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We've had questions on people's age and geographic location, but a recent post from Onionhead got me thinking that I don't know what most of you do for a living.

I'm a reporter/photographer for a weekly newspaper. I started in page layout in 1988, learned graphic design, darkroom, digital imaging, and eventually displayed an aptitude for writing and reporting. I cover general community news, municipal government, features, business stories, the occasional accident or fire, lots of cheque presentations and old fashioned hole diggings. I also write a weekly general interest column and review a bad movie every month.

What about you guys?

just graduated from college and I'm looking for job

I'm a software developer by profession.  Currenty I work for ezboard (http://www.ezboard.com), a company I helped start a few years back with some basic server architecture I wrote.  I've done stuff ranging from web programming to desktop applications to server applications to middle-ware communications software

Currently I work at a Drive-In theater, :D

Receptionist for a law firm (everybody assumes I am an attornery, or have legal knowledge - I am not, and I don't) and a writer.  Someday I hope to work full time as a writer.

Right now I'm unemployed and getting ready to sue my former employers in small claims court.

I'm still in college but taking the summer off.

Majoring in communications.

I was a Military Policeman in the Army for a number of years, and have Degrees in History, Religion, Education, & Political Science. I was a teacher for a year, but am now firmly convinced public education stinks. I am currently the IT Manager for an Aerospace Business Unit, of a sort of evil (we're next in line for the truly evil list. after Umbrella files bankruptcy) Fortune 500 company. As a matter of fact I'm sure that Andrew rides in machines with any number of our parts in them. We supply parts for everything from NASCAR to the Space Station. In my private life I'm a lay minister in the Assemblies of God (Yes, the same organization that brought you Jimmy Swaggert & Baker [we don't allow any ministers with the name Jimmy or with wives with two names, "Tammy Faye" for example anymore]).  :-)  I do a lot of charity work with Teen Challenge International. I hope someday to produce my B-Movie script and/or be the dictator of a third world nation.

Uhh . . . if my wife ever leaves me . . . I like long walks on the beach, sharing my feelings, and puppies; if she doesn't I like B-Movies, Guinness and puppies (with KC masterpiece BBQ sauce)!

:-)

Rob Phillips

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
-Japanese Proverb

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost

"And today the president closed the nation's last remaining submarine base at Groton, Connecticut. When ask why he had made the startling decision the president responded, 'Those funny little black ships just keep sinking anyway."
-Reporter: Attack of the Killer Tomato's

I'm a CPA specializing in financial consulting, forensic accounting, and fraud investigations.

I have been slowly working toward my B.A. in film by taking courses at Emerson College (Henry "The Fonz" Winkler is an Emerson alumnus) whenever I have a chance (I think I'm only 9 classes away from the degree).

I'll probably never make it into the film industry because I'd have to take an entry level job and a serious pay cut, but I want the degree anyway.

When I discovered this web site a few years ago I was a general manager at a retail store.  Then I realized there were not enough lawyers in the world so I decided to go to law school.  I currently clerk for a legal aid office where I help poor people with their legal problems.

Denis Leary went to Emerson too, I believe....

I'm a postal worker--have done that for almost seven years now.  I like to say that the place has stolen my youth.  I work with a big machine that sorts/mutilates magazines and other large envelopes.   Just about all the crazy stuff you imagine about postal workers is true--there are a lot of wackos where I work.   I make good money but I hate the hours and the working conditions.  

I have an English degree--this fall I'm quitting my job, relocating, getting married, and going back to school, hopefully to learn something more practical.   Actually, I will probably end up going into accounting.  I also write and am going to apply for a writing fellowship, but I don't have many illusions about making a living in writing.

for the last 3 yrs/ i have been a bartender and student. in  a few months i will be joining the army.

I'm a student at Wartburg College, majoring in writing.  I just recently got screwed out of writing the movie review column for a local paper, and I work at CDGB's, one of the three biggest independent record stores in the country.  Anyone swinging by Mason City, IA should stop by.  That's not just a plug, really, it's an incredible store.

Brother R

i work on a lighting department in a big british department store.

it's so quiet ive lost a stone since starting there. im quitting today though, i need to get out before i go insane. i'm finishing studies at college.

i'm also writing a flick and i play in a stoner band.

