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Government accounts facilitator for a large tellecommunications company. Currently enrolled at ASU for my BS in biology conservation. My knives are used whenever I need them hehe.
 
Welp, I'll soon be my moms assistant making $25 a week, plus $15 a week for allowance... that's it.


I'll be making like $2000 a year though, which is pretty good for a 14 year old.

EDIT: I use my knife (Leek, soon to have a Benchmite II though) for common every day tasks, as well as opening boxes when I volunteer at my church's food pantry.
 
I'm a commercial fisherman. right now I fish for lobster. a knife is an integral tool to have aboard a boat, esp. a fishing boat, and I carry several each day to work. you never know when one'll help save your life or the life of one of your shipmates.

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I help administrate my brother's website, Newgrounds.com. The company now owns it's own office building but I am currently working from home. I could work from the moon, a tropical island, etc, as long as I have a computer and an Internet connection. Gotta love the Internet. This has allowed me to stay home with my kids while they are little, although they do some day care to socialize.

Before I got into the web business I worked for about 10 years in retail at a professional camera & video store. I started as an Amiga "tech" installing video editing hardware and software. I then expanded into video sales and then photography sales as I learned more and more about everything in the store. This job is where knives and multi-tools came in handy. There were always customers bringing in equipment that needed a tool to adjust something, etc. The days I'd have my multi-tool (original Swiss Tool at the time) I would either use it a lot, or not need it. The days I'd forget it I'd always need it and have to run around the place searching for tools. I carried my Benchmade 710 faithfully and it sliced open a lot of boxes, video tapes, bricks of film, etc. I liked it because I could use it without the customers seeing it since I could flip it open cut, flip it closed, all with my back turned and in a matter of seconds and the customer never had a clue. Or I would just open the blade enough to score the plastic wrap and then close it back up and put it away.
 
I am exactly what my handle says: an old physicist.

I'm also an old engineer, a lifer in the USAF, a major program manager (for the guv'mint), a former academic, a systems engineer, a metrologist (guy who tested stuff), a spectroscopist, a designer and user of ultra-high vacuum systems, an arthritic caver, etc. and etc. And a US citizen, mustn't forget that.

We are all many things. The longer we're around...the more things we do.

These days, I'm a Senior Project Engineer for an important aerospace company working for The Man (that's the US government -- one of those darned national agencies). Can't bring sharp, pointy objects to work!!

In my distant youth, a knife was always at my side. I grew up in old rural California -- nothing like the San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego you see today. We were all just farm boys fishing in the river, hiking and camping in the hills and mountains, gathering left-over produce for spare change in the hot summers. T-shirts, jeans, and mud between our toes.:thumbup:

I'll tell you a little secret -- I've never really changed. Still just a farm boy.:D
 
Telemarketer and freelance computer repair tech.

At my contract job (Telemarketing for lawncare companies) I've never once used my knives. Repairing computers I'll often use a SAK. I tend to keep one with a couple of screwdrivers on me whenever I'm tinkering with PC's or electronics.

My knives are used for mundane things like opening packaging, food prep and some woodworking when outside.
 
I work 9 hours a week sitting at the desk of an archaic video store. We have as many VHS tapes as DVD's, and we're going to have all three of the Saw movies out as new releases because we need to keep movies as new releases for three years to keep the shelves full. Netflix and On Demand have us outgunned, but I'm just riding it out ;)

I do landscaping in better weather with a friend of mine who has his own little business. That pays a lot better and is much more enjoyable than being a cashier jockey. I also get to use my knives!

My most enjoyable job is car repair. I do amateur body and mechanical work. I do a few hours at the video store, a few hours on cars, and in other seasons a few hours landscaping and I make more than enough to keep a full tank and belly.
 
i'm a Unix Admin at a fairly large college

i use a multitool or a knife all the time to open boxes/packages or rack servers, or take them apart. often i'm handing someone my SAK while i'm using my Leatherman when there are two of us doing something

i almost had to cut my hair out of a fan in our server room last year... i ended up getting out, but if i would have been by myself i would have had an impromptu haircut
 
I'm a professional firefighter and a seasonal seakayak guide. Cool to have not one, but two jobs that I love!
 
I'm an ex-Air Force Crew Chief, ex-auto mechanic and a current college student.


I'm majoring in Mechanical Engineering. I hope that corporate America hasn't outsourced all of those jobs yet.

For knife content I use my little William Henry Kestrel at school to open the all important Studying Chocolate bar.

May the fates help you if you get between my and my Snickers bar!
 
I'm a wanderer and all around layabout myself. Actually, I grow plants and sell them at local shows and markets. its not a lot but it keeps me with a relatively steady supply of knife money. I also do welding, some design and general fix-it type stuff for a metal sculptor. For that matter, I'll fix just about anything if the money is good. Or even if its not, if we're friends. :)

"Job security" is just a phrase that means nothing to me but I can go fishing whenever I want and I get to use my knives every day. For pruning (with the occasional massacring of some non native invasives that are everywhere down here), cutting open packages, rope, whatever comes my way thats just begging to be cut.
 
Retired Captain of a combination fire dept. We also had EMS service so I was an emt for 30 yrs. I used my buck folder for cutting seatbelts to free trapped victims. Automobiles and other situations. Cousins owned a dairy farm so I carried my knife since I was 10 yrs young. Cut everything to strings from hay/straw bales to cutting anything/everything that got into the way. I still carry on me 2 Spyderco knives and a Gerber Tool. Use them daily.
God Bless our military folks who are in harms way and also to the ones who served before.
 
dentist---hence knives must be used recreationally, for some reason patients get really nervous when I put on my gloves and mask and pick up a Randall Model 14
 
I was, am, and always will be a writer - so you might say I get paid for being unemployed. :cool:

I was also President of an advertising agency for 28 years. The best part about that job was - I also owned the agency. So the only one who could tell me what to do was my late mother.

What I would really like to do for a few years is drive a truck. Two roadblocks (no pun intended): 1. No one will take me seriously, and 2. I have ZERO automotive skills.:o
 
I'm a former soldier (now in the Guard), reserve police officer, and college student. I'm getting in to hiking and survival training in my spare time, and building a pretty decent working knife collection.
 
I'm a radiologist, a physician who performs and interprets diagnostic imaging studies and performs invasive procedures with image guidance. My specialites are Nuclear (Unclear to most) Medicine, MRI and CT. I'm also a cub scout den leader, former radiology chairman, and "retired" charter boat captain.
 
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