What's your job?

[Molant]

I was just wondering what the people here in the Playground do to pay their bills. I'm kinda wondering if there'll be a large diversity or more of a few clustered areas.

Me, I'm currently working in a window factory, but plan to serve as a missionary for two years within the next 3-6 months. After that, I'll attend college, but I'm not sure yet what I want to study or do.

What about you?

[Ms.Malbolge]

Some people might consider this to be a taboo question and with internet anonymity and all I'm sure some people will sugar coat their jobs a bit.

So, instead of explaining my life of turning tricks in the slums of rural OK I'll tell you I work in the HR department of a factory.

And leave it at that. :smalltongue:

[Jack Squat]

Some people might consider this to be a taboo question and with internet anonymity and all I'm sure some people will sugar coat their jobs a bit.

In that vein, I'm a retail technician and customer service representative :smalltongue:

As I've mentioned a few times on here before, I work at a grocery store. I don't run a cash register as much as I used to, and now end up dealing with bagging, bringing in shopping carts, showing customers where stuff is, and whatever the managers tell me to do (mostly cleaning up bathrooms/spills, trash duty, and stocking).

I just applied for a job being a server at a local restaurant...we'll see how that turns out.

[Egiam]

Clicking on an avatars name will take u to their profile with their proffesions.
I'm a:
Student
DM
Scruffy lookin' nerf herder! :smallbiggrin:

[Boo]

Clicking on an avatars name will take u to their profile with their proffesions.

And I'm sure we all list it there. :smalltongue:

I don't have a job, by the way. Old enough, don't care enough. Hell, I don't even have my social security number yet. Don't know why I haven't gotten it yet...

[Jack Squat]

And I'm sure we all list it there. :smalltongue:

I don't have a job, by the way. Old enough, don't care enough. Hell, I don't even have my social security number yet. Don't know why I haven't gotten it yet...

I thought SSNs were registered at birth. I know I've had mine for as long as I can remember.

[adanedhel9]

I thought SSNs were registered at birth. I know I've had mine for as long as I can remember.

There's no requirement to do so. Most are done ASAP for tax reasons - as of 1986 (IIRC) you can only claim a child as a dependent if the child has an SSN. A lot of people around my age received their SSNs in 1986, including myself.

On topic, I program IVRs. You know, if you call your bank or insurance company or utility provider and the machine answers and asks you to enter your account number on the keypad? Most of my job centers on building those.

[arguskos]

My job? To search for a job! :smalltongue:

I'm meta-ing the field!

[The Extinguisher]

I work at Laser Quest, but it's pretty stressful and crap hours, and I will probably be quitting in favor a job that doesn't have me deal with drunk twenty year olds who think I'm a moron and they can get away with anything.

/bitter

[Rutskarn]

I work in a factory that produces firearms that only work against communists...

...by day.

By night, I am a nameless terror that strikes the moonlit streets. The vermin scatter and flee at my whisper-silent approach, dread the sound of my climbing claws, live in dread of the moment where I will strike, my blood-freezing howl paralyzing them with panic. For I am...The Howler Monkey.

What?

Oh, I mostly sleep during my shift. We're pretty heavily unionized, so it's tough for them to fire me. Suckers.

(For all you know, every word of this is true. Just keep that in mind.)

[toasty]

I'm slowly being brainswashed by oppressive parents who think they know how to teach me. :p

Read: I'm still in highschool... and I'm homsechooled. Student is kinda a job... right?

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Where I work depends on whether school's in session or not.

When I'm at college, I have a work study with the University Physical Plant as a Parking Lot Attendant. My job is to inspect all the vehicles in Viterbo's parking lots to see if they have the proper permits to park there. If not, I write them a ticket. The job's been a real bear lately though. Early hours plus below zero wind chills do not mix well.

