No good. Could change to “most times it’s quite dull”? 
On “toil” post–I say it “to-il.” Not said in one sound, but two.
I work at a zoo. It is a small zoo, but it is a lot of fun.
At our zoo we have all kinds of stuff. Snakes, mice and rats that have no hair, fish with BIG teeth, frogs and birds are some of them. I take care of the ones with fur.
I do tours, too. I like that a lot. It is fun to show off the zoo when folks come in. I stay at the zoo most of the time but my boss takes the small ones to schools and things. We do film, TV and ad work too.
We have our own school too, where we teach how to work with the small ones. We teach how to work on a film set and how to work in a zoo. I have done part of the course but I still have more to do. My boss lets me do the course for free 'cause I work there. I can do it at my own pace. One thing I have to do is teach a rat a trick! I need to train a dog and cat too.
I love my job!
Fair enough. That would just make you incorrect. Or, to fit in with the spirit of this thread, wrong.
In what universe does “while” have more than one syllable?
Wait. I think i’m seeing a pattern here. Both Annie-Xmas and Hal Briston are from New Jersey.
I’ve always suspected that English wasn’t the first language of the Garden State.
I am a stock clerk, but not on Wall Street. I help bring in and stock parts for things that plow, sew, and reap the ground on farms. These things mow lawns, too. My job is done with much ease. Not much work at all. I do not work for John Deere, though. Who I work for is based in some place else on Earth.
Two jobs.
One is short to say: I fly. (4 glyphs will be tough to beat for the least long “what work do I do?” post in this whole game.)
One is more hard to say: I make some of the code to push text and pix and sound to your new phone with no wire to wall. Mail too.
Ma Bell so sad; she lost that game. I lead a small team with smart boys & girls to make this all work well for those who buy the phone. We have lots of fun at work, but there is a huge load of small parts to keep straight in my head. I (we) need (much) more cash from boss each week for all this deep work.
This game is fun.
They do it because they drink. Case closed. :rolleyes:
I want to play too!
I read books for pay. (Don’t you want to be me? ) Pen in hand, I make the words clear, dot the i’s and cross the t’s, and so on. I make sure lists are good, art is in the right place, and math checks out. If the one who wrote it says bad things re whole groups of folks, I take that stuff out or ask him or her to fix it. And I ask the one who wrote the book to fix things that do not make sense. Then the whole thing goes off to have the type set.
I read proofs too. When the proofs are set in type, I check them word for word with the old text that they were set from, to be sure that no words or things were left out or put in where they should not go, that each page is there, that it all lines up right, and so forth. I mark any goofs so they can be fixed.
What kinds of books do I read for pay? Books you use to learn from in class, when you have left high school and gone on for more school. All fields are game! And I read and fix some trade books such as you might buy in a book store if you need help, and long made-up tales you might read for fun.
My job rocks!
(On the side, I make bling bling out of glass beads and gold parts, for chicks to wear in their ears and hair, and on their necks and wrists. Not too much cash from that, though.)
We all sound like we not talk so good, come from far off land. But it makes me laugh!
Gah! I mark goofs! I mark goofs!!!
(oh the irony)
This thread makes me laugh out loud.
I am a wife. I cook, I clean, I wash the shirts. I do not have a tot, but hope to have one soon. Or two, or three.
I write things, too. I write and snap the shots when kids at school do good things, and when track stars win, and when the men who fight flames get new trucks. My words show up in the small town rag. It does not pay well, but it is fun.
Since this is fun, I want to do my spouse, too.
He works on his farm. He grows crops like beans of soy and corn and wheat and hay. He does not use spray and has just poop to make things grow. Soon, he will get a job where he will sell cars so we can have the card that makes so we do not have to pay for our health costs. (Yay!)
Oops. He read mine and said I left out fowl. I must make it right.
He has hens for eggs, too. And cocks for meat. Peeps are so cute, but one cock is dumb and crows ALL DAY each day, and so soon he will die. Poor guy.
Sales.
'Nuff said.
I teach folks how not to be mad. I teach folks how to be kind to their kids. I make hooked rugs and sell them too. My third job is to make sure folks see their health care guy(yikes!) . I pay his bills and make sure he is paid for his work.
I put drugs in bags for use by sick dudes where they go when they are sick. I have the same job as Zette. She sort of got me the job. Cool, eh?
Not just sick dudes. All sick ones. The nurse will give them the drugs.
Oh, man. I might have the least yet.
Two jobs.
Job one: I fly planes.
Job two: I trade stocks.
Fun!
I go to school and learn & I teach folks how to write well.
Scarlett
I cry foul.
Ginger
Now, is this name pronounced “zet” or “zet-ee”? I always read it the second way.
At my store, my main job is to count bills and coins that our store brings in from the sale of food, both boxed and fresh. I like my job a lot, even though I bitch all the time. I like to run the front end of the store as well – it’s hard but it has its perks, like the right to move more than I can when I’m there just to count.
We have a place in the store that sells cakes and other baked goods; I’ve worked there in the past and I liked it a lot. That part of the store is slow, though, so I get bored when I work there. There have been times in the past when I worked with the crew that puts things on the shelves. I did not like that as much as I like what I do now. The part of the store I like the least is where they sell sliced meat and cheese. Back there is hard work for just a small check. It’s not worth what they get paid, so I don’t like it back there.
I like this game a lot. We should play it more.