When it comes to projects and academic experience, a majority of my time has been spent on repairing and restoring Ampex tape machines. I have used these machines in installation art, as well as sound compositions. The idea of having sound as physical object in your hand couldn't be more appealing to me, and my time with tape has informed lots of my current digital work.
Now, I work mostly in computers, programming all kinds of only-possible-in-a-digital-world stuff. I see tape music and computer music as stepping stones into the creative's "is this possible?" hunger. Tape music allows the physical manipulation (often destruction in my case) of sound, and the ability to turn the sonic into physical, and into sonic once again. Computer music is another level of manipulation and reinventing. The typical options when manipulating sound are prevelent in both (pitchshifting, distortion, echo, reverb, etc.), but in computer music, these manipulations can be changed in real time, by processes informed by the sound itself. To me, computer music is Norbert Weiner's ideal, as we can take a process and manipulate variables within it via itself.
I have worked in a couple areas, bobarista, barista, office clerk, bagel maker, studio engineer, producer, etc...
My professional career has been working as an office clerk in the Texas Western District Court, which is the 5th circuit. In these offices, I worked as a paper pusher in Jury as well as Probation. These jobs equipped me with all the necessary skills needed for typical office jobs, Excel, Word (including mail merges!), and office etiquette.
My other jobs have trained me for making great coffee at home!. I often brew my own via a Moka pot which gives a great, rich flavor. My bagel making job also gave me some great skills for making breakfast foods for myself and guests. These jobs of course gave me training on proper food handling, and all the necessary skills needed to food people.