I'm a full time cop for the past 24 years and specialise in motor vehicle collisions for now. Used to be riot cop, VIP protection, canine trainer etc. Part time knifemaker since 2000 and member of the SA knifemakers' guild. Hobbyist pipemaker since some time last year but like knifemaking this is also threatening to become a fulltime proffesion.
Oh, and co-owner of a small horseriding school. My wife is the other partner .

This is the first time I scrolled down this far on the page to see this forum on the sight. Good idea.

I am in the Recruiting business. My wife and I have two businesses in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. One is an Executive Recruiting company and the other is a Temporary Staffing company. Yes. There really are jobs out there!

I am a process tech engineer. Mostly do pulp and paper along with bio fuels. Basically take mass flow balance sheets generated by chemical engineers and turn them into real world schematics and detail designs using computer modeling tools such as AutoPLANT and SmartPLANT.

hello all
in todays world one must have more than one job. I am retired army I work for Homeland security as a armed guard, I make pipes I sell on my web site www.hesterpipes.com and I wrote two books one of which is on my passion my love my pipe. Oh yea I also make money the old fassion way I married into it just kidding

Nothing anymore use to be part of a group that managed clean water and waste water plants and took a buy out. My wife worked for the state of Connecticut we both retired early sold our house in Connecticut and moved about 50 miles west of Buffalo we have a log home on lake Erie.

I was in logisitics and transportation, managed a team of truck drivers. Location went out of business so we were all laid off. Back in the job hunt with the rest of the unemployed!

I've been in the automotive body repair field for about the last 15 yrs. I've been at the same shop for the last 3 yrs. I started doing body work cause that's what I love. But, about a year and half ago we lost our painter and I was asked if I wanted the position. So, I'm now the painter at Total Quality Paint & Body in Anniston, Alabama. I have to say I love my job and enjoy going to work every day.

I'm a computer forensics specialist with the Canada Revenue Agency (our version of the IRS) in the Criminal Investigations Directorate. Started out as a tax-fraud investigator (accounting degree), went back to school part time and got 'edgeekated' in Information Security at Royal Holloway and been doing my current gig since 1992.

Been with the "firm" for 37 years and now looking to retire shortly. I hope to spend more time to pick up my guitar(s) again after I retire.

@Oliver

I picked up a documentary on iTunes the other day called Reclaiming the Blade you may be interested in.

To anyone who says that we aren't a diverse bunch... a Canadian tax authority has got to be the last person you'd expect on a tobacco community!

Even after years aboard, I learn something new and dig this place a little more.

A bit behind, but I might as well add

I'm a networks analyst for the Dept. of Defense.

I'm a former nuclear physicist, F1 race car driver, Antarctic explorer, Air Force test pilot, Playboy centerfold photographer, and NSA supercomputer designer who's now gone undercover for the CIA as a pipe repairman in the international hotbed/political intrigue capital of the world... western North Dakota. Why the switch? It's so much more exciting than that earlier stuff.