How do catfish freaks earn a living?

JohnnyOscar · Post by **JohnnyOscar** » 14 Jan 2004, 23:17

I was wondering what the folks on planet catfish do for a living.

I'll start the ball rolling: I'm a freelance (i.e. unemployed) journalist. I've just finished working on Global Agenda, the magazine for the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 2004. I don't expect any interesting commissions for a while, but I'll be working on various business titles until something better comes along.

What do you do for a living?

Fiskars the Whiskers · Post by **Fiskars the Whiskers** » 14 Jan 2004, 23:31

I'm the service dispatcher at Tongass Business Center here in Ketchikan. We're an authorized Sharp machine dealer. If someone has a problem with their copier, printer, cash register, fax machine, etc. they call me and I dispatch a technician out to fix it! I also bill people for maintenance contracts on their machines. Not always exciting (my office is in the basement, which means no windows and not many people around

), but it pays the bills and pays for fish, so I can't complain!

PhilipAsh · Post by **PhilipAsh** » 14 Jan 2004, 23:38

I am an IT Manager for a engineering firm. Not really hands on that much now, more a strategic and developmental role. Always a challenge.

Phil.

MackIntheBox · Post by **MackIntheBox** » 15 Jan 2004, 00:37

I am customer service for Circuit City's Computer Extended warranties, I speak with angry people all day long ad attempt to help resolv their customer service and service issues. I am still constantly amazed at how angry people can get about their computer, lol

Fiskars the Whiskers · Post by **Fiskars the Whiskers** » 15 Jan 2004, 00:59

I am amazed at how angry people can get about their copier machines! *L* Especially when I get a service call and it turns out to be operator error and we have to charge them $95 an hour ($47.50 for half!) despite for the technician's time.

oneoddfish · Post by **oneoddfish** » 15 Jan 2004, 01:05

I work for a tropical fish wholesaler. I'm getting ready to start importing stuff my self. So anybody with any good catfish sources (exporters) please pm me there info.

Post by **Silurus** » 15 Jan 2004, 01:22

Grad student. A few years from now, most likely an unemployed ex-grad student.

Katman · Post by **Katman** » 15 Jan 2004, 03:06

H.H. Don't give up yet I can get you a job on a guppy farm if nothing else turns up.

Post by **Barbie** » 15 Jan 2004, 03:35

hehe Katman, I'm not sure, was that a threat?

Until recently I was a bookkeeper for an Environmental Consulting firm in Anchorage, Alaska. Now I'm an official bum that's in the process of starting a business to do tank maintenance.

Barbie

S. Allen · Post by **S. Allen** » 15 Jan 2004, 05:14

Travel agent... I think... my current job ended today... company's moving me over for a 5 week training on monday for something I have only the vaugest ideas about. I think it has to do with travel and possibly warlocks.

Fiskars the Whiskers · Post by **Fiskars the Whiskers** » 15 Jan 2004, 05:23

Warlocks...wow!

BK · Post by BK » 15 Jan 2004, 08:09

I'm a underfunded college student who does work study one hour a week (all i could get), good thing i'm good at budgeting my money.

I am customer service for Circuit City's Computer Extended warranties, I speak with angry people all day long ad attempt to help resolv their customer service and service issues. I am still constantly amazed at how angry people can get about their computer, lol

i've got a circuit city extended warranty on my p.o.s. compaq. my monitor stopped working, just quit. i knew that and already checked the plug, cord, and socket but the guy made me try all that stuff again on the phone. i understand the need for it due to computer illiterate people who call up with problems but its frustrating when you know whats wrong and you have to waste all that time.

Meganfitz · Post by **Meganfitz** » 15 Jan 2004, 17:17

I am currently a stay-at-home mom/fishkeeper, but am begging my LFS for a part-time job to help fund my hobby!

I think I'm wearing them down...

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 15 Jan 2004, 17:40

biology teacher at a highschool, so being into puberty for life is an asset!

pturley · Post by **pturley** » 15 Jan 2004, 19:11

Project Engineer at an injection molding company.

Though my degree was in Biology.

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 15 Jan 2004, 19:22

HI!

I am a secretary in a clinical laboratory... but not for long...be going back in school to become a nurse... and BTW, I ain't a girl despit my job and futur job might make you think...

lol
Cheers
Yann

biomechmonster · Post by **biomechmonster** » 15 Jan 2004, 21:11

College student, fiction writing major and taste-tester for Jack Daniels. I also work at my school and work at the renaissance faire in Bristol, WI in the summers as a wench.

