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?

[Office Manager]

Guess.

[discostu]

I used to live in snow country (Burbank Ill, inbetween Chicago and Indiana), not happening. Frozen water is for drinks. I've been training up on tequila, I'm hoping for a spot in Mexico, anybody that's ever slept off a buzz under a sombrero will understand.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Educator for a very small, private ,conservative school for two boys and offer support and love to them and their dad, my husband. Also chief cook and bottle washer. ( Stay at home Mom)

[buccaneer81]

Greetings from Hilliard and Groveport. One of my crew is from Circleville.

[Ga Rob]

I am Network Admin(NT,2000,Exchange,Unix,Solaris)for a large corporation. Spent 7 years in the US Army. I don't believe that has much to do with my knowledge and interests. My Great Grandfather was a WWII vet and an amateur historian. He taught me to seek truth...not opinion.

[Porterville]

Teacher (but I'm a bad speller)

[Tomalak]

Hmmm ... Doctor? :P

[hispanarepublicana]

I'm makeup artist to Greta Van Susteren and personal trainer to Helen Thomas.

[Nita Nuprez]

Bump.

[small voice in the wilderness]

LOL!

[CFC__VRWC]

I'm a staff engineer with a small-to-mid-sized (70-ish employees) consulting firm. My company provides civil, environmental and mining engineering, as well as geological services. My particular field is stormwater and drainage.

[Hildy]

Owner of a Contemporary Ceramic and Art Studio.

[Loyalist]

Second-year law student, ex-newspaper proofreader and paginator, ex-public affairs officer at a diplomatic post, ex-corporate account rep for a cellular phone company, ex-editorial assistant at a legal directory publisher.

[lizma]

Retired Ophthalmologist, now stay at home mom.

What can I say? Light bulb clicked on. Moms need to be with their babies.

[chance33_98]

Circleville is a cool little town, a little depressed on the economic side but most people work out of town. I like it better than California, though I miss the mountains at times (ok, miss the ugly desert too, but the people here more then make up for any scenic disparities).

[EarlyBird]

Former SGT in Army MI (98C-Russian); current day job: desktop support for 300 computers and a few servers in a university science department; moonlighting as a database developer consultant; amateur historian in my spare time.

[zdnkyldy]

Assistant County Attorney

[EternalVigilance]

Political troublemaker.

[discostu]

I think with the right kind of preplanning and professionalism town drunk can be raised to a position of at least as much respect as town fool/ village idiot. Maybe we could make a guild, ala the Butler's Guild.