What sort of Job do you have?

I work in the Art dept. of the film industry. The first week I had a mini grip
I cut up several full cowhides and stretched them on old bed frames for "Texas Chainsaw- the Origin" . I shaved a plastic embossed logo off a television with a Caly3 not too long ago. Most of my co-workers have knives on them. Grips, electricians, wardrobe, f/x, even most of the PA's.
Just received a nice SAK for a wrap present for a war movie due out in 07.
I am new around here but I really dig the forum.

Mark
 
I'm in retail. Always looking for more business opportunities to invest in though. Big into MMA(Mixed Martial Arts),guns,knives(go figure) and music. I love hanging out with the family.If time prohibits,I would like to take a weapons training seminar for knives and pistol.Favorite knives are CRK and Dozier so far. I just started getting into customs so the excitement is just beginning.

MPE
 
Aside from being a photographer on the side, I spent 10 years working in televison and video production and as a satellite broadcast engineer. That trancended into 6 years as an operations manager and IT manager for a distance learning company and before I completely burned out and quit about 1 1/2 years ago. Since then I have been pursuing my passions, photography and knifemaking.
 
Residential construction. I get stuck with all the stuff that nobody else can figure out how to do, or are too lazy to do. :p Very trying physically, it's wearing me down, arthritis, etc. Have to find something less brutal one of these days. I could open a knife store!:D Probably go bankrupt, but it'd be fun while it lasted. ;)
 
Environmental engineer for an upstream oil company. I go out to the field quite often, checking the river, vegetation, etc around the oil fields, and it's jungle out there.
 
Aerospace materials engineer. Current position is Staff Engineer, M&P.

My degree is in chemistry and I help aircraft companies build airplanes. Specialties are corrosion prevention, sealants, paints, composites and materials that do funny things with portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Did R&D for a spell and hold a chemical patent for some paint chemistry work that I did with waterborne epoxies. I write a mean spreadsheet.

Along the way, I've been a factory worker, truck driver, electrician, and retail paint salesman.

Been married for 23 years and have two children. Was a church deacon for a spell. Am now the church librarian. (And I've been known to use the vernacular occassionally. Ex-truck drivers do that.:o )
 
I'm a Toolmaker in the Aerospace industry, soon to be auto industry. Used to be a project manager in finance but quickly learn't that offices are too dead end for me both mentaly and physicaly.

Use a folder daily (Just got a spyderco Endura for the use) for everything from opening boxes, triming loose threads, to poking bad people. I have a cold steel 'recon tanto' under my bed for obvious reasons, along with a Army issue gas mask in the case of a fire.

My interest in knives is for various reasons. One, is the practicality a knive provides, and even as a toolmaker with a massive amount of tools I find the folder in my pocket gets used more than my mircometer. One other side is my interest in all things that combine industrial fabrication with art, as I'm one of the few that finds total beauty in something like a BM14255 or the bearing hub of a f114 engine.

Other interests are DH cycling (which eclipses ALL others by a massive amount), physics, Music (D'n'B for the longest time, which I spin. Although I have everything in my collection), and Racing cars (which I dont own yet. One day a 911RS will be mine!)

Thats about it in a nutshell.
 
jimmyjones said:
I've spent the last 25 years designing hard disk drives, I'm a low level read/write engineer,

I've been working the head / disk / recording technology so ya'll can store terabytes of knife porn, and that bloated operating system from MS.

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Cool -- you've seen a world of changes in technology and methods. The first disk drive I worked on was a 400MB, seven 14" platter monster the size of a small washing machine . . . how things have changed.
 
I'm a "car mechanic".

Not really, but I work on cars in an auto shop. I'm not certified and have never attended a mechanical school of any kind.

I do grunt wok mostly. Oil chnages, tires, batteries, installing small engine components, nothing too advanced. It is my dream to be a certified car mechanic...alas I am not in school and not sure if I ever will go back.
 
Electrical engineer by academic training -- spent half of my career as an integrated circuit designer in disk drive and laser printer development. Currently manage color science programs in a big corporate R&D lab, and also do management consulting at a small company.
 
Wow, what a collection of vocations.
Plenty of variety, I guess the love of knives crosses many different folk and personalities.
I note there are many current or ex law enforcement or military members as I guess you would expect in this forum.
Great to see so many replies from members happy to talk about what they do in life.
I have really enjoyed reading all of the posts, thanks guys.
 
I am in ems. an emt and soon to be paramedic. supprised to see nobody else in ems. seems to be some fire here, but where are the medics??? also an ex-soldier of the U.S. army. a 19d cavalry scout. use my knives for wilderness related tasks as well as job related.
 
I'm an institutional currency trader/relationship manager in the Aussie headquarters of one of your very large USA financial institutions.
 
I'm a university student by day studying Artificial Intelligence as well as being involved in a couple different groups on campus that organize events, so I'm using my EDC to open boxes of promotional material, cut the tops off pizza boxes to use as plates, trimming paper, etc...

And then at night, I work at a gas station so I get to use my edc for all the common stuff there.

Tons of fun.
 
Retired law enforcement. Now I'm a hiker, horseman and handyman for the neighborhood. I use my knives on a regular basis. I'm still looking for the perfect knife.
 
4W4K3 said:
I'm a "car mechanic".

Not really, but I work on cars in an auto shop. I'm not certified and have never attended a mechanical school of any kind.

I do grunt wok mostly. Oil chnages, tires, batteries, installing small engine components, nothing too advanced. It is my dream to be a certified car mechanic...alas I am not in school and not sure if I ever will go back.
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Is this ironic? Although not a "car mechanic," I did receive mechanical training in the army, where I worked on jeeps, 3/4 and 2 1/2 ton trucks, D8 bulldozers and M113 armored personnel carriers. Upon discharge, I was employed by NASA, assembling and dismantling test apparatus. Those were the only two mechanic jobs I ever held, during which time I never touched wrench to any passenger car (my own and friends' excepted).

Instead, I'm a photographer. Because my particular type of work often requires constructing sets on location, making props, cutting background paper etc., plus I have to be prepared for equipment malfunctions, knives and multi-tools are an indispensable part of my gear. This goes against my training and preference, which is to use a dedicated tool for the job, but I have a lot to carry without the extra weight of a proper tool kit. Knives and multi-tools are not even any additional burden because I always have them on me, anyway. :)
 
I just retired (Jan. 1) after 32+ years at a Community College. I now join the ranks of full-time starving knifemakers.:)

Robert
 
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