What Do you do? A Poll

"Tanada" wrote in message
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Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know
we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for
one) and so forth. You don't have to be any more specific than you
want, but I confess to being extremely curious. If you're currently out
of work, you don't have to say so, just list your career field.

I am a Substitute Teacher for Cumberland Co. North Carolina, married to
a Blackhawk mechanic/inspector who is medically retired from the US army.

"Research Science (Chemistry)"

Paint technologist: I develop the new products and processes (more on the
processes side) for producing pre-painted steel - the stuff that people use
for 'tin roofs', and pre-fab buildings (mainly factories and warehouses),
although it has no end of uses. All my work clothes have little speckles of
paint on them, and I somethimes rig up the most bizarre experiments to test
the coated surface (ie, the paint) to see if will withstand the conditions
its will see in its lifetime. The funnest thing was to see if water based
paint would catch fire. Not easily, no, but if you work hard it, you can set
almost anything on fire :-)).

Generally, I am researching the interactions of different coatings when put
togehter, and the effects of how you bake them, to determine which would be
the best & cheapest coating combination, and how to process it in the best &
cheapest way so as to still meet product requirements.

Or, to put it another way:

I spend my days watching paint dry, and watching paint peel. :-)

Yowie