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?

[murdoog]

College professor, Computer Science

[Nita Nuprez]

Bump.

[SoDak]

Systems and Network Administrator for a $150 million dollar corporation.

[BRL]

You should get your son to hob-knob with the Democrats. He will find more prospective customers than hanging around Republicans.

[merrin]

Bum.

[clamper1797]

Electrical Engineer ... ASIC (computer chip) designer

[CommandoFrank]

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

[freedumb2003]

>>chief cook and bottle washer.<<

Good for you!! Of all the jobs listed here, yours (and those like it) is far and away the most important and most difficult!

You have my full and sincere respect.

[Light Speed]

20 + years in the steel fabrication/oilfield sector.
Many of the oil and gas process facilties in the mid east were fabbed in various shops I worked for.
During Gulf war 1....we were building steam fracing modules for the Iranians.
The Russians were slant drilling under the Iranian border..and draining their oil field illegally.
The Russians had frac technology to steam assist the oils removal....comical..as the American consortium I worked for also had previously tooled up the Russians.

The Iranians were freaking...hurry hurry...then the gulf war happened...and a shipping ban was in place in the gulf.

The project was terminated...the Iranian modules sat in the yard for years....

and the Russians kept draining the Iranian oil field.

[SoDak]

Hey chance, you don't happen to work for a Lincoln, NE based company, do you?

[magellan]

Technical Marketing for a large enterprise computing company.

Tree Farmer (310 acres) and Air Force Reservist on the side.

Seven years active duty Air Force 1990 - 1997.

[Loanshark]

Internal auditor at a NC community bank.

[EternalVigilance]

I'm sure they are all carnival freaks...

[judgie55]

I am a recent college grad with a master's degree, desperately looking for a job? Any hiring managers out there?

[crager]

Alcohol and Drug Counselor

[this_ol_patriot]

We send two dozen pairs a month to a P.O. box in Aberdeen South Dakota. We don't know who is buying these but each month the size requested gets bigger.

[katnip]

I forgot all about that page.

Look what I found there:

Battalion Chief, New York City Fire Department. - BCM

BCM lost his life saving others at the Twin Towers on 09-11-02.

He's in heaven now.

[meyer]

I work for the government in the Ministry of Truth.

OK, just kidding. Well, I do work for the government at this time, in the electric utility arena.

[SirChas]

Hair stylist and joke writer for Tom Daschle.