I'm just curious, and maybe nobody will respond to this, but who else here has a day job that is very far from being a screenwriter? I just think that there are so many interesting occupations out there (many of which we draw on to provide material for our scripts), but I wonder how many of us are not writers by profession - yet

I'll start, and maybe I'll be the only one. Oh well, here goes.

I am a Geographic Information Systems technician. Absolutely nothing like being a writer, virtually no creativity required.

Anybody else?

School

Keeping my husband happy and well fed.

Quoted from Aaron School

Taking writing classes?

Quoted from Grandma Bear Keeping my husband happy and well fed.

Your newest avatar makes you look exactly like Arden Mirin (sp?).

Technical Analyst.

Spend 10 hours a day on computers only to go home and write for another couple.

I need sun.

IT Distribution Specialist.  I wait for orders to come in, process them, generate paperwork, and essentially serve as a liaison between the Production, IT, and Shipping departments.

Like MacDuff, I sit in front of a comp all day, only to go home and do it for most of the night.

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Taking writing classes?

Nope, home school

I write almost full time and work as a volunteer at the hospital.

My main focus in life has been education and I had home schooled my kids who are now grown and I'm so very happy to say doing really well on the road of life.

I operated a home daycare when my kids were really young-- dabbled with radio broadcasting... and before that I had worked for a vitamin company, several factory jobs when I was just a kid still and living in Vancouver. As a matter of fact, I had met my husband on the pier while working at the fish cannery years ago. We've been married 31 years.

The writing projects and research that I have going I really love so much. I just wish I could gain my health back and then I would be the happiest person in the world I think.

Sandra

That's cool Sandra. I enjoy home school better than public school, it's just...better. You get more work done, AND you get to college faster if you don't have long summers. My upcoming summer in like June or around there will be like 3 weeks. But at that rate I'll be off to film school in 2 or 3 years.

Some samples of the writing I actually get paid for can be found here.

I am author on a book chapter, too.

I get paid for writing code, programming.  I write in many different languages  C#, Python, Javascript, HTML and SQL. There isn't any examples I can show you on the publicly accessible web because they are usually private applications.  Currently I'm working for a company that makes Graphical Information Systems software.

Cool idea for a topic. I'm in college full time currently but last year I worked as a waiter, which introduced me to a lot of interesting characters.

I am uneducated, unskilled and so toil away on a production line in a factory. Which is so mind numbingly boring and repetitiive I get to swich off, go auto pilot and just day dream for eight hours (and get paid for it too.)

Writing is my creative outlet.  

i'm a house husband!  yeah, mr.mom. my five year old just started school and my two year old is running amok as usual! now, this sounds like a good setup for prolific writing, and its how i started, first with stories, now scripts.

but i work at night in a supermarket doing nightfill, so sleep is a rare thing for me! too much coffee! my wife works fulltime. i work on scripts when i can but the catch 22 is that on my spare time i'm tired and can't think that well! but it's fun and i wouldn't swap it for anything...

I am a professional poker player and part time gigolo in my dreams.

In reality I sell stuff to people.