What do you do to make a living?
 

I'm just curious you guys...i know that the majority of us are working stiffs around here. So what's your story?

Are you in school currently? Did you already graduate with a degree? Are you working in a field related to your degree? Where do you work? What's your title? What exactly do you do there?

I'll get the ball rolling...

1'm 20 years old. I haven't had the fortune of attending college yet. I didn't graduate HS (not my fault...long story...essentially, i dropped out to work and support myself). Got my GED and plan on heading back to school in the very NEAR future.

I work for The Home Depot (aka-The Orange Cage). I'm a Millwork Specialist and Lumber/Building Materials Sales Associate.

I'll break it down for ya:

MILLWORK SPECIALIST-I sell doors and windows. If a customer comes in and wants something special (something obscure, or something i just don't carry in stock) I 'Special Order' it for them. I sit them down and build whatever it is that they want in a program on my computer. Then i have to fax the order over to out Vendor/Manufacturer and then follow up to make sure that everything goes smoothly, as far as the product being built to the specifications i sent, the ship/arrival date, and any other problems that might rear their ugly heads.

I didn't really know much about windows and doors when i started, but now i'm a specialist...so i guess i learned a thing or two, huh? :thumbsup:

LUMBER/BUILDING MATERIALS: I deal mainly with customers that come in and are working on small projects. I make recommendations on lumber, insulation, drywall, shingles, roofing products, concrete, etc. I also offer ideas on ways to help make the work they're doing more efficiently. I'm in no way a expert, but it never hurts to have an objective oppinion on something when you have questions about it...i'm just a objective perspective.

I also get to do manly things like drive fork-lifts and cool stuff like that! :cool:

I like my jobs. I actually have a lot more responsibilities than what i've listed here, but they're not relevant. My store is a relatively small one, so everyone does extra work to pick up the slack (we're understaffed).

But that's what I do in a nutshell...what about you?

Xavion , you seem like your enjoying yourself in your job

me, im a builder. i did a university degree for 4 years and ended up with a bachelor of building in construction management. i worked for a few big firms here in australia as cadet onsite, then a few boutique companies doing luxury homes, estimating project costs, contract/project administrator. in march i opened my own construction company. i now have 2 projects running concurrently...im now building 2 industrial buildings at one job site, and 11 townhouses at another.

i do everything from onsite management to contract negotiations to budgeting to payments. basically im a one man show, but lifes meant to be busy..the only detraction is sometimes im away from here for a week or two cos its so hectic.

I'm 29, and an English professor at a major state university on the east coast.

I worked as a middle school humanities teacher for six years, taking advantage of my BA in English and history with a teaching endorsement, going on to earn masters degrees in reading and children's literature, and finally a PhD. in emergent children's lit.

I'll be teaching a World lit course, a freshman comp, and two upper division courses, one in children's lit and one in adolescent lit, and, I just found out in my e-mail last week, supervising six student teachers.

I've taught college courses before, but just now started doing it full time, or actually will next week. It's both an exciting and scary time for me.

Gilda

Gilda's the brains of the operation. :)

I'm a journalist by trade, 'between jobs' at the moment. I'm trying to write something creatively that I can get published so I can get off the hamster wheel. A comic book script, actually. But first I need to learn to have confidence in what I write. :)

College working on an electrical engineering degree. I did a stint in the Navy to get the GI Bill so I could afford school. Currently debating on getting a part time job and starting the search for internships.

Retail Manager on the Seventh Level of Hell......

I am making the transition between being a research administrator for scientists doing brain development research, and starting my own business as an organizational guru. I love putting things in order. It's nearly a compulsion. And I am very, very good at it. So after a trial stint pulling a "while you were out"-type transformation on a friend's house over winter break, I've decided that I could spend my life doing this. It's not going to save the world, but I get excited about doing it when I wake up in the morning, and it's a needed service. There are so many people out there who want to have an ordered environment and just don't know where to start or how to put in place a workable and sustainable organizational structure. And I'm tired of working at several removes from the impact of my efforts. Science moves at a snail's pace, and it may be years or even decades before the projects I'm helping to organize bear fruit. If they ever do. So this will allow me a bit more instant gratification and hands-on productivity. I don't know if I'll do it full time but we'll see how it goes!

scumbag roofer here........


i'm one of the foremen for our company........got about 6-8 guys on my crew.


we all work like fucking pigs in the spring,summer and fall so that we can relax in the winter time.



