OT (Sorry) - What's your job?

[earthtonesaudio]

Assistant electronics technician.  Mostly assembly work for a big x-ray/cosmic ray detector.  My first "real" job out of college.  I think the "effect pedal builder" part of my resume helped get me hired, score!

[Ice-9]

After reading all these interesting lives, i realise i'm just a bum, but i'm a bum with a guitar

[morcey2]

Age: Almost 37
Occupation: Software Engineer
Family: Married w/ 5 kids.  My oldest son who's 20 is probably getting married to a woman (also 20) who's divorced w/ 2 kids.  How I got him was marrying someone who was divorced w/ 2 kids almost 17 years ago.  So I could possibly be a 37-year-old grampa with no shotgun weddings involved! 

Other Activities:  I build and repair amps for some local guys.  I'm not making much money on it, but the cash flow has definitely helped.  I've actually built many more amps than I have pedals/effects.  I attempt to play guitar occasionally, but I'm not very good at it.  I'm usually too busy inhaling solder fumes.  All of my kids play instruments and sing.  We didn't force any of it on them, other than piano for a year or two to get the basics of music and theory down.  We've got full setup in our basement, but don't get as much time to play together as we should. 

I also love to hunt and fish.  But I don't get to do that nearly as much as I would like. 

Matt

[Lonzo]

Director of Distribution for most likely the largest Golf E-tailer on the web....and I don't even play golf.   It's great when people ask me about playing golf...I say:  "no, I'm a musician"....they just say: "oh..." and move on.

I'm a husband of 18 years (this September) and father to three incredible little girls ages five, seven, and nine.  Yikes.

I love op-amp circuits, Dean Markley Overlords (Tube), Laney amps from the 80's, Les Pauls and Teles / Esquires and have a love for hardcore country, hair metal, and 80's thrash metal.

cheers,
lonzo

[BubbaKahuna]

Former regional rock star (never went national but had some international radio play), former ski patrol, EMT & teacher of Rocket Scientists at several National Labs and colleges like Berkeley and Stanford as well as companies like Intel, Bank of America and many others. Now selling motorcycles and other power sports in the Upper Midwest and playing in a snotty power trio doing stuff I'd do for free while people insist on giving me money & free liquor to play wildass guitar, scream my lungs out and have girls flash their ... uh ... upper superior anatomy on a regular basis.   

I've also built one of the world's largest websites for the largest Chinese internet company and garnered several Forbes' magazine 'Best Of...' awards along the way. I do most of my web work these days in trade with local businesses to fix up my home. Not a bad deal!

Married for almost 18 years now (18th anniv. in 17 days) to a truly beautiful girl I met on the road in the 80s (how cliche'...) and sharing my home with two of the sweetest pit bulls you'd ever hope to meet. At 48, my wife is still very pretty and gets hit on all the time. SUCKERS! 

Life is good, but I'd really like to shed the extra 25 pounds that seems to be following me around lately. 

Been building effects since the 70s and amps since about 4 years ago. What took me so long to get into amps is beyond me.

Cheers,
- JJ

[BubbaKahuna]

!! Ooops, double post ... my bad!

[jimbob]

"love for hardcore country, hair metal, and 80's thrash metal."

+1

[soulsonic]

I'm an electronics assembly/repair "technician". I repair amps and effects, and build new amps and effects. I've also done some commercial contracting repairing and installing sound systems in restaurants or wherever need be. I used to be the main assembly/repair guy for Weber VST - I've built hundreds and hundreds of MASS attenuators and Bias Rites and a handful of amps. I helped design a couple of their kits too. Before I got work doing electronics stuff, I was a freelance recording engineer and have recorded tons of stuff for local groups and a couple of albums that were released nationally on a couple indie labels. Before that, I had a decent job as an assistant designing home automation systems for Paul Heath Audio in Chicago - mostly I did the layout and design of residential lighting control systems, but I did some home theaters as well... it was my first "real" job (and probably the only "professional" job I've ever had...).

