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View Poll Results: Who do you work for?
I work for a large company. 42 40.38%
I work for a small company. 27 25.96%
I work for myself as an entrepeneur. 9 8.65%
I work for myself as a contract employee. 6 5.77%
I don't work. 20 19.23%
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Who works for what?

So where do you work? Do you work in a big company or a small company? Do you work for yourself? Take part in this poll and find out how many people are also working like yourself.
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I work for myself as a contract employee.
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:19 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I am employed by a large company but I need to make something clear:

Work is where I go, not what I do.
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:23 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I work for a 30ish person locally owned and operated buisness. And I guess I'm a psuedo-entrepeneur as I DJ.
 
Old 02-11-2005, 02:26 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Should add option for Government/military =P
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:27 PM   #7 (permalink)
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formerly of a large company, now an independant, on contract. Not sure if i like it, wrt to benefits and insurance costs...
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:28 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Should add option for Government/military =P
Thats a LARGE CORPORATION. haha. jokes and jokes and jokes.
 
Old 02-11-2005, 02:29 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:36 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I work for a very large packaging company.....about 10k employees in 35 states and 3 countries

and I love every single minute of my job
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:40 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I don't have a job right now (I'm a college student). But starting March 4, I'll have a part time job... as a nude model for an art class. Should be interesting.
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Old 02-11-2005, 02:53 PM   #12 (permalink)
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You should also add an option for school/university.

I work for a small college.
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Old 02-11-2005, 03:05 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I work for a large multi-national organization with over 110,000 employees. I think that's large anyway.
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Old 02-11-2005, 03:30 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I work for a large computer hardware/software company, some 300,000 employees
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Old 02-11-2005, 03:36 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I work for a large company. I hate it, but they have good health benefits, which is why I stay. Hubby's job doesn't offer benefits, so its up to me to get the insurance.
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Old 02-11-2005, 03:43 PM   #16 (permalink)
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VBCOA, my friends - Very Big Corporation Of America - an international consluting (sic) firm that always knows how to do it better than you, whatever it may be. Our motto: "If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

(Actually, that is all very close to the truth.)
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Old 02-11-2005, 04:06 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I just got fired.
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Old 02-11-2005, 04:35 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Old 02-11-2005, 04:37 PM   #19 (permalink)
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where do you propose the line be drawn between "small" and "large" ?

The company I slav^H^H^H^Hwork for has about 130 employees in 9 states.
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Old 02-11-2005, 04:55 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I work for a very large company. I've done the big fish in a small pond thing, medium sized fish in a huge ocean suits me better.
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Old 02-11-2005, 05:44 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I work for a large international billion dollar corporation that many people have never heard of.

But I'm quitting soon
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Old 02-11-2005, 05:47 PM   #22 (permalink)
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I don't work. Well, a friend of mine is a carpenter and I help him out sometimes, but I don't get paid.
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Old 02-11-2005, 06:51 PM   #23 (permalink)
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I'm not working right now because I have college, and my parental unit insists that I should focus on school. And I agree.
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Old 02-11-2005, 07:15 PM   #24 (permalink)
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I use to be a contract employee. I cleaned houses.

I work at target now lol. I like the ppl I work with.
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Old 02-11-2005, 07:28 PM   #25 (permalink)
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I work for a small company - a restaurant called the Bum Steer - as a Server. Occasionally, I bartend there when necessary, as well. Our "sister" restaurant, Minder Binders, is in Phoenix...I have yet to visit there.
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Old 02-11-2005, 07:36 PM   #26 (permalink)
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I work for a small (50 or so employees) but growing commercial cabinet shop
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Old 02-11-2005, 08:04 PM   #27 (permalink)
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worked for a large corporation for 38 years---retired in 1990...
now I am just as busy fixing everyones computer, and building a pinewood derby race track for my kids at church---don't ever volunteer to do that---man, my butt is dragging..
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Old 02-11-2005, 08:05 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Our company just hit 100 people.
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Old 02-11-2005, 08:17 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Old 02-11-2005, 08:29 PM   #30 (permalink)
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small comunity college, and i go there too, pays ok, but nothing beats staff parking and being seconds away from my class. its hard doing 10-12 hour days, but i get so much more done with out breaks.
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Old 02-11-2005, 08:48 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I work for both a large corporation, and myself.

Totally seperate lines of work as well.
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Old 02-11-2005, 09:19 PM   #32 (permalink)
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I work for a small company that's growing. When I was hired there were 37 employees, now they're up to 50, and by the end of '05 they want to be up to 200.
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Old 02-11-2005, 10:45 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Old 02-12-2005, 02:03 AM   #34 (permalink)
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i work to live not live to work ...its just a means to an ends
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Old 02-12-2005, 03:03 AM   #35 (permalink)
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I work for an airline.

I'm a bus driver!
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Old 02-12-2005, 03:11 AM   #36 (permalink)
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I work for a large company, I've been doing the type of work for almost 5 years now.
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Old 02-12-2005, 03:43 AM   #37 (permalink)
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i am a engineer for a large bus company.

I work to live, not live to work
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Old 02-12-2005, 08:18 AM   #38 (permalink)
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40 or so peeps at my job.........it's all about the side jobs on the weekends though......

i can make 3 times as much on a side job.........

mon to fri......i'm a slave for the man,and on weekends ....i am the man!!!!!!!!
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Old 02-12-2005, 08:25 AM   #39 (permalink)
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mon to fri......i'm a slave for the man,and on weekends ....i am the man!!!!!!!!
Hey flyman -- you should reverse this! Mon-Fri be "The Man" and then on the weekends slave for your woman.... Just a thought
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Old 02-12-2005, 08:30 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Hey flyman -- you should reverse this! Mon-Fri be "The Man" and then on the weekends slave for your woman.... Just a thought
I think flyman is probably already a full time slave to momma and the kids...

Me, I work for a small company... but I have dreams of global domination.
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