What's your occupation?

[MonsterArt]

Monster Artist, animator and screenwriter. Sometimes an actor, but only if Larry Blamire is making a movie!

[Gasport]

Full time musician. Writer, producer on occasion. Aspiring porno star, but i think that ship has sailed... Mainly teaching guitar privately at the moment. Worked on some original media related music projects with my bro over the years that miraculously culminated with our work being heard on some of my favorite shows like Ren & Stimpy, South Park, the Simpsons, along with some of my not so faves like Martha Stewart and Oprah [go figure]. My proudest achievement to date has been recording not one , but TWO full length CD's with my all time favorite childhood idol [and sweetest person on the planet] John Zacherle, Whom as a result, has become an extended part of my family for over 20 years now.

[GAKENSTEIN]

I own and operate Forney's Too Ltd., a retail gift shop.  24 years and counting....

[Illoman]

I am an assistant manager at a Kmart by day (and two evenings a week), and freelance artist by whenever I can do it!

Mike

http://home.att.net/~illoman

[Wicked Lester]

Wow! Some real interesting people here. I'm just a blue collar working schmoe. I'm the central region distribution shipping supervisor for Makita power tools. With the housing industry down so is our business. So if you have any bodies you need to take care of I can cut you (no pun intended) a good deal on chainsaws and power cutters. 

[Bogey]

I own and operate Forney's Too Ltd., a retail gift shop.  24 years and counting....

Did you folks ever carry the Disney Classic Collection line?

[Lugosifan1]

Well I'am a postal worker, for 26 years, but don't hold that against me. Mario( lugosifan1)

[BaronLatos35]

- Teacher

13 years and counting...in the summer I work at a camp as well. Don't make much but I love my job...

[Wich2]

(Folks, if you haven't heard Mike's ZACH work - do! TOP shelf.)

Youse guys who are acting starry-eyed about those of us toiling in the arts, or downplaying your "prosaic" jobs - stop it! The world needs it all - the garbage man every bit as much as the portrait painter. And I've poured iron in a GM Foundry, filpped burgs at a Burger Chef, and manned the counter in a Pawnshop.

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

[ChattyLMS]

You are definitely right!  Dr King was a genious.

[Bogey]

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hear! Hear!

[mike c]

Wow! Some real interesting people here. I'm just a blue collar working schmoe. I'm the central region distribution shipping supervisor for Makita power tools. With the housing industry down so is our business. So if you have any bodies you need to take care of I can cut you (no pun intended) a good deal on chainsaws and power cutters. 

Hey listen, most of what I do with Halloween and animatronics work REQUIRES power tools, and I have plenty of Makita, Dremel and B&D items to prove it! If you don't do your job right, most of the working world can't do theirs!
I want to hear from more UMA soldiers who are in the trenches with real meat and potatoes jobs like this... enough of us mamby pamby artsy types! 

Mike C.

[fibbermac]

Retired from Law Enforcement after 35 yrs

Cheese it! Here comes a cop!

[mike c]

Cheese it! Here comes a cop!

Nah, he did say retired... which means it's cool, he'll take some graft and probably help us keep the rookie cops off our backs!

Mike C.

[raycastile]

My brother is a cop and my dad is a retired cop.  I have a cousin who is a cop.  So it is a wonder I didn't become a cop.