Avocations and Occupations?

[David Whatley]

The Captn Tom thread got me to thinking, so folks what are some of your Occupations and Advocations

Occupations
19 yrs old Ran a studio for a Master Photographer, couldnt make any money then either.
21 Founded a courier business I sold in 1994, still going today
20 Real Estate Broker License
Bought, rehabed over 100 residential properties
42, Started a specialty sewing business, had for 7 years, and shipped 700,000 units to Walmart the last year.
48 Real Estate Software.

Avocations
Bass Fishing, 3 tounament circuits
Alcoholic, 30 years, professional drinker
3.5 years soberity.

[groovyone]

That's a tough list to compete with, David! Very impressive.

[bondarnes]

A ton of various jobs in high school and college.
20 Cameraman at Garland newspaper
21 corporate job with Zales.
24 back to finish college worked for newspapers to pay the bills
26 worked in a camera store and started a photography business
27 graduated college and pursued my avocation of professional photography, while pretending to look for a real job.
65 gave up finding a real job.

[toverman]

I'm not going to compete, but I'll play:

15 McMopper
18 Grocery store produce clerk
22 Reporter/photographer/assistant editor for small daily newspaper
23.5 Copy editor for slightly larger daily newspaper
24 Assistant editor for small section in big daily newspaper
25 Sports copy editor for that same big daily newspaper
26 Advertising copy writer/copy chief for large department store
29 Daddy!
30 Editor of small weekly newspaper
33 Daddy again!
34.5 Quit job for ethical reasons, landed contract job with city where weekly paper is; more time to focus on photography business
36 Seeking full-time work amid a sea of other recovering journalists, lather, rinse, repeat

[Rson]

13-15 Ref'd Soccar games for little kids (to answer all the parents questions, yes your kid really does suck and the only reason he is playing now is because of the affirmative action for kids that suck, maybe he should try chess)
15-17 Worked at Kroger as a peon and learned that when Muratic Acid spills, it eats the floor and makes a nice haze throughout the store
18-20 Name a restaurant....Waiter.
19 got my first copy of Photoshop
21 Att Wireless Sales
21-23 Circuit City learned that retail sucks
22 Started building computers and training morons to use them
23-35 Enterprise sales

Photography was started somewhere between diapering and the teenage years.

[crackhead]

Advocations?

[David Whatley]

Originally Posted by crackhead

Advocations?

av·o·ca·tion (v-kshn)
n.
1. An activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment; a hobby.
2. One's regular work or profession.
3. Archaic A distraction or diversion.

[Tom]

15 years old - started landscaping/mulching company with friend. Ran it for 4 years.
18 years old - newspaper. Writer, photographer, editor, deliverer, radio voice (2 min radio news update every day) Did all that for 5 years
18-24 - College Student
21 years old - taught broadcast journalism lab - 2 years
21 years old - barista for 2 years
24 years old - sales rep. Worked for a Fortune 400 company for 2 years. Bought a digital camera when I was 25 to start shooting for fun.
26 years old - card player. Played mainly gin and poker for money, which supported my crummy photography skills. About 2 years.
28 years old - full-time photographer.
29 years old - husband

Advocations:
Was a semi-finalist in the National Championship of both Euchre and Hearts at age 19. Tournament sponsored by Lipton and Bicycle. Got an all-expense paid trip to Orlando for a week to play and lose horribly in the NC. Won my first hearts tournament at age 9 against a field of 16, all of which were at least double my age.

Soccer - won the state championship my senior year in HS and played a year in college. I was All-State Hon Mention and defensive MVP of the state championship game. Still sporadically play in rec leagues in Houston.
Baseball - was captain of HS varsity team. We sucked hard and didn't win anything, but I still hold a handful of district records, including the coveted hit by pitch record.

