What's your occupation?

[True@1stLight]

I am going into my senior year of college toward degrees in Political Science, and Philosophy. I work at Barnes and Noble and will continue to until I figure out which law school I am going to. I am pondering taking a year to defer my school loans and roam the world

 

[Litany]

I am pondering taking a year to defer my school loans and roam the world

It's good to get your travelling done before you get bogged down in work and too dependent on your salary.

 

[Sapper41]

Are you happy to be unemployed?

Hmmm in this case yes, I am good at what I do, I just dont like it After I move i'm going to get a part time job for when I go to school. The Wife just Graduated College and is now the bread winner with her new job

 

[RainbowGurl]

I couldnt find if this has been Posted before bu....

What do you do for a living? Do you work and you still in scholl are you a homeless bum who goes to the libabry to log in to the Book Forum?

On 3rd of September I will start a work experience in a juniour school. I'll be training to be a classroom assistant. I think I will be with little 7 year olds. Awww!

 

[bobbyburns]

I'm employed at a little corner-in-the-wall post office in the black hole of blue-collar michigan. in other words, I work a thankless job servicing drunk, angry rednecks and the painfully bitter elderly. I feel like it's sucking something important from me, but I think there's just a gas leak in the building because I can barely hold a thought a half-hour after my shift starts. the job itself is pretty mundane too, so there aren't many creative outlets. the hardest part of my day is trying to fight off the mind-numbing boredom.

on the other hand I live with my parents, rent-free. so I guess I've got it made in the shade, though I'd like to earn some supplemental income.

 

[Freya]

I test beer. No, I don't get drunk. It's pretty boring really, beer beer beer everywhere, you can only get drenched head to toe in lager so many times before it becomes a bit tedious.

 

[VTChEwbecca]

I work part-time in the court system, which isn't overly exciting...especially as my co-"workers" mostly sit around while I do the work. In the fall, I start grad school, and I hope to start teaching high school chemistry next year.


Good luck with the unemployment, Sapper. My husband and I have switched roles as primary bread winner due to my return to school and exit from my first career. Kinda nice to be able to share that role.

 

[Ashlea]

I am a closer at a title company. It has the advantage of being varied so it rarely gets boring. It has the disadvantage of requiring me to talk to real estate attorneys all day.

 

[funes]

I am sort-of a paid "gopher" in the world of antiques, which entails doing everything from carrying around cast iron fountains to repairing 150 year old documents with tweezers.
I am also a sometime author, currently working (slowly, oh so slowly) on a non-fiction book.

 

[Jules]

I work in the commercial construction industry. I make sure that the pieces that make up the buildings have been approved by the Architect and Owner.

Wow. That sounds pretty boring when you put it on paper. How depressing.

 

[lahondas]

im homecare aid. i work for 2 disabled woman, also i have 2 other jobs, web designer and product demonstrator, : those people who give samles out to customers in grocery stores: i get to wear a pretty apron! none of my jobs are boring but 2 of them, the web design and demos one are all lone work, so im alone all that time, and i like to be. hey whos had a real werid job they wish they never had.... ???

 

[Marquis Rex]

I'm Senior technical Specialist at Jaguar cars UK responsible for Performance and Fuel economy for their engines- so this includes the AJV8s In S type, XJ inc supercharged and the V6s in the S types and X types too. My responsibilities don't span to the new wave of diesels (yet?).
I sometimes feel proud, especially when I see Jerremy Clarkson saying complementary things about our cars, but it can be annoying when we continue to trail behind Lexus in JD Power Surveys.

It was great fun because I used to take home snarling proto types every weekend, getting my own back on the neighbors.
Now I feel I've been there too long, and it gets demoralising that I get paid the same as the habitually striking tube drivers in London - while my American counterpart gets loads more, without having to live in rabbit hutches either.

Work doesn't stress me, ever, I enjoy it, but recently, as a push from me, I've managed to end up in a secondment in another department to broaden my skills (Calibration and emissions). Anyway, unlike in my 20's when I lived to work, I'm trying to be more open minded, keeping my options open, perhaps abroad, with a less prestigious job, but a better quality of life.

 

[lahondas]

god i want your job marquix rex.....i just love cars...makes models how they work, whats inside em, everything! god your lucky man. hey ill trade you my unborn child if i have one for your job?>

 

[Marquis Rex]

lahondas, thanks, I've always wanted to be in the car industry, I couldn't believe it when I got in.
I eat, breath, sleep, drink cars, they are my escape, from a young age, I realised I could "trust" them more then people- how sad is that?
Nowadays, I kind of wish I had more of a "work-life-balance".....
I'm not sure kids are for me yet, until I've had a decent, trustworthy relationship.....

Congratulations though!

 

[lahondas]

sigh, but i if i could id get a nicer car rather than a baby....oh well. cars are wonderful, they are like friends, comfy reliable and secure. they smell good too.

 

[Marquis Rex]

Lahondas, to me it goes far beyond anything macho, they are the ultimate expression of individualism and freedom. Old or New- they can express different thing, they have art, science, engineering, and ingenuinity within them.
If you go into them deep enough, there is politics in their design and history,
With Emotive figures such as Dr Ernst Fuhrman who tried to replace the Porsche 911 with the water cooled front engined 928s of the late seventies , but earning the wrath of Proffessor Porsche himself- before being ousted.
The days of passionate designers are all but gone now, with committee driven stuff we see now, I only hope that I can "make my mark" in the industry...

 

[lahondas]

oh god your so right! its so much more than a "powerful engine". i mean if you think about it, cars are something that took mankind ahead of its game, raised our ways of thinking. we made a machine to take us to where we neede. mankind took it to the next level. it was the turn of a century, we were thinking future back then and we still are. we always will have cars, its those one inventions that will always have a base for more future inventions. mankind made a machine that feels sounds and acts like a real being. and hey youll make ur mark, im sure of it, ,cause the automobile will never be forgotten, and will and can always be reinvented, and betterd. if thats a word:

 

[Stewart]

Data Analyst for international private healthcare company.

 

[Jenem]

i'm supervisor of newsprint sales at a japanese paper company's canada office. we sell paper to the seattle times, las vegas review journal, orange county register, san francisco chronicle, etc. it can be both boring and interesting.

 

[tartan_skirt]

Currently I'm in High School, only 3 years to go and I'll be free... technically I can leave at the end of this year but that would mean only having my standard grades to get a decent job with.
Since its summer I've been looking for a job. I'm only 14 so its hard to for me to find something that I'm actually allowd to do by law. My friend works in a restaurant at the end of my road and says I can get a job there. Great, serving people... at least it won't involve me getting up before noon... Oh, plus I have to pretend to be 15... at least for a month, then I'll actually be 15.