So as a bit of fun and to demonstrate how snuff is used by people from every walk of life I thought I’d ask the question above. Me? Well thanks for asking! I currently work as a digital marketing manager at a small marketing agency in Dunedin NZ. Creating and looking after websites, email marketing along with regular activity for a wide variety of clients from engineering companies through to not for profit. How about everyone else?

I was a Master Craftsman in the home remodeling field. Now I am disabled until I recover from cancer surgery.[lost 80 Lbs mostly muscle] Good news my cancer levels blood work has decreased from 130 to 97 in two months.What ever that means?

I was a Radioman in the US submarine service. Recently medically retired and currently about to fly to Nebraska to interview as the dispatch/operations center manager for the Nebraska State Patrol.

@basement_shaman‌ that’s great news! I hope the recovery goes well and you can head back to your craft. Sending positive vibes from here

@SandwhichIsles‌ Good luck with your interview! Fingers crossed!

I’m a mental health counselor working at a private practice with adolescents and at a chronic pain clinic with adults.

I am a civil servant working for the Navy. I manage an office that does training for our forces.

@SgtJon‌ yokosuka or sasebo?

I own a behavioral health practice.

I’m a software developer which explains why I am on here most of the time during business hours

@SgtJon‌ yokosuka or sasebo?

Yokosuka.

self-employed goldsmith

Physical Therapist specializing in Geriatrics.

I’m an ER clerk at a level 1 trauma center so when people are in some horrific accident I get to go through their wallets and ask their family members about insurance and social security numbers, lol. It’s a fun job, lots of excitement, but it’s also stressful, it’s definitely like some sort of clerical abattoir and hardly anyone stays long. I’ve come to like it a lot but the pay sucks so I won’t be doing it forever.

i’m a senior broadcast engineer with a regional sports network in Boston. pretty fun place even though, ironically, I’m not really into sports

I’m a part-time teacher (Latin, Classicial Civilisation and History) and a part-time student (PhD in Criminology/Social Policy).

Great thread so far all, interesting hearing just how everyone keeps busy! Makes my marketing ‘fluff’ seem boring

I work for a small grassroots non-profit organization. I’ve been doing it for over 10 years now so I’ve done and seen just about everything, but currently manage an adult workforce program.

Among many other things, I did direct care with a paranoid schizophrenic mentally retarded adult for 22 years. Kind of a Rainman type. Except he couldn’t count cards… ratz/

I am a helicopter mechanic for the United States Army. My MOS is phasing out, so I was offered to have the opportunity to work on the Apache (I currently work on the Kiowa Warrior). I politely declined. So now I ride out the rest of my contract a floater. Should be interesting.

QC for the 6th largest Pork producer in the United States… I can’t say that it’s fun, but it helps pay the bills As far as the previous 27 years of my life, that’s history and would require a resume… But there are lot’s of stories to go with it

Office monkey / desk job

I’m a Philosophy graduate, looking forward to study a Master in Teaching in order to apply to a teacher position in Spain. Which I, having account of the current unemployment rates, will get somewhere between 2023 and 2080. Any of you has a job for me? I can speak Galician, Spanish and a language that is somewhat similar to actual English. I can cook an average to slightly appetizing meal, perform simple household jobs and etc.

Market gardener. I used to be an artist who gardened on the side and now I am a gardener who makes art on the side. I think market gardener is another way of saying very small scale farmer without being mistaken for (or subject to ridicule by) real farmers with hundreds of acres, an army of rigs, a big gorgeous barn with a cupola the size of my chicken coop and a chicken coop the size of my barn. I grow garlic bulbs for planting, herbs, hot peppers, and various perennial flowers. No tube roses. I also grow tobacco for my own use. Still learning how to cure it properly.

I’m a water treasure hunter who looks for lost gold and treasures at beaches located in the USA, Caribbean and Europe.

I’m a water treasure hunter who looks for lost gold and treasures at beaches located in the USA, Caribbean and Europe.

Hmm. That looks like the jetty just down the street from me at Sesuit Beach. But I guess all jetties look pretty similar.

