There are some pretty literate people in here...

[BiscuitHammer]

I was wondering what everyone does for a living. Me, I work on Star Trek Discovery, and in the TV/movie industry in general.

How about the rest of you authors?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Retired Prof, still part-time active in forensic anthropology and osteoarchaeology.

 

[Misshotndeep]

I am just gonna post a reminder that if you want to keep your Lit life separate from your Real life one should be careful what information is given out here.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

That sounds very cool!

I’m an investment officer of a privately held fund. Before that, I was an attorney for a couple of years out of law school.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Former IT guy, former English Lit/media student, former wage slave in a copy shop, former drummer in a punk band. Now too blind and too sick to work, hoping to find fortune and maybe fame as a purveyor of slightly smutty fantasy stories.

I have nothing to hide. Except my ugly face. No need to scare the kids.

 

[ChloeTzang]

ER nurse

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I am just gonna post a reminder that if you want to keep your Lit life separate from your Real life one should be careful what information is given out here.

Very good point!

 

[BumbleCat]

I'm an engineer. I've always been a voracious reader and took up writing as a creative outlet. (Not that engineering isn't creative. It is. But I like the challenge of writing.)

 

[vanmyers86]

Former journalist now in media relations.

 

[HeyAll]

Would-be lawyer. No prior background in writing beyond essays in school.

Great thread, by the way. I'd love to tweet this out to the Literotica account when it builds up.

 

[TxRad]

Retired after 44 years in the oil fields as an onsite geologist. Jack of all trades and a master at many in my own mind.

 

[KeithD]

Former actor/male model, retired intelligence official, retired again from book publishing, currently novelist and short story writer.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

A retired mom, LOL!

Really though I've worked in food service most of my life. Worked at a catering business for ten years from the 80s to the 90s, then had a bunch of kids and stayed home.
Now that my youngest is 14 and my ex decided to stop child support I'm back out working. I work at Sam's Club. All the prepared foods you can take home and pop in the oven, I make that. I really enjoy the job and the people I work with, but it's 32 degrees in my kitchen so it can get cold!

 

[BrokenSpokes]

I’m an IT adjacent arty person, and grad student.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

I was wondering what everyone does for a living.

Retired military, now working on my 4th master's degree as a full time student with a bunch of mid-20 year olds. Because staying busy prevents me from drinking as much.

 

[Handley_Page]

I was wondering what everyone does for a living. Me, I work on Star Trek Discovery, and in the TV/movie industry in general.

How about the rest of you authors?

retired engineer

 

[RejectReality]

Laborer. Although, I know so much at this point that I'm more often called on to perform with my brain than my back. Half the time, I'd honestly rather be picking stuff up and moving it than fighting to turn the unending daily chaos into some semblance of order.

I'm still in the top tier of both for now — though I don't know how long this broken-assed body will manage the physical stuff at that level. Little entertains me more than some eighteen or nineteen year old standing there baffled as my old ass bails them out of a situation they were decrying as impossible within five minutes. LOL

There's more need for someone to stand in the path of the roiling mass of stupidity and declare, "You shall not pass!" so that's where I end up. If someone doesn't do it, nobody gets to go home at anything resembling a reasonable time.

 

[SamScribble]

I started out as a copywriter, became a columnist, and spent the last 20 years or so years of my working life writing reports for a number of global consultancies. Oh, and somewhere in there I did a bit of work for radio, film, and TV. And wrote some books. And ... well ... you know. I suppose I was part of the gig economy before it was the gig economy.

 

[OneAuthor]

I am just gonna post a reminder that if you want to keep your Lit life separate from your Real life one should be careful what information is given out here.

Good point, but it's certainly possible to let people know what you do for a living without giving away your identity. Unless, of course, you are actually the president / prime minister / supreme ruler of a country.

As for me, I write technical documentation for IT applications. Fictional, erotic writing is a nice escape from my day job.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Computer security consultant [NOT cyber!], role playing fiend, and general pain in the ass.

 

[oggbashan]

Retired Civil servant in purchasing and supply; IT systems manager; contracts manager; manager of a range of activities including personnel, finance, estates for 20+ buildings, training unit including two apprentice training schools, management, technical, and video training film production, computer systems; manager of a social services department; secondhand bookdealer with own shop; general public nuisance as chairman, president and vice president of a variety of community organisations; writer of technical manuals and text books; contributor to Literotica; father; grandfather; and now dying.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Good point, but it's certainly possible to let people know what you do for a living without giving away your identity. Unless, of course, you are actually the president / prime minister / supreme ruler of a country.

You don't have to be "Individual 1, who is now the President of the United States of America" to give away a lot of info. Let me put it this way:

It takes about 33 bits of information to uniquely identify a person, if you have access to the right records (many of which are publicly available).

"Male" or "Female" is one bit.
Age is about 6.5 bits, or around 4 bits for a five-year age range.
Birthday is 8.5 bits, or 10.5 bits if it's February 29.
Country: about 2 bits for China or India, 4 bits for USA, 6 bits for Germany, 7 for UK, 8 for Australia, 12 for New Zealand.
Occupation: varies with frequency, e.g. about 2 bits for "labourer", 12 bits for "ER nurse", 20 bits for a one-in-a-million profession.

(I've made some simplifications here; for instance, "ER nurse" + "female" is less information than "ER nurse" + "male". But it's close enough to give the general idea.)

Looking through this thread, I can see several people who've already given away about half of the information that would be required to identify them. That's just from what's visible in this one thread, before we even get into what's in profiles and all the little things people disclose in casual conversation.

Of course, some here may not care whether they're identifiable. Everybody else is well advised to keep track of just how much you're giving away here.

 

[RejectReality]

Honestly, most people are likely to have exposed themselves 1000% more on social media than they ever will on here.

There are very few companies adhering to strict identification protocols over the phone, and scumbags can get enough personal information to steal your identity or make your life hell in a half an hour from seemingly innocuous things like saying you just bought a piece of furniture from a certain store in a Tweet.

On here, the biggest danger is exposing yourself to a stalker from here, or outing yourself to someone who is a little more pervy than you knew, or they want to admit.

Lit may have a lot of traffic, but the forum is a piddly percentage of that, and someone attempting to glean information about your real identity would already have to have suspicions that you were on here to mine this place for information.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Sorry to say it, but Lit forums *are* social media.

 

[Rustyoznail]

BiscuitHammer
C/- Author’s Hangout
Literotica.com

29 October 2019

Dear BiscuitHammer

Re: Information Concerning Daily Work

Thank you for your recent request. I would like to advise that I am a Civil Engineer.

Yours sincerely

Rustyoznail