Anyone else notice that most of us work in a technology based job????  Guess the geek stereotype is true.  :o)


I work for an ISP in my area as Tech Support.  Pay isn't great, but the hours are nice (7:30 AM-3:30PM), and it gives me time to take online classes and work on a screenplay.

I'm happy with it for now, or atleast until I'm the head of the democratic party. :o)

Right now I am a summer lifeguard and full time College student.

I have aspirations of writing, working for Marvel comics, working for Disney, becoming a college Prof. , become a rabbi Or somehow work in the movie industry.

In other words I have no clue what im doing, but I am double majoring in history and religion and minoring in music


Anyone got any ideas

I have an English degree, but I don't have a regular job yet. I'm doing some private lessons, just signed for another small job (oral translator for the city court / police, there are loads of inmigrants that don't speak Spanish here) and after Summer I am taking a course to become an English teacher.

And if that counts, I am also one of the phorum administrators at www.computeremuzone.com (under the name of Brill) and I wrote several Amiga Emulation Tutorials for www.emudek.org .

Delivery driver for the Ad dept. of our local newspaper. Carry Ad, ad proof, pick up art work, checks (no cash), and generaly get to haul large butt around town.
Hey, it ain't brain surgery....but then, neither is producing a T.V. show....

I'm a reference/electronic services librarian in a law library.  I've also been a child care worker and a Revolutionary War soldier for a summer.

Raj Wrote:
". . . and a Revolutionary War soldier for a summer"

Gee! I don't feel so old now!

:-)

Rob

Personally I'd love to be a Confederate soldier in one of those battle recreations, sounds fun!

Just as long as you don't have to wear a wollen uniform in the South.  In Summer.

BTW, I think we'd have won the Revolution a lot quicker if we were actually allowed to put musket balls in the muskets.  For some reason they didn't want me doing that.

I work on an account/membership level utilizing (and testing) a newly implimented admin platform for a very well known medical insurance company. Before that I worked for 7 years at a weather forecasting company selling software and equipment. That gave me more independence as it was a private company, my current job cracks the whip from 8-4:30...so no more trips to the movies at 2pm or whenever i damn well feel like it.

Sounds riveting eh? By night i'm a raving lunatic

...in fact i'm also one during the day

I'm a weather forecaster, been so since 1991...and before you ask, no I didn't see "Twister" or "The Perfect Storm"..I watch movies to forget about my job, not be reminded of it :)

You might also be asked to be in a crappy movie about a guy with a mullet and a plane that can travel through time!

Brother R

....what movie are you referring to?

I graduated with my bachelors in December....I start my police acadamy training in August.  So, I guess I'm a cop in training.  Right now, I just work part-time at a video store, trying to save up money.

If that question was directed at me, I'm talking about Time Chasers, a.k.a. Tangents.  Excellent MST3K episode, and the movie sucks ass.

Brother R

oops Brother R, forgot to clarify...the question was indeed for you :)

Cool, I'm shipping off to Emerson to study film this September! (Oh, and in addition to Leary and the Fonz, I'm pretty sure it was home to Steven Wright, Spaulding Grey, and John Cusack).

As for my job... The closest thing I've ever had was sitting in the halls at school with a sign that said "WILL DANCE FOR $$$." Since I just graduated from high school, I guess that makes me unemployed (though I'm considering working as a "secret shopper" this summer).

Hey Brawl - you wrote:

>>I'm a weather forecaster, been so since 1991...and before you ask, no I didn't see "Twister" or "The Perfect Storm"..I watch movies to forget about my job, not be reminded of it :)<<

I used to work for a weather company for many years. You might be interested in some of their products:
www.weathergraphics.com
I know and am related to weather guru's - those are truly people who love their job.

Now how many of us are actually doing what we'd like to be. If anything I have great benefits with my job but i used to want to do something movie related, I still do. My website is all to show for my love of films (albiet an obsession).

I'm the whole damn Communications Department right now.  Usually I'm the Publications Coordinator but the Graphic Designer got fired so I'm doing that job too...I'm really hoping we get somebody hired next week.

