I learn stuff and do the best to survive.
-College Student
Maintain old code.
I do get to write new stuff but the single thing I spend most time on is a monster C program that’s approaching its 20th birthday. It’s like one of those military aircraft that starts out sleek and streamlined and ends up with all sorts of weird bulges, pods and antennas stuck all over.
I say “sorry you have no electricity. It be back soon. Or possibly much later than that. Or maybe something in between”.
I play with money all day.
I WORK in a nutshell.
(Nurse in a psychiatric hospital)
Every day, I make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
(I’m a radio program producer.)
I’m Dilbert.
Any engineer will tell you, Dilbert isn’t a comic, it’s a documentary.
I help people who have the collective intellect of a sack of wet mice.
I enforce court orders, hunt people down, try to fix court orders, explain why some judges are imbeciles, attempt to explain government, babysit, work arbitrary directives from commissioners who don’t have one collective brain cell between the lot of them, and I enjoy the routine verbal abuse from clients.
Child Support Officer
Professional daydreamer here. 
I tell people where to go. Well, not really. They tell me where they want to go and I tell them when they can get there and how to get there.
Watch movies and take care of them.
I tell developers why their videogames suck. Sometimes they listen.
Test it. Fix it. Test it again.
I work for a company which manufactures static transfer switches and power distribution equipment for critical networking applications.
I baby-sit 157 grown ups - I split up fights, decide who was mean to who, introduce new ones to the group, occasionally beg them to behave, cheerlead, shield them from people higher up the food chain & challenge them to keep going. As well as managing the budget, make sure everyone gets paid what they are supposed to when they are supposed to and keeping eveyone safe
Operations Manager