How do freepers earn their living?

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[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I was just curious and wanting to know what we all do for a living when we're not here scouring the threads of FR. So what do YOU do for a living?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

easy for you to say.

[Victor]

Audio Systems (mostly evacuation) Design Engineer.

[ScreamingFist]

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[Glenn]

I tell guys like Glenn to get back to work and stop browsing FR all day.
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I've outlived a lot of bosses with that kind of attitude.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

"Just wish we could find a way to break into the iron clad world of liberal/socialist/communist possession of most newspaper writing in this country.....don't you?"

Absolutely. Actually I think the main obstacles standing in the way of this are conservatives themselves. By that I mean that we just need more conservative people to pursue careers in journalism. It's an institution that needs to be changed from within.

Media bias is not the result of a conspiracy. It happens because newsrooms tend to be collections of like-minded individuals who are blind to their own biases. It's really just a form of group-think among people who have been liberals all their lives.

If more conservatives started pursuing journalism careers, it would shake up a lot of this group-think. Part of the problem is that many conservatives (myself included) are interested in financial rewards. Someone with a skillset you'd normally associate with a journalist can make a lot more money in advertising, PR, marketing, market research, etc. than they could as a reporter or editor. I think another culprit is that conservatives just grow up hating the media, and therefore would never consider it as a career option.

Of course this is all easier said than done. That first wave of conservative journalists would take an awful lot of heat from above and institutional opposition. It's not something that will change overnight.

[oldsalt]

I'm a retired Navy CPO. I also retired from Civil Service as an Electronics Calibration Tech.

My wife brings home the bacon as an L&D Nurse.

I cook it.

[rageaholic]

I wear white shoes, slacks that come up to my armpits, I drive a Cadillac and I complain about the government FULL TIME

[Destructor]

Run of the mill office papaer-shuffler type, and aspiring Artist. I refuse to get on the NEA Artist Welfare! That's why I go out and face the world each day.

[lucky7]

collect aluminum cans to supplement my US ARMY retired pay

[GuillermoX]

Ahh, I see.

We're called headhunters down here too.

[StriperSniper]

I read and laughed at the back and forth game of 'guessing', pimp (LOL!) comment and all. I put that in white so it didn't act as a spoiler. ;-)

[SCalGal]

Taxes, bookkeeping, records un-scrambling, lecturing (as in: you WILL print out the page that shows how much you paid for that stock).

[KSCITYBOY]

Financial controller for a mfg company.

[HardStarboard]

Retired; mainframe computer sales and marketing management.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Here in Central Florida we call you guys Telemarketers.

[McLynnan]

Well, it's nice gig if you can get it. I don't watch soaps either. That would take away from my computer and bonbon time.

[GuillermoX]

Only morons hang up on Recruiters.

[The KG9 Kid]

Please report to my office, Glenn. ;)

[mhking]

However, I'm Forshund, 12 cycles old.

In other words, he's first baseman for the Red Sox and praying for the lifting of The Bambino's Curse.