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?

[Tomalak]

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[KSCITYBOY]

Finacial Controller who will be needing a job come June.

[DouglasKC]

Director of Information Systems for a multi-million dollar corporation.

[chance33_98]

I manage nearly 500 servers in a data center for one of the largest banks in the US (one of the top 5) - Unix and Windows. I also do programming, data base development, and networking. I am ccna and will soon have my Solaris certs, mcse, and Linux (all by June). Been in the field 8 years.

[Eagle Eye JR]

Website Support Tech for Us Airways.

[meisterbrewer]

Former Navy Submarine Officer, then Deputy Director of Info systems for a research facility, now in third year of law school and returning to Navy in October as a JAG Officer.

[OpusatFR]

Retired Medical Administrator and now consultant on Nursing Homes and Rehab Centers.

[discostu]

Software QA. But I'm hoping to retire to a job as town drunk, the pay sucks but the hours are flexible and there's no job stress.

[Dog Gone]

I sell propane and propane accessories.

[jwalsh07]

I was born and raised in NY and live in CT but a couple of years at Hood turned my neck red so if you wish, you can call me Cletis.

[meisterbrewer]

Software QA. But I'm hoping to retire to a job as town drunk, the pay sucks but the hours are flexible and there's no job stress.

LOL! Do you need an assistant?

[luv2ndamend]

Laser Optic Tech.

[chance33_98]

But I'm hoping to retire to a job as town drunk, the pay sucks but the hours are flexible and there's no job stress.

We need one here in Circleville, population 14,000. Apply to the local bars (I have 4 a block away from me).

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The short version is I'm a medical transcriber with ambitions to make a living as a SF/Fantasy writer -- though right now I'm on a poetry-writing kick. The slightly longer version can be read on my FReep Home Page... click on my name.

[tophat9000]

Network Engineer in the process of starting my own company

[Arkinsaw]

Software Engineer

[ManxyGal]

My primary employment is as a Network Technician in the IS department of a manufacturing company, and I am also District Technical Support for a nation-wide tax preparation company. And I do freelance computer repair on the side. Oh, and I am also a certified Tax Preparer. Additionally last November I was teaching "Introduction to Conversational Spanish" classes...

In the past I have worked in Corporate Communications and in Construction Management.

[doug from upland]

Although I still do some real estate business with a few clients and actually made an offer today on a good sized commercial property, I spend most of my time negotiating protecting buildings from bomb blasts by the terrorist bastards. After many months of negotiating, I think we are only a few weeks away from protecting a major skyscraper in Times Square. For over three decades around the world, the company with which I am associated protects glass and has saved many lives. With an optically clear 7-mil window film, we sustain a 500-lb TNT bomb from a distance of 111 feet. IMPAX EXTREME Fragmentation/Blast Security Window Film is the state of the art product in the world.

SSAF

[ilgipper]

Co-founder and head of sales/marketing for a software company.

[cynicom]

retired..loafer