you speak of?

and currently unemployed, but Mr Hepworth if you have any vacancies I would be more than willing to start at the bottom making cups of tea.

..........................

I buy stuff for a living. Only blog on Word and mainly in the evening (and even that can be a struggle with young kids and a partial life). Will check on the Word site on the odd occasion at work and maybe do a bit whilst grabbing a sandwich al desko. Back to work it is for me now.

(Why do we always have to wait for so long to see Mr Path, I'm sure my appointment card says 10.15. Mind you, he's ever so busy, poor lamb.....)
Loadsa shorts during the day, occasinal longs at lunchtime and rare w/e forys online at home, when not scouring for rare unheard cover versions of Wynder K. Frog.....

and I am also a photographer of the "struggling" variety. I am currently in Italy taking photographs for an exhibition I intend to put on in Oxford and Florence next year.

...in a job I actually like (!), monitoring media in Australia. Basically, I get paid to watch TV, read newspapers and listen to the radio.

So here's another 'resting' business consultant and victim of the credit crunch.

But let me put another angle on it:

Can I sue someone?

The only time I stop is when I get told off by another blogger and go into a fortnight's downward despressive spiral.

living in a dormant volcano somewhere off the coast of Java. My white cat likes the climate here. I am currently planning world domination by the year 2012, eliminating enemies with my newly installed piranha pool, and negotiating a book and film deal for my leggy assistants.

or try to. Yep, teacher.

a lawyer of the commercial property variety, but with substantially more time on my hands now than was the case this time last year. Anybody want to buy a shopping centre?

... but behind the scenes. Mostly in the radio, sometimes telly but only when I have no choice. I am not Andrew Collins. As my posts probably indicate by themselves

But at least it gives the space to chip in here, and on my other blogs

http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/

http://channelmondo.blogspot.com/

Other than lunchtime (as is now) and at home, do sneaky comments here and there when no one around. That's my excuse for incoherence, crypticness, and other failings in wot I write. Work is unusually quiet at moment. I do paint (art) in spare time also, but that is somewhat dormant of late, probably due to spending too much time hereabouts.

..so I'm poor, obviously.

'The Massive,' I was a poor student so could spend hours on this site if the fancy took me (which it often did).

Now I work in an office, I'll be vague and say I work in long-term planning (which I do). So, when I finish something or have a spare couple of minutes, this is where you'll often find me. I read and lurk more than post, being younger than the, ahem, average Wordie means things are a bit over my head sometimes :-(

...I feel there is a faint implied criticism in this post in a “why don’t you turn off you broad band and go do something less boring instead” sort of way.

Anyway here’s my blog the only journal I’ve ever managed to keep going and the other is a collection of old pictures of spacecraft that and I thought more people than those that visit our flat might like to see.

http://living4pleasurealone.blogspot.com/
http://nostalgia4dafuture.blogspot.com/

I would like to point out that I was unemployed before it became fashionable again. From Saturday to Thursday you can find me leaning against the WORD blog wall, eating chips and evading the internet truant officers.

On Fridays I help out at the Radiotherapy reception of my local hospital. It’s the highlight of my week. I really enjoy working there and hope to find paid employment at the hospital in the New Year. Ideally I’d like to be a runner – one of the people who track down errant patient files.

There are/were two blogs:

The Forked Groove was a fictionalised history of modern music, with a loose narrative running through it. Since June the updates have also become fictional.

My origami blog, Farthest Model, slowed to a crawl as a result of me spending days constructing Fumiaki Kawahata's Brachiosaurus Skeleton and then discovering that, in common with most skeletons, it wouldn’t stand upright on its own. For some reason this took on a depressing allegorical significance. I’ve only folded paper sporadically since then.

Someone far more mathematically inclined could probably produce a formula for this, but it seems blog activity is a factor of regularity of job + number of children/age * willingness to take a slapping if caught - my contributions are quite bursty which is related to when I "work" at home...

I manage the group responsible for making sure the electronics work for a major hard disk drive maker in all our Asia factories from Singapore. Two things work in my favour for the blog - its my evening when most of the blog activity is ongoing and I spend half my life on boring conference calls with the US - hence sitting in front of a computer for a large part of the late evening with nothing better to do.

I do actually manage to have a life outside this and generally spend early evenings with the family - as I'm the boss out here in Singapore, I'm out of the office by 5pm most days !!

I look after the kids, drink tea, play far too much music, struggle with expensive guitar chords and occasionally blog on here.
It's a tough life.

