What do/did you do for a living?

I've had my own small business since 2009. I'm in the industry of destroying peoples lives. Not really but often it feels like it. I'm a process server. I get summons and complaints, subpoenas etc. usually from law offices and I serve the paper on businesses, entities or individuals. I like making my own hours. I like that I created it from nothing. I don't like impatient and demanding lawyers. I also don't like serving divorce papers. I hate it, but a client is a client and more often than not it's already been discussed between the parties. When it hasn't and I'm a surprise...that is awful.

Cyber Security Architect and Subject matter expert. General Nerd type. I have also owned 2 Comic book stores in the past. 

1972 started working in an audio/home appliance store. 1985 left the audio business to work for a maintenance company in Section 8 housing.  1990 I began working for a local school system as an engineer.  I got my degree in Electrical-Mechanical engineering in 1977 while working part time at Audio Store.  In 1995 the School Committee eliminated all the engineer jobs and being in the union, bid on a job as head custodian at the elementary school I went to school in as a child.  I stayed there until my retirement in 2017.

During all that time, went through a lot of audio equipment, some good and some bad.  When I retired, I had 2 very nice systems.   I cashed out all my accumulated sick and vacation time over the course of my 27 years with the school system upon retirement and spent about 30K of it on finalizing my 2 systems.  I am very happily retired with my wife who also retired in 2017, house and cars are paid for and we are living the good life although we are a bit more careful with our money now. Thank God we both have good pensions and Social Security. 

Retired 11 years now, but when working I bought and sold drugs!

(pharmacist)

I'm a global product manager for a cutting tool company. Been in this business for well over 20 years.

My audio interested started at young age where mom always played guitar, piano, organ and sang in a choir. Started to play guitar myself and eventually ended up owning a recording studio that I sold when I moved to US.

The stereo has evolved over the years; something morphing into a HT, sometimes into a pure 2-ch setup. I'm now fortunate enough that I have a dedicated stereo and a dedicated HT. No idea how much I have spent over the years, and quite frankly, I don't think I really want to know either. :-)