Work, Work, Work

[Antenna]

What kind of job do you do mainly to earn money ?

My self is a unpaid docent in societymedecine that was build round social knowledge of my town and the society i general over here.

Still I don't get a better term then societymedecine.

PhD Report : "It" and the truth behind it.
Docent report : Tendencies In The Society In Ressesion.

So what kind of work do you have.

Antenna

[Raellus]

High school history teacher.

[cavtroop]

I do Information Security for a .com you've all heard of.

Frankly, I'm burned out on working for big corp, but it's all that pays the bills...

[Frank Frey]

Retired.

[HorseSoldier]

Formerly a police officer, presently a civilian employee of a PD.

[Targan]

Alarm response operator for a security company. Hating every second of it. Spent the previous 10 years as a media monitor, loved that but the company bought out all the competition then sacked all the media monitors in three state offices including mine. Bummer.

[Webstral]

Off this year, but technically a grad student. In a couple of months, I should know whether and what I'll be teaching this coming school year.

Webstral

[jturfitt]

Laboratory Medical Technologist. Been working night shift in the Lab for 17 years now. BSMT (ASCP)

[TiggerCCW UK]

Bar manager and licensed door supervisor for the main university here in Belfast.

[pmulcahy11b]

Medically retired from the Army at 100% permanent disability, plus I have a permanent disability rating from Social Security. My mother has lived with since her first stroke and she insists in return on making my car payments, which I will have finished in March of next year. She says that after the car is paid off she will still "pay rent" at a reduced level, and she won't let me talk her out of it (we've had actual arguments over that). Between caring for my mother and the fallout from my growing physical ailments (chief among which is severe osteoarthritis; I have Sendig-Larsen's syndrome the after-effects of the many injuries I sustained in the Army and never let heal properly at the time). and the effects of the medication for my mental illness, there's really no way I could hold down even a part time job, and the VA and Social Security recognize that. I do a very small amount of volunteer work for the Animal Defense League (primarily keeping up their computers), but I can't manage more than have them call me when they have a computer problem that they can't fix, and it doesn't really come up that often.

[headquarters]

I work in the economics dept. of our municipality.

As of September 1st I will start my new job as a lawyer.

Cant wait. I do see a sharp decline in my time on the boards on the horizon due to this though .

As pay has been an issue in my years in the public sector I also work extra as a porter at the maximum security Psych ward for the region-soem weekends and holidays .

I also hold a commission in the local national guad that bring in some cash and also is a good way to relieve stress and get some time away from the computer .It is totally SAS for me these days of course - SaturdaysandSundays :D

[Dog 6]

I am a I.T. Project Manager, for one of the largest computer companies in the world.

[Fusilier]

Grade six science teacher.

[General Pain]

Working in the 5th largest cell-operator in the world since -99 as salesman,computer repairman,installations and step-in boss/department head.

Been working as a DJ & party-organizer since the middle of the 90s.

next party will be an allnighter in the old parts of Oslo the 18th of june.

-General out ;)

[ex3313]

System test tech find ways it can break then work to make sure it can't
prior work includes industrial controls high end bio-tech and 6 yrs as a missisle tech

[Mahatatain]

I'm an analyst for an advertising agency where my role is to investigate the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

I work of a Engineering consultant as a Senior Construction Materials Technician, and Construction Project Management and Testing for the last 25+ years. Before that misc jobs and the USMC.

[Rainbow Six]

I'm a Corporate Travel Manager.

[WallShadow]

Dayshift IT help desk supervisor for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board --2nd largest single purchaser of wines and spirits in the world, right behind a similar organization in the Canadian Province of Ontario.

I guess we've got a ways to go to try to beat Canadians where it comes to drinking! ;)

[headquarters]

Dayshift IT help desk supervisor for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board --2nd largest single purchaser of wines and spirits in the world, right behind a similar organization in the Canadian Province of Ontario.

I guess we've got a ways to go to try to beat Canadians where it comes to drinking! ;)

can you recommend a good red wine ?

