What do you DO?
 

This is sort of an extention of the famous Who We All Are Threads...

As many of you know, I am but a "poor" high school student. I find biz travel, especially on a global scale, very glamourous, even though reading Flyertalk reminds me of all the woes you encounter daily.

I'm curious as to what you actually do. What jobs you have, and what you actually do on the road.

Let me give you an example, the father of a friend of mine (the only real road warrior I know...my father only does 60K/year).

He works for a Tampa-based firm that is in the cable business. They handle transactions between communications companies (If XXX Cable wants to sell YYY service to ZZZ Cable) and capital start-up in communications (if XXX wants to start a company that does ZZZ), and investment banking.

When he travels, he meets with the various cable companies, etc, gives their product a value, and brokers the sell. He works in domestic, but he used to work in int'l, which took him to the company offices in Tokyo, Dubai, Germany, and communications companies all over the globe.

So, what do you DO?

Thanks, BizJet

College Student (University of Delaware)

Manufacturing, Old Gold's famous sootkase tags, as well as special hardware for the optics and semiconductor industries.

I work for FT and spend most of my time online! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

But BTW, I'm no real road warrior - rather more of a WIMP! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Actually, I'm a "doc"! Sometimes a consulting "doc"! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif

Oh yeah, on the road I also "chat up" FA's, hotel employees and waitresses too! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I'm a writer. I used to be a computer programmer. I spend as much time as I can playing.

I'm VP-Sales & Marketing for an import company.

Newspaper designer and applications developer (for now); aviation attorney (2005).

(Thanks for the spell check, shadow.) http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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essxjay, it might work out better if you could spell aviation correctly http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Hukked on Foniks werkks fore me...!

Import manager in the printing industry. Any tips, Shadow? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif. Resident non-resident.

Conference Registration Manager for a large, multinational trade show/publishing firm. Specifically, I oversee the Registration Department for the Game Developers Conference, a series of Internet Conferences and the Software Development Conference and a number of smaller conferences and events. Fun job.

I'm an Internet and Telecommunications geek. I fly around the world and talk to other geeks. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I'm a newspaper editor (I CAN spell "aviation") who recently was contacted by essxjay's paper.

our healthcare consulting firm does the majority of its business in the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East, and East Africa.

Our primary businesses include design, construction, and operation of specialty hospitals and clinics / distribution and servicing of medical devices / provision of health insurance services to corporate clients.

At present I am Managing Director of our subsidiary in India and as such I get to travel a lot around the region as well back to my home in the States as well as to the offices/sites of our partners in Europe.

It's a very interesting yet challenging field which is experiencing tremendous growth at present. so for now it's still fun http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

I sell rare stamps to stamp collectors, worldwide, and have done for 20 years. I run the largest stamp dealing business in Sydney. All done from Australia, hence the OZSTAMPS handle!

Work for myself, from home, and this allows the flexibility to jump on a plane whenever I see a decent vacation deal to somewhere I have not been, which is getting less and less places each year.

All stamp collectors have a passion for history and geography, so this careeer allows me to slot in a tiny bit of work, and a LOT of vacations to exotic places on earth!

I am a writer by profession and still write extensively for trade and collector journals, and have owned and published a few. I write summaries of recent trips, some of which are posted here :

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ozstamps/travel.html

~ Glen ~



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* oops, duplicate post!




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Hey ozstamps - You forgot to mention your other job of posting on FT. 2000 since June?! Go, baby, go! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

-KP

PS You (often) post on the boards at about the same time I do. How come youze never in the Chat room? (Sorry for the OT comment.)

I'm a Systems Engineer for a company that manufactures cancer therapy systems (hardware and software).

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I am working in the airline industry as a sales agent for a major Scandinavian Airline. Its up to you to guess which one http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Few months ago was CIO for a big German multi-national....now a CEO of a start-up...