When I'm at home, I have a much more comfortable job as a cashier at the local grocery store. I started out as an overnight cashier last summer, but now I'm working during the day, which suits me even better. I work any hours they give me, and they seem to like me there. I make it a point to make sure that no customer leaves unsatisfied...though that did lead me to try and chase after a customer's vehicle with the melon they forgot at the register once.:smallredface:

[RabbitHoleLost]

I align boxes and stack cans in the grocery department of Target so that people can demolish it the next morning =D

[Krytha]

I teach English to a wide variety of angels and devils.

[RTGoodman]

I'm a substitute teacher at the high school level. Basically, I take role, hand out worksheets/busy-work, and then threaten to send kids to In-School Suspension (like detention, but during the day) if they don't shut up and do what they're supposed to do. :smalltongue:

It's only temporary, though - I'm (hopefully) heading back to grad school this Fall, and my eventual goal is to be a college professor (and, if I had my choice, a part-time game designer).


I also work as an instructor for the same high school's indoor percussion ensemble, as basically the head front ensemble instructor and sort of an assistant director.

[Raistlin1040]

Aside from being a student, I'm also a licensed grade 8 USSF* referee. This basically means that I leave my house 45 minutes before a game, stay for an hour and ref, and come back in 15 minutes. So, about 8 bucks an hour, not bad as I'm underage to be contractually employed. There's also the fact that watching the little 10 year olds try to play soccer if fun.

*=United States Soccer Federation

[RS14]

I'm presently an undergraduate student, planning to major in mathematics. Hopefully I'll be a professor someday.

[Berserk Monk]

I'm a multiclass college student/illustrator/blacksmith who specializes in chainmail. One of these days I need to get a job that provides real pay money, or acquire some thieves' tools. Either one will do.

[THAC0]

I teach music.

And perform. But I don't get paid as much for that.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Currently, I work as a customer service rep at my local U-HAUL.

Which includes selling propane and propane accessories. [/HankHillreference]

I get to deal with people going through what is ranked as the third most stressful time of somebody's life. Moving.

Lots of fun. [/sarcasm]

Also, I get to install hitches and wiring.

Also, lots of fun. [/moresarcasm]

[Syka]

I'm currently an unemployed college graduate.

My criteria for the type of job I want has been plummetting. Right now, I'd go for anything not fast food or Walmart. Although...I've considered those, if not for my mom (the fast food thing) and my boyfriend (he worked at our local walmart for a while). I just need funds.

Eventually I'd like to just travel around and have that be my job. Fer realz. Basically, either be a hobo of sorts or host a travel show. :) One of the two. :smallwink:

Cheers~

[RTGoodman]

I'm currently an unemployed college graduate.

My criteria for the type of job I want has been plummetting. Right now, I'd go for anything not fast food or Walmart. Although...I've considered those, if not for my mom (the fast food thing) and my boyfriend (he worked at our local walmart for a while). I just need funds.

Eventually I'd like to just travel around and have that be my job. Fer realz. Basically, either be a hobo of sorts or host a travel show. :) One of the two. :smallwink:

Cheers~

Hey, I feel your pain - I was unemployed for almost exactly 7 months after I graduated (May 10th to December 13th, I think), and was in your same situation about even trying fast-food, etc., by the end. You should try to check into the substitute teaching thing, depending on where you are - it's decent money, the job isn't TOO bad or stressful, the hours are good, and most places are willing to take ANYONE provided they can pass the background check.

If that doesn't work out, though, I've often thought about becoming a drifter, traveling performer, or something else in that vein... :smallbiggrin:

[Syka]

I'm working on getting my license, but I need my permit first...so, I have no way to get to where they'd need me. I live within walking distance to a few schools, but I'm pretty sure you need to be able to get to other ones, yes?

Actually...that reminded me...I need to look at the school's employment. I think they have openings for cafeteria personnel. That would work.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I'm currently an unemployed college graduate.

My criteria for the type of job I want has been plummetting. Right now, I'd go for anything not fast food or Walmart. Although...I've considered those, if not for my mom (the fast food thing) and my boyfriend (he worked at our local walmart for a while). I just need funds.