...consultant who's not working very hard these days. Quasi house husband cum child carer.

I test make and test bagpipes for a living. Sadly there is little time in the day to blog, apart from today after an early finish due to the snow.

.. for the Illuminati, take minutes at Bilderberg Group meetings and clear up after The Stonemasons´annual shindig.
I work for the Man.

Mostly sat working at home in front of the Mac in my underpants, blogging furiously - I accept that this may sound a little suspect to those of a Carry On disposition!

I work for no-one but myself and do try to get some internet blog-related malarky in at least once a day in-between trying to design newsletters and reports for old fogeys who live and breath in the Civil Service Sector!

Cups of tea are plentiful, and Cash in the Attic is a constant source of distraction!

Dilbert. The Durban poison keeps me sane.

...who lives with his partner Ren. When not blogging, I sit in my litter tray and eat Gritty Kitty Litter.

When not doing that I sit in my loft and twiddle with my collection of vintage synthesizers (I'm retired, y'see)

Am I the only person that works in a factory?

I'm a Print Finisher or Bookbinder in old money.

We don't produce Word I'm afraid but we used to do Wound Management mag!

Ian

unemployed, cubist multimedia philosopher of the absurd. It is desperately difficult when I go to the unemployment office.

...my three consecutive blogs last night were around or after 9pm! And I'm very glad that 60-odd other people had the chance to reply to this before I did. But yes, I do spend far too much time on this site. My career, or lack of one, gives me a lot of time to do things like this. I juggle acting, teaching and the whole stay-at-home-Dad thing. However, I'm off to start rehearsals for a play in about ten days, and then touring. So, I expect I'll start posting in the daytime and maybe late at night, depending on internet connections.

in the "energy" industry

...in a windowless room full of dead servers somewhere in North America.

Spent the majority of this year unemployed when, in a bizarre twist of fate, actually landed a rather interesting job when, according to BBC News, everyone else in the UK had lost theirs.

Now happily ensconced on the South Bank working for a Home Office agency that helps make sure most of the UK police forces IT kit works properly. I think we ought to be called OFPLOD, but we're not. I get to visit lots of police stations, which is a first for me. Although as a Geordie I'm not sure if I've let the side down by reaching my mid-40's before ever getting within sniffing distance of one.

Prior to this was in telecoms and was made redundant twice in a 12 month period. That was nice. Made paying the mortgage a challenge but, to be honest, working in IT for a rabid retail set up who think selling pink phones to Chavs is a worthwhile activity was not what I ever thought I'd find myself doing. Since I 'left' they've lost £420m. Hurrah!

The Word blog was a wonderful escape and some solace while spending hours and days endlessly looking for work. This meant placing a chilling amount of trust in genuinely sympathetic but ultmimately useless Recruitment Agents who would spend days 'aligning you for a role', 'touching base with the client' and 'getting back to you with some substantive feedback on the availabitity situation'. Bless them - they did fuck all for me really Eventually got my current job the old fashioned way all on my own. In between all that cobblers I often turned to the blog for some diversion, wit and entertainment. You never failed me. Thanks to all. And Merry Christmas (I'm filling up...)

My company have just put me online during the daytime; this is clearly going to interfere with my daily routine of telling men in overalls to go and pick up things with forklifts and then let me know when they've done it so I can ask them to go and move some other stuff. Normally I have to wait until after work to check in with the massive, and until the wee small hours to write about (say) what it's like to have Kim Richey sleeping in your shed.
http://skirky.blogspot.com/2008/10/christ-i-think-hes-even-combed-his-ha...

...alas a songwritery type. I tell myself blogging is part of what I do, but really I'm avoiding writing middle 8's.

...an idyllic early retirement - a bit of golf, some holidays, a bit of freelance consulting and perhaps some voluntary work. Got bored with the first; can't afford the second any more; did some of the third but it's hard to find now and the fourth...has taken over my life.

I joined my local Citizens Advice Bureau, right at the time that the Government decided to change the basis of CAB funding from grants given by local authorities to their local bureaus to county wide joint commissioning of adult advice services via the Legal Service Commission. Something of a fundamental change and one which the CAB has been ill-prepared to deal with.

So now I'm on a county-wide, West Sussex by the way, consortium of CABs which is preparing to bid for the contract early next year. Soemhow, I've become the Bid Director and am supposed to be pulling the whole thing together. This would be bad enough in the commercial world; in the voluntary sector with nine separate entities involved, the complexities of charity law and a heavy reliance on volunteers to do the work, it's a complete nightmare.

