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Hey all,
The conversation on puzzle caches got me thinking of how our other experiences in life, especially our work might influence why we cache, or how we cache, or what kinds of caches we like.
In my example, I mentioned that complex puzzles are of lower interest to me because my job (not to mention my relationship) is a constant puzzle to me. Between work and women and kids, I personally have enough puzzles already to solve. 🙂
Anyway, this thread is to inquire as to what kind of work you do, and if it impacts your caching style.
I will go first. I am an ICU RN, so I prefer to get outside, explore nature and go for long walks. Sitting by the computer solving puzzles is a lot like how I spend a lot of my work day, so it tends not to be attractive to me to do when I recreate.
Thanks for your answers.
zuma
Well, both Trekkin’ and I are special ed teachers, so between that and our own alien lifeforms called young adult sons, everything is a puzzle and I find the caching puzzles to be a nice distraction from the real-life ones. Seems most of the ones I’ve solved don’t require the computer as much as time and a pencil and some lateral thinking. Engineer’s daughter and all, maybe.
Oh yeah. I’m also a professional storyteller. Like you couldn’t figure that out from the logs I write. 🙄 Family black sheep, all the rest are in engineering! LOL
Well, I am a Medical Technologist by profession but am currently switching hats and moving to the Information Technologies side of things. So, after sitting in front of a computer all day, what do I do when I get home???
Sit in front of the computer, of course. 😀
I don’t really think that my job affects my caching style or preference of cache types too much. I like the long hikes, the park and grabs, and the puzzles (mostly the informational ones, and the simple trickery ones, not so much the 8-step decyphering ones).
Since I often have baby duties, full days of caching are rare so sometimes, to get my fix, I look at the puzzles. Some come easier than others but sometimes a ton of digging and solving can make that “AH HA” moment a little more meaningful.
“I cache, therefore I am” is a pretty good summation of this sport for me.
Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
I um….. make incontinence products like Poise and Depend. 😳
I’m one of the bad guys (but don’t hate me for it) I’m a Revenue Agent 😳 and I help to shut down the taverns. But, I love my job! At the end of the day I don’t think about work, I don’t work weekends or holidays, I can take off any day I choose and the benefits are good.
Besides one full time and one part time job, the majority of our time is spent as professional grandparents. All four of our grandchildren live within 5 miles of us. Both of our childrens families are geocachers so it’s a toss up between gecaching or grandparenting slowly becoming our full time profession. I had a full time landscape business which I recently scaled down and took a full time job at night. This gives us more time during the day for the kids and geocaching.
Under the Officials Secrets Act I’m not allowed ….. Oooppps! Wrong country.
Ah ….. my contact at the Witness Protection Program really does not like my chatting all day on these web sites, so …… I adopted another persona he does not know about!
My title is HRIS Technical Manager.
I manage a team of developers and analysts that implement and support Human Resources and Payroll computer systems. My specialties are Peoplesoft and Kronos. I am a working manager which means that I also design and program as well.
What this means is that I am personally responsible for approximately 8,000 or so people being paid correctly.
Been in “IT” 13 years. Before that I was a nursing assistant for 3 years working in nursing homes and rehab units.
Today is my 1 year anniversary with my current employer after my prior employer was bought out and I was dumped out with the company trash. I couldn’t be happier with the change.
My career minimally impacts my caching. Knowing HTML helped when it came time to start listing new caches. The “techie” side of me drew me to Geocaching in general. Oh, and my work Internet access allows me to post on the WGA message boards and my work cell phone receives the new cache listing emails. I travel a bit so I get to log dnf’s in other states from time to time on the company’s travel dollar. And I guess my project management skills will help with planning Geocaching events.
I operate high speed packaging equipment that packages shredded cheese. Besides keeping the 2 production lines I run going I have to supervise 5 or so people that open the blocks of cheese and put the finished product on skids. I geocache for the chance to get out and enjoy the world around me. I’m an avid camper/hiker and love being outside whenever possible.
Mr is a full time educator of 5th graders… the sport is a great way to get out and forget about all the challenges of the job. Summers help with that too.
I, the Mrs. am very ecclectic in profession. My degree is in Art/Psychology with a minor in Communication. I am a substitute teacher on most days from EC -12 grade. I also take care of two handicapped adults, teaching them life skills and such. Geocaching has opened a whole new world to ET and is his all time favorite thing to do.
For the past 10 years I have had my own business as a Creative Memories (Photo albums) Consultant but I am retiring from that postition in 2008. I put many photos from our hunts in albums.I am also an artist who sells a variety of works, most recently I have been creating art quilts out of homemade layered paper and pounded flowers. I am very much inspired by nature and our time outdoors and traveling while caching. I prefer nice hikes to wonderful locations.
Another area I work in is writing and my first novel has just been published. It will officially be released on April 21. You can check out more at http://www.publishamerica.com and type in “Rejected to Accepted” to find out more about the book. There is a $3 discount if you order before the release.
Geocaching incorporates well into my life passions.
TEReal Life? …. I will be 86 this week and still haven’t figured it all out. My profile shows that I was a Court Administrator. Loved breaking in Law Clerks and New Judges ….it was so much fun. Motion day was like being a stage manager… 😆 .. 😆 This board has been very considerate of my postings, thanks. It’s better than being at an old folks home. Found a new black and red typewriter ribbon and just need a thread to talk some more. Hopefully till I’m 87. 8) … 8)
Yes it’s an old photo… -30-Well, I’m a metal fabricator. All I do is bend steel on a press brake either in stiffling summer heat or in freezing cold winter. No, I don’t work outdoors. It just feels like it when the trucks come in.
Currently I’m just trying to fly under the radar and reach the 20 year mark before losing my job. Only eight and a half months to go. So many layoffs do to poor management decisions.
Otherwise, caching gets me outside where I would rather be anyways. I love to do the outdoors thing; hunt, fish, trap. In fact, I have been accused of being born “a hundred years too late”. Probably because I try to be as self sufficient as possible by learning what I can from the outdoors and making do with whatever is around.I’m a family physician in a small town. I have also just recently been approved to be an adjunct professor of family medicine for the University of Wisconsin @ Madison (which means I will be supervising 4th year students who would travel up here for their education). I’m originally from New York but moved up here to practice in an under served area through the National Health Service Corps (and I’ve stayed 14 years past my commitment).
My wife is a substitute teacher (former journalist/copy editor/librarian).
My kids are full time students (2nd and 5th grades).
My career does require me to stay near home a fair amount of time (where there are very few unfound caches 😥 ). I enjoy geocaching when I travel to conferences instead of just sitting around a hotel. My wife and kids seem to be growing much less passionate about the hobby than I am.
@labrat_wr wrote:
Well, I am a Medical Technologist by profession but am currently switching hats and moving to the Information Technologies side of things. So, after sitting in front of a computer all day, what do I do when I get home???
Sit in front of the computer, of course. 😀
Been there, done that
Today, I [tb] am a quasi-social worker and sit in a cube in front of a computer all day.I really envy Trudy, she is retired.
I am a Safety Coordinator for a paper tube manufacturer. I get to make the policies that make others jobs harder. But at least they help them keep their fingers or worse get an unexpected visit to Zuma’s line of work. I spend a little bit of time traveling and I like to cache while in other states rather than sit around the hotel wondering what is outside.
I don’t think my line of work really influences the way I cache. My family itself has the most influence on that. I have a daughter that has dodged having her leg amputated because of a genetic condition. So when we go out it really limits the long hikes and steep terrain that I would prefer. So I have had to change my original intent of the activity from many nice hikes to many P&G’s. I guess necessity is the mother of invention.
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