Eventually I'd like to just travel around and have that be my job. Fer realz. Basically, either be a hobo of sorts or host a travel show. :) One of the two. :smallwink:

Cheers~
Hmm, you could be a trucker.:smallwink::smalltongue:


As for me, hoping to graduate this year.

[Don Julio Anejo]

I get people drunk until they like me and steal their wallets... No, really. I bartend at a trendy downtown bar. Hoping to graduate to nightclubs sometime in the future.

By day I'm a boring, hung over psych/premed student.

[Felixaar]

serve as a missionary for two years within the next 3-6 months

Cool! Wherein?

Oh, and I'm (still) unemployed. It's not for lack of trying though :smallannoyed:

[Rettu Skcollob]

I do some low-key DJ'ing, among other, more menial tasks.

[Don Julio Anejo]

I do some low-key DJ'ing, among other, more menial tasks.
Oooh nice! What genre?

[thubby]

still stuck doing odd jobs. it is impossible to get a reliable job if you are untrained/inexperienced.
working on a mechanical engineering degree, the world will always need people to make machines.

[wxdruid]

I, like a few others, am in the Military.

I'm an Air Force Weather Forecaster/West Region Supervisor and Senior Duty NCO. My duties include, watching other people work, occasionally doing some work and watching other people work.

[Rettu Skcollob]

Oooh nice! What genre?

Depends on the crowd, really. I quite like to mix in a bit of Electronica/Techno/Dance with whatever else I play though, regardless.

[Weiser_Cain]

I'm planning to quit though I may be fired first.

[Vuzzmop]

I'm in seventh form of high school (senior year if yiou use a different system), but I also work part time as an actor in educational films for an ESOL company.

[Grail]

I'm in IT. Currently in a role that is a mix of Desktop Support, Sys-Admin and Infrastructure Support, probably prioritised in that order, for the state Department of Education. Doesn't pay as much as I'd hope, but it at least pays.

[SMEE]

I work with IT.

Right now I'm doing the core development and database analysis and maintenance of a huge web system with a team of two people... (I and my workmate...)
I also maintain one entertainment system we're selling at local market, making sure it's always running, that the hardware is working and doing system upgrades when needed.
There's also maintaining the database of a lab system, which has grown to excess 16 GB worth of data.

For that's what my job is compromised of. Our company is very small and I own about 15% of it, so no fixed salary for me and my work mate... can be rough sometimes.

[Fredthefighter]

I'm a student, but I'm a nerd in my spare time.

[Totally Guy]

I'm a quantity surveyor, which is someone that manages accounts in the construction industry. We're building a school.

I procure the services of other companies to build individual elements of the building. Then I pay them after assessing their work.

It's nice to be buying all the time. Selling something looks much harder. But then again I get chased all time for payments by people wanting money.

It's funny when I can come home from work and say "Today I bought £xxx,xxx worth of stage lighting and sound systems."

[ghost_warlock]

As I mentioned in Mauve's thread devoted to me, a while ago, I am a "residence counselor" at a Psychiatric Mental Institute for Children (http://www.boysandgirlshome.com/) (PMIC).

I work overnights on a co-ed unit with clients ranging in ages from 12-18. Some specific diagnoses I deal with a lot are PTSD, ODD, AD(/H)D, & various types of depression/bipolar disorders. The unit is co-ed in order to accomodate "Crisis" clients who come from the hospital for 24/48/72-hour observation and evaluation after suicide attempts, seriously assaulting someone, or other issues.

My job is one of extremes - I'm either sitting around bored while the clients sleep (honestly the ideal situation, for everyone involved) or I'm extremely stressed, trying to prevent a client from self-mutilating/committing suicide, attacking someone, or engaging in various other behaviors.

