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Redstripe_808

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Nuke's age question got me wondering.

Wondering what people do for a living to support this great hobby/passion that we share. I'm assuming that people here come from all walks of life.

Now we'll know for sure.

Currently, I'm a full time business student working part time jobs at a copy shop/used text book retailer, and at a sports retail store selling snowboards, golf clubs etc.

What do you do to support your habit....er...hobby? :)
 
I'm a retail manager. After being over-protected in my youth "don't touch that knife!" and overly cautious in my teens (go figure!) I found I need knives to (gasp!) open boxes as part of my job. I began carring "tactical" liner locks cuz I was always having to put stuff down to open my slip joint folders... very annoying.

Anywho- now its my biggest use of discretionary income... I love them and have WAAAAYYYY too many... I'll spare everyone the various jokes and abuse I put up with.

Retail pays for my habit.
 
Part time in Sams Tire department.
Do it full time in the summer and between my school breaks to earn some more $. Also get some $ from a marketing research comapany every now and then for an hour or two of my time.
 
Full-time work for a couple of months every summer. I work as a junior research assistant at a university. It's a good deal for both employer and employee, since I get money for knives and learn a lot, and they get a cheap programmer. I can always be reading BladeForums and everyone thinks that I'm in a hardcore mystical computer programmer trance.
 
Retailers just call us Reps.

The small company I work for (4 employees) specializes in higher end audio/video products and accessories. We act as the local factory presence for ten manufacturers of high performance hifi and surround sound equipment. We handle sales & product training, purchase orders, problem resolution and marketing for the factories we represent in the Southwest US.

Some of my job includes writing reports for my factories about what competitive products my retailers are selling at a given price point and quarterly reports analyzing the sales performance of my accounts. This part of the job is kind of grueling. Fortunately, most of the time what I do is travel to hifi/surround sound specialty shops and talk to the folks there about the coolest new music and movies and the best way to play it back. We listen to music and look at film clips to compare equipment!

Sometimes this causes me a problem. Like now, I have a 10 year old 50" Pioneer rear projection TV in my living room and nearly everyday I'm in shops displaying the latest in HDTV technology. It makes it hard to go home and look at a 10 year old TV. But a replacement will cost several thousand dollars.

Basically, I get to travel a bit and hang out with guys who are gadget oriented and into performance and cool widgets, and I get paid reasonably well (but I'll never get rich) to do it.

It certainly doesn't suck (most of the time). If it was all fun and games, they wouldn't pay me to do it.

jmx
 
Well, let's see...

Got a Bachelor's degree in political science, went to law school, realized too late that I'd enjoy practicing law about as much as being disected and pickled alive by aliens, and i now sell pre-historic, high-end fossils, mostly giant, fossil shark teeth for a living. Stranger things have happened, well, maybe not. :)
 
I am a Journeyman Stagehand with the I.A.T.S.E. Local #16. About half of the year I work in the Electric Shop of the San Francisco Opera, the other half I go where the Local needs me.
 
Full time university student. Work part time at a House of Knives here in Vancouver, BC.

I can only afford my knives because I get them as gifts and because I get a fat discount at work!;)
 
Normally I:

Kill aliens.

Take the skulls of space marines.

Build spaceships.

Design new ways to enchant magical items.

Fend off hordes of zombies.

Implant embryos in people so creatures burst from thier chest.

Train ninjas.

Build fortresses.

Plant trees.

Shoot people with rocket launchers.

Command squads of special forces.

Control giant robots.

Make menu systems.

Script tutorials.

Destroy the earth.

and sometimes I do web design.

But right now I am between jobs so I am taking it easy with the knife purchases.

I havent stopped, I am just taking it easy.