:D

[mikeo80]

Downsized network admin for textile manufactoring co. Now working selling copmuters and support....it pays the bills...

[Ironside]

Not working due to chronic PVFS (Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome) and severe clinical depression. I used to do voluntary work in the cyber-cafe in my local psychiatric hospital patients social centre, until that was shut due to budget cuts. I then was chairman of a society that was set up to try to provide the same services for the patients as a charity until that got too much for me.

[pmulcahy11b]

I am a I.T. Project Manager, for one of the largest computer companies in the world.

Can you give me a good deal on a 2GB external hard drive?:D

[Caradhras]

Was a gardener/estate worker until my lower back gave out, went to Uni and got a Degree in Environmental Management and ended up in the Civil Service behind a desk :(

[Grimace]

Can you give me a good deal on a 2GB external hard drive?:D

2 Gigs, eh? Well, at least you don't ask for anything outlandish like some people would. ;)

[Slappy]

Banker, but these days I tend to tell people I'm unemployed.

[simonmark6]

I'm a teacher too. My subject is English but I run a department in a medium sized school in the UK for pupils from 11-16. My teachers are responsible for teaching English, Media Studies, Drama, Literacy and Special Needs. In my dreams I get to tell tham what to do...

[pmulcahy11b]

2 Gigs, eh? Well, at least you don't ask for anything outlandish like some people would. ;)

Sorry, I made a mistake. I meant 2 TB.:p

[Dog 6]

Sorry, I made a mistake. I meant 2 TB.:p

http://www.newegg.com

:)

[dvyws]

Currently a Quality Manager for the IT department of a City Council.

Before that - 20 years in various IT roles, starting as a programmer and working my up to Project Manager.

Before that- 12 years at sea, starting as a cadet and ending up as a 2nd Mate (Navigating Officer) on big boats...

Suddenly I feel old!

[Adm.Lee]

I'm a housedad, so I don't get paid in money. I have started doing some editing for a friend's tech-writing company, so I'm nearly a paid writer.

I used to be a clerk in the city library (2 terms if I were a 2nd ed. character), and before that a manger trainee for a shoe store.

[pmulcahy11b]

http://www.newegg.com

:)
:D

[weswood]

I'm a professional asshole. I disconnect people's electricity when they don't pay the bill. I also connect/disconnect when customers move.

[avantman42]

I spent 12 years repairing TVs, videos, etc. Then I did a degree and now I work in IT, doing all sorts of stuff - some coding, some support, some sysadmin work. Whatever needs done, really.

[Cdnwolf]

Inventory auditor for a major Canadian Home Improvement store - but in September after being out of school for 20 years I start back and try to get my diploma as a Human Resources Manager.

[General Pain]

I'm a professional asshole. I disconnect people's electricity when they don't pay the bill. I also connect/disconnect when customers move.

Priceless....;)

[Webstral]

I'm a professional asshole. I disconnect people's electricity when they don't pay the bill. I also connect/disconnect when customers move.


Somebody's got to do it. If there were no consequences for not paying bills, who would pay bills?

Webstral

[pmulcahy11b]

Inventory auditor for a major Canadian Home Improvement store - but in September after being out of school for 20 years I start back and try to get my diploma as a Human Resources Manager.

I personally think it takes considerable courage to go back to school after being out for a long time. Bravo!

[Cdnwolf]

I personally think it takes considerable courage to go back to school after being out for a long time. Bravo!

I want to make up a t-shirt - "Official School Sperm Donator - 1989 - I MAY be your real daddy!!"

[WallShadow]

I'm a professional asshole. I disconnect people's electricity when they don't pay the bill. I also connect/disconnect when customers move.

Professional I can deal with--it's the rank overachieving amateurs that cause most of the problems.:D

[pmulcahy11b]

I want to make up a t-shirt - "Official School Sperm Donator - 1989 - I MAY be your real daddy!!"

If you do that, have someone take your picture in it, while standing next to several 21-year olds, and post it here!