[OverdrivePrime]

I'm a "Systems Specialist" at a major manufacturer of loading dock safety products (http://www.rite-hite.com/). Since that means absolutely nothing to anyone, it basically means that I put together computerized sales tools so that the sales force can configure orders from our products. I also do a good deal of the support information and put together the manufacturing configurator so that our manufacturing group can then build the product to spec. Costs, prices, lead times and all that are also coded up by me. It's not tremendously exciting (at all), but it's steady, low-stress work and I'm compensated well. It's the standard computer monkey deal.

Since I'm basically bored off my keister unless something goes haywire, I've been pursuing my MBA (e-commerce focus) and will be graduating this May, whereupon I'm hoping to land a job that I actually can put some personal investment into. Hurrah.

[Krrth]

Office Manager for a Financial Planning company.

[Dirk Kris]

I crunch numbers.
That's right - accounting.
Right behind lawyers, seated securely in the second-most-hated profession of all time.

[DigoDragon]

I'm currently an unemployed college graduate.

May I ask what profession?

I have a batchelor's in Art/Animation, but all the studios have pretty much closed out when I graduated. I'm not terribly interested in moving out to Cali though... so for now I'm a receptionist at an art school. As much as it bores me, I can't say its a bad gig. I get paid a decent amount and they at least let me use the internet to browse GitP forums. :smallredface:

I also have a full time job being a dad, but that one pays me in non-monetary ways. :smallsmile:

[Canadian]

I work for a drug addiction clinic.

[Ashtar]

Well it's written Consultant / Programmer on my business card and 42.5 hours a week in my contract.

In reality, I'm Technology supervisor / Lead analyst-Programmer / Stand-in for business meetings my boss can't attend / Customer-sitter / Boss's drinking buddy / Documentation writer with an average of 52 hours a week... all that for not that much dinero and supposed bonii that I've never seen.

It's not all bad, but today I've got too much work and too short a deadline.

[Fredthefighter]

I crunch numbers.
That's right - accounting.
Right behind lawyers, seated securely in the second-most-hated profession of all time.

Hey, I plan on being a lawyer someday. Soon, I shall have the power.

[eidreff]

I drive a desk for a living, but at weekend work as a volunteer tree tamer.

[Attack Amazon]

I teach a psychology lab class at the university I go to. Up until Christmas I was working in human resources, but I got laid off. (Yes, they laid people off right before Christmas. :smallyuk:) But I just got a really good job at a teen counseling center, which I really like. :smallsmile:

[valadil]

My official job title is sysadmin, but I'd feel dirty putting that on a resume as it's not accurate. I keep a couple web servers running. I manage several web sites through the Drupal CMS. I admin/QA a custom semantic web repository. I occasionally write papers or correct papers by non native english speakers. What I actually do on a daily basis isn't all that different from your average grad student.

[Hzurr]

I work for one of those evil Investment Banks (but fortunately, it's one of the few that wasn't stupid, so we aren't going bankrupt and begging the government for money) where I work as a programmer.

In short: I work for "The Man"


And as much as people dis "the Man," it should be remembered that "the Man" pays well and gives good benefits.

[wadledo]

I own and run my own small used bookstore.

I'm also a student, but that rarely works out as well as I want it to.

[danelsan]

I've graduated from College in Physical Education, and I have martial arts experience (2nd dan karate, 2nd kyu aikido, practiced a little of a bunch of other styles). Thus I'm now teaching karate (here in Brazil, you must be a physical educator to teach martial arts...or any sport really...but people who were already doing it before such a law for a certain time still can teach, as long as they do a short course to learn some basics of Phys Ed)

I'm also a student of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and I intend to keep going with these two professions while I'm still young enough to be teaching MA, then I'll keep the TCM and relegate the MA to someone younger.

I just hope "Young enough" is until I'm a eighty-something old, so it is far in the future :smallbiggrin:

[Yoritomo Himeko]

Right now I work in an office, sorting out different forms.

[Bonecrusher Doc]

I own and run my own small used bookstore.

