So, what's your day job?

[Jazzdogg]

I started playing bass in 1968, and started working in hotels in 1972; I was a financial controller in hotels with 500-800 rooms for thirty years. That career helped me understand the music business from the perspective of a venue operator.
For the last two decades, I worked as a woodworking instructor at a college in Southern California.
I am now retired and divide my time between being a full-time RVer and spoiling grandchildren. These days, I only play music with friends for fun.

 

[Adagietto]

I'm on vacation.

 

[Kijuer]

Air traffic control operator

 

[DanAleks]

On 2/3/23 I retired.
Now I play percussion with an acoustic trio, practice bass, hang out with my wife, and take naps.

 

[Killing Floor]

Lighting. Mostly large and complex scope. The fun part is when we can design systems with a thousand scenes at arenas or stadiums. The hard but also fun challenge is replacing aged out consoles or PC based systems and all the luminaires on trees or trusses. I don’t have to do the aerial part
BBall arenas are scheduled year round with concerts too so there’s always a lot of stress with the owners to make sure old and new systems work in tandem during the entire process, no offseason.

 

[Mighty Thumb]

Engineering Manager for a commercial AV Systems integrator. Emphasis on the manager part, not the engineer part. 25 years in this industry, 18 years with this company and blessed to be part of the leadership team. Started out as a technician and worked my way up. Now I spend most of my time in meetings and email. I also build most of our open architecture DSP files for presentation, conferencing and performance spaces. Anyone that’s not familiar, here’s what that looks like:

Most of the systems we build are for the corporate world and look like this:

We also do work for performance venues which sometimes it looks like this:

I try to get out in the field enough to stay engaged but not get in the way.

Lots of folks in my industry are musicians. The two owners of the company I work for are an accomplished drummer and guitar player. We have a drum kit, amps a PA in the office and jam when the mood strikes us. One of the other benefits of being in this business is the ability to purchase some equipment at dealer cost. That has helped me build my little home studio.

 

[The Golden Boy]

I'm from the government; I'm here to help.