Moderators, not 100% sure if this is the place to ask this question, so please move if desired.

Fishing is an interesting past time that can transcend a variety of barriers. Fly fishing is a subsection of fishing that may invoke images within the mind of the general population of a past time practiced by a certain segment of the population (ie. social, economic etc ... ). Furthermore, I think the fiberglass rod using population to be an interesting subsection within the fly fishing population. Using your occupation/trade/skill as a generic factor of the fiberglass rod users demographic, I thought it would be an interesting way to get to know each other better and get a better understanding of the fly fishing population. My guess is it will be a wide range of occupations/skills but who knows, I could be wrong.

I can start. The nature of this post falls in line with my occupation as a data manager and epidemiologist (aka researcher) at a university.

I'm a real estate agent and musician. Being self employed means I can fish during the week.

Retired QA chemist for a pharmaceutical company. As a hobby I started building computers, I built and maintain the PC's for my wife's business. Mostly fish a lot though.

Architect and musician.

I fish to leave work behind. I wouldn't list my occupation here.

The great thing about this forum is that it doesn't matter what you do for a living, here it's all about fiberglass rods and that is all that matters.

I am a disability counselor and work with people with a variety of disabilities from brain injuries to folks missing limbs to being blind. Most of them love to fish!

I forgot to mention that I retired after 26 years in law enforcement.

Full time Police Officer of 25 years and (for now) a part-time fly fishing guide.

I retired after 32 years investigating education civil rights complaints for a Federal adminstrative law agency. Although I started fly fishing in 2006, I joined here when I gravitated to glass and bamboo a couple of years ago.

I was a contractor/small fleet owner& driver for an Airfreight company,started having health problems & got out of it. Now I am a school bus driver for a small rural school district. There are 2 great small creeks winding all thru my area I cover. Just made for fishing glass!

Retired Army, 91. Since then, I've been in the facility management business at the University of Georgia.
Jim

I'm a pilot and part time vintage Powell dealer.

Does the DSM have something about constantly dreaming while at work about wondering along creeks with a fiberglass rod catching gills and smallmouth bass? It has prevented me from completing work on time and problems with thinking 3x, 5x and 6x means smaller. Not that that I want to be cured or anything ...

I am a police detective, husband, father, blogger, lawn boy, and whatever other hat I need to wear to get done what's needs done.

Neat to get a glimpse behind the screen names.