What's your job?

[dadevvtsvre]

hey, i never said "frozen bloody silent hill"

i probably exaggerate when i say there's blood dripping from the ceiling but i can take pictures of Really Disgusting Things and dead pigs i guess vOv

 

[moxie]

oh, I thought you did. it's cool, I'm okay with not seeing upside down animal carcasses and the like :x

for those of you that aren't there yet, what job/career do you ultimately aspire to?

 

[Daxis]

i used to do manicures, pedicures, paint nails, nailshop shit, etc. parents made me do it, to help out, but at least i keep 6/10 of everything i had, which, after the laptop came and some stealing, comes to my total of about 32 bucks and fifty cents atm, with my sis owing me 4 bucks. :\
I was fairly decent with it. Slow as crap, sure, but hey at least i did a decent job with some small amounts of money on the side. blah.

anyways, this summer i'm using some of my sis's contacts to get me into a game testing job at Georgia tech. although i'm pretty sure that game testing is a shitty job, it's interesting and might help me out being around lots of programmers and shit.
Besides, it's games. :]

 

[dadevvtsvre]

for those of you that aren't there yet, what job/career do you ultimately aspire to?

well you have to go first obviously

I think I've said this a bunch already but I want to get into climatology and/or meteorology one day. Not sure what specifially I'd like to do in that field but I'd love to get a research position and be able to travel all over the place collecting data and such. I used to want to be somebody who would predict weather but I'd really prefer a job that lets me travel. Environment Canada is probably where I'll go.

Of course getting a job in that area right now with no education is next to impossible. I guess I'll be doing whatver I can get until I get a degree vOv

 

[moxie]

gosh fine I'll just go second!

right now I'm doing the standard 9-5 (well 7-2) thing but starting next year I'm going to be working my way through med school, with the goal of ultimately becoming a doctor and specializing in either pediatrics or physiatry. I know how hard it's going to be, especially the first couple of years. sometimes I worry that I'm glamorizing it in my head and I'm completely terrified that I'm too dumb and unprepared and the only thing I really bring to the table is "herp derp i want help people!" but I'll spare you guys from the emo self doubt stuff

 

[Venetia]

you can do it moe :3

i am not a fan of the tech or art industries. i got into it b/c it was easy.

i want to get into wildlife biology. i have to go back to school for it though and god damn it it is so fucking hard to work fulltime and go to school fulltime. and not looking forward to more student loans. i wish i'd done more than skip class in highschool but oh well no one to blame but myself!!
looking less and less likely i'll be a grad before 30 but i guess better late than never.

 

[Vampdzl]

As of now I dnt really work, actually ive only had one job kept it for a week then I quit :/ now im hopin to make money off of my "Art", but I was going to school for Medical billin nd codin (even tho I hate the medical field) bt I dropped out to sign up to the Navy just to find out im better off going bk to school nd finishing that course so I can get a better rank. lol after that i'LL prolly go back to school to learn about history nd philosophy prolly become an archaeologist..

But thinkin about the long term I want to open up many small businesses, nd own a pretty decent amount of land in hopes to make a gundam(this is not a joke) lol I have an idea in my head for a design so ima go for it.lol you'd think it would cost millions of dollars bt the design i have in mind isnt expensive bt odds are it will get me killed or extremly hurt lol oh well..

 

[candle]

i work as a prepper for cici's pizza. That pretty much means I make the dough and sauces and prepare the other ingredients. Been there for three years and have been trying unsuccessfully to get out ever since. But, hey! it pays for gas and gets me through school.

 

[creamdonut]

Title: Commercial Consultant

Description: Basically, my job is selling telecommunications services to people who address me at the store I'm working in. I have to understand their needs and advise them on what choices would be better for them in terms of services.

What you like about it: Interaction with people and living up to the expectations. To be able to well advise someone on the services they should hire and have a happy customer who will keep my contact for further consult. The pay is pretty good, considering it's a commission job. However, I pride myself with being a good salesman so I have a very good pay-check considering I work 5 hours a day.

What I hate about it: Stupid customers who always think they're right, people who look down on me for being young. Folks who enter the store complaining while yelling, when most of the time, even if they had any reason, they totally lose it. Working at late day and weekends, it limits my social life a lot.

 

[Spoo]

alexis keep the obvious spam to rec room and twatting pls

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heres mine

Title: Graphic Artist/Floor Plan Artist


Description: Main job is to take architects' rough drawings for new pre-construction residental floorplans, redraw in flash, make it look presentable/adherent to customer specs, have it morph based on options available (such as adding rooms etc), and put them into an easy-to-market interface. mostly for showrooms to allow prospective pre-con home buyers to mess with and define what they want in their new house.
I also do a lot of html crap and editing and etc etc lots of niche tech/art shit


What you like/Hate about it:
i like that it's an incredibly easy job 90% of the time. most of my coworkers are extremely cool. when im not busy or i have extra time i can fuck around on the internet etc. it's been a mostly stable job through the recession and the pay is ... well it's better than nothing!! also i can dress casual and they keep the lights off all the time (i really fucking hate overhead florescent lighting). plus the healthcare plan is p cheap.

