What do you do for a living?

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Me....I'm a sales consultant at Beasley Ford Lincoln(yep, I'm a scum of the universe car salesman). It gives me a lot of downtime to browse the boards here and run my Amazon and eBay stores too.

But it's a good, honest company and I love what I do.

So how about you? What do you do for a living?
 
College professor at a research university. Very early in my career though as I just wrapped up my 2nd academic year.

I mostly love it. Only downside is the pay isn't great for the amount of hours I work (and the years of education required to get the job) and the stress over the "publish or perish" pre-tenure life.

But I love the research and mostly enjoy the teaching and love the freedom and flexibility. I can research whatever I want, which I couldn't do at a research firm or government agency. Don't have to work a set 9-5 type schedule and can come in and work say noon to midnight or whatever I want for the most part etc.

Really love the summers and I generally opt not to teach summer courses (though I can teach one if I need the extra cash) and can just focus on my research and get some papers written, work from home a lot, travel etc. I still work 40 hours or more most weeks, but it's nice not having to deal with teaching, students, faculty meetings etc. for a 3 months.
 
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Some days I wish I had a 9-5 schedule, but I like not having it. It gives me the chance to spend mornings with my kids and I can still get out early enough to put them to bed. Some days it sucks when I've got to stay late and they're asleep before I get home, but my wife can stay home and raise them right so they don't have to go to day care and that's very important to both of us.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']College professor at a research university. Very early in my career though as I just wrapped up my 2nd academic year.

I mostly love it. Only downside is the pay isn't great for the amount of hours I work (and the years of education required to get the job) and the stress over the "publish or perish" pre-tenure life.

But I love the research and mostly enjoy the teaching and love the freedom and flexibility. I can research whatever I want, which I couldn't do at a research firm or government agency. Don't have to work a set 9-5 type schedule and can come in and work say noon to midnight or whatever I want for the most part etc.

Really love the summers and I generally opt not to teach summer courses (though I can teach one if I need the extra cash) and can just focus on my research and get some papers written, work from home a lot, travel etc. I still work 40 hours or more most weeks, but it's nice not having to deal with teaching, students, faculty meetings etc. for a 3 months.[/QUOTE]

What's your field?


As for me, I'm an electrical engineer for an aerospace company.
 
[quote name='Anexanhume']What's your field?


As for me, I'm an electrical engineer for an aerospace company.[/QUOTE]

Criminology and Criminal Justice.
 
I have no job, been looking for work since June 2008, and I have been applying for almost 3 years. I have gotten interviews and even 2nd interviews. I still look for work but in the mean time I go to school part time and I am 20 units shy of graduating with my AA in Journalism. I had one job when I was 14-16 where I picked grapes in 108'F degree weather that is enough to wish you had a job cleaning shit -_-. I can't believe I still haven't found a job yet.
 
QA Manger for a startup company called Gametime Live. We have a public beta for our first game right now on the web and if it does as well as we hope, we could be putting out more stuff in the future.
 
[quote name='eldergamer']this thred been done before[/QUOTE]

Nobody cares about old threads filled with long-gone posters.
 
Still a student. But i got a job for after graduation at viacom in business dev. I'm happy my hard work at my internship paid off. I kinda want to go into financial services though, because the money will be more and I want to help my parents with their mortgage.. But since my gpa is so low.. I doubt anyone would accept me
 
[quote name='200STM']I have no job, been looking for work since June 2008, and I have been applying for almost 3 years. I have gotten interviews and even 2nd interviews. I still look for work but in the mean time I go to school part time and I am 20 units shy of graduating with my AA in Journalism. I had one job when I was 14-16 where I picked grapes in 108'F degree weather that is enough to wish you had a job cleaning shit -_-. I can't believe I still haven't found a job yet.[/QUOTE]

I used to be there, where was I out of work for a few years. Nobody would even call me back, even minimum wage jobs I was applying for.

I just finished college this year, so I'm starting the job search now. It's kind of depressing just because I remember those years where I couldn't even get a minimum wage job. While the job market is picking up it's still pretty bad and it doesn't help I'm stuck in Alaska too.
 
[quote name='BillyBob29']Equities/futures trader[/QUOTE]
I feel like alex keaton for some reason... :D so what do you exactly do? Have any experience in I banking??
 
I am a contractor for the local utility company. I work in distribution operations to maintain safety equipment for the folks that work on the power lines. I love my schedule cause we work a 4 days 10 hours week so I have three days off Friday thru Sunday. The only thing that sucks is I start 6 am and work isn't over until 4:30 pm.
 
I'm a cart attendant, but since I'm moving this weekend, I'm seeing if I can transfer into another store and get a different position like customer service.
 
