One-Syllable Challenge Redux: What Do You Do For A Living? (Game)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I work for a firm that gives cash to folks who have lost stuff or been hurt, or who want to make sure they have some to live on when they get old or sick. Of course they have to give us some cash first, but if things go as they should they hope to get more cash back than they put in.

The job I do is in the bit where the great big box of tricks does the sums for lots and lots of these folks. I don’t write code these days, but I take care of it and make sure the wrong code won’t go live. There’s a bunch of us in our team that do this. I do stuff that helps the code to run, too. Flat files aren’t the half of it; some code runs on facts (names and so on) and stats that are kept all keyed in a smart way so it can be got at fast - my job means I help fix the keys so this works like it should, or find out what is wrong when it goes slow.

Some stuff is too hard for me as you have to learn tips and tricks that can take years to get right, so I pass some things on to those who have learnt how to fix the hard stuff (though they may well think that what I fix is hard too!).

When I am not at my desk, I help to bring up two boys and take care of where we live. For fun I blow tunes on a small brass thing with valves in a band where the rest of us play the same, or on things made of wood. I sing in church and talk there now and then. I play games in my spare time and the one I like the best (or one of the best) has kings and forts and knights and spears and swords in it; no guns for the most part. They all run round the screen in big fights - lots and lots of them at once - and you have to build up towns and keep folk pleased and do what you are told when the Pope tells you not to fight! Oh, and I like to write too.

Was that a screed or what? :stuck_out_tongue:

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This is quite the fun thread to read, my friends.

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So you do the pre flight check to be sure that the files will not choke the RIP. If there is just one mark in the wrong place, you will spoil a plate, and the press will go blam! In truth, the press will just sit there with no plate to use in it while the art is made right.

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I write docs that tell folks how to use our stuff to do their jobs. At times, I write guides to train them to use the same stuff. I get to work at home so my mates are my five cats. I find them quite nice–they don’t say much and they leave me be when I need to get things done, most of the time at least. It makes me feel good to hear them purr.

When I’m not at my main job, I work part time for a game firm where I write books to tell folks how to play the game. It’s a fun job, as I don’t just write but I get to help make up what will come up in the game world, so I feel like it lets me make a mark at least in some small way.

When not at work I like to play WOW on my Mac, play with my cats, watch the tube, surf the net, and play a game where I hit a puck with a stick and fall down on the ice a lot. :slight_smile:

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Two things. First I write tales of lives of the kin of folk who ask me to, and I type talk from deaf folk to those who can hear, and voice talk from those who can speak to those who can’t hear.

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I make ads, and I learn how to make my ads more good. I write, draw stuff and talk. I hound the ones who don’t make ads but say they will. I call the ones who should learn to make ads but don’t. I call the ones who should let us make their ads, but don’t. I boss the guys who own the school and think they’re the boss (but they’re not, ha!). I have fun most of the time, but I work long hours and get tired some nights.