Professions

[wannabeXopsed]

Hello, I work at a grocery store and have checked out every fruit and vegetables possible for the last 30 years. I often wonder how many of those English cucumbers are really used for salad? Or how about some of the really green banana's, there very hard and won't be ready for eating for a couple of days. why would you buy them?

T

[yellowrose]

I am one of the other ER nurses mentioned. BSN-RN contemplating going on for my MSN-FNP.

[jaeangel]

Hello, I work at a grocery store and have checked out every fruit and vegetables possible for the last 30 years. I often wonder how many of those English cucumbers are really used for salad? Or how about some of the really green banana's, there very hard and won't be ready for eating for a couple of days. why would you buy them?

T

About those green bananas...my mother runs/manages and ice cream shop. When she goes looking for bananas for smoothies and sundaes, she gets the green ones because she never knows how many of those she might sell a day and the bananas have to last at least two or three days. So they do have other uses than as toys...

[jaeangel]

I'm also a writer, full time, at home. Not making any money off it yet, but hopefully someday...

[azure_eyes]

lets see, i work with a bunch of men as a billing clerk for mechanics(hehehe.. gotta love my job sometimes!!) and i am a college student in the evening time trying to get my teacher's certification

azzie

[Kalluss]

I am an Electrical Engineer and writer of young adult stories... sad cause I keep trying for adult stuff and it keeps coming out kiddy... sigh

Oh yeah and full time cook and bottle washer at home as well. Hey wait a minute.. I cook. clean, do laundry and I'm the Dom.. something ain't right here.....

[erotic_nibbles]

...Hey wait a minute.. I cook. clean, do laundry and I'm the Dom.. something ain't right here.....

Yeah like I keep saying...all the good ones are taken!

Just wanted to add that I have met a lot of people in the BDSM community that are lawyers and paralegals....and also, all of them I have run into are submissive......hmmmmm
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[BDSM_Tourguide]

Just wanted to add that I have met a lot of people in the BDSM community that are lawyers and paralegals....and also, all of them I have run into are submissive......hmmmmm
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A large number of people in "power" careers that are involved in BDSM/kink are submissive outside of the workplace. Letting go of their control and authority, even if only for a little while, is great stress relief for those types of people. Almost like a min-vacation.

Many "power" people also utilize the services of professional dominants for exploring their kinkiness.

There's a thread about that somewhere around here.

[Chuckdom19]

I am an Electrical Engineer and writer of young adult stories... sad cause I keep trying for adult stuff and it keeps coming out kiddy... sigh

Oh yeah and full time cook and bottle washer at home as well. Hey wait a minute.. I cook. clean, do laundry and I'm the Dom.. something ain't right here.....

Gotta read the fine print of that Job Description!
When I wrote 'em professionally, the last line of every one
was, "And anything else necessary for the care and success of the business."
That way, if I told a waiter to go out and sweep snow off the steps, he couldn't say, "That's not my job!"

And for your stories, try changing that bottle of milk for a bottle of Bourbon. That's usually enough. (LOL)

[new master]

im a bill collector

oh and i do some cooking all the laundry and errand running as well. hmmmm.what is wrong with us doms today?

[Rex]

im told, if you keep bananas in a "warm" place, they ripen faster

[spike]

im told, if you keep bananas in a "warm" place, they ripen faster

Unfortunately, Rex, to ripen they need an oxygen supply.

Spike, fantasy deflater

[wannabeXopsed]

I guess that was the point, those banana's would stay hard a very long time without oxygen, but on the other hand (sorta speaking)when it was lunch time it would be coming from a warm place

T

P.s. While I am at work, I am the Boss, so it nice to let go of that power when I get home. I just bring home the banana's.

[Spitman]

I have been engaged in several kinds of professional activity, including several that have been mentioned here. My interest in bdsm started long before I had any idea which profession I was going to follow. My writing is uninfluenced by the kind of work I am presently doing. My presence here did not derive from a professional involvement in computing either.

My imagination uses tools I have acquired throughout my life, but not only through the activities that I got paid for. Expertise that I acquired through leisure pursuits comes into it too. In my experience I have something in common with MasterKurt, but also with Allyslittleone.

BDSM_Tourguide said that for people in power careers, submission could provide a form of stress relief. I don't disagree, but I cannot say that I only project power in the workplace, or that I am submissive by inclination. I do have some masochism in my makeup, but I always have to be in control.

I would add to BDSM_Tourguide's comment that there are also people who do not have the opportunity to project power at work, so do it in the bdsm lifestyle. This could be seen as a contrasting stress relief strategy. I knew a bus driver who vented all his frustration in his erotic writing. Maybe there are a lot more of those out there.

