VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Monk]

Hoo BOY! Nice list!

Lets see,

Gas Station Manager
Bicycle mechanic
Helicopter mechanic
Outside wire antenna maintenance specialist (Pole Jock)
On air talent
News reporter
Bartender
Projectionist
Graphic artist
Web Developer
Physical props maker
Special effects artist (CGI)
Animator
Character voices
Actor
Singer
Theater Technical Director
Sound designer
Front Of House Engineer
Recording Engineer
Carpenter
Roofer
On Camera talent
boom operator
Voice actor
IT guy

Which brings me to today, and not a single moment was wasted, it all makes me who I is! (s

Someday I hope to add Pilot to the list, vs student pilot...
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[Bruce]

Holy cow, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one in this group with lots of different occupations under the belt.

Repair technician in a toy store - making Chatty Cathy talk again my specialty
Soft water tank regeneration at a Culligan dealership (family biz)
Delivery driver for a print shop

Radio, ten full time years, four part time, as a d.j. in rock, pop, country, as a newscaster, production guy, program director. Cooked burgers in a restaurant between radio gigs once. Radio was much better.

Started paid voiceovers early in radio career - still trying to make a go of it now.

Father convinced me to join the family business, Culligan Water Conditioning, instead of leaving for big city radio. Drove trucks, ran service department of 16 men, sold high tech industrial water treatment (I'm a certified specialist in Reverse Osmosis, Deionization and other forms of water treatment!), when my Dad fell ill I took over as manager. Hated the business. Worked hard to make it salable and got the folks their retirement.

Acted in movies and TV shows (played bad guys in America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries, and a good guy in Young Riders) and lots of commercials and industrials.

Started a live, for-profit theater company and in four years produced 40 plays, most with very good to excellent reviews, and 40 music concerts. Was the managing director and directed many shows, and of course acted in quite a few. Still, couldn't make a profit; ended up losing my shirt, lots of money for investors, and a wife.

Worked for a bit in a friend's recording business booking clients and talent. It's where I met the lovely Emma. I could stop right there.

Been a full time actor ever since specializing in VO.

Now I stop.

B
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VO-BB Member #31 Enlisted June, 2005

I'm not a Zoo, but over the years I've played one on radio/TV. .

[Bish]

Not too long a list for me...

British Telecom apprentice.
British Telecom Data transmission engineer.
IBM office products engineer.
Data network engineer.
Training officer/courseware designer.
Project management for large airport datacomms & computer installations.
Mucky-muck corporate goon in charge of deployment of above installations in N & S America.
Self-employed "consultant" for networks and computer installations.

In parallel with all this I've written 2 novels (actually, 4 half-novels, but that adds up to two, doesn't it?). Raced motorcycles. Produced demos for local bands. Written software programs in arcane languages. Had a few short stories and articles printed in specialist magazines. Co-written a play which we hope will get off-off-broadway production this year (probably not, but people are making some interesting noises about it).

It's taken a long time to get to where I'm doing what I love, rather than what I "could & should" be doing.

Cheers
Peter
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Bish a.k.a. Bish
Smoke me a kipper... I'll be back for breakfast.
I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls.

[Diane Maggipinto]

bish, you forgot coffee roaster
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sitting at #8, though not as present as I'd like to be. Hello!

www.d3voiceworks.com

[Lee Gordon]

Let's see if I can remember them all (in roughly chronological order starting with part-time jobs in high school and college).

Locker room attendant at public swimming pool.
Day camp counselor.
Clerk/cashier at a fruit & vegetable market.
Shoe factory worker (made women's shoes; had to join the United Shoeworkers of America).
Shipping room worker at a skirt and sweater manufacturing mill.
Egg delivery truck driver (and other odd jobs, such as candling eggs) at a poultry farm.
Weekend announcer at a "beautiful music" station.
Weekend DJ at stations people under 75, not in elevators, listened to.
Newscaster.
Top 40 DJ (first full time job, starting the day after college graduation).
Voiceoverist (and so it began).
Ice cream shop proprietor (and scooper).
Ad agency copy writer.
Ad agency creative director.
Radio station owner (absentee).
Radio station group production director.
TV station booth announcer.
Lottery drawing performer and in-studio drawing director for televised drawings.
Magazine writer.
Associate editor (book).
Full-time Voiceoverist.

Thought of a couple more and added them (in green).
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Voice President of the United States
www.leegordonproductions.com
Twitter: @LeeGordonVoice

[Diane Maggipinto]

um, king of cakes is noticeably missing.
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sitting at #8, though not as present as I'd like to be. Hello!

www.d3voiceworks.com

[Karen Souer]

My contribution:
Receptionist, set construction maven, assistant stage manager, part time board op, telemarketer (I lasted a month!) ice cream scooper, baker (Panera), college bookstore employee, (cashier, stocker, etc.) deli clerk, and now virtual assistant.
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Any project, any size, I can help.
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[KarenL]

Okay...let's see...not in perfect order...(real estate came before getting married...)

Cotton Candy twirler for the Kemsley (I think) Kiddie Karnival.

