Network Systems Administrator for a F500 Manufacturing Company. I administer all network connectivity issues including equipment and service for 18 of our 40+ offices. In addition I handle Priority level tech support for executives and manage a local dept. of four tech support people.
In other words I am an expert at passing work off to grunts and outsourcing remote location tickets so I can get my 8 hours in here, and at the other boards I frequent.
-SS 
Paralegal, with 11 years background in civil litigation and environmental law (yawn). I recently started working for an engineering firm using my legal background so now I work in mostly eminent domain and construction litigation.
My title is National Advertising Coordinator.
I love the title! What I actually do is take bookings from national advertyisers for the 4 dailies in the province, send them out to the correct people, and coordinate the incoming ad copy , electronic files etc.
Its the best job in the whole world - they PAY me to talk on the ophone and read 4 newspapers every day!!
Full time high school student, currently working as a cashier at kmart [schmo mart] for the summer. Don’t yell at cashiers when stuff doesn’t ring up correctly after you pay them; that’s customer service’s area. Hopefully next summer I will work at old navy; the discount is more useful there: I think the only things I ever buy at kmart are tampons and toilet paper.
Optional future occupation: bedmate
I work for a very small city as a secretary in the Public Works/Engineering Department. (very boring…yawn)
CEO of an exciting high-tech startup. If you’re smart, friendly, hard-working and write code, please call me.
I’m management in the Information Technology department.
I change the job descriptions of my employees at my whim to try to disguise the fact that I really have no idea what it is that they do all day.
Sorry KimKatt…
Support tech. I work work with switch ACD systems. Basically, what this means is I sit around reading the boards, playing games and waiting for something to go wrong. 
Actual Job Title: Coordinator, Economic Analysis
I’m an economist with a petroleum industry association. I do all the forecasting for our members including drilling activity, prices, cap-ex, etc. However, it is a small office so I also get to oversee accounting/taxation matters, legal/contract issues, environment, personnel. You name it, either I do it or my co-woker does it.
Currently, I administer the safety and facilities curriculms at one of the largest education departments in the country of one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. In fact, there is a good chance you own many electronic devices made in the plant I work at. I make sure the students get enrolled, and get the credit for the course, make sure the instructors get rosters and materials, and then audit everything once a month. I personally administered something like 150 classes last month.
That will end in 3 weeks. Then I will be a full time student, and part time something. Hopefully music store clerk. Majoring in psych, I am most looking forward to not having to get up at 6:30 every morning. Score!
Oh, and in my spare time I get paid to do improv comedy, and am the proud momma of one Siamese cat.
OPS Admin Assistant.
What does OPS stand for, you ask? Officially it means I’m a temp. (been here two years, thats rather permanent for a temp if you ask me) Unofficially it means I don’t exist. You see, the “State” hires temps like me to do all the real work while the Gov’ment crows about how our low number of State employees save the people money. The only money the State saves is what they should be spending giving me health insurance. I’d better stop there or I’ll have to rant in the Pit.
I work in space. Well, at least with spacecraft. Ok, satellites. I’m a Sr. Tech with a major player in the satellite communications industry. The job entails operation and repair of equipment from Apollo misson era equipment to modern stuff we aquired a few months ago. The fun part is commanding the spacecraft, changing the orbit, etc.
I’m also retired Navy, ex-IBM, and have held other mundane pointless jobs. And I’m studying for my EE degree.
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I’m a quality engineer at a .com startup. At the moment I’m testing a browser, so basically I surf all day, and write it down when the browser does something funky.
Telco Cost Control Financial Anaylist.
I receive bills for our company from the telephone company and decide which charges we’re willing to pay, and which charges our lawyers will fight to the death before agreeing to pay.
In other words, my job is to screw over the phone companies.
God, I love my job.
I’m in Institutional Research (although my office goes by “Budget & Planning” at a large university.
Basically, my job is to find out information about whatever it is the provost decides we need more information about. I also do things like compare legislative bills, prepare testimony for our funding plea, conduct surveys, maintain databases.
I am also a PhD candidate. And a mom.
Sounds like my job too, Doc.
I’m a Business Manager for a children’s book publisher. I mostly do forecasting, sales analysis, financial reporting, etc. I’m the guy that tells everybody to stop spending so much.
SoMoMom cries:
The OP asked for our occupation, not avocation. I still do female full body doctoring in the evenings (7 days/week), psychological doctoring Saturday mornings, and voodoo doctoring Saturday afternoons. The banking gig is to subsidize those low HMO reimbursements and help defray the cost of live chickens. Now, go in the third door on the right and remove your clothes. The doctor will be with you momentarily.
John Corrado: I love your job too.
My “official” title is Client Services Coordinator, but the “real” title is Inside Sales. I work for Business Wire (www.businesswire.com), a media relations newswire. Our job is to take our clients’ full-text news and deliver it to the media, from daily newspapers down to online services and trade mags. My job is to develop initial contacts with new clients and get appointments for our outside salespeople, answer requests for information from potential clients, assist existing clients with new products and services, and develop local marketing collaterals, among other things. I work in our Washington, DC (really Arlington, VA) office, the newest of 26 Business Wire offices.
I’m a desktop support analyst for a large food chain, I’m also an aspiring bar-back. Cause bartending pays good money.
Hey, I fit that description to a tee. My specialty is SQL. Unfortunately I don’t have your number Bill.
college student. Not much to describe. Also a therapist, though most people would just call what I do “listening to people bitch.”
And no, I don’t get paid. Don’t allow people to pay me . . . mostly because I just get them to see what’s wrong and how they can make it better.