I work in a field related to forest and trail management feeling trees and keeping trails passable for most of the year. During seasonal changes I have lots of down time waiting to switch gears to handling the snow. Don’t have much higher eduction, little college. I study on my own best I can. Philosophy is a great tool for developing inner peace. BTW, am a Stihl man.
What about your professions and educational background?
V
Lookin at computer sciences. Lookin at computer games.
Hi V.
What do you keep the paths open for- people or vehicles or something else? Sounds like good clean energetic work.
I work in a field related to computer management, felling the odd switch and keeping routes open for data packets most of the year 
I work at a computer lab on my campus, and then I am majoring in classical guitar, and I feel philsophy helps me in choices in life and also in music believe it or not.
I work downtown at a nightclub/restaurant as I’m still in school.
I’m a philosophy/journalism major and I write novels when I can let my mind escape the sludgefuck of city energies.
GED here 10 yrs after I dropped out of HS. At the age of 15 I went to work for an electronics plant, at 17 I was promoted as management in the plant, Inventory supervisor til the age of 21. Ran a successful business with husband after that til we dropped out of the city life, in favor of family over money and stress. Now I manage our small farm while he manages a fence business for someone else at a good salary and little stress. We are getting by and happy. Our education is based on high work ethics, experience and a will to learn everything we can about our work. We don’t work just for the check, we work to make profit.
I’m almost completely self-educated, which means I know nothing. Currently working as a joiner/builder and writing a short play for a BBC writing competition that I intend to win.
I do both, but for off road vehicles not big ones.
V
Glad you all are ‘thinking’ at such an early age.
Great work!
I didn’t get started until I was 47 or so, am 53 now.
V (male)
My philosophy, at 19 now, is that “thinking” is a product of struggle or some sort of discontent with one’s world.
I am in the middle of my second year in college and I plan on majoring in philosophy. Currently, I don’t have a job. My future career will probably have nothing to do with philosophy. I’m going to major in philosophy because I value philosophy, and because “the unexamined life is not worth living”.
Why not get a practical major, and do philosophy on your own time?
Because my goals in life differ from yours.
I am currently in the Army. I just returned from a year in Iraq running convoy missions throughout the Baghdad area. I mostly spend work time repairing weapons in the armsroom but my speciality (MOS13B) is artillery crew member: shooting cannons, air assault missions, etc. I’ll probably be looking at another deployment in December of next year but it doesn’t bother me since its more money and a free trip to anywhere in the world. I enjoy my job and I don’t take much mind to popular opinions on the military or war, most people don’t understand it or dismiss soldiers as unintelligent or worthless. Can’t say I disagree with them on that last point but as someone who lives his own life by his own values and ideas I can’t say I’m really in touch with what “the world” has to say.
Hi to All,
My profession is the manager/owner of a family owned marking device company. We make rubber stamps, printed and etched metal nameplates and plastic labels. My education includes a Master of Arts in Mathematics.
I’ve never had a proper education. Back in school I used to read the starry skies above me and do homework on the moral law inside me. I’d take the cogito and put all my things in it, then ride the daily will to power to the neighbourhood agora. My only teachers were a Russian writer and a brown-eyed girl. I grew up in the sound of music and clamour of books, assuming virtues where I had them not, spectating madness and finding method to it. When I grew up I was told there’s not much i can do, but at least I have a quiet conscience. Like a still pond I’ve been absorbing tiny stones for endless years, but now it has come the time to make sparks fly. Mane, tekel, fares.
GED. Retail. By popular political views, a big failure.
As unsuccessful as I am, I’ve always felt smarter than whomever was my boss. And they all seemed to detest me for it.
My eye is on a trade, and run my own business buying items, and assembling for people.
I study philosophy full time, and don’t have a job. I intend to get rich by marketing my B.O. as a cologne, and possibly selling some of my unneeded body organs.
James
I do not consider soldiers foolish nor worthless. I truly wish you weren’t over there, but I’ve very glad we have men and women with the courage and will to do their duty. May your time pass quickly and may you & your comrades return home safely.
As for me, I went to college but didn’t graduate. I took a year off, then got married…it all went haywire after that. 
Ended up becoming a chef, but that’s another story.
I have completed my undergraduate degree majoring in philosophy and ethics. I am now doing an Honours degree. I work part time as a courior, and also make a little bit of money with my metal band.
philosophy + sublimated energy = carthetic thrash metal.
I am a Disney character full time. I am special because while I enjoy the looks on the children’s faces during the fireworks over the magic castle at night, what I prize most are the looks on your adult faces. All the same. A fat redneck with a buzzcut, or a muslim woman in a towel, so different!, yet wearing the same innocent, hopeful expression. (As the fake bombs cast primary colors on funnel-cake greased well-fed chins and cheeks. All twins in this land of the fat.) The infants are also pretty magnificent, ignoring the pyrotechnik and gazing only at the moon, since they are NEVER up so late and never saw the moon before (!) and are like “holy fucking shit,” – dumb infants, yes, but yet, the only ones AWARE enough to see the moon as cooler than fireworks. And that sums up my education. In case yer wondering, I’m Goofy, Mickey and Donald, etc., identity matters little I’ve found, mutable, and in case you didn’t know, it’s a world of laughter, a world of tears, ( a WORLD of TEARS!) a world of hopes, world of fears. (A world of FEARS! This is a kids’ song!) So much that we share, that it’s time we’re aware, it’s a small world after all. ILP helps this process. (When you wish upon a star, your feet melt and then your body vaporizes – better to wish upon a planet.)