[jester]

Full time skirt chaser and drunkard....oh wait this was for money right? Oh,

Social Worker and Counselor. And part time head breaker and finder of people who don't want to be found, and doing some other legal stuff on the side. Although trying to make my big break into the medical field this term for "other" reasons :D

[weswood]

Well, I posted for a Lineman Helper position this morning. Hard, dangerous work, but at the end of a 3 year apprentice program, about $35 an hour. Wish me luck.:D

[Graebarde]

next party will be an allnighter in the old parts of Oslo the 18th of june.

-General out ;)

All nighter on midsommer eve? Ain't LIGHT out there at that time of year? :D

[Graebarde]

Recently retarded.. I mean retired (that does mean getting tired again doesn't it). I will soon be drawing SS and doing a job as Buddy sitter for my brother-in-law that had a massive stroke a couple years ago. I left one of the largest retail auto parts companies where I was a parts sales manager (not what I really enjoyed, other than interactions with people.. at least SOME of them). Been a biller for a home health agency, driver manager for a HAZMAT trucking company (my FAVORITE job of all and would have been my retirement job had there not been illness in the family causing a move back to Texas), farmer, mechanic, construction worker, warehouse MHE supervisor, soldier for nearly 12 years... and numerous 'odd jobs'.. what ever it takes to pay the bills.

[Muti]

Dentistry student. I'll finish the university next year.

[Dogger]

Currently laid off do to the economic situation...was outside sales for a stormwater management / erosion control company.

In the morning's I look for work...in the afternoon's I swill beer with reckless abandon.

[Webstral]

Currently laid off do to the economic situation...was outside sales for a stormwater management / erosion control company.

In the morning's I look for work...in the afternoon's I swill beer with reckless abandon.


I have a feeling that public rage will compel the [expletive deleted] American politicians to choose between fining BP to within an inch of their fiscal lives or being voted out of office. I'm interested in seeing which horn of the dilemma our snake oil salesmen will choose. The profitable environmental work in the near future is going to be upgrading spill management and remediation plans for Big Oil, the chemical industry, and everyone else who deal in large quantities of liquid hazmat. I've toyed with the idea of ditching grad school and teaching for a couple of years to try to find work with some environmental consultants. My CHMM's as good as it ever was.

On a different note, I was strongly thinking of joining the Coast Guard Reserve as an environmental type. If I had, I'd be in the Gulf of Mexico right now.

Webstral

[pmulcahy11b]

I have a feeling that public rage will compel the [expletive deleted] American politicians to choose between fining BP to within an inch of their fiscal lives or being voted out of office.

I hate to say it, and it may be the severely cynical side I have, but I think that everything that our politicians are doing right now "against" BP is for show only. In reality, they won't bite the hand that feeds them as much as big oil does. Voter apathy and the lack of an informed electorate (and the lack of an attention span people in this country have) along with the disinformation and on-air lying that money buys, will ensure that most of them will remain in office. Look at Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana -- he's simultaneously criticizing Obama for not doing enough about the spill and demanding that the holds on the drilling leases off of Louisiana be lifted.

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

I hate to say it, and it may be the severely cynical side I have, but I think that everything that our politicians are doing right now "against" BP is for show only. In reality, they won't bite the hand that feeds them as much as big oil does. Voter apathy and the lack of an informed electorate (and the lack of an attention span people in this country have) along with the disinformation and on-air lying that money buys, will ensure that most of them will remain in office. Look at Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana -- he's simultaneously criticizing Obama for not doing enough about the spill and demanding that the holds on the drilling leases off of Louisiana be lifted.

That states two major industries are fishing and Oil. Hes just trying to save one of them. Since the one is pretty much hosed right now.

[boogiedowndonovan]

Voter apathy and the lack of an informed electorate (and the lack of an attention span people in this country have) along with the disinformation and on-air lying that money buys, will ensure that most of them will remain in office.

yeah seriously, nothing ever changes except the american public gets dumber and dumber, addicted to mind numbing reality TV shows, "celebrities" who have done nothing but look good, etc.