[birdwatcher48]

16-cashier pizza place, seafood place, ice cream place 2 years
19-data entry clerk oil and gas information company
39-data entry oil and gas co.
41-remodeling business-cleaned, delivery driver
42-firewatch - oil and gas refineries
44-ran tool trailer - oil and gas refineries
48-still running tool trailers, firewatching
Avocations-
fishing whenever possible
camping now and then
boating while camping and fishing
bowling (lol) spare time
photography (very recent)
xbox
playing with my kids (2 dogs) lol
hope I answered this correctly...

[epoh]

Wow, I'm young, and also boring, apparently.

16 - started work in IT.
Today - still working in IT w/a photography business on the side.

Avocations -
video games
sleeping

Such a sad list.

[HeatherLou]

13-Babysitter
14-Cashier in a truck stop in Cali.
15-Root Beer Drive Inn
17-Grocery Store
15-18 Theatre Major in HS, (who needs geometry anyway:)
19-21 College Theatre Major (18 Credit Hours, Worked in Scene Shop, grocery store)
19-22 DJ for Complete Music
22 MOVED TO TEXAS and MET JEFF!!!!
22-24 Wal-Mart
24 Section Hand Steak House (Yummy)
25 Secretary for Social Worker. Also Babysat parents who couldn't be alone with there kids.
26 Became a Wifey and Wal-Mart Portrait Studio
31 Kiddie Kandids
32 Hampton Inn front desk (Found TPF)
33 Opened Nix Pix Studios
34 Shady Oaks RV Park (Ya, its an RV park)
34 Changed Nix Pix Studios to Heather Nix Photography, cuz no one could spell it right!
35 Became a full time Aunt Heather!

[bondarnes]

Originally Posted by Heatherlou

....................... 35 Became a full time Aunt Heather!

Looks like you saved the best for last!!

[tukaniray]

Cool ...

I'll share.

age 16 - 1st job as a bus boy for my mother's restaurant.
age 16 - 20: Office Max, Best Buy, Circuit City, Door to Door Sales, Old Navy, Barnes & Nobles, Office Depot, Boston Market and On the Border. ...
age 18 - 24: Full Time Student
age 22: Intern at Fox Sports - Logged tapes ... what joy.
age 23: Intern at NBC - actually got to touch an editing machine ... woot.
age 24: Worked for a company that did Live Event Staging ... worked the stage design and as a Beta SP / Digi-Beta Cam Operator and Technical Director.
age 24-26: Worked for Apple Corporate in Cupertino ... TONS O FUN ... but felt I was missing something.
age 25: Produced a Video Production group called SD-TV ... webTV ... still online by the way ... Home if you are wondering ... we sold it to someone else ... doesn't seem to be moving now.
age 26: Got Married ... aww ... also started working in the Oil and Gas biz as a Freelance Photographer and Video Production Editor (Commercials / Safety videos)
age 27: Became part of the Full Staff of the Oil and Gas video contractors.
age 28: Today ... now aiming at photography more than video ... and bettering myself.

Advocations:
um ... Well ... I played Basketball and Baseball from HS to my early years in College.
Played Jazz Music (Sax Player) in Louisiana with some friends over a summer ... we made a total of 200 bucks together ... and HAD A BLAST
Family lives all over the world ... so I travel alot.
In my spare time ... hang with the wife and work on graphics for new ideas ... ...

-Ray-

[crackhead]

ad·vo·ca·tion
   /ˌædvəˈkeɪʃən/ Show Spelled[ad-vuh-key-shuhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.
Scots Law. the action of a superior court in calling before itself or reviewing an action originally brought before an inferior court.
2.
Obsolete.
a.
advocacy.
b.
the act of summoning.

[Westx]

13 mowed lawns
15 school janitor
16 cook Underwoods BBQ and Fried Chicken
17 sheet rocker
18 Fry Cook
20 US Air Force for 20 years 6 months 13 days
40 Water Systems Operator

Advocations
wood worker, hunter, raising farm animals
Alcohoic 20 years, Friend of Bill W. going on 17 years