What do you do in 'the real world'?

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You don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but I'm just wondering what are some of the things that members here do for a living/occupation. I really like the inclusive nature of this community. Anyone, from a senator to a sanitation worker, can be an adult baby or diaper lover.

I'm a web developer. What do you guys do?

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Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. Just realized "off topic" might be a better fit for this thread.
 
INTrePid said:
You don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but I'm just wondering what are some of the things that members here do for a living/occupation. I really like the inclusive nature of this community. Anyone, from a senator to a sanitation worker, can be an adult baby or diaper lover.

I'm a web developer. What do you guys do?

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Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. Just realized "off topic" might be a better fit for this thread.
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I am not in any one single profession. I do a multitude of different things. Web Development, PC Repair, Game Development, Security Cameras Installation, Home Wiring and basic electrician, Cable management and fiber optic technician, Computer Networking, Video Editing, and many other forms of artwork.

I also have done a lot of non profit sort of work. Back when I was in school I was the ambassador on campus representing the students. Going out and doing a lot of community service work and such. I have also been moderator of game servers, and forums in the past. So I have a lot of experiences XD. Oddly enough, I seem to be terrible at life despite this lol, always been having a terrible time getting on my own two feet without relying on others. The issue is, despite all of these things, I don't have the papers except for Telecommunications. So it's not easy getting a job simply because you are skilled at the job.

Also, don't have a drivers license which really has become a serious pain. Parents never really taught me, and have not had anyone else able to. So i have only driven for a short period of time when I had my permit.
 
I was a Senior Electronics Engineering Technician working in the field of light industrial robotics.
I retired on SSDI back in 2006.
I am on the Board of Directors of a local non-profit organization.
I volunteer for a local town CATV public-access channel.
I am also a disability rights activist.
 
up until being injured some years ago, i was a general labourer or jack-of-all-trades. most work around these parts, nowadays, is warehousing or hauling, so that's that.
like Brabbit, i have a broad skill-set gained from practical experience. but nobody wants that anymore; it's all about singular 'qualifications', nowadays.
 
For almost 17 years, I was a software engineer and manager at a very large software company, working on a very large software product that many of you are using at this very moment. I "semi-retired" last year and am now a part-time independent contractor doing both electrical and software engineering for embedded systems.
 
Industrial maintenance mechanic, electrician, plumber, welder, network technician, you name it =/. Jack-of-all-skilled-trades I guess you could say. The place I work has a very small staff so my skill set is necessarily diverse as they don't have the funds to be able to support a large, specialized maintenance staff at competitive wages.

I don't mind, I enjoy pretty much everything i do :).
 
Industrial maintenance technician, or so my job title says, it keeps the company from having to give me engineering pay. I am responsible for the installation and maintenance of all equipment as well as the building systems & grounds in a mid sized factory on the east coast. It would be impossible to list all the things I do for the ungrateful owners of the company but a typical day might include, designing and building a hardware interface between a new robot and an old press, changing tumbler belts in an oil filled pit, caulking roof penetrations before a storm, pulling a flushed pad out of the ladies room toilet, wiring a new $250K machine to the 480V buss, mowing the back lot and getting a dead mouse out of the owner's wife's office.
Yea I'm Jack. That's why they don't pay me jack!
I am a little down on my job lately as they just celebrated my 25 year with the company with a cake at lunch, a handshake and a $200 check. I don't eat sweets and they gave me $400 five years ago for my 20th! Not having a pay increase for the last three years because "we can just replace you with a South American for minimum wage" sucks too. The present government says the economy is so mush better now but here in New England the factorys are fleeing south or to china making decent jobs scarce.

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Industrial maintenance mechanic, electrician, plumber, welder, network technician, you name it =/. Jack-of-all-skilled-trades I guess you could say. The place I work has a very small staff so my skill set is necessarily diverse as they don't have the funds to be able to support a large, specialized maintenance staff at competitive wages.

I don't mind, I enjoy pretty much everything i do :).
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Interesting you posted with the same job while I typed my rant. I too do love what I / we do but have come to hate the people I do it for.
 