That sounds awesome. I'm jealous. I have a fantasy of owning a side-by-side gym and bookstore with a coffee/smoothie shop where you can walk in between the two. Except that sounds like a lot of work.

I'm currently a physical therapist, or as they say across the pond, physiotherapist (I actually like that better).

[Zweee]

Wow. It sounds like everyone has interesting lives.

I'm work as a Medic on a drilling rig. Not too exciting but it pays the bills and then some.

[Uzirael]

Well i used to bus at a local restaurant, but now that i go to college some hours away, i got a job as a translator for foreign german students since my major is foreign languages: German, spanish, and japanese. I'm in languages primarily because a few friends of mine are german along with part of my family. After i graduate from college, i've been talking to a few business people in and out of government so i can work towards gettin a job as a translator for businesses that go overseas and if i can't get that i'll apply to teach foreign languages at a military barracks (since they pay uber good and have good medical)

[Serpentine]

I'm working as a library assistant at the town library for 3 hours every Saturday ($32.50/hour, suckers!), and a shelf stacker/newspaper ironer/whatever at the university library for 4+ hours a week, and I've applied for honours in history ("Dragons in Christian Text, Myth and Culture").
I'd really like to be a cryptozoologist/folkbiologist.
I have this idea of opening a sex-shop in my town. Can you believe, a university town with a good-sized stable population, without anything resembling a sex shop? It would have things like self-help relationship books, flowers, chocolates, small gifts, etc out the front, where anyone can go. Then out the back, in an 18+ area, I'd have a great variety of contraceptives (whatever I'd be allowed to sell...), toys, costumes, lingerie, other books, magazines, films, and so on. I'm thinking I'd try to get links to other services and the like in the area - sexual health clinics, marriage counsellors, "professionals", etc. You know it'd be awesome.
Also, my sister had this plan of old, that I'd write books and she'd publish them. That'd still be pretty neat... She's also indicated interest in my shop idea.

Realistically, I'll probably end up as a researcher somewhere, preferably a museum or in television.

[RTGoodman]

($32.50/hour, suckers!)*Dies*


("Dragons in Christian Text, Myth and Culture")*Revives, dies again*


Seriously, I apparently need to move to Australia. I'm making $69 a DAY as a substitute teacher, and that's MAYBE 2-3 days a week if I'm lucky.

[Serpentine]

To be fair, that's $32.50 in casual loading and overtime, and I'm told the union (which I really should join...) had to fight very hard to get Saturdays counted as overtime, and I don't know yet whether my honours application has been accepted.

[Uzirael]

($32.50/hour, suckers!)

wish i had a job that paid like that...plus you said library right? that sounds rather easy too >.>

[Dreamshifter]

I'm a weather observer, so I get paid to sit around at an airport and watch the snow (or rain, depending on the season) fall. Not amazing pay, but good enough, and it leaves me a lot of time to, say, surf the net, or play MMOs.

[Grail]

Can't believe that a library job pays that much.... of course, that's $AU which isn't saying much atm. Thankfully it's less than my $ph, or I'd have been annoyed. Dodgey Librarians!

[Shikton]

I sell stuff. More precisely I work for a company called Ingram Micro. We distribute and market IT products from computer hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers, and software publishers worldwide.

It's fun =) And it pays the bills.

[late for dinner]

Lets say that you own your own business and a certain bank in America...and other countries as well....offers you Small business credit card/line of credit....You spend money on that card and pay back everything because your business is running so well; nothing could go wrong. After making a few more big transactions on the card, you realize that while your buisness is running smoothly, other businesses that you rely on for money/income are not. Pretty soon you are trying to collect money from the people that owe you money from the service that you offered them. This causes you to go past due on your business card and it is driving you insaine because your credit of 800 is dropping fast and your interest rate of 3% is rising like a phoenix from the ashes. The best part is, your phone is ringing non stop and every time you pick up and say hello, I am on the other line asking you to pay me with the money you dont have.

that is my job.:smallbiggrin:

[Molant]

^Ouch, dude. No fun there.

