I work in the Visual Effects Dept. of a large film and video company. Most people assume I am an animator or compositor, but no; I am a technical assist. I use broadcast VTRs, burn a lot of DVD's, ftp stuff to our clients, and occasionally edit our shots together in FCP and After Effects.

Programmer for 21+ years, all web-based software now. I've been a manager of programmers, too. I give talks about software engineering, and I'm writing a book for geeks about how to get hired.

I have negligible musical talent, so programming is my creative outlet.

burun wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:You have exactly the same job as Phil, who you witnessed wailing vocally in Lords!

But does he look as good as I do in a western shirt?

Hmmmm. I think you having a full head of hair seals it...

I teach dog training classes at one of America's mega-petstores.

Puppies are effing cute.

I am the VP of Information Technology for a brand-marketing firm with 235 employees in three cities. Ugh.

Good news is I buy a good deal of software and computers with an Amex Corporate card, which I get membership reward points on.

$1000 Home Depot gift cards every few months are a nice perk.

Desktop administrator, helpdesk coordinator for a large public university. I was a chef through most of my younger years, now I supervise computer science students in their subject of choice while hacking my own way through IT support. I have much supervisory Kung Fu.

I also produce and audio engineer a weekly live television music show. It's 100% volunteer, but I approach it as a professional to the degree I have time for.

barback/door guy at a bar who's specialty seems to be having the worst, most boring bands play there.

fucking dreadful.

i heard a band do 311 covers. i started drinking early that night.

also, i've heard four bands do "last dance with mary jane" and "cocaine blues."

i'm not supposed to drink while working but sometimes it's unavoidable.

web designer - our design team is around 20 people, our entire company is a little over 200 now, including SQL, web Dev, data engineering, client solutions. We do financial sites exclusively.

I do different things day to day and month to month. Flash, processing, html/css/javascript, photoshop. It's pretty good--the company kicks ass. I don't know shit about development, but our developers are incredible.

Still, right now I sort of want to quit to write and possibly starve.

that damned fly wrote:...and "cocaine blues."

who's version?

I professionally trim/groom my neck beard, while taking breaks to tune my array of only aluminum neck guitars.

Its a tough job hating on KISS all day long, but someones got to do it.