I was an engineer in Telecoms and Manufacturing. Now I’m sent on a governemnt sheme where a girl 20 years younger tells me that I need to “change your attitude”, so that I may learn to love the idea of getting a job in the local KFC. I had suggested brainwashing. Maybe suicide would also be applicable? She pisses me off. I said I wouldn’t be the most suitable person to which she replies “but you could be”. In a weeks time I have to attend a course called 3G Mindset in order I presume to prepare me for that glorious day when I can have access to that pantheon of chicken fat. I like to eat it occasionally but I bet all the people who work there for long are on the verge of vomiting just being around the stuff like the time i worked in a potato chip factory and had to get inside a frier the size of a small swimming pool and using a paint scraper scrape the congealed fat off the inside. From that moment I could never eat another one of the crisps and I had really liked them previoulsy. Ok my attitiude towards this does stink but is that wrong? On the other hand where I live there aren’t many better jobs currently. It almost seems like one of those strange science fiction movies come true. Next they’ll be rolling out The hunger Games!

Hmm. That looks like the jetty just down the street from me at Sesuit Beach. But I guess all jetties look pretty similar.

I guess they do. I would have sworn that was Manomet beach near where I lived in Plymouth, MA I never saw anyone do anything quite that interesting on Manomet beach though

I run a small business which advises other small (and medium) business on employment law and HR issues.

Engineer, oil & gas.

Hmm. That looks like the jetty just down the street from me at Sesuit Beach. But I guess all jetties look pretty similar.

I guess they do. I would have sworn that was Manomet beach near where I lived in Plymouth, MA I never saw anyone do anything quite that interesting on Manomet beach though

Hey, we’re almost neighbors. Now I almost know another person who is into snuff.

@mouse photo was taken in the cold north east about 280 miles south west of your location in rockaway ny Yes most jettys do look similar.

Hmm. That looks like the jetty just down the street from me at Sesuit Beach. But I guess all jetties look pretty similar.

I guess they do. I would have sworn that was Manomet beach near where I lived in Plymouth, MA I never saw anyone do anything quite that interesting on Manomet beach though

Hey, we’re almost neighbors. Now I almost know another person who is into snuff.

We were almost neighbors. Too bad I didn’t know about you. I just moved West Virginia this summer. I grew up in Boston and spent every summer of my life on that beach until I moved there ten years ago. I think you mentioned Leavitt & Peirce in a thread recently. I used to go there and bliss out on the smell of the pipe tobaccos before I was old enough to buy them. I loved that place.

mechanic, light vehicles.

Variety is the spice of life (and snuff it seems). Awesome

Keyboard crusher / office monkey in a vessel supplier company.

Propaganda specialist.

Okay… stay with me on this one… I’ve been a Graphic Artist for 18 years but a few years ago I took over the CNC Router department at my work because I was doing most of the setup drawings and 3D stuff anyway. I’m pretty much my own boss which explains why I’m on here during business hours. About 10 years ago I did a tattoo apprenticeship and have been a tattoo artist for about 8 years now. I worked at a shop for 5 years and lost the love affair with “shop” work thanks to T.V. shows like Miami Ink and all that other crap. Now I just do custom work and sub at a few shops from time to time. I also consider myself an amature writer and recently self-published my first “short story” but I’ve had different stuff published in magazines and on the web for a few years now.

Master craftsman for 13 years until my back gave out, now master electrician for last 13 years. Now my hips are going out but sticking to it to pay the bills. Maybe in a few years when my house is paid for I will take up my old hobby of working on hot rods and maybe become a snuff blender.

Oh, a bit o’ this 'n that. My life could make an interesting read, but I’d have to tell the truth, name names, maybe even open cold cases, I dunno, but I don’t like making enemies or creating drama. And I shall pretend I was never in the armed forces. I’ll omit a lot. 1992-2003 I lived in NYC, and toward the end had a major one-two punch dealing with cancer treatment and then witnessing the World Trade Center collapse. I’d been a librarian at one of the nation’s great ivy league libraries, at Columbia University (wonderful job, great benefits package). For a variety of reasons I left the city and consequently burned a lot of bridges. When I was young, my (rather anarchistic) dream was to be abundantly creative and give my art to the world without commodifying it. Wasn’t possible at the time, and I let the dream die little by little as I went through 8 years of college, got jobs etc. After 2001 I saw how short life could be, and reignited my dreams. I started a music label which sold some frankly rather fringe and experimental stuff, thus not too profitable, and eventually realized that people could download from the internet, which saves on CD manufacture costs, so I made the music “free” and helped the modern netlabel scene grow. My library career seemed to be a heap of smoking ruins, so I turned to antiquarian book dealership, also over the internet, and this permitted some degree of frugal independence and the time to work on my music label. The success of the label propelled my own recordings to attract 10s of thousands of listeners and get some radio play, but that 15 minutes (well actually 10 years) of fame has since peaked and declined. I may reinvent, find a new platform and gain a second wind, but at this stage of my life I feel more reclusive and outdoorsy, and I might just let it all go. My teens to 30s had enough excitement that I could be perfectly happy now just sitting in a rocking chair, puffing a pipe and staring at clouds all day.