.....and hang out on tfp more too.

Very cool man. I have several friends that are in the Army. They aren't gonna head to college though because they love the army and want to stay in for ever.

Good luck on your hunt for internships man.

I know all about you roofer guys! I get to interact with guys like you at work on a daily basis.
;)

Let me tell you though...i have the utmost respect for you and the work that you do. Roofing is tough as crap. You have to lug those shingles, and roof-tar and other supplies up a damn ladder on your back, then applying all that shit is back-breaking labor. On top of that, you have to work in all kinds of unsavory weather conditions.

Again i say, i have mad respect for your work. In comparison, my job is cake (and i know!)

KUDOS TO ROOFERS!

23 and been a Marine for 4 and a half no. I'm a network tec. Pretty low lvl right now, setting up the lines, users, switches. I know some tactical stuff so it's a fun job. I want to go to college and get into security and programing but we'll see what happens. I've started leaning towards working with my hands so we'll see.

sweet..............wanna have a beer after work???/


hhehehhehehehe

I feel you pain my friend. I've worked nothing but retail since i've started working back in the day (i think i was 15 when i got my first job...it all blurs together now because once i started working, i never stopped)

I'm just a peon in the whole scheme of things...i couldn't imagine being a manager and having to be in charge of other people and what they do, or having to deal with the those fucking irate customers.

I mean, that's what happens right? You're job is to make sure that other people are doing their job. But if they aren't doing their job, then you get bitched out...YOU get bitched at for OTHER PEOPLE not taking the initiative and responsibility to do what their getting paid to do...correct?

Or my favorite is when there is a customer that's super-pissed and no one can appease them...they call you, The Manager. And you, The Manager, are suppose to find a way to calm this person down when nobody else could. I mean, it's easy for someone to suck you into a situation like that...all they have to say is "Hold on one second while i call my manager, he'll fix this situation." ...but it's not like you can pawn the customer onto someone else...you're it buddy! They're your problem now!

...at least, that's what i think when i call my manager to handle my light work. :lol:

All kidding aside...I know that you're over-worked and under-appreciated...with that said...

KUDOS TO RETAIL MANAGERS (on the 7th level of hell)


...although...i thought the 8th level of hell was officially renamed as "Retail"...oh well...my bad.

i teach 4th graders in texas....been doing it for 6 years. it rules!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was on the radio for two years but quit just before thanksgiving.

Xavion-

I had much the same fate as you from an education standpoint. I left High School and got my GED. I have some college but have yet to complete my degree. However, I was blessed with an affinity for comptuers and technology. During and immediately after HS, I was working in computer retail. Not ideal, but it was a start. I got a job later for EDS as a systems administrator, and just kept grinding my way up. Now I'm 28 and work at a local IT firm where my 'title' is 'Manager of Security Services' where I'm responsible for client security audits and also for R&D on our security products. I'd love to go back to school and get a degree, but it's hard to find the time.

Very cool. I love kids. But i don't necesarily have the patience (or skills) to teach.

I pretty much raised my 3 younger sisters...the majority of my adolesence was spent taking care of them while my mother worked full-time. So that's where my love of children comes from. Whenever i get to interact with a young child, i get all misty-eyed from remember my sis' at that age.

KUDOS TO PRIMARY EDUCATION TEACHERS! :thumbsup:

As unfortunate as our educational misgivings might be, at least we MADE a way for ourselves. I don't know how other half lives...i couldn't be jobless, living at home with the 'rents...i'd go bonkers.

Your jobs sounds pretty cool though...very professional..."Manager of Security Services"'

...it's got a nice beat and you can dance to it.'

Congrats though on your hard work and perseverance. Keep it up.

