What Do You Do For A Living?

[karlosvalencia 0]

Lots of interesting replies. All technical ppl though. I would love to hear about those odd jobs like the guy who dig the wholes on the cheese or that fat guy porn star. Would be interesting to know how they got where they are In my case I'm a telecom engineer working as a 3rd level support and trial guy. It's interesting most of the time as I get to travel around the world demostrating our product but it's also a lot of hard work. Recently I've evaluated if whether or not I'd like to move to a different position, like sales engineering or something totally out of the scope of technology, like opening a bed and breakfast or something like that. How I got here? Well, graduated in computer science, so I knew more about SQL and programming than about modems but I wanted to explore that side so I did my coop at mastercard on the telecom deparment and then later on moved to a company reselling telecom products. After that I moved to north america and found a job precisely with the vendor we used to resell on.

[dvalkass 0]

I am 15 and live in the UK currently I am studying 13 GCSE's and hope to go on to study A levels and something at Uni. What I do at Uni will obviously depend on all my grades but I am leaning towards something to do with design/graphics either architecture/landscaping or computer animation/video game design.

[KansukeKojima 0]

Freeload....

[Hirishiolo 0]

Hi!I don't know if in your country exist my professional figure. I am a consulent of job, an expert about consulent for the industries. I make redundancies and recruitment of the workers of industries in my city and I create the payroll for the workers...do you have this professional figure in your country?I am curious!Bye

[strange-garden 0]

Ever since I finished with school, I've been doing I.T, network engineering, tech support work for ISP's yada yada...But whenever I was at work I used to get yelled at for drawing on paint, or drawing on paper or whatever. One day a guy walked past and asked me where i got the image i did on paint from, and I replied "oh, i just drew it. I wanted it to look like a vector" and he was a webdesigner and told me I should be doing graphic design.So i did...When I got illustrator I did a design for my mum's friend, and uploaded it to deviantart. a german design company messaged me and asked me if i wanted my design on iPod skins and laptop skins and stuff...How could I refuse. So I quit everything I did and concerntrated on what I was best at. Now I want to have my own website with my portfolio, so more companies can contact me and buy the rights to my designs.

[rs redemption 0]

I do alot of things for a living :oI just landed a job today for general maintenance in a laser cutting plant where they cut metal pieces for airplanes. Mostly its just cleaning, painting, some basic machine maintenance. I also have sold cars, been a machine operator a few places, and within the next few months will be finishing up school for welding and metal fabrication, as well as earning my certification for 4" vertical mig welding. Eventually, I would like to go on to be a machine repairman, as I love working on machines and figuring out what is wrong with them.The problem around where I live is that most major manufacturers are moving their plants overseas for cheaper labor, and so job opportunities are dwindling. Because of this I have to go through a staffing agency to find anything decent, and well they usually take a good chunk of my paycheck for the first 3 months.

[liwenjones 0]

I am the Communications Evangelist for the new online dance community called DanceJam.comI found the job under Craigslist Gigs as a paid intern and I've finally worked my way up the ladder to where I am now. The cool thing about this job is that my boss is MC Hammer (who is stranger than you think) and I get to meet other famous singers and celebs when I work in the office.I mostly work from home now since Palo Alto is so darn far away. I am in charge of the DanceJam beta, promotions, social networks and a couple maintenance issues.

[MadDog 0]

Interesting. A lot of computer related jobs, (which I guess is no surprise really). So I thought I'd throw something different into the mix...I'm 38, and up until last year, I was an aborist for 15 years. I used to get paid to travel all over outback Queensland, Australia to climb trees around power lines and cut them down. Ive 4 wheel driven in so many places where the nearest homesteads were over 100 kilometres away, only going home on most weekends. Usually staying in small town pubs, or camping out. Basically I just loved the adrenaline factor, knowing that if you screwed up, at best youd start a bushfire, at worst, someone would die. So you didnt screw up. Theres no-one to help you out there. I was only cut by a chainsaw twice during my whole career, and luckily both were managable, although a bloke did hit me in my helmet once and destroyed it... Glad I was wearing it. But theres nothing like being 100 or more foot in the air, tied to your tree, just gazing out over hundreds of miles of land till it just hazes out. Bliss. My mate got bit by a snake once (taipan, google it ),and was all but dead by the time we got to the nearest hospital with antivenom, nearly 200 k's away. Correct first aid saved his life. In our spare time, we got to fish and get yabbies, (freshwater crayfish), in streams and billabongs that no-one had even layed eyes on for 50 years or more. Explored and climbed anything we could find, rock formations, waterfalls, mountains etc. Good Stuff. You start to get a nose for water when you work every day in 40-50 degree (Celcius) heat, haha. Good Times. It was the best life ever, but unfortunately, after one too many falls out of a tree, my body just couldn't take it any more, so I was left contemplating, "what do I do now?".The answer came to me in the weirdest way, another administrator on a website I admin at built boats. So lo and behold, I became a self-employed marine carpeter. Putting carpet in pleasure craft and fishing boats. Not my idea of a dream job, and I miss the adrenaline rushes of climbing and stuff, but I make more now in a week than I did in 3 weeks of climbing. So its worth it for my families sake. I still have to travel week on, week off, about 5 hours to Sydney, and then fly 1000k's to Gold Coast to work, but thats OK.The drives worse than the flights.Anyhow, hope someone finds my little tale interesting. So much happened in the last 15 years, I only gave a brief over-view.So thats my life. Later guys.PS liwenjones, that sounds like a real interesting job mate. TBH I thought MC Hammer was dead!?!? lol. Shows how out of touch with "the scene" I am I guess. haha.

[Qittie deKay 0]

Haha...wow. I feel so...inadequate. 0_0;20...from Arkansas. Currently I'm unemployed, but I've worked many odd jobs. My most current was Gamestop and before that I was a telemarketer. I don't actually HAVE to work right now as I get to go to college for free and my mom is still kind enough to feed me and give me a place to stay. I really only work when I want/need something and don't want to ask my mom for it; I'm content-ish to be broke right now. I'm actually looking for a job right now to help finance a study abroad trip to New Zealand; it'll be the first part of my final year as an undergrad in college. After that I'm off to SUNY Brockport to get my master's in English. I hope to publish a novel somewhere in the next year and a half, maybe get a book deal. All I've ever wanted to do with my life is write. So I guess I have no regrets with what little I've done. *shrugs* Post Note: MadDog...love your siggy.

[FunkySurd 0]

Im a programmer at the moment, working in Thailand..Do web designs and also alot of php coding..not really what i want to do though, eventually i want to be a system analyst... <_<hopefully