[InaVegt]

Telephonic Tech Support for a company that produces and sells household appliances.

[Zaggab]

I'm a student, studying to become a doctor.

In my dreams, I'm a best-selling author who only do real work because I want to.

[Gamiress]

I work at a world famous fast food chain, I'm a counter girl there.

I can honestly say that the one thing that keeps me in this job is the way six year olds light up like Christmas and smile at me like I'm God when I hand them their ice cream cones. It's a beautiful thing, to be worshipped by a sugar spun six year old.

[Weiser_Cain]

In my dreams I have a significant other that'll support my decision to quit being a book jockey and start making that living drawing that free comic... I really don't know how rich does it.

[de-trick]

Gas Jockey, with amateur handyman and mechanic skills. But plan on either being a Natural Resources Officer, or a RCMP officer.

Either way I get to carry a utility belt, closest thing to being batman I'd say.

[Bonecrusher Doc]

The comment about having a cool job with a utility belt made me think of the High Voltage Cable Inspector (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA).

[Seffbasilisk]

I used to work IT for the college, but now am working as Security/Bartender at a club. Hoping to get back in college someday soon.

[Extra_Crispy]

Im a nurse, I work in the ICU of a Catholic hospital, not an high level ICU. The real bad stuff usually does not come here.

Trying to decide if I want to go back to school and get my masters and try to teach nursing OR if I, at the age of 34, want to give my life up and try to go to school and become a doctor. There are too many doctors out there that have lost sight of the meaning of patient care. Since I not only would have started at the bottom (patient care tech -> nurse) but have been seriously injured and spent months in a hosptal, I think I would be a great doctor. If I had my way I would be a plastic surgen specialing in burn care and would restart the burn unit here at the hospital (it is basically just a wound unit now, all burns leave the city and go to a different hospital) but with the burns to my left arm and hand limiting (slightly) its ability I would not be very steady and dont think I could do some of the delicate surgeries.

[Serpentine]

Heeeeey, it's Extra Crispy! Hey everyone, Crispy's here! :biggrin: Long time no see. There's someone else around here with a similar (flame-based) name, and I keep going "Hey, it's- Oh. :smallsigh:" I think it'd be great if you went for a med degree.

Oh, uh... RE: Comments on my pay: Well, it's technically a council job. Council workers get paid well (at least here they do).

[LCR]

I'm a student, studying to become a doctor.

In my dreams, I'm a best-selling author who only do real work because I want to.

Exactly the same with me. Medicine is fun and all that, but in truth, I want to live a carefree life like Bertie Wooster.

[Don Julio Anejo]

Well, just so you know, Arthur Conan Doyle was a physician first and writer second...

So there's hope for us yet.

[Demus]

Currently, I'm working as a Grocery Assistant at a supermarket.

It's a pretty good job. But as with any job involving customer service, you tend to get people who are rude every so often.

[wadledo]

That sounds awesome. I'm jealous. I have a fantasy of owning a side-by-side gym and bookstore with a coffee/smoothie shop where you can walk in between the two. Except that sounds like a lot of work.

The money sucks, the people are (for the most part) terrible, and owning a bookstore is allot like constantly reading tvropes.

[Bonecrusher Doc]

The money sucks, the people are (for the most part) terrible, and owning a bookstore is allot like constantly reading tvropes.

I figured reality would be something along those lines. Which is why it will remain a fantasy for me <sigh>. Good luck though! :smallsmile:

@Extra Crispy - have you considered becoming a Nurse Practitioner? I don't know if they work outside of Primary Care, which from what I understand is one of the most draining fields in medicine, but at least you wouldn't have to spend 7+ years to get your M.D. and residency.
If you're interested in working with burn patients, there are also physical therapists who specialize in burn rehab. Not something I would want to do personally, but you can get your doctorate in physical therapy in 33 months if you already have a bachelors degree. PM me if you're interested.