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 I don't work no mo'. After two stints and a quad by-pass- I'm pretty f**ked. I waited almost 3 f**king years to get my SS!.
And they f**ked me out of most of my back pay too!
But- before that I worked at Honee Bear Canning Co. in Lawton Mi. for 30 useless years . The folks I worked with were great- best folks on Earth. The Job sucked. And paid VERY bad. With looong hours. It was like prison!
So what's your job-and don't be ashamed if your on SSI- becuase I am too.

Let's see - my full time job is as a history teacher at a private Christian school.
Then I teach night classes at the local community college.
And I write books and sell them every place I can.
And I raise goats.
And I sell Indian artifacts and fossils.
That, plus my wife's job,  keeps most of the bills paid!

I did a variety of unskilled labor jobs that didn't pay the bills until dubya said people like me weren't willing to do that work, so I went on ss & eventually started doing volunteer radio in the inane hope that it might lead to something, and on dec 1, I'm taking a four hour course on forklift driving, because I'm still looking for some *&%! job to offset the ss, because that doesn't pay the bills either, and I hate my life...

Wel-Nyah Nyah!  :tongueout:
Kidding, my freind. Your very multi talented.  :thumbup:
AH! I did draw MORON KOMIX for the local paper for 10 years! Didn't pay good- but I enjoyed it!
I also dug underground cable, worked in 2 machine shops, on a garbage truck in NYC, and picked so much f**king fruit as a teenager I still don't eat much fruit.
I also worked at Ted Nugents mink ranch in Marcellus MI feeding and killing mink!  :bluesad: Which was the worst, most disgusting, and low paying job I ever had in my life.

Driving a lift truck is easy. It's a breeze. If you can drive a tractor or riding lawnmower, you can drive a lift truck.
Now getting any kind of livable wage of it....!  :bluesad:

Currently doing some residential carpentry. Hopefully I'll be doing some CAD work soon.(Computer Aided Drafting)

IKR
Just as long as I'm not the one loading the pallets.
I'm trying to work with several different agencies to help me find something part time & still keep my ss, just that employers have gotten spoiled & lazy.

I did just the opposite!
In upstate NY in 1979, when I was 17, I was part of a crew that went around with sledge hammers and crow bars and  knocked old houses and barns down.  To salvage the....I dunno. Shoulda just burned the f**kers down. Didn't pay worth a f**k. But it was fun! And we were all drunk!  :cheers:

The thing is-they will hire forklift drivers with experiance doing it- (and there are LOTS of them) before they will hire you.
That's just the way it is. They just don't want somebody in a factory, with 10 other lift trucks, running into a wall.

Oh I do demoing in carpentry. It's fun.

Uber. I've done all kinds of driving jobs. amazon, delivering fruit thingies and cookies trees you name it.

It was difficult at first to adjust to all the socialization inherent in uber, but I really appreciate the flexibility and not having a boss,strict hours etc

Guys: if you wear too much cologne please stop or take the bus. I don't want to smell that crap

It was a blast!  :thumbup:

I am a junior non-commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force, currently working in a department where I make sure any repairs and modifications required on Typhoon aircraft are embodied at our camp and with any of our deployed squadrons. Previously in the RAF I started out working on the electrical parts of the Rolls Royce RB199 engines on Tornado's, anti missile defences (chaff, flares and anti  radar guided measures), spend some time on 617 (Dambusters Sqn) and a couple of years on a rapid deployment wing, where if a war broke out anywhere in the world we would be there within 24 hours setting up the initial base in a non-permissive environment (fancy talk for "You are going to be shot at" basically). In 17 1/2 years I've spent 32 months (for work) outside my country, so that isn't too bad.

I do have a cover story if I am somewhere, where admitting what my job is could cause problems (on a train full of Arab's, certain places in Glasgow with high catholic or Irish populations (most of the central west of Scotland), I tell people instead that I am a location scout for an adult movie company.

I'm currently employed as a quality inspector in an underpants factory.  :wink:

Dam, Alex. Your like James Bond!  :thumbup:
Trevor- your like -I dunno! But I know your real job and envy you!  :cheers:

I work as a housekeeper at a Veterans' Hospital.  A government job where you can get away with a lot of crap, and a lot of employees really test the waters (pick fights with other employees, misbehave in other ways, screw around, etc.).  I do not; I stay busy (though I will take extended breaks since I deserve 'em) and do more detail work in my ward than pretty much anyone else.  Staff/supers are almost universally cool with me and I am generally pretty happy there (save for an employee currently TRYING to get fired) and make good money-- PLENTY to keep a roof over my head and have some cool toys in my house, like a popcorn stand, 60 inch hidef tv and some arcade machines.

