[Smurfysmurf]

Another old question that, I think, is interesting since a lot has changed since we last asked it in 2007

I work for a Health Insurance as a Systems Analyst...my job is to make sure our systems work correctly, and if it doesn't, to work with the programmers (Indians who either are here on a work visa or are in India so this can be very challenging due to time difference and language barriers) to correct or enhance the system.

If the system works correctly, my job is to find out if the issue is related to user error and provide details about that. The real fun part is when you get to explain to the sales department why the stuff they are promising to our clients simply won't work unless we make major changes to our systems.....
Overall, I like my job (especially since I get to work from home) and it really never is boring as we deal with different issues and scenerios every day

[André]

I work as a construction worker specialised on stone-material. At the moment we are making roads like this in different patterns outside a museum. The fun part with my work is that I can go back and look at things I made several years ago and see how it look today.

And others will probably be able to see them after I am dead also??

[bundleofkent]

I work as a consultant cardiac electrophysiologist, which is a long way of saying I implant pacemakers, defibrillators, perform ablation etc etc

I don't get an awful lot of time for smurfs, and have had to sell nearly all my collection as I had a verry expensive wedding last year

However, I still get some top pieces and have managed a few already this year

Martin

[Arno]

I am architect and work in an office that deals with urban spaces.
Let's say that I draw streets and squares, collaborating with ingeniors and landscape and lighting designers.
If the client is ok and the money here, we can built, thanks to workers like André ! How is that possible you work under the snow, I always wander that ???

I also am a writer, a non famous one
I published by myself 3 books and love writing stories.

As I am interesting in many things, I began to sing in a choir 7 years ago and figure out to learn the piano this year (to begin to learn !).

[André]

Hi Arno,

The snow is a problem but the cold is the biggest problem. We always have to use different ways to "heat" the ground. Because it can not be any ground frost under the stones. Ones the frost is gone and the material is well-packed nothing will happen. And we have to cover everything during the nights. So it is always a lot more work with this if a customer wants it to be done during the winter.

[Arno]

Here, we do not "heat" the ground, we wait for better meteorological conditions, as it is not so long that in Sweden !

[The Smurf Collector]

I work for a company that sells ingredients from Europe to restaurants, hotels, cares etc here in Melbourne, Australia. For example we sell gelato ingredients which can be a bit of a challenge as a lot of clients have strong Italian accents and I don't speak Italian. Sometimes their English is not always clear.

If they spoke Smurf I would be fine.

[Tracker Smurf]

I'm a 5th- 8th grade history teacher at a Christian School. Love my job and love working with children. Also I am a puppeteer. Being a puppeteer doesn't exactly pay the bills, but thankfully it became part of my job at the school I work at and now I teach the kids puppetry too and run a team that does shows for our preschool and for Sunday school and basically anyone else that requests for us to do a show.

[Tojo]

I'm what used to be called a Computer Operator although the job description has changed entirely since the late 1980's when I started out doing this work in the UK with British Telecom. I actually wanted a job as a programmer / analyst but around that time there was little work to be found in Computing so I took the first job I was offered. I now work for Germany's 2nd largest private bank as a shift leader looking after their mainframe computer systems.

As computers never sleep the job entails shift work covering 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

I'm (still) studying English and history, but I am having an internship at a primary school at the very moment.

[lilou4460]

I m a chemist researcher in a University in Paris. I trying to elaborate new reactions, new reagents, and new catalyst with pharmaceutical application.

[hfos]

Photographer, videographer, a bit of mograph and animation. And I'm going to try my hand at illustration again. I see all these books my almost-two-year-old has and I'm sure I can do at least 80% of them better myself though it's been years since I committed myself to a serious drawing/painting (who has the time?)

[Tintin]

Hi All

Next week i am starting with my new job .........
On the drawing room at a big Energy company.
Very excited about it..............

gr Tintin

[Smurfysmurf]

So happy for you, TinTin

More money for more smurfy finds...and for little and large trains

[Tintin]

Hi Maureen

Thanks, lately i am very lucky in finding smurfs.
So the job and the money i am getting from this new job is very welcome

Gr Tintin

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

I'm very happy for you, Frank. What is more than finding a new job what is so much better than the former and finding interesting smurfs at the same time.

[Tintin]

Hi Dom

Thanks for the nice words.............yes i am very happy

Gr Tintin

[Grijze Duif]

Since I am pretty new on the board here is my story...

Next to being a dad, which is not work (its so much fun) but it is a full time job when we're together, I am a graffiti writer. Graffiti painter or artist, you can name it what you want.

I do a lot of things with my spraycans, but my main focus is working for companies and government making decorations and doing workshops with mainly kids. I do not do this on my own, we have a club of a few people. Depening on the job we look who is best to do this job.

The decorating part is the most fun to do, as long as we get a free hand. Sometimes a client dictates every single centimeter what to make where. Then its is no art, just some kind of production work. But working with no restrictions... love it!

I enjoy doing workshops as well, since i really like working with kids. I like the interaction you have with them. The downside to this is that its a basic workshop most of the time. Some kind of introduction to the graffiti scene. Therefore the story i tell and the techniques i teach are the same each time. This is more then routine. Sometimes i teach more advanced groups, if so, that makes my day!

I do not works on canvas that much, for expos and stuff. I did do some, but they mainly were about my graffiti travels to Palestine, Gaza and Westbank. This is a special topic, so i think it works well on canvas. It is not really graffiti, the connection is the medium spraycan.

I do a lot more, but these are the basic things i do.

Cheers!