Jobs!

[Fuzzball]

So we're not all 12 year olds puking out maps every 30 minutes all the time, many of us have jobs in the real world! ...what kind of interesting things do you people do for a living?

As for me, I'm a Lab Tech in Specsavers Optician. I order lenses (not contacts though, that's a different part of the store) from the prescriptions and dispenses from downstairs and using machines that do magic I cut the lenses to shape and fit them by hand into the frames chosen by the customer!

[Jaws In Space]

I'm a loader at UPS, after packages come off the semi & come down the belt I put them onto 3 different trucks. I've been doing this for about a year & 2 months.

[Remilia Scarlet]

I don't work anymore (long story...), but I was doing system admin stuff, programming, and desktop support for my university's library before I left the workforce. On the admin side it was mostly Linux stuff (Ubuntu and Red Hat mostly), often through virtual machines, but I also inherited a bunch of Winblows serves when my department got moved.

When I did programming, it was mostly a mixture of C# and Common Lisp. It wasn't anything big and public, but things that were used internally.

Desktop support sucked ass. It was almost entirely with Windows XP machines belonging to librarians who weren't tech savvy.

Before all of that, I did live sound mixing and setups, post sound editing, some minor system administration, computer lab support, digitization of old analog audio, and classroom support.

That last piece consisted of going to the classrooms to help professors who were having trouble with the projectors, DVDs, or whatever.

I also did a lot of programming of small department apps during that time as well, but it technically wasn't part of my job. It was more of a fun side project I could do whenever I had free time.

[raymoohawk]

i am an over the phone spanish english interpreter, and i despise everything about it. we take calls from all sort of things from 911 to booking flights. the operators we interpret for are always insuferable assholes and all my coworkers are mexicans who hate other mexicans (i am mexican too, but dont hate people based on ethnicity)) and think white people can do no wrong

[joepallai]

I build and occasionally design cymbals for Zildjian. Had my 20th anniversary here a week ago.

[Use]

System Administrator/IT Specialist

[HavoX]

I'm currently unemployed, but I do volunteer (along with my Dad) for Tiger Totes during the school year.

[mrthejoshmon]

Training to be a mechanic for a year and a half now.

It is not looking good, I think I may be too incompetent and should probably just work in the popcorn factory (although apparently I am considered one of the best in the group and I am the only fucker in there with C level GCSEs in English AND Maths, that worries me quite a bit).

[Death Egg]

I make tacos.

[Yuki Senmatsu]

I used to work at a Electronic Recycling Center, Itrex until it shut down in mid June of 2015. I was their employee for 3 years and their best. When I did tell them that living opportunities called that they no longer will pay me, my bosses refused me to retire. Tried to get things straitened out, but didn't work out. Heck, without me in there, it's boring. The truth. Jason, one of my bosses told me.

What I did there, I smashed open machines, mostly computers with a hammer. Sometimes, vacuum cleaners with a sledgehammer. We save some parts for money like the gold from the processors or whatever they were. I forget what they are. It's been about 6 months. Save the motors for the vacuum, heatsinks, CBM (Copper Bearing material) from cable boxes, and more. Rip and tear! RIP AND TEAR!!!!!

There was some stuff that was a bitch to get taken apart like the towers of modern Macs, Mac Monitors, and aluminum computer towers, heck, even my bosses didn't like getting them taken apart. I worked part time. Amount I get paid, around $129 to $131. One time I got a paycheck for $181. idk how.

Not to sound like a wuss but, when I was getting sent home from work after my shift ended when my final days was coming, I did shed a bit of tears. I may be tough, but I'm a soft.

Itrex, it was great working with you. I hope my next job will be as kick-ass as my last.

2012-2015

Ps, when I did arrive home, I almost always show up filthy with grease and other remains of what I bruised. Fun, but dirty job I'll tell you that much.

EDIT:
THE MASTER OF DISASTER STRIKES BACK!!!!!! However, only temporary.

[Chezza]

Currently unemployed, just got my degree in Marketing but really struggling to get my foot in the door. Otherwise I have always worked in Sales and Retail. Which I may have to return to soon.

[Grazza]

I screw about on my computer and money appears in my account. Weird.

[Fonze]

Joepallai you're my hero.

I'm a butcher at a grocery store. Not what I saw myself doing when I was 18, but hey, at least I get to slap my meat around and get paid for it ^^

Afterwards I squirt my hose on everything to clean up. Life's not so bad.

[Kirby]

Office/Operations manager for a small business that collects used fryer oil from restaurants and refine it to be used for making bio-diesel. Started working at the company nearly 4 years ago as an assistant doing filing - now I am overseeing the office and managing the daily schedules for our trucks.

