Interview with a Credit Card Processing Salesman

What do you do for a living? I work for a company called Heartland Payment Systems and do credit card processing, payroll, sales, gift card sales. They have a couple of different items that they sell but credit cards and payrolls are sort of the bread and butter. How...

Interview with a Musician

What do you do for a living? I’m a commercial musician and I also teach lessons. How would you describe what you do? I play saxophone, flute, and clarinet. I also teach. I give private lessons because it’s pretty standard for any musician out there to end up teaching...

Interview with a Security Consultant

What do you do for a living? I am security consultant that specializes in regulatory security, more specifically in the energy sector. How would you describe what you do? If it turns on, for example, the gas in your car, the lights in your house, anything like that,...

Interview with a Columnist/Reporter

What do you do for a living? I’m a reporter and humor columnist for a large daily newspaper. How would you describe what you do? In any given day, I can cover anything – closing of a school health clinic, birth of an elephant at the zoo, political...

Interview with a Sign Language Interpreter

What do you do for a living? I am the state judicial sign language interpreter interpreting in state and local courts. How would you describe what you do? I am an officer of the court and there to serve at the pleasure of the court to ensure that communication...

Interview with a Hospitalist

What do you do for a living? Hospital medicine, and it’s a new division of internal medicine which focuses on patients admitted to the hospital only.  The term hospitalist is now often used to describe this career. How would you describe what you do? I’d just say we...