I own half of and operate a saw mill, pallet mill, firewood mill and some trucking businesses. Though I just stick to the wood side, no driving for me.

I am on disability. In the past I was: A Software Engineer (QA), Worked at the US State Dept., Independent Consultant, Technical Writer, Proof Reader.

I am a medical marijuana caregiver in CO.

I work in engineering (steel industry), and have done since leaving school. That’s what’s always paid the bills but I’ve done a lot of unpaid stuff too. I ran a boatyard for 12 years, I co-ran a stage society for 8 years, and I studied hypnopsychotherapy for a couple of years. However, I ditched all the peripheral stuff when having more than one “occupation” took it out on my health. Thankfully the psych stuff I’d learnt allowed me to carve out a path to recovery. Then I ended up running a start up engineering business at the expense of all other life aspects, and put myself back in the sick bed again. I’m now still working (different role) but recovering from many years of excessive stress, and deciding how to bring other aspects back into my life without all the stress related illness that came with it.

Currently disabled but plan on fishing and different target practice with sharp objects, and projectiles. Also some disc golf for exercise.Plant a small garden. Woodworking small projects. And of course enjoying tobacco in most forms

Not quite as exciting as most on here, but I do QC, inventory, and statistics for a contract manufacturing plant specializing in cat litter, blended absorbants, animal bedding, and heat pellets. Despite being there a couple years, I still hold the job through a local temp service. I live frugally, and tobacco is my only real hobby. I support my family, and raising my two kids is what makes everything worth it. I am no treasure hunter, software engineer, or business owner, but I am a reformed three-time felon, a proud example of determination. My status may not look lije much, but considering I was homeless just 3 years ago, my life now is nothing short of miraculous, and I wouldn’t have it any other way Oh,and my next goal is to save up enough money to go back to school so I can earn my CADC. I would like to work with other addicts like myself. I already do this on a volunteer basis, would love to make a career of it!

Way to go @Hitsuzen. Keep it up.

@Hitsuzen Stay Strong ! Congratulations on your determination to succeed ! =D> =D> =D>

@Mouse @perique Wow, thank you!

I am a Podiatrist turned Yoga teacher who is currently on long term sick leave. I am currently focusing on looking after my 3 kids ( 1 of whom is disabled) & hubby, and trying to get better.

Was a farm hand from 10 to 22 years old, still do farm work, minor landscaping, eBay sales, cut firewood, supply walking cane factories with canes, demolition, and aanything else that comes my way. Although my body is starting to fall apart at 25, I cwnt bring myself to trade in my strenuous jobs for counter/desk jobs. Hard labor is all i know and it makes me feel proud at the end of the day.

@we must be related somehow! I’m 26 and own some saw mills. It’s hard work, but I enjoy it. From your carvings though you are much more artistic than me. I’m more mechanical having to fix gang and bandsaws. You should see our head saws, they’re huge at 6 feet diameter a piece. We also have a firewood business

@hgrissom my family used to own a sawmill and I helped build my first house at 13. And been selling firewood since before then.

@we must be related somehow! I’m 26 and own some saw mills. It’s hard work, but I enjoy it. From your carvings though you are much more artistic than me. I’m more mechanical having to fix gang and bandsaws. You should see our head saws, they’re huge at 6 feet diameter a piece. We also have a firewood business

Got some pictures?

@mouse Of the mill? Not on my phone. If you want to see the firewood business it’s mrtommysfirewood.com it’s sold all over the piedmont of nc.also has a picture of my family and my first son if I remember correctly. Haven’t been on it in a while, my wife runs the business side of the firewood and I stick with production in all the businesses. @wanderingwoodsmith that’s awesome. You do some pretty awesome carvings by the way. Been impressed by them on here

@hgrissom thank you! I am just a novice, only been carving for about 4 months. I take up hobbies constantly, just to figure out if i have what it takes. Then i move on to the next thing that interests me, while still taking part in past hobbies from time to time.

