So what does everyone do for a living?

[Keener]

I'm a music instructor and instrument luthier at a local music shop. I spend 30 mins.-1 hr. intervals sitting with mostly kids, teaching in my studio which is about the size of a small bathroom. Very close quarters. And I used to be SO self conscious about the wretched stench of analogs that sometimes I'd wait until all of my scheduled classes were over for the day before I'd go outside real fast and light up. But lemme' tell ya', when you're trying to show an 8 yrs.-old with ADD how to hold and strum a G chord in any resemblance to a rhythm...well, after 30 mins. you NEED nicotine. But you also don't want them running out to mommy and saying, "ewww... the teacher stinks like moldy ....."

So I chewed a LOT of gum. And "ho'-bathed" in a LOT of Axe body spray.

Now? No worries. I try to vape fruity or fragrant flavors at work and keep the tobacco flavors for before/after work, just in case. Still go outside out of respect for my boss (but mostly just to get a breather between students!).


At night I'm a fiction author. This is when the chain smoking kicks in. 8-10 cups of coffee and almost a full pack in one good multi-hour session. And I've been going out on the porch with the laptop since the baby was born 2 yrs. ago (the winters were HARSH to get many words down). Now? Well, now I sit here and vape and type, type and vape. I seriously need to get a good passthrough for writing sessions alone.

 

[Old Chemist]

From what I hear, a lot of Submariners have switched to vaping since the smoking lamp has been permanently extinguished on-board subs.

Hope you don't mind me asking - what's "smoking lamp"? Could you answer - if that's not top secret or classified.

 

[Maxine]

The smoking lamp is permission to smoke.

 

[Jimi D.]

I'm a Lumber yard manager, and can vape all day long!!! Yeah Baby!!!

 

[Higbe33]

35 years in the fire department. I have to stealth vap because it's better to ask for forgiveness than it is permission.

Hig

 

[bruiser]

I make my living by loafing.

 

[leotiny]

i work for an audio visual company and i vape all over the offices, warehouse, and company vehicles. sometimes i do it in front of certain customers that i know and deal with on a regular basis.

 

[MadmanMacguyver]

A professional modder...lol if there is such a thing...I am working on developing a mod design for women exclusively and an armed forces mod...and trying to convince a family member in the navy to switch to vaping...

 

[Chopper71]

I'm the current captain of the Star Ship Enterprise.I have vaped in places no man has ever gone before.I vape all the time on board until I have to hit warp speed.Then I stop so I don't swallow the 510 lol.Just kidding my brother and myself we have our own window installation company.So I can do it whenever I want since I'm the boss lol.Well except in a customers house of course.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

I am an IT systems analyst and do some speciality programing in the medical field. Getting ready to retire at the end of July.......woohoot!! I vape in my office with my door closed but not when I have visitors unless they vape also.

 

[Astatine]

I am a chemist. Positively no vaping in the lab (that would be suicidal on many levels), but I do vape when I am in the office and my coworkers are very supportive.

And for those who wonder, when I get out of work, I have no desire to mix chemicals to make my own juice

 

[MickeyRat]

Mechanical Engineer by training. Database Administrator nowadays. Lots of off-hours work. I can vape at work. Most people think it's really cool. They even invite me to do it in meetings sometimes.

 

[Iffy]

After 20 years in the USAF (Electronic Counter-Measures) and 21 years in Instrumentation/Automation for the largest US OJ producer, I retired four years ago. Just wish e-cigs were around waaay back when!

One of my current 'hobbies' is vaping where ever, answering PV questions, printing CASAA brochures and handing 'em out along with the ECF business cards to the curious.

Now, if I could only be reimbur$ed for my 're$earch' and 'outreach'...

 

[JD1]

I'm retired and I sat around all day watching youtube or visiting the ecf. It's lots of fun and I've been doing that for a while but I need to get more exercise. I'm not eating well either, and about three weeks ago my doc said that I was enemic. She put me on b12 and d vitamins. Comes with old age and bad diet, I guess. Vape on!

 

[JohnnyKozo]

I'm a full time business student, Army National Guardsman, an almost full time security guard, and I am a freelance web designer.

Also, I'm the husband to a very nice lady who is leaving for Navy basic training in two weeks.

And a DIY smoke juice mixmaster.

I work nights as a security guard, so no ones around except the cleaning crew, and I vape the entire time. One of the cleaning crew guys even starting vaping as well.

My unit has been very open to vaping. As a tanker, I might be one of few to have ever vaped in an M1A1 tank. They say "don't drip and drive", well I've done it in a tank.

 

[Twinturbo4486]

I was working for a law firm, but recently lost that job and am currently working at a Courthouse in the Circuit Court Department. There is no way I can vape in there due to it being very busy and many customers on a daily basis, but I stealth vape in the bathroom and vape on breaks outside of course.

I highly doubt the courthouse I work in would ever let anyone vape in there. Oh well, it's still better than smoking because there's no way I could do that in the bathroom

 

[mostlyclassics]

I'm a self-employed internet stamp dealer and philatelic consultant. My daily commute consists of toddling down 13 stairs to my basement office in the morning and 13 stairs back up in the afternoon.

Being the chief cook and bottle washer of my company of one, I've always given myself permission to smoke at work. But I don't smoke in the office anymore — I only vape.

My pre-vape modus operandi was to drive 20-odd miles to the next county every couple of weeks to stock up on cigarettes and thereby save myself about $13 per carton in taxes. I had recently made a cigarette run when my "starter" kit arrived from Liberty Flights. That was in February. It's early June and I have about three cartons of cigarettes left. I invested in them, so I'm going to smoke them. At this point, I'm opening a new pack every four or five days — quite a change from three packs per day! I also occasionally puff on a pipe.

Cigarette and pipe smoking only occur upstairs, away from the office. My wife is one of those lucky ex-smokers who found it effortless to quit about 25 years ago. She actually likes the smell of cigarettes and tolerates the kind of really stinky pipe tobacco I favor. I do refrain from the pipe until after she's gone to bed.

 

[Bonehead]

I am a registered nurse during the day and a xbox gamer at night.

 

[Illuminatu]

I am an ex-infantry soldier, now working in sales for Canada's biggest tent manufacturer, i do vape in the office even though i never asked for permission, and of course i got out the building once in a while to get some fresh air and convert smokers to vaping! I also own my indie record label and allow myself to vape in the studio, something i wouldn't have done with analogs.

 

[DiggerP]

I own a boat parts supply company and I encourage my employees to vape rather than smoke. Productivity and health are both up... plus I can't run out of liquid or atty's that way!