I aspire to be the person that works his way up to an awesome position so that i can tell people, "yea, a diploma/degree is helpful...but don't let that piece of paper define you. This is america after all...you build your own success...you make your own destiny" :thumbsup:


KUDOS TO US XEPHERYS! :thumbsup:

Hellz yea man! Let's go for it!

Science is cool. Organization is cool. So that makes you Awesome by association.

Good luck on your endeavor...i'm sure you'll be great at it!

:thumbsup:

Haha, thanks Xavion. And yes, I think that may have been part of what drove me. All through school, everyone always said that without a degree you can't amount to anything. Teachers, counselors, parents... I called "bullshit" at an early age, and I've done everything I could to prove them wrong. I don't want to go back to college because of the paper at the end of the maze... I want to go back because of the maze itself. I LOVE learning... anything and everything that I can glean out of life is just an added success in my eyes. Of course, I'd never NOT get my degree with the opportunity, but even now it's not my primary focus. Without that degree, I have a good job, a family, a nice apartment, two cars and two dogs. What more could I really ask for?

At any rate, good luck Xavion!

I used to design computer based industrial control systems. I kept getting promoted until I reached my level of incompetance managing quite a few engineers and technicians. I eventually got downsized (laid off) and now survive by drawing money out of my IRA accounts.

I'm 30 and make art for cell phone games.

After starting out in EE way back when and changing my major 3 times, I finally settled on something I could really enjoy doing, which was art. The day I told my mom, I nearly gave her a heart attack.

Knew I always wanted to be in the game industry; clawed my way to where I am now. Been doing it for 2 years officially as of today. Worked as a game tester for several years prior to that.

WAS a 4-6th grade teacher and high school choir director in 2000.

Currently (and for the past 3 years) Day care provider. Also homeschooling my daughter.

Considering putting my daughter into parochial school. No idea what I'll do then but I can guarantee I won't be teaching in PUBLIC school. I'd rather be a clean toilets than do that. Thinking about all kinds of possibilities - private tutoring, medical transcription, or any other various clerical jobs.

Reanna, I'm a teacher in the public school system too. I'd love to hear why you have such strong opinions about it. Chances are good I'll agree with you 100%.

I'm 23 and I work in logistics for a major big box retailer: I handle, process, and distribute freight at the store, right down to putting the product on the shelves. The hours suck and the money's bad, but I needed a job to get through Christmas and it seemed like a good option. Now my back is shot and I'm quitting in a week and a half with the hopes of finding employment somewhere else. At this point, anywhere else will suffice.

I'm a term shy of finishing my Bachelor's in English. Once I finish that, it's likely I will put off the actual graduation date in favor of completing the double degree program at my existing university. I'd prefer to do my degree at another school but my honey is here for another year studying chemical engineering, and I'm the one whose program is a dime a dozen. When I'm finished with that, I'll have my Bachelor's in English (emphasis in Elizabethan literature and Victorian novel) and I'll have my Master's in Teaching. Some day, in the future, I'll go back to school and do my Master's in Educational Administration, and then I'll get to pick where I go :)

Well that sucks man...i'm sorry to hear that.

But at least your not completely shit-out-of-luck. You had some money put away, which is more than i can say. I don't really make enough money to put any away in savings. I make just enough to pay my bills...barely!

So...are you actively job-seeking? Or are you just taking it easy and relaxing for a bit before you look into heading back into the workforce?

Journalism is awesome dude. I wish i was creative enough to write. I hated english in high school. I was never really that great at expressing myself on pen and paper. Beside, i'm more mechanically inclined anyway, so it worked out for the better.

But i have a great respect for journalists and whatnot.

Working on a comic book script, eh? Sounds really inventive. I love to hear what your ideas are for it. I'd love to read the first drafts even...provided you're willing to share the wealth of you imagination with the rest of us.

I wish you the best of luck my friend. Keep us posted on your progress.


KUDOS TO JOURNALISTS! WRITTEN WORD IS KICK-ASS!

Well I was 52 when I got laid off and looked around for a little while. People are reluctant to hire you when you are over 50 and have a track record of high incomes.

