certification A.C. After classes - student teacher (starting in one week...)

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Ritchie
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 07:54 AM

Well,I've been warped by the rain,driven by the snow I'm drunk and dirty don't ya know and I'm still..willin..

Oh yes and the strange thing is that I actually believe what Art says... although in actual fact Big Ben is the bell..not the clock . (Doh ,oh how I love the Simpsons)

love and happiness

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Coastguard Search and Rescue Specialist
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:40 AM

strange mix of people aren't we?

Dave

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From: Electronics Engineer & teacher of electronics tech
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 04:30 AM

nicians. (well it wouldn't fit in the From: box).

Cheers,
Alan

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From: florist
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 02:50 AM

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From: Ballroom Dance Instructor
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 02:30 AM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: MissMac
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:30 PM

caregiver turned interactivemusian with children and adults who have mental and phisical handicaps

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Amaranth
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:11 PM

Programmer

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: what i do
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 08:21 PM

for money: accountant

for career: part-time student

for my soul: travel

add in being a single parent and I see that chauffeur has creeped onto the list.

Was a waitress in a truck-stop all through junior high and high school, and drove delivery trucks for a while.

Now I want to be a writer when I grow up.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 07:28 PM

By the looks of it, lots of folk people have had varied professions, which richness, I am sure, adds a certain cachet to their repertoire. By the same token, a lot of writers do the same. I am a writer, but before that I had to gather experience to write about, so here goes: high school drop out, teenaged mother, twenties mother of two more, store clerk, nurses' aid, emergency medical tech (one of the 1st women ones in Colorado!), radio advsrtising salesperson, pseudo-ad agency owner, seller of advertising specialties (pens, cups, etc. all things bad for the enviroment!), seller of mobile telephone systems (pre-cell phones!), assistant to a director of development at an arts ctr. in Rhode Island, and among all of those, promoter and agent for twenty years for my brother, a classical composer, doing everything from writing and producing all written promotional materials and programs, video and audio taping concerts, fundraising, producing concerts, as well as sing the songs. When I finally let up on that ( a thankless job when working with a spoiled genius!) I started really concentrating on my own writing.

I write a weekly op/ed piece for a subscription, nationally distributed publication; a monthly for Wyoming's only statewide newspaper, and various other pieces, as well as have just tried my hand at some folk lyrics! I'm thinking my next project should be a book titled, "Profiles of Mudcatters Met On-Line"! Whadda ya' think?! Anyone interested in spilling your guts!? I'm pretty wicked with a pen, well really with a keyboard!

My three kids did not follow in music, but all have a deep appreciation of music of all types and my oldest daughter, 24, is learning a whole new genre from her Antiguan husband who is very musically gifted and who, as a young boy, played in a school steel drum band, for none other than the Queen (Elizabeth II) herself.

Give a writer and column inch & they take the whole page! E'now!

Katlaughing

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: school psychologist
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 06:09 PM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: To "Jail Librarian"
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 06:07 PM

We'll have to get a sub-group of librarian/teacher folk music lovers together! Contact me at bbc!

regards,

bbc in NY

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Computer Consultant
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 04:23 PM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Self employed accountant and business valuator
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 03:55 PM

Only ever earned $10, a few beers and a t-shirt playing music. I depend on my accounting/business valuation practice to put bread in my pocket and on the table. Other interests include debating with my oldest son and arguing with my youngest. 9-years a scout leader with boys aged 5 to 15. Playing my guitar, canoeing, camping, photography, history and driving down the road to explore various parts of North America are long time interests. Currently discovering the fascinating world of genealogocal research and revelling in the information I'm uncovering about my ancestors. I hate snow on the roads and (thanks for the warning, Art) hope to avoid semis later today as I head south to visit a very special lady who lives south of here.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 02:35 PM

Gargoyle,

I know what you do!!! I've seen ya lurking in the shadows all over Notre Dame Cathedral in France. But, by God, get some plastic surgery--and do it quick! If BIG BEN (not Mick) ever sees ya, it'd stop a clock!!! And, as legend has it, if BIG BEN ever stops, that'd be the end of the British Empire.(I can hear rhe Irish cheering from here...)

