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pstr2b
Jan 24, 2003, 4:48 AM
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I'm a youth minister
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mowz
Jan 24, 2003, 4:49 AM
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What?! Are you mad?! I'm a biology major with an English minor and I'm proud of it.
Cell Biology and Whitman rock!!!!!
-Mowz
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orangekyak
Jan 24, 2003, 5:02 AM
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teacher
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thomer
Jan 24, 2003, 5:08 AM
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I'm still in college for another year, but I will be a Geographer and Recreation Technician
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buzyrock
Jan 24, 2003, 5:09 AM
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Hey, it's just kinda opposite here...most of my climbing pals(95%) are not engineers/compu expert...but just do all kind of works...one person is even a bus driver
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farmerc
Jan 24, 2003, 5:13 AM
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Heh, you have me pegged. I wanna be a Nuclear Engineer, that, or a park ranger or guide.
~Chris
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moabbeth
Jan 24, 2003, 5:14 AM
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Holy crap. I figured it was a Socal thing with all climbers being engineers or in the computer industry. I had no idea it was this vast. Man, do I feel like the black sheep.
Why do you guys think it is that this sport doesn't attract people from other fields and professions? Especially non-technical? Hell, I went into journalism cause I dreaded math so much (well, math kinda hates me). I work in a tv newsroom assigning stories to reporters and photographers for our newscasts. I am yet to meet a single person in my entire industry that climbs...they all think I am insane when I show them pics of what I do. But I am more addicted to climbing than anything else I've ever encountered. I must be the anomaly.
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josher
Jan 24, 2003, 5:26 AM
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Maybe it's because those other types don't frequent rock climbing message boards, or computers at all, and cant respond to the question. I'm sure all those people I see in dreds and 3 foot knit caps at Josh arn't all math geeks.
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mnutz
Jan 24, 2003, 5:33 AM
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I remember seeing a thread about this before, but how many of us are Geologists?
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mainline
Jan 24, 2003, 6:03 AM
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Alexe Lowe was a gifted mathmatician and tried working in that field for a while.
There is a disproportionate number of proffessional climbers that excel in math and physics.
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asaph
Jan 24, 2003, 6:04 AM
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Hmm, I think I'm the first so far here studying to be a police officer.
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kindredlion
Jan 24, 2003, 6:12 AM
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Computer Network Engineer...
DAMN!!
I was trying to prove you wrong!!
Adam
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climberchic
Jan 24, 2003, 6:16 AM
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In response to the original post, the answer is yes.
Well, at least an overwhelming amount of climbers are engineers, architects, or IT, in my experience.
Kinda funny moabbeth, I posed the exact same theory here almost exactly a year ago. Check it out....9 pages of the same subject! There must be something to it.
~Erica
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jamnsurf
Jan 24, 2003, 6:29 AM
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My day job is a blacksmith, making awsome things like Ornate Gates, Railings, all custom and made by hand. My future job, hopefully will to become a teacher someday.
but untill then Ill keep pounding Iron!
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climbercam
Jan 24, 2003, 6:44 AM
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I guess I'm guilty too. I started out in Civil Engineering and now am in Construction Management. It's all problem solving, which is what climbing's all about. If the object were to get to the top, we'd just walk around or build a ladder.
Partners I've had are either Engineers or in Construction.
Advertisers should look into Engineering Publications.
I've found that people who aren't interested in figuring out HOW to get to the top, end up losing interest pretty quickly once you put them on something hard enought that they actually have to use their brain and not just strength.
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alvchen
Jan 24, 2003, 6:47 AM
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Any Civil Engineers out there willing to hook me up with an internship this summer? PM me if it is possible.
P.S. I'm willing to be your belay slave too.
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ford
Jan 24, 2003, 7:01 AM
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And once again, Ford breaks the mold. I don't work in IT, and am not an engineer. I don't even have a college degree. (yet) I am a freight handler by trade. That means I drive a forklift. From this, you can learn that not all blue-collar guys are lazy or stupid.
---Ford---
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apollodorus
Jan 24, 2003, 7:41 AM
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Biology with an English minor counts as High IQ. And so does someone driving a forklift, but looking to go to college. And for that matter, what you do for $$$ has nothing to do with how smart you are. Climbers are smart. Period. I'll put any good trad/wall climber up against a professional football player in a battle of the minds, and guess what? My man will win (no quarterbacks, OK?).
For what it's worth, Warren Harding once told me personally (this is not BS) that Chuck Pratt was sharp enough he should have been a nuclear engineer. Instead, he fixed air-cooled Volkswagens to make money and keep climbing. Warren wouldn't tell me what he was supposed to have become, if the Rock hadn't grabbed him. He was like that, though. Cheerful, outgoing, extroverted, but secretive.
A good route (especially dicey trad or wall) is a Chinese puzzle that most people can't figure out. Those that do are HIGH IQ.
It's part of the game, and that's why we play it.
New York City is known as a magnet for intellectual vagabonds, but I would say that on a per-capita basis, Camp 4 RULES! There are more smart, funny, great, engaging, fun, able, cool and wonderful people in Camp 4 than any other place in the world.
Get over it. Climbers rule.
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blazesod
Jan 24, 2003, 7:53 AM
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Hmm?
Have you ever considered the reason most climbers you meet are computer related is because you meet them on a website?
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angusmackay2000
Jan 24, 2003, 9:50 AM
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yeah i am doing a computer course at the minute and my dad is doing them as well and we both like to climb.
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womble
Jan 24, 2003, 10:29 AM
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Where in California do you climb? Is it somewhere with a particularly high concentration of techie types? That's the most obvious question that occurs to me.
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katydid
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I'm an actor with a crappy day job in retail (it's either that or wait tables when you need to be able to drop anything and everything to get to an audition).
I'm applying to grad school to get a Master's in Education (we'll see if they let me in).
However, I worked in computers for 6 years, doing everything from call centre supervision to sysoping to quality assurance.
So ... yes and no.
k.
Oh ... wait. You wanted to know about the GUYS. My husband's in computers -- does that count?
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apollodorus
Jan 24, 2003, 12:09 PM
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gansccr, you are off the scale. This post is for people who can't get a real job, like yours.
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bonesz
Jan 24, 2003, 2:29 PM
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ROOFING MECHANIC and DAMN PROUD OF IT !!!!!!17 years of unbearable conditions, keeping all you fancy pant white collar folks dry !!!
I am a class WARRIOR , I'm dirty, sometimes smelly, gruf rough and damn tough BLUE COLLAR WORKERS RULE !!!!!!
even though I don't look the part..
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flynnypek
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Guilty!!... I'm a computer science engineer...
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