Just curious what we all do in real life.
Other - I own a small hosting provider, I offer mostly VPS servers
No technology?
I'm in IT (Unix admin).
I do technology consulting for financial companies.
by popular demand...technology
and a blogger for bassfamily
Small business owner ... Land Surveyor.
Not quite sure which option to pick - my main job is in print publishing, but part of it is IT/tech stuff... I also do occasional freelance work and I have a music blog.
I retired last year at 62. I'm a webmaster for my (and for others) hobby websites. The ad revenue gives me an earned income so I can still fund my Roth IRA.
"In real, non LC life" meaning LC is not allowed as an answer? This is my main source of income. It pays the bills and nets a decent savings on top of that. I find this p2p stuff is more relaxing and certainly more stable than other things I could be doing.
But if that's not allowed... I retired from software development 15 years ago in my 20s and now use those skills to come up with whatever schemes will make the most money in the shortest amount of time without human intervention. For example card counting blackjack bots. Backgammon for money. Sports arbitrage. Video game currency exploits.
IT Security.
Firewall, Vulnerability scanning, AV stuff.....
finance - tax planning and preparation
Retired 17 years ago at age 60. Owned a consulting telecommunications engineering company which did a of the early cellular radio system development and design work. Since then, private investor, small VC stuff.
LC is fun for me. Fills the time when it rains and I can't play golf.
I suppose once I lose some money, it won't be so mu
ch fun!!!
It is nice to hear some of the storied behind the screen names. Thanks for playing everyone!
I am the 1 person who answered real estate. I am 36 years old. I did well in the good years and managed ok during the crap real estate years. I have been my own boss basically since I walked out of college. I invest my portfolio in various investments such as LC (just started this year), obviously real estate (commercial and residential) and various other opportunistic areas with a mixture of high and low risk with corresponding yields except one which is low risk and (relatively) high reward for that risk. I have 3 kids and try not to work too hard
and help those in need as best I can.
That's my life in a paragraph !
I do physical security system design (CCTV, access control). Currently working on a national account for a TBTF bank. It's quite a mess (their current setup).
One of the 3 small business owners that have replied so far. When I apply for my next LC loan I'll be sure NOT to list its purpose as business. My business is a small electronics design and manufacturing firm. I was lucky enough to get into something I loved from the start and I still do. Play a little golf but I never plan to retire. I'm very new to P2P and simply enjoy learning new stuff. P2P seemed like a nice way to diversify my retirement portfolio (ok, desperately reach for yield) and also participate in something interesting at the same time. Guess P2P is my next new thing...
Chemical Engineer. Federal Employee working for a regulatory agency.
Probably most people know, but I'm a college administrator. I do all the statistics and some policy analysis for a medium sized university in Los Angeles. Before my 8 years in college administration, I was at the RAND Corp. for 5 years as a doctoral fellow.
Airplane pilot, in my 30s. Hoping to retire out of the country by 50, expecting to by 55.
nonprofit social services
Anesthesiologist in an academic practice. In an MBA program for fun on the side.
Cool, another Chemical Engineer. I am an ex-Chemical Engineer, switched to IT after I leading IT people as ChE and realized that I was getting paid half of them and working twice as hard.
Sure. In theory you should be able to click the little globe icon under my name (WORLD wide web, get it?) and it will take you to my website.
Sorry for being late; have been traveling lately.
I have the usual 9-5 office job. The only thing that makes it a bit more interesting is the investment bank portion, mainly because of the incessant limelight; otherwise, it is mostly meetings, Excel, and PowerPoint. I have been with 2 of the last Wall Street investment banks in the past few years.
I migrated from sell-side (investment banks) to buy-side (investment mgmt) recently.
I sell and service Nuclear Medical cameras specifically for Cardiologist. I help them make them dollar bucks.
I'm a landlord, a high end hotel and restaurant "mystery shopper", a financial adviser, and employed as a consultant of sorts for depository institutions ranging greatly in size.
Another one in IT..
Mostly Healthcare IT consulting and application/system architecture.
A few tech and non-tech projects on the side, but not quite enough to quit my main job.
Im a power plant operator here in Florida. Not as cool or fun as most of yall but it pays...
I'm a college student studying marketing and I'm a blogger/article writer/online marketer
I have a few small IT ventures. Private equity in developments as well as development companies.
Just joined the forum and am 9 month LC investor now.