Giving up the day job...

Just wondering about you guys. Are you all full-time writers ro do you have the requisite 'day job'.

I'm a management consultant.

(No punchlines please, I'm genuinely interested)

...a consultant who doesn't use spell check.

'ro' = 'or'

I'm a full time process/chemical engineer.

Insert engineering joke here

I edit SGML (internet language). Yeah boy - that's what I said I wanted to be when I grow up.


Tina

...and the day begins on a low note of *twink*

I'm a full-time marketeer...and I cook, and write, and clean, and write, and do laundry, and write, and rake leaves, and write, and mow the lawn, and write, and take out the trash, and write, and pay the bills, and write, and paint/draw, and write--writing comes usually after 10PM! Plus, I love my son like there's no tomorrow. He comes before any of that other stuff mentioned.

And, Melt, the Engineering guy...you mentioned once that you were as deep as a tablespoon? Well, I do think you run a lot deeper--maybe a great big ladle? NOT! Just joshing ya....

R&D Project Manager at a large biotech company. That + a 9 month old son keeps the page count moving like molasses.

I work for an online bill payment service as a research representative. And since I found my rose colored glasses, I just love it!

PPPC

High School Teacher...Social Studies/Economics/World Geography/World History...coach Middle School Baseball...past jobs since I was 16.

newspaper boy
car wash attendant
grocery bag sacker/cashier (the old mechanical cash registers)
ice cream clerk
truck driver for shoney's
shoe salesman/shoe store manager
clothing store manager
pizza hut (lasted one day)
Stint in the Air Force/pumped JP-4
repo man for tv rental company
sold firewood
clerk auto parts store
worked on a dredge boat for Corps of Engineers
signalman for Frisco Railroad
installed water purifiers
sold air purifiers
car salesman new and used
hotel night auditor (lasted 3 days)
assistant manager for KFC
product demonstrator of fake gold at dept stores
insurance salesman
sold rubber mats
manager of a YWCA one summer
newspaper columnist
correctional system adult and juvenile/jailer
drove a tour bus for grayline tour company
youth market manager for Pepsi Cola USA
sold seafood for a group of grifters
worked on a shrimp boat
sold biomedical equipment
sold fume hoods to laboratories
worked as a courier for a Corning labs picking up blood samples.
probably a few more but my fingers are tired....

all is true. I might also add I have been married four times...have three children...go to church...been to the following Universities...Univ. of Memphis, Univ. of Tenn, Eastern New Mexico, Loyola (New Orleans) Univ. of New Orleans, Nicholls State University, Harvard University.
...sorry I got off on a tangent...but my whole life blurred by...I still haven't found my niche.

gdover

Heh, well, I am quitting my job at Chapman University -- today is my last day as a matter o' fact. But dont get excited, I still gotta work. I'll prolly do temp admin stuff for awhile, unless my dream comes true and I get a job at a publisher house in S.F.... <grin> But yeah, I've been typing on my script every day here at work, so I get the best o' both: working on the script AND a steady paycheck. This is a Good Thing. But even if I *do* get to the point where I am selling scripts and making good money from them, I'd still need at least a part-time job or I'd go out of my gourd. Part of how I write is because I am dealing with the everyday world and job and crap, and from that I get this huge burst of creative catharticism that lets me get the story out... <shrug> Not for everyone, but works for me. I reckon that when I'm sitting back watching my stories be made into flicks, I'll work p/t as my sweetie's secretary, helping him get *his* stuff done... Now THAT is a job I can get into, heh

I wish I had a day job! Sadly I am the personification of the starving artist (ok I'm not starving but...) :b