What's your day job?

Day job?

I used to be an AI/robotics researcher for NASA and software developer for numerous robotics companies. But when my audio recording career got to the point where I could leap into that, I did! Now I have a part-time "day job" I can walk to, doing and/or supervising all the A/V Production for the music department at a prestigious college; I continue running my small classical music audio/video production business at other hours... and teach Quechua here and there... and it looks like my robotic theater troupe (http://ullanta.com/ullanta) may soon be revived!
 
You don't know Quechua... mister astronaut is also familiar with the native language of the north-west of my country of origin. Especially on provinces like San Juan and Salta in the very northern tip of Argrentina that was a language already widespread even before the Incas!

Ullanta, I am starting to think that you are pulling my hair... I call bulls#it!
Come clean, come on mang... hehe... serious.... you can't know Quechua

BTW, I also used to do stand-in work.
 
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Isn't there still a population of Quechua speakers?

A while back I worked with a construction coordinator whose family was from Mexico; he described communities where people still spoke the regional indigenous language and rarely went into town where Spanish was spoken...
 
I work as a freelance Producer, Director and Shooter. It depends on the project. I've been fortunate to be able to make a living doing what I love. I've worked on everything from sitcoms to features (indie) to promos, commercials and reality tv to name a few...
 
Sad, yes, it is still spoken. Not only was it incredibly wide-spread, but it was spoken in incredibly remote areas isolated from the rest of the world.
 
Full time student at University/I sell games for 40 hours a week at Gamestop/Run my own production company that does short instructional films for various companies around my area. Currently working with a hydraulics company.
 
As of the 1990's there are about 13 million Quechua speakers in the Andean region (From Colombia to Northern Chile). In the cities, recent generations are losing it - or able to understand, but not speak - but there are still many monolingual Quechua speakers in the rural areas.

USLatin: Qheswa parlaqpuni kani, parlaqtaq kaspaykipis chayqa, mana tunkiwawaqchu a! Kay ch'akipacha, mana sina ashkapuni ruwanay tiyaqtin, ichapis waqmanta tinkunakuncheq a. Tumpi qheswallatataq yachachisqaykiman!

-Barry
 
Sounds a bit like what's happened to Irish Gaelic. There are some parts of western Ireland where the signs are in both English and Irish, but I've seen some where the English is painted over. People send their kids to school there to immerse them in their own (non-English) culture.

Homogenousness....yecchh
 
It's a tough choice - people living harmoniously in a bland, deracinated mono-culture, or people merrily killing each other, all in the interest of advancing the particular cultures of which they are part...
 
Unfortunately, in Bolivia and Peru at least, much of rural education is handled by European "charity" organizations that don't recognize Quechua as a language and punish children for uttering any words in Quechua - or "babbling nonsense" as they call it. This was before the "indigenous president" - but I doubt it's changed a lot. Colonialism lives!
 
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It's a tough choice - people living harmoniously in a bland, deracinated mono-culture, or people merrily killing each other, all in the interest of advancing the particular cultures of which they are part...
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I don't think it has to be a choice. You can appreciate what's different without emulating it. Nothing wrong with everyone knowing more than one language or set of customs. If I learn Spanish or Swahili, it doesn't make me less American (if there is such a thing)
 
It probably doesn't have to be.

But that doesn't prevent millions of people from choosing to treat it that way.
 
Sad, but true.

Now I'll sit here and drink my Irish beer and eat my Chinese food while I watch my Japanese TV. Later I'll go to bed with my Mexican wife after I finish a bottle of Jamaican Rum.

Why can't we all just get along :beer:
 
I'll ask my Filipina wife, after she gets home from her job distributing American films to Asia, driving her British car...
 
All three.

Although since my working knowledge of Tagalog is limited to food and body parts, it will be a challenge.
 
Hey guys,
I work in Seattle as a Production Tech at the local Fox station (KCPQ) in the mornings and a couple days a week I work in Seattle's Public Access station(SCAN TV) as a Facilitator.
Facilitating includes running tech support and putting out fires with VT5 systems (any toaster fans out there?) and teaching basic videography, lighting, editing in FCP, and Studio production to people with NO media experience whatsoever.

Want a challenge? Try to teach someone who can't check emails how to cut in FCP.

I also do freelance FCP editing and HVX shootin' with my own gear.
 
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