What do you guys do for a living? (Page 2)

Supervillian.

Actually, my tax return says I'm in the Import/Export business (he, he). You'd think that having the various henchmen, cronies, minions, lackeys, and toadies would make things easier and give me more time to train, but you simply would not believe the ammount of back-stabbing (literally), gossip, petty squabbles and incompetence that I have to manage. It takes a toll. Just when you think you have your latest plan all together....along comes some doofus hero-type in a tuxedo and  who do you think has to come up with a way to dispose of the body.......that's right....yours truly. For the ammount of money and intimidation that I have to lay out to get the help I have you'd think that they could figure that kind of thing out on their own.....(sigh)

Oh well, life goes on. There are always new plans to be devised and evil to do.  A word to the wise though buy lots of salt (wink)

Actually I'm a librarian

Electrical Engineer.  I work as a contractor for the government (uncle sam).  Work schedule is flexible (somewhat).  The trick for me is working around my home life.  My wife works full time (ICU RN) and we have six kids (five at home ages 14yrs to 18 months).

 Most of my workouts are with stolen time or in between piano lessons/scouts etc. or whatever the event of the  moment is. 

Management Consulting, currently focusing on International Public Services (read: government contracts)

If you can't be part of the solution, there's plently of money to be made in prolonging the problem ...

Civil Enginner.  For the past few years I've been working on the design and construction of bicycle paths throughout the northeast.

Chris

Do you need paid consultants to come help ride/evaluate the end product? (beta testers for bike trails - BTFBT)

sorry for the highjack

I work as a Resident Inspector for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  I work a first 40 schedule that is a bit flexible.  I can play around with it somewhat, but they like me to be here "during normal working hours".

No, I'm not Homer Simpson, I make sure Homer is doing his job properly.  Now THAT should scare you.  I have a 45 min commute each way, so I try and get my training done before I get home.  That way when I'm home, I'm done.  Since the plant is in the middle of nowhere, it works to my advantage for biking.

Plus it REALLY helps that I have a super supportive wife and only 2 - 4 legged kids (Dog and Cat)

I'm a project manager for the software applications group of a major systems integrator (and, most likely, the manufacturer of your printer). 

I started out doing application programming, but moved into the management role after I realized that it is better to delegate the responsibility for getting things done than to actually have to do them yourself.

Due to the fact that I work with a lot of virtual teams, I have gaps of time during the day to get out and train for a couple of hours here and there.  I also do some 6am training b/c that is when my gym first opens.  I wish I had a 24 hour gym closer to my house.

Especially when yours is being demolished.

I'm a financial consultant with a very large health insurance company.  Its a combo analyst/consultant role - we work with our largest customers to help them control costs and/or shift/mitigate trends in their health care programs.  Really, we're just trying to get them to drink more of the KoolAid in order to keep them as customers.

I'm quite new to the serious training routine.  I usually have no problem fitting in one workout a day but my training is calling for 4 or 5 two-a-days a week with one off day.  I'm wondering whether I'm going to be able to handle that kind of volume with work and my other extra-curricular commitments.  Currently, I'm singing in a barbershop quartet and just started rehearsals for an opera with the MN Opera.  Like everyone else, I'm going to have to make some sacrifices and/or hard decisions about my training - at least in the short term.  Fortunately, my work is very flexible and could probably accomodate my crazy schedule.

Tom