What's your job?

retrorussell · November 17, 2018, 05:45:49 PM

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.

Couchtr26 · November 18, 2018, 02:44:01 PM

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.

The Burgomaster · November 19, 2018, 12:08:15 PM

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

ER · November 19, 2018, 01:00:26 PM

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.

Alex · November 19, 2018, 01:34:45 PM

Quote from: ER on November 19, 2018, 01:00:26 PM
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.

BoyScoutKevin · November 19, 2018, 03:09:22 PM

Retiree and living off of my pension from the city.

RCMerchant · November 19, 2018, 04:53:55 PM

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.

dean · November 19, 2018, 05:17:59 PM

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

Trevor · November 20, 2018, 01:22:54 AM

Quote from: RCMerchant on November 17, 2018, 01:32:50 PM
Trevor- your like -I dunno! But I know your real job and envy you!

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

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

RCMerchant · November 20, 2018, 07:57:12 AM

Quote from: Trevor on November 20, 2018, 01:22:54 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 17, 2018, 01:32:50 PM
Trevor- your like -I dunno! But I know your real job and envy you!

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

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

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

Alex · November 20, 2018, 08:24:02 AM

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.

Trevor · November 20, 2018, 08:44:22 AM

Quote from: Dark Alex on November 20, 2018, 08:24:02 AM
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!

Alex · November 20, 2018, 10:03:19 AM

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.

RCMerchant · November 20, 2018, 10:17:40 AM

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.

Zapranoth · November 21, 2018, 02:22:08 PM

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!"