And during that whole time, I've also been trying to establish some kind of a "career" as a musician. I've played in a bunch of bands, and none of them ever really went anywhere, but I'm still hacking away at it, and my goal is to eventually be able to earn a living from music alone. I'm not so much interested in any sort of fame; I'm just interested in getting enough regular work in music to be able to make some kind of living at it and not have to do anything else. When I say "music", maybe instead I should say "art", because that's more what I'm talking about... not any rock band stuff, more of like an amalgamation of artistic expressions I'm involved with; one of which involves sound. Maybe that sounds pretentious or flaky, but I can't describe it in any other words; I love all forms of art, and I involve myself in as many different kinds of artistic expression as my abilities allow me.

[Arno van der Heijden]

Automotive engineer - Working on tomorrow's hybrid transmissions for an OEM based in UK's West Midlands.

Don't have much time to build pedals lately....

[Fox]

Voice and Data field engineer for Siemens, I make and repair valve amps for myself and others. I still play guitar in a band and have done for 20 years, mostly with my own amps or heavily modded productions makes. The first thing to get me started in electronics was a ladybird book called 'Build a Transistor Radio', I think I was about 11 or 12 back then.

cheers
Fox

[$uperpuma]

Ha, so I let this thread get by me for four years... I'm Nate Garcia... and until a couple years ago, I was an MECP Advanced certified Mobile Electronics Installer, specializing in Security systems and the OEM integration thereof... I have an 8 year old stepdaughter that is autistic and a 4 year old son with developmental delays, so it became apparent that the children really needed one of us home.  I volunteered, as I am more the patient teacher type than my wife.  So, my official job title is "Mr. Mom"... and to help out with the funds I do my small-time  pedal thing and assemble for some guys that are a little further along than I am.

[cpnyc23]

Bond Trader

-chris

i thought you wrote BONE trader at first

Now that would be a strange way to make a living!!

I think I'll stick to my Wall Street gig

-chris

[mnordbye]

Working as a courier in the transport business..

Also, just started out http://www.deafaudio.com/!

[liddokun]

Student/Amp Builder/Pedal Builder

What a boring answer...

I second that, as I am one as well.

High school student.

I also worked part time as a math tutor, and currently am working for my city as a guitar instructor at a youth summer camp.

[PerroGrande]

Interesting thread...  I'm not sure how I managed to miss it, either.

Let's see... my background is in Physics, Computer Engineering, Electronics, and (of all things) Music.  As a result of a fairly varied background, I've done a number of different things.  However, during and after college, I've focused on computers extensively.  I actually drifted away from electronics and DIY for a number of years -- lacked the time and the equipment.  When I took up the guitar a few years ago, building pedals was a natural extension of that for me, so here I am!

Currently, I'm the department head for IT at a University.  This is really cool because not only does it allow me to stay current with computers, software, and networks but it also keeps me close to electronics.  As time permits, I teach courses on networking and computer security. 

[newfish]

By day, I swear at computers for a large, faceless multi-national.

Evenings, I play Guitar, Bass and Violin when I'm not building pedals.

Also have an amazing 1-year old little man to tend - and his lovely Mum to keep happy.

There are not enough hours in the day...

[Der Groovemeister]

Audio restoration engineer. I restore old tape recordings for the former Dutch Jazz Archive, now merged into "Music Center Netherlands". I play guitar in a Funk/Fusion/Jazz-rock Big band. I'm also a DJ playing Soul and Funk.

[McGhie]

I sweep and massacre cardboard at the warehouse for the biggest shop for music instruments in Denmark (Aage Jensen.)
Other than that, I'm a high school junior..

[runmikeyrun]

paramedic/firefighter/skate shop owner.  Aspiring RN.  Not a typical job field for electronics nerd/metal musicians!  A couple guys from work came to see us play once, the one guy said he had a headache for two days.  Mission accomplished!!

[jayp5150]

I could have sworn I responded to this already...

I'm a loan closing agent for a real estate title agency that somehow got suckered into the office as well.    I prefer to be on the road doing closings, though (besides, I made twice as much as my hourly pay, and worked about 2/3 of the hours lol).

I'm 28 and have a almost-3 year old daughter, and I'm married.

Aside from this, I love auto mechanics and recording when I have the time.