Full time dad to a 2 year old that loves causing some trouble, Post Production Engineer at WWE, music is my passion/hobby.
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Fulltime metalworker, cutting all kinds of sheet metal with a Trumpf laser machine.
From 1 mm to 20mm stainless, steel and alloy.
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A lot of amazing stories here. Full-time drug and alcohol/mental health counselor, part-time semi-pro musician.
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Teacher in history and geography.
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I studied film sound design in the Finnish film school, but I work as a sound mixer or boom op on shoots. Currently Iām the boom guy on a police drama, day ~20 of 90 going. Nice work, decent pay, but the hours are not nice.
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Art student and academie student doing this for as long as I remember, love doing it and it became a way of life, giving a really unsure person a self image and taught me that I could be good at something if i practiced and really wanted to.
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Part time bassist/singer in a dreampop band
Part time barista
Part time Spanish-English translator
Lots of free time for bleeps and bloops, gigs, food.
Life is pretty fun right now!
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3 days a week I sell pipes and pipe accesoriesā¦ For tobacco use only!
I teach bass at a local guitar shop and have a few upright students at home as well. (Uprights are too big to have two of 'em in the lesson rooms at the shop)
And then I am basically a full time bassist after that. Gigging 2-4 times weekly with just about the exact same amount of rehearsals. I studied bass performance in college.
I also hoard all sorts of synthesizersā¦ Waitā¦ āHoardā sound so badā¦
Iāll try that again: I spend all my money purchasing new synthesizers for my synth nursery where I take tender care of my electronic buddies and run sonic experiments into the night.
Iāll submit this link for proof of said giggery:
And lastly, I also hand out unsolicited advice, so hereās a piece of that:
Keep dreaming of whatever you want to do. If I am paying my bills with a bass, I promise YOU can do whatever you want!!
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Hahahaha synth nursery!!! Thatās clever! I may borrow that as a hashtag when I do my monthly machine cleaning
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I used to make a living doing mediocre audio work and music for commercials, theatric plays, stuff like that. Not having a steady income and constant economic worries wore me down in the end, and I quit doing music and got a degree as an electronics engineer instead.
I work as a software developer. I thought my love for making music was dead for good. But some years ago, my wife started making electronic music, so eventually I joined her on what I had left of my old gear. That quickly escalated. Now we spend quite a lot of time on our music, and we always have a great time doing so!
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Wow so many different and interesting things 
My income for bleepy machines with flashing lights ( oh and food and roof and such boring things ) is provided by driving trains. Pretty uncool but ā¦ flashing lights!!! Beeps!!! I mustā¦ haveā¦ itā¦!!!
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Iām Matt.
I live in Australia, and mostly make money from being an audio-visual technician, like a few people here.
I also try my best to be an artist in my spare time, and Iām currently doing a research Masters degree in digital arts, and I should really be working on my thesis right now. Iām so close to finishing it hurts.
Itās all about satellites, the international space station, orbital perspective and software-based Live AV. Iām making a project that goes along with it and you can see a few test shots I shot in a gallery here: http://prgrms.net/exhibit/aeon-v1-0/
Live AV is really where I hope to have any form of mild success with my stuff, and the Elektron gear is very much bound up in what Iām composing for this piece at the mo. Hopefully next year once the thesis is done I can really get stuck back into the project and tie it off and hopefully pitch it to some festivals and stuff.
Otherwise I just generally like hanging with my mates and having a few beers, going to media arts exhibitions, gigs, and camping festivals and stuff like that. Canāt complain!
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Why uncool?
Seems like work where you can see beautiful landscapes and hear wonderull machine noisesā¦ and do something that really helps people.
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I am a university teacher in psychology, but to be honest, i am looking for some new direction. After 7 years of teaching, it is time to go into the wild againā¦ maybe as an entrepreneur (behavioral change and healthy food), maybe as a technical manual writer, or maybe some interesting research.
I also feel the need to sell everything and live with almost nothing for free for a while.
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Iām from germany/bavaria, working at a university in a department for plant sciences. Greets to you all, the thread is very interesting.
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Manager in a very large software company. Between that and my family, music sometimes is the only thing that keeps me sane.
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You would be my daughterās hero so not so shabby!
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Haha!! Well it seems in the UK that train drivers not a cool job in peoples eyes!! Except for kids - they love it :))
I drive a metro train so theres not many beautiful landscapes, but i do have a lot of open section at either end and yeah it can be quite beautiful at twilight and such. I either start at 04:45 in the morning or finish at 01:30 so it can be amzing at those extremes of the day. Plus it is sample rich up in my cab
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What an interesting thread!
Engineering geologist here. Run around the Scottish countryside fixing landslides and investigating the soil and rock on which we build our roads and bridges. It has its moments.
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Iām a stay at home dad!
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