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Photocopy Supervisor
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 02:20 PM

I run a copy center at a community college. I also double as a graphic designer of sorts under the same roof. Priors include: geriatric aide, nursing assistant, baker, dishwasher, 7 - Eleven clerk, store detective, custodian, electronics salesman, darkroom assistant, "junior executive trainee" (read secretary), gas station attendant, surveyor front-chainman, furniture salesman, donut maker, carpenter, concrete pump person (?), gardener, water treatment plant operator, warehouse clerk... and others which don't come to mind at the moment. They are not even close to being in any kind of order. Some of those jobs were held simultaneously.

Favorite passtimes include: canoeing, backpacking, fishing (no matter how unproductive!), writing, yardsale-ing, woodcarving, and oil painting - -love those waterbased oils!

Am currently trying to work up enough nerve and repertoire to try getting back into performing folkmusic after a long, long time away from it. I have been told that I can have a local gig whenever I am ready. Maybe sometime soon...I'll keep you posted.

Allan

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Partner of 1, parent of 3, professor rest of time
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:07 AM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: jail librarian
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:00 AM

Also facilitate a support group for lesbians formerly involved in a battering relationship.

Also teach flute lessons to children and adults.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 09:48 AM

Management Consultant, self-employed for last 11 years

Manufacturing & distribution
Networking
Systems integration
Healthcare scheduling

Music(for fun only)

Collect lyrics
Guitar (fingerstyle)
Starting to dabble w/banjo & mando
Would like to sing my oldies at nursing homes

Other diversions

Jai-Alai (analysis, handicapping, simulation)
Home brewing
Cooking

.....Tiger

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Dan Calder
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 09:09 AM

Grade six teacher and Vice-Principal of two elementary schools. I bring folk music into my classroom as much as possible, and over the past 14 years I've gotten more than a few young people hooked. Love to play guitar, but haven't done so in public since my college days...somewhere back in those wonderful 70s.

Dan

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Doctor
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 01:49 AM

clinical neurologist also neuroscientist interested in neurophysiology and neuroimaging

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: former teacher, now mom of 9
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:42 AM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Jack mostly folk
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:30 AM

Industrial Maintenance Electrician. Singer of songs and strummer of guitar and banjo. I make good money doing the first and find the latter to be lifes greatest fulfillment.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: gargoyle
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:21 AM

IF...ah....told ya what ...ah did

Ah probably wouldn't be doin' what ah do

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: music therapist
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 11:36 PM

Working mostly with seniors (Hi Gene!) and Alzhiermer's patients in an Intermediate Care Facility.

Musicman (Paul)

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: rick fielding
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 11:34 PM

Please excuse wonky punctuation in my occupation entry. I actually DO know how to use commas, I just got confused!

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Don Meixner
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 11:32 PM

Originally I was employed as a boatbuilder where I built commercial fishing vessels 32' to 110' . After an injury which nearly destroyed my right wrist I became a builder and susequently, a designer of housing and special equipment for people with disabilities in Central New York. Somewhere along the way on this job I ran my left hand through a table saw and had to have hours of finger reconstruction and digit reconnective surgery. Somehow, by Gids good grace and Dr. Walter Shorts skill I am able to still play guitar and banjo. I play in an Irish Rebel Band in Syracuse, NY where I am the resident Scot and voice of reason among three Irish guys who can sing a song OK. The bands been together for 25+ years. Over all this time I am a silversmith, carrying on my Dad's tradition and business.

I find it intersting to note that it now takes three jobs to get you by when previously two were adequate.

DRM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: rick fielding
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 11:29 PM

high school drop-out -'64 art school drop-out-'66 mail room junior flunky -fired 4 weeks check sorter in bank - fired 1 week stock room boy - fired 5 weeks drug store clerk - fired 1 day youth group home worker -fired 8 months encyclopedia salesman -fired 1 day self-employed street cartoonist - one summer self-employed portrait painter - that winter underground writer and political cartoonist -off and on Full time professional folk musician -'68 to present! (my god, they'll take anyone!)

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: I wish I was a riverboat captain
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:59 PM

For money I have been a sailing instructor, dorm server, drugstore cashier, research associate, waitress, limo driver, social work professor, and psychotherapist for a long time. I work with AIDS patients, conduct continuing education courses for professionals, research on AIDs protective behaviors, design social work programs, and do expert witness work in my profession. I have been singing and playing button-harp (guess who)for many years. I am the mother of a teenager and my boyfriend is a portrait artist. He also carves with a chainsaw so watch out!