Hello Susan!!!

I know exactly what you're saying about how few people work in a field they really like. I wish I had more enthousiasm for my job, but essentially it's a paycheck (nothing more nothing less) that allows me to do the things I love in my free time...that's pretty much the way I look at it.  The money's good...

I'll check you that website you mentioned... So you say you personally know a few weather gurus? Care to namedrop some? Just curious :)

Well that site is my brother, his wife is also into meteorology. They know alot of people in the weather community (including chasers like Tim marshall and gene rhoden). But I have yet to have met someone in the weather business that didn't really enjoy their job and find it exciting. Until I met you guess. ;-)

I guess over time we just end up somewhere, we aren't sure how we got there either. Too many people i know thew away money on college and didn't put those degree's to any use, aren't even in the field they planned on being. And the job market these days limits that as well. I guess i always imagined myself doing something more freelance (hey, i tried taking up photography, i'm more of a create soul) but ultimately and alas i'm not skilled enough something like that to actually make a descent living off of it. So it's the 9-5. But i guess ther eis some satisfaction in knowing my job provides people with medical insurance. I know how gerry feels, right now my department is so new we have a handful of people doing the job of what 10 departments should be doing. We hope to hire more...

or throw ourselves out the window

Unemployed but I am curently making my own comic book sereis (not being published yet but I plan on trying it soon) and I'm taking care of my Grandma while her leg heals up, I recieve about 6-10 dollars a week for helping, which i'm happy with.

-the first rule of fat club-

God, I'd kill for a 9-5 job right now, or even one with weekends off.  Also, a job where you can sit down at a desk.  

Of course, I imagine a year from now I'll probably have both of those and still be complaining.   I don't really think I would like any job that I had, regardless of what it was.  It's just a matter of how much the job affects the rest of my life.  This job affects it way too much in that the schedule keeps me from being able to do anything.  Gotta go, almost time for work!

hey i'm in the Military. i wish i came in under a different job too.

For the past five years, I've worked for an outsourcer as a network security analyst/engineer.  The job title says "INFOSEC Engineer," but when I started that was more of a DoD hardware thing than it is today.

Like a lot of other people, I've got a quirky resume, too..  Farm hand.  Cook .  Disk jocky (classical listening).  Bartender.  Ditch digger.  Teacher.  Did some enlisted hitches in a couple of branches of the military, so that's two grab bag of other jobs, too.  Then I got smart and focused on finishing a BS in computer science; it only took twenty off-and-on years.

Ah, well.  Like the man said in Raiders of the Lost Ark, "It's not the years; it's the milage."

regards,

Apostic

I work for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) in the kennels of a rehoming centre. I look after a kennel block of 14 dogs, cleaning, feeding, bathing, basic medical treatments, exercising, that sort of thing.

Well, I am a conductor in the New York City Transit system.  First good job I've had in my life (most was security).  Been at this job for over a year and a half.  I'm also currently in the army (hey Chopper, what branch?).  My dream is too also draw and write for Marvel (or DC) although, I would like to keep both jobs.  My current job has benefits.
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you, sound off like you got a pair.

I currently work as a page for the Phoenix Public Library.  That translates to sorting and shelving books all day, among other numerous yet mundane tasks.

I'm also attending the community college full time to gain my Associate of Science, which I will then use to transfer to ASU for a Bachelor's in Anthropology.  
I just got back from a 2-week field school in Cortez, CO digging up an Ancestral Puebloan ("Anasazi") pithouse and kiva.  This has convinced me to seek employment in the field, although I may go the 9-to-5 route and get a Master's in Library Science.

I have been a data entry clerk, janitor, pizza maker, telephone reservationist and a video store clerk.

Dream job: Comic book writer.  Sorry, though.  No superheros for me.

Black Angel i'm active duty in the Air Force. so do u like being in the Army?

anthropology is very interesting. i was gonna try and get my degree in cultural anthropology, but now i'm leaning more towards criminal justice.

I 'break' and train horses - from the first ride on up.

Did Anthro at University - Archaeology specialist., with a minor in Physical Anth.

Painted houses, worked on the cleaning staff of a hospital (ew!), and at an equipment rental store in the summer while at school.

