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Claude
climber
where I'll end up
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Jun 10, 2005 - 03:25pm PT
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Work with children and their families at a church.
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Wayne Riely
Big Wall climber
Bend, Oregon
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Jun 10, 2005 - 03:25pm PT
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Brewer; that sums it up.
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Jun 10, 2005 - 03:27pm PT
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BA, American Studies, Wesleyan U. This kind of degree is what happens when you're not into being in school but finish up cuz it's what folks expect. The principal value of this kind of study is that it teaches you healthy skepticism; i.e. how to ask the right questions.
I sell Christmas trees, which I guess makes me an entrepreneur of sorts, and I teach Outward Bound courses. The latter is vastly more rewarding, but the former makes it all possible. This leaves me with lots of free time, which I generally do not fill with smoking and drinking but rather with running around outside and exploring.
The tree gig has sustained me for many years of happy dirtbaging, but it bores me now, and I'm no longer a dirtbag. Trapped by the money, or my own lack of initiative/imagination. I think perhaps everyone who loves freedom and exploration should have a 6-week job that pays the bills for a year, but beware of the costs of that freedom!
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Nate D
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Jun 10, 2005 - 03:32pm PT
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When my wife worked full-time as an ER nurse, she met many doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel who climbed. She found it interesting that individuals with careers primarily concerned with the "safety" and health of others would participate in a "high-risk" sport. Maybe they all know too well that life is too short.
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arg
Trad climber
buenosaires
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Jun 10, 2005 - 03:44pm PT
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Bartender.
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Jun 10, 2005 - 04:52pm PT
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Oh, and Congressman Mark Udall is a climber. Don't know of any others.
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dmitry
Trad climber
Chita, Russia
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Jun 10, 2005 - 05:14pm PT
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Please stop attaching you whole damn CV's folks: nobody cares THAT much.
MA in linguistics from Russia/China
MBA from the US.
Used to teach college; now back in the private industry dealing with Rx Drugs stuff this time.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 10, 2005 - 05:19pm PT
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I mop floors at the "Fresno Men's Circle Jerk" clubhouse.
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Nor Cal
Trad climber
San Mateo
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Jun 10, 2005 - 05:39pm PT
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Laser delivery device technician. I repair various laser delivery device that are used for dermatology and opthalmology.
Still going to school and working towards BS.
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Joe Metz
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Jun 10, 2005 - 06:29pm PT
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Originally went to school to study geophysics. Ended up being a more-or-less perpetual student and working for 30 years in computer hardware and software engineering. I finally graduated from college a few years ago, with a BS in applied and computational math, minor in physics.
I think many people who climb were interested in climbing before they entered college. So maybe it's the other way around: people who are inclined to climb also tend to be interested enough in the hard sciences to tough it out through college.
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Ammon
Big Wall climber
Lake Arrowhead
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Jun 10, 2005 - 09:34pm PT
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I climb around in the steel, hang in my harness a lot, pull heavy stuff up (sound panels) and attach it to I-beams. They call it theatrical/industrial rigging but that's just a word to glamorize the whole mess.
It's kind of like everything you hate about wall climbing, mixed into a huge pot of suffer-fest.
Here I am at a small job in North Carolina:
It's not as fun as it looks, believe me.
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 10, 2005 - 10:08pm PT
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So Ammon
I see a figure eight hanging from your harness. You must be old school? And climbing I beams with very sharp right angle edges, please be careful with your tendons in your hands and fingers.
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Matt Greenwood
climber
Portland, OR
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Jun 18, 2005 - 04:27pm PT
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It seems like a lot climbers have good paying jobs. I wish this was true for me.
I got out of the Navy in 1990 and after months of unemployment I became a welder, then in 1993 worked as a turbine millwright. Which is contract work doing maintenance on gas and steam turbines for power generation and in 1997 I became tired of 84 hour work weeks and I started college. This is where I discover that I was a boring person. Therefore, I took a beginning rock climbing class at the college and I found it interesting. Then during a Sturgis motorcycle rally (2001) I went to Devil’s Tower and I decided to take more rock climbing classes and return. A year later I climbed Devil’s Tower.
This year I got my BS in Business, Supply and Logistics Management and I am in the Oregon Army National Guard.
I am currently unemployed do to a repelling accident. I repelled upside-down from a 100ft high roof, dropping as fast as I could. My break hand hit a hand rail, which knocked the rope out of my hand and I slammed into the sidewalk.
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addiroid
Big Wall climber
Long Beach, CA
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Jun 18, 2005 - 06:07pm PT
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BS in Exercise Science.
8 months of medical school.
2 years of Personal Training / Construction / Tons of climbing / Finding the meaning of life (hint: It's not in a bottle).
Now I am getting my Master's in Physical Therapy with a Doctorate to follow. I really want to get a BS in Business but not sure if I will or not.
I surf more than I climb now, but still get on big stuff when I have long breaks. Managed the NA a month ago, and planning on some stuff in the Sierras in August. Congrats to everyone who has made it in their careers and still kept their fitness up enough to climb hard!!!
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guavajelly57
Trad climber
berkeley
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Jun 18, 2005 - 06:38pm PT
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BA in religion
MA in Mideival History
former proffesional alpine ski racing coach,
now I've just started my own handyman/ carpentry bussiness and studying to get my contractors license.
finishing an article to publish and planning on my PhD in few years.
"love and do what you will"
-St. Augustine
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salad
climber
San Diego
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Jun 23, 2005 - 02:20pm PT
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PeopleSoft Technical Consultant
BS Information Systems, Chico State
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Jun 23, 2005 - 02:35pm PT
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I always heard if you have a job your a recreational climber,
if you have a part-time job your a part-time climber, and if you don't work your finally a full time climber.
For the record I have been a personal trainer, substitute teacher, and now am trying to be a pharmacist.
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Mig
Trad climber
Coimbra, Portugal
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Jun 24, 2005 - 09:03am PT
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Forestry Engineer!
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mso4 Man
Trad climber
Western MA
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Jun 24, 2005 - 11:16am PT
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Surgeon
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jun 24, 2005 - 02:31pm PT
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Congrats on the promotion, AndyG!
My educational and occupational pigeon hole would be PhD Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BS Microbiology, BA Chemistry and French. I like school. I've been researching Mad Cow Disease to earn my keep of late.
Climbing was a major factor in my loosing interest in partying. A glass of wine with dinner is fine. However, I'm an incredibly low functioning substance abuser, and I'd rather climb than waste a day feeling gnarly...which is what ends up happening anytime I forget that party treats don't usually give me the desired effect.
Although one might mistake me for a hippy on a bad day, I would probably be better described as a Type A slob.
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