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rockhippie
Feb 13, 2002, 4:56 AM
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I would like to know more about what some of you do , is it climbing related or do you suffer in purgitory all week long just so you can go climbing on the weekends?
I personally install glass in office towers and other buildings, nothing like being 40 or 50 floors up on a swing stage.. spill it!!!
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iclimbtoo
Feb 13, 2002, 7:55 AM
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I'm a college student Communications major/Religion minor. I work at our climbing wall on campus, and the only reason that I picked a major and minor is because they wouldn't let me invent a climbing major. I will soon graduate and hopefully get a comm job explaining routes to people out in CO!!!
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phasenoise
Feb 13, 2002, 10:09 AM
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I'm a low life Research Engineer. Working for one of the big mobile phone companies, inventing new toys.....I mean phones/communications devices for you people. My work day consists of building walls of computer code. During winter I hybernate or climb indoors and in summer I climb wherever I can outdoors. Since we have 24 hours sunshine in summer I never sleep and never stop climbing for 3-4 months
Bringing the internet to a phone near you.
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reno
Feb 13, 2002, 11:26 AM
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I work as a paramedic on the ambulance in central Atlanta. Spending 10 hours a day, 4 days a week, responding to 9-1-1 calls for medical assistance.
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JRB
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mountainrat
Feb 13, 2002, 11:46 AM
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I'm a shepherd.
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russman
Feb 13, 2002, 2:15 PM
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I am a lowly tire changer at the largest Tire Dealer in the PNW...Les Schwab Tire Centers.
I can change your 18" Honda tires up to the local Monster Truck Tires and many many more
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bigfish03
Feb 13, 2002, 4:07 PM
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play guitar when not reading AP history homwork.
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atg200
Feb 13, 2002, 4:14 PM
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Road warrior Unix and Oracle computer consultant for mines, utilities, and the defense department. Never in the same place twice.
For anybody who is thinking that a traveling job may be fun - forget it. Fun for a month, then it just sucks.
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harleyjon
Feb 13, 2002, 4:24 PM
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I'm a college student (Biology/pre-med major) and I coach high school wrestling on the side. I also live in Kansas so I don't have much time or opportunity to climb during the school year. But I always go to Colorado or Arkansas in the summers and climb as much as a I can.
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Feb 13, 2002, 4:27 PM
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I'm a college student majoring in small business. At night I work at the college info desk...so much fun! yeah right. Anyways I'm hoping to do some guiding for tourists this summer and in a few years...I'm going to own my own guiding service.
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clmbnski
Feb 13, 2002, 5:09 PM
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Im a freshman college student in electrical engineering. I right now I plan to graduate make a few bucks and then become a bum
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clymber
Feb 13, 2002, 5:16 PM
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Im a cell site tech. So the next time you try to call on your cell phone and for some strange reason it wont work its probably my fault for not fixxing it
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kyhangdog
Feb 13, 2002, 5:22 PM
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I'm a sixth-rade language arts teacher.
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College student finishing up my undergrad and beginning my PhD in Western American History.
To pay the bills I guide whitewater trips in the summer, and play really bad bar gigs with my rock band.
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paulc
Feb 13, 2002, 6:28 PM
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Electrical engineer for a fiber optics company. Spend most of my time in the winter thinking about how nice it would be to be climbing. And most my time in the summer climbing, and when I don't climb in the summer thinking about how nice it would be to be climbing.
Paul
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rockandbold
Feb 13, 2002, 6:33 PM
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I'm a head honco techie at a security system company and the only thing that keep my sanity at work is climbing!
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uhighfreak
Feb 13, 2002, 6:37 PM
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Student at UM-Columbia studying civil engineering. I climb on the weekends and when my schudule allows me. Not a full time climber.
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climberchic
Feb 13, 2002, 6:41 PM
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Wow. This is a strange topic. I've read a lot of posts of the members that responded here and it's funny thinking of you guys doing anything BUT climbing.
