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I'm wondering if Sailboat people evenly represent most employment options or if it attracts people in some jobs more than others.
Of course sailnet members are just a subset of all sailors but it might be interesting.
It does not look like I can edit a poll once started so if I miss your profession, for example I just notice I missed lawyer just put in in a message if you don't mind. Maybe a moderator can add jobs to the pole as they come up.
I know this may be too personal for some. If so I apologize just ignore it.
None of the above. Well, okay, I guess i could massage my ego and answer "management," but being self-employed my workforce is small (me), difficult to manage, insubordinate, and impossible to terminate.
Damn, I sound like I have unionized myself.
Allied Federation Of Canucks, Local 69.
Restaurant owner and cook. Just for fun, I do network installation and maintainance as well as run a webhosting and email service company for small businesses. Keeps me busy.
I was thinking that Marine should have it's own category. I think being a Merchant Marine officer combines several of the above aspects.
I don't know what I would fall into. As a diving supervisor I am management, but a craftsperson as well. It also helps to have an understanding of technology and engineering. So mark me me down as jack of all trades master of none.
Put me in the craftsma catagory, but I tink I've become a bum. I'm a self employed carpenter/cabinet maker but I'm refting my boat for an extended cruise-not much time for "work". Living off peanut butter, but even that's getting expensive. Cruise is wife's idea!
Being as this is multiple choice, I guess closest s mgmnt as the owner, craftsman is as close as I can get for the blue collar construction part of it......then again, I have been called god, *&^*%&*^%*^ when I screw up to all things in between. Financial when it comes to making sure books etc are balanced and bid correct, medical when folks want to know what is wrong with their plants, need to design cement block walls, altho I have to admit, do not wholly understand physics, but enought to get into trouble...........maybe I should put all the above?
My official occupation now is "Swab" but I used to be a Sales Manager, Retail Analyst and Performance Consultant. My wife is currently working as a Retail Manager and has a background as an Inventory Manager and as a Merchandising and Marketing Consultant, so I checked "Manager", having no history of actual "Work"
Just to add: I'm retired Navy and retired via Social security stipends that they send me now. But as I said before, Am an instructor of Marine science for those who want their USCG Licenses.
Right now am managing a meatal heat treating facility.Starteed here in 1992 as the maintenance man and worked to the top.Now ready to leap off and find out if the net really appears
I checked Craftperson because I think of my self as an auto mechanic first. But since I own the shop I have to wear a few different hats. Let's see, auto mechanic, shop foreman, manager, bookkeeper, CEO, salesman, building maintenance, IT director, telephone repairman, HVAC repair, varmint exterminator, and head floorsweep.
I fix Hyundais and Subarus...I guess that falls under craftsperson? Maybe I should have picked technology since electrical problem diagnosis is one of my strengths
Darn, there's no category for "deskbound Washington bureaucrat" either! (I checked Engineering 'cuz my job title is Senior Environmental Scientist and my degree is civil engineering)
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