Always really interested in what other people do to make a living aside from Unity.
I know there are many people doing amazing thing in the real world.
I will start…
Presently I work as a freelance photographer/ filmmaker/vfx guy.
Current work photographing castles and palaces in Portugal. Signature below.
Unity work…have 5 prototypes on the go… Ha.
Goal to get 3 games published this year.
actually i dont know anything except unity3d .professional game developer 1.6(unity3d only)years experienced.
What is this thing you call “the real world?” Can you give a link to its scripting reference page?
Very funny…)
i used to be a web designer now i work in a dementia care home
Game development is my real job 
I am working to blend my photography/design skills with Unity to make a point and click adventure game…
In “real life” I’m developing games.
In real life I’ve been working and developing with Unity for a living since 2009-2010 and am constantly investing time and effort to learn new things on the adjacent worlds (Mobile, AR, VR, Shaders, AI, Multiuser Environments, persistent environments using DB and similar setups and as of lately also Substances)
Web Developer / Designer for a best selling motorcycle brand here in the UK. Having read Adamh1’s post I am starting to think there is a link between the 2 jobs! I also notice that he is also located on Bournemouth! waves
So hopefully UFO you are making a game for the motorcycle brand;)
Lead Unity3d Developer + 3ds max animator (now mostly doing the animating+modelling)
lol! I wish! I am one guy developing and maintaining 2 national motorcycle/scooter brands, and the retail division, dealer network website facilities for the 2 national brands, advertising concepts for on-line marketing and print marketing, then I produce all the artwork for the advertising. Promotion videos, and so much other crap that I wonder how I manage. Everything public facing goes through me. People always assume there is a team running it all. To cap it off I have no interest in motorcycles/scooters. What is does do though is pay for me to buy Unity Pro and train myself up for a change in career, as quite frankly I had enough years ago 
I think you pushed a button there pixelsteam lol!
Ha Ha…sorry to push the button. Sounds like you gotta going in the right direction though…build, fail, build, fail, build SUCCESS!
Real world?
I like to define my own world… in that world, I’m an educator, tinkerer, maker, hacker, thinker, etc. Who likes to learn new things, and share with others. And play with LEGO and Robots.
In the mundane world… I’m a Intranet web developer.
Yeah. No matter how tired I am when I get in from the day job, the thrill of learning Unity and working on a video game is more than enough to push me on. I’ll be in this job for a few more years at least. It’s not all bad, I’m working on a finance calculator today so I am actually doing some programming!..and my work colleagues are great. It’s the job satisfaction that is missing for me much of the time… so jealous of the guys working with Unity everyday!
Been a medical animator using 3ds Max for the past 16 years, and bored to tears! Cracking open Unity for a few minutes each night after the kids are put to bed is a rare moment of creative joy for me 
I hear this, used to be my happy fun time at night was logging in and playing some games when I had time to myself and that has slowly shifted over last few years to sitting down and writing some unity code. My next goal is to model and animate a mecanim character from scratch starting with the tutorials. My friends don’t get it and bemoan the fact I don’t play many games anymore but Unity is the ultimate game to me
Edit: oh guess I forgot to list what I do, network security engineer at a financial company
<— Slacker 
Great thread!!
It is great to see a mix of Pro developers and Hobbyist’s from so many different walks of life.
Me: IT Manager @ a large Australian manufacturing company