KFC worker

In the Glendale Galleria:
Made subs at Pizza Pete's (my boyfriend later to be husband Jim got the MOST AMAZING sandwiches to take to work, for a ridiculously reasonable price)
Retail clerk at Motherhood Maternity - hated it - totally dead store off the main walkway...
Retail clerk at Miller's Outpost

Hostess/server/cashier/busser (except Friday and Saturday nights when there was another waitress and a busser) at a small Italian restaurant owned by Persians with a Bolivian cook. Food was great!

Food server at another Italian restaurant. The owner wanted people to think he was connected. So I doubt he was.

Got married - best decision I ever made!

Directory Assistance operator for Pacific Telephone in Burbank, CA

Real estate licensee at age 19 (prime rate was about 17% at the time - and 'creative financing' was born...). Jim and I bought our first house in our early 20s as a result of my brief real estate 'career' - due to connections and mindset/awareness.

Data supervisor for a company that provided comps for appraisers - for other than single family homes. Commercial properties, light industrial, apartments, etc.

Receptionist for fancy shmancy office building in Brentwood (chi chi LA neighborhood)

Food server at Bombay Bicycle Club in Burbank (of course), where about every 3rd server was an AC-TOR (again: of course).

Went to broadcasting school (LAB) in Hollywood, CA.

Have worked at a variety of radio stations in northern CA including an FM morning show in San Francisco.

6 weeks as a trainee in the communications department at a local police department. Fascinating work - no viable training program. And afterward, that's what *everyone* told me. Geez, thanks. It was pretty traumatic.

Manager of the community garden at my church. 31 plots, 18 sets of gardeners (none are members of the congregation - it's all outreach). We have the MOST awesome community garden in town. Truth.

Emcee for Calabash, a fundraiser for Food For Thought, Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank. Great event - amazing gourd art!

Coordinator of the silent auction portion of EarleFest, an Americana Music Festival, benefiting Earle Baum Center of the Blind. Last year and coming up again in September of this year. We raised 8k last year, 12k is my goal for this year. Wish me luck!

Seller of candles

Wife of Jim, 31 years last week
Mom of Kim, 22
Daughter of Stan & Marilyn, who (along with their dog) live with us now that Dad is sliding down with vascular dementia.
On-call staff for 2 cats and another dog.

Writer
Project manager/producer of product videos - client interface, write scripts, voice or cast the voice, compose the shot list/titles, be on set for shoot, manage post-shoot process with client.

I think that's it.

oh yeah - and I get paid to make talkie noises
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Happy to be here.
www.KarenLehman.com

[Philip Banks]

As a Voiceoverist I SUCK but luckily I look hot !!!!



Father ex-SAS Major so I learned to polish my shoes or he would kill me using only a marshmallow and a 1st class stamp.

[Monk]

Dude (doood) You look ferkin' great. I need to start riding my bicycle more.
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[todd ellis]

i agree. could you hail me a taxi please?
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"i know philip banks": todd ellis
who's/on/1st?

[Philip Banks]

"All hail the Taxi, may your mightiness shine brightly in the firmament and your shadow ne'er grow less"

Happy now?

[todd ellis]

yes - and a little weepy from the poetry of it all.
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"i know philip banks": todd ellis
who's/on/1st?

[ccpetersen]

"Make me a malt!"

"Okay, you're a malt!"

/end weird sideways threadjack

Philip, lookin' hot! It's the shoulderboards that do it, and the shiny shoes.
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Charter Member: Threadjackers Local 420

[Fran McClellan]

Yowzers, Philip!! Lookin' mighty sharp there!

I guess I'll play the previous occupation game (I enjoyed seeing all the various jobs everyone has done!)

Until I wrote this list out, I had no idea it would turn out to be this long!!

• File clerk in a Dr's office
• Cannoli filler and cashier at a bakery
• "Newsstand" type convenience store clerk(one in an office building, the other at a subway station)
• Gift store cashier
• Got my degree in Applied Media Arts (concentration - Photography)
• Owner/operator photo retail store (darkroom supplies and film processing) - I then discovered that I really hated retail so closed up shop
• Assistant Manager for a mid-sized Video Rental store (I actually LOVED that job - got a sneak peak at all the new releases a day early and got to watch movie trailers all day long)
• Walmart cashier
• Walmart photo lab tech (the best thing about my time at Wally World was that I met my husband there )
• Telemarketer and team manager for a large call center (shudder)
• Loan officer for an independent loan company
• Realtor's assistant
• Mobile Therapist for a Children's home (behavioral health services)
• TAC tech for an ISP(troubleshooting residential Internet services)
• NOC tech (IP Network troubleshooting)
• Started out in the wonderful world of Voiceovering
• IP Network Engineer (IP routing and switching)
• IP Provisioning (installing IP services for both small and large enterprise customers - i.e. Google, BT (Hi Bish ), Verizon, et al)
• Quality Assurance Project Manager - Customer Operations (specialized in QA for IP Products - shocker I know : - this is my current daytime gig
• Voiceoverist (hopefully soon to be full time )
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Back into the murky lurk from whence I came
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon