How can you afford that!?!

Writer, wrighter, righter,:confused: , artist, teacher, builder, musician, machinist, fabricator, mechanic, designer, troubleshooter, entrepreneur, burgeoning knife maker, just an all around renaissance man.

Oh, and to pay the bills, Local County Goverment Employee, I get to go into all the county buildings with a knife, including the Courthouse.:eek: :cool:

Plus, I buy and sell collectibles on the side, I do the auction house thing, basically I'll do almost anything to get the money I need to buy knives.:D
 
Well, as I'm 13 I'm obviously a student, and my parents are generous enough to give me an allowance, and I work for my dad in the summers. (Don't call me spoiled, I realize how lucky I am). Can't wait 'till I'm old enough to get a job so that I can spend more money on my blades.
 
I cut grass for a living. I own landscaping business. Have been at it now for 3 full seasons. I LOVE it.
 
You wouldn't know it from my frequent computer questions in the other forums, but I'm a computer tech at a (very) small university (scary, huh?). I manage the school computer lab (19 PC's), handle all faculty tech support (~25-30 PC's), take care of any a/v duties, do tech support for the online courses, and a host of other miscellaneous duties.

On the school side, I got my B.A. in Psychology and am currently going for my M.Ed. in Educational Technology so I have graduate school as well as work (2 classes per semester).

-Z
 
My title says I'm a Customer Service Representative but at the storage tank farm I work at, I consider myself a Jack of All Trades / Master of None! Been with the company for almost 20 years & managed to save some $$ for my knife hobby and still keep the refrigerator stocked! The house is paid off, the GMC Jimmy is paid off, just had a new roof put on the house, new furnace & central air installed, any trees that could fall on the roof (it's happened before!) have been cut down. I'm getting ready for some easy retiring years for the future! I believe in K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
 
I'm a Quality Assurance Auditor for a major retailer. I'm the guy no one in the company wants to see coming.:p
Basically, I'm a box counter searching out errors and making sure associates are doing their jobs correctly.:yawn:
I'm also a part time knifemaker looking forward to the day I can go full time.:)
 
Graduated from Indiana University in 1970. Had careers in banking/mortgage banking, them commercial real estate management, then 20 years in telecommunications marketing with AT&T. Retired at age 51 from AT&T. Have been a full time knifemaker and part time investor since mid-1998. Feel absolutely blessed to be able to make knives 50-80 hours a week, attend at least 4 shows a year (Chesapeake Bay, Greater Ohio Valley, Blade Show in Atlanta, and Knifemakers Guild Show in Orlando). Am actually paying some of the bills from knifemaking now, and am able to buy a piece now and then from some of my favorite makers. Got a great wife who is a career educator, who has been willing to put up with me for 35 years.
Life is good!
 
I served 20 years as a Radioman / Telecommunications Specialist in the U.S. Coast Guard; then I retired for about 5 seconds and took a job as a phone technician. It sure as hell beats working in a lumberyard (which I've also done).
 
I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs -- Benefits, not the Hospital Administration. My official title is either Supervisory Veterans Claims Examiner or Assistant Veterans Service Center Manager, depending on which piece of paper you check. Currently trying to get that next promotion (and my "15") so I can afford more knives.
 
I have an electrical and air conditioning buisness.
Will turn 60 soon.
Still don't know what I want to do when I get grown...
Until then,I'll just keep on keeping on...
 
BA Philosophy. Then slacker. Then 4 years working on factory trawlers in Alaska. Saved $, put myself through law school, now a trial lawyer for 5 years. Which means I can't EDC any fun knives, those security guys at the courthouse sure are grumpy . . . .
 
I used to work as a caregiver in a nursing home. I had to have a change of surroundings, so now I do security. Either way I still drive 35+ miles from my home and back to get to work. Sometimes I visit UCSB, UCSD, or downtown's city college to see some friends, and they'll have "free" books out. They just leave them at the doors outside either their frat houses, apartments, etc. The universities don't buy back the last year's editions I guess, but across the street from my JC they buy back even the previous editions of books, and I've never been turned down there.:D
 
I'm a student at Iowa State University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. I work at a bicycle shop here in town part time so between that and student loans I have a little money for knives (not nearly enough though!)
 
Including 7 years in the Army (Stinger, Redeye and Chapparrel missles), I've done everything from Training Engineer for GE (developing armor simulators), landscaper, sheet metal worker, tuxedo shop manager, selling wholesale fish bait, technical writer/editor for the FAA, editor of a biker magazine in Miami, para mutual line supervisor at a horse track and currently a Security Supervisor at a gated community in Scottsdale Az.
 
I'm a rescue and fall protection safety consultant. My firm specializes in fall protection training, high angle rescue training, fall protection site auditing, fall protection safety plan management and plan drafting, and emergency preparedness training. We go all over North America helping clients with their OSHA problems, and keeping companies up to speed with the challenges of working at heights.

I got into this field after working for ten years as a mountain guide and rescue training officer for BC parks. While I'm not in the mountains and woods as much as I was as a ranger, the pay is way better and the hours much nicer.

One of the benefits of this career is that knives and cutting tools are a valid business expense...

George Laquian
Crucible Consulting Group Ltd.
 
You ever know a guy with the initials SY? He was one of the multi-branch managers and accountants for that franchise for the longest time before he moved on.

Originally posted by BOK
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!;)
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