What do you do for Living?

[Slim Portly]

People come to me for help, and often I am able to help them. If I don't like them, I'm not as helpful as I would otherwise have been.

In my off time, I help inconsiderate people reconsider their actions. When that doesn't work, I educate them on the inevitablity of cause and effect.

 

[Gaige]

Tank Girl! Very cool... :eusa_clap

 

[59Lark]

Losing my mind but not my trade.

59Lark; apologizing for putting two letters in about my trade, i am losing it and working the computer late at night isnt helping. my apologies again. please forgive my loss of memory lark59

 

[MD11]

I spent approx. ten years on the road with various no-name music groups as a bassist, but burned out and moved to the world of graphic arts. I have a somewhat successful graphics buisness with a client list that includes an international music group, many local businesses and non-profit organizations, and some of the local print media. While I continue to maintain a small client list today, I have decided to follow my bliss and become a historian/researcher.
I am currently working on my degree, which is the first step of my plan to attain my ultimate goal, and I already am doing research for an antique aircraft restoration company in my spare time. I hope to eventually live out my life in the back room of some aviation/military museum surrounded by relics of the past.

Chino has a great air museum that I just recently visited... even got a back stage tour of their workshops where they fix up old birds.. the highlight of the tour was the F8F Bear Cat in Navy Blue.. I about had an orgasmic experience when I got to touch it!

BTW... Been playing the bass for 25 years, never anywhere near good enough to be a pro I guess, and I can't even read music (not sight read at least).. I would love to be able to eek out a living playing music.

 

[splatt]

What do you do for a living?...hmmm...i usually tell people "stuff", but that probably won't cut it this time will it?

OK...most of my day is spent as a part owner of a company which allows to me to spend time doing basic coding and graphic design, i look after marketing and communications related activites (brochures, presentations, etc) and am also part of the install team (ie. i get to spend a fair bit of time in the great outdoors). So what exactly do we do...it gets sort of complicated and involves video cameras, telemetry, wireless networks, solar power...lets just leave it at that shall we

I'm also a board member of the "Australian Interactive Media Industry Association"...known as AIMIA in shorthand. I've spent a large chunk of time since 1990 being involved in Virtual Reality, Multimedia and the Internet so being voted in by my peers as a board member not only put a huge grin on my face, but allows me to give something back to an industry that has been good to me and that i love being involved in.

I sell the occasional photograph...but i'm certainly no pro-photographer.

I run a couple of blogs/websites which bring in a bit of income as well.

If i ever finish the three books i am working on i may actually see some coin from that as well.

Like i said...stuff

 

[Sunland Sare]

Sunland Sare, good luck with the PD application. As another LEO, remember the first rule of Law Enforcement, Everyone goes home at the end of the shift!

Thank you, I'm just waiting on a date for my interview with the panel, to see what my "motivations" are.

I applying to Durham Constabulary, in the North East of England; which is one of the hardest forces to get in to, after the Met (Londons police force).

So hopefully I can leave the Civil Service soon, it's slowly sapping the life from my soul! haha

 

[Gaige]

I thought I posted in this thread... I looked, but apparently I didn't? I don't know. I'm so confused.

Anyways... I'm a Police Officer... followed in the footsteps of my dad and my grandfather.

Seems like most of the men in my family were either military or police; a few of us (myself included) have done both.

 

[RudyN]

I am retired. Worked 40+ years for the California Judicial System. 24 years for the Superior Court of Santa Clara County and 16 years for the Court of Appeal, 6th Appellate District. Nope, I am not a lawyer lol

 

[Tommydean]

I drive big trucks for UPS. also an A/P mech and pilot.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Antiques expert for an auction house.

 

[Darhling]

RUFUS - I love tank girl!! I so wanted to be her at one point lol

 

[CeceliaRose]

i'm a paralegal.. i though it was going to be really cool with parachutes and hitting people on the head with weighty law books... but it's not... ...lol

I'm a paralegal, as well! Still waiting for my parachute... we do have some weighty law books here at my firm, though.

 

[shepkatt]

I guess this gives away my on-line handle.

I worked in aerospace when the MD11 was first being built.. I was on the conformity team to certify the nacelles for flight worthiness.. Don't miss that job at all.. I was a statistics analyst back then.. NUMBERS. BAH

 

[shepkatt]

My job now is working as a project manager with the navy/marine corp on laptop/desktop refreshes. Not very exciting.. but it pays the bills and allows me to work from home. so.. I have that going for me.

 

[miss_elise]

RUFUS - I love tank girl!! I so wanted to be her at one point lol

snap! me too!

 

[Midgetqueen]

I'm a secretary for a funeral home.


Why yes, I *do* see dead people! Every day!

 

[GWD]

I babysit grown men all day long and document their progress in terms of feet of water pipe put in the ground that day. I then document any changes in work conditions against the contract quantities and then negotiate with City or Water Agency Officials and try to recoup the cost of that extra work. Invariably the officials will reject a percentage of our extra work and I have to smile and thank them for their time. :rage:

I love my job

 

[Rachael]

The job I tell people about:
I sew replica clothing from cinema and history. That's a lot of fun and a great challenge.

The job that pays the bills:
I answer phones for Netflix.

 

[oddlots]

I work for an implantable medical device manufacturer as a label design/development specialist. It's not exactly graphic design, but that's part of it. I format and design the instructional pamphlets for surgeons using our products, but the actual job involves a lot of paperwork to fulfill corporate, govermental, and traceability requirements. We produce pamphlets in several dozen languages for quite a few countries, so a lot of the work is acquiring translations, getting them confirmed, confirming the confirmations, and documenting every single change, addition, deletion, creation, or correction that it is made to any of the pamphlets I work on.

It's a lot of fun, actually, but the rules are pretty strict (and rightfully so). A bit of design that may only take a matter of 4-8 hours to actually lay out may take over a month (sometimes WAY over) to finish by the time all the different governments, employees, translators, and branch offices all submit their parts and approve the final product.

It's my first "real" job (graduated college on Saturday) and I love it.

 

[MD11]

I worked in aerospace when the MD11 was first being built.. I was on the conformity team to certify the nacelles for flight worthiness.. Don't miss that job at all.. I was a statistics analyst back then.. NUMBERS. BAH

A while back, we burned up a nacelle because our MX people decided to DMI an anti-ice valve in the open position... needless to say, after about 30 hours of running with engine A/I on, the nacelle was ready for replacement and the only one available was in Rome from Allitalita, which took 4 days to get to where we were in Dubai..

I'll bet you didn't plan for that in your number crunching!