FlatLand Flyer

I said F U to all those people that don't want to pay for them. I can understand a mistake, but trying to track down someone who wrote 10-50 checks on a closed account and then claim that they did not know the account was closed can get a little un-nerving at times.

That is my job with the company. I have to get the people that don't want to pay to pay.

maskedrider

Sounds like a hard job. Well, I am a freelance writer...

Schwan

What / who for do you write? Advertising? Journalism?

Fly

scumbag roofer here.............


wanna beer?

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SterlingStudios

florida0214

is prison a job? I mean living there not working there.

canuckguy

you get internet access in prision?

texxasco

Yeah right...

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splck

I install internet service in prisons.

Nah....after contracting for 15 years, I'm now an empoyee for the local electrical utility. I'll miss the perks of self-emloyment, but I'll welcome the pension, vacation pay, company vehicle etc.

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Grasshopper Green

That sounds familiar...are you sure you don't work at my store??

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raeanna74

Former teacher turned Mom and Home Day Care provider. I love teaching but I hate dealing with sucky faculty, staff, and the politics that go along with it. So now I've run my own business for 4 years, get to pick and choose who's kids I take in, teach my own daughter Kindergarten, and love it. Even after just having surgery last week I am glad to be back to my routine of caring for the kids. One child I have cared for during the past 3 years and she is only 4, her sister is now 1 1/2 and I started watching her at 2 weeks old. I love seeing them grow up and change and seeing what they learn from me.

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DDDDave

I am enjoying reading about everyon'e avocations. It is such a diverse world that we live in.

As one of the older members (45), it causes me to look back on all the jobs I have had over the years. The first paying job I remember was working summers for my Dad's construction company cleaning up job sites for minimum wage. Most of you young guys won't believe me when I tell you that minimum wage then was $1.50/hr.

I had a paper route and worked at Mickey D's in high school. BTW, we used paper menus and added up orders by hand (you actually had to be smart to be a McD's clerk then). There was only one semester of college that I didn't work doing something.
I studied civil engineering so I worked for in a civil engineering office as a draftsman. Pencils and papers and hand lettering and all. Computers were calculators, that was all.

I worked for a couple of engineering firms after school but ultimately couldn't stand the sameness of it all. I was a low income residential property manager (slumlord) for a while. (Now, there's an education you can't get in school). For the next ten years or so, I was a residential home builder. Built about 500 homes. Times were good till the Saddam invaded Kuwait, interest rates went up 2 points overnight and everyone sat at home and watched CNN wondering if the end of the world was coming.

I worked as a residential RE appraiser. Then owned a Pepperidge Farm distributorship. (Worked with Grocery back doors guys ) Answered an ad and went to work at the nation's second largest bank as a VP managing a nationwide real estate portfolio. Learned a lot and realized that once again, i wasn't cut out to work for a big company. Left after five years and went out on my own as a RE broker. My first year I made double what I was making at the bank and never looked back.

So, now I am a commercial real estate developer. I do my own thing developing medium sizel office and retail properties and enjoy every minute if it. My time is basically my own and all I have to deal with is the stress of being a couple million dollars in debt all the time.

So for all you guys and gals out there who are doing someting that you don't like or aren't sure you want to continue doing - just read my sig. and hang in there....to quote that eminent statesman, Forrest Gump - life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.

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The_wall

I work in a kitchen at a restuarant/pub near my home. They are 2 separate places owned by the same person. I do prep cooking, line cooking, and somtimes I just make salads. I love the nights I just make salads, its one giant smoke break lol.

The pay isn't great. The work can be fun or it can be very repetative and boring depending on what I'm doing. The best part of my job are my coworkers, a bunch of stoner type kids and the chef who is an older stoner type. I fit right in.

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jt6879

Pretty cool how many different jobs there are that people have on these boards

Spanxxx

I'm a dad. That's my most important job.
I'm also a husband. That's probably important too :P

To make money, I am a Web Developer for a large bank. I create mostly large intranet-based web applications.

I also run a small business with a friend selling RPG (role-playing game) gaming tokens called Monster Tiles. It's mostly for fun, but who knows.. it might lead us down a road toward something more fun than sitting behind desks every day.

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florida0214

I am a career counselor for the United States Air Force. its an interesting job but I like it none the less.

raeanna74

I remember when it was around $2.50/hr and I'm a little younger. It's amazing how much the economy has changed in the past 20 years alone.