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:39 PM

A graduate of the University Of The Open Road, husband of Carol, dad of Chris (who luckily wasn't hurt tonight when he and his car tangled with a semi), folksinger and liar extraordinaire, former cab driver in Chicago, hanger-outer at the No Exit Coffeehouse and the American folk scene for the last 40 years. Before that I was just hanging out and growin' like a weed. Before that I was a sperm and an egg who decided to not just pass in the night but CONNECT!

And the rest is history...

Art

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:38 PM

I used to work in human services. Last year I stopped that and took up being a chef and now do an international take out business, Thai, Indiaaan, Middle Eastern, whatever5 strikes my fancy. Food and music, how can you go wrong?

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Nurse
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:21 PM

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Jenny
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:01 PM

Married my career at 21; Divorced it at 48. Have been an executive assistant or corporate account executive mostly, with forays into operating my own catering business and executive temp business; became certified as a balloon designer along the way; and padded the sometimes meager coffers singing folk music and blues. Play a Gibson B25; devour mysteries; cut wood; delve in the genres of folk and primitive art; collect various and sundry collectibles and antiques; work diligently as being the world's very best "aunt" to my 3 nieces and 3 nephews. I'm heading off now to check me out on Lycos. jenny

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: McMusic
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:59 PM

Former: Marine, Viet vet, stock clerk, nursery worker (plants, not babies), construction worker, hospital orderly, tobacco warehouse worker, truck loader, insurance salesman. Now I pretend that I'm a respiratory therapist who plays music and writes songs on the side.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Pete M
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:32 PM

In no particular order other than my memory:

cartographic draughtsman, graphic design, in charge of pay office, clerk, Radio operator, computer programmer, systems analyst, house builder, IT project manager and QA consultant.

Hobbies, drawing / painting, carpentry, woodturning, sailing, rock climbing, walking, raising goats.

In my spare time raising 2 boys now 20 and 22 with my wife who I met at a folk club.

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:22 PM

Sixties radical who forgot who he was for 25 years; looked in mirror one day and wondered what the hell happened...left Fortune 500 company to raise my kids and became a househusband,child advocate and foster parent, and, as full time as I can, luthier. We'd already been fostering for several years and adopted two boys. When I resigned, my letter stated that I didn't want my life or my sons' to wind up like a Harry Chapin song lyric. I'm sure they had no idea what I was talking about! catspaw49

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:21 PM

Target Store Manager,

I tried Lycos, also. I was surprised that it showed that I once authored a Mudcat thread using my given name. Oh, me, oh, my.

I was surprised it did not lead to my address and telephone number. They are simply easy to get on the web.

I failed to mention that throughout my money making, I continued to sing and to play guitar most anywhere's people ask me to do so. Mostly for fun, sometimes for money.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: alison
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:17 PM

Mother of two, musician, midwife, massage therapist, .

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Graphic Designer & Illustrator
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:16 PM

...most of the time. Also have holiday accommodation here in Normandy, France which takes up a lot of time in summer. But music's the most important thing - probably what most of us 'do' is music, how we earn a living is another matter unless one is very fortunate. I used to earn about a third of my income from playing when living in England (5 years ago) and that was wonderful :-)

Jo Taylor

Subject: RE: What does a mudcatter do?
From: Target store manager
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:08 PM

I am guessing that "mild mannered etc." is not a very good PI.....i found nothing about me (or anyone else that I know) on Lycos.

Subject: Addictions Specialist
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 06:55 PM

Relatively short job history.

Counter clerk/donut maker at a 15 cent hamburger joint.
Machine operator for Black and Decker Mfg. Co. Warehouseman and deliveryman for a carnival prize supply company. US Army enlisted man, 3 yrs., company clerk and petroleum products analyst. Includes visits to Germany and South Vietnam. Junior Chemist in a coatings mfg. company. Entreprenuer (records and clothing retail store). The last 26 or so years have been in the field of addictions and mental health for five different employers. I am currently a supervisor at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Addictions Program (a little puffery there). I also do training of addictions counselors.

Roger in Baltimore