My wife and I decided to sell our house in a high priced area and buy one for cash in the country and just retire. That was 3 years ago and we don't regret it. Putting away about 15% of our income over the years has made all the difference.

VP of Marketing and Sales at a .com. I do boring for a living.

I'm 27, and work in sales for an internet porn company. Been at it for a few months now, and I love it. I like going to work in the morning.. what a weird feeling. We dont produce anything, we're just an internet distributer of sorts, but it involves talking and making deals with all the producers out there, big and small. Its an interesting industry, I dont think theres anything quite like it. Never know who your gonna talk to in a given day.

Its really a unique place.. its an office but it has character.. people work hard but are still alive.. not your typical cubical rat maze hell and its not filled with bland boring corperate zombies.

I teach first grade for Chicago Public Schools in one of the most low performing schools in the state. JJ and I were brought it to help raise the scores. This is my 6th year teaching and my second year with Chicago Public schools. I can't figure out if I love it or not. There are too many factors. I will say that I love the younger kids more than the older kids. I also love teaching, actual teaching. I don't like our adminstration and that makes the job tougher and less enjoyable than it could be.

I have my Master's in curriculum and instruction and would love to work with curriculum development. I've done a bit of searching, but changing carreers is tough. Plus, I don't want to leave in the middle of the school year.

Public schools are crazy and there are many problems, but the inner city kids need good, capable, and caring teachers. That is what I try to provide them. :)

sprocket-

You don't happen to live in the Phoenix area, do you?

Part of my problem is that having worked among them for a couple of years, I don't really. Not anymore. It's a very... unscrupulous business. I do have an application in with another paper at the moment for an arts reporter job, but my heart's not really in it.

Thanks, man. I'm on the third draft of the plot outline (of the first story arc) at the moment. Going to break that down into individual pages shortly, then start scripting each individual panel. If I can muster up the courage, I might post something over in literature. Maybe... I have no idea if it's competent enough for publication, but I figure you don't get anywhere by not trying.

And welcome to TFP, by the way. :thumbsup:

I love how many teachers there are out there, although I don't like how all public schools are sort of put down. My school system did great for me coming from a middle-lower class small city in MA. On the other hand, I can fully understand it in some other areas. I have great respect for all of the teachers out there.

As for my job, I fly regional jets around the midwest for three legacy airlines. Well, that is when I actually work. Most of the time I spend my days flying the couch, gym, coffee shop... anything but a plane. But as much as I don't like dealing with the company and hate the pay, I wouldn't change my job in a second.

I'm 19 and I work as a Starbucks barista. Right now I'm on holidays from college, so that's nice.

this is difficult as i am currently semi-retired, but here goes...

- rite-aid store manager right out of college...
- claims adjudicator and management auditor for US Department of Veterans Affairs
- management analyst for Health Care Financing Administration
- administrative officer for the Food and Drug Administration
- self-employed legal researcher for law firms and insurance companies
- substitute teacher
- golf bum

life is good...

No, I live in NC.. but i was just in pheonix/flagstaff for the holidays;). A very cool place.

Went from a musician in a band to retail while in college. Got bored with school and got married (at 19), went into making IV fluids for a company and started working electrical PT just to pick up extra money and learn something.

Someone convinced me to get in the newspaper business and the job didn't "exactly" require a college degree, so... 28+ years later and I manage a region for a national newspaper. I just fell into something I love...managing and leading people. Funny thing is, no degree but I teach college grads how to write business letters. Go figure!

Anyone want management advice, give me a yell.

P.S. Still married 30.5 years later - and to the same woman.

I own my own company- we sell knives and swords, at ren fests, sci-fi cons, and just recently, at our store downtown- for the first time in years,
i love my job,and things keep looking better.....

Pilot...flying private jets

one of the best things to happen to you too right????


i'm a few steps closer to my plan/goal too........went and bought a small mobile home.....sold,bought a house........sold,bought acreage..........

and that's where we sit.........


good for you guys..........i'm glad you're retired.





:thumbsup:

Bunch of stuff. I have been:

* a public info/public relations hack producing press releases, in-house newspapers and customer newsletters, etc. for an insurance company, a job training agency, etc. I still do it for fun as a volunteer sometimes, for local nonprofits. Had a journalism degree, but after dealing with journos from the other side the desk for a few years, I decided it was all too sleazy for me.

* Technical writer. Never worked for a hot-start up (some that burned out), but I kicked around the SF Bay Area for 20 years as a grunt writer, manager, and W2 contractor (the easy road). Document your general ledger system? No problem! Installation manual for that rack server? Rightaway sir! UNIX manpages? My specialty! E-commerce online help? A pleasure, guv! As a W2 contractor for a _really_ good agent, I could take three or four months off whenever I wanted, and come back when I was ready to find a job waiting. It was sweet, no denying. It's not like that anymore, but I'm attempting to get back into tech writing after an abortive adventure in...

* Education. Got laid off from a manager job (yep, promoted to my level of incompentence, and laid off -- typical story) and decided to go into education; I enjoyed working with kids. Got the credential and found out that I enjoy working with kids until, oh, Wednesday noon every week. Then I'm ready for a four-day weekend. I just don't have the stamina and frankly, I'm a team player -- and no, kids don't count as part of the team. I get antsy in that classroom with no other adults to bounce things off of.

Currently looking for tech writing jobs in my area since November, and not having too much luck. But it's the end of the year and things should pick up. I've also got multiple applications out for admin jobs at the local university. With a background in writing, supervision, education, software, databases, and education, there are about six openings up there that I'm qualified for, and there's nothing I'd like better at this point in life (50) than a good, steady civil service job. I'm hoping that my age doesn't weight against me up there, or back in tech writing.

We're not rich, but the house is paid for. So we've got options. But my wife has continuing medical problems and we have no company retirement plans, so I'll probably work straight on until 65, and beyond if necessary.

Radioactive liquid waste processor.. I help run the filter/processing system for a Naval shipyard.

I also perform maintenance and cleaning on Radioactive liquid waste collection tanks.

Fun times for all...

I am still waiting to glow in the dark!! Should be cool!

I knew a guy, a retired machinist, who did the the first overhaul of a nuclear submarine reactor, on the old Seawolf, at Mare Island back in the '50s. The stories he told about how they handled the radioactive water and disposed of spills would curl your hair.

My official title is Systems Analyst...but basically I write programs to help my coworkers do their jobs better. Mostly I use visual basic.

I got this job, which I will have been at five years at the end of this month, a month after I graduated college with my bachelor's degree in computer science....and a month after I got married. It was a very busy month. I accidentally got into computer science. I was going for a math degree (teaching) with a coaching minor and I figured out that wasn't for me, so I took Computer Science I on a whim and fell in love. I really like the programming part....the politics that come with any job I guess, I really don't like...but I can't see myself anywhere else. I'd like to go back and get my master's, but there seems to be no time, so that's my goal for the future.

A plan is always good. I wish I was savvy enough to do that kind of thing, but it's practically impossible even to get a foot on the very lowest rung of the property ladder in this country unless you're buying as a couple or absolutely prostituting yourself at work... or you're lucky enough to be earning a fat wage - which is practically impossible for a writer.

I'm hoping, hoping, hoping I'll be moving to the states this year (was supposed to be the year before last, but didn't happen, then last year, but didn't happen either, hence my recent depression), where it's no so hard to get along. This country is a bitch.

flyman actually lives in Canada...in beautiful British Columbia no less (I am incredibly jealous), and so you might consider that an option as well--though I wouldn't recommend trying to find property close to any urban center for any reasonable amount of money.

I'm a Permanent Way (i.e. railway track) design Engineer.
My job is to design track layouts and alignments. We are stupidly busy - loads to do. People see railways as just sleepers and a couple of rails, but the track is actually hugely complex. My job involves sitting on a computer using CAD most of the time, but I do get to go out and walk amongst the trains sometimes. (Standing on the side of a railway, 1.25m away from a train as it passes you at 90mph is great fun!)

I design where to put the track, what radii, what cant (how high is one rail above the other - used for better cornering - think cambers on roads round high speed corners), what speed the track can be set to, and, the thing that takes most of my time - how to put it all together, so you have the various track components all able to be supplied in their standard length or near as damnit, and so that the trains can be properly detected by the signalling system as they move around and that they can be properly given electricity (where appropriate).

FYI much of the track here in the UK is not electrified, much is electrified at 25000V AC overhead wire, and several hundred miles of the Southern Region and a few bits elsewhere is electrified with a third rail adjacent to the running rails, energised at 750V DC. You don't want to be trespassing on the railway around those lines, although many people do, and often pay the ultimate price for it...

Part of my job is also to detail in what order things get installed and when final tamping (smoothing out of the track) takes place, to ensure it can actually be built sensibly and in the time available during the railway closure, and that it can be re-opened at the appropriate speed at the end of the work.

Part of the work my office does, although I don't do it myself, is also to run, in a computer, every type of train that can go down that track along the proposed alignment, along with every other type of train on the adjacent track, to ensure that the trains don't hit each other or any structures such as platforms when the design is actually built.

I love my job - it's great fun. I have a passion for the railway and it's infrastructure. I have a lot less passion for the trains, but I find the actual track, signalling, electrification, control and communications systems totally fascinating. Definitely my career for life. :thumbsup:

Oh, and I've been at this for nearly 3.5 years now. I'm 26.

And you all thought that it was just ballast, two rails and a few sleepers... :crazy:

I love trains. They're quite different here in the US, but I like them just the same.

I was a broadcast journalist and news director, now a print editor M-F, and a producer for radio talk shows on weekends. I also do traffic reports in morning and afternoon drive, but they're only heard by me and occupants of my car.

Yea, I know he's in Canada - sorry didn't mean to be confusing.

I'm a bit out of the loop as far as property goes here, but from what I gather, for what you would pay for the shittiest of bedsit/studio apartments in a city here, you could actually get yourself a pretty decent house in the states. Obviously, your mileage may vary... I just know it's not in the cards for me. The reason I'm moving is emotional though, not financial :)

I'm 25 and worked in a nursing home for close to 5 years. I was miserable. Alpha Phi paid my way through an excellent pet grooming school. I graduated April 1st of 2005 top of my class. I'd always wanted to work with animals since I was a very little kid. A week after I graduated I got online and did some job hunting. Alpha Phi and I already knew we wanted to move out of Michigan so I looked for jobs in a couple states we'd vacation in before. First place I called acted like she wanted to meet me that day. We did a couple phone meetings and decided an interview would be great. A month later we drove to North Carolina for my interview and I knew from the moment I sat down I had the job. She had already called my school and found out that apparently if I hadn't of wanted to move my school wanted to hire me as an assistant groomer. So I work in a vet clinic and have my own grooming salon downstairs. My bosses are great and back me up whenever I need it and my coworkers are nice also.
There is something to say that when you spend over 8 hours at a place of work and don't even notice because you enjoy it so much. I really love my job. Don't get me wrong I have some insane customers and crazy mean dogs and cats but even then it's still awesome.

What a great story!

I haven't jumped into a career yet. Been doing temp office work and the occasional lab job over the last couple of years. Also dabbled some in theatrical lighting before I realized that it wasn't my calling. Got my AA in general studies last year. Planning on continuing my studies with Botany. Turned in applications to a bucketload of schools, we'll see where I end up.

ive noticed that not many people that do 'hands on' jobs get on tfp here..am i the only one, or am i just imagining things?

I do think you're imagining things... though I can't claim to be an expert. My perception is that there's a pretty wide range of folk here.

Don't know what you mean - I have my 'hands on' a computer almost all day every day! :D
I'm getting real "hands on" next week though - I'm out walking track again! Yay!

I'm go to school fulltime... I work as a lowly customer service person (sometimes when I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, I don't even live up to the name) nearly fulltime, and I'm parent to a 4 year old spoiled brat hahaha....I don't make much, but I guess I could say I'm fairly happy.