I'm supposed to graduate this spring but not sure what I'd like to do with my writing major after college.....

tiffnseve · Post by **tiffnseve** » 15 Jan 2004, 21:24

I'm a freelance illustrator and caricaturist. I work a couple days a week at the Mall of America drawing and airbrushing goofy pictures of people. I've been trying to find a graphic design gig since thats what I went to school for, but I haven't had any luck. Yes, I do do caricatures of pets, even fish. No, I don't give everyone huge noses. I also rent out apartments for my apartment complex on a part time basis. It pays the rent. I raise guppies to trade in for cool fish at my lfs. So far that how I've gotten two sailfins, a black ghost knife fish, and a bristlenose.
So I guess, I'm an artist, apartment renter outer, and amateur guppy breeder. Plus I'm a Mom.

RogerMcAllen · Post by **RogerMcAllen** » 16 Jan 2004, 01:16

I work as a construction laborer during breaks from school. I'm in for chem now, not sure what to do with it.

kwalker · Post by **kwalker** » 16 Jan 2004, 02:01

ok i'm a medical supply rep that sell's equipment,disposable supplies and drugs to physician office's. i am in a sense the doctor's dope man.

ken

Taratron · Post by **Taratron** » 16 Jan 2004, 07:17

Write part-time for ECHO magazine.....also an employee at the Wildlife World Zoo in Glendale, AZ....a part-time student, major is biology.....and I work at a call center. Making reservations for people who need a hotel room tonight, 7-4, beachfront, for under $50 a night.

And I breed reptiles.

spiny · Post by **spiny** » 16 Jan 2004, 08:36

I work in the security business, for a large international company. I used to be the leader of the companys labour union in Norway. Since moving to Sweden in august, I do security work with the aim to prevent criminal and terrorist attacks against airplanes etc.

Somewhere in the future I want to work with my hobby.

kdreymann · Post by **kdreymann** » 16 Jan 2004, 16:10

I am a biology teacher and a rock'n'roll-guitar-player

Klaus

S. Allen · Post by **S. Allen** » 16 Jan 2004, 23:35

Taratron, where do you work on reservations, if you don't mind me asking? I spent the last 9 months working for Lodging.com.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 16 Jan 2004, 23:42

I'm a senior product manager for http://www.anite.com; specifically I look after developing,implementing and supporting legal software in the Scottish marketplace. Court proceedings, fines, speed cameras, parking tickets, dog crap offences all that good stuff. Been doing that since I left Uni in 1993!

Jools

mokmu · Post by **mokmu** » 17 Jan 2004, 13:27

Used to be a product manager for Apple computer products, Microtek scanners and Wacom digitizing tablets. Recently moved into the travel industry just this December. I now work as the travel manager for AIG in the country. I promote, market and move travel insurance through different channels like travel agencies, brokers and other channels. Not much different from what used to do. Only the product is different.

Funny, my background is into food, I even worked in some hotels and restaurants way back. I finished Restaurant & Hotel Management from our State University back in 91.

Regards,
Mike D.

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 17 Jan 2004, 15:36

I am Aquarium Development Officer for a small Public Aquarium within a larger Museum institution here in Bolton, a large town in the NW of England.
In other words, I get paid to BS about fish!

Bolton is also home to the largest aquarium retailer in the UK, a superb fish market, and one of the finest football teams around. It is also only less than 20 minutes drive from where the CSG functions are held.
Could be worse I suppose....

doctorzeb · Post by **doctorzeb** » 17 Jan 2004, 16:09

Civil & Environmental Engineer, but just set up Quality, ENvironmental and Engineering Consultancy. Lots of fun things like, Quality / Environmental Auditing, and Project Management.

Oh, yeah, and if there is anyone out there in the UK with ISO 9001:2000, or 14001, I'm offering free audits at present, (so you don't need to pay anyone for internal audits),. (PLUG)

rob

matpreec · Post by **matpreec** » 18 Jan 2004, 13:10

im a self employed Garden Designer (cant wait to get my own place so i can start big scale aquascaping projects). I also lecture on Garden Design and Biodiversity at a college in London and work for The National Trust as a Historic Garden Development Advisor... Phew!

Taratron · Post by **Taratron** » 20 Jan 2004, 06:12

S Allen, I work for BestWestern call centers; we only do BW hotels.