Regarding Fountain Pen Addicts

[Draco98]

Naval Officer

 

Haven't found many peers using FPs, but I enjoy mine.

[lws]

Most users of the fountainpennetwork are Bankers, Lawyers, Doctors, Professors and/or Artists/Writers.

 

Please affirm/deny my claim.

 

And engineers.

 

- L.

[PenFan95]

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/0327011828.jpg

 

Nice handwriting you've got there Which pen did you use?

[PenFan95]

High school student by day...

 

Batman by night!

 

Well, I'm your worst nightmare in my spare time, too

Edited April 14, 2011 by PenFan95

[Nobel]

Banker.

 

I would have said good guess if I found that my colleagues use fountain pens, but they don't. Not a single one of them, so I would say it's probably coincendence.

[Moppeh]

Music student. But I've been using fountain pens exclusively since I was in elementary school.

[icecrystal]

Aha! Nurse and journalist...got me

[clmurphy]

College engineering and mathematics professor (yes, I am that rare weirdo that got multiple degrees and teaches in two departments).

 

When I post extra notes online it is nice to have the variety of colors and line widths available to add notes and contrast to a graph or an explanation.

 

I teach on a satellite campus of my institution, and I am the only person on that entire campus that uses FP. The math department has 14 full-time faculty, also the only one that uses FP. College engineering department has upwards of 20 full-time faculty, also the only one that uses FP. Not sure if your professor label is that accurate. At a college with enrollment over 15,000 I have yet to run into another faculty member that is a FP user. Doesn't mean they aren't there, I just haven't run into them.

 

My 2 cents...

Edited April 16, 2011 by clmurphy

[flight878]

Electrical Engineer.

 

Nobody but me uses fountain pens at my place of work unfortunately, just the common writing implements one would find at a nearby big-box office supply store. Pilot G-2s are ordered in bulk, and mostly in blue...

[EdBurke]

 

 

Let’s see I am the President of a brand new and soon-to-benot-for-profit, underfunded, of course. I am Vice President of a foundationboard of directors for an underfunded historically important mansion. I am acurrent member of the Steering Committee of a soon to be fully established NationalHeritage Area which like all wonderful things will end up underfunded. Former vice-chair of a state commissionfor the bicentennial of Illinois’ favorite son and home state hero-President; acommission that did the best it could with the money allocated and that wasvery good compared to some other out-of-state commissions (not Kentucky orIndiana who did fine jobs as well). I have given speeches and turned every honorarium over to anot-for-profits. In my spare timeI serve on a pair of state community college and higher education panels. None of this makes me a penny and infact cost me a thousand dollars or so a year, but I love doing it. So in my spare, spare time I am ahistory professor in an unassuming town in central Illinois.

 

 

 

 

So a professor and a compulsively busyone since the two sons I raised are launched. I know one fountain pen enthusiast and he is not a professor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[porifra]

another college student here:)

[Ethereal Winter Wind]

I wouldn't say I'm an adict just yet (or I'm just in denial) but I'm a University student studying engineering and science, two subjects not known for their beautiful hand writing

[dcpritch]

... I know one fountain pen enthusiast ...

 

I find it amazing how many in the FP community have a similar experience. I've used FPs for twenty years now and over that period of time, in literally hundreds of meetings with lawyers, judges, boards, councils and the like, I have never ONCE actually seen a FP in use by another person, and in a field that is supposedly teeming with FP users. I use FPs exclusively and, like many others, find FPN to be a unique and refreshing place; although we often find ourselves alone in our appreciation of fine writing instruments, FPN makes me feel less unusual.

[Dan Solomon]

Lutheran Pastor.

[humblescribbler]

Most users of the fountainpennetwork are Bankers, Lawyers, Doctors, Professors and/or Artists/Writers.

 

Please affirm/deny my claim.

 

OMG you nailed it! I am all of these.

[UltraMagnus]

I don't think I have ever seen so many vicars on one forum :roflmho:

[Rasendyll]

Moderately senior Univeristy administrator...and part time artist, got me I guess

[jar]

Retired but in other lives an optician, shuttle bus driver, night watchman, cable television systems designer, IT (management, systems and network design, programming, installation, maintenance, end user support), computer sales, car salesman, writer, poet, and likely many I neglected to mention.

[NMRed]

General Manager for a Toyota Dealership. I'm surrounded by Sharpie users

[Hohn]

Most users of the fountainpennetwork are Bankers, Lawyers, Doctors, Professors and/or Artists/Writers.

 

Please affirm/deny my claim.

I can be any of those things on the internet.

 

 

I'm none of those.

 

BUT, I *did* stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.