Awesome thread. Crazy the diversity. Could you imagine what we would build if they put us all in a big room and said...use your skills to create something...that is not related to life in the ocean...
Surprised I didn't see this before, I'll throw my occupation out there. I got chewed up and spit out by my company a few years back as a corporate consultant...started up a few little businesses that are keeping me afloat for now (knock on wood), one as a management consulting firm that mostly does compliance and technology process consulting, one a dietary supplement formulator (coloagro we should get lunch one of these days)... so there's a random and insanely off the path background for you.
oh and it gets better, wait, worse. at one point i tried to make a living playing in a band. i gave up to try and make use of my college degree. the guys i played with stuck it out, living out of suitcases and cars for a few years. they're not doing too shabby any more...one of the biggest/last bands of the "jam band" genre...umphrey's mcgee is their name...