Careers and paintball

[sevensone]

Just sat in my shop wondering out loud about stuff when a question came to mind. What kind of jobs do people in paintball land do? I'm a hairdresser by trade (jokes to the email attached!) and rec/tourny player who just enjoys slinging some paint.
Surely everyone in paintball can't run a site?

So, come on, tell us ya jobs.

 

[Gee]

Computer programmer (c++)

Hence where i get all my on field aggression.

 

[-Pikachu-]

paintball marshal, and a stuent in my spare time. Enjoy a bit of horticulturism in my spare time - hence the lethargy

 

[Kevin]

product support engineer.

also hence alot of pent up aggresion !

 

[Sammi T - Nexus Eclipse]

Magic Assistant

In laymen’s terms... IT Support, Software Support and Developer

 

[Sinner]

Unix Admin

The rest of my mob include a postal worker (not a good job for somebody who owns guns! ), a machine operator, laborer/builder, delivery driver, office manager, bank clerk, motorcycle mechanic and an old guy who spends a lot of time down sewers but isn't a sewage worker - wierd!

The latter has a wonderful story about a guy visiting a sewage treatment plant who parked his car - windows open - next to a pipe just as it burst, spraying the inisde of the car and him with liquid... err, stuff!

 

[Flash-Bugout]

Student/Layabout whichever I feel more like.

Next year (argh - graduation approaches!) I'll be stuck in some lame programming/network support job.

Is it just me, or are the majority of (non paintball industry) tourney ballers in the UK involved in IT jobs? Is paintball the sport of geeks?

 

[Hotpoint]

Administrator/IT Trainer for a Facilities Management Company

 

[Sinner]

Ph33r the g33k!

l33t haX0r

[Geek hacker mode off]

Trust me, Flash, once you start working in IT, you're going to want to shoot a lot of people! Life suxx0r (sorry, geek mode again ) & so I like to transfer my suffering onto others.

I don't think of it as living, it's more a case of being an animate water-filled bag of pain receptors hurtling towards oblivion.

 

[Liz]

Flash is right, we've talked about this on the boards before & paintball does seem to have a very high proportion of IT people playing. ISTR we came to the conclusion that it was down to a mixture of a) reaction to a deskbound indoor job, b) getting rid of the frustration of dealing with users/customers, & c) disposable income tending to be a bit higher.

Oh, and insanity being a requirement for the IT industry!