I'm a fully qualified button pushing monkey temp, although my current job is as a helpline operator.

Hmm how to best describe it.

Well in Dante's Inferno you are treated to the visions of hell in descending order. Layer after layer of nastiness and cruelty getting gradually worse and worse the deeper into hell you roam. The final layer in Inferno is a block of ice, encapsulating Judas, his eyes frozen open for all eternity, for his sins against humanity.

What Dante failed to mention however is that if you slide old Judas over to the side there is a tunnel leading down to my helpline, complete with headset. Getting into work in the mornings is a real bitch.

To the lit aware amongst you, apologies if I got the Inferno wrong, I haven't actually read the thing, it's just bits and pieces that I've picked up over the years.

I think I'm lucky in that I've mostly enjoyed the jobs that I've done/had to do since my formal schooling ended. My feeling was that of course it was not constant perfection, but it could always have been a lot worse.

As for schooling background, I think I lucked out that some of my elementary school teachers convinced me and my parents that I should go to a "better" school than the local public or parochial high schools; so that sent me to a "prep" type school in Phila area that was a very significant benefit to most of my later years. In hindsight, it did more good for me overall than any later education I got. From there I went to a local college engineering school ...V for Villanova V for victory - GO Basketball team!!!... and got my BSME and what I think is a pretty good engineering education; graduated in the very early '70's when engineering work was relatively tough to get, was still jobless and was sleeping late one day in early summer when the ME dept chairman called to ask if I had a job, I didn't, so he suggested I take this interview with a very small (10 people) local specialty controls manufacturer; I did, and ended up being there for 15 years and finally resigned as Director of Engineering after I got fed up with some other new management but overall it was a great experience and I made a damn good income by engineering standards; then a few years experimenting with self-employment/consulting/technical sales that didn't work out in the long run so I went back to work for others again. I had a couple short terms of under a few years in interesting but not longer term jobs; then I arrived where I am now for over ten years which is another small company doing very similar work as my first job and I'm VP of Engineering and enjoying most days. Life is pretty good ...for me :)

certified welder/hitman


/has yet to actually receive a contract on someones life, but i'm hopeful! :lol:

Local network admin..

Local realtor (this is the main job)..

But almost tired of it, and might consider looking for something else that will bring me closer to my goal faster (retirement).

Do you think about creative ways of combining those two talents? ...I mean if you were to actually get a hit contract ;)

Cosmetic formulation (my own business).
Web admin and design (business number two).
Internet marketing (part of business one and two LOL).
(soon to be adding...part time medical assistant)

Student... with 19 weeks to go!!!! Ill be finishing my BS in Food Service Management from Johnson and Wales University in North Miami, FL. At wich point I will pack up and move home or to grad school. Ill eventually get into grad school for the broad scope of "Food Science" and mainly Agribusiness Economics and Food Engineering(essentially packaging and Research and Development) at some point I want to work for like Proctor and Gamble(Folger's and Pringles) in purchasing of raw materials... or Coors doing the same.. I have decided I LOVE COLORADO after going out there..

I currently work for Hyatt Hotels in Ft Lauderdale, FL and I am a Swing Shift Supervisor(aka glorified line cook) while I enjoy my job I hate my management comapny and wish they would all go away to some stupid Island or something. They piss me off and recently my Executive Chef left to go work for the Panthers so morale is slightly low.... The new "Area Executive Chef"(we're a franchise Hyatt so we are sister hotels with another hotel in the area) is an ok guy, but hes fucking weird. I love the people I work with but our management company is freakin stooopid. They dont pay me enough to deal with all the shit I deal with..

oh and Im a total bum.... I love to sleep, eat and drink...

I'm in my second year undergraduate uni, with a steady and lovin' it job as a figure skating coach. I spent from ages 5 to 16 figure skating, and got all my teaching certificates about two years ago, even though I've been coaching since I was 12. lol. I LOVE it! Nothing makes me happier, so far... :) Especially the toddlers, coaching them is the best.

