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Duke-
Trad climber
SF, CA.
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Nov 22, 2006 - 10:48pm PT
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I take care of a Silverback gorilla named Ndume. It is very interesting work, but hard on the ol' lower back (read lots of cleaning!). -And yes, before you ask, I do study him climbing on the structures everyday. He is a "stemmer rather than a mantler".
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Irisharehere
Trad climber
Gunks
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Nov 22, 2006 - 11:02pm PT
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Well, I'm really happy to update that I'm not longer finishing a Ph.D in Infectious Diseases..........
Bwahahahaahaha........it's Dr. Irish now, thank you very much........
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Hangerlessbolt
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Nov 22, 2006 - 11:07pm PT
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Congratulations!
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Rich the Brit
Trad climber
San Ramon, CA
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Nov 22, 2006 - 11:07pm PT
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BA and MBA
Supply chain and logistics stuff for the tech industry in silicon valley
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Louis
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Nov 23, 2006 - 10:05am PT
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Congratulations Irish!
I didn't answer the question completely last year, so thought I'd do so now.
Professor in Criminology Dept. Research position.
Ph.D. Political Science
M.A. Political Science
M.A. Sociology
B.S. Psychology
Worked my way through college as a civil draftsman. Fun fun!
I have earned the right to wear white socks with black shoes, clothing that fails to match, and uncombed hair. I love that freedom.
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ewto
Mountain climber
slOwHIO
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Nov 23, 2006 - 10:10am PT
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Cop.
(With a side specialty of forensic data recovery and computer crime.)
But when you really get down to it... Cop.
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BV
Trad climber
Reno
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Nov 24, 2006 - 12:20am PT
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Retail whore
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snakefoot
climber
cali
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Nov 24, 2006 - 11:20am PT
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MD, part time crag rat
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xtrmecat
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Nov 24, 2006 - 12:42pm PT
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Heavy equipment mechanic/electrician.
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Duke-
Trad climber
SF, CA.
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Nov 24, 2006 - 10:37pm PT
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LEB
Duke,
"That is great! What are they like? Can you comment a bit about how they are. Exactly how "smart" are they and what are their personalities like? They must be incredibly strong. Can you go right in there with them and even touch them or is that too dangerous? Please tell more! Do you work with other primates? How do they compare?"
Yes- It is really cool. You should have seen my "boy" yesterday after his turkey dinner! Power food! He was soooo psyched that I could barely keep up with him. How "Smart"? Well, I would say that he has the intelligence of ruffly a 7-10 year old autistic child. He is extremely intuitive and emotionally sensitive. And yes, he is brutally strong! He weighs in at 450 lbs and stands at 5'6, while I am 165lbs and 5.9. We play chase and tug o war every day, and well, he wins when he wants to (Filthy little cheater though-LOL). But I get to bust out all the human tricks that he never learned in school. Like letting the towel go when he really tugs. Ha ha ha. He loves it! We have one more gorilla, female, but I don't work much with her. But that is fine with me, this one keeps me in fighting shape!
I am glad that you are interested, should I post a thread?
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Jay Hack
Trad climber
bellingham, Washington
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Nov 24, 2006 - 11:53pm PT
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Mountain guide for 5 years for AAI, now I'm a financial advisor
BA-Political Science
MBA-Finance
The Best part about this thread is seeing the diversity in careers/lifestyles that make up the climbing community!
