'REAL' job

[JHSump]

Assistant District Attorney (prosecutor) for the State of Tennessee.

Cool!

 

Ever find what you do in "real" life influencing how you umpire, or vice versa? 

[JHSump]

 

I'm such a loser. Courtesy clerk at the local Safeway and a cashier at the Alaska Shirt Company. Also I commission videos and photography for several businesses and programs around the Borough.

Don't feel bad, I don't have such a glamorous job either. DDS Clerk at Mars 2 and a YouTube host on a collab channel every Friday.

 

I might go into poker professionally, as a player and/or dealer. MD has a zero online gaming law though, so it'll have to be live play. If I ever get into the WSOP-ME, I'll wear an umpiring uniform when I make the money. PU or BU?

 

Oh no!!  Never feel bad about this sort of stuff!

 

Those of us with "glamorous" jobs find our jobs not-so-glamorous, much of the time.  That's why it's a "job."  How you enjoy what you do is up to you, not what it is you are doing.  I was in an airport the other day where this woman pushing a bin of garbage was singing hellos and welcomes to those of us "glamorous" travelers (or not so glamorous travelers).  She was clearly enjoying herself.  I gladly smiled and said, "Hi."

 

Even the "glamorous" always think others are "more glamorous" or "more deserving."

 

Strikes and outs, partner.

[Ump29]

Retired. Former Electronics Engineering Technologist for a telephone company. Now a school crossing guard and umpire assigner.

[BuckeyeMike]

Retired Air Force Master Sergeant (23 yrs of my life), presently (and hopefully permanently) doing nothing but baseball, football and basketball.

[TStokes97]

I'm a high school student outside of games, I also follow fat people with a tuba

[Rulekeep]

I'm a high school student outside of games,

That'll be me next season...freshmint year.

[VAUmp]

@maven
 

So as a philosophy professor, answer this question.

 

Is www.umpire-empire.com really here?

[maven]

@maven

 

So as a philosophy professor, answer this question.

 

Is www.umpire-empire.com really here?

 

I couldn't answer as anything else.

 

Let me ask you this: if it weren't here, how could I reply?

[TStokes97]

@maven

So as a philosophy professor, answer this question.

Is www.umpire-empire.com really here?

Ill chime in, no were in the matrix DUH!!! Watch some syfy dang it!

[TStokes97]

I'm a high school student outside of games,

That'll be me next season...freshmint year. 11th grade right now, senior next year want to work in buissness, but still ump at night till i cant do it physically anymore

[Jocko]

@maven

So as a philosophy professor, answer this question.

Is www.umpire-empire.com really here?

I couldn't answer as anything else.

Let me ask you this: if it weren't here, how could I reply?if you couldn't reply, then I couldn't have read what you couldn't write. And if I didn't read what you didn't write, I'm speaking in a vacuum and noone is hearing (reading) anything I write, anyway.So, in that vein......

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news--- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's, I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parablous. I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes, Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Balylonic cuneiform, And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a chassepôt rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery: In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy, You'll say a better Major-General a gee--- For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

[Majordave]

@Rulekeep. @PGOLDEN88

You guys are still very young. We all started out at the bottom.

In my life I've been a guy who holds the rope in the valet parking lot at a horse racing track. A valet driver (at age 14-pretty cool to drive jags, benzs. BMWs and a Delorean at that age), a horse stall mucker, a dishwasher and busboy and ice cream scooper, a mechanics helper, a McDonald's burger and fish and French fries fryer, a stockboy/bagger at a grocery store, a lawnmower and landscaper, an enlisted soldier-cavalryman in the Army, an Army officer, a part-time roadie for several bands-Kenny Loggins, Billy Idol, Quarterflash, Red Ryder, spinners, a security guard, an attorney-felony criminal prosecutor, criminal defense, misdemeanor prosecutor, personal injury trial lawyer, business and banking law, divorce lawyer, wills and trusts advisor, high school business teacher, football coach and assistant athletics department director, advisor to Afghan National Army and Ministry of Defense, program manager, script writer and now am proud to announce I was just hired this past Friday as the Senior Veterans Service Officer for the KC regional office of the Wounded Warrior Project.

Keep leaning forward in the harness. Good things will happen for you.

Remember, God helps those who help themselves and he always gives you what you need, not always what you want.

[Dannytheman]

All I know is when I left the Coast Guard I wanted to be a Tugboat Captain. Since I was not related to anyone, that didn't pan out.

While waiitng I got into Telecommunications and now am VP of Operations for a global company near Hollyweird, CA.

[Rulekeep]

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news--- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's, I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parablous. I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes, Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Balylonic cuneiform, And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a chassepôt rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery: In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy, You'll say a better Major-General a gee--- For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Did Jocko just say something smart or was he only implying that sometimes he can say smart things.

[Jocko]

@Rulekeep - can't hear you inside this Kirby

[Rulekeep]

@Rulekeep - can't hear you inside this Kirby

Mr. Jocko, why are you inside a giant pink marshmallow creature?

[Jocko]

@Rulekeep - stupid leftover easter peeps :smachhead:

[Rulekeep]

@Rulekeep - stupid leftover easter peeps

Well that joke went flying right over your head.

why is everybody here so OLD?!

[Jocko]

@Rulekeep - not at all. I just redirected it to accommodate my own twisted SOH

[JHSump]

 

@maven

 

So as a philosophy professor, answer this question.

 

Is www.umpire-empire.com really here?

 

I couldn't answer as anything else.

 

Let me ask you this: if it weren't here, how could I reply?

 

As @maven may already know, there is a philosophy paper that suggests there is a 1/3 chance we actually do live in a computer simulation.  It's come up in some cosmology discussions.

 

 

@Rulekeep - stupid leftover easter peeps

Well that joke went flying right over your head.

<s>why is everybody here so OLD?!</s>

 

Why are you so YOUNG?!  

[Rulekeep]

@Rulekeep - stupid leftover easter peeps

Well that joke went flying right over your head.

why is everybody here so OLD?!

Why are you so YOUNG?! Because 2000 was when the universe decided to smash molecules together and create my useless brain-transport. If I had it my way, I would still be a couple of hydrogen atoms floating out in a hypernova.

[maven]

Because 2000 was when the universe decided to smash molecules together and create my useless brain-transport. If I had it my way, I would still be a couple of hydrogen atoms floating out in a hypernova.

Great Caesar's ghost! You were just barely born in the same millennium as I was!

[Rulekeep]

Because 2000 was when the universe decided to smash molecules together and create my useless brain-transport. If I had it my way, I would still be a couple of hydrogen atoms floating out in a hypernova.

Great Caesar's ghost! You were just barely born in the same millennium as I was! Going back to my original question...

[treydawgmt]

Firefighter/Paramedic both Full Time and Volunteer, and a mystery shopper.

[ricka56]

I own/operate several adult-oriented websites. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who may have contributed web hits (advertising revenue) to the top line. Your pleasure is my pleasure.