Your EDC spin-off: what's your Profession or Hobbies?

I make knives, write, fly fish, pick the guitar and sing, and shoot the occasional .45 or .40. Not a bad life.
 
I'm a Network Engineer for a large telecom in Northern Virginia.

EDC: REKAT Pioneer II (I carry openly at work and nobody complains)

Other knives: Remington Waterfowler, SAK, Schrade Sheath knife (can't recall the name). Got a Jens Anso Personal Sheepfoot on order...

Hobbies: Mountain biking
Hiking
Hunting (squirrel, deer, turkey. adding grouse this season)
fishing
cooking (specialty is stews and soups)
photography
guns and shooting (just got into Trap)
knives
camping
reading (everything but romance novels)
Computers (not so much since it's my job, but I do toy around with OSes and portable computing stuff)

That about covers it.

Chris
 
I write and edit for a nationwide sports association. Not much use for a knife at work except the usual office BS - so I just carry a little Buck 709 two-blader that I really like.
Outside of work, I carry either the 709, a Spydie Endura plain-edge or a SAK Spartan. (Some other slipjoints and/or a Leatherman Wave too, depending on the mood. Those are the big three, though.)

Hobbies include:
Playing music.
Camping/hiking.
Working out.
Reading.
Computer/Internet.
Watching baseball and football.
International travel.
Reading.

(* I enjoy shooting skeet/sporting clays but don't do it often enough to really call it a "hobby.")
 
Anyone else notice the plethora of the computer systems/engineer types who enjoy all things martial (i.e. knife, guns, etc.). Maybe its because I live in the SF/Bay Area and am around more of them; but it seems the psyche of my compuer-industries buddies simply gravitates towards knives & guns.

Ron (guncollector)
 
I think we just like toys :D :D
 
I'm the lab manager at a facility that handles hazardous waste. My hobbies include guns (my .45 is fun, but for sweet shooting the luger is better), summiting every mountain in sight, natural history, building WWII aircraft models, geology, etc, etc. I never run out of things to do. And each thing has its own unique knife requirements. At least that's the excuse I use to buy more knives than I really need.
 
Well...I'm a police officer in the bay area, carrying (usually) a BM super-710 (aluminum handles, M-2 blade) and a first generation AFCK on duty...
Hobbies include too much reading, Iron Chef, and music (progressive and old-school bay-area metal...)

--dan
 
I manage the Developer Support department for a company that builds software development tools. Being a manager is very new to me, since I've spent almost twenty years doing software engineering and related support jobs.

I read a lot, mostly science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries, but a little of everything including non-fiction. I have minors in anthropology, english, and medieval studies to go with my computer science major. :)

I have been into roleplaying games for a quarter of a century now. These are face-to-face games played with other people, not computer games. Roleplaying is a terrific social activity.

I love shooting. I have few rifles and shotguns, but handguns are my real love. I attend local IDPA matches and sometimes drop in on a silhouette meet. My carry gun is a 9mm H&K P7 M8, but I also love my pair of Taurus Raging Bulls in .44 Magnum. One is fitted with a 2-7x scope for long range work. The other has been customized down to a 3-3/4" barrel for better handling in close.

And, of course, I collect knives. Actually, I'm not sure that "collect" is really accurate anymore. I went through an initial acquisition phase, then found other homes for all the knives that I just couldn't see myself ever using (with one or two sentimental exceptions).

My favorites, and most frequent carries, are a pair of Kershaw Boas (one multicolored and one black), a CRK Sebenza with the "Trailing Moon" graphic, and a pair of REKAT Sifus (one green and one black). I just might have settled on carrying a Sifu all the time, but my job limits me to a 4" blade. :rolleyes: That has been enough to keep me swapping around my EDC.

I have to show off my favorite combinations: one for wilderness and one for civilization.

raging_b_dozier.jpg


p7_sifu.jpg


:D

--Bob Q
 
I am an IT Helpdesk supporter; a job that demands both technical skill and a lot of patience and psychological insight! :rolleyes:

I carry my BM 813 Mini-TSEK and a LM Micra at work. The LM is used for the occasional incursion into hardware territory, while the BM is used for everything else, including cutting open all sorts of stuff, spreading butter - and unpleasant users! :D Nah, not really!

I am not really a knife collector, more an enthusiastic user. I only own a BM 813, a 720 and two old Puma's; a White Hunter and a 4 Star.
I just bought my first handgun, a used Glock 34 and I enjoy shooting it very much. Of course I suck, but I will get better!:-)
Apart from that, I am a watch nut (http://home19.inet.tele.dk/bshansen/hansen.html), I do a bit of mountain biking and I am also into classical, folk and spiritual music as well as low budget, no nonsense hi-fi.
Married since '94 and she hasn't left yet, even though the gun thing didn't go down well....until she tried shooting a .22 and almost beat me! That sure helped!:)

The best
Bo
 
I work at Wyland Galleries in lovely Las Vegas, NV. I sell fine art, and educate(try to, anyways) those wonderful tourists about the artists on display. My EDC, a BM705, is typically used in whatever is necessary at the time...opening boxes, cutting ballons free to give to kids during art shows. I'm pretty much known as the "Knife-Guy" at work, since I'm the only one who carries any type of edged tool.

Stephen
 
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