Back on topic,

like what weswood said, I am a professional asshole. I work in the legal department for a large ISP. I mediate disputes, shut off email, websites and credit card processing for people who don't like to read or follow our TOS.

thinking about going back to school for an MBA though.

[perardua]

I'm a law student until the end of the month, when I graduate. After that, I'll be doing whatever job pays me the most or can further my goal of eventually joining the police (whenever they start recruiting again, which at the moment looks like it will be some time away). At the moment I'm honestly considering doing another Afghanistan tour to help squirrel some money away, but we'll see.

[General Pain]

All nighter on midsommer eve? Ain't LIGHT out there at that time of year? :D

He he...Loaction change now to an old Chocolate Factory in central Oslo, we have about 15 DJs,VJs,MCs and 2 different live painters and hope to sell all the 200 tickets that r available.

I myself are spinning vinyl on the turntables from 0400 to 0500 in the morning :)

( METAFUSION SOUNDSYSTEM )

[pmulcahy11b]

I'm a law student until the end of the month, when I graduate. After that, I'll be doing whatever job pays me the most or can further my goal of eventually joining the police (whenever they start recruiting again, which at the moment looks like it will be some time away). At the moment I'm honestly considering doing another Afghanistan tour to help squirrel some money away, but we'll see.

Law student...that'll be the second one we lose to the legal profession...:mad:

Just kidding -- good luck.

[perardua]

Cheers Paul! To be honest, I've never wanted to become a lawyer of any kind, the closest I want to get is (hopefully) joining the police. Unfortunately, none of the British police forces are recruiting at present, due to not having any money. So yeah, Afghanistan again, perhaps.

[pmulcahy11b]

Cheers Paul! To be honest, I've never wanted to become a lawyer of any kind, the closest I want to get is (hopefully) joining the police. Unfortunately, none of the British police forces are recruiting at present, due to not having any money. So yeah, Afghanistan again, perhaps.

Does the British Army have something equivalent to JAG in the US?

[perardua]

All the services have their own legal department. But I've got to be honest, I'm young and stupid enough to prefer being in the field. I could always go down that route later in life.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Delivery driver for auto parts to our commercial customers and various mom and pop garages. With the downturn in the economy, people are keeping their jalopies which makes business very good right now.

[pmulcahy11b]

With the downturn in the economy, people are keeping their jalopies which makes business very good right now.

I hear that! It helps that I don't drive very far when I drive -- almost everything's close. My 5-year-old minivan has a bit less than 20,000 miles on it.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

I hear that! It helps that I don't drive very far when I drive -- almost everything's close. My 5-year-old minivan has a bit less than 20,000 miles on it.

Also, I know people that can help me maintain my own vehicle, it is a 1994 Ford "Exploder." I'm going to get help in fixing my right, rear rocker panel, a common place for rust on the Explorers. I also have other issues too, the 20% discount on parts is a good thing for me.

Chuck

[weswood]

I hear that! It helps that I don't drive very far when I drive -- almost everything's close. My 5-year-old minivan has a bit less than 20,000 miles on it.

I've got a 2000 Toyota Tundra with just under 75,000 miles. :D

[Snake Eyes]

I do IT for a .gov you've never heard of.

[TiggerCCW UK]

I do IT for a .gov you've never heard of.

Some super secret Government agency that has its headquarters in a hollowed out volcano? That'd be awesome :D

[Snake Eyes]

Some super secret Government agency that has its headquarters in a hollowed out volcano? That'd be awesome :D

Oh how I wish! But no, we're not secret - just obscure and bordering on irrelevant.

[TiggerCCW UK]

Oh how I wish! But no, we're not secret - just obscure and bordering on irrelevant.

I'll not tell anyone :) We can try this;

*makes a bluff roll*

Hey guys - did you hear Snake Eyes works in a hollowed out volcano? Hush hush work for the government, he's cloning dogs that shoot bees from their mouths.

