What do you do - For a living.

I'm a Shaft Ventilation Engineer, currently on a Platinum mine, but have been involved on Gold and Diamond mines as well....

It basically entails the supply and control of ventilating air for the underground section of a mine to remove pollutants and gases (maintaining livable temperatures and environment) and then also to do with elliminating all kinds of pollutants associated with mining operations and any other aspect that has to do with occupational hygienne.

What do you do for a living, and what does it entail???

 

Student/Photographer/Photography student

I photograph a lot of weddings mostly but I will be specializing in commercial advertising and advertising design.

I basically get booked by couples to shoot their wedding/reception photos for like 5 hours or so. You really become a food guru once you attended 50+ weddings a year.

Nothing difficult about my job. I love it so much that I see it as having fun and getting paid for it!

TM

 

Work at a nursery/ aquarium shop. I sell mostly fish and help out with the plants. Been there for nearly 6 months.

 

Student!! part time tutor but looking for something better(because pay is not enough lol).

 

Studied nature conservation @ Saasveld in George,but never worked in it....started working @ my LPS when I was 14...so after studying,went back to what I knew...joined a good koi outlet in Cape Town where I was for 8 years....Then retail manager of a large specialist aquarium and koi store in Fourways for 4 years....Left that and had my own little Restuarant in a tiny Eastern Cape rural town - a year ago moved back to Pretoria where I now own my own koi shop run from an exclusive cycad nursery...Do some exportation of cycads around the world for the nursery as well as sales/plant I.D / general cycad advice....One of the lucky few to have my hobby as my job....

 

PC Engeneer, Software Developer and Web Developer. And it is not easy!!

 

Petstore assistant - fish department. Also a student.

 

Have to love getting things at cost 8P

 

Photobook Production Manager - People create there own photobooks using our software and I produce the books

 

Instrument Mech/Gas Practioner

 

Sound engineer, I make tv ads radio ads movies dramas documentaries... And anything sound related really...

Same as Slagter if he is still around! Lol

 

Project Management Professional in the construction industry.

 

Wow, everybody has really successful careers going. Makes me wonder about the affordability of this hobby.

Any DEAT member would like to list what they do for a living . . . ?

 

@ Tankmaster -> Ex DEAT ...lol - sometimes wished i stayed with it,seeing what they earn now....Guess that if I saved what I made and respent on fish from the age of 7....might be retired at 35.....lol....one thing we can say 'bout our hobby (when we do it @ a high tech,best equipment level...) is that it doesn't come CHEAP!!!!

 

Yeah I know what you are saying . . . Ordered a Fluval U3 and E100 from the UK . . will only arrive in February to get it in SA it costs R900+ for the filter and R300+ for the heater . . . lol...don't ask me why I want it .

 

I work for a company that build and manage hospitals from A-Z

Im responsible from A-M the requirement of the property uptill the first patients arive

 

@ tankmaster: Just what I said....Once you get past killing guppies/neons and angels from your LPS (not even mentioning mixing them with with that "cute" little Oscar....) and start getting into "real" fishkeeping,do you realise that the paycheck don't quite meet your aspirations....

PS:Remeber,you still gotta pay import duties on those orders,THATS the REAL killer....

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Hey S/A - like it - go for it....

 

Communications Specialist (Audio,Video,Data)

 

Hehe,

My cousin just called . . .He is coming down from the UK (somewhere in Derby) in December (If he has time) or definitely in February . . . Awesomeness!!!

Might have to tell him to be extra careful with the heater . .

Anyone breed fish for a living besides azurekoi?

 

Too young to get a job but i prob be working with filters like my parents.