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GO TIKI
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Feb 21, 2004
Posts: 603
From: SURF CITY HUNTINGTON BEACH
|  Posted: 2009-06-13 7:08 pm Permalink
I'm all way's intrigued by the people I meet at art shows and just from going to Tiki events, By what people do for a living, Most of the time, Is Wow! I never would have guessed! There is a wide range of people from the well educated to the beach loving leasure life, That I have meet, But we are all " Ohana " And we all have the same passion which brings a very cool diverse group together. Post some pictures of what you do! For a living, And a brief description from start to what your doing today, So we all know what talent is here! I know we will all be Surprised, Don't be Shy! It's OK to boast here too!
I'll start first, Beside making home/hobbyist ceramic art, Out of high school I was a Union Plumber, Then Worked for Apple Computer on the Macintosh Development Team ( Engineering ) Then hated the inside job, Back to construction as a Union Master Sprinkler Fitter Local 669/709, I have a AA degree from Orange Coast Collage and a AA from Penn State in Fire technology, Today my job is to install fire pumps in all the new class "A" buildings built in So. Cal. All the BIG buildings, Pipe Art! Here is my latest masterpiece, Installed by me, The new Hollywood and Vine project:
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RevBambooBen
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 12, 2002
Posts: 7197
From: Huntikington Beach
| Posted: 2009-06-13 8:25 pm Permalink
Besides tiki, I'm a preofessional sleeper!
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khan_tiki_mon
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 15, 2006
Posts: 254
From: Syracuse, NY
| Posted: 2009-06-13 8:32 pm Permalink
GoTiki, what you do is way cooler than what I do. I work in EXCEL all day. Spreadsheets. I move millions of dollars everyday but there is nothing to take a picture of. I find it very unsatisfying. You can point to something you built and that functions and that has purpose. That has got to be an incredible feeling. You should be proud.
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Pyro
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Jan 13, 2006
Posts: 100
From: Orlando, FL
| Posted: 2009-06-13 10:20 pm Permalink
I'm a stagehand. I do lighting, props, and pyro. The jobs vary, the only thing that stays the same is the all black wardrobe required.
Sometimes I live in a tour bus and travel around the world with shows like this
Sometimes I work closer to home with strange guys like this
And sometimes I just end up the butt of a prank backstage.
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Jason Wickedly
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Jan 01, 2008
Posts: 701
From: LBCTIKI
| Posted: 2009-06-15 07:38 am Permalink
I sell paper. Yes really. Like these guys:
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little lost tiki
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Joined: Jun 12, 2006
Posts: 7460
From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
| Posted: 2009-06-15 08:10 am Permalink
When I'm not working for the Department of Defense and CIA Counterintelligence, I work on my memoirs and tinker in the garage (Time Machine prototype). I also work 4 days a week as a Creative Director for a t-shirt company.... And i babysit BigToe there!
he got a "time-out" last week!
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TikiMango
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 798
From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2009-06-15 09:31 am Permalink
No pictures here either, but when I'm not inhaling bone dust or rubbing palm shavings out of my eyes, I do a good job of impersonating a mechanical designer. I've been an R&D/Product Development designer/manager for things like hydraulic wheelchair lifts in vans and trains, disposable insulin pumps, and solid propellant rocket thrusters for Future Combat Systems programs. Ken won't let me join the CIA.
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little lost tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 12, 2006
Posts: 7460
From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
| Posted: 2009-06-15 10:36 am Permalink
THOSE solid propellant rocket thrusters for Future Combat Systems programs
MAY JUST BE THE TICKET for your CIA membership!
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lucas vigor
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Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-06-15 12:34 pm Permalink
Edited because I don't want the mob after me.
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little lost tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 12, 2006
Posts: 7460
From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
| Posted: 2009-06-15 1:50 pm Permalink
and i thought lucas worked for the Tobacco industry....
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MadDogMike
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6400
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-06-15 1:54 pm Permalink
I like this thread, you see all these people online and wonder what they do in their "off-tiki" hours.
For 28 years I've been a Respiratory Therapist or snot-sucker in a small rural hospital. We work with everyone from premature newborns thru old folks on life support. I used to think that I saved lives, now I'm thinking that I just prolong death 
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Clay, the oldest and most divine art media;
"And now, from the clay of the ground, the Lord God formed man" Genesis 2:7
Pirate Ship Tree House
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sneakyjack
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 25, 2004
Posts: 988
From: NYC Area
| Posted: 2009-06-15 3:18 pm Permalink
I do stuff with video cameras like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhQ8HzT37vU
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KvmepXg3E
and work on tv stuff for myself and friends production company in Brooklyn NY- IDOLMAKERFILMS
www.idolmakerfilms.com
sign by Lake -
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=32124&forum=18&hilite=idolmaker
please to be injoyed!
Need anything shot? - we travel the world!
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woofmutt
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 26, 2002
Posts: 2584
From: Seattilite Telstar
| Posted: 2009-06-15 4:20 pm Permalink
"...You see all these people online and wonder what they do in their "off-tiki" hours."
No, I don't.
I'd rather not think of any of you as living breathing beings occupying three dimensions. Just like I do not want to know the inner thoughts of all the strangers I walk past in the real world.
I find it disturbing and creepy.
It also gets in the way of what I have to do for for my job...Something I won't go into in except to say I have fairly good job security cuz the people in Liloti's branch are friggin morons.
My official job is, and always has been, on my profile. I am completely open when totally lying to your face.
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Kiki von Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 01, 2008
Posts: 757
From: Irvine, CA
| Posted: 2009-06-15 4:52 pm Permalink
Kinny, don't forget to work on Li'l Blue's shrink ray while you're at it. She asked me how it's coming along.
As for me - well, I put ink on that paper that Jason sells. Brochures, direct mail, literature, bilboards, advertisements, trade show crap. Need greeting cards made? Need prints of your artwork? I got connections, man. They call it Production Management in the graphics and advertising world. I call it "Producing Landfill Material". Then I go home and play with vintage patterns and draw cute purses and clothes and make new patterns and sew! Yay!
I used to be in the CIA, but I decided to retired early after a particularly exhausting mission this past weekend that took me into the depths of an Orange County dive bar where an Elvis impersonator sang for 5 hours straight. HOT DAMN!
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MadDogMike
Grand Member (3 years)
Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6400
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-06-15 6:15 pm Permalink
SneakyJack, how do you make a living posting YouTube videos? I posted a vid and I never got a single check 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLR0kuTY4BE
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Clay, the oldest and most divine art media;
"And now, from the clay of the ground, the Lord God formed man" Genesis 2:7
Pirate Ship Tree House
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