Many at different times but mostly sales til I burnout from the hours and than a clerk job to recharge batteries til I want to do another sales job.

Internal Controls Manager (basically, an internal auditor) for a clinical research company.

I work at a US branch of a Berlin-based closed-client art broker, specializing in auctions and gallery promotions, mostly events outside the US, either domestic clients whose art is brokered within the EU or less often EU clients whose output is privately brokered inside the US, and also as the need arises I do pre and post employment screenings for another employer I've been with for most of my life, manage several LLCs within my family (rental properties and construction and restoration businesses), and raise three children, albeit less and less as they get older. (Sorry, sad second, there.)

It's not as glam as it sounds. Mostly I'm an intern-herder.

Get a cattle prod. Any of them get lost, you can gently zap them back into place.

Retiree and living off of my pension from the city.

I had to do community service once as part of some stupid s**t I did when I was drunk, and it was going around all the stones in the graveyard with a weed wacker. I enjoyed it. I knew lots of the last names.

High School Teacher, media and english. We watch a lot of movies and make things. It's pretty fun though you do get some wild characters. One of my student groups recently made a mockumentary on flat earthers which was hilarious.

Also one of my kids remixed a trailer for the Wizard of Oz which I thought was pretty darn professional for a 15 year old. Put it on the blu ray release!

http://drive.google.com/file/d/1aY7dlxrmrD5tX2FISFQtDgV7Zi2rYP0T/view?usp=sharing (http://drive.google.com/file/d/1aY7dlxrmrD5tX2FISFQtDgV7Zi2rYP0T/view?usp=sharing)

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

For those that don't, I'm a film archivist of 29 years standing, sitting down, tottering and falling over.  :wink:

Next year: 30 years in the same job! Wow.

I worked at the same job for 30 years, too.
Not so wow.  :bluesad:

I am so looking forward to 'retiring' on the 3rd of July 2023 (ok, I don't actually get to retire, because the pension isn't quite high enough to live on), but at least it does mean I can just get a regular job and not worry about a career any more.

2032 for me: I will be 65!  :buggedout:

Wont hit the current official retirement age until 2042, although by the time I get there I suspect the retirement age will have been upped to somewhere in your 70's.

I had to retire at 53 because of my heart surgeries. I'm 56 now. I get $1,198 a month.
I pay the mortgage ($420 a month) and the the electric.
Tiana pays the gas, water, garbage and internet.

Family physician, in the western USA, in Kaiser Permanente.   I also have a part in setting pharmacy formulary policy, which is interesting and skeptical work.

Other paying jobs I've done:   farm hand, stall cleaner, cafeteria worker, tissue harvester for the eye bank, nurse's aide in a nursing home.
I have never done a job that involved running a cash register.  I have no idea how to run a cash register (other than what I have just observed, while buying stuff).

But I have had a trauma nurse (on a trauma floor at a level 1 trauma center) flee the room as I set about my work.  "I can't do eyes!"  

The VAMC in Portland, right?  I went to OHSU and spent a lot of time in the VA there.  :)  The patients there are the best, I'd have to say.   

One day I was learning to start IVs -- was in the pre-op area and an RN was helping me improve my very poor skills.  One vet let me try three times and his veins just kept blowing.  I thanked him and told him that I'd go get the RN since I was not succeeding.  He gave me a warm smile and, completely unironically, said "you aren't gonna give up, are you?"   

I work shifts at a small company that makes all kind of small plastic parts for other companies. It is not a physically demanding job, all I do is check on the parts from time to time and change the boxes when they are filled up. From all the jobs I had this is my second favorite job I ever had. There's no boss breathing down our necks and we have plenty of "free time" between the little we actually have to do. This means lots of coffee breaks and depending on the shift, we also cook meals in the break room which is equipped with a kitchen. The best thing is I can ride my bike to work, only takes me 7-8 minutes.

I've had a steady job in the same restaurant for 11 years.  There's a huge turnover rate here.  I stay because the owner of the place (who owns several) actually takes care of me (although some other employees don't get the same treatment.)  I'm one of the few employees there who gets a paid vacation, Christmas bonuses, and a few other perks that most of the staff doesn't get.