Maybe “People who make things” is a theme here too.
I regularly help with the set building of my local theatre (it’s just up my street) and I was really proud when I put together my first KH36 from scratch - even spoking the wheel. Gotta thank Youtube for getting me started on spoking.
And re: Big wheels. I have a friend who is very occasionally on this forum. He drives buses as a day job so that’s similar.
Another (Web) developer here. 
Having met quite some unicyclists around the world, a lot of them have some scientific background - whether maths or physics. As if the fact that there are so many parameters to master was something attractive about our sport?
I’m a film editor. So detail oriented (and obsessed). Probably has to do with the “never give up” skills required to ride on one wheel… 
Solar Installer here!
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I’m also in IT. My company calls me an “engineer” but I’m really more of a data plumber.
I have never met him but have been told of another unicyclist in Murwillumbah who drives a bus.
I’m a Pick database analyst programmer, developing business management software for the wholesale and retail industries.
Hate to be different, but I manufacture rope and twine. Started the company with my brother in 1976. Basic industry, but still interesting to watch it run.
Best job for unicyclist
Anyone who is in charge of a facility like a big parking lot or a medical clinic(lots of hand rails and low stair steps) has a great advantage for learning unicycle riding and tricks.
BTW…I’m a mech engr…but don’t ask me to do the physics(free body diagram) of the unicycle dynamics. I think before I could ride, I would have applied the naive/simplistic theory that a unicycle + rider system = balance purely from a single point of balance(CG) and ground point. This could work for a circus talent level of a rider sitting on a unicycle “with no pedals”.
The reality is that there are “more forces” and “balance dynamics” that exist to help balance. Such as, controlling the weighting on both pedals, hunching your upper body forwards/back and twisting/rotating your upper body in the “yaw direction”.
Nice! And with the name Gorgescrambler, do you go canyoning with your ropes?
Public school instrumental music teacher. 4th and 5th graders. Also a Linux user. My most-used program: Gnu LilyPond music typesetter. I used to be a symphony musician, bassoonist. I think you can see the pattern of weirdness: bassoon, Linux, unicycle. Prior to unicycling, my main form of exercise for a few years was kendama, the Japanese ball and cup toy. Another weird thing.
I’ve done a few things, but right now I am a Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Specialist.
More accurately I’d describe it as a connection between uni and nerds. Lots of nerdy professions outside of IT. But plenty in IT as well; I know unicyclists who have worked at IBM, Apple, Google, Intuit, Intel and others. But also there are nuclear physicists, a nuclear power plant decommissioning expert, scientists, mathematicians, and many other highly specialized people. I think part of the attraction to unicycling is trying something that seems impossible (as well as the stubbornness to not give up).
As for me, I currently work in an IT-ish position, with no formal training but lots of experience. Mostly these days I’m concerned with our fleet of over 400 mobile devices, and taking care of our building and vehicles. Something is always breaking.
Not just a guy who rode a unicycle, he was also connected to other unicyclists. As possibly one of the most famous uni-nerds (at least among the uni-IT crowd), Claude Shannon got connected to Bill Jenack, who I call the Father of Modern Unicycling (founder of the Unicycling Society of America), probably in the 1960s. BTW, Bill Jenack was the Director of Analog Computing at Fairchild Republic, a company that made military aircraft like the A-10. Bill made Dr. Shannon one of the founding members of the Unicycling Society of America. His name is listed, without fanfare, in every issue of the old USA Newsletter, starting from 1974.
Probably true, for the uni-IT crowd. And it’s a more concentrated group these days, as other forms of social media have lured away lots of younger and/or less nerdly unicyclists to Facebook and elsewhere, as Song mentioned. There, they discuss many of the same topics over and over, not too differently than it worked here, but with less ability to search and find topics that had already been covered.
My great neice (Emily Wade) is a freshman at the University of Hawaii, Hilo and her team has just advanced to the NCAA Women’s Volleyball post season/playoffs. She’s 6’-3" (1.9m) tall and a “killer” at the net. We’re flying down to San Bernardino on Wednesday to watch her first two matches! She doesn’t have a well paying job, but hopes to in the future. 
(also hasn’t shown an interest in unicycling)
Apparently not, if you read the thing. I was curious to find out how that would work, though more skeptical, since volleyball wouldn’t really “work” with unicycles. You can’t do a “dig” for instance. Also I probably would have heard of a “league” of unicycle volleyball players, and especially any kind of world championship! Basketball and hockey, however, work really well with unicycles.