Then worked for two software developer/publishers as office manager/whatever needed doing.  Got to test drive some interesting programs, did some copy editing, wrote trivia questions, designed fonts, drew clipart, manned the phones, looked after the advertising, accounts, customer service, shipping, etc etc

Worked at several farms, teaching people to ride (some for film/tv roles) and shovelling the 'good stuff' and training horses.  Am now self-employed.

Oh - and just to really break the pattern, I am female. Wanna armwrestle?

Web eNewsletter Publisher and all round web/php code monkey.

Yeah but next year maybe my last (I'm in the reserves)
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you sound off like you got a pair

I am a professional college student at your service, lifeguard this summer, hopefully something else next summer

I don't have a job right now, but am looking.  I do have a master's degree in psychological counseling with an emphasis on adult mental health.  Gee, would this have anything to do with the fact that  I love the darker side of film?  Try talking to a schizophrenic for an hour, it's better than any b-movie you'll ever see.  Very interesting.

I worked in Customer Service for most of the working part of my life.  For the last three years I have worked as an Income Maintenance Technician.  This is just a fancy word for Social Worker.  I also received my degree in Sociology with a Family Studies emphasis and Psychology Minor.  I love this job and will retire doing this.  Just wish I started earlier.

Later,

John

i'm a catering chef,it contibutes to my natural-born wierdness,i think.

I'm the Owner/Editor-in-Chief/Advertising Manger of an on-line newspaper.

Most regulars know this - I'm a full time teacher at a private school, adjuncting one night a week at the local community college.  Also do some interim pastoring here and there when some small church is truly desperate.

I guess I'll post mine as well.  I'm a fulltime Psychology student, plus I'm going to be a cashier this summer and (hopefully) the Photography editor at my campus newspaper next school year!

I do tech support for a biotech company... just like computer tech support but with SCIENCE.  You know helping people tamper in God's domain and whatnot. I'm trying to do something else involving patents.
-Ed

I'm a machine operator at a factory. I hate my job.

I'm a film archivist at www.yvettesbridalformal.com (http://www.yvettesbridalformal.com) :buggedout:, sorry: I meant www.national.archives.gov.za (http://www.national.archives.gov.za), I am good at my job or so people tell me and I specialize in the ridiculous.  :teddyr:

In or near The Carpathian Mountains? :wink:

Odd jobs it is. Helping people like. Here and there as it might be.

(bonus points to anybody who knows where I stole that from)

I am a scientist. Got a degree in chemistry and used it to land a job. It's a good job when things go well and a terrible job (as in I find myself envying the janitor because they never make a decision and then find out 3 months later it didn't work and they just wasted 3 months) when things go poorly.

Sometimes I wish science was more like what you see in TV and movies, in real life its alot more time consuming and with much less cackling at thunderstorms than one would expect.

I am a university student in Edinburgh, studying business, which takes up most my time.

I also work weekends at a high street dvd/cd store, which is awesome (good pay, good discount).

I'm not sure if running the B-Team counts, but I do that too. In an ideal world, bringing B-movies to the general public would be my full time job.

Still in High School, too busy to get a job.

There was a similar thread at one point, I think.  I posted my job there but I'll post it here too.
Hospital housekeeper at a Veterans Hospital in Portland OR.  Pretty groovy job.  Don't have to directly deal with patients, the nurses are nice, and I work hard enough to keep the inspection reports down to a minimum.  Before that I pulled warehouse orders, inspected, ran an assembly line, and drove a forklift.

You don't cackle during thunderstorms and indulge in speeches about how humanity will suffer for ignoring your brilliant ideas? You should think about it, it's one of my favorite perks.

I'm still working in a public library, taking fines and fielding complaints, a job I've held for almost a decade now.

My last student job was teaching General Chemistry to freshmen in their lab course, which I really enjoyed. Makes you feel like a genius. "You have questions about the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation? Well allow me to bore you to tears with basic math!"

