Ask Cavers: What is Your Field of Study/Employment?
May 8, 2013
Original members of the disco group Village People in 1978. Photo by Mario Casciano
When at a caving gathering, it’s amazing to hear all the different employment and education backgrounds the cavers have.
For this week’s Ask Cavers question we though it would be fun to what your field of study or employment is, to see if that holds true for readers of Caving News.
Share your field of study and/or employment, as well as your theories why so many types of people are attracted to caving, in the discussion below.
Comments (25)
Field of study: machinist
Employment: self-employed … from warehouseman to director 🙂 … informatics engineer
Cheers, Marko
Software Engineer is my profession.
By profession I’m a Printed Circuit Board Designer.
I think there is a certain amount of camaraderie among people who have been through a similar adventure. Being able to talk to other people who understand has a great appeal.
City Pool Supervisor and part time Theatre Projectionist. My jobs are fun, and my off hours are fun. How great is that? 🙂
Geologist for 40 years. I became one because I like caves and cliffs.
Underemployed mechanical engineer.
I am a school teacher and a Karate teacher. I love to teach my students about caves and watch them get excited when they understand “How caves are formed”.
Civil Servant
case manager for the severe mentally ill.
Underemployed Chemical Engineer. Have worked as a Senior Process Design Engineer, Hazardous Waste Engineer, Maintenance/Utility Engineer, Plant Environmental Officer. One of my best jobs was working part time as a Speleologist for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee – doing a Karst Inventory of the Oak Ridge Reservation(88,000 acres). Went looking, documenting GPS location of all sinkholes, insurgences, springs and of
course – Caves.
What a dream job, what ever happened to it?
On every Friday we went “Ridgewalking”. Documented the location of all caves found – but told could not explore them “that day”. So came back on Saturdays – to explore and survey them. On Sundays – drew up the cave maps – using their software and computer.
Got paid full Engineering salary – for weekend overtime!! Had a blast, getting paid, doing something I would have died for. What a job!
Lost both this job, and my main government job – on the same day! Government $$ cutback. Talk about being ‘blindsided’.
Part time Dishwasher. Simplify life, more time for training, mountaineering and caving. On feet all shift, great aerobic.
Field of study: Agriculture Economics
Employment: University of Reading
Field of study: Agricultural Economics
Employment: University of Reading
Geologist and retired Naval Flight Officer. I’ve been caving longer than I’ve been doing either of the above!
Federal Law Enforcement
While it clashes with many of my fellow cavers views it is a great job that allows me to be outside everyday out in the wild. And of course 13 years towards retirement at the age of 30 is always nice as well.
Retired. Former pre-press and now full time caver.
Tour guide. In a cave of course!
Field of study: Biology
Employment: DNA analyst… really though, I’m just a lab rat. interesting cases, but nothing to do with caves.
Caver. 🙂
First I was a Business student graduating with my bachelor’s in business management and caving in my free time…. then I joined a local grotto, went back and got a second bachelors in geology, and now I’m a graduate student working in the field of karst.
Caving created my career, really.
Personal Injury Paralegal
I work in the merger and acquisitions group at a major Japanese electronics conglomerate.
Registered Nurse
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