@wanderingwoodsmith better than me. I’m not artistic at all. My wife says I have a mind as mechanical as my work. If it can’t be analyzed, categorized, I have a lot of trouble. I’m too detail oriented to make something artistic because I analyze it to death. Now if you want me to build you something to do a job I’m there lol

@hgrissom I’m not much of a mechanic in a general sense, but I have that problem where if I need to figure anything out all these images and blueprints pop in my mind, like the wikipedia of everything,but in my brain. It reminds me of Sherlocks “Mind palace”. One day I got bored and wondered how a bouncing betty grenade could be made. So I mentally deconstructed every mechanical action that it required and built a very practical bouncing betty grenade than could be built for around 30.00 dollars with easily obtainable items lol. A lot of my ideas remain as highly detailed thought forms. I am lacking on the physical creation department.

@wanderingwoodsmith yea, I’m the same way with the mind but I can usually build it too. It’s not all that great though, it just gets you busted knuckles. I also like electricity, but that scares my wife pretty badly so I try to minimize my time with it outside of work

@hgrissom I’m sure we could engineer some interesting things lol If I ever kick off my carving hobby, I might turn it into part of my career.

@wanderingwoodsmith lol sounds good man, good luck with it

@mouse Of the mill? Not on my phone. If you want to see the firewood business it’s mrtommysfirewood.com it’s sold all over the piedmont of nc.also has a picture of my family and my first son if I remember correctly. Haven’t been on it in a while, my wife runs the business side of the firewood and I stick with production in all the businesses.

Thanks. Yeah I wanted to see the 6’ head saws. My first love is mechanical things. I liked the pictures of the cordwood saw and splitter though. Often wondered, after cutting and splitting a 1/2 cord how firewood could be sold so inexpensively. How many cords can that setup process in an hour?

@mouse unfortunately I don’t think in cords for our business, it is all done by the pallet. I will tell you that our record for one day of splitting (10 hrs) is 72 1/2 pallets (a pallet being 75 bundles). We have 5 people wrapping at a time and one running the splitter. We also have one in a knuckleboom to load the log deck. As it stands now for someone to pick up a bundle here I think it’s $2.40 (wife may correct me on that) and price goes up for delivery on how far away you are. We do the Whole Foods in the area, the Macaroni Grills, Almost all of the Circle K and 7-11 gas stations from Columbia, SC up through the Raleigh, NC area. We also work with MDI out of Hickory and they put our firewood into Lowes Foods and some independent grocers. A cool thing we did one time is a guy from Saudi Arabia ordered a shipping container of firewood with his own custom labels in Arabic. Apparently firewood is hard to come by there, but that blew me away

Anglican Priest working as a Prison Chaplain

Currently on work experience as employer engagement at a job centre. If anyone can offer me a job that isn’t such a pain in the ass let me know haha

Bank employee

Bank employee

Welcome to the club! At least you probably give money back to some people instead of just take it all away from them. #:-S

I’m a sales representative for a small medical device company.

I’m newish around here and just found this thread. I’m a System Engineer/ Network Admin by training. Recently, I chose to shift directions. I currently am employed as a dairy hand and cheese maker at a local dairy. I get to be outside part of the day and am working as part of the team moving us forward with making true aged cheeses. Bonus Points: Free cheese and I work with baby goats. The ladies love baby goats!

I showed up late to this thread, but I’ve enjoyed learning a bit about my fellow snuff people (since people in my life think snuff is weird - smokers, dippers and all).  It’s nice to come to this website to read and post about snuff.  I finally got a friend to try some last night.  He first had Toque USA Whiskey & Honey, and said it smelled like fish food!  I was like, I do have snuff that smells like fish food… but that isn’t one.  Then he had Kailash and liked that one better.  His reactions were pretty funny.  Anyway…

I was a Uhaul worker and drum teacher/player.  Now I am a nurse aid at a rugged nursing home and am going to nursing school.  Just wrapped up summer classes and made the dean’s list.  Got my fancy grades and my fancy snuff - life is good.

I worked for the Sheriff’s department as a supervising officer in the main county jail until working the graveyard shift and horrendous overtime started making me ill. Now I am doing small job home repairs- minor carpentry, masonry, painting, landscaping, etc… And going back to school for welding, with dreams of my own fabrication/repair shop.

I’ve done many jobs along my path in life  … from flipping burgers to System & Application Administrator.   I owned a small personal computer company (in the early 90’s) and have done general handyman work for several real estate firms.    I’m currently a warehouse manager for a hi-tech company.   