A few things I've noticed about climbers and their jobs. Some similarities, if you will. Most of the climbers I've met seem to have careers that somehow fit into these categories: Engineer, Architect, IT and other technical jobs/careers (or just odd jobs). Anything involving talent with spatial manipulation, problem solving, etc. They also seem to have an uncanny knack to whoop butt at pool (billiards). Anyone else notice this? Now, this doesn't meant that you HAVE to have one of these jobs to be any good or just enjoy climbing (see below), but they seem to mix well.
With that being said, here's my non-technical job
I work as an environmental planner, which means that I research and write environmental clearances for the AZ DOT as well as try to get state scenic byways nominated for federal recognition. This means more $$ for wildlife refuges, beautification efforts and maintenance and protection of scenic, natural, cultural, historical, archaeological and recreational qualities. I love it because it allows me freedom to travel all over the state and really check out the remote areas/side roads. I've found a lot of potential climbing areas this way.
When I'm in the office, I try to climb at the gym during weekday evenings and outside on the weekends.
Sorry..this was probably way more of a response than you were looking for, but I get carried away sometimes.
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blueman
Feb 13, 2002, 8:24 PM
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Right now, I'm a HVAC Designer. I control environments for Laboratories/Hospitals mostly in San Diego & I can't wait to change my career. I can't stand being indoors, and I think it's pretty silly to control an environment in one of the best climates in the Nation. I do hope to become an engineer and develope alternative power sources, and use that knowledge to build a ecotourist trap somewhere
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jt512
Feb 13, 2002, 8:44 PM
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Quote:Most of the climbers I've met seem to have careers that somehow fit into these categories: Engineer, Architect, IT and other technical jobs/careers (or just odd jobs). Anything involving talent with spatial manipulation, problem solving, etc.
Science and technology types (ie, nerds) seem to be over-represented in climbing. I think it is because the sport attracts loners. As a friend of mine says, "the high-school football quarterback and the prom queen didn't become rockclimbers."
-Jay
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rigel
Feb 13, 2002, 8:53 PM
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i was a EE doing computer design, now i'm in marketing.
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climberchic
Feb 13, 2002, 9:22 PM
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Jay,
I agree and disagree. The sport definitly attracts "loners" who seem to, ironically, find solice with each other. Some of the most gifted climbers I've met have been the shy, silent, humble types who lead very simple lifestyles and are unimpressed with the hustle and bustle of society at large. Maybe these characteristics are what labels them "loners"...
As far as the "nerd" status, I was just discussing this with someone the other day. Now, maybe I am one of them, (which would make me blind to others like myself) but do we really still have geek or nerd labels out of high school? Of course, I've seen a few people climbing 5.7's in the gym wearing every piece of climbing gear they own. I can see how they could reinstate that status but these people are not the climbing masses. I look at people today that would have been classified as such in high school, but are now regarded as cool for being individuals.
It's just that some of the coolest people I have ever had the privilage of knowing have been climbers, and again, a lot of them are engineers, architects, and the like.
~Erica
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smellydude
Feb 13, 2002, 9:25 PM
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I am a chef de saucier in a downtown Renaissance hotel. Start work whenever and go home when they tell me too. Ever been hit with a stalk of celery?
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jt512
Feb 13, 2002, 9:40 PM
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Quote:Climberchic: As far as the "nerd" status, I was just discussing this with someone the other day. Now, maybe I am one of them, (which would make me blind to others like myself) but do we really still have geek or nerd labels out of high school?
Yes, more than ever, but now it's cool to be a nerd, so it's a compliment.
Quote:Of course, I've seen a few people climbing 5.7's in the gym wearing every piece of climbing gear they own. I can see how they could reinstate that status but these people are not the climbing masses.
Well, here in L.A., they sort of are the climbing masses, but they are not nerds. On the contrary, they tend to be chic, yuppy climber-wannabes -- the same ones who drive to the crags in Audi sports cars and climb at urban crags with those silly two-way radios.
Quote:I look at people today that would have been classified as such in high school, but are now regarded as cool for being individuals.
Yes, this is true.
-Jay (now where did I leave that pocket protector)
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metoliusmunchkin
Feb 13, 2002, 9:42 PM
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I am currently a student at R.L. Beattie public school in Sudbury Ontario, and am in grade 8. Yes, I too am forced to suffer through the very, very long weeks, only to save myself and climb on the weekends.
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