An auto painter at a large autobody shop.

Video Technician for the local PBS affiliate, WJCT. casual on-call. The best work agreement ever. "Can you work next week?" "Naah, I'll be busy, sorry" "Not a problem!"

Though tomorrow I've got a 12 hour shift with them. :D


C

Full time student at UC Davis, majoring in film studies and, hopefully soon, world languages.

Dentist by day

Helps fund my toys

nice gig! How did ya swing that?

Thats their standard method of employment here... "casual on call" =D

I love it! But not at 6:30 in the morning :D

C

Funny you should mention this... I've always wanted to do the same thing... maybe I should drop you a line via email

I'm going to Bogota Columbia at the end of this month to film a documentary on a children's home.... There is a team of missionaries from Texas and Wisconsin going down, so I am documenting their work...

I'm a social worker, been working with abused kids for 7 years now.

Like most, it pays for new toys from Sony. :}

Day job
 

I'm a Mutimedia Specialist for wealth management company, I'm based out out of Antigua West Indies to overlook AV requirements for projects here in Antigua as well as Caribbean and central and south America. here in Antigua I get to look out for a Cricket stadium (with 2x50' LED HD Screens), 2 restaurants, several Banks (VTC), and "The Boss's " private dwellings (Including a 120' yacht)(with 285' one being built). So since I had to give up my recording studio back in the states, I have now picked up the video bug, to exercise my artistic and technical bones.

I'm a 3D designer/modeler in the engineering department at my company (Inventor, Solidworks, Autocad)

Departmental training officer/rangemaster/armorer/entry team leader for a medium sized Sheriff's Office. And whatever other hats they hang on me from day to day. The nice thing is that every day brings something new and different, so it's hard to get bored; bad thing is that it sometimes leaves little time for anything else. In that free time, I pursue various hobbies that either take too much time or too much money. *grin*

Assistant Division Commander for the Uniform Patrol Division at the same Sheriff's Office as Ed Wilson. He's my roommate. I outrank him, so he has to do as I say. You know, like "clean the house" or "cook me dinner"... stuff like that.

When I'm not working or telling Ed what to do, I enjoy photography and now videography.

My company ("Famous Davis") is mainly software development for both desktop and web. We do a small amount of video production. I have two employees - my son and my daughter-in-law.

Chris
www.famousdavispro.com

Unix server administrator and network security analyst.

Yes, I'm a geek.

I'm a PIG (Photo Instrumentation Guy) on a missile test range in Huntsville,Alabama. I'm an editor, photographer,videographer and a dangerous self taught electrician. We use a lot of digital high speed cameras which is way cool. I basically get to watch stuff blow up everyday.

I also own and run my own wedding photography and video business that keeps me tied up pretty much every weekend..

I'm a high school media and drama teacher.

So every now and then I get to watch things blow up too.

My day job has changed; I am still a freelance writer, but I no longer teach film. I am now a producer of commercials, and am moving into new territories. Waiting for the strike to end in L.A., so I can perhaps make a move out there.

Heath

day jobs and aspirations
 

For my day job I create educational videos for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It's a great job because I'm pretty much a one man band producing, shooting, and editing all the video that appears on the National Arts in Education website http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ . I meet a lot of cool people and I get to see a lot of performances.

Then on the weekends I grab my gear and shoot shorts. I've done several of the DV Challenges - which has been a great way to get off the couch. And it's inspired me to try to make things that are "festival worthy" though so far no festivals have taken anything.

But I still think, even if I reach the dream point where I'm a regular on the festival circuit and people will give me enough money that I can hire a crew rather than just recruit my untrained friends, I would keep my day job and do the shorts for fun. Because I love my day job and the shorts are a lot of fun. I think if I had the pressure of paying my mortgage off of that work it would take all the fun away. It's the same reason I'll periodically get a booth to sell my photos as art prints at craft fairs, but don't want to try to make a living as a photographer even if I could.

day job
 

I am network and/or computer technician

It's amazing how many computer geeks we have in here :-) Myself included...

Day Job
 

I'm a Quality Assurance Supervisor for a Biological company. In my spare time I shoot, edit and produce DVD's and videos for the Southern Univ. Marching band www.humanjukebox.com . I'm trying to start up my own media company and get into weddings as well instructional dvd's and business commercials.

Day job, night job, on call 24/7.....
I run a satellite uplink truck all over the east coast doing news & sports.

www.pssiglobal.com.

I'm the no-name ugly stepson of the broadcast crew, but the first one they call when the picture screws up.

Tom

Freelancer (in other words, unemployed)
 

I'm doing some freelance graphic design (mainly web design) and some freelance News Cameraman work for a small TV station. I'm currently not getting much work for either so I'm looking for something a little more stable/permanent in the Television Production industry.

Hey Tom, is the Dem race huge money in the bank?

Between chasing the Dems all over the east, and now March Madness basketball (I'm now in the truck doing 15 MAAC games in 4 days), I'm ready to quit....again!

My day job is teaching television production at an arts magnet middle school. I absolutely love it.