Sorry, rant over! Well, you did ask.

musician that will take money from anyone, no matter what type of music they want me to play!!

...and I do a bit of this...

http://noneofyourbusinesspmbryer.blogspot.com/

IT again, in a metal bashing outfit. I design very clever reports no one can understand, suggest business process improvements through better use of systems that get studiously ignored, switch computers and printers off and back on again, that sort of thing. More fun than it sounds, actually - I've been at it for 23 years. I'm also supposed to enforce 'correct' IT usage, eg no blogging, something I've singularly failed to do.

is my lot. Have done it for 34 years which I guess makes me kind of boring in comparison to some of the much more interesting posts on here. It is however a very good job which over the years has seen me importing infected blood from South Asia for the SAS and working for a company that was employed to transport the Supergun to Iraq. Oh, and I once imported the stage equipment for a Celine Dion tour - don't shoot me,I am only an employee!!

am a Postman, which sounds kind of quaint and old fashioned compared to some of the other occupations.

but I work in the media. I make the time to blog because I enjoy it, when I've got something of interest to say.

However, my blog might suggest otherwise.

http://bar-six.blogspot.com

... but not a very famous one, obv.

In my spare time (there's a fair amount of it), I also write a blog - http://jukeboxjunior.com - where I subject my three-year-old daughter to lots of records, and then write about the whole scenario.

We're doing our subjective 2008 Top 20 at the moment. It's splendid larks.

between projects, as they say. Or rather, waiting for clients to give the go-ahead on a couple of projects that I could do something on before christmas when I have the time, rather than them waiting until the middle of January and then telling me it has to be done by end of January. Ooops, got all bitter there.
Off to the kids school concert...

...Civil Servant so I am. I blog at

http://www.marmiteboy-floatinginspace.blogspot.com

when the mood takes me or I can think of anything to blog about.

I've been a bit busy of late so I'm not as prolific as I'd like to be.

am a Prep School teacher so I don't have as much time as you lot to blog. Apart from 16 weeks holiday a year.

DON'T EVEN START!

I'm a senior project manager in the IT department (well, CICT, but nobody outside knows what the hell that means) of A Large UK University. I look in here, briefly, several times during the day, whenever my brain needs a sanity break. Most of my longer comments are written in the evenings, while I'm soothing the day's stresses by listening my way through my CD In-Heap.

I work in magazine subscriptions.

I am a failed musician who, after about 20 years in the wilderness, has finally re-discovered the passion, hunger and desire to get on stage again.
Problem is I can barely get my beer gut up onto the stage anymore and the lights reflect quite badly off my bald patch!

I am now in the entertainment/events/travel business.

I would want to be.

is there one?

Though managing to cut down, thanks to intensive therapy.

So I recently deleted 3 of my Blogger blogs and try to stick to shouting at http://www.angry.me.uk/ although I do have a music related one on Wordpress at http://godshatmyipod.wordpress.com/

Of the non-blogging things I do on the web, I'm also Metal Editor at Pure Metal, have my own metal site called Metal4Life, a non metal site called Zeitgeist, write reviews for magazines, none of whom are called Word and am a BlogCritic over in Americaland.

I also broadcast every week on an internet radio station.

These are not blogs, hence no linkage.

Oh, and someone pays me to have a proper job as well.

Sorry, you've lost me.

There is a Mrs H, who has put up with me for far too long, but apart from that, there are;

People I blag stuff off.
People who blag stuff off me.
People I cadge lifts off.
Everyone else.

I think I used to have a life, but that was the eighties, so it doesn't really count.

And insomnia helps.

What do I do? Well, day job is working in the civil service (yawn?) on policy on encouraging the development and deployment of novel renewable energy generation technologies (not so yawn!). I also do some music writing and reviewing, currently mostly for Rock'n'Reel magazine and previously for a few internet only sites (latterly and most notably "Wears the Trousers" a webzine dedicated to women in music www.wearsthetrousers.com ).

I also do graphic design and media promotions for the church which my wife and I go to in Esher. Ironicaly, that means that we will probably have been responsible for the very online Bryn Haworth posting that Mr H googled in preparation for his latest editorial. Oh and by the way in answer to Mr H's in-piece questions/pondering, he did sing and play some amazing slide and fingerstyle guitar. Didn't preach, per se, but did share some fascinating anecdotes about his life, his career and his journey into belief in God. All in all a good morning and still a fantastic guitar player!

just reacquainting myself with work after paternity leave + Xmas gave me 4 weeks off. And I review a few things for www.soundsxp.com.