What do you do in real life?

i have been a poor under paid printer for 20 years...........so it goes..

Perennially poor, and 2 years away from a job in the NHS - so no change imminent :-(

Definitely a creative type, but allergic to wealth. Need some antiskintamines...

I know they get a lot of stick, but some designers are actually quite into "design", and not just what is cool. The design aspects of a fixed gear bike are very appealing to someone who naturally finds the clumsiness of pushing a chain between sprockets off putting and only uses three gears at most. Not to mention the feel of being in full control of your back wheel.

I'm a designer by the way. My bike collection is at three and a half at the moment. The half is a stalled build waiting for more funds, which will probably be provided by selling one of the others! They're all cheap cobbled together machines, except for the new one.

Is being a paramedic anything like that Scorsese film with Nicholas Cage?

I'm a Software Architect for a multi-national company. Used to be in the music business, but jumped ship when the going was bad and Belle & Sebastian were being shitty and Snow Patrol were just a drain on the money. Went into programming and suddenly started earning a decent living, so haven't really looked back. It's almost a decade later now and I'm at the top of my game so the money is pretty good. If only I didn't have this damned marriage to pay off.

I finished my studying days in August, and been working since Jan as a (trainee) IT consultant..
not the most creative job - but it took me 5 months to find ANY careery kinda job - I dream of being a carpenter, or perhaps something in a suede crepe-soled desert boot...

@ eeehhhh - IMO the best IC halls were Sussex (Evelyn?) gardens.. seriously - choose to live in the pimpest area of Chelsea while you can as a broke-arse student!

Photographer, notch another one to the creative types. What ffub was saying about fixed being pleasing to the eye makes a lot of sense. Wouldn't be surprised if there are a few dyslexics here (me included) cause their brain works visually.

i am!!! hench the shit spelling....im sorry guys,i try:(

me to!!
notice sort answers to keep the chances of a misspelling down

I think we should start a splinter group, Dyslexic Fixed Gear.

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BringMeMyFix wvw.lodnonfsgs.cm

So tempted to buy that and point it here.

eeehhhh i'm a student. Nearly finished sixth form (5 days!) and will be moving to london to study chemistry.

[quote]jonaent (Jon) ... currently run all of the online stuff at Brick Lane Bikes :-)

hurry up with the blb web site! i want to see what they stock as i have yet to actually go there. :)[/quote]

MrSmith [quote]jonaent (Jon) I run a small web design firm and I currently run all of the online stuff at Brick Lane Bikes :-)

well pull your finger out then! there's nothing to see but a holding page![/quote]

All will be revealed soon, very soon

I am emplyed by bike forum owners and moderators around the world to insert inane comments, start arguments, provide occasional humour, random snippets of randomness and a dash of knowledge to other forum readers. They could've got an automated computer program to do the same thing but I'm cheaper.

mashton I'm a geek. Or, more specifically, I am an Integration Analyst that has a final interview today to become a Lead Enterprise Architect.

More generally, I work for a major music company.

Sorry but what on earth is an "Integration Analyst" and a "Lead Enterprise Architect".

i will officially be on my gap year in 4 hours!

a whole year of non-stop videogaming action

provenrad it took me 5 months to find ANY careery kinda job -

It's taken me 8 years and I'm still looking!

hippy I am emplyed by bike forum owners and moderators around the world to insert inane comments, start arguments, provide occasional humour, random snippets of randomness and a dash of knowledge to other forum readers. They could've got an automated computer program to do the same thing but I'm cheaper.

Maybe you ARE an automated computer program with delusions of human identity...

... do you have to press alt+ctrl+del everytime you crash your bike?

I am responsible for the network, users, website and archiving for an international exhibition.
I have worked in IT, cycle retail and as a Courier for two of Londons top firms.
I have a fixed wheel road bike that I ride everyday and a SS/MTB that never gets ridden.

I've only just twigged that your avatar is an I Ching thing. Fire above water - "not yet completed".

What's the story behind that one?

Or is it just a pretty pattern.

Im a editorial designer. and I own 3 bikes 2 fix 1 bmx, but I do not have any expensive clothing I dress like a tramp! im also not rich I just don't have no life and sit in every night counting my pennies until I can afford another project.

Banking. About as uncreative as it gets. I've got two Macs at home though!

BringMeMyFix I've only just twigged that your avatar is an I Ching thing. Fire above water - "not yet completed".

What's the story behind that one?

Or is it just a pretty pattern.
Actually It is from my childhood obsession with GIJOE comics.
All of the Arashikage Clan had it tattooed on their forearms, I want one too.

You were being subliminally spiritually guided.

LOL

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Why has he got TETRIS blocks over his ninja suit?