Very off topic-Your job

  Robert, there is a large section on the lower end of the forum sections called "general discussion"...you'd get more replies there !

   It always fascinating to me to find out what everybody does also...I work for myself, mostly doing commisioned artwork and building small odds and ends (things like vanity cabinets and the like)...the benefit for the modeling is that I have a full wood/metal shop, so I can make weird bits...and I have more brushes and paints than most stores, so the possibilites are endless !!!

 

         good topic !

                greg

Well, I'm a traindriver.

But somebody will eventually move this tread to the "odds and Ends" section I think.

What I do to pay the bills, is I'm a graphic artist for a newspaper. I work in the Advertising department building ads for cleints. I have been a graphic artist for 7 years and working for the newspaper for the last five. When I am not building ads I am shoting photos for ads. I also do freelance graphic art works on the side, in fact that is how I mainly fund my projects.

I have a 2 1/2 year old son, so I build my models at night after he goes to bed. But when I am not building models until the wee hours of the morning, I am outside with my telescope looking up at the sky until the wee hours of the morning. I also have been taking Tae Kown Do for a couple of years, but that is only for 1 hour 3 days a week, so that does not take up much of my time.

I guess I can tell you where I live. I live in a town called Harlingen. Which if you look at a map of Texas and go as far south as you can go before you go into Mexico you will find me. I have not lived here all of my 28 years. In fact I have lived in Houston, San Antonio, various others places around the area which I live now and also Venezuela.

I will tell you how I came to live back down here. I was living in San Antonio and I was laided off from my job. I was having a little troble finding another job, and my Step-father invited me to go fishing with him and some of his friends down here. So I went. Well my father was already living back down here so I staied a week longer than my step-father so I could spend some time with my father. Well he talked me into moving back down here and starting school again. So I like to tell people that this is the longest fishing trip I have ever been on. Not only did I chatch a lot of Red's, but I also caught an education, a wife, a good job, a house and a kid.

Sorry to say that this question did not interest people. Since I spend most fost of the time in the ships forum, I was hoping to catch thier input.

I am surprised that this hasn't been move to another forum,

Anyway, I would still like to hear from you,

Robert

I think many of us pass this thread over as we work to enable our hobby, and don't want to talk about work!

I work for a printing company as Estimating Manager, which is a fancy title for Blame Bill! LOL

Robert;

Good topic.

I currently work for myself as a Paralegal. I got into the profession after a medical release from the Canadian Army in 2000. I enjoy the freedom it affords me which I have not experienced in previous positions.

Prior careers have been. Canadian Army 1993 - 2000 (Supply Technician), Canada Customs (Inspector) 1990 - 1993

I think your ESL school must be very interesting for you. Thanks for posting a good topic to open some new lines of communication.

More readers should reply.... hint hint nudge nudge

 

Cheers;

Gregory 

I pay the bills as a instrument engineer in the bio tech industry(mass spec,analytical chemistry)

I also run my own business building high end media and gaming PCs www.pclincs.com

I moved to US about 3 years ago from the UK, before that I was a robotics engineer working in the middle east.

About to get a small bundle of joy for Christmass, so I expect the models will take a back seat, or at least slow down considerably.

I only started the model so as to spend some "quality" time with the pregnant wife, turned out to be so bloody adictive, she saw less of me than usual,lol

EDIT

Well as of 4.57pm on the 21st Dec, I'm a dad also :) that must account as a job surely!

I'll chime in here. I'm an architectural historian by training and trade. I worked for about 21 years in that capacity for the State of California before taking an early retirement in 1998 and forming my own consulting business in historic preservation.

In 2001 I moved to England and joined the White Ensign Models team, as company Secretary and non-voting director. At White Ensign I've helped in decisions regarding new kits and photoetch, but mainly have developed our Colourcoats line of enamel paints, since historic paint analysis is one of my specialities.

I still run my preservation consulting business Stateside, working mainly in Nevada these days.

Cheers,

John Snyder, The Token Yank, White Ensign Models, http://WhiteEnsignModels.com

I did 27 years in the USCG as an engineering type.  Started as a Fireman in the engineroom of a lightship, went to Damage Controlman school to learn about fixing ships and buildings.  Got promoted to Chief Warrant Officer where I served in various jobs supervising repair and maintenance of CG buildings and boats.  I now work part time in a hobby shop.

It probably should be moved, but since no one is complaining, it can stay, especially since ship modelers tend to have some pretty odd jobs.

As for me, I make sure that Paul Boyer's car is kept clean, that the windows in the FSM offices are spotless, and that no one gets injured in superglue accidents. :-)

Seriously though...I'm the Associate Editor here at FSM. You may think this means I sit in my office all day building models, but I can assure you, nothing is further from the truth.

Jeff

Jeff Herne wrote:

Seriously though...I'm the Associate Editor here at FSM. You may think this means I sit in my office all day building models, but I can assure you, nothing is further from the truth. Jeff

 

Of course not, a man of your position will have a "butler" doing that sort of thing

Well....I was born and grew up in Columbus, Ohio.  How I happened to get interested in ship modeling I'm not sure, but I was pretty thoroughly involved in it by the time I was out of elementary school.  What my models must have looked like in those days I hate to think, but the grownups thought they were nice.

Did my undergraduate work at Capital University in Columbus, then went to Ohio State for grad school, getting the doctorate in 1980.  Ph.D. fields were American military history, U.S. history 1763-1815, British history 1815-1918, and modern China.  (Haven't read anything seriously about the latter for at least twenty years, I'm afraid.)  Worked my way through grad school as a clerk in a hobby shop on the west side of Columbus.  After grad school, got a job as a curator at the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia.  Came to East Carolina University, Greenville, NC in 1983, and have been there ever since.

Im a student but I also work part time at the most popular job for all teens, dairy queen!

I work as an engineer for an industrial photoetching company. Most of the parts we make are for military or commercial use. We do very little work for scale modeling ( although I am slowly working on a few prjects of my own.

I'm a writer, Illustrator and Photographer working as Public Affairs Officer for Army ROTC in 31 states.  I put out two different newspapers and and do a lot of writing and artwork for military publications and have some published books under my belt.  And I'm a retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class who was in Armor and Aviation.

This is fantastic.

Such a unique list of occupations. All it takes is some plastic to gt us together. Now, how do we get the rest of the world to join in?

I'm glad noone wanted this booted.

Thanks,

Robert

I'll add my background- this thread is interesting. I am a retired Navy Chief Machinist's Mate (engine room type). I rode submarines during my career and am now an engineer at a nuclear power plant. My interest in the ships forum is to lend a hand where I can and enjoy the beautiful work you folks post here. One of my uncles (now deceased) scratch-built sailing ships in 1:96 scale or so back in the '60's and '70's, and I carry an appreciation for the level of effort that is put into these masterpieces (and, yes, I have seen the wonderful collection at The Mariner's Museum in Newport News- thanks to reading about it in FSM). My main modeling focus is aircraft, as I grew up in the Air Force, but I have a boat or two in the pile of kits. I have to build the four submarine classes on which I am qualified (Sturgeon, Franklin, Ohio, and 688I) eventually.

I'll jump in here with an odd job.  I'm a synthetic crystal (the crystals are sythetic, not me) production technician.  Some of these are sliced into wafers which the customers fabricate into micro "chips" for circuitry in all kinds of high tech toys.  Others, the laser products, have rods drilled out of them with small core drills and these are installed in laser devices.  The applications range from university lab equipment to military weapon and guidance systems.  They also have medical applications. 

I've been doing this for 31 years.  It's pretty boring and monotonous, but I guess I was too lazy to look for another line of work.  I started when the operation was in San Diego where I grew up, then relocated to the Pacific Northwest with the business.  I'd rather live in San Diego, but can't afford the real estate there.  Funny thing is I mostly built car models in San Diego, a Navy town, then after moving up here, I got into ship models. 

Ron  

I started building ship models with money that came for my 8th birthday.  Later, oddly enough, I spent 24 years in the Navy.  First as an Aviation Electronics Technician with the S-3A Viking, then as a Surface Line officer (ship driver) onboard Jouett (CG-29), Independence (CV-62) and Stein (FF-1065).

Back home in Seattle, in my second career, I've been a Systems Analyst in the huge IT department of a wireless phone company for a while - best job in the company.

Rick Heinbaugh

ok you got me too  I'm the Director of Consumer Protection and Public Advocate for Rockland County in SE New York for the past 3 years and prior to that I held 4 other positions in county government  No modeling does not generate any complaints to my office but it sounds like there are some ligit gripes out there  How I got interested in ships I'm not sure because I was an infantryman in the Delta (9th Inf div.) in 69/70  Maybe its because I would rather sail the open seas than slog around in the mud!

I build nuclear submarines (The 1:1 scale steel variety and the occasional plastic version)

I have always like building things and I liked to draw.  At first, I was going to be a graphics artist, but the job market wasn't all that great, so I went to college for mechanical and structural engineering.

What I like about the career is that I can draw and build things, whether it is boilers for a ship, locks on a canal, or a stock tank, it doesn't matter.  I currently work for a large steel fabrication shop that builds just about anything made of steel.  I wear many hats, as designer, estimator, and also, project manager.

Scott.

I am a Division Director (Equipment Manager) for a local PBS TV Station (Mississippi Public Broadcasting). I have been immersed in a special project called Data Casting which uses a part of our Digital Bandwidth to broascast ancillary data to different locations. I am 48 years old. I have found that building the model has given me another outlet to get my mind of the stressors of life and work.

It is interesting that there seems to be a common background of those that are tech inclined or artistic inclined, etc.
With me, as a child, I liked to put the models together and as one here put it, looking back, they must have been bad, since I rarely used paint. Back then it seem monstrous task just to put the thing together much less trying to paint it. I think patience had alot to do with it. I just wanted it built !  Hehehe

At any rate, I was always artistic, mechanical inclined. My wife has a new job at Hobby Lobby here in a town called Flowood, MS. (Suburb of Jackson, MS).  It is then that I rediscovered buiding models. She encouraged me to get the Linberg "Jolly Roger" as I told her that I used to put models together as a kid. I find it interesting that she supports this. Now, I have 3 more that I have bought at her store that I am waiting to build.

She was wanting me to buy the R.M.S. Titanic ($89) huge model, but I told her that I just couldn't do that now, it is too big.

Donnie

Engineer with Link Simulation

I get to fly high performance fighters all day using a video game system which will put your XBOX to shame.

We've come a long way in 75 years  -- and Jeff when FSM did their 100 greatest airplanes of 100 years of flight they left out one of the most important innovations - we've taught almost every pilot since WWII how to fly!

http://www.link.com/pdfs/MST-article-on-Link.pdf

http://www.link.com/

EdGrune-

   Very cool!  But simulation can only get you so far.  I'm an aero engineer at Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, MD.  I'm involved in analysis and flight test of Navy Helicopters.

 

Phil

 

 

Good point Ed, but it can be argued that the Link doesn't really fly...it just pretends to :-)

I guess I should point out, that prior to coming to FSM, I was the Director of the NJ Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Teterboro, just outside NYC.

Prior to that, I was a network engineer, doing mostly LAN/WAN intergrations, AS400, Ideal DataCom, stuff like that...

Jeff

Well might as well put my little bit in, I was U.S. Army for over 20 yrs. Now retired. Was a Gunsmith for 20 yrs, and now retired from that also.

Aerospace engineer, currently working as test director for the Army on the next generation (Block III) Apache.  Previously worked as an aerodynamicist doing wind tunnel testing, flight project enginer on helicopter air-to-air combat testing, armament engineer in Cobra program manager's office, and test manager in Comanche (14 years worth).

Flight test is the best job there is - nobody gets better toys than we do.

Dan H.

Self employed Cabinetmaker, work from my workshop at home,where my modelling bench/storage/stash occupies one corner..very big temptation i know, but i am usually pretty good about getting my work done before i get to do the fun stuff!!!!! Actually i have done very little modelling for about six weeks as i have had to finish a number of projects before Xmas, next week there will be models made!!