[robbermagnet]

I have been engaged in several kinds of professional activity, including several that have been mentioned here. My interest in bdsm started long before I had any idea which profession I was going to follow. My writing is uninfluenced by the kind of work I am presently doing. My presence here did not derive from a professional involvement in computing either.

I'm not so sure the relationship, if there is one, between career choice and bdsm role is a causal one. I think it's more likely that there is a causal relationsip between personality type and bdsm role, and between personality type and career choice. The relationship between bdsm role and career choice would then be incidental.

Example. I am a social worker. Social work initially appealed to me because I get a sense of fulfillment from providing comfort and being of assistance to others. Perhaps submission is fulfilling to me for the same reason social work is: it gives me the opportunity to provide comfort and be of assistance to a dominant. But the other things that I do at work all day -- supervising a staff, generating reports, writing budgets -- in no way have any direct effect on my bdsm role, except to make me a little cranky at times. I think that this point of view (that there could be a relationsip between bdsm role and career) applies only for those individuals who chose careers based on what they might find fulfilling, or based on what where their talents lie. It woldn't necesssarily hold up for those practical individuals who see their work solely as a way to generate an income.

[Lord Thomas]

I am the thief of the highway.

I drive for a major van line. That means I am a mover, you know those big guys that come into your old home and strip it, artistically stack everything into a trailer, close the doors and drive to a new home or storage and get your shit off of our truck.

To do My job you have to be a painslut. If you are not bleeding by ten in the morning you are not trying hard enough. Oh and if you do not hate people before becoming a mover it will take the most philanthropic a day or two to hate and loathe the rest of the human speicies.

Its a great job, if you don't die you can see america one mile at a time by the glow of your headlights.

LT

[axelsteijger]

I'm not so sure the relationship, if there is one, between career choice and bdsm role is a causal one. I think it's more likely that there is a causal relationsip between personality type and bdsm role, and between personality type and career choice. The relationship between bdsm role and career choice would then be incidental.

Example. I am a social worker. Social work initially appealed to me because I get a sense of fulfillment from providing comfort and being of assistance to others. Perhaps submission is fulfilling to me for the same reason social work is: it gives me the opportunity to provide comfort and be of assistance to a dominant. But the other things that I do at work all day -- supervising a staff, generating reports, writing budgets -- in no way have any direct effect on my bdsm role, except to make me a little cranky at times. I think that this point of view (that there could be a relationsip between bdsm role and career) applies only for those individuals who chose careers based on what they might find fulfilling, or based on what where their talents lie. It woldn't necesssarily hold up for those practical individuals who see their work solely as a way to generate an income.

I do not think I agree with you. I think social work is a dominant occupation. Social workers, like doctors and notaris (?) and the professions have power that practical occupations do not. Practical work is submissive because they do not have power.

I earn money by selling my skill. I can be easily dismissed or find it hard to get work. Nobody would care. It does not affect my sexual role.

[TeasedWhispers]

Well since I got out of college I've been doing secertarial jobs,lol...yeah boring

[Azazel]

While I put myself through university I was a system administrator for a large Telco. Then on finishing it was off into government to be a policy officer, developing economic policy on infrastructure, mostly water related.

[bitch_slave]

Pharmacist here, wasn't very caring today though...wanted to bitch-slap one of my patients.

[petpleasureyes]

i'm an out-of-work network administrator. i'm considering taking up writing again and see if i can turn out a book or two. i'm also saving up to buy a violin (i already feel sorry for my neighbors) and learn how to play it.
slave gary

[rebelts]

I am a computer analyst as well.

[Garnet99]

I teach 8th graders. I agree with Lia. After trying to be in control during the day, I love the change, giving it all up for my Master at night. My co-workers would never imagine!!!! I'm considered a bit of 'control-freak'!

[Dr Mabeuse]

Chemist and part-time college teacher.

I've always had a dream of being a mad scientist, doing hellacious experiments on bound women in mad laboratories with lightening flashing outside. It's probably not possible, but I think I came pretty damned close.

Last summer I taught a chemistry course to a class of 14 girls and one guy, and the lectures were held in this tiny auditorium where the students sat on risers. Sure enough, on several days some of the girls sitting third row up wore skirts, and I could see all the way up. Unfortunately, I'm not much in to upskirts and that kind of thing, but still I had to laugh. It was such a cliche.

I'm still waiting for the girl to come to me with that "Oh professor! I'll do anything to pass this course! Just anything!" business. From the dirty stories you read, you'd think it happened all the time.

---dr.M.

[midnightsky]

student here. eventually hope to become a social worker.