If I ever get tired of being a developer, I’ll retire to Canada, I‘ll buy a red flannel shirt and an axe, I’ll let my beard go wild and I’ll work as a lumberjack.

Design is my backup career

House husband.

Hitman

Designer.

(Burn!)

Master sandwich maker.

Batman.

Well, actually designer is my backup profession.

I'm a nurse. :)

Chef.

Unemployed :)

Theoretical physicist wannabe

Professional sleep study participant.

PornStar

Sale hot dogs

Design blogger

Rock star.

Professional Snowboarder

Well since I'm almost done with my MFA I guess being a college professor would be my backup career.

Photographer

Barista.

Sandwich Artist

I always wanted to be a UI designer or golfer. Since I'm already a UI designer with a very successful career so far I'll just stick with golf as a hobby…for now. :)

Online Marketing. I also do content marketing(blogging, email marketing, etc.) when I'm not designing. My dream backup would be a jazz pianist in a band, though.

Professional video gamer.

I've been a touring/session drummer for almost 15 years, so that would be my backup (if, for some reason, the world wakes up tomorrow and decides that design isn't needed anymore).

Guitarist

Why would you need a backup profession?

Chef!

Bin man.

Psychologist.

House painter

Professional web commenter.

It’s all or nothing for me probably (as a designer and developer). Get there or die trying!

I always been fixated with geography or biology job. Like teaching geography, or being a biologist. I expect there to be more traveling, exploring and adventuring.

This is my backup career, i always intended to be a journalist or an academic. Thankfully design pays better than both of those.

Red Power Ranger

And if even that doesn't work, then I would retire as a blue Power Ranger for sure!

=)

Shark biologist

Michael Jackson 2.0 — singer, songwriter, producer and dancer

Certainly open up an artisan bread bakery (and coffee shop).

Coffee and Buddhism.

This is my backup profession.

I originally wanted to be a music producer. That's what I studied in my undergrad.

Not so much a backup, more of a second passion : trading stocks. I do it on my free time (albeit limited) and also invest long term for my future. If I couldn't work as a designer any more I would pursue trading stocks full time.

That being said, having a plan B distracts from plan A (Will Smith in da house) so all my passion and focus is on becoming the best designer that I can possibly become :)

Move South of Lisbon, open a sushi bar, help out at a local surf school...consider going back to psychology...create surf psychology...and develop my surf photography...(if i think about this any further i'll just pack my bags and leave...)

Unemployed net artist.

Well, my degree is chemistry, so I'd probably end up doing that. I can't think of anything non-tech I particularly want to do, though. Pop star‽

Copywriter or Photographer.

• Doctor, I could go back to Med school and finish the two years I have left back in Bolivia
• Carpenter
• Butcher
• Chef

Armed forces or the police.

I was a professional framer and finish carpenter for years before I started working in design, I could go back to that, but I think I'd take a stab at Architecture.

Professional Traveler is the one that sounds cool but most likely a commercial / editorial photographer.

I'd open up my own restaurant.

Interior Architect.

Because math is hard.

Writer or Teacher

Alpaca Farmer

if frontend development fails I will be a monk. Perhaps I could become a Pope... who nows...

Honestly? Designer. I'm a developer / engineer professionally but my degree is in design.

If we're talking not in the field and pretending I didn't go to college, I don't know man. Does blogger count? haha.

Let's flesh out this scenario. Do I need a backup profession because I wanted a change? Or because of societal collapse resulting in the end of the internet and electricity?

I'd probably go into either architecture or algorithmic trading.

Psychologist/Researcher/Counsellor

Pianist, though it used to be the other way around a while ago.

I think this is my backup profession. What I'd really like to work in some sort of long-term community-building project, or youth education. My dream job would be to work for http://www.skateistan.org/ as it encompasses pretty much all of my passions: skateboarding, community-building, youth education, human rights, and even web & design! I haven't yet been able to figure out how to work in this kind of field and still be able to pay my bills and enormous student loans, so until then, this is my plan b.

My plan B is to be an escort. A $500/Hour type of escorte :D

Being proper homeless rastafarian at Jamaica

Mathematician, writer, jazz trombonist

Theoretical physicist.

PS: I'm serious.

well, maybe a photogrpaher or the willing to do anything which makes me happy!

Photographer, probably. But ideally I'd just move to SF, buy some hipster clothing and become a badass barista.

Dairy farmer.....really!

My Dad owns a farm and I used to work it with him when I lived there during college, it was fantastic. There is sometimes I think that getting into what I do now was a mistake and I should have just rolled that.

painter, guitar player at local band , and Barista

Biologist

I don't have a backup profession! If you believe in a project, and you know you was born to do your job, i don't think there's can be someone or somethink that can freeze you!

jack of all trades

Electrical engineer, but I've managed to acquire enough skills to works as a illustrator or coder as well.

Architectural Designer, Town-planning. Now Co-founder and business developer behind: http://dribbble.com/ramotion

Custom motorcycle builder. Vroom vroom.