What's your current profession?

[McDick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close McDick]

Thanks! Been coming here off and on for a couple years. Happy to finally come out of the shadows.

[MrsLooking4more Retired Super Moderator Member of the Month Feb 2013PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close MrsLooking4more]

Former Sheriff's Deputy, current Highway Patrolman and also my first post. Hi yall!

Welcome back MrMcDick!

[McDick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close McDick]

Thank you! Hey, how long does it take to become conversational/fluent in sign language? I've always wanted to learn. Also, your job sounds interesting, how do you get into something like that?

[McDick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close McDick]

I really have to remember to reply with quotes from now on, sorry. I'm not used to forum convos.

[Toadstool Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toadstool]

you can also use the edit post button to add to an older post

[Glamissand1 Senior Member Member of the Month March 2014 Find all posts View Profile Close Glamissand1]

Night shift foreman/ electrician. Jack of all trades, master of one.

[sapfu Member Find all posts View Profile Close sapfu]

Welcome McDick

Leather goods manufacturer, full time for the past 25 years, but have been working with leather since '65. Other than that, fully qualified merchant in Germany, soldier (sniper), cowboy (bloody hard work and shit pay), miner (hot work, best pay ever), oil rig worker (unbelievably hard & dangerous work, unbelievably high wages) railroader (didn't know that I had some of those muscles until then, shit pay), road builder (hot work, shit pay), maintenance carpenter (great job, shit pay) maintenance engineering (interesting and good pay), security guard (money transport, looked down one shotgun too many), and now leather worker (love it and get to work where I live. Pay is could be better, but who cares)

[camaro Senior Member Member of the month June 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close camaro]

OT, but is buffalo leather worth the premium over cow leather? Full grain and top grain comparing?

[tophat Member Find all posts View Profile Close tophat]

Hey

So I'm a professional guitarist, I play in bands and teach through the week. I love it, its the only thing I'm really good at

[sapfu Member Find all posts View Profile Close sapfu]

I have never worked with American (Bison) buffalo leather, but I do believe it is an outstanding leather. If you are talking about Asian (water) buffalo leather, its OK, but very second rate to cow hide. But as all things, it would depend on what you want to do. Its a bit like asking "how long is a piece of string".
Fullgrain is uncorrected natural hide, warts and all. Top grain is leather that has been corrected to eliminated blemishes. With fullgrain you know what you get, with top grain they can hide a multitude of sins.

[camaro Senior Member Member of the month June 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close camaro]

Wanted a good custom leather jacket.The leather guy pushed me toward buffalo ( probably water buffalo ).Any way to tell apart bison ( Indian ) and water buffalo full grain?

I wanted full grain to protect from the elements, crashes and sharp things.Was looking at something about 2mm thick.Thoughts?

[wind chill Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wind chill]

i have no job and i like it haha.Tho sometimes i get bored as fuck.

[MrsLooking4more Retired Super Moderator Member of the Month Feb 2013PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close MrsLooking4more]

Thank you! Hey, how long does it take to become conversational/fluent in sign language? I've always wanted to learn. Also, your job sounds interesting, how do you get into something like that?

It depends of your aptitude and interaction with the language. In my experience it is the same with any language you are learning (I am multi-lingual). Most people take a few years to be fluent, you can have a basic knowledge in a few months depended of your time invested.

I learned sign language fast by immersion, I had no choice our daughter was losing her hearing fast and we had to prepare. So I signed up to our church's Deaf congregation and started going to Deaf socials, you name it, I was there. By the time 5 months had gone by I had as many hours in as someone in college learning the language for a degree.

My job is amazing, you need to get a degree as an American Sign Language Interpreter if you want to make it a profession and then you need to get you state and national licensing (kind of like passing the bar for lawyers). You can also take classes just for fun, just to learn the language at most colleges, but they teach it as a foreign language not as a language to work from. If all you want is to be able to communicate with the Deaf community members an ASL as a foreign language class, will do the trick but if you get serious you need more. It is a very profitable profession but it requires a lot of work and continuing education (as many other careers do). Regardless, I love it!

[jstane45 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jstane45]

This is such an important question for PE, since time is a big factor in PE success. For most people it's their job that takes up most of their time. I'm an attorney, and it takes up about 12 hours a day.

[McDick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close McDick]

It depends of your aptitude and interaction with the language. In my experience it is the same with any language you are learning (I am multi-lingual). Most people take a few years to be fluent, you can have a basic knowledge in a few months depended of your time invested.

I learned sign language fast by immersion, I had no choice our daughter was losing her hearing fast and we had to prepare. So I signed up to our church's Deaf congregation and started going to Deaf socials, you name it, I was there. By the time 5 months had gone by I had as many hours in as someone in college learning the language for a degree.

My job is amazing, you need to get a degree as an American Sign Language Interpreter if you want to make it a profession and then you need to get you state and national licensing (kind of like passing the bar for lawyers). You can also take classes just for fun, just to learn the language at most colleges, but they teach it as a foreign language not as a language to work from. If all you want is to be able to communicate with the Deaf community members an ASL as a foreign language class, will do the trick but if you get serious you need more. It is a very profitable profession but it requires a lot of work and continuing education (as many other careers do). Regardless, I love it!

I just did a quick search and realized sign language isn't universal! I hadn't even thought about that. I figured everone who knew sign language could communicate with each other. Apperantly the signs can vary even within the same country? WOW.