Retired. I do what I want. only problem is low budjet. Limited to being local .My old house keeps me busy. there are many projects that need finishing.I was always busy doing other peoples home improvements. and when I got home that was the last thing I wanted to do.Weekends all the yard chores in the warm months, Neglected house cleaning in the colder months.Now I find there isn’t enough hours in the day. 

Former Royal Marine turned groundsman. I tried working inside at an estate agents and lasted a month! I now work all over south west UK.

I am a NACE certified Cathodic Technician for a major Petroleum pipeline. My territory spans the States of North Carolina and Virginia. I use dead chickens, a few voodoo spell, and one hell of a secret Hillbilly dance to trick the forces of nature not to corrode carbon steel pipelines buried deep within the earth.

Banjo777 - I would’ve thought that the use of a 5-string would be on the top of your list of anti-corrosion strategies.  

@SeanOCDPx Hillbillys can’t dance lessen the Banjo be singin!

I work at a credit union in the Kansas City Area.

Worked as a commercial carpenter and structural iron worker for about twelve years, then switched to the gas & oil patches as a horizontal directional driller for pipelines mostly for about eight till the last bust. Now I’m working for a state agency and thoroughly enjoying my 4-10 work weeks and my almost two year old daughter. Life is indeed good…

Today, at the age of 40, will be my first day of my return college. I find that my current job skills (heavy equipment operator/surface mining) are no longer in demand and I must learn a new set (hopefully, Medical Diagnostic Sonographer).  Wish me luck, I shall surely need it!

@Pennanngalan Good luck with college - that sounds like an interesting occupation

@Pennanngalan:  Good luck on the new adventures!     That is a very specialized field; will you be attending a regular college or some sort of trade school?

Radiology Tech is a prerequisite and I can get that through the local community college. If I make it through that course I will have to transfer to the one medical school in my state that offers the degree or the University that recently began to offer the degree as well. It will most likely be the university simply because it is located much closer to my home (and wife, and kids, and blah, blah… ) and living expenses will be much more manageable there. 

I am hoping to specialize in cardiology or pulmonary if I progress that far. 

@Pennannglan … Sounds good! All the best!

Thanks for the well-wishing fellas, this will be tough!

Messin’ around with huge industrial lasers. Great fun until they start to get huffy and need beating into submission - every half hour or so.

Currently (officially) Digital marketing for an information security awareness company. However its a small boat with around 10 staff so i take part in the other projects and products too.

Clean houses for retired people.

Snuff manufacturer and retired professor of (micro)biology, biotechnology and science education  

Environmental geologist, working in the soil and groundwater cleanup/hazmat/spills field.

And good onya, @Hitsuzen.

I am currently a criminalist working for the LAPD. Prior to that I was a field service engineer working on laser welders and markers for a Japan based company with a subsidiary in Southern California. And prior to that I was in the defense industry doing R and D on large solid state lasers.

I work in the Bakken oil field in North Dakota. I specialize in wellhead equipment installation and maintenance. Fun work, demanding hours but physically pretty easy for the most part.

I like how eclectic the group is here. I am a former telecom field tech, but due to company slow downs and everything changing from copper to fibre (no real need to maintence/repair once installed), time to go back to school and get retrained for a second career.

I spent most of my life in the hotel/restaurant business working my way up from dishwasher/dive on up through the ranks to executive chef, food and beverage director and general manager in hotels and resorts.  Got sick of that shit and detoured into the corporate executive chef/director of research and development for major food companies.

When my back gave out due to arthritis I sat on my ass feeling sorry for myself for a while when it dawned on me that all the snuff I was making for myself might be welcomed by the snuff community, so I started sending out samples.  Now I’m back to my “normal” self, working long hours, making snuff, coming up with new snuff concepts, filling tins and orders and generally having a great f____ng time.  

My creativity is back, which means I get up at Zero Dark Thirty, make coffee, head up to the mill to wake up Chloe the Maine Coon Guard Kitty and get down to whatever’s on the day’s agenda.  I ‘work’ about 12-14 hours a day, six days a week.  If it’s fun, it ain’t work. 

This is fun.  It ain’t work.  I’ve met some of the nicest, most interesting, and interested, people since this thing started.  It’s a f____ng hoot emailing folks from all walks of life, all over the world and all connected by the love and enjoyment that comes from shoving tobacco powder up our noses.  This is too fun to even mention the word “work” in the same paragraph.

@chefdaniel, your mention of Zero Dark Thirty reminded me of this really good coffee blend, highly recommended:
http://www.coffeebeandirect.com/roasted-coffee/signature-blends/0-dark-thirty-blend.html

and we all thank you for “having a great f____ng time”

Hi @Mouse  Happy New Year to you and Minnie.

There’s a pound of that coffee on its way to Tennessee…it sounds just like my cup of…coffee. If I like it as much as I think I will I’ll bump that order up to a five pound bag o’ beans; not a chance of it getting stale around here.

No thanks needed, having a great f____ng time is enough reward in itself.  I’m almost to the point that my f__k ups aren’t that bad, and when I get some more inventory built up I’ll make a big batch of WTF? snuff and send it out.  That last one was pretty good, and all the mid ribs in there made for a nice Vitamin N experience.  I’m so far behind now it won’t be coming out until spring, but should be worth the wait.

Cheers

I’m a college student studying environmental science.

Mortgage Broker in Albuquerque, NM

EMT by night, and run a woodshop by day. All walks of life indeed!!

I’ve been a carpenter since the mid 90’s and for the past 10 years I have been working doing scaffolding. I like this much better than drywall/ interior systems.

I work as a security guard at a big factory.

I’m an auto paint tech… Just a fancy way of saying I paint cars. Makes it seem more glorifying. Lol. Other than that I try to go fishing as much as I can.

Licensed electrical contractor. I am also working on a degree at the moment. Worked as an electronics tech in the 1990s. Work in residential, commercial and industrial electrical at the moment. Some days are clean and easy and some days I have to crawl around under a house or in an attic. 

Self Employed, I owned and operated a Fence Company for 35 years , I am now disabled & retired. G’Day

This was a great thread to read through … so much diversity!  I’ve been a Clinical Laboratory Scientist for 22 years now … started with test tubes and bunsen burners and now everything is robotics and software.  

I do computery things at a “major” “entertainment company”.  Oracle front-end administration, IT risk management, user management, etc.

I’m getting too old to carry on throwing steel around at the laser shop, so I’ve spent the last few months fitting out a spare room as a dental lab. How I went from a dental tech to a laser op in the first place is a long and sorry tale of woe but I’ve had my fill of the latter.

Currently I’m a nurse. I’ve also done a lot before.

So it has come to my attention that snufftakers tend to be very flexible in areas other than tobacco aswell. Ive never met so many people in one place, all of them doing a lot of different things. Imagine if we met up IRL and decided to work on some project; we would have engineers, managers, technicians and so on. Its simply amazing. Whats more amazing is that one person could take all of those positions!

Worked all my life in engineering, but also dabbled in some other interesting avenues. Now in my early 40’s I’ve been stricken with a spinal problem which has left me unable to work. I’m just starting on the medical voyage of discovery to uncover the full extent of the problem, and determine what lifestyle changes need making.

Good luck, 50ft_trad. I got hit with rheumatoid arthritis in 2008. Likely not as bad as what you are dealing with, but it almost did me in. A combination of pharmaceutical science and dietary changes helped me. Hang in there. You never know what tomorrow will bring. Maybe you can find a way to use your engineering in another way.

I’ve actually been working for a yacht building company for over a year now. We manufacture every part by hand except for the engines and such. If you have ever watched Wicked Tuna: OBX on Discovery Channel, the Fishin’ Frenzy is one of ours and Cliff who was helping the Hard Merchandise is one of my bosses.

I work for the post office. Its fun except when its 120 in the socal desert.

@Gunmedic Do you ever come across a package full of snuff? And if you do, do you perform quality control for the recipient? You know…just to make sure its good

I wish that was my job: Snuff quality control and testing

I live in the west side of Texas. Who can guess what I do?

@Llo- you are either in the military or a meth manufacturer and/or dealer.

@psicko that made me laugh, not that far west. Here is a hint. Guess which one.

Sorry, don’t know why it is upside down

horse oil?

Horse?

I have always kept and eye out for familiar British address we all know and love. So far the only person that I know of in city that orders directly from Toque is me. But I do live in a small city.

Business Consultant for a Fortune 50 in the US. Do I enjoy it, no. Does it pay the bills, indeed it does. Opening a Chiropractic Clinic in the next two years where the wife can work and I can, ummmmmmm, manage the business (i.e. snuff around town with my 120 lb. rhodesian ridgeback).

