Self employed gardener and part time neuro-surgeon.

Full time carer for my disabled partner.
 
Formally
IT Systems and Network manager for trading systems in the City
Analyst Programmer 
Design Engineer (in the Electronics Industry)
 
Any more and I would have to apply the Wookiee solution.

You asked also... How did I get into what I'm doing now....
 
I was fired.  Yup..... I had a decent job as a supervisor in a manufacturing facility with 45 people under my supervision and a nice paycheck and benefits. Came into work one day for our annual staff "reviews" and walked out 2 minutes later totally fired and escorted off the property. I went home and applied for a few jobs. Both companies wanted me to come to work for them. I didn't answer either immediately pondering the future of working for another group of idiots. So I decided to to start my own business so the only idiot I could blame when things went wrong would be me.  I considered firing myself a few times but somehow didn't.

I'm an electronics engineer.
 
I eat becan for a living...as far as you know.
 
otherwise I'd have to kill you.  :)

I was an almost rock star (maybe more like an asteroid) in my first life.  I now am a Controller for a commercial general contractor.

I'm an excavating engineer.
 
I "dig" Becan for a living....(not everyone knows that).
 
Also, when I'm at work in the medical field, I keep myself busy posting in the FSF.

I come. I post. I conquer.
 
That's the what, where and why of it all.

Oh, yeah... my employer pays me to develop their customer portal on the web using WAMP and an Oracle database.
 
I got into it in 1978 before there was such a thing as a need for computer science degree. I just looked over the shoulders of our programmers and one day said "I can do that".
 

bapu
Oh, yeah... my employer pays me to develop their customer portal on the web using WAMP and an Oracle database.
 
I got into it in 1978 before there was such a thing as a need for computer science degree. I just looked over the shoulders of our programmers and one day said "I can do that".
 

So, you get paid for posting.......nice!!!

philosopher-pedant (or software architect/engineer depending on mood)
 
i got into this career by accident