What do you do for a living?

I work in a group home for the developmentally disabled. It's a lot like babysitting. The downside is the lack of a set schedule, but there are video games (xbox360, ps3, Wii) at work.
 
Process Engineer at big multi-national, hands in everything company headquartered in Japan. I'm at a plastics factory.

It's not too bad, hours suck though. 24 hour facility so engineers have to be there 24 hrs a day, every day. So it is rotating shift. Every week has some day time and some over nights.

Before this I wasn't quite using my degree yet and was a medical technologist.

And before that I interned at a Kodak plant for a few years while in school and worked their briefly after graduation but the plant was doing really bad financially and couldn't keep me.
 
[quote name='depascal22']Surgical technologist at a hospital in the middle of the week. I do tissue procurement on the weekends.[/QUOTE]

You steal kidneys on the weekends?
 
I take your blood. Jousley, I am attending school to become a respiratory therapist. There's nothing wrong with being a resp therapist as a career. It's a respectable position and you should be proud to helping others even if they get themselves in that mess. Hell, mostly everyone in the hospital are there because they screwed themselves one way or another.
 
[quote name='giantqtipz']I feel like alex keaton for some reason... :D so what do you exactly do? Have any experience in I banking??[/QUOTE]

I'm an independent trader of stocks and futures contacts. I trade my personal funds and manage accounts for about 60 friends and family and I keep a % of the pre-tax profits.

Never worked for any of the big banks. I've got a bunch of friends in the business and had some offers but I prefer not having a "boss" to answer to and not having a set in stone daily/weekly/monthly profit or shares traded milestones.

I could probably make more trading for a firm with the bonus potential and the access to 25-50x leverage for intraday trades. But all of that would come along with a lot of extra stress.

Right now I lead a very stress free lifestyle and I plan to keep it that way.
 
Tax analyst for a financial services company. Half my day involves reviewing tax forms. The other half involves browsing CAG. I have dual monitors so CAG is always up on one screen (and minimized when management is walking around). :D
 
[quote name='panasonic']Stay at home dad for my hot ass wife Brooklyn Decker[/QUOTE]

Pics. :lol:

I'm an inspector for TSA. We ensure that airlines, airports, flight schools, etc. are in compliance with federal regulations. The job comes with a fair amount of travel, which can be a pro and a con. Being away from the family (wife and 2 young kids) can suck, but per diem helps ease the pain. ;)
 
Community Services Officer... Basically I respond to noise complaints, animal complaints and other city ordinances that are in violation (Civil complaints to sum it up). Pay is nowhere near great but it gets me by. I am interviewing to be a counselor for Juvenile Delinquents next week and I am also waiting to hear on a Police Station for a possible Patrol job and then a Detention Facility for a potential Detention Specialist job (which is the position I really want right now).
 
[quote name='eldergamer']and at 34 I'm the youngest person in the lab (!) be there until i'm dead[/QUOTE]

I am a chemist. At 35 (and ignoring the student interns), I'm also the youngest person in the lab. Our whole group that I'm in is between 35-45. I will probably be there 'til I'm laid off and replaced by outsourcing to China...or the cheapest labor source at the time, as is the current trend in pharmaceuticals.
Unfortunately, I don't see that changing anytime soon - even though ignoring the environment has caused China to become so polluted that the sky is yellow (according to my Chinese coworkers).
 
[quote name='Sychophantom']I work in a group home for the developmentally disabled. It's a lot like babysitting. The downside is the lack of a set schedule, but there are video games (xbox360, ps3, Wii) at work.[/QUOTE]

god I hated that job. In the span of three weeks I went from walking in the door completely green to being the associate program director. The only reason I wasn't running the house was because I didn't have the required degree. Then the family that owned the homes decided to sell to a national (for profit) provider and the next thing I knew I was a district manager in charge of 8 homes after 4 months of them owning the company.
Then I got completely fucked in a lawsuit because one of my overnights quit coming to work, no one told me, and we had tards unsupervised for long stretches of time. Again, nobody told me and I wasn't able to get to that particular house very often. You'd think someone would mention something the 1st time, but no! It went on for weeks and I only found out the day before we had a review by the state board of group home safety or whatever it was called.
In the end, the lesson learned is to never get into a position of authority where you're responsible for lives and yet surrounded by useless workers. Apparently their direct neglect can also be prosecuted on you!

Now I'm more or less an accounting analyst which pays more in base salary than triple overtime did in the group homes and I no longer have to take 3 xanax to sleep! During tax season I volunteer to do simple returns for people who can't either due to language or fear barriers. I usually get them a pretty decent return as well. It's basically H&R Block but free of charge and we don't offer rebate loans. Periodically when things get tight I find a temp bookkeeping job or something like that with flexibility.

I used to be a master of buying and selling crap on eBay but I just don't care anymore. Now I just sell my old games instead of holding onto them and try to move a good deal on Amazon here and there if I can make a couple bucks without going crazy.
 
[quote name='Dr.Zoidberg']Claims adjuster for an insurance company....zzz....[/QUOTE]

Underwriter for an insurance company...zzz...until I get to the 90% of my day that involves calling people and pissing them off because I just raised their rate and/or cancelled their policy. Hate this fucking job.
 
I'm in college, but for the summer I'm working my first ever job. 40 hours a week working 3pm-11pm at a factory running the same parts through a machine all day and checking them every half an hour. Getting my first paycheck Thursday which will hopefully make it seem more worth it.
 
I deliver custom labeled bottled water to various establishments included several strip clubs...and the occasional gay bar. Not every job is perfect.
 
This thread is very interesting, would have made epic status if income was displayed.
I have a degree in Broadcasting Journalism and Communications, with a minor in Theater. I got a job out of college working for a local CBS affiliate as a Master Control Engineer. I HATED it. I made $9.95 an hour to have one of the most important jobs at the station.
I am now a Corrections Officer in New York...I work in a prison...but, finally got that H2 I've always dreamed of. I have a feeling this isn't the last job for me though.
 
I am 26 and have done f*ck-all with my life. I busted my ass at a lot of retail jobs early in life and never got anywhere because of favorites. I usually just quit and move onto something else. It kinda peeves me off when I realize I've done management duties for lazy managers but don't have the title in my experience. Oh well, atleast I went to college. I really just want to move on with my life and get away from here and my past.
 
recently graduated from college, planning to start a career in either Law Enforcement or Education. Maybe even both o_O
 
I work in sales and promotions for a top ten cable company. Best perk - every cable/premium channel, high speed internet and phone for free, plus PPVs half off.
 
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