+5 valve ranking

[MartyNeilan]

I am contract at the home office for a large non-profit, non-denominational organization with 1/4 million members located in 180 countries. My job duties consist of PC and server support, IP phone and network administration.
Several nights a week and most weekends I play Mary Poppins to my 2 (soon to be 3) kids while my wife works Mobile Crisis with the mentally ill in our community.
My teaching degree and state license never led to a public school job and my brief stint at a small K-12 private school did not work out.
I have had a number of professional gigs over the years on tuba and bass trombone but never anything top tier or permanent.
I am not playing too much right now except the rare occasions my wife allows me to play in church.

[sc_curtis]

...except the rare occasions my wife allows me to play in church.

For some reason, this seems really funny to me!

(mostly because you sound as whipped as I am)

[lgb&dtuba]

I'm a mainframe systems programmer, unix and windows systems admin. Started on mainframes when you could watch the lights blink.

I've always been an amateur musician and not cared to make my living that way. That said, the band I've been with the last 10 years performs as much as many professional bands and gets paid for doing so. All the money goes back into the band and not into our pockets, so it's technically still an amateur gig. The beer and brats go into us, though.

Jim Wagner

[Mark E. Chachich]

Assistant Professor of Psychology at one of the local universities,
I teach physiological psychology most of the time.

Special Volunteer NIH/NIA (neuropathology)

part time musician, tuba and string bass (not much time for this now)

best,
Mark