What Is Your Profession?

[Recoil Rob]

Self-employed service technician for several manufacturers of residential and commercial steam baths and whirlpool equipment. I use some Platinum Preppies at work, the good stuff for everything else...

[Honeybadgers]

Medic. I write paper charts for every patient I have. I use all my pens that fit my breast pocket and tend to prefer waterproof inks that don't feather much (usually noodlers heart of darkness) for the terrible paper I usually write on. The lamy 2000 is definitely going into rotation, as I tend to need pens with tapered bodies and small or rounded bottoms to slide easily into my shirt pocket. My damn pilot CH91 gets caught all the time.

 

When I'm sketching or at school, sky's the limit. That's when the visconti comes out.

Edited June 7, 2017 by Honeybadgers

[displacermoose]

Currently in the process of switching careers. I have a PhD in English but can't find a permanent job, so I'm making the transition into income tax. I only rarely seen people using fountain pens at any of the places I've worked.

[kg4wrm]

started in medicine

transitioned to pharm research

now teaching

 

Every semester at least one student notices my fountain pens. Never seen a student use a fountain pen that I did not provide.

[Krulle]

I have an engineering background

 

started my carreer in procurement (negotiating ...) in high tech companies

currently supply chain manager in a high tech company

[inkeverywhere]

I run my own business in the Civil Construction industry. Most folk I work with are more than happy to dip a stick in a muddy pool to write with let alone worry about any sort or pen.

 

The only other person I know personally, in the whole wide world, who uses fountain pens is my brother, he is high up in law enforcement.

 

 

Greg

[cat]

Most folk I work with are more than happy to dip a stick in a muddy pool to write with let alone worry about any sort or pen.

 

The original fountain pen.

 

I'm a carefree cat. My job is catching fish.

[allen_paris]

I am a chief human resource officer. Unfortunately I can use pens only during meeting and as we understood that meeting time is poorly productive we start to cut them down !

[wrkerr]

I retired in 2015 after 30 years of teaching high school Math. I used my fountain pens for anything that needed to be written; notes, quizzes, tests, anything and everything. Never saw another staff member use one.

 

For years I used chalk on the board and later, dry erase markers (which I hated). Then one glorious day we were told that our classrooms would be upgraded to Elmo cameras and projectors. This meant I would 'have' to write on notebook or copy paper under the camera to be projected onto a screen. Blackboards were too 'old-fashioned' you see. Well, needless to say my pens saw WAY more use! And the kids loved seeing the various pens I would use, and a few of them actually bought Lamys and 78G's.

 

Now I struggle to find situations in which to write. I miss all the time spent writing, refilling, cleaning, etc. Suggestions???

[DasKaltblut]

I'm Das, 43, looking for a husband who knows his way around a broad nib and....uh nevermind, I see now this isn't a dating thread for FP users

 

Just got my P.h.D in Linguistics and Language Science, but I used to be a Textile Engineer. I wish I could grade essays with a FP, but I found wonderful erasable gel pens, (Pilot Frixion) and they constantly save my butt because correcting beginner learners of German isn't always a straightforward task!

[AmandaW]

Studied maths at uni but lured into computer graphics (CAD) before finishing because it paid well, then started my own business in design and bromide/film/plate output for print (which is still essentially computer graphics), then let my husband take it over while I went back to school for fine art. Currently feeling lost with no idea what to do next.

[stevekolt]

Retired RN specializing in Spinal Cord Injury and research. Started the medical slant to my career as a US Navy Hospital Corpsman...

[JBroida]

I work with Japanese kitchen knives (selling, sharpening, repairing, restoring, etc.), and because of my obsession with fountain pens, nearly my entire company uses fountain pens all day every day now (except my wife, who uses a brush pen most often).

[mitto]

A retired Director General [(Research) Law, Justice and Human Rights]. A writer, editor and author having more than 50 books and Research Papers on my credit. Used fountain pens exclusivly throughout school, college, university and almost 35 years of my professioal carrier.