I was wondering who inspired the MST3K guys to sing "He tried to kill me with a forklift!" Now I know.  :teddyr: :teddyr:

Patient transporter.  I pick patients up from one location in the hospital, living or deceased, and move them to another.  We have other duties as well, such as delivering blood, distributing oxygen tanks with O2 regulators to departments (this can be tricky, because everyone seems to think they're the only unit in the hospital and hides them from us, not realizing they're really hiding the regs from the rest of the hospital, i.e. patients), and balancing the distribution of wheelchairs and stretchers. 

The only thing I will say about it is it doesn't pay enough.  It's both physically and emotionally exhausting, and half the staff treats you like an idiot or a go-fer.  One HUC called our department to ask us to transport a chart from her unit to the one down the hall.  Our dispatcher declined and she got p**sed.  He made sure to tell her that she could walk her fat ass twenty feet to deliver it or get one of her CNAs to do it rather than make one of us climb up five floors to do something that takes twenty seconds. 

I'm hoping to go to school later this year to become an X-ray tech and get the hell out of transport. 

@Mofo-Rising:
Unfortunately no, not nearly enough pontificating about how they will be sorry they never listened to me. Hard to do since my boss pretty much is rarely in the country and whenever I ask him about something his answer is "who knows, maybe it could work, go ahead and give it a try and tell me how it goes." He has yet to laugh at my ideas and leave me grumbling about my eventual revenge on society.

That is one good point in science is it is alot less stifling (at least in my area, Quality control/regulatory types are very stifled) than you see in movies. I have been at meetings where people have presented things that were very controversial (by chemistry standards) I have never seen anyone laughed at or vegetables thrown during a scientific meeting though. 

Though in somewhat keeping to our roots I do force all my interns to work on and maintain a good maniacal laugh. Always got to keep it on hand in case you decide to go from garden variety scientist to mad scientist.  :bouncegiggle:

Just because people listen to you doesn't mean you still can't "SHOW THEM!  SHOW THEM ALL!!!!!" 


As for me, I was in the Army for eight years and I currently work at Toys R Us. 

i used to work for a video production company ages ago - ok job, but the politlkks...ehhhh. unfortunately (or fortunatenly hehe) recent health (physical and mental) concerns have prevented me from having any stable employment.

I've wasted the last decade working at a couple movie theaters.  I've been managing at one for a while, but I'm pretty burnt out at this point.  Part of the fun died when we got rid of 35mm.

Considering cutting grass for the local public school system...

So your theaters are digital only now? That's a shame indeed. Preparing and projecting 35mm film was a hell of a lot of work but it was a lot of fun too.  :smile:

Yup, all digital, something that the chain actually boasts about on their website.  It's nice in that the operation is pretty simple and you can get a really sharp and vibrant image, but there's a certain feel that comes from watching an actual print in a theater that's lost through digital.  I'm sure that the majority of folks don't romanticize film viewing in that way, but it's a shame for those that do.

I really loved handling film, putting prints together, and threading the projectors in spite of the techincal difficulties that would occur (brain wraps make me want to cry).  At least when something goes wrong with actual film you can usually tell what happend just by looking, but with digital you get baffling errors, lenses that decide to go out of focus (the projectors we use have pre-set parameters set by installers for things like zoom, focus, light outpout, etc. that are mechanically controlled) for no apparent reason, corrupt files, and other little annoyances.  Recently I accidentally dropped a hard drive of The Eagle because the case wasn't closed all of the way and it went kaput.

All of our old equipment is still sitting in the booth collecting dust.  I wish they'd sell 'em because a lot of them are still great pieces of equipment and some other theaters in town could surely use them.

In my 22 years of film projection the only thing I ever dropped was a fully made up feature film reel + trailers weighing I don't know how much. I dropped the thing on my foot and I'm sure that the audience could hear me swearing.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

I will be screening two South African feature films at a festival in July on 16mm, no less. You will get the odd idiot coming up to you and asking "Which DVD are we watching?" *FACEPALM* and then I have to explain what 16mm is.  :smile:

I'm a tiny cog in the engine room of a sinking ship. :cheers:

I was a public school music teacher for about 6 years before getting a job as the operations director for a non-profit agency.

A couple of years ago I felt the need to change so moved to Savannah and now work as a 911 operator/police dispatcher.

I can honestly say it is almost never boring, particularly in a town with so many 'characters'.