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Aya
Uncategorizable climber
New York
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Nov 25, 2006 - 12:00pm PT
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I'm a total aimless drifter. I currently live with my mother and take undergraduate classes because I want to apply to veterinary school. In the meantime, since I finished my B.S. in Biology (Ivy league, no less!), I have, for income, done the following:
 worked as a lab tech making transgenic mice at Stanford
worked at a climbing gym in Santa Clara
worked as a retail slave at Eastern Mountain Sports (that's ongoing - I've worked at 4 different stores now - depends on where I'm living at the time)
Been a substitute/assistant middle/high school teacher (biology, math, art, you name it)
managed two different climbing walls in NYC
started a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary biology at one of the top such programs in the country, lasted about 4.5 years before tiring of academia, quit with a masters.
taught various biology courses whilst a grad student to "support" myself. Yeah, right. $12k a year is going to work in Suffolk County an hour outside of NYC, isn't it? That's where EMS came in again
been a biology tutor
played gigs filling in with orchestras (I play the violin)
sold $1,000,000 condos in Rockaway Park
been a field biologist for an environmental consulting company in the Hamptons
worked as a recruiter for Lehman Brothers
been a bartender
worked one of the top animal hospitals in the country as a vet assistant
It saddens me that I'm going to be 30 in about a month and I still live with my mother and sometimes need her to buy my groceries and whatnot because I can't support myself and jump through the hoops I need to jump through to actually go to vet school, but on the other hand, I've had some pretty fantastic experiences I wouldn't have had otherwise, and that's pretty important, too.
I'm going to go ahead and blame my undergraduate institution, because I honestly do not know a single person who went there who got out of college and knew what they wanted to do, and did it. We're all drifters, trying stuff out, etc - my best friend was a double major in biology and latin; she spent a couple years after school in wyoming working as a ranch hand, and now lives in LA trying to make it as an actress. Another friend worked as an editor at the Providence Phoenix taking all the escort ads, and now works for one of the scholarship programs at URI. Is it underachieving? I don't know.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Nov 25, 2006 - 01:42pm PT
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Yeah, but, Aya, what if you woke up at age thirty and hadn't done all that stuff?
Looks like a life well lived, to me.
Not knowing where you're going means you can never be lost.
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Tom the Cop
Sport climber
Northern Virginia
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Nov 25, 2006 - 11:50pm PT
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Guess what I do!
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Nov 26, 2006 - 01:56am PT
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Smoke like a chimney, drink like a fish, completely un-employable so I became an entrepenuer (hope that's spelled right) with a modicum of success. Now I owe the gov almost 20K in back taxes, hope no one here is an IRS agent.
Also, I play a superhero on the internet.
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Nov 26, 2006 - 02:34pm PT
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I did various forms of manual labor until I was almost killed in an industrial accident in a crap job, and desk work suddenly looked pretty tempting. I put myself through college as a swim coach, programmer, and economic analyst. Stayed around for graduate school in operations research and slid into telecommunications engineering. I worked in a corporate research lab managing a group that did telecommunications, signal processing, and software engineering research. Went through an early mid-life crisis after a divorce and went to work as a grassroots organizer for a human rights organization. I stayed with them doing political advocacy and running their Internet operations. I then ran a small nonprofit for a few years, and now work running online campaigns for progressive causes.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Nov 26, 2006 - 03:55pm PT
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When I first responded to this thread a year ago, I was designing and building custom furniture.
However, after 17 years alone in a one-man-workshop, I am now working as an Outdoor Ed teacher at an alternative high school for boys that would otherwise fail miserably at life.
It is kind of a "hoods in the woods" program for students who can't tell a real life thrill from a chemically induced one.
I make a fraction of my former salary, but get a much greater reward for my efforts.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Nov 26, 2006 - 05:57pm PT
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B.A. in Political Science (Montana State U.)--helped build a 10,000 sq.ft. English "Tudor" in Montecito, CA; went on to build and run a climbing gym, then installed and refinished wood floors. Lastly, delivered high-end furniture to Big Sky clients, then "retired" to being a Stay-at-Home-Dad (SAHD) in Butte, MT and let my wife bring home the bread for awhile. Climb on.
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Nov 26, 2006 - 06:58pm PT
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Video Store Owner.
Hey Dave, is this you to whom I owe a caribener that I dropped in TM-you guided me on West Crack in September?
Fun Day!
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