What do you do for a living?

Web designer & developer here. That's sort of engineery?

Interesting question and perspective. I would think it might be high. Often engineers and accountants do not interact a lot with people at work versus the amount of time they spend on their immediate tasks. Which means they are task-oriented professions. To that we may want to add computer programmers, auto technicians or almost any technician to the list. Task oriented people are probably more likely to analyze, tinker, adjust, and modify things.

But I am sure we have a lot of people-oriented members too. That is what makes this place such a treat, so many different kinds of people.

Mostly nothing for the last 6 months. By choice. :-)

The job that no one can define. Business Analyst.

In truth I translate ideas from the business into processes and frameworks that our tech guys can work with to create solutions to business problems.

It is no surprise then, that I too am a task oriented professional. :)

K

Guilty as charged. I was an accountant, but am now retired.

Project Manager

Geologist (or Earth Scientist in the new terminology)

Partner in a Commercial Finance company.

Materials Engineer for a large food company. I select films that keep keep oxygen and moisture out of packages.

I'm a grad student in mechanical engineering.

Interesting idea though. I believe I read in the interviews of cottage industry people in the blog "Hiking in Finland" that several of the major cottage companies were started by engineers including: Gossamer Gear, Six Moon Designs, Bear Paw, Trail Designs, Alpinlite Gear, and Revelate Designs. Those are all the ones I could find.

I'm a long-time perfesser and Inglich teacher and writer at a smallish liberal-arts university. I also run their astronomical observatory and sweep up afterward. I think the only thing we have in common is that we like to walk.

Stargazer

Right now I'm doing Geology work at a gold mine way up in the arctic circle (I can see the Northwest passage from where I work). My actual schooling is more environmental science/biology focused and I'll likely be working in that field in another year or so, but right now I'm having a hard time saying no to the money and because the 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off work schedule gives me lots of time off for hiking/outdoor rec.

Right now I'm sitting at the airport to take the first of four flights that will eventually land me at the mining camp for another 3 weeks of 12 hour days.

Part-time metaphysician and founder of a home for unwed engineers.

–B.G.–

Forgot to add mine.

Started as an auto technician.

Currently I am a gopher of sorts.

But in my spare time I manage field consultants and projects for automotive OEMs, instructional designer, software application designer, and a trainer for all of the above.

My team of gophers are the best in the company.

Accountant, guilty…

Freelance dancer (artistic not exotic) and videographer. I supplement income working at, wait for it… REI.

Dan,

Out of curiosity, does your wife/significant other (I can't remember from your Yosemite report) live with you up on the top of the globe?

Industrial Engineering student

Sell wine

Stunt "Weenie" on adult film sets.

You will never see my face, but you have seen me and you will remember me.

run a mouse and run my mouth

Own a software consulting company with a couple other guys. Blessed to have some of the best employees in the world work with me.

Yeah accountant/CPA by trade.

Brad Fisher

National IT Helpdesk Manager, former Wide Area Network Engineer.

"Stunt "Weenie" on adult film sets.

You will never see my face, but you have seen me and you will remember me."

Shouldn't you change your name then to Tony Wang?