What Is Your Profession?

[TSherbs]

procrastinator

[alanshutko]

Software developer. Basically don't use the pens at work at all.

[inkstainedruth]

I'm a technical writer by day. I don't get a chance to handwrite much at my current job, so I bring my pens out to play in the evenings when I (try to) write fiction.

 

I have a friend who isn't on here, but she's a tech writer for some sort of engineering firm. She has five Levenger pens (all in different colors) and she matches the ink color to the pen. Her co-workers thought it was "cute" until they realized that there was a method to her madness -- she would take notes at meetings color coding them to the piece of the project and who was going to be working on what part of it. Then, (being engineers) they said "Oh.... We get it now...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

That would work well for mind mapping when planning a writing or some other project.

[Astronymus]

Quick update from my side about my earlier posts from 2017. I finished my final exams last Friday. Success. I may call myself a technical draftsman now.

This were quite hard two years. Usually the training takes three and a half years. Due to my former professional qualifications I was able to take the shortened route and do it in two. Lots of sleep deprivation and time away from home included. I haven't been on the Autobahn that much in more than a decade, I think.

After two weeks of "me time" I'll get a new job in the company that provided me an internship during the time I was learning.

 

Thanks for the best wishes and supply of luck.

 

Two LAMY AL-Stars also helped me during this time. A blue one with a M nib for general writing in LAMY blue and a black one with an EF nib and LAMY black for maths.

[BaronWulfraed]

Software Engineer -- now retired.

 

Once, when a pen got snagged on the pile lining of my coat and fell out (this was before I started using leather pen cases), the employee who found it managed to get it back to me... as I was the only one known to use various pens fancier than BiC, Pentel, or various Sanford products...

[CraigR]

Retired General Manager and CFO for a geotechnical engineering firm.

[drathbun]

I am a retired professor of theatre design and technology. I was the Chairman of a University Department of Theatre and Music. I used all kinds of pens, pencils, brushes and other drawing tools throughout my career (a lot of architectural drawing). I rarely saw anyone using fountain pens but my best friend uses and continues to use fountain pens on a daily basis and after my retirement, I looked into it as a hobby and have fallen down the proverbial rabbit hole.

[Honeybadgers]

Quick update from my side about my earlier posts from 2017. I finished my final exams last Friday. Success. I may call myself a technical draftsman now.

This were quite hard two years. Usually the training takes three and a half years. Due to my former professional qualifications I was able to take the shortened route and do it in two. Lots of sleep deprivation and time away from home included. I haven't been on the Autobahn that much in more than a decade, I think.

After two weeks of "me time" I'll get a new job in the company that provided me an internship during the time I was learning.

 

Thanks for the best wishes and supply of luck.

 

Two LAMY AL-Stars also helped me during this time. A blue one with a M nib for general writing in LAMY blue and a black one with an EF nib and LAMY black for maths.

 

I just took a calculus IV exam yesterday after a 12 hour shift on 36 hours without sleep and felt like I was drunkl.

[Astronymus]

 

I just took a calculus IV exam yesterday after a 12 hour shift on 36 hours without sleep and felt like I was drunkl.

Hehe, I had that once. Yeah, the feeling comes close to it. I hope it did go well anyways.

[by_a_Lady]

Comparative Literature student and librarian. At work, no one else uses fountain pens, but they sometimes comment on my "rainbow arsenal". A small percentage of fountains pens in lectures (maybe half a dozen people out of 200 in the room), and once a girl in a smaller class whom I gifted a big sample vial of Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrün but haven't heard from since. I'd love to organise a little ink bazaar on International Fountain Pen Day in November to introduce people to the hobby, but I'm kind of scared that no one would turn up, or worse, that random people would just come in and manhandle my inks and leave the place a mess.

 

 

Dominique

[Tadeo]

PhD student with a project in computational biology (mostly bioinformatics)

 

My lab's PI uses FPs (Watermans only ) but no one else around at work.

 

My dad is a university professor and he uses a pilot metropolitan I gifted to him. He says one of his colleagues is a hard core FP collector but haven't met him yet.

[Restored]

Computer Programmer for the last 38 years. I've gone from COBOL to Java/Groovy/Grails. I now work for a university. I use pens to write down things I need to remember, like what I am doing.

[Bibliophage]

IT Consultant. I use a variety of FP's on a daily basis for my notes and time sheets. They work better than electronics, and don't require me to find a charging port.

[biancitwo]

Attorney. I receive comments regularly about my beautiful pens and reasonable penmanship. One attorney I’ve worked with used an M800 for all of his writing. A client uses a Pilot Varsity for his signature. I use my pens all day. Only my editing is done on computer. Many like my pens. Virtually no one has taken one up. They don’t know what they are missing.

[Michael F]

Third year law student and soon to be attorney (graduating in May). One of my mentors was an avid fountain pen enthusiast and he sparked my interest in vintage fountain pens. He's the only other attorney I've met that uses fountain pens.

 

I use my pens almost all the time. I do tend to keep a rollerball or two on hand in case someone asks for a pen, which isn't uncommon. I once was arguing a motion with my supervising attorney and his pen ran out of ink. He needed something to write with, and my Platinum 3776 was the only other pen nearby. I watched in horror as he mashed that thing into the paper. Thankfully it survived, but I learned my lesson.

Edited March 5, 2019 by the_punctilio

[Fuzzy_Bear]

Full Time Father to 2 wonderful children!

Full time School Bus Driver.

Full time Maintenance Man.

Contract MS Access database administrator.

Edited March 4, 2019 by Fuzzy_Bear

[Mannyonpil]

Professor of history.

 

Over the years I have known two colleagues to use fountain pens and maybe half a dozen students to use them. I just saw a student in class this morning with a handsome black Lami Safari.

[loganrah]

Philosophy PhD student and sometimes TA or lecturer.

 

Quite a few people in my department use fountain pens regularly (probably 4 or 5 out of 30 grad students), and I've seen a few more with lamy safaris and some other pens that they were probably gifted or trying out arond. Haven't seen an undergrad using one in my classes yet, but they mostly don't take notes in class because everything is recorded now.

[OCArt]

You may have heard about the explosion that rocked several buildings on campus--- before that I was a chemist.