I’m a Chef at Ruth’s Chris in WaiKiki.part time and my other job is my garden job(hobby) which I love.Because I get to enjoy my fruits/herbs of my labor :D/ and make some “paperwork”($$) on the side. B-)

I work as an officemanager in a small company . We buy in bulk gas and electricity for companies and al the advice you can think of relating to gas and electricity.

I’ve been a carpenter for the past 20 or so years. For the past 10 of those years I have been a scaffold builder. I’m one of the guys you see 90’ in the air walking on a 9" piece of wood with 30lbs on my shoulder. Really my job is great, it definitely isn’t for everyone but I’ve got to work on lots of historic buildings, mostly in Philadelphia, and most times I work with a small crew and most jobs are less than a week. So my job is rarely boring. I used to work in a cabinet shop and I also do the various interior systems work like drywall, drop ceilings, ect. Building stuff is fun for me, there is no way I could sit in an office for 8hrs.

I work for the Army Research Laboratory receiving and sending email, documents, supplies, etc. Just general admin stuff.

Nothing and I am good at it =))

Today is the last day at my current job!   :D/

The new job starts Monday morning and we will be moving around the end of the month.

I’ll be in charge of the Blood Bank and Transfusion Services for a nearby hospital.

@cobguy nice!

@Cobguy nearby where?

I do house clearances, Removals, man and van stuff !

I’m a former History teacher, but for the last 20 years have lived on a ranch in Colorado, where we breed warmblood horses, have some goats, play guitar in a band, live way out in the country far away from suburbia. I’m originally from Orange County, but came to Colorado to visit, and ended up staying here.

@Llo Oil rig? *Edit I made this guess when I was back on page 4 by accident

I am studying Horticulture at the moment trying to get my licence to grow medical marijuana for cancer patients.

Worked as a laborer in the pallet industry for awhile when I was younger for some quick cash. I then had the wonderful opportunity to work as a Perfumer under a mentor for three and a half years, though the company was driven out of business by the larger conglomerates within the industry. Then I decided its time to knuckle down and study something else.

@Mrmanos fancy taking on a 22 year old fella from england with very similar interest? :D 

@Aamon it is an oil pumping unit. It is the final step after all of the numerous steps to get crude oil from the earth. My job is to make sure it continues to produce oil and not leak it on the ground. When storage tanks get full, I have to get it ready to be carried away to the purchaser and eventually to the refinery and to your transit system, plastic manufacturer or road construction. There are alot of logistics that go into it from the bigging to end product. The cows are hanging around and tends to tear things up until it is time for rancher to get his ending product to market. It is a great job working by myself everyday and being in nature with all the critters.

Here is a nice morning picture of my day.

One more photo to bore you with. This is your drilling rig.

@Llo It sounds like an interesting job. I’m very much the same I personally enjoy working in the outdoors and in nature. I couldn’t bare working in an office, that’s the main reason of my recent course in Horticulture

I plant a garden every year. But the bugs enjoy it more than I get to. If they ever legalize pot where I live, there won’t be anymore vegetables in my garden. LOL!

Great now the bugs get my spinach and terrorists get my pot:( No more gardening for me!

Supply chain manager for a hospital, and search and rescue when needed.

@Llo You mentioned plastic manufacturers, which is one of the important aspects of oil that the anti oil crowd conveniently forget. Our society would be in the early 19th Century without petroleum products.

http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm

law talkin’ guy, employed by a provincial government, constitutional law section.  in my secret life, I take snuff and record death country blues.

…that’s classified

I also have a “Green Thumb” and since I’m living in Hawaii growing is year-round all legal if u have a card and follow the rules. But my main profession is a Chef at a Ruth’s Chris in Waikiki Before Ruth’s Chris I was a Chef at Roy’s(fine dining).

@Hawaiian_Ryan I am  also looking to get a permit once Australia puts forth the legislation for medicinal cannabis to be grown within Australia. Hence the course in Horticulture, I would like to legally grow and help people that need it. The issue in Australia at the moment is medicinal permits are being given out to cancer patients and such, though there are no suppliers within Australia. The only option they have is to get a doctor to file all the necessary paperwork and apply for a permit then meet the regulations and buy a safe just to help a couple of patients, which is not happening at the moment. Give it a year and hopefully we can turn things around.

Writer, Vigilante 

What I “do” isn’t how I make money.

I make money working at a hotel, I take care of vacation rentals, I am a fishing guide, and I silversmith and do lapidary work.

