Does your love for knives and tools fit with your profession?

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Does your life style go with your passion?
I am a university lecturer (humanities) and my environment is not exactly a knife or tool environment. I wish I was a rancher, explorer or truck driver :( Where it is OK and (normal) to Carry as much knives and tools as I wish.

How about you guys? Does your life style go with your passion?
 
I do website administration from home. So I can sit and be around my collection while I work. :) I used to work in retail sales and having a knife was useful for opening packages. There are still plenty of things to use a knife on around the house, yard, etc.
 
By day I am a tech geek supervising a data translation group at a digital publisher. By night, i grind blades. No overlap between those worlds at all.....polar opposites, actually.
 
I telecommute for an online publication. So, like WadeF, I get to sit around all day fiddlin' and twiddlin' with my knives. Still, I'd rather be out USING them!
 
I build machines in a tool shop for a living, I NEED knives for my work. 1" kevlar braided pneumatic hose is the ultimate blade test. Will dull my Manix after about four cuts! About half of us carry, and of that half mine are always the coolest, so I carry a few to lend out as well.
 
I'm both a mortgage broker and a compulsive internet shopaholic. While the knives aren't very handy for my first career, they sure do come in handy when the UPS guy shows up because of my second career. Those boxes don't stand a chance against my knives.
 
I am a PC-Tech/Sys Admin guy. I am going out west here this summer to go to Guide school so I can use these toys. I hunt, fish, kyak, hike, climb etc. So I definatley warrant and use my knives. They dont so much fit my profession but they fit my lifestyle choices.
 
For several years, I was getting tons of knife use on the job, was really into the knife stuff, trying different knives and steels, comparing them on different materials, etc.
Right now I carry a SAK around, mainly for the flathead screwdriver, but use a flashlight constantly. I notice that my flashlight hobby gets my attention(and money) now.
 
Another computer geek here. (Looks like we're taking over BF.:thumbup: ) I use my knives, multitools, and flashlights every day. Mostly the flashlight I should think. (You learn quick that the inside of a computer case is no place to shine a 60 lumen light when your head is real close to it. :eek: Just about had to go back to a Mini-MAG so I could still see afterwards without all the spots.:) ) The nice thing about where I work is the owner collects stuff himself (Cars, Watches) so he seems to understand about the knives so it's a non issue. Plus, everyone there knows I collect so they aren't that shocked if someone needs a thread cut off of them and my Gunhammer/SMF/mini-sword plops out.:)

I used to be a Brick Mason too but oddly enough I was one of the rare ones who carried a knife. Most had a utility knife in their toolbox so it didn't matter much to them.
 
Corporate Safety and Security alarm monitor guy. I have a room with locked doors and can play all I want with blades or the net.

I call it my 'paid vacation'!
 
I am a Mechanical Engineer, so maybe its the geek in me that loves steel and more steel. Steven
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Well, I am a Human Being, so yes- knives are a necessity.
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Nough said!!! :D

. . . but, to myplea's intent of the question, I'm an electrical engineer by training, and a manager in a research lab by profession, so, no, it's not a particularly solid fit for me. :(
 
I'm a firefighter, so it goes with my profession well, but I'd carry regardless. For what it's worth, I moonlight as a seakayak guide in the non-winter month(:D ) and I need a blade for that as well.
 
I work for a company that builds data centers. Leatherman is used most often. Even if I has a school teacher I would at least carry a SAK.
 
I am also a university faculty member.

My love of knives fits right in.

Except people think me a little weird.

That's pretty standard for a university faculty member.

:D
 
I'm a mudlogger geologist on a drill rig. Yes, I must have a knife at all times, to open the foil packs of coffee. And I occationally need to cut poly-tubing.

I used to work outdoors all the time, as a professional archaeologist. A small pocketknife was occationally helpful.

-Bob
 
I work at nite for a major grocery chain and even though the box cutter is my main tool, a knife gets used alot. By day I'm a knifemaker so I can make the knife I use at nite. :D
Scott
 
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