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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

The new series of this has started, and it is a fascinating and insightful series, showing how other people live.

However this thread is not about the TV series, or it would be in Heaven. This is a game, where you identify your job, and the next person suggests where the worst place to do that would be, before indicating their job.

So if I were to say, for example, that I was an exobiologist, then the next person might suggest that the Asteroid belt might be the worst place, as there is probably no life whatsoever there. And nowhere obvious to look. And a long way away.

Having said that, if we can generally be fairly honest about our job areas (although they can also be past jobs), and if we can keep it to Earth mostly, that would be a good think.

So I will start, and my job is a software developer.

Posted by Pia (# 17277) on :

... in a hardware store?

I'm a lecturer.

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

In Britain, once the Tories are done 'modernising' the university system.

I'm a celebrity journalist

[Edited to add a new profession. Oops. [Hot and Hormonal]

]

[ 21. August 2012, 19:48: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]

Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :

inside the Big Brother house.

I'm a paperboy.

Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :

...in a public toilet.

I'm a farmer.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

in the tundra of the Great White North.

I run a health food store

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

also in the tundra of the great white north.

I once was a picture-framer.

Posted by Organ Builder (# 12478) on :

...at Perkins School for the Blind, a wonderful institution which was Helen Keller's alma mater.

I am (wait for it...) an organ builder! (Who would have thought)?

Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :

(What an incredible coincidence!)
... at a Quaker Meeting House.

I'm a website designer...

Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :

In an area with no/very slow broadband.

I'm a radiochemist

Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on :

In a Florida lab, directly in the path of Hurricane Isaac.

I'm a drunken traveling supply preacher

Posted by Pre-cambrian (# 2055) on :

In Saudi Arabia

I'm a civil servant

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

Wisconsin. Scott Walker's coming to get you...!

I'm a pastry chef.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

In a palace where diabetes runs rampant through the royal family.

I was also once a TV station master control operator.*

*Person who puts the signal on the air, monitors programming/commercials, and monitors the transmitter.

[ 24. August 2012, 04:48: Message edited by: churchgeek ]

Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :

In an Amish community

I am a bartender

Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :

In Iraq

I'm a sailor

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

. . . on the Aral Sea.

I'm a pretty, pretty princess . . .

Posted by cosmic dance (# 14025) on :

In a Paris road tunnel.

I'm a librarian

Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :

for a document shredding company.

I'm a taxidermist...

Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :

...in a Microbiology Lab.

I'm a phlebotomist

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

...to Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich.

I'm a lawyer...

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

...in an anarchist society.

(I see we're not taking the honesty about our real jobs seriously, which IMO is a good thing...)

I'm an accountant.

[ 27. August 2012, 05:12: Message edited by: churchgeek ]

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

In an oppereating theater

I'm a lepidoptrist

Posted by alienfromzog (# 5327) on :

here [Biased]

I am a paediatric surgeon... surely that's an easy one, no?

AFZ

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

In a zoo.

(Which it often felt like I was when) I was a teacher.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

in a school of killer whales.

I was a quality control supervisor

Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

At Amstrad?

I am a graduate student

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

at Metropolitan University (London)

I am a lolly-pop lady

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

at Silverstone after the Formula One race is over.

I am a supply teacher

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

in a hash distributor's.

I am first-aider

[ 31. August 2012, 18:40: Message edited by: beachcomber ]

Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :

At the Le Mans race in 1955.

I am an optometrist

Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on :

at a mole sanctuary

I am a plumber

Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :

At a convention for people who suffer from extreme constipation.

I am a retired Naval aviator...

(I'm not, really, but one of my wives is. Go Navy!)

Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on :

on land

I am a riveter

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

I am a riveter in a hot air balloon

an angler

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

in the Gobi desert.

I am a gambler

Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :

in tax court.

I am a cider press operator.

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

I am a cider press operator at the North Pole.

I am a taxidermist

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

At a PETA Convention.

I am a phlebotomist

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

to armadillos.

I am a steeplejack

Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :

on top of a stack that's about to be demolished

I am a grave-digger

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

in New Orleans

I am an archaeologist

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

...in Antarctica.

I'm a lion-tamer.

Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :

...in the African Wild Dog enclosure at the zoo

I am a Health and Safety inspector

Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :

....in post-tsunami Fukushima.

I am a banner maker

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

In the London of pea-soupers.*

*Heavy, filthy, stinking fogs through which it was impossible to see.

I am a singing teacher

[ 08. September 2012, 09:57: Message edited by: jacobsen ]

Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

in a class of metal singers.

I am a pharmacist

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

I am a pharmacist in a bank Hold Up.

I am an escort

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

I am an escort in solitary confinement

I am an airline pilot

Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on :

I am an airline pilot on the Titanic.

I am a snake-charmer

Posted by pimple (# 10635) on :

I am a snake charmer in Ireland

I am a cordwainer

Posted by snowgoose (# 4394) on :

...on an island populated only by snakes.

I am a mathematician.

Posted by pimple (# 10635) on :

I am a mathematician. I am in two minds whether or not this creature I'm holding is an adder.

I am a cordwainer - but you know that.

Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

A cordwainer - At Greenbelt this year.....

I am a helpdesk technician

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

In Atlantis.

I was a quality technician

Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :

In a factory seconds warehouse.

I am a football referee.

Posted by EtymologicalEvangelical (# 15091) on :

On Shrove Tuesday in Ashbourne.

I am a probation officer (well, not really, but used to work for the Probation Service many moons ago).

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

....in Heaven

I am a dressmaker

Posted by pimple (# 10635) on :

...at a naturalists' convention.

I am a cooper

[ 25. September 2012, 12:18: Message edited by: pimple ]

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

... in Saudi Arabia.

I am a football referee

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

. . . in HULL!

Everything's bad in Hull.

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