If anyone needs me to do the things mentioned above they should contact me. I need to continue that career....it is fun.
 
i'm in the same boat as BOK, retail, the only solution for college students, going to school part time for this term, but usually i'm full time

i've received my first knife as a gift and that was the only one, everything else was bought with my hard earned money... but i get really good deals, not just from work, but i tend to find places that sell them for much better! ;)

also, i don't spend money on shoes, hair, make up, or too many articles of clothing, i'm stingy when it comes to going out and things like that although lately i've been doing out too much, but if i can, i get my clothes from department stores or thrift stores

oh and i also have a grow op on the side... :D just kidding, if i did i'd have my Ronin, Blue Star, La Griffe, LTC Kukri, Military and many more by now... :(

aXed
 
I'm a Nurse Practitioner, been an RN about eight years, was an LVN before that, and a paramedic in the Army beofe that. I'm trying to get into medical school now. Have loved knives since I was old enough to pick one up.
 
I'm a school teacher. Teach 7th grade science. Been at for 19 years now so I guess I'll just stick with it.
 
I graduated college with a degree in Industrial Marketing and Minors in Economics and Computer Science.

Worked as a bouncer in a college bar through college (Youngstown State) and hustled pool for extra money. Also worked for Radio Shack a couple of days a week.

Have been working in computers since graduating YSU (1993) and just finished up my MCSE this past summer.

Currently a "Senior Technical Services Specialist" doing advanced tech support, network support, database admin, project management, telecommunications and managing a support crew of 7 people.

Usually when people ask me what I do for a living I just tell them I fix computers - anything more than that and 95% of the people's eyes glaze over within a few seconds.

I used to have a side business doing Kydex Sheaths but got overwhelmed with orders and decided to stop taking them when it affected my personal life.
 
After a brief stint in the Air Force, and 12 years with my previous company, I now work for one of the largest electrical contractors in New Hampshire. I am the operations manager for the Communications division, we do voice/data/video/fiberoptics network cabling. It's not boring, I'll tell you that!

I can't yet realize my dream of being a full time maker, so I make as a hobby.

Until then, this job pays the bills pretty good.(and supports my ebay knife habit):D
 
Contract Mechanical Designer. Mostly tooling, but lately more and more commercial products. I mostly design tooling for "net shape manufacturing" which encompasses die casting, sand casting, permanent mould casting, injection moulding, blow moulding, compression moulded plastics, roto-forming... Any process by which material is squeezed into a cavity to produce a final or near-final shape.
 
Originally posted by artsig1
I'm a school teacher. Teach 7th grade science. Been at for 19 years now so I guess I'll just stick with it.
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Boy Art, you'd think that after 19 years, those 7th graders would make it to 8th grade. :)
 
Got a BA in philosophy, minor in English Lit., in 1970...turned down a sponsorship to law school...drove truck for the next 30 yr's. - go figure. But I've now retired to a small farm in SE Ohio and life's pretty good.
 
Right now I'm working in a greek resturaunt as a dishwasher(hate my boss but it's money). Trying to swing a job doing this over at one of our 3 hospitals for $15/hr(starting wage). Grad was in May 02, didn't work during grade 12, and after a 3month upgrade of physics I'm working till waiting lists go through.

Depending on my marks(when I finally get them back) I'm either going into
1> Electrical Systems Engineering Technologist, and upgrading from there into Avionics Tech

2> Meat Cutter/Butcher(everyone needs one)... upgrade and get my Chef's papers after that, when I'll have about 1/2 the stuff down already. Been cooking since I was about 8.

I manage to finance my hobby through VERY careful budgeting. Bought 3 in August(of the $1K I had left I used 400 on knives) and went broke in sept... made it till Nov and started working. *Bought* 1 in december, recieved 2 as "xmas gifts", 1 in a trade, and 1 I'm paying for at month end(I hope, then I can play with it)... buying another one in a week when I'm paid. Recieved a gift(due to stock avail vs funds avail) in mid jan, and owe a big favour ... Only make $600/month(Canadian)(in a good month), and 200 rent, 100 car, 40 phone, 30 net... and then food and gas... rough runnin.
 
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