Prius Owners Poll - What do you do for a living?

I've not been tracking this thread carefully. Was there ever a demographic conclusion to the question; i.e. retired, professional, blue/white collar, etc.?

 

Software engineer - programming software for the manufacturing industries.

 

Going to school for Computer Information Systems (CIS)

As of now, obviously a student.

 

Program and Activity Manager for the government. Used to be a Civil Engineer.

 

Electrical engineer,
Projecct Manager
Now Retired

 

My quick scan suggests that the Prius crowd tends to be qhite collar professional, technologically savvy, and well educated, or retired from same. Quite different from the Tacoma crowd where I hang out from time to time b/c I also own a Tacoma. THAT crowd is younger, less well educated (and more right wing Republican).

And by the way, I am a former professor of environmental science now working in the private sector on energy and environmental issues.

 

I am a Aircraft Mechanic if you want to make it sound better you could say Aviation Maintenance Technician. Aviation maintenance is my full time job I am also a Citizen Soldier and Genteman Farmer part time.

I also own both a Prius and a Tacoma. I am blue collar HS educated some collage no degree though. The Tacoma is my wife's vehicle I drive the Prius exclusively. I am a Registred Republican but I vote for people and principals not political parties.


Posted from my iPhone via the Tapatalk app.

 

Salesman for a nationwide trucking company for the past 6 years. 15 years ago, I broke into this business as an over-educated, under-achieving, appropriately-caffeinated rookie truck driver, mostly because I needed a change & I was was enamored with the romance of the road. As opposed to on it, I later discovered.

(These things do happen. One of my fellow drivers was a board-certified forensic pathologist who worked for Dr. Michael Baden in NYC back in the day. I think everyone should make a point of befriending a forensic pathologist from NYC, because the one I had was absolutely hilarious. I still laugh when I remember his stories... and being a medic, I know they were true.)

So after about a year, the owners determined I was safer behind a desk than behind the wheel. Not because I ever ran into anybody, but because I sucked in reverse. Backing a big-rig out of the shop before the door was all the way up cost me $400. That was the beginning of the end of my career as a driver, so I was eventually promoted to senior management.

Before that, I was a medic for many years (air & land), and I sometimes moonlighted as an ER tech; then, needing a break from the acuity of emergency field medicine, I became a traveling kidney dialysis technicician -- & eventually I got to work with survivors of traumatic brain injury. That was a blast. Given all the brain cells I killed back in the day (the 80s were unkind), I seemed to fit right in.

Sales seemed like a natural choice after that.

 

Electrical Engineer/Computer Engineer, currently designing a CPU.

I see I have some company here - though given the wide expanse that Electrical Engineering covers (everything from plasmas to power to computers and more), we quite possibly wouldn't be able to understand a single thing the others said...

 

Scientific editor and journal managing editor. I wear a variety of hats in the department, of course.

 

Video Conferencing Sales Engineer

 

High school science teacher, going on my 39th year. Currently, in school studying for a new career in the medical field for when I retire.

 

Quality control manager / R&D manager where we make shielded metal arc welding electrodes (old fashioned "stick" welding rods used for repair and maintenance of broken things that are made of steel, cast iron, stainless steel, copper, etc).

26 y..9 m..26 d

 

FAA Aviation Safety Inspector (Operations) for the past 25 years. I'm in the Flight Standards branch which ensures compliance with the federal air regulations. I oversee air taxi's, flight schools and corporate operators. I also give checkrides in the Beech King Air 350 and 1900 as well as in gliders, seaplanes and balloons. Other functions include conducting safety classes for pilots and crash investigations.

Other cars: Subaru Outback, Miata MX-5

 

39th?? God bless you bro

Public or private school?

 

Computer Scientist US Federal Government

 

Commercial Underwriter

 

I think we used to get noils from you, back when there was a New England woolen industry. I used to be a wool buyer.

 

Coming from a Commercial/Industrial Electrician who reads alot of engineered prints, None of us can understand what ANY of you are thinking.

Maybe I have just had a bad run of engineers as of late but the prints i'm getting are just horrible!

 

Engineering Manager. Design emission control systems for high horsepower engines (500 - 4500 hp).