I'm always tempted to end a dispatch with "That is all" like they do in the 30s and 40s movies!

Ouch, that's got to suck. How sinking is this ship? How would you rate it on a scale from 1- "This quarters profits weren't as strong as last years" to  10- "your CEO is being led away in handcuffs and anyone can now buy his mansion for less than a quarter of its original price"?

For some reason I'm thinking A Clockwork Orange, but can't imagine where in the movie it would be.

I know exactly what you are talking about. All footage was usually transfered to tape or hard drive. But there were a few times where we actually got to see prints of our 35mm and 16mm dailies screen through a projector. It's an awe inspiring experience.

Since the Fall I've been working as a Stage-Hand for live shows at one of the theme parks here in FL. The hours and pay are ...bleh.
In January I started an Art Department internship (unpaid) with the Feature "ToothFairy two". I mostly handled contacting product placement agencies about acquiring props, and also get release forms on other props shown on screen. Did a little bit of set dec. creating decorations for an art classroom setting. Production is wrapping up this week. So it's time to start looking elsewhere.

Used to be a loan officer until the housing market collapsed. Now I'm back at school full time getting my degree in paralegal studies. I will graduate in the Fall.

Alex's mother explains to his father (or maybe the caseworker) that's how he spends his time when he's away from home. 

Student in High School, so i'm not with a job. But I could and should get one anyways.

I work for Aperture Science, we do what we must, because we can.

Yeah, I used to work at Borders too  :wink:

I work in the correspondence dept of a large mortgage company, which basically means I sort and log all incoming mail & faxes.  I like it except for the billion different protocols you have to abide by just to file a letter.

I sell televisions at Best Buy.

Actually I'm a licensed funeral director and embalmer. Before that I was in the U.S. Navy.

Shift operator/assistant at 7-11. Not too bad. Sometimes enjoyable. Almost always tolerable even during a day that sucks outside of work. Very flexible scheduling/time off. However, that could be due to this particular store owner's policies/attitudes. No idea.

I briefly (about 30 minutes) considered that as a career choice.  I think I felt weird about having to deal with bodies of children and the elderly.

I've been in banking and finance for most of my "career".  My favourite job was as a Credit Card Fraud Investigations Officer.  Along with lots of paperwork (which I actually love), the main part of the job was a customer would go to the bank and complain about an unknown credit card charge.  Then I would find out what it was.  The number of times a transaction would be for a porn site that the customer would swear black and blue they didn't charge.  Then I would get details with their screen name, sexual preference etc.  It was priceless watching them do the backpedalling and accept the charge  :teddyr:

Right now I'm working in financial planning.  The job was fantastic until about 3 weeks ago when I got demoted for failing to meet budget consistently.  I wasn't told that my manager status was contingent upon meeting budget every month.  That's what I get for accepting profit sharing as part of my package.  So I'm back to being an admin grunt which is fine.  No responsibility, no stress.  I just have to deal with a control freak of a CEO who thinks it's fun to change processes every week and then berate us for not being on board with her hare brained schemes.

I refused to attend a voluntary social function in the office, electing instead to do actual work so I wouldn't get into trouble for not doing work and she gave me a 30 minute lecture followed by a very rude and stern email that said I was single handedly  lowering the team spirit and people thought I was rude and it was part of my contract that I socialise in the office.  I was threatened with dismissal if I didn't pick up my game.

Then things went downhill from there.

Needless to say I'm looking for another job.  This time in the city proper and for people who actually appreciate my efforts.

For the past two and a half years, I've worked part time (usually 32 hours) as a night auditor for a local hotel.  The job isn't bad, it's just the pay is low (minimum wage) and I have a college degree (Information Technology).  I graduated from college about three years ago.  I'm currently in the process of decided what I want to do to move forward with my life, as I've been working 40 hours a week for the past two months, but the manager who's been on medical leave will be coming back soon and then I'll go back to my normal time.

Trying to decide between going back to college and attempting to get another degree, getting another/different job somewhere else locally, or moving back in with my mom for a bit and finding a job over in Missouri.

I've been unemployed for 2 years, going on 3.  :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

The job market sucks in Arizona...but before that I work at a steel plant making air ducts.