I was a radio personality back when, and am a semi-retired radio personality now, mostly doing voice over work from my home studio and hosting 2 podcasts. I toy with taking some kind of other job related to behind the scenes of music, but only if it’s something I’m passionate about. Happy with what I do, but always curious and wanting to do new things.
Before radio, I was a college professor.
Before being a professor, I coordinated staff/volunteers of a crisis hotline.
Before that, I taught kids with a variety of disabilities and behavior challenges.
Before that, I worked in admin for a large regional performing arts center.
Before that, I worked for an eyeglass factory.
All of your frames cost about $3, then we slapped brands on there, and now they’re $300.
Sending all infection pictures to you.
Drooling at the thought of it.
I was a single mom and student/ photography store manager back in the day. Now I am an office manager/logistics specialist for a satellite office for a major tech company. People I know but haven’t talked to in twenty years are always surprised when I say I work for this company, as my background is not tech, but I just say to them “do you think engineers and software developers know how to order pens and ship lasers? Trust me, they don’t. That’s how I came to work for them.”
Still a single mom, though they are all adults. That job is forever.
I’m a nanny to a little boy, baby sister due this summer. I love hanging out with kids!
I graduated from the University of Central Missouri in 2007. I knew it as Central Missouri State University. It had changed from a state college to government controlled University my last year I think? So I began one year of the Old name and the Last part of a year with the new name. I gained a Bachelors in Fine Art with a painting emphasis.
As things go, I needed a job…Walmart was hiring, so I worked there for 13+ miserable years. Anything you’ve heard about them is probably true. I was going nowhere fast. I recently (last month) quit and now work for Menards. They seem like a decent company. I’ve thought of either finishing my degree with a masters or getting a graphics degree at the local school.
I’m a medical laboratory scientist. I work in a hospital lab, performing all the fun blood and body fluid testing. As you can imagine, I’ve also been a Covid pcr testing fiend for the past 2 years. We are so busy! It’s a great career, but we are the hidden department in the healthcare world and most people don’t know we exist. Lol.
Back then I was on my final years in High school… in the meantime I moved from Italy to Dublin (just few months after the infamous 5 night at the Olympia theatre 
) and I’m working as WW Distribution Planning manager for a well known Italian luxury brand.
Im an editor of a popular science magazine. I like it. Also i`ve played in several bands over the years. Bass, mostly.
I was an exhibit lighting tech in a museum, for 35 years then Covid hit. That is when I discovered R.E.M. again, and they have helped me through this pandemic. I am forever grateful!
I was a professional DJ both PT and FT for close to 20 years. I still DJ on occasion, but immersed in traveling the country as hotel dude. I have done call center work, and years ago telemarketing. I was quite good at it, but I am burnt out and long done… Call Center work was mostly financial and insurance related. Some of it was great and other parts not so much. I worked in a hospital thru a temp agency telling patients they can’t have any pudding. Seriously, I enforced their diets while in the hospital. I may do this again. I may even get a Nutritionqlist certificate degree and fight big pharma helping people get healthy naturally. But, at the moment as previously stated I’m on the road.
Also i forgot I was an evil ticket broker/scalper for 9 years. I was in the belly of the beast with ticketsnow and stubhub.
I never actually said what I do here! When last I was with our merry band, I’d been a lady of leisure for 18 years and was getting ready to go back to clerical work in order to get health insurance. Now I’ve been an underpaid school clerical worker - registrar, student records, attendance, scheduling, etc. - for 14 years and I’m hoping to retire to become one of the idle rich this summer as soon as I’m eligible for retiree health insurance. Amazing, the kind of things a lack of national health will drive a person to do!
In the old days I’d have still been a student. I’m now a tax adviser working in house (I’m a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser here, and I think in the US that would be equivalent to being a CPA and EA) for a big multinational company. It keeps me in gig tickets and guitars which I have “too many” of and not enough time to play them, as your archetypal middle-aged accountant 
I did recently welcome a Mustang to the fold which was actually my first non-Squier Fender. Have to say I’m very impressed with the Mustang Micro headphone amplifier I got with it.
New member here, though I knew of the group back in the day I never quite had the gumption to join. I felt unworthy, since my fandom really ended with the IRS releases. Cut to now, in the past 7 or so years I have gotten over my prejudice and have come to love all of their work. See? Old grumpy dogs can learn to love new (to me) music.
As for what pays the bills, I am the NW Regional Geospatial Coordinator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. What does that mean? I coordinate things like data, spatial analysis, etc that can eventually end up on a map. Forgive me for being a fed, but I’m out here trying to do good things on behalf of my Native American people.
Thanks for getting this going again, I look forward to interacting with all you fellow fans.
My son worked for BIA in DC, and then a satellite office in Reston, VA — so hello. He still works for the federal government, but a different agency.
Welcome to Murmurs.
First time around Murmurs I was indeed in college. After graduation I got into federal gov’t contracting doing software and/or cybersecurity, and I’m still doing that. @phlmth I live very near Reston.
@ethank sorry but I’m still a partisan for Taylor guitars. 
Well, get an Acoustasonic at least, a good mix between the two 
I assume you mean Waterloo Ontario? I did my MA there and met my wife, way back in 1999.
What’s your major? Engineering? Optometry? lol? 
I guess if I ever need law advice, journalism leads, or Fender tech stuff, I’ll know who to hit up.
As stated (too many times for my own good), my life has been in education. When I was a murmurs lurker, I was a grad student reading too much highbrow lit. with the intention of being an English Prof. at a “prestigious” university! My wife was doing her PH.D in lit. too. (we’ve been married for 20 years, so, yes, miracles can happen).
Anyway, two English Profs. getting a job in the SAME university was never going to happen so I withdrew from my Ph.D (two years!) to become a high school teacher. I got my B.ED. I even got a full time high school teaching job.
But then (and I remember it like it was yesterday) but buddy told me that Fanshawe College was hiring for communications professors: M.A. minimum, Ph.D preferred. They hired my wife straight away, and after two years of (terribly unstable and stressful) part-time work, I too was hired in 2007. So I’m been EXTREMELY fortunate to be a Communications (ie: writing, resumes, business reports, etc) Prof. at Fanshawe since 2005. I never, ever, ever take that shit for granted given how terrible the job market is everywhere.
But the best part of my job is that I taught a Gen. Ed. course on video game theory (I’m a life-long gamer) and when Fanshawe created a VGD (video game design) program, I was asked to teach game theory to all incoming students. So, yeah, I’m a video game prof, which is just unreal (imagine telling your 15 year old self you’re going to teach video games for a living?).
Some students suck and some are amazing, but next to being a rock star, being a prof. is certainly a worthy consolation prize where careers are concerned. And how many other jobs are there where playing the latest video game can classify as research? Dying Light 2 anyone? Elden Ring? Hollow Knight?
I figured as much. I’m in the market for new glasses. My vision benefits are generous, so I rarely pay out of pocket, but still, you’re never going to convince me that my frames use $300 of plastic and ingenuity to create. What bullshit.