What kind of jobs do we all have?

[ds1984]

I am a ghost

Then you would become a ghost's ghost.

[dmg]

I am a ghost

Dirty Dick or Little Nell?

[El Macho]

I'm a dentist in a small village in the North of France between Arras and Cambrai.
And always music (with a lot MK) in the background for the pleasure of my patients and myself !

[Knopflerfan]

I am a Railway Signalman, and have been on the Railway since the age of 16!! Yes, 25 years in July.
In my spare time I am a Cub Scout Leader too with Parkstone, St Peter's Scout Group.
Our Scout Group's 'claim to fame' is that our sponsoring church is where Lord Robert Baden-Powell & Olave Soames were married and of course we have very unique links with nearby Brownsea Island - Where Scouting began in 1907...

And of course I still find time to play the Fender MK's too!!!!

[vgonis]

Revival update of this nice topic for all new-coming members.

For about two decades of working at publishing houses, bookshops and the last 4 years in an ice cream factory during the summer, I have found a new job, at a vinyl record shop. It used to be one of my dream jobs (the other being a paid photographer)  and I have had several "High fidelity" moments! Of course once you are in the job, it loses part of the mystic,  but still I am lucky to have good people working with me and being able to listen to music most of the time, music that I never knew existed (and I am,  some times,  sorry to say,  it exists...) Listening to dub reggae records for 8 straight hours, can drive you nuts, especially if it is not at a relaxing position, at a beach, or smoking...

One of the best "High fidelity" moments (actually happens quite regularly) is when in a busy afternoon I placed a record through the shop loud speakers,   and with pleasure I witnessed three customers rushing at the turntable to check what is playing. Record sold! The same thing happened for Andy Summer's XYZ LP , Booker T and the MGs - Green onions ,  Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ,   Buddy Rich, Larry Carlton, Isaac Hayes, Ohio Players, Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain, Air- Moon Safari, Nas- Illmatic and way too many others, some less known, to mention or remember. Mark Knopfler is not in my department unfortunately, but I have witnessed that people do care for good music, through a good audio system and are willing to have it. And despite this :   considering MK underrated, he is very well known and doesn't need any tricks to sell steadily! 

[Jules]

Vgonis, that's my dream job too!

I love High Fidelity, the book. The movie is OK but moving to Chicago the action that happens in London takes out part of the charm...

[vgonis]

Yes, jbaent, I agree! The book was a glorious feel good discovery, which I visualized with my own experiences, (which are far from the UK stereotypes, but even further from the US ones)  while the movie was OK, but didn't quite match the book, in depth or smartness! Of course the casting was brilliant, the Bruce cameo was a surprise and the scene (which I only saw at the cinema but was later cut) with the pissed wife that sells her run with the secretary husband a classic. And the fact that Belle and Sebastian were in there as well. And Lisa Bonnet. 

[Jules]

Oh yes... Lisa Bonet 

John Cusack fits well too.

[National97]

I'm in culinary school training to be a ship's cook, and a part-time musician. Something like Harry from Sultans of Swing.

[vgonis]

Hi, National 97. A very interesting job! I have heard of ship's personnel becoming great artists  on several fields like music, photography, literature etc. It probably has something to do with a life on a ship, long journeys, seclusion like a monk,  that leads to deep inner self analysis, etc. I have considered becoming a sailor some years ago, due to these,  but I guess I didn't have any real knack for it.

[National97]

Hi, National 97. A very interesting job! I have heard of ship's personnel becoming great artists  on several fields like music, photography, literature etc. It probably has something to do with a life on a ship, long journeys, seclusion like a monk,  that leads to deep inner self analysis, etc. I have considered becoming a sailor some years ago, due to these,  but I guess I didn't have any real knack for it.

I know it sounds like such a cliché but there truly is something about the sea that inspires people in their own ways. Fortunately for me it helps fuel songwriting 

[border_reiver]

I am one of those in between "the schools" and "the rules". 

[Throttle]

I am one of those in between "the schools" and "the rules". 

Minister of education? 

[vgonis]

Some kind of consigliere, maybe.   
If you are some sort of education inspector-advisor, and if you don't mind my asking, your function is to gap the differences between the decisions of the "rules" and the needs of the students - parents, or act as a messenger of one or both sides?   

[border_reiver]

Go and listen to TR 

I thought a DS/MK forum would have that reference shot down in a heartbeat