What Is Your Profession?

[praxim]

Retired, I do not recall whether other people used fountain pens because that was not a significant thing as it is here and now. Easier than explaining what I did, I engaged regularly with a variety of senior managers to CEOs of different companies, not to mention lawyers, so I guess some of them used fountain pens. I am pretty sure all the more technically oriented people among clients or staff used ballpoints.

[DubVulture]

Engineer (Aeronautical) and each time I look I see more and more fp users: it's great to see. Mostly Lamys and Parkers.

[inkstainedruth]

Housewife. Graphic artist by training but all my job skills are obsolete. Head cashier and part time-bookkeeper (also transportation crew chief and sometimes shopper) for my husband's sideline business/midlife crisis (he's a software engineer, but runs a mobile bakery on the side -- I suppose it's better than him buying a Camaro, in that it generally *makes* money, but I wouldn't have to do stuff for a muscle car other than taking it in for oil changes...).

Additionally I am the (sole) trustee for a trust fund. Which is not nearly as glamorous as it sounds....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sanjinp]

Currently proof-reader, previously film critic, editor, copywriter...

[flipper_gv]

Software engineer.

[Peregrinator]

I work as a logger, using horses most of the time to extract timber. Can't say I know of any others.

[ParkerDuofold]

Middle management, (situated right below the VPs), of a medium sized, service oriented American Corporation. I think im the only one in the building that uses a fp ... but I keep hoping to change that.

 

- Anthony

[MissChief]

I work in a print shop (CSR). Generally speaking, we use pencils more than pens. I do love my mechanical pencils. Best part about the job is that I have access to all the paper I want. 20 lb. copier bond, though, isn't the most FP friendly.

[sidthecat]

Hey, Kataphract!

I wonder if you know Bob Wallace, who's also retired but still does a bit of this and that for JPL.

I'm an animation professional, and I work with a stylus on a Cintiq, but when I write, I use a fountain pen. I go to meetings with one as well, cause you have to make the odd note.

[aeba]

I don't have a job, I have a hobby: internal IT-help desking for certain company. No-one else in the house uses fountain pens.

[Kataphract]

Hey, Kataphract!

I wonder if you know Bob Wallace, who's also retired but still does a bit of this and that for JPL.

I'm an animation professional, and I work with a stylus on a Cintiq, but when I write, I use a fountain pen. I go to meetings with one as well, cause you have to make the odd note.

Doesn't ring any bells - my father in law is the one who would have known everyone.

 

I have a cheap stylus for my computer (Huion), but haven't used it much yet.

[dgerson]

Psychologist by training; hospital administrator at present time. I have one colleague who also uses fountain pens. Our attempts to convert others have never been fruitful.

[AGxM]

Regional Facilities Manager, currently looking after a banking client with over 6 million sq ft of branches, offices and data centres.......yes I'm the only fp user

[langere]

Working historian, who works on Latin America. Also, a professor. Have one of my grad students use fountain pens and hope to convert others (the one who is using them already had one).

 

Erick

[WaskiSquirrel]

I teach science and math in a small rural high school. I have two students who make fountain pens (and ballpoints). I also have quite a number of students who use fountain pens. I don't know if I can take any credit for it, but it's pretty fun to see.

[Arkanabar]

From my post in the previous thread, referenced by Freddy:

I was studying chemical engineering at university when I bought my first FPs. They got lost over the moves that came after dropping out, and I went back to mostly using mechanical pencils for writing. I was waiting tables when I rediscovered fountain pens, and also running a table top, pen and paper fantasy RPG, which took a lot of writing, especially since when I was playing instead of running, I was always the one who took the notes. Eventually, I went to work in a sock factory, but as that declined, I went back to school, got my RHIT, and now I'm the medical records coordinator for a critical access behavioral health agency, which is to say, I'm a file clerk.

 

I've since lost the file clerk job, where I converted at least one or two others to use of fountain pens. I decided to go into a field with a lot more demand than health information management, to wit, nursing. I'm now a CNA, and I generally carry two pens: one of my FPs, and a chrome-plated stylus ballpoint.

[Ranger14]

Tri-axle driver for asphalt and paving

[chromantic]

Hotel night auditor. I'm the only FP user. I've given pens to a few co-workers but I think they were mainly interested for the colored inks and I haven't seen them using them since their manager dictated blue or black only.

[TSherbs]

another teacher here

 

one colleague uses a fountain pen (caught the disease from me)

 

a handful of students, but I do not promote the purchasing of anything, except books, among my students

[gryphon1911]

Software Development Specialist and Professional Photographer