Hobbyists: what is your day (or night) job?

[Beans]

I've seen recent comments about people working in marketing, education, or tech, and am wondering what sort of diversity we have here.

EDIT: And partial hobbyists/burgeoning superstars, too!

 

[Akarin]

I work 50% teaching programming at uni, and the other 50% on music. Will be 100% music from January after 20 years in tech.

 

[Loïc D]

I’m IT consultant & PM, expert in buildings management solutions.
I’m based in Paris, my customers are multinational companies & institutions.

 

[blackzeroaudio]

Supply chain and logistics for about 13 years.

Making 0% income from music currently but hoping to change that. lol.

 

[Trash Panda]

Senior account manager for a hotel software company.

 

[doctoremmet]

Assistant-professor IT auditing University of Groningen

 

[Beans]

Assistant-professor IT auditing University of Groningen

Well, that place sure looks stunning.

 

[Peros]

Art director for a communication and events company.
we also recently created a sound branding department

 

[Beans]

I am in software product management. This is a return to my old career after a multi-year hiatus (said hiatus began due to a near breakdown from stress!).

 

[doctoremmet]

Well, that place sure looks stunning.

 

[easyrider]

Teacher of Film and Media- Just quit and I leave on the 18th December.

 

[emilio_n]

I was working on IT half of my working life but for a strange twist, I become a Spanish teacher at the university here in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, I am running my photography business for 10 years.

I studied piano on my teens, so music has been my hobby always. Who knows if in the future could be my part-time job. I discovered that anything is possible if you are able to work hard on it.

 

[Owen Smith]

I'm a registered nurse and worked in HIV care for about 6 years with undocumented immigrants in the US. I'm currently studying for my PhD in nursing at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. My other jobs are as husband and father to 3 year-old-twin boys. Composition and library acquisition is somewhat of an addiction for me (I'm working on it lol), but also serves as emotional therapy

 

[Bluemount Score]

Audio-visual media designer working in Osnabrück, Germany

Would like to go a little more into the audio part of it as currently it's mostly film, but generally, I'm quite happy

 

[Markrs]

I have been a UX designer for 20 years (the job title has changed a bit a various times), with breaks for doing a MEd in psychology, High School teaching (IT) and 3 years of a PhD in HCI/psychology. I now work in Cirencester which is in the Cotswolds.

 

[pixelcrave]

I'm a user experience designer, primarily designing applications for health care.

I only play piano / keyboard (though not classically trained), and have only gotten into this fun world of composing with VIs earlier this year due to the pandemic 'work from home' shift. Hence my stumbling upon this wonderful forum!

 

[Beans]

I'm a user experience designer, primarily designing applications for health care.

Oh, goodness... health care. Data privacy is necessary in society, no doubt, but it's a very special source of irritation when developing software applications for health care.

 

[Ben]

This is a very interesting thread! I'm amazed by the amount of people who are/were working/worked in IT jobs.

I studied computer science and parallel to it worked part-time as software dev (full stack) in the business travel management; in the free time I started playing around with sample libraries and soon after I joined this forum.
Last year in August/September I switched to VSL - and now I'm working as software engineer, but doing a lot of other interesting and exciting things as well

 

[Fry777]

I see quite a lot of IT people here, nice I used to work in IT too, now I'm an airline pilot

Where are all the dentists and lawyers by the way ?

 

[Beans]

Where are all the dentists and lawyers by the way ?

Less likely to be able to multi-task during their work day, in many cases! Most of my time at VI-C is when I'm half-listening to a work call.