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What do you do?

Started by Dinobabe, October 05, 2010, 01:10:14 PM

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Dinobabe

So the stereotype thread made me think, "Hey, there is a lot more to us Rennies than people give credit!"  So I thought it would be kinda cool to see what it is you do.

Do you have a 9-5 job outside of faire, what is it?
Is this your retirement job, what did you do before?
If this is your full time job, what got you here?  Did you do something else (mundanish) before Ren Faires?
Natasha McCallister
Bristol Faire 1988-2005
The Wizard's Chamber/Sir Don Palmist
59.2% FaireFolk Corrupt
midsouthrenfaire.com

Dinobabe

#1
I am a Geologist full time.

For my grandparents this was a retirement job.  Grandpa was a mechanic, grandma worked for an insurance company and taught art.  Grandma started a crafting business many years before they learned about faire.  It was a natural progression from craft fairs to ren faires.
Natasha McCallister
Bristol Faire 1988-2005
The Wizard's Chamber/Sir Don Palmist
59.2% FaireFolk Corrupt
midsouthrenfaire.com

Captain Kilian

Network Security Specialist.

Renn Faire's are my escapism from the digital world!
"I'd like to thank all the little people...that just never saw it coming." - Me
Royal Order of the Landshark, Guppy 14

Laird Fraser of Lovatt

Oilfield supply... US Army before that.



my way of stepping out of the real world for a while...
Cha togar m' fhearg gun dìoladh
Alba gu brath
Laird of Dunans Castle
Warrior Poet/Loki God

Merlin the Elder

I write Internet/intranet database application software for a specific department at a university. I love the programming part. I hate dealing with people that refuse to listen to logic. Given a choice, I'd rather be living at Scarborough year-round... It's been a tough day today...
Living life in the slow lane
ROoL #116; the Jack of Daniels; AARP #7; SS# 000-00-0013
I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
...and may all your babies be born naked...

crazyrennie

I work in a shipping department of a communications company.

will paisley

Seems like tons of rennies work IT.  It's so prevalent that I've gotten to the point that I don't even ask any more - at the most I'll ask if someone's a programmer, a DBA or a network specialist.

Minstrel, Interrupted, Bard #400 (CD)
Faire Name: "Flo's Husband"
Yeoman-Purser of the Frigate Up Royally

Auryn

Hehehe Great thread.

I work mainly in the family business which is custom designed/built RIBS (rigid inflatable boats). I handle all the marketing/ P/R for the company and am now taking over the day to day manufacturing and customer bs.
I also run my own graphics/laser cutting and engraving business.

On the side- my mom and I have been selling our art at art faires for almost a decade now.


no wonder I have no free time. sheesh
Scissors cuts Paper. Paper covers Rock. Rock crushes Lizard. Lizard? poisons Spock. Spock smashes Scissors. Scissors dec

Bob of the Lake

Writer/editor for Web and publications at a public university. Before that, 20 years in the airline industry.
I came, I saw, I skipped to my lou.
            - Hammy the Squirrel

crashbot

#9
I am a network engineer for a particularly large company whose logo resembles the Death Star. US Army before that.

History buff and escapism.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. - Voltaire

Ronald the Bald

IT manager at a local government agency.

Aiacha

Land Analyst for an oil & gas company for the last, gosh, 10 years.

LadyFae

I'm a stay at home mom of three little girls.
Amanda  =D

"Do not call for your mother.  Who is it that you think let the demons in to eat you up?"

MorganaLightskirt

I'm a surgical technologist...in charge of the "silverware"  The doctor says "Knife" and I hand it to him.  My specialty is Neurosurgery...spines and braaaains.  Been doing this for 13 years.
I first came to Faire with an ex-beau in 2001, I think.  Came through the gates in jeans and a shirt...came out in a dress and bodice! and been going ever since.
Honor Ruled by Steel    By Blood I am the Protector of the Sacred Steel  (that's what the sword says)

Lady Rebecca

I'm an actress. I'm currently finishing up the run of a show at a children's theatre here in Orlando, and I have another show with them in Feb-March. I would love for my acting jobs to last all year, but since they don't, when I don't have a show, I'm a Pirate. I work at The Pirates League (which is a transformation experience) in Walt Disney World.