I'm a program manager for a super 8(a). I'm currently managing a contract in Corpus Christi, Tx and just started another in Okinawa, Japan last month. It requires some long hours sometimes but is enjoyable enough. Having said that I would rather be at a rescue with Min. Working with animal rescue groups has giving me more personal satisfaction than any other work I've ever done.

I'm a harpsichordist and organist obsessed with the music, the composers, and the history behind it all of the baroque era. The field of music I'm in is known as "historically informed performance practice" (HIPP) which basically means we throw out all the modern instruments and their conveniences and start over with the older instruments and try to play them way musicians of the past use to play them. It sounds really different than what you might be use to. I'm also working on being a composer and an improviser. Currently, I'm studying modal counterpoint and thoroughbass improvisation.

I've studied a little computer programming. Learned html, css, java, and a little bit of Objective-C and a smidgin of AppleScript, and had a few classes that covered visual basic, php, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and Oracle. I'm not a programmer though. Music is my passion. When it comes to computers, I'm much more interested in UI design than the technical mechanics behind applications. Someday, I'd like to study it again to make little practical desktop and mobile applications. When I was younger I was a huge geek about computers and thought I was going to be some big wig programmer in a hot start up company by now but I like music too much. During ages 8 through 12, TechTV was my favorite tv channel. I got Patrick Norton and Martin Sargent's (from The Screensavers) autographs when they visited my city once when I was 11. It's framed sitting on my desk today.

I enjoy what I do.

(December 12, 2012 at 1:19 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I'm a harpsichordist

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(December 12, 2012 at 1:32 am)popeyespappy Wrote:

(December 12, 2012 at 1:19 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I'm a harpsichordist

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I'll have you know that the harpsichord recording in the Addams Family theme song was not a real harpsichord. It was one of the phony "harpsichords" that were popular during the 1900's to 1960's complete with metal frames and levers. They're built like pianos and they sound absolutely terrible. You can thank Wanda Landowska for those monstrosities.

I've got everybody's dream job. I teach maths to kids 12 to 14 and have done so for the last 20+ years. Got into this after working in the family grocery business through high school and then my brother's construction company through college. Teaching is really interesting and fun so long as you can relate well enough with young people to be real with them. The curriculum has transformed often enough over the years to keep me on my toes. I like the people I teach with, the students and their parents. It's nice to have somewhere to go every workday where people need you. It's very motivating. For my next career I want something to do with gardens, my secret passion. Next year I'll be on the board of the California Horticultural Society. In my foggier retirement years I could imagine doing something for dogs too. My own are enough but perhaps I could take on a foster or two occasionally.

(December 12, 2012 at 1:32 am)popeyespappy Wrote:

(December 12, 2012 at 1:19 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I'm a harpsichordist

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I just realized that my user avatar on TrekBBS is remarkably similar

I'm a student studying maths and physics, which I enjoy, though not a job as such. I did get a couple free drinks for doing a gig in a pub a couple weeks ago, which was fun.

Spent alot of my time in the last years being drunk, druged and depressed and doing some shit jobs here and there without having any noteworthy schooling in my resume . Currently I am at nightschool and will get my university-entrance diploma (to late with 22) in may after which I will apply for (and hopefully get into) a university in Berlin, Groningen, Leipzig or Hamburg and start studying (to late with 23).
Did some painting once for which I have a little talent and read alot, aswell as having a facination for eastern European and Scandinavian culture. So if I could I would study art, german language studies, scandinavian language studies, slavic language studies, literature or theater.
Unfortunatly I will have to earn money to and will have to make a living which is why I will probably apply for genetics, behavioral studies, law, mathmatical economics or maybe even medicical science.

So I guess in 1 or 2 years I will be having a more precise answere.

I am a 25 year old stay at home mom. I go to school full time and I watch 2 other kids fulltime so their mothers can work.

(December 12, 2012 at 1:51 am)whateverist Wrote: I've got everybody's dream job. I teach maths to kids 12 to 14 and have done so for the last 20+ years.

Man, you teach Jr. High kids eh?
As a parent of a 14 year old, I thank you for your service!