What do you guys do for a living?

[Prince Hal]

I'm the CEO of a statewide trade association and lobbyist

[tedzan]

U.S. Air Force Radar Specialist (4 years). Then Electronics Research Engineer for A T & T Bell Laboratories (27 years).

I have been retired for some years playing a lot of Tennis and occasionally Softball and cruising in my classic T-Birds.

And, especially enjoying my family (wife, daughter, grandchildren).


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[vintagewhitesox]

I'm a criminal defense attorney. No billable hours. Flat fees. I hate keeping track of time.

"reasonable doubt for a reasonable fee."

[ALR-bishop]

Josh-- "Reasonable doubt for a reasonable fee" is almost as good as "Just because you did it does not mean you are guilty "

[angolajones]

I have been in education since 1996. Taught middle schoolers p.e. and science. I moved to a different school district 3 years ago to be an assistant principal at a middle school.

[Marchillo]

Finance Director at a University!

[rsn1661]

I am a professional S.H.I.T. That is a Subterranean Human Internment Technician. In other words I go all over northwest Ohio and bury people.

[wilsonjc08]

Pharmacist at one of the national chains for 9 years now. Time flies.

[pow323]

I retired in 1999 from GTE/Verizon after 30 years. Now I have my own Telephone Service. General Telephone Service. I do Business Telephone Systems, Computer Networking, CATV, PBX. Etc. Been in Communications for 48 years!

[Keith H. Thompson]

Retired mathematical statistician (as opposed to pie graphs) from a National Laboratory. An example of a relation to baseball was a letter to the editor of Sports Collectors Digest from a reader who had noted (somewhat surprisingly) that in the set of over 800 Topps and over 800 Donruss for a year (I believe in the eighties) there were exactly two matches. One was Tom Tresh and I forget the other. That is, Tom Tresh had the same number in both sets. He expressed his surprise and astonishment and wrote that this must be a very unusual event. It is actually not unusual but an example of a famous 18th century French gambling game where the house lays out a deck of 52 cards, and the player lays out his randomly shuffled deck of 52 cards and wins if he scores at least one match. The readers observation is complicated because the Topps and Donruss sets are of different sizes, but there is a large overlap of players and managers. I solved the problem for the unequal sizes and for three sets of cards. It is not obvious, but the exact solution is the sum of an alternating finite series depending upon the number of cards. It is surprisingly interesting (at least to me) that this sum converges rapidly so that after eight terms the answer doesn't change to the fifth decimal place whether you have a deck of eight cards or eight million cards.