i dont like a lot of things about it, but most of my complaints can be derived from me being in the same damn job for almost 5 years. i'm jaded.

there's no upward mobility b/c we've been at a hiring freeze for years and my supervisor will likely never ever ever accept a promotion (he's been offered before). i haven't gotten a bonus or pay raise in 2+ years b/c the company went through a huge slump a while back--and then i think they decided that, even though the slump is over, that we don't really need bonuses or incentives or raises or yearly parties etc etc anymore. eugh :/

also it's just dull. i don't have a lot of creative room because clients are always INCREDIBLY FUCKING PICKY about EVERYTHING adhering to standards. everyday kind of bleeds together. i keep wanting to get a job elsewhere but it;s real slim pickins for marketing/design jobs right now, and they're almost always the 1st to go, so I've kind of just been waiting for the job market to stabilize a little so i don't have to worry.

also my chair is really uncomfortable >:I

but yeah i've had some shitjobs so this is def a cakewalk by comparison and i don't hate it.

ven that's what my mom's going to college for.

well being fifteen i dont have a real job, but im enrolled in technical school to pursue a career in residential wiring (or maybe motor controls, not sure yet).

 

[Incognitus]

(Okayies. Longer post than I was expecting when I started)

Title: I don't really have a title...er... "Self-employed-Food-Retail-Leadery-thing"? "CEO" or "Manager" sounds too pretentious... for the moment.

Description: In the first year of Uni, I sank most of my student loan into the stock-market (I was short-selling banks right before they were about to go bust) and with the pay-off I started up my own small business.

I brought a collection of four "Mobile Food Retail Units" (or "hot dog stands" as they are sometimes known) and got negotiating with food suppliers - the people who provide places like Pizza Hut or Subway with great bags of prepared carrots, croutons, peppers and sauces for their buffet carts/counters.

And then I sell this.

The customer can pick their lettuce, pick your meat, and then choose various other salad fixings, dressings, cheeses and it's tossed and handed back in a big bowl with a spoon or fork for less than the cost of a Happy Meal BUT at effectively a 75% markup for me. :D

Sales were okay at first; I employed a bunch of students and I was selling in places that were covered by my permit across London, including one in Canary Warf. One week in early Summer, I got a favorable mention by CityBoy in his column, and sales jumped in Canary Warf enabling me to expand and now I own eleven carts and am looking at a variety of location to open my first restaurant of sorts.
Obviously I'm looking forward to this because it will mean I can expand what I'm offering at the moment - adding fish and nuts, for instance, as well as smoothies and coffees or something.

What you like/Hate about it:
The best thing about it is, I rarely have to do anything. It runs it'sself. Each wagon will at least break even, and each employee will maintain their wagon. I'm now in a position where I have Warehouse/Refrigeration space and two Warehouse operatives so apart from the occasional visits and shouting at employees or suppliers, all I have to do is watch my bank balance go up. ^_^

However, it's (obviously) not all fun: I'm skirting the line between a profit and loss very thinly. Winter is hard - especially last Winter with the snow and stuff. Some of the uncertainty can be crippling. Customer complaints can be hard to deal with sometimes. And so can employees (I've had to sack five in the last year) and high turnover is a problem, despite the fact that there is always someone ready to replace them. I've tried to stick to employing students on an ideological basis, but obviously it doesn't work out.
Also, the taxman is a doucebag - but you all know this already.

And worst of all - I don't have a proper name. All I have is something that looks like an apple stuck inside a lettuce. It's revolting. I have the words "Salad Bar" on the side of some of the wagons at one point, but then I received a nice letter from the lawyers of the people at "The Salad Bar" advising me against it. -_-

*ahem*

Job 2

Title: Private Tutor

Description:
Basically, a glorified baby-sitter. Stupid rich people pay me very decently to sit at home with their stupid children and help them with their homework. Or study generally. It was basically a word of mouth thing that took off after I did it for a friend of a friend a couple of times and their two children's grades picked up.

Hopefully I'll have more to do now that term starts again. For obvious reasons, it's been pretty dead for the last six weeks.

What you like/Hate about it:
Well it's *something* to do with that university degree. Plus you get to meet a lot of nice people. I get all those nice School-Teacher things without actually have to commit.

What do I hate about it? Small children. Dogmatically stupid children. Children who keep swearing at your in Mandarin.

And finally:

Title: Sales Merchandiser.

Description:
A shelf-stacker. Mostly in the evenings - I'm on a twelve hour contract in the evenings but my average for this fiscal year is about thirty mainly because I cover various other sections.

What you like/Hate about it:
I've only stayed on because I enjoyed the work, and I enjoyed the team, and because the previous Relief Supervisor had announced she was leaving and I thought I would apply for her job. I didn't get it - The other guy used to be an Assistant Manager, coupled with my other commitments. So yeah.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do now - I mean, I took it to have something to do in the evenings, and so that I was doing something active and out of the house but BLOODY HELL... those evenings can feel long and pointless...

:dead:

 

[MCsephiroth13]

i suck dick for blow

The first thing that came to mind was the words blow job when I read the thread's title!

Anyway, I work at a restaurant