Mechanical designer currently working on telescopes. Like this one.
Previously worked on heavy lift crawler cranes (Manitowoc), military/commercial trucks (Oshkosh), and a paper mill in Green Bay. Most of these jobs involved CAD drafting while sitting at a desk all day. At my current job I'm also out in the shop putting the thing together.

Currently in US Air Force, did it for eight years then got out, then came back in, hahahah and yup I'm still kicking myself for it. Reason: Ever heard of a placed called Clovis NM, look it up, it's right next to hell, one block over :)

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Love reading about all of you, thanks for being here.

i'm an actor, singer, broadcaster, host :D and love my jobs!

I'm a college student working toward who even knows what, so I suppose I'm not currently working toward anything.
For money I grovel at the feet of parasites equipped with lethargic stares and boasting the brain capacity of a ball of dryer lint.

Basically, I work in retail.

When I "grow up" I'm going to be a writer, director, actress, and anything else I feel like being at a given moment.

I am an addictions counselor soon to have his own therapeutic house up and running and eventually a coffehouse for clients to sell art, have poetry reading, write and produce their own plays and so on.

I love my job and after having been a stock broker, owning my own pizza place, being in C-store and national pizza place managements among other management experience, I can honestly say I have no desire to do anything but what I am doing now, helping people recover and watch them better their lives.

I'm an english teacher in Taiwan. It's quite rewarding, and my kids are supercute, but I'm about ready to be finished with it. Anyone want to give me a job back stateside?

I am 23. I finished my B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in December 2004. I moved to Colorado 6 months ago after receiving job offers there. I love this state! There are a lot of things to do and see here, and it's politically neutral. Plus, I'm a fan of winter sports, snow, the mountains, and the Snow Miser. ;)

My job title is "Senior Firmware Engineer". It is a specialized form of computer engineering. But currently it boils down to designing and writing large amounts of C code for "embedded devices". These are devices which are basically appliances, i.e. designed for one purpose. Consumer electronics, car computers, kitchen appliances, etc. are all examples. But inside they're still computers. My employer is in the business of building the next generation of digital video recorders (DVRs). I've learned an awful lot about the cable business in my tenure at this job too.

In a few years I'll probably get a MBA and/or a MS in electrical/computer engineering, and hopefully run a company like this. I am a big fan of intellectual work, and I believe we need more people doing this kind of work in the USA.

I'm 23. Finished my National Diploma in IT (software development) 2 years ago. Since then I've only had 2 jobs, both support. The 1st was for a small textile manufacturing concern where I supported everything from their users down to doing mail admin and writing sales/marketing reports for management. And they paid so shit.

My current job is for a metering systems company where we work for local municipalities running the back-end of their pre-paid electricity systems. Mostly just hardware support with a little bit of Oracle and proprietary software thrown in every now and again. Currently based in Jeffrey's Bay - one of the best surfing spots in the country - and I can't surf to save my ass. The work's very laid back (we only really work when shit goes wrong), the town's extremely laid back but I'm yet to find a place to stay here in town. I live 75kms away and the commute is killing me, both financially as well as physically. Hopefully they'll start paying me better soon as my contract's up and I'm due to be employed on a permanent basis as from this month.

A lot of interesting people/ stories here.

Currently I'm 23 and attending New York University film school. Ultimate goal is to be a film director. Currently I've got three unfinished feature scripts (i'm about 30 pages into each), and am working on my senior film. I plan on shooting it in upstate New York april 19th - may 3rd. Kind of a sad aside is that the only reason i can afford to go to NYU is because of a WTC scholarship I've recieved because my mom volunteered and was injured at the WTC on 9/11/01.

I started out going to college at RIT for mechanical engineering. didn't like it so I went to a community college and earned an A.S. in mathematics. I was a math tutor for awhile. Other main job was ski instructor. Currently I work part time in the school Television Studio helping out the freshmen.

After graduation I just plan on getting a job within the film industry which will get me on the right track for getting to directing. I'm also toying with what subject I should get my master's in, or if I should even go for one.

If anyone has any Q's about film school / film in general I'd be happy to try and answer.

this is just fucking awesome man......good for you.


see folks......there are good people in this world.


nicely done pan..........



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