I'm a recording engineer as well as a radio host/disc jockey/on air personality. I also shoot, edit, and produce video. Basically, media :)
 
I'm a professional musician, classically trained in church music. I've worked my entire life as a church music director/organist/accompanist. I also was the keyboardist/singer for a very good cover rock band. We had the wedding and country club circuit in Virginia. I've played for over 20,000 people at state festivals as we were the premiere rock band for the Garlic Festival, a big event near Charlottesville, Va. One year, Dave Matthews was in our audience.
 
I am a Producer, i make films/tv shows, etc, During my off times, i work for a major medical supply company, distributing mostly blood collection tubes worldwide, in the warehouse stocking pallets.

Bbay LEa
 
I'm an attorney. I've done various legal work in my career, though I haven't been practicing all that long. My work has included spending a brief time in criminal law, a brief time doing corporate work, a longer time in government at the federal level, and I now do non-profit work.
 
Hmmm... This is a toughie..

Where to begin?

As it seems from some of the other posts, there are others who are "Jack of All Trades" out there. I think that is awesome, as that is somewhat my own experience.

My Occupations:

Rancher (hence the name "cowboy"), financial advisor, wildland firefighter, air traffic controller, student, mechanic, negotiator, policy analyst, supervisor, office manager, lands manager, large equipment operator, pilot, real estate and chattel appraiser, programmer, electrician, construction worker, biologist, veterinarian, writer/editor, public affairs specialist, agricultural production and financial management consultant, water rights specialist, loan officer, range conservationist, legal instrument examiner, outdoor (natural resource) recreation planner, milker (dairy cows), fur production worker, photographer, plumber, and collector of teddy bears.

All of these trades mentioned I have at some point or another received wages for my efforts, although only a few would I say I have been in a career position. The exceptions of being paid would be for being a student (which has certainly paid off in the long run) and being a collector of teddy bears. -- In addition, I am also a father of three children, community leader, and Sunday school teacher.

I share all of this as I think that there really isn't a connection between trades that one might choose or "what do you do in real life" with having AB/DL tendencies. Some of the occupations I have had are so far different from my little self. Certainly they are not associated with being babyish at all. The whole "Cowboy Up" theme of being a real life cowboy working with livestock is not something that one would associate with being babyish. But yet there is the little side of myself and at times of riding horses and herding cows out on the range I have been wearing diapers underneath. Go figure.

Cowboy up! Well, as a matter of fact, wearing a diaper while being a cowboy (or for that matter in most any trade) and risking that others might think you are wearing a diaper is perhaps "Cowboying Up" indeed. --It takes a hell of a lot of guts to do so.

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Teddy Bear Cowboy
 
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I don't have a occupation as of yet, as I'm working on getting my certification in IT & Networking, however I'll tell you what I do for a living, might point me out a bit.

I myself am a computer programmer and I contribute to a bunch of open source projects in my spare time, I've started a few open source projects dealing with cryptography, I love implementing complex ideas, and learning how it all fits together, I have the odd desire to find out why everything works, and I have to seek and understand everything.

I run a few servers, and a few websites, I've got a lot of experience in GNU/Linux & Apache, dealing with SSH and setting up RSA key authentication with OpenSSH, I also run a NGINX server, though I'm still getting the hang of NGINX, I like it because its lightweight and doesn't come with much by default, I like it, and mixing it with CGI(PHP) is awesome, It's much more straight fourth than Apache, my router runs it I'm pretty sure also.

I also deal with IRC and FTP servers, a pain often as IRC is quite tricky to get right, I've written lightweight servers before, just for learning how it works in the software sense of things.

I'm average at web development, I suck at anything to do with design, I'm more into implementation side of things, I have a friend who is a web developer I mostly help them with security side of things like hashing passwords properly, dealing with SQL injection and teaching him new cool things like SQLi and SQL prepared statements that only work on some servers sadly.