Dorian



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That, my friends, is the understatement of the year. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

As for me, I am an administrator at a K-12th grade independent school. Applications, financial aid, grade placement, publications are my game. The travel is all on my own limited nickel... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

I manage the fixed income institutional sales desks for a major money center bank. My offices include New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Charlotte. Hence, my travel revolves around those cities, with the occaisional quick long weekend trips to Europe http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Mr. MD in a few months... will specialize in travel & tropical medicine.

My husband and I own a small manufacturing business. We are involved in producing wax injection molds that eventually are used in foundries to produce castings.

I'm a 'Systems Consultant' with ERP (accounting) Systems and Customer Resource Management Systems.

Financial Controller for a Telecoms start-up in London right now, but was until May a 100% travelling freeloader for an international charge-card group.

I'm an Information Systems researcher/analyst/consultant (short: geek. Hopefully Dr. geek by mid-2001 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif) and deal with workflow management, process modeling and resource management. I travel mostly for (scientific and industrial) conferences and for meetings of an international standardization body in the field.

My title is Director of Government and Industry relations. My being on the road breaks down like this:

Construction industry lobbyist (state capitols, legislative meetings); and

PowerPoint jockey (domestic and international trade shows and meetings, local association chapter meetings); and

FTer (get-togethers, dinners, drinking binges).

In the same vein as a lot of other folks, I am an e-business project manager. I tell other people what to do so I can spend more time on FlyerTalk. <grin>

I am an operations planner with an aviation consulting firm in Chicago. In other words, I analyze, simulate, forecast, etc. airspace and airfield data for airports like ORD, MDW, ATL, DEN, LAX, CVG, etc.

I am a Customer Support Engineer. I go to customer sites and install, repair, maintain test equipment in the disk drive and magnetics industries.

Criminologist and owner of a private corrections company that operates community correctional centers and drug programs for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and California Department of Corrections. I also am a sentencing consultant and writer of private probation reports and well as doing a little private monitoring of offenders at the request of various courts.

Union official. I go to meetings, conferences, and conventions, at which I sometimes fall asleep. Sometimes I go to labor disputes to help the members rally and protest. At this point almost half my travel is vacation-related. My old job was more exciting and more lucrative, but I have less stress now. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Ex computer geek who goes to meetings and skis the Alps.

The two activities are listed backwards in terms of preference.

Guess you can call me a modern Day Renaissance man:

*News Producer/Writer: to pay the bills
*Travel Editor and writer: www.pinkonline.com

But what I really like doing:

*Contributing to Flyertalk
*Being "DADDY" to my felines Yaz and Eddie
*Being a friend, having fun, travelings, seeing old and new friends and perhaps my favorite thing I do..

LOVING, ENJOYING LIFE WITH NO WORRIES!


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Senior Systems Engineer for a small consulting firm. We are a Great Plains VAR, plus we do custom Programming.

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Attorney for a Silicon Valley law firm representing young technology companies and venture capital firms.

Unfortunately doesn't support my FF habits very well.

Greg

Was a tech geek (consultant), now do Project Manamgement and Service Delivery (Still in IT).

Freefaller12k

Also, as you might have guessed from the handle, the number of my takeoffs and landings in airplanes differ by more than 1.

Back to surgery (hooray) after 2 years of research in US, where I managed to do lots of travelling http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif enjoyed the BTA (been to America) experience but its great to be back to my "proper" job http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Operatic tenor/Trader/Entrepreneur currently on an indefinite sabbatical to raise/home school my daughter and to support (read maid/cleaner/driver/cook/article editor/secretary/typist and all around general man servant http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif ) my MD wife who is doing BMT research (seems like 24/7) and back in training.


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I don't know if it counts for much, but I am an Executive Secretary for Kemper Insurance.

I am also a college student - trying to figure out just what it is that I want to do, I know that I would like to go in to something in computers, with ocassional travel, not too frequent though, cause I am a single mother too. Anyone got any ideas for me?

Is that enough? LOL