I'm a video game programmer in LA. Been doing a few things on the side so far. I mostly want to just do my own projects so that keeps the whole film making thing as mostly a past time for now

Latin America correspondent for a major news agency.

Yeah, it's a cool gig, but a lot of you guys are doing stuff that also really fascinates me. If I had three lifetimes I'd be joining you on some of the (ad)ventures. Game programming, sailing, indy films.... Helluva board here, isn't it?

I am a Videographer/Editor/Multimedia developer at the U. S. Air Force Survival School. I am active duty military and have been in the AF going on 20 years now. I have been assigned to Combat Camera, base level Multimedia shops, and now provide lesson content for survival training here at Fairchild AFB, SPokane WA.

I am retiring in Oct and have hope to come right back to work here at the school but will have to wait and see what is available to me. In the meantime I have purchased my own equipment to shoot, edit, and produce video for whatever job might come my way.

I have loved my job in the AF but it is time to move on...This is a very scary time moving from the structure that I have been used to most of my adult life into the unknown. So, with all said your prayers and best wishes are apprciated as I move onto my new chapter in life.

Steven,
Good luck with the transition. My dad flew jets in the Marines for 20+ years and then went into insurance. He survived. Change is always scary.
If you want to stick with video, but crave structure, maybe you should consider finding a corporation with an in-house video department. That should be more structured than a lot of video jobs, but the corporate culture/complete lack of decisiveness might drive you nuts. Just a suggestion.

Ethan, We may have crossed paths a few times in our years. I am originally from New Orleans, went to Nicholls State from 83-85. Lived in Thibodeaux, worked radio at KTIB, KXOR and was in Houma from time to time. Man, I sure do miss a good crawfish boil.....

Steven

Steven - small world isn't it? I'm not a native myself, I married a Cajun girl about 3 years back and have been made an honorary Southern Louisianian.

I grew up all around the South East and claim Augusta, Ga. as home since that's where my family landed after my dad got out of the service & that's where I did my high school and early college years.

Being from that area, I never dreamed I would have married anyone from Louisiana, much less settle down here (buying our first home soon) but I have to say, between the women and crawfish, I'm hooked. I now wonder how I lived all those years without both.

Next time I peel a few and down some ice cold Corona, I'll give you a thought. If you ever decide to repatriate yourself we'll fire up the pot, bust out the old family recipe, and welcome you guys back with a sack full.

Good luck with the job search.

Changed ITs
 

UPDATE

Recently switched from Banking & Financial IT to Health Care IT. I now work at a hostpital -what a difference...I got to wear full scrub surgery outfit my second week (brought it home) and I'm two doors down from the morgue :-p


No longer web dev
No longer vocalist

I'm a database programmer. I used to work a lot in financial services, the last few years more in the telecomm world.

Suffering a bit from the golden handcuffs. I make decent money as a programmer, so to go off into the videography world is daunting financially. Right now I'm working part time as a programmer, so I have some income, but a little more time to plan the Great Leap into the Unknown.

19 yrs old here. I'm the CTO of a small business. I'm 2 months away from my BA, and I plan on going to Grad School for a Ph.D. in Psychology. I've just started testing the video making waters.... and I'm FASCINATED! I'm working on my second project now and I'm loving every second of it. It's a biographical documentary of a very interesting man. With my psychological leanings, I will be focusing in his psychological struggle (he had plenty of demons). Maybe I can combine my talents/interests.. hmm.. Gotta speak with my parents about this, i wonder what they will say..

EDIT: re-posted in http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=4657

IT Manager for 13 sites across EMEA and CISMEA.

Would love to get to the point of leaving and doing the film business full time but never seem to work out how I can build the business up part time...need to do it full time to build it up but dont have the time....

Bloody vicious circles...

By day I work as an Operating Theatre Technician at the local hospital.

By night and weekends I work as a stringer for the local TV stations' regional news as well as Australia's top news service, National Nine News.

By way of relaxation, I am a pilot and love to take to the skies when funds permit. I also love to go SCUBA diving - mostly south of Melbourne, and for community service I am a volunteer advanced life support Ambulance officer with St John Ambulance.

Ben

Full time videographer (shooter, editor, producer, collections agent) for my own production company. Hire freelancers as needed. I've been a casual on-call shooter with CBC-Radio Canada Winnipeg (worked out to about a half-time gig for three or four years - mostly working in the French newsroom or for french national (RDI)).

I've worked every sporting venue with a video board in Winnipeg either as a shooter, director/switcher and audio guy at some point in the past ten years. Taught for about a year at a private vocational college.

DOP on an indie "film" shot on DVCam that we are STILL waiting for post to be complete on.

Worked for an embedded company doing medical video for 20 months. Interesting work. Mostly just retirement tea photos and training videos but every now and again we'd get to do something clinical.

Mostly I do broadcast PSAs and non-broadcast training videos, as well as switching multi-camera live gigs such as conventions.

I'm a full-time TV producer/director/videographer/editor (mainly commercials), sometimes freelance videographer. I've been in broadcasting and film production for 24 years.
I also spent time in SW Louisiana, Lake Charles to be exact. Got my first TV job at KPLC-TV.