I'm a web programmer doing PHP stuff and miscellaneous system administration. For the past few years I've been earning a living writing web interfaces and Linux-wrangling for a technology company I co-founded. As our product is not yet profitable, I occasionally get pimped out to do PHP stuff for various low-level web design places to keep some money coming in.

Result: I'm often online for 14+ hours a day. At any one point I am likely to have 5-10 browser tabs open (sometimes different browsers, and thanks to VMWare, sometimes on different platforms), and five or six SSH sessions to various machines.

Oh, and yes ladies, I'm single.

I don't earn a living because I'm online. Does that count?

I just use the net at work to up- and download/transmit files/pages/images, but it makes for a good reason to always have it up on screen. : >

I read Metafilter and Del.icio.us for a living. Basically.

You've heard how game players "farm gold" in online games? Well, I farm snarks for actual money. It's really sweet. With the security vulnerabilities in MetaFilter and MetaChat's setups, I can pick comments out at random, back 'em up on my system, then delete the originals off MeFi/MetCha. The funniest snarks I sell to kids on Slashdot so they can look cool to their peers; in a single week, I normally pull in as much as $5000USD-

-waitaminute!! You guys tricked me!!! Damnit!!!!

To answer my own question--I am a history professor who teachers 3/4ths of his classes online. I could theoretically do it all from home, but I am more productive in the office and enjoy my coworkers, so I go in 3-4 days a week. I really appreciate the flexibility that working online has given me. My youngest son just turned five. If he wants to go fishing instead of to daycare, we do that. The downside is that I am always working at least a little, there are always student emails to answer, tests to post or grade, etc.

what kind of history? which eras?

And mr. marx, your work intrigues me, and I would like to subscribe to your company.

What company would that be, now?

Amber: American Indians and American West mostly in the 18th and 19th centuries, though it being a small college we teach a bit of everything. A couple years ago I taught a course on Cuban history and took the students to Cuba over Spring Break.

cool. : >

have you written on it?

I do get paid for freelance webdesigning - I'm maintaining my best friend's official website, and she pays me for it. Not just monetary, but in many other ways as well.

I wish I could get paid to just be online. That's what I tend to do the most.

taz: that would be the Swedish branch of IDG. but I'm a freelancer these days, not an employee.

mmm. Tasty. I think you should put in a word for me.