*waits to see if he passed the roll*

[jester]

I'll not tell anyone :) We can try this;

*makes a bluff roll*

Hey guys - did you hear Snake Eyes works in a hollowed out volcano? Hush hush work for the government, he's cloning dogs that shoot bees from their mouths.

*waits to see if he passed the roll*


I thought he was developing a program inolving sharks with lazer beams mounted on their heads.

[TiggerCCW UK]

The programme stalled when they got as far as ill tempered sea bass :(

[headquarters]

Snake is got a great job for sure - but when I heard that the commute involves parachuting down the volcano every morning I got some apprehension.

[TiggerCCW UK]

I know - a fast rope insertion would be far more practical :D

[TiggerCCW UK]

And on the subject of work, I got a hell of an ego boost last night. Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

[Rainbow Six]

I work in the corporate travel field - the very mention of volcanos these days brings me out in a cold sweat...

[weswood]

And on the subject of work, I got a hell of an ego boost last night. Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

Did you tell her you were also a lesbian? :D

[Targan]

Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

Nice :D

[mikeo80]

And on the subject of work, I got a hell of an ego boost last night. Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

Talk about a TRUE manly MAN!!!:D

[pmulcahy11b]

And on the subject of work, I got a hell of an ego boost last night. Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

I had the same sort of back-handed compliment not long after I got out of the Army -- a gay man asked me to a party. I said, "I appreciate the compliment; it's very flattering that you consider me attractive. However, I'm straight, so I have to refuse. Sorry."

And I actually did take it as a compliment. Now if only he were a woman...

[TiggerCCW UK]

I definitely took it as a compliment - in my mid 30's I can attract a girl 15 years younger, who normally goes for women, completely unintentionally :)


That sort of thing never happened when I was younger.....

[Raellus]

And on the subject of work, I got a hell of an ego boost last night. Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

Cool bands and lesbian pick-up lines? Looks like I picked the wrong profession!

[simonmark6]

That shows how up to date I am, I thought Tegan and Sara were friends of Tigger's niece...

[pmulcahy11b]

Snake is got a great job for sure - but when I heard that the commute involves parachuting down the volcano every morning I got some apprehension.

He doesn't parachute, and he doesn't fast-rope either -- Airwolf picks him up and takes down inside.

[boogiedowndonovan]

And on the subject of work, I got a hell of an ego boost last night. Tegan and Sara were playing our place last night and I had a 20 year old girl inform me 'I would so buck you if I wasn't a lesbian' - thats not the sort of compliment you get every day :D

dude you rock!

[Snake Eyes]

He doesn't parachute, and he doesn't fast-rope either -- Airwolf picks him up and takes down inside.

You people now know too much.

:cool:

[TiggerCCW UK]

Snake, I'll trade you a lesbian for a ride in Airwolf?

[TiggerCCW UK]

dude you rock!

Boodiedown, I'd love to say that this sort of thing happens to me all the time, but sadly it doesn't :(

[headquarters]

Did you tell her you were also a lesbian? :D

nice .

[Graebarde]

I definitely took it as a compliment - in my mid 30's I can attract a girl 15 years younger, who normally goes for women, completely unintentionally :)


That sort of thing never happened when I was younger.....

Well my wife is 15yrs younger than I, but definatley not the 'goes for women'. And I met her on a blind date my ex- planned. Rhon had to have been blind to see me again.. LOL but she's definately a keeper.

[RN7]

Once upon a time I worked for my family in Ireland and was very happy, but I never had much money. Then I decided to go to university in England, got a couple of degrees, became an archaeologist and thought I was great and was also very happy, but I still never had any money. Then I emigrated to America, got married, became a father and went to work in the head office of a large corporation and I had loads of money, but I was totaly unhappy.

Then I moved back to Ireland with my wife, son and dog, decided to start my own transport and courier business in Dublin and thought it would be great to work for myself and never have a boss again. It is great but I'm also working myself to death!

