What's your profession?

I'm a Staff Sergeant in the Marine Corps

Currently: Job title is officially "Financial Analyst 5." The company directory lists me as "Senior Business Intelligence Analyst." Effectively, I'm a BI Project Manager.

Currently applying for jobs as Director of Finance or in BI/Finance Project Management -- you know, in case anyone has any hot leads in the Denver area...

I like how the first two responses are both from people in Colorado

At least one other thread like this may exist, so it may be moved, but what the heck--jobs change.

I'm a retired teacher, but both fixed incomes aren't enough to get by, so I work full time for part time earnings as an independent editor.

I'm hoping to marry a rich woman, and my girlfriend hopes the same.

By day I'm an Association Executive. Don't worry it's a fancy name for a secretary and cat herder, nothing special.
By night I'm a freelance publication minion.

I'm hoping to get a job in a book store in a month or so. (It's much too quiet here!)

I'll list my DREAM day job. I wanted to be this since I was 4 or 5 years old. And for a brief period in the early 80s, I actually got to do it for a spell. Unfortunately, the pay is incredibly bad.

Window dresser.

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executive producer for a digital media company.

TV and cinema director and screenwriter.

Currently, I'm working part-time as a writer/typist/blogger/jack-of-all-trades for a local company that focuses on helping senior citizens write down their life stories.

This is literally only possible because my husband does computer programming and gets more than twice as much money as I got at my former soul-sucking job.

I'm a geographer.

Data, systems and process, and other businessy nonsense.

I'm retired now. Before that my last position was as a lecturer in zoology.

Full-time slob, part-time bookslinger (i.e., page at the local library shipping center.) Basically I take things out of boxes and watch things fall into boxes.

Hey, I've made the news for it a couple times... it is too a real job.

Brightdreamer said:

. . . part-time bookslinger . . .

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Now I'm imagining you with a cowboy hat, a lasso, bandoliers and two doorstops clipped to your belt.

"You, sir, are ignorant," said the bookslinger.

"I tell you, boy, evolution is the work of the devil!"

The bookslinger drew something underneath his poncho. It flew across the room, whistling in the air. The ignoramus' head tilted back, his forehead marked red, and a book spun above him, revealing its cover: On the Origin of Species.

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I'm in accounting.

nastyjman said:

Now I'm imagining you with a cowboy hat, a lasso, bandoliers and two doorstops clipped to your belt.

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Fastest paperback in the West...

I'm the publisher of several hyper-local online newspapers, mugshot sites, a web developer, computer programmer, professional musician and singer, and, of course, author.

I am a project management consultant. I work on a contract for the Navy.

I guess I'm sort of a bookslinger too. I'm currently employed at a public library.

nemaara said:

...then what's your occupation?

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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha... So funny.
Seriously, though. My answer is:

Preoccupation.
Specializing in word-smithery.

*Sigh* *Second sigh here, for emphasis on the first one, and as a prelude to admitting that:*

I wear smiles for tourists two days a week. Some weeks, my cheek muscles hurt from all the faking it heartfelt smiling and knowing that capitalism is very much alive, thriving, and thumping to the rhythm of my cellphone bill.

I work in defenestration.

Fascinating thread!

I work for my church. Officially I run the kids' department, but it's a small church and I do a little bit of everything. Or a lot of everything. One of those.

Fruitbat said:

I work in defenestration.

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<--loves Fruitbat

Atmospheric science student. Decided to write a book during the 3 months (yep, not a typo) of holidays I get as a university student.

During the day I write dull tech manuals and want to drink.
During the evening I bartend fancy parties and can't drink.

Mortgage wench - specifically, construction loans. So if anyone wants to know about the new US government regulations or wants a rant on what caused the 2008 economic collapse (tl;dr: all parties involved were dumb) I guess I'm your girl.