A very decent and cozy job. Main drawback? I have not finished my IT degree and have become exceptionally lazy in getting back into finishing my 35~ credits I have left.

On the other hand, I finally am getting to move into my own apartment this coming March. So I am quite happy about that.

[Ed]

I work for a company that builds service vehicles / work trucks. Mostly for big electric companies. 200+ trucks get built annually in a building half the size of a football field by 14 mechanics. My job functions have exploded out of the confines of an actual job title. I started as a general 'parts' guy, which was essentially a shipper/receiver type position, and that lasted a few months. The two guys before me both quit within 3 month periods, and they hadn't replaced the previous employee in 4 months, so it was a clusterfuck when I came on. No training, just information. Thousands, thousands and thousands of excel files in an unorganized, bloated shared drive.

It's a blur of buying selling, work-order reports. Somehow I got stuck with building the air systems that direct flow from the compressor through the various conditioners that treat the air or regulate pressure for each application. Everything between plumbing and mounting the air unit and the air tools is pretty much assembled by me. There's a few manifolds with unique valve configurations - oilers, water separators, regulators and gauge cluster panels. It's my favorite part of the job. Everything else is Boiler Room meets Office Space on the set of one of those 'scream and throw wrenches' reality build-off shows. Every surface is saturated in diesel fumes, metal dust, and solvents. It's loud. I like it.

[schwerpunk]

I develop stuff for a solar microinverter shop, mostly using a ubuntu|expressjs|nodejs stack, but my real love is writing GNU autotests in m4. Don't know why, but I just love writing tests. Even when I'm writing js modules, I'm looking forward to coming up with a robust test-driver / test-group for it. :)

Unfortunately, this shop is closing soon, due to a funding shortfall, so who knows what I'll be doing next. :/

[Malinku]

Work on a star making medical parts as a CNC machinist.

[Ribbiks]

joepallai said:

I build and occasionally design cymbals for Zildjian. Had my 20th anniversary here a week ago.

that's pretty badass. I imagine there's a decent amount of acoustics/physics/mat-sci stuff going on there in the design?


my work is bioinformatics, software development, etc. and grad school of course, which despite getting paid feels like a far cry from actual employment.

[GreyGhost]

I'm currently a full-time carer for my 86 year old mother, who's getting kind of frail but wants to put off going into a nursing home for as long as possible.

Grazza said:

I screw about on my computer and money appears in my account. Weird.

Sounds like a money laundering scam. ;)

I used to receive job offers for that sort of "work" on a regular basis.

[Fonze]

I'm sure she appreciates what you're doing for her very much, GreyGhost :)

I'm thankful that I was able to be there to care for my mother when she needed it most and I'm sure you will be too. God Bless you and your mother.

[SFoZ911]

GreyGhost said:

I'm currently a full-time carer for my 86 year old mother, who's getting kind of frail but wants to put off going into a nursing home for as long as possible.

Sorry for off topic but fucking well done sir.

[Annunakitty]

I'm a professional moderator for a game network which I cannot name. It's great/terrible. My day is filled with bestiality and scat porn. And then I have to go to work! *rimshot.wav* hey-o

[TimeOfDeath]

I'm a bikini inspector, of sorts.

Also, my Zildjian hats and crash are still working great after 13 years of banging, so thanks.

[MrDeAD1313]

I'm a high school custodian :-|

Was a full time bbqer at a killer restaurant. Head cook and ran the new store for about 2 months until I was put in the hospital for 2 weeks with 3rd degree burns from a boiling pot of sweet tea that tipped over. Can't do that anymore. Bad timing as my daughter was just born a month prior.

The old lady's mother works at a school and heard of an opening. Had an interview and was called the next day with a "you want a job?" Killer money for the work. Making double what I was and now have a nice home for my new family :) Couldn't be happier cleaning shit off of toilets and scraping gum off of floors lol :p

[Doomkid]

Its coming too close to a decade of retail work, next month I begin my traineeship in telecommunications! Definitely a bit more stable than "cashier and pack mule". Getting kinda sick of that.

[Angry Saint]

Engineer traveling the world for environmental monitoring.

And I have started a fantasy/sci-fy writer career, even if it is really slow and difficult.

[Lila Feuer]

I'm on disability.

[Avoozl]

Same here unfortunately, I really need a job I can't stand being home all the time.

[j4rio]

Cooking meth and selling it near kindergartens.

[GreyGhost]

I suppose that's a change from drinking meths and loitering near kindergartens.