So true, though we always had our share of IT, math and engineering types here. It’s just that we had a lot more of everyone else. They left us for shinier new things!
Yes and no. Both boys and girls learn to ride at elementary school recess as the majority of Japan’s elementary schools have a fleet of unicycles, courtesy of the Japan Lottery Co. and clever lobbying by the Japan Unicycling Association over the years. I get the impression it’s more popular with girls now, but we still see plenty of both sexes at Unicon, and plenty of (top) riders well above elementary school age. However, that being said, I think the vast majority of unicyclists we see from Japan learned in their schools, so there are few to none beyond a certain age, possibly mid-40s or so. But they do consistently win at Freestyle!
Anything published, and/or available in English? I am curious!
Another IT person here.
Worked in quite a few different roles and fields as:
Current role is an system configuration manager
Sure, Facebook groups have “stolen” a lot of people from forums (we’ve seen that with our main (and only) French unicycling forum and that’s a shame. Maybe some people left from forums because…
Both the old forum engines aren’t attractive anymore and don’t fit the internet modern usage (I mean, try to add an image in a post here…), and because they liked the idea of grouping their center of interests on one platform: Facebook, where they have already many friends.
(That’s off-topic, but one of the main issues with Facebook groups when discussing is that the information always disappears. Nothing is organized, the search engine is crap and everything is made so you type short messages.
That’s why I like forums, where you can always efficiently find useful information no matter what and even things which are written and discussed many years ago.)
Also, I think the unicycle popularity has risen a lot in the mid-2000s in young people. They seemed to be attracted to trial/street/flat.
The popularity has, since the 2010s, decreased a lot for some reason, but older people who have their habits, sort of, kept their interest in unicycling.
I’m no expert though and I could be very wrong on both points.
Hah! I played the bassoon for a year in eighth grade. My bassoon was property of the Indianapolis Public School system, though, and the whisper key didn’t work, so the extra octave was missing from my range. Pretty discouraging, but I did give it a try.
Yeah, I met a survivor of one of those Japanese unicycle programs once. She could do things on a unicycle that, because I don’t go to conventions, I have only seen on You Tube- standing one-footed wheel walk, coasting, gliding and so on, but when she got on a 29, she had to have somebody hold her hand. She had never ridden anything but a 20 in her whole life. I don’t think she had ever even seen a large unicycle before. Within a few minutes, of course she had no problem riding the 29, but it was funny to see someone with such an insane level of skill be frightened by a simple commuter uni.
Yeah so to also be on the list, even though I’ve been a software developer since 2000, I have a degree in Forestry and Nature Conservation. I ended up behind a chainsaw cutting down trees and then decided I didn’t want to do that the rest of my life. At least because I had a job, I made some money to buy my first own comp. Before that I only had an old black and white PC with Word Perfect that played Prince of Persia on and I had a collection of scientific names of birds and mammals. As I liked fiddling with computers and building levels of games, I decided to find work in programming and found a job agency that offered a month training in Visual Basic 6.0, which started the ball rolling: 7 years web development, mostly ASP and JAVA, then moved to Denmark where they needed a VBA developer for Excel macros and that quickly changed to .NET. The SQL language is one of my favourite languages. MS SQL is very strong and you can do a lot with it.
I my spare time all I did was play computer games and watch films and the only “sport” I did was going to the gym 2 times a week, but it was boring. Then I got this silly thing in my head that I either wanted to get a motorcycle license or learn to ride unicycle. When reading that anybody could ride unicycle and all it took was being persistence, I chose that.
Like Gockie said, I had a good pay and still so now I have a Danish salary in the Netherlands so over the past 5 years I spent good money on 11 unicycles ( though I sold the geared KH again )
well yes and no: I tried to write in English many years ago and the results were … well “unpublishable”
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(some stories are not worth the trouble though some are not “that”" bad 
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now I am learning to perfect my style (in French) … but since I don’t describe laser sword battles or damsel in distress editors are still unwilling to read :o (I wrote a book and more than 40 novels -only 2 were published-)
I’m an engineer at Tupperware for over a decade now
Before that I worked six years at GE Plastics and did a one year stint at Akzo Nobel as well.
I think it is the beta profile and age that keeps us on this forum.
Speaking as a forum user for some 20 years (kayaking, speedcubing, astronomy and Unicycling):
Facebook is more convenient to post photos and videos for sure.
But the knowledge that you can find (back) on the “old school forums” you’ll never find on Facebook.