American Freepers - What's your job?

[Tomalak]

Free Republic has something of a reputation in many circles as being home of raving mad fanatics or rednecks like Cletus from The Simpsons. What always strikes me though is how smart, thoughtful and well-read the average Freeper is. It's not just compared to the stereotype, but to almost any news forum. Take the forums on Democratic Underground or The Guardian. You'd expect the Liberal Elite to be out in force there. But all you really see are morons who can't reason or think or handle argument.

So I want to know a bit more about the average Freeper. What job do you have? How badly wrong is the stereotype compared to what you acually are?

[garjog]

College Professor

[jslade]

Commercial Real Estate Broker. Word out of my home. Long time FReeper.

[Ditter]

I am retired & I now paint dog portraits for fun & profit (mostly for fun).

[Billthedrill]

Network Engineer and System Administrator for a biotech. Aspiring porn star.

[Fellow Traveler]

Currently unemployed since 12/6/2003. WorldCom decided they didn't need me anymore. I worked for them as a database programmer and analyst in both a windows and Unix environment. I developed reports, OLAP cubes and administered servers and databases. I also developed website for the company intranet.

Before that I was in the electric utility field. I spent six years as a generator specialist with GE installing and maintaining turbine generators. I also worked for Megger for two years selling equipment to China.

Yes I am looking for work so if anybody knows of any openings especially in the Dallas area please e-mail me.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Legislative (lobbyist) and Communications (PR, media relations) Officer for a state agency (who was recently axed by new, highly partisan Democrat hack who became agency head, and will be out of a job on May 1).

[Swiss]

Husbandry Tech for a corporate Hog Farm

Job Description: Scrape hog crap, wash off hog crap, cut tails and pull out the gonads of little pigs, remove 400lb stinking dead sows from crates,etc.

[EternalVigilance]

I work for the government in the Ministry of Truth.

Whew...glad it isn't the 'Ministry of Silly Walks"...

[Unknown Freeper]

Retired game show star.

[P.O.E.]

Mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.

But seriously,

By day I'm an operations forecaster/planner for large-cap corporation.

Although in my youth, especially working my way through college and grad school, I must have held about 20 different jobs: lifeguard, dishwasher, bartender, factory line attendant, cable TV salesman, limo driver, mason's helper, cook, store window cleaner, gas station attendant, etc.

[Objective Reality]

software engineer (emphasis in web applications) and junior Oracle DBA.

[Carolina]

Alamo-Girl compiled our profiles that you can read here: FREEPER PROFILES

She updates it occasionally. Send her your info and I'm sure she'll add it.

[clamper1797]

I used to body double for John Holmes ... but he's dead now

[Senator Pardek]

Bump.

Close, but no cigar.

[Ramius]

Director of I.T. for a 100+ mil company with 25 offices in the US and Europe.

Former Coast Guard QM.

[Tomalak]

After reading these great occupations, I am wondering what this thread would look like over at DU.

Haha! Indeed. Anyone have a DU account? Please set up a thread asking the same question and see what they say.

[FrogMom]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

[BullDog108]

None of your business

Above your pay scale

[saluki_in_ohio]

Controls Engineer(PLC), Masters in Electrical Engineering. Experienced in C/C++ and VB programming.

Hey, I have been recently laid off. If anybody out there knows of any available suitable engineering positions in central or southwest Ohio, feel free to FRmail me!

[Rocky]

Engineer (not the railroad kind)