[quote name='200STM']I have no job, been looking for work since June 2008, and I have been applying for almost 3 years. I have gotten interviews and even 2nd interviews. I still look for work but in the mean time I go to school part time and I am 20 units shy of graduating with my AA in Journalism. I had one job when I was 14-16 where I picked grapes in 108'F degree weather that is enough to wish you had a job cleaning shit -_-. I can't believe I still haven't found a job yet.[/QUOTE]
THIS. I'm still unemployed and have been for 2-3 years or so.:cry: I've had a bunch of interviews, but no actual job offers.:whistle2:#
[quote name='dohdough']I lift things up and put them down.[/QUOTE]
:lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FGZvFZdVbk
 
Well, I'm still a student, so I don't work during the year, but I have jobs during the summer. The last 3 years I worked construction/maintenance at the Navy Base in my hometown. Mostly pipefitting and insulating work, but I also did a little bit of sheet metal and painting. They terminated the college student program though, so I didn't get to go back this year. Instead, I'm working at my cousins software business. The pay isn't as good, but the real world experience is pretty much priceless, considering I'm only a sophomore in college.
 
@200STM- Good luck. I was in the same boat as you until a few months ago. Keep trying and you will eventually get something. What field are you in by the way?

I am wildlife biologist for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
 
Stay at home dad. I've got a nasty backlog of games (who on here doesn't !?!) and not much time to play them. I'm telling myself now though - I WILL find time for mass effect 3.
 
Product Structurer for a Metal Fab company that specializes in Checkstands and Shelving. You have more than likely seen our work when you checkout and Wal-Mart
 
Are you kidding TFN? I thought you owned a video game store?

Anyway, I work in TV/Film and Broadcast Production as a Camera Man, ENG Sound Tech, Stagehand and general freelancer.
 
Sales Manager for a small, private company that makes PC Gaming peripherals and Motion Capture systems. Get to meet lots of game devs, Hollywood fx guys, go to industry tradeshows. Parts of it are incredible, parts of it not so much. I suppose that's how any job is.
 
[quote name='Gut']Air traffic controller[/QUOTE]

[quote name='dmaul1114']Shouldn't you be asleep? :razz:[/QUOTE]

Total win! HAAA HAAA HAA.
 
My resume reads like this:

1993 (17 years old)-
Worked for a guy running a business in his basement cleaning out toner ink cartridges and mowing his lawn, basically, being his bitch and slave.

1994-2002 (18-26 years old)
Worked at temp jobs in various places, including plastics factories, Syntega/BT cleaning computers and refurbishing them, working at a small cell phone doing filing, data entry at a big company.

2002-2004 (27-29 years old)
Worked at one of those test mills grading special ed., math, reading science temporarily. US West/Qwest/Century Link

2004-Present (29-35 years old)
Working for a small medical device company doing whatever needs to be done, ranging from Mail distribution, to cart assembly, to reception, to receiving, to purchasing, and I'm planning on doing IT and phone stuff where there's a need, as we have 2 IT people and one is a manager that's busy and the other guy works part-time like me.

I'm buying a house on June 15th and have advice for new people entering the work force; it's tough out there. It was for my Dad, is surely was for me. In my illustrious career, I quit, and got laid off numerous times, and got fired once. You have to fail before you can succeed; Don't have a sense of entitlement unless you're in a high demand field like a doctor. Don't ever be ashamed to work menial, brain melting, tedious jobs like in factories, game testing, or retail. Learn from your mistakes. Your job is what you make it. If it's boring, bring in an ipod or portable gaming device and play it on your lunch break. If your workplace is tight-assed about it, the worst they could do is fire you, or if you worked

It took me until I was 35 years old to figure out what I wanted to do and have enough confidence to do it. Just do what you want to and are interested in doing and don't listen to anyone - not your Mom, not your Dad, not your friends - just listen to you. Don't please your parents.
 
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Technology and Telecommunications Specialist at Shenandoah University.

I play with toys all day.

Previously, I've worked as an Admissions Counselor, Media Services Tech, Gallery Coordinator, Medical Records Tech, Part-Time Assistant Manager at Blockbuster, crappy coffee shop shift manager, retail sales, paperboy.

Lucrative jobs didn't start picking up until I finished college (when I was 28). Now, at 32, I've finally found employment that I'm happy with, and pays well.

College people! Go to school!
 
[quote name='depascal22'] I do tissue procurement on the weekends.[/QUOTE]
fucking Vulture....

I'm a Respiratory Therapist. Was told I would be making a big difference in people's lives and healing the sick. More like telling the SAME people over and over again to stop smoking and being ignored while they die of lung cancer.
I like my job and am glad to have it, I guess. I get four days off a week so I get to raise my 2 year old daughter on my off days. I never have the same day off as my wife because I work every weekend and she has a 9-5. Get paid ok, I suppose, but I can't help but doubt that I will be doing this the rest of my career.
 
I have a long job title: "Network Administrator and Ruby-on-Rails Programmer" - am working on my portfolio to move into game development though (my job bores me even though it pays well).
 
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