I “do” events and underground art.  Much of my art is displayed illegally, but I have NEVER damaged any public or private property.  I did get in trouble for trespass once, but when I found out the dude liked cigars, a handful of Cuban Cohiba Lanchero’s made it all go away.  In fact, the dude is now a friend, and has helped me with other projects, including helping me hide a large broadcast antennae on his property.

I’d describe myself as a married, middle aged, open minded Christian Libertarian.

snuff peddler

Sage; one day just a memory

I make absorbents (oil dry, cat litter, and horse bedding) and nasal snuff.

Retired early.

Now fishing, growing vegetables,  flowers  and a beer gut.

@ArtChoo What kinds of veggies do you like to grow?

@Hitsuzen   A few carrots, salad and such but definitely nothing sniffable or smokeable.

@ArtChoo I grow peppers. Very, very hot ones. Definitely don’t want to smoke or snuff those!

The bugs got my garden last year so bad, not even doing one this year.

@Llo Bugs got us pretty bad, too. The strawberries, the kale, the beets. For some reason they didn’t touch my Carolina Reapers, though B-)

They got my ghost, jalapenos and New Mexin green chili. Chewed a hole in the tips and rotted the whole pepper out. Squash bugs killed every zucchini plant

Still unable to work due to health issues. Spinal problems have been confirmed, and I’m waiting to find out if the other issues are neural or cerebrovascular. However, being in my early 40’s, I am reluctant to consider the possibility that I’ll never be able to earn again. I decided to try my hand at creative writing. It’s about the only activity I can think of which works around my ailments and erratic sleep patterns. Six chapters into a novel, I realised that I have much to learn about this craft. Coming up with great ideas is one thing, but translating that into great writing is another issue altogether. I will persevere, and am determined to complete at least one half-decent book, even if it takes me three years to do so.

@50ft_trad   I remember a few years ago BBC Radio Four offering to send out information packs to would-be writers of short, twenty minute to half hour plays. Apparently they detailed how to lay out your play and set about planning it as well as writing in a format that was suitable for them to use, edit and such.

A play could be a lot quicker turnaround than writing a novel.

A word of caution though. I remember reading someplace that it is a wise precaution to deposit a dated, sealed and  witnessed copy in a bank safety deposit box.  It is good insurance in case somebody tries to steal your ideas.  Same for original music. There was a case recently of somebody sending a script off to one of the broadcasting companies, having it rejected and then watching the same story unfold about eighteen months later on the goggle box. Apparently written by one of the panel that looked at, and rejected the original script.

Not sure of the outcome.

A short play could give quicker returns for your efforts.

Cheers. 

@Hawiian_Ryan, Maine is now a free state! Looking to start my garden ASAP (12 mature plants is the legal Max). 

I pay the bills by working in IT for a school district. My sideline (besides computer consulting) is making custom pens and other lathe-turned items. 

Regards,

Michael

@ArtChoo Plays are more within my comfort zone, and I’ve done a lot of stage work over the years, including improv, sketchwriting, and modification of play and panto scripts. I’m going for the novel first, partially for the challenge, and partially for the education. A novel is the culmination of everything I don’t know about creative writing, not just in terms of writing style, but creating arcs, twists, and the other skill sets of story telling, particularly learning how to maintain the interest from cover to cover. Keeping an audience entertained for 90 minutes with a two act play is far less daunting than keeping a reader enthralled for 400+ pages. I think I’ll write better plays if I’ve successfully written a novel, because it will compliment my previous scriptwriting experience. Conversely, if I started with plays, I don’t think that would help much in making the leap to a novel. For now, the focus is more on learning the craft than on producing completed works.

I’m a Sterile Processing Manager at a hospital.

I am an information security analyst for a local business. So, next time you all want to try and gain unauthorized access into one of my DMZ and cause some trouble, just know that snuffiedoo is looking at you hahahah.

Software engineer. 

@yisraeldov - do you also have a PMP certificate as well?

@snuffiedoo Why would I need a project management certification ?

All of our software engineers have either one from PMI since they deal directly with projects and stakeholders

I guess it all depends on where you work though

@snuffiedoo no need for that. Here most people look at your performance and not certifications.

Structural/mechanical Draftsman working mostly on mining industry projects in Australia.

So I already mentioned above that I am a Developer/ Engineer.  Basically build web applications and such.

The project that I was working on just closed down so I am now looking for work, if any one hears anything please let me know.

In between one snuff and the other I am a Service & Transition Manager for an Italian company that provides Service Desk services for a well know international IT business firm and its clients.