I've been experimenting with some new things, like firmware modification and low level driver programming (though epic fail) ended up bricking my motherboard though a bad bios patch, however I plan to get a EPPROM / BIOS programmer, or a spare board so I can hotswap the bios chips and rewrite the original bios too.

If I'm low on cash and my power supply blows, I'll repair it by hand usually if its something that is obvious like a blown capacitor or a dead fan, I sometimes do case modifications also.

I also build my own computers, and used to fix other peoples computers, until I realized that people will blame you for something that isn't your fault, ie windows becoming slow, or the motherboard dying etc.

I could go on for hours, lol.

Lets say I'm very skilled but lack the certifications for, so its rather hard to find a job anywhere lol.
 
:detective3So, I apologize for the second post, but for the OP and everyone out there on ADISC, what do I do in real life? What has meaning to me?

Please allow me to share a commercial put out by Dodge which was aired for Superbowl 2013 and containing the wisdom of radio spokesperson Paul Harvey. This short video perhaps answers the OP's question for who I am in real life myself better than any words can. I don't expect all to understand, but for me, this video has deep rooted meaning and is a glimpse into who Teddy Bear Cowboy really is in real life, as well as even in his little Teddy Bear self.

Thanks for letting me share this glimpse into who I am.


... So God Made a Farmer

[video=youtube;AMpZ0TGjbWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE[/video]

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Teddy Bear Cowboy
 
I'm pretty much interning at a local news station as a Studio Technician at the moment. Outside of doing that for 40 hours a week, I'm also working as a screenwriter, still trying to break into that industry, as well as doing a little freelance work in writing, web design, and video editing.
 
My last job I was working as a contract programmer for a company you've never heard of (except probably ArchieRoni), on a product you've never heard of, that the company you work for likely uses extensively.

Right now I'm doing retail so I have free brain cells to work on my own projects.
 
This is such an interesting thread, and so many of us are involved in tech.

I'm an Aerospace Telecommunications specialist for the Air Force (not US) and have worked on everything from aircraft navigation aids and air traffic control systems to international wide area network over satcom and other stuff they won't let me brag about. Made my way into management ranks. Pay is good, job's incredibly interesting and totally the opposite of what you would expect from a DL. Alpha male all day long. Diapered sub on the weekends. Who would have figured.

Now please diaper me, tie me up and make me wet my diapers like a good boy.
 
I'm currently a Shift Supervisor at a well known restaurant chain that deals in hatched eggs. It does what I need it to do, pays the bills and on the rare occasion the company pays me right gives me the money and time I need for leisure. Will not touch Manager or Assistant Manager with a ten foot pole, even though I'm a hell of a later smarter and know a hell of a lot more than those who have taken the jobs. But honestly I like my time at home to myself and the money the offer is nowhere near worth it. Also seeing as I strongly disagree on the companies approach to almost everything, not sure I'm the "Yes Man" there looking for. Interestingly enough a lot of people who come down the drive thru say I should be on the radio... maybe I should look into that.

Have spent alot of time in retail, maybe too much, god I hate people. But have done odd things every now and then. Have moderated forums over the years, became effectively the online wing for a couple of muscian/actor brothers. Originally it was just meant to be for their online message boards, but our influence seemed to spread far beyond that. Created some projects, ran some competitions with some interesting logistics in this international day and age... it was good times. Served on the local District Youth council, Student Council, had the school that scared (yeah lets say scared of me) that they always seemed to ask for my feedback on things. Served as Youth Member of Parliament for the electorate, served as a scrutineer during an election and Reffed Touch Rugby for about 10 years.
 
I am in college, other then that not much yet.
 
I work as a freelance writer. It can be anything from fashion content to sports blogging. The variety is nice but the frequency of work is (annoyingly) a bit unpredictable. I've worked at a couple of marketing agencies in the past, but one didn't think I was the right fit for the role, and the other I left because it was just a very unpleasant environment. I'm not an antisocial person, but I much prefer working on my own terms and having some choice over what kind of areas I want to (or really don't want to) write on.
 
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