So I'm curious, what do you guys all do for a living?
I think I have mentioned it before on here but I fix/ service digital copiers, also do PC and IT work as well.
Jason
just surfing a little this morning in BZE on the last bit of 24hrs worth of wireless. we sold the house last night- woooooooooo! anyways...
environmental scientist
i am a generalist of sorts (my degrees are in wildlife/fisheries & forestry) & right now i am finishing a 3yr outreach post on coastal ports... marine debris, vessel salvage, coastal resiliency, portfields, LNG development, beneficial use of pumped-dredge material, etc. i think i would like to do more outreach work in the future & eventually i want to be a naturalist, perhaps as a retirement post.
I'm a web designer for a university, though I've also done my fair share of copy and video editing, as well.
I'm with da Rev. Intranet webmaster & designer for the USA Headquarters of the largest food company in the world. Along with pixel-meister and video editing.
I am retired
I'm a licensed Radiographer (X-Ray Tech.), worked last for 3 years in Amsterdam in the Radiology Dept. / ER / OR at a hospital there. Looking for work now that I'm back in the U.S.
Head Waiter. Upscale steakhouse. Make enough in my 16 hours a week to pay my bills, feed my book habit, and keep my puppy in the manner to whiuch he has grown accustomed ;D The rest of the time I spend with my books.
So when are you going to invite us over for a steak dinner?
You anywhere near Charlotte, NC? If so... come on down!
I wish I was, I love steak!
Jason
I may have mentioned: I work in a fuckin bindry.
I brag about it here, a little. Cus it gives me insight into spotting reprint tells.
But in real life: I Hate My Fucking Job.
I have worked in Letterpress, Small Offset, and Pad Transfer printing.
For the last 15 years i've been in the bindry cus i couldn't keep up with the industry changes.
The jobs i liked most were: pizza dilevery and working in a wooden toy factory.
(wooden factory or wooden toys?) Both actually.
I'm a Technical Advisor Consultant for a credit bureau/list database company. The long hours aren't much fun but there are alot of fun people there. Starting my 20th year with them. I'm beginning to look around at other jobs, something completely different, for a change of pace. After 20 years, I'm starting to get a bit burned out.
"After 20 years, I'm starting to get a bit burned out."
I'm not surprised in that. You sold your soul to the devil. :hippy2:
:gun1: credit bureau/list database company :rocketwhore:
It feels like it too.... I am the source of most everyone's anger. Someone up there must be really pissed off at me. This could be the background of a new superhero. He pisses everyone off by putting their name on every list of names that is sold and hoses their credit report beyond repair. Kryptonite be damned, I'll defeat my enemies with bad credit scores.
I sell comic books. Some months I even make a living from it!
I make custom pool cues. Recently started cue with ivory handle that will be scrimshawed with a 6-panel comic strip that S. Clay Wilson did for me.
Quote from: Rick Bradford on July 04, 2008, 04:04:49 PM
I sell comic books. Some months I even make a living from it!
I often wondered if that was your only job?
Jason
Yes, it is. I was taking care of my mom for the past couple of years but she passed away in May. So now it's just cues and mowing the field.
Sheet Metal Worker for the last 31 years. Wife owns the business and I'm currently laid off due to lack o' nooky- oops, I mean work.
Quote from: awillis on July 07, 2008, 03:59:50 PM
I'm currently laid off due to lack o' nooky
Love that line...going to remember it and use it if you don't mind....after the wife kicks off, of course.....mine, that is....
Go fer it- wpb!
I know that this is an old thread, but I came in late... so.... I'm an equipment tech currently working for ST Microelectronics for about 1 1/2 years. Did almost 10 years at Intel (they suck, buy AMD), and before that 4 1/2 years at Texas Instruments - about 17 years of semiconductors total...... I don't love it, but it pays the bills.....
Quote from: Visitor Q on June 30, 2008, 09:54:23 AM
So I'm curious, what do you guys all do for a living?
Jason
Just caught this thread but I've been offline more than on the past few months. Anyway, I'm semi-retired now but since 1991 I've been a Japanese document translator, 12 yrs. as a freelancer working at home & 5 yrs. as an in-house translator working for a Japanese co. in the San Francisco Bay area. People send me docs. in Japanese, I translate them & send them back. Before that I was a teacher, mostly college. Taught Japanese & before that English as a 2nd language (ESL). Lived in Japan doing that for 8 yrs.-Projunior
Moshi Moshi
A really wish I knew Japanese but I hear it is a hard language to learn.
Jason
I lived in Japan for about 4 months - transfered from the USS Towers to the USS Knox and rotated back to Long Beach.... I picked up a couple of things, but I remember it being pretty hard. Awesome country though! Lots of things to do and see....