Basically I was blissfully happy when I had no responsibilities or money, and felt the exact opposite when I had responsibilities and money. I think I would be extremely happy if I moved back in with my parents, got out of bed in the afternoon, signed on for welfare benefits and spent my days in the bar betting on the horses, and then spent my winnings on fast cars and women because life is a bitch.

[TiggerCCW UK]

On the work front, we have Slash playing the union tomorrow and I'm pulling a double shift to look after the green room - door licence has its advantages :) Just hoping that there is no repeat of the Milan gig on the 10th of this month....

[JimmyRay73]

I'm on one of the lower rungs of the management ladder at a major US retailer (I can't say which under penalty of firing, death, and or genital mutilation. Our HR department doesn't muck about.) after 11.5 years or so selling TVs , stereos, and then appliances. The only good part of my job is that it usually allows me to masquerade as part of the local music scene so long as I can still play the drums, and wear silly hats on stage so the younger groupies don't realize I'm balding until they sober up the next day...

[MajorPo]

Well after about eight years working as a psychologist in the alcohol and drug field I've gone back to uni. So now I'm a grad student busily trying to finish a doctorate in neuropsychology. Mostly living out of my bank account but I've just picked up some part time work in my uni's psychology service.

[Twilight2000v3MM]

I collect garbage off the street and try to throw it away. Unfortunately it keeps coming back.......

[pmulcahy11b]

I collect garbage off the street and try to throw it away. Unfortunately it keeps coming back.......

Garbage is like dirty clothes...it's compressed into the ground. No matter how much you pick up, it keeps working its way to the surface.

[jester]

I collect garbage off the street and try to throw it away. Unfortunately it keeps coming back.......

Its your winning personality and quality service you gave the first time has them comming back for more :D

[Adm.Lee]

I've just been offered a chance to come out of retirement as a semi-pro housedad. That is, my sister-in-law is going to pay me to care for her two kids, while I sit here and do the same for my own two. Hopefully, this will not be a long season....

[atiff]

I work for a unit of Disney, in China. My main job is learning & development, a.k.a. training.

Cheers,
Andrew

[kota1342000]

Currently driving a truck on a dedicated route, before that did manufacturing work for heavy and light lifting equipment. Also addicted to volunteer firefighting with emphasis on hazmat response, but having to take a break from that since I have little time to spend at the station. Before all that was USMC.

[Slappy]

Banking executive, but these days I tend to tell people I'm unemployed.

[mikeo80]

Banking executive

BOOOO!!! HISSSS!!!!

Just kidding.

Someone has to do the dirty work.

[pmulcahy11b]

Banking executive, but these days I tend to tell people I'm unemployed.

Is it true that all US currency has cocaine embedded in it, because of its use in drug deals?

[Legbreaker]

I'm a professional asshole. I disconnect people's electricity when they don't pay the bill. I also connect/disconnect when customers move.

I'd call that semi professional.
Now me, I'm a professional. When bills don't get paid I don't just disconnect the power, telephone or whatever, I send in the locksmiths and lock 'em out.
Commerical Property Management is my game - I'm the only specialist in the north of my state (others pretend, but they're only dabblers). So it's not peoples homes I'm kicking them out of but their shops, offices, workshops, warehouses etc - I kill their businesses and livelyhood.

In the past I've been a farmer, cabinet maker, infantryman (machinegunner & assault pioneer), barman, security, concierge, mortgage broker, and debt collector. There's not much I haven't actually done, or at least know something about (or somebody who does).

All that and I'm a single father of two as well.

[bigehauser]

I used to talk into electronic OD colored boxes, and listened into a crescent shaped device for a replying voice. Now, I jump out of planes, and play with people's minds.

[jester]

Who in the world are you?


Hey, how ya been ghost of Christmas pass, I wondered what had become of you kid.

[headquarters]

I used to talk into electronic OD colored boxes, and listened into a crescent shaped device for a replying voice. Now, I jump out of planes, and play with people's minds.

mid-air ?