Professions And Fountain Pens

[DavidB]

Hey, I was wondering, who are fountain pen users in "real" life? What professions are represented by we zealous fountain pen users here on FPN? Let's take a quick poll and find out! If you've done lots of things, choose multiple answers, and if you're not represented by the short list of choices I listed, please tell us what you -do- do.

 

Also, do you know many other people in your profession that use fountain pens?

 

DavidB.

 

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Drat - this was supposed to be a poll, but I must have goofed it up somehow. Oh well, let's go ahead anyway!

Edited March 28, 2011 by DavidB

[jniforat]

Currently -- Undergraduate student.

August 2011 & on -- Graduate student.

Sometime after that -- medical student.

[Brian C]

Corrections in Kingman Arizona...yup, the escape prison. Fountain pens are NOT encouraged there which is why 51's work out well there.

[FLJeepGuy]

You may want to check out this thread here on FPN: Another Similar Thread

[OMASmaniac]

Currently: student / working-for-free-hoping-to-become-a-journalist-one-day

My father is a doctor, though, and he's always used a FP.

My mother (a P.E. teacher) occasionally uses FPs

My uncle, the director of a local government, uses a MB and an Omas.

 

[Nitesiter07]

Entrepreneur and Government Employee

 

I know noone else that uses a fountain pen... :-(

[Pensfan]

Semi-retired IT Project Manager currently. Perhaps looking to join my fellow ministers here on FPN and looking into full time ministry in the next few years.

 

My wife is a Starbucks supervisor and sort of vaguely interested in my pens. Perhaps when she runs her own store she will get one. haha

 

[French]

molecular biologist

[bigmac53]

Full Time Student currently.

 

I have a tentative Construction Management job lined up after I graduate in a couple of months though.

[imerali]

Software Engineer

 

slowly indoctrinating my contemporaries in the IT field. Won one over a few weeks ago!

[MikenLamy]

Pharm Tech! I use a fountain pen at least every 5 minutes and so does the Pharmacist.

Coming this fall, my work is paying for a few semesters of school, doesn't get any better then that..

[mike2559]

I'm a student. I have 3 friends who use fountain pens.

[WriterJP]

Currently: Specialist in medical information at a large pharmaceutical company.

 

Future: Pharmacist.

[funkypeanut]

Dotty academic. Most people use the cheap stick ballpoints the administration gives us as a welcome back gift in the fall. I've always given mine away to students who showed up to class without pens. If it doesn't write, I tell them that it has to work because the dean gave it to me.

[alexander_k]

I guess that it's people who write a lot and hence appreciate the ergonomic advantages and higher quality of fountain pens. Also they should have the money for not just buying fountain pens and inks (that's the easy part) but also for turning a simple thing into a hobby, possibly an obsession (so they have lots of leisure time too) that leads them to join FPN.

[greencobra]

:roflmho: I don't see any connection here, we're a mixed up bunch, ya think? I'm a professional..drum roll..JELL-O maker!

[chelsa]

General practice Physician.

One of my sons, 14 yo, is also interested in FP's. He threw away the first one I gave him because the ink had finished!

[wmfowler]

Director of Marketing for a small rianwear and outerwear company. Love taking notes and jotting marketing jargon with my FP's. I just find excuses to write things with FP's. It's so much fun!

[Guest Subvet642]

Security Officer at a Harvard teaching hospital.

[skimminst]

IT systems engineer.

 

I think for taking notes a fountain pen is a good tool in almost every profession.