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xepherys

Do you work for Thyssen?

texxasco

I'm sure most convicts have a different term for it. I believe it should be a place they don't want to return to again.... but sadly though the recividism rate still hovers around 50%. Is prison a job? Yeah, it's an adventure.

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bendsley

I currently work as a Network/Systems Administrator for a large chemical manufacturer. We have offices in Costa Rica, England and Germany. One of our main products is duster, which some of you know more affectionately as "canned air". Anytime you see canned air from Fellowes, Memorex, Radio Shack and about 40 other brands, it's probably ours.

I also part own an IT security and consulting firm. You can see our page at www.axigent.net.

Currently, I am working on my MBA and will start on my Ph.D. in another year and a half or so. I plan on receiving it by the time I'm 29.

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Val_1

I am a technician. I work in the design assurance devision of an electronics company in MN. So, I break stuff for a living. Well, write a plan, present it, break it, then write a report about it. So, I write a lot of reports about how I broke stuff.

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Ralli

I work in the service dept. of a car dealership. Holden actually. I deal with nice and angry customers everyday.

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analog

Right now, I'm working in a pharmacy. In january, i'm going to be a full-time student... and next fall, i'll be starting an EMT Paramedic program, so that's what I will be two years from then.

Strange Famous

I am a supervisor in the back office department of a small part of Deutsche Post/DHL called Fuelserv.

I have about ten people in my team, and basically my job is to poll, manage, and invoice all transactions, and look after the mag stripe and chip and pin cards we issue and the terminals we poll.

It's... a job.

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xepherys

Doh! I didn't actually post my job. Uhm, by title I am the Manager of Security Services at my company. Primarily I am responsible for R&D, deployment, support and pre-/post-sales engineering for our product (and to some degree our professional services).

jt6879

My job was a little rough yesterday... Had someone kill themeselves on the phone. Always makes for a interesting afternoon...

Gilda

See the interesting thing here is that I'm very close to finishing an English PhD., yet I've read that three times and still have no idea what it means. The individual words make sense, but put together it's like "shipping purple monkey dishwasher".

I'm not criticizing, mind you, just making note of my incredible disconnect from the terminology being used there. I'm not exactly a technology person.

Gilda

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Strange Famous

well, I am sure it is my fault, I am not an articulte person.

I am somewhat educated (I got a first and a masters degree in sociology), but also not very lucid.

I work for a very small subsidory company of the German post office. My company is called "Fuelserv" and we basically sell a business to business credit card that can be used to buy fuel.

My job is in the department responsible for transactions. I am responsible for polling (which means we download card transactions from the tills (do you call them cahs registers?) of all our merchants every day), I am responsible for managing about 70,000 purchases ever week and dealing with every customer query on a purchase (ie peopel who say they didnt really have what we billed them for), and I am also responsible in charge of billing 70,000 purchases to all the customers. I also look after the company website, and all bespoke reporting for corporate clients.

We issue to our customers cards that have a microchip in, and also cards that have a magnetic stripe = they are basically credit cards which are used to buy fuel from gas stations, and I am resposnible for ensuring card acceptance with everyone who sells cash registers to gas stations, and all the banking companies who download credit card transactions, and also hotlisting (ie - stopping people who dont pay us or stolen cards from being able to make purchases)

I supervise a team of ten people, and look after the reception area and the "back office" area. I am somewhat of an expert in EPOS systems (IE ELECTRONIC CASH REGISTERS) and also VAT and Sales Tax, especially cross border European claims.

Im sure the job still sounds just as dull, but maybe now is clearer. Like I said, its a job, and I can do it. I find the technical side easy and the looking after ten people side hard, but... it's a job. I got promoted to a supervisor about a yera ago, before that I worked in the Fiancial Accounts department and I used to keep the cashbooks and rec the control accounts..

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The Gospel of Thomas

Gilda

If it sounded as if I were being critical, I apologize. I'm glad you posted that response, though, as it helps me to understand better how things like this work, and I love learning new things.

Thanks!

Gilda

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MontanaXVI

could be me

Just transfered to a new store last week after spending 11 of my first 12 years at one store, so in total I am at my third store. first 5 years at one, went to one closer to home for 1 year then came back to the first one with a promotion.

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zkara

Artist.

I am an in-house fashion designer for a clothing manufacturing company. I design jewelry on the side for my own label. Before all that I was a 3D modeler. Before that I was a piano instructor.

I prefer just sitting at home and painting mood pieces though. That never happens with a full-time job