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi all,

 

I contributed to this thread before, but my status has changed from my previous statement. I have been promoted from middle management into senior management and have been awarded a gold card for the executive washroom along with the gold-handled mop and bucket.

 

What I say when I have to be serious... I try not to be... primarily because I'm in one of those "ugly industries," (but an industry that keeps us out of Stone Age living conditions); so I don't like to tell people what I do as a whole, but I'll share it with you guys...

 

I'm the VP of Operations for a small to medium sized, privately held corporation specializing in the shipment and storage of hazardous materials.

 

Most of our business involves when ABC Chemicals needs chemical "x" delivered from XYZ Chemical Co., so they can make chemical "y"... we're the ones who get it there... and we get it there without taking half the state off the map. Hundreds of thousands of lives depend on our professionalism everyday... without even realizing it... which is why I have occasional bouts of insomnia.

 

While most of the chemical industry resides in China and India now; there is still a strong market here in Jersey:

 

https://njbmagazine.com/monthly_articles/the-chemical-industry/

 

 

We also act as a local/semi-local cartage service for the stuff that arrives here via containerized freight from overseas for the local chemical manufacturers.

 

 

Be well and enjoy life.

 

 

- Anthony

[ParkerDuofold]

Now I struggle to find situations in which to write. I miss all the time spent writing, refilling, cleaning, etc. Suggestions???

Hello Wrkerr,

 

Thank you for your 30 years of dedicated service. Your skills are desperately needed.

 

Have you ever considered being a private tutor or teaching at a small, private school who generally prefer to hire older, retired teachers?

 

 

- Anthony

[Fermata]

Legal Director/consultant for multinational companies, including compliance across borders. My specialisation is with Construction and Oil Service Companies and some Nuclear work with a UK contractor in Cheshire and that is why I am spending increasing amounts of time at my fathers Yorkshire house despite missing warmer weather back home.

[Hauriant]

High School history teacher here. I just got into FP's recently.

My work environment is a pretty terrible place for fancy pens of any variety. . . everybody has a laptop. All assignments are turned in online, and most of my brainstorming/planning/prep writing is done online and stored for all eternity (or until google decides to vaporize Google Docs!) This is actually a good thing for me because I have discovered that I cannot organize anything on paper to save my life, but I think like a database when given a computer.

I do use pens constantly, but mostly for writing short notes to myself or kids' passes to the nurse's office. We also are awash in cheap ballpoints that nobody really owns (we just use the ones that are present wherever we happen to be).

My areas of interest are medieval Europe and imperial Chinese history, so I stumbled into pens, calligraphy (western and brush) and so forth through that avenue.

[TSherbs]

I retired in 2015 after 30 years of teaching high school Math. I used my fountain pens for anything that needed to be written; notes, quizzes, tests, anything and everything. Never saw another staff member use one.

 

For years I used chalk on the board and later, dry erase markers (which I hated). Then one glorious day we were told that our classrooms would be upgraded to Elmo cameras and projectors. This meant I would 'have' to write on notebook or copy paper under the camera to be projected onto a screen. Blackboards were too 'old-fashioned' you see. Well, needless to say my pens saw WAY more use! And the kids loved seeing the various pens I would use, and a few of them actually bought Lamys and 78G's.

 

Now I struggle to find situations in which to write. I miss all the time spent writing, refilling, cleaning, etc. Suggestions???

 

pen pals, of course

[inkstainedruth]

Now I struggle to find situations in which to write. I miss all the time spent writing, refilling, cleaning, etc. Suggestions???

 

Journaling, laundry lists, filling out checks.... Why not try writing? Fiction/poetry -- or in your case, non-fiction (maybe a textbook?). First drafts certainly can be handwritten.

I use my fountain pens for nearly everything when it comes to writing or drawing (I still do use rollerballs for some specific types of artwork, simply because it's easier).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth