What do you do for a living?

[KateSmack]

:wally

[pravnik]

Lawyer. It was between that and Indian Chief.

[Jpeg Jones]

mmmkay.

[Eonwe]

A lot of different things, but somehow they manage to give me the income I need (though not always in a timely fashion):

Musician (accompanist/music director for musical theatre as well as gigging with my own projects)

Teacher (private music lessons, subbing at the high school level, and working in a high school drama department)

Web Designer (until recently employed by a company to work on their website; I'm attempting to break out on my own and do freelance)

New England Regional Organizer for Young Adults for my denomination (Unitarian Universalist)

[Cunctator]

Actuary (with a bit of professional singing thrown in on the side).

[DMark]

Whatever needs to be done and pays well...I'm there...and have been very successful at many jobs in the process.

[mcott]

Originally Posted by Jpeg Jones

mmmkay.

You too?

Actually, I'm damn good at what I do. Can't tell you or I'd have to kill you. Whoops - that's my job

[fishbicycle]

I do something very interesting for a living, but I don't answer questions of strangers who call me a putz right off the bat.

[Dung Beetle]

I have a low-skill sort of job, but at least I get to sit down and wear pantyhose. And post on the Dope.

[Colibri]

Originally Posted by fishbicycle

I do something very interesting for a living, but I don't answer questions of strangers who call me a putz right off the bat.

Perhaps it was meant as a signature.

[Sage Rat]

I accept money from my company. This seems to be a fairly bulletproof method so far.

:wally

[Clothahump]

I've actually had three careers, two of which I'm living and loving right now.

Back in the 70s, I worked in private security and moved into law enforcement. I was seriously considering LE as a long-term career, to the point where I got a copy of the curriculum book from the university where I had gone to attend the regional police academy. I was looking hard and heavy at the Police Science program until I discovered the Management Information Systems program. I took my degree in that and moved out of law enforcement into computers. I've stayed with that ever since and am currently a database administrator.

In addition, I became a certified Taekwondo instructor in 1991 and took over as chief instructor of the school in 1994.

[davmilasav]

I'm a check-in agent/CSR for Carnival Cruise Lines. We used to get discounted cruises but due to abuse the program has been cut waaaaaay back. (I could cruise for $50 a day.)

I'm also a mystery shopper and part-time blackjack dealer. I deal for 4 different companies in the Harris/Galveston county area of TX. We do private parties and company functions. In 2001 I worked the NASA Christmas party. Very nice!

[The Hamster King]

I design videogames.

[FaerieBeth]

I take small creatures with minimal life and social skills and subject them to daily problem solving tests in order to see how they learn and what effects my testing methods have on their learning ability. After approximately 178 days, I pass them up the chain to another "researcher" who then subjects them to more difficult material to see if they retained any of the knowledge gained during my experiments.

I also have my own personal researching project wherein I take these creatures from an even earlier stage of development, you could say at a blank slate level, and employ those same problem solving test at a much more personal level over a period of decades. Although, at about the 5 to 6 year mark of the process I bring in other specialists to supplement my training. I have three such projects running concurrently: One at almost fourteen years, one at eleven years, and a newer one at just over three years.

Finally, I do have my "hobby" project. I took another of these creatures, full grown, and have implemented a campaign to break down the previous training and retrain toward my own standards to see how adaptable these creatures can be.



In other words, my living consist of teaching first grade, raising three kids, and being a wife.

[gotpasswords]

I administer information security policies for a large financial services institution.

[Ghanima]

I am a member of the thought police.












You guys are all in serious trouble.

[swampbear]

Assistant Director/Compliance Officer.

In other words... the policies and procedures/rules and regulations sob. Somebody's gotta do it!

[pinkfreud]

I answer questions on a wide range of subjects, ranging from the color of penguin poop to hemangiosarcoma in dogs to the origin of "Dueling Banjos." I am a Google Answers Researcher, and there is seldom a dull moment in my day.

[Kilvert's Pagan]

I'm CIO of a health insurance company (and treasurer of a Montessori school).

[Shagnasty]

I am a Business Systems Consultant.

[Ale]

I´m a CGI (Computer Generated Images) animator, I work on a studio mostly on TV series and some advertisments.

I can´t stress how much my job rocks, suffice to say that you´ve hit fat gold when your job requisites include watching cartoons at home AND at work, and telling/hearing/creating jokes all day.

[FairyChatMom]

Engineer. I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. Seriously.

[rorty]

I schedule crews for an airliner.

[Bumbazine]

I was an RPG programmer* for 28 years, (with side trips into building construction and real estate), most recently as a Senior Programmer/Analyst. Then the latest recession put me on the streets again, and I haven't been able to find another programming job. So now I own and operate a small shop where I make and sell hand-made soaps and bath products. I also do occasional contract programming.


* That's Report Program Generator, the computer language, not Role Playing Game.

[NinjaChick]

For the most part, way too much homework while accumulating entirely too much student debt. Eventually, I'll hopefully be working for some sort of political activism group.

Currently, for money: I have a part-time job as a "I have a *real* job and I don't want to do this so put together this mass mailing for me" person at a small publishing company. I also write, have had a number of things published, and actually earned a couple bucks for two of them.

[Kiminy]

I teach "Computer Science" classes at a local private university.

I've known I was supposed to be a teacher since I was in first grade, and forced my little sister to play "school" with me on weekends. (She was in Kindergarten, and our parents bought a blackboard for our playroom.)

As I was growing up, I decided I might as well learn something that was interesting to *me*, since I would be teaching that subject to others for as long as I could as an adult. I loved math, and started college as a math major. I switched to French when I realized that French was easier as well as more interesting (I got to spend my Junior year in France!). My bachelor's degree and my master's degree are in French, as is my ABD (All But Dissertation) degree.

When I was working on my dissertation on the syntax of French causative structures (ask me about it sometime... It's *still* really fascinating to me!), I realized that I would never find a full-time, tenure-track position in that area. With a 5yo daughter, and a 2yo son with birth defects, I figured it would be better to concentrate on my kids more than on a fruitless PhD. My husband found a job in another city, so we moved. I found a job in a retail computer store after moving, and learned a LOT about computers. The store I was working in paid me to learn how to teach computer skills, and to get the A+ certification. After burning too many retail bridges to go back, I found a job teaching Computer Science classes--mainly applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.), how to use the Internet, and how to design databases, at a local private university, which is where I am now.

I LOVE my job. While I would go back to teaching (and speaking) French in a heartbeat if I thought it would pay the bills, using computers is definitely my second most passionate interest.

[purple haze]

I own a toy store*












*Not THOSE kinds of toys, you sicko!

[Nunavut Boy]

I am a medical laboratory technologist/guitar instructor

[TroubleAgain]

Data Center Operations

[mlerose]

Program manager for state school-based medicaid program.

In other words, red tape.

[trupa]

Product Manger for a Telecom Equipment Manufacturer.

I manage the process to decide what new product and new features to introduce, then manage the project to get them introduced. After that I help Marketing by answering questions about the product. And I also manage software licensing negotiations. (both sides)

I'm currently working on desk-top IP phones, but you will see my last "babys" on the hips of many Home Depot (Canada) and HBC (The Bay, Zellers, Home Outfitters) store employees (their in-store wireless phone) as well as in the overfilled pockets of many nurses in the US.

[Dorjän]

I write user guides and technical manuals for online secure transaction software.

[Lobsang]

Pari-Mutuel Totalisator Supervisor.

[Madd Maxx]

AutoCAD Drafter for a Telecom Equipment Manufacturer. Yes, it is exciting as it sounds.

I'm on the Emergency Response Team, Building Evacuation Team, and Building Safety Team, and 1st level Unofficial Tech Support. But they pay well and the haven't laid me off yet so I have that going for me.

[Theodore Striker]

I'm a production planner for a mid sized can manufacturing company, with a fall back career as a poet. I'm not quitting the planner's job anytime soon.

[Don Draper]

By day, I'm a copy editor for a fiinancial magazine.

By night, I am a lone, dark-knight avenger, righter of wrongs, cruader for justice, and scourge of the underworld! (But don't tell anybody else that! Secret identity and all, y'know!)

[Bookkeeper]

Originally Posted by Lobsang

Pari-Mutuel Totalisator Supervisor.

Now that's different , bet you're the only one!

Me: Government accountant and Webmaster for pay, and President-for-Life (or until next coup phase) of a disorganized but durable game players' group for fun.

[Dob]

Im a sr. engineer developing/supporting out mainframe and midrange CPM tools. I hate my job, but damn they do pay well.

[taxi78cab]

I'm the Director of Information Management for a commercial real estate firm. Which means that I do market research, write market reports, produce newsletters, do database management, prepare presentations and investment portfolios, do some financial analyses, and generally do whatever else people ask me to. And because we're here to fight ignorance, commercial real estate means everything that's NOT residential. So don't ask me about the value of your house. I don't know!

[Tinkertoy]

My official title is Library Classification Specialist, Internet Mentor, Research & Genealogical Specialist, and Systems Administrator.

All of which means I catalog materials, look stuff up, and call tech support at a small town library. It also means that my board is long on titles, and short on compensation.

[Reeder]

Well...I could tell you.



But then I'd have to kill you.

[Cranky Hermit]

Data network analyst/troubleshooter.

[kung fu lola]

I am a customer service rep for a party supply/giftware company. We sell goods to retailers, who sell them to the consumer. With the other two guys in the team, I enter orders for the stores we supply, hand out credits for damaged goods or stuff ordered in error, answer retailer's questions and help out the regional sales reps. Stuff that I am solely responsible for includes mailing out invoices, sending samples to the reps and assessing claims.

Riveting stuff, I know.

[lizardling]

Technical writer for developer documentation.

[Antigen]

Medical lab technologist. In training.

[ZebraShaSha]

I, er, invest for a living. I'm a high-schooler that hasn't felt like looking for a job just yet so anytime I have birthdays, holidays, or soda-dispension I ask for money.

Oh, and the rates suck so my contribution to the company are matched by approximately .245%. Paltry wages, I'd say. Bring back the '80s!

[Scylla]

I'm the right hand of God.

[Superdude]

Stand-up comedian

[Hamlet]

I am the right ulna of God. Sure it's not as glamorous, but they'd be in a pickle without me.