What Is Your Profession?

[Sleebus]

I'm a Senior Estimator in Oil and Gas. I work for one of the owner companies. I was the only person using one until I spotted our procurement manager using one, a Lamy Safari.

[jrmekrn]

I'm a Mechanical Engineering Manager/Mechanical Designer but I mostly use my pens to write out passages for memorization purposes. No one else I work with uses fountain pens but I do know one other person that uses them currently, my wife's cousin.

[wspohn]

Retired solicitor here, so a profession dependent on the written word and its interpretation.

[SandPiper]

1.) Misionero

2.) Chief cigar smoker & podcaster (not really a job, but a passion I rather enjoy )

3.) Budding fountain pen enthusiast....well, at least a user if not an enthusiast....I tend to be more utilitarian in most of my interests

Edited February 16, 2017 by SandPiper

[fullfederhalter]

I am recently retired, but worked for the majority of my career as a Human Resources Manager in state government. I only encountered one person in 35 years who regularly used a fountain pen at work.

[Jerome Tarshis]

I am a substantially retired art journalist who still writes a few pieces from time to time. Before that, a medical journalist writing for the profession. And an editorial worker on magazines. Unlike many who post to FPN, I've gotten to see many fountain pens used by people in my occupational milieu. Artists and writers and graphic designers all tend to be interested in writing instruments, or let us say mark-making instruments. Quite a few of them write with at least one fountain pen, and some turn into pen nuts. (Not to exclude ink and paper nuttiness.) I wouldn't say it's just like the 1940s, but sighting a fountain pen hasn't been a rare experience.

[Brettman]

Full time professor for a local commuinity college in product development

[sanyalsoumitra]

Very interesting thread indeed..Unlike anything seen before.

I work in merchant Navy as a Chief Engineer.

Love fountain pens..Buy a lot of low cost pens and make some at home when on vacation.

My work makes me write maintenance and damage reports only...And all are done using keyboard and ball pens.

Using fountain pens only for my personal hobby stuff like writing pen review etc.

That said, I don't have a real daily use of fountain pens.

I use fountain pens to keep my handwriting and happiness in shape.

[ArtofEricGunty]

I'm a leatherworker, and graphic artist who runs a small business. My partner is actually the one who got me interested in fountain pens and roller balls. Other than him I don't know anyone who uses them.

[praxim]

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I use fountain pens to keep my handwriting and happiness in shape.

 

I like that.

[proflady]

Another professor, English. I teach at a small liberal arts college, and I also engage in research.

 

Yes, I use my fountain pens to grade, although I type my final comments on papers. I also use them to take notes at meetings and for research and for all kinds of fun not related to my job.

Edited March 6, 2017 by proflady

[Papermint]

I'm a media designer.

[F_Salmon]

A struggling Journalism student. With most of my friends don't even bring their own pens, it's almost impossible to find anyone using fountain pen other than myself.

[mikey_abz]

Oil & Gas industry, working on an FPSO in the North Sea (former Merchant Navy Deck Officer).....I have a few ballpoint pens at work (for my office & overall pocket). I keep my Fountain pens at home or if I'm going on a course/office based.

[fatalelement]

Third year law student/brand new litigation associate, just getting ready to start studying for the bar, and also working part-time at the firm I'm joining when I graduate. I was an engineer and specialize in patent litigation.

 

Luckily, I work in one of the few industries that still has a lot of people with fountain pens. It's still very uncommon, the managing partner has a Duofold and another guy has an Omas. But almost all of my coworkers don't bother, and even the two that do use them only for signing. I do see in client meetings or joint defense group meetings the odd partner or client who still uses one, and they usually light up when they see me, someone under the age of 30, with a small pen case of them.

[pajaro]

Retired IT serf.

[jkingrph]

I'm a retired family doc. All through my career I used ball-point pens as I hadn't yet discovered the proper way of writing. But then, a lot of my handwriting was on various hospital forms that said, "Press hard. You're making three copies".

 

I understand that! I'm a retired pharmacist. My first ten years I was an Air Force pharmacy officer and in those days it was many multi part forms with carbon paper so it was the required ballpoint, in black, because in those days blue did not copy well unless you used a yellow celluloid carrier sheet. I carried the ballpoint habit over for many years before rediscovering fountain pens, which I had used all through college, a Sheaffer Imperial cartridge pen and a Parker 51 ( Dad was in the office equipment business so they were affordable).

[GuilhermeAtencio]

I'm a biologist.

People in the lab give me funny looks when they see I am using a fountain pen, because people hardly ever hand write anymore...

[Ontha1two]

Talent acquisition manager at a small company in the Silicon Valley. I take all my notes with FPs and especially love all my color coded scrawl. It's especially handy when I'm taking notes during interviews as the deliberate unscrewing allows me to formulate a better interrogation strategy (jk nobody I know personally owns a FP but some of the admins do enjoy good stationary and gel pens.

[Inksomnia]

University student on mechanical engineering in field of mechatronics. Currently doing my master thesis, so graduating soon. Never seen anyone else to use fountain pen in university.