Postal worker. [sub]MWAHAHAHAHA!![/sub]
Super! It’s GREAT to hear that you love your job so much! Not only am I a saint/second grade teacher, I also have special ed. certification. I work very closely with our school’s special ed. teacher, and we also team teach math. Mine is the “inclusion” second grade. Anyway, I must applaud you. I know that you do it cuz you love it, so maybe the applause I wanna shower on you is in celebration of you and others like you! 
We all rock!
Having graduated last year (BA Philosophy… yeah that’ll get me work) I’m currently a Support Officer at my local council, dealing with school buildings, sorting out any damage/problems they have. I’m the person they ring when windows get broken. Heck, someone’s gotta do it and I haven’t yet worked out what it is actually want to be doing (although I am teaching myself web design) - I’m just one of a million unremarkable office workers, working to live, sneakily surfing the web instead of doing anything worthwhile. sigh
Senior Web Developer. I do ever-so-exciting things with databases and corporate extranets… using the web for invoice tracking and content management, instead of gossip and pornography like it’s meant for…
Little tip: if you feel excitement (even a twinge) when someone says “Our project won the Digital Britain Award for Best Integrated Supply Chain Management Solution in Manufacturing!”, you are officially grown up. Heaven help you.
At the moment, I work in Systems administration for a small financial services firm in Washington, DC. User support, mixed NT, Unix, 98, etc. If people can’t print or they get a BSOD, I’m they guy they call. I also do back-office trading support, moving more money than I’ll ever make in my lifetime across borders. It’s bond trading, basically, and would probably be more interesting if I gave a shit.
In September or thereabouts, I go into my Foreign Service Officer Orientation course (A-100) for up to seven months. Language, security, consular operations and how to best represent the US’s interests abroad. At the end of that, I get posted to a US Embassy or Consulate somewhere in the world, where for the first year of my two-year first tour I adjudicate visa and passport applications. After that, I get to:
Pass out absentee ballots to US military and expatriates
Pass out Social Security and US benefits to citizens
Visit US citizens in jail and get them lawyers
Make nice with the locals and network (go to lotsa cocktail parties)
So basically, the government :
Pays my and my wife’s airfare to and from posts
Pays my rent
Pays any and all moving expenses up to 18000 pounds, not including a car
Pays me for home leave as well as all US holidays
and moves me around the world every two to five years. Pretty sweet deal, if you ask me.
I am the system administrator for a bi-weekly news magazine in Jerusalem. A month and a half ago I was a system administrator for a hitech, b2b software company. Until they fired half the staff. I’m not in hitech any more, and I have a smaller salary and less perks, but at least I have a job.
US Civil Servant with 27 years in the Dept of Defense - Started out serving in the Navy as an avionics technician, and now work for the Navy as an aerospace structural engineer. Most of what I do involves extending the life of landing gear for the P-3 Orion - occasionally challenging, but mostly boring. I also do some modification work - for example, I’m working up a proposal to modify a P-3 for use by the Navy Test Pilot School. If our proposal is accepted, it’ll be a nice chunk of work for our depot, plus my first opportunity to be a project leader.
At least that’s what I do when I’m at the office. I’m home today fighting the summer cold from hell. I’m considerate enough of my coworkers not to sneeze in their air when I’m sick… plus I can read and post here all day!!
Legal Instruments Examiner.
Ever see a proofreader with dyslexia? 
Utility infielder computer/software geek for an ecommerce company. Currently, my main job is administering a program called WebTrends, which provides way more data than any rational person could ever need about how the company’s dozen or so websites are doing–peak/low traffic, top visitors, where they go on the sites, what’s broken, how they were referred to our sites.
And I get to surf the web. A lot.
I work in a psychiatric institute. I work with the drug studies program, where I am a pharmacy technician. Which basically means that I make capsules for drug studies all day, and then fill requests for drug studies. Oh, and I rarely have anything to do, so most of my day is spent on the SDMB or talking to my friends via AIM.
I also work at a restaurant every Sunday, where I am the Sunday morning bartender. This is my first gig as a bartender, but I’m learning pretty quick.
My dream job would be to open a club/music store here. We have an awesome music scene here, and I know quite a few people that would be able to help me do it, if we could get the money.
Principal Environmental Planner - I work with 8 Tidewater Virginia localities in implementing water quality protection measures and developing sound land use policies. I’m also in charge of overseeing the implementation reviews for 84 other VA localities with respect to their water quality protection efforts. Long and short of it - I get to spend a whole bunch of time on VA’s creeks, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay making sure that water quality doesn’t get any worse.
I work for a major telecommunications company as an interface between outside sales agents and inside management teams that I spearhead. My job title is (I swear I am NOT making this up) 99902199. I still don’t know what I do but I do it well enough to get paid. Mostly envolves a lot of coffee and cigarettes.
Although this is my OFFICIAL title at the office, from what I overhear most people just call me “That @$$hole.” I spent 5 yrs at university to earn a degree in Theoretical Mathematics and for what? I knew that I was an ass a long time before college. 
Man, I feel a little intimidated now. I knew we had a batch of smarties here, but, sheesh!
My job description says “Technical Typist”, which means I do desktop publishing (newsletters and publications)using PageMaker along with Photoshop for the graphics and such; type up manuscripts for publication in various professional journals and edit them after they’ve been returned by the publisher; and other such things.
I’m getting into web design and stuff using Dreamweaver. I’ll be setting up our intranet site for our Department whenever they decide to get me the freakin’ notes on what they exactly want! It’s been “yeah, I’ll get that to you…” for about 3 months now.
Oh well, more time to surf the Dope!
My business cards say: “Senior Programmer/Analyst”
Basically, that means that I’ve been writing code for so long (25 years) that I’ve gotten halfway good at it.
Right now I write in RPG III, RPG IV and occasionally RPG ILE.
My employer’s financial software is written in RPG III running on an IBM AS/400 midrange computer, and their production software, written in a language called Progress, runs on the network. Since I am the only RPG programmer here, the financial software and the accountant types who use it are all mine. Unfortunately, the production software and the financial software don’t play nice with each other, so soon the financials will be converted to the Progress version, and I will either have to learn Progress or find employment elsewhere.
How come I’m not in management by now?
I don’t wanna be the boss
[sub]I don’t wanna be the boss[/sub]
I don’t wanna make the rules
[sub]I don’t wanna make the rules[/sub]
I don’t wanna go to meetings
[sub]I don’t wanna go to meetings[/sub]
And be nice to all those fools.
[sub]And be nice to all those fools.[/sub]
I’m a hired thug.
Really.
Well, to be more specific, I work as a Bouncer in a couple of bars here on Staten Island. I am also a fill-in bartender and occasional manager.
Not a great deal of mental activity required, I get to hang out with some cool guys, chat with the pretty women, have a few drinks, and get paid for it.
Not to mention the every present threat of violence makes it all the more interesting.
I sequence DNA at Washington University, St. Louis, searching for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) across three populations to determine their frequency. That beats my previous job, cashier at a grocery store…
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I’m actually quite happy where I am. Part-time allows me to be home with my kids. I’m lucky enough not to “have” to work, but I really love my job.
As for Special Ed, I’ve had a couple kids with Down’s Syndrome through the years, and I love them dearly, but a whole class of kids like that might try my patience. It really takes a special person to work full time in Special Ed. You truly have my respect.
Quality Assurance / Configuration Management Specialist for an IT Services firm. I don’t write code – I manage it. (Although I can write in VB, SQL, stuff for MS-Access, and some JCL). Daily I deal with PowerBuilder, C++, Visual Basic, Wise Install Manager, UDB/DB2, Sequel 2000 and 7, MicroFocus COBOL, Crystal Reports, CICS-AIX, HTML, IBM Interspace, ASP’s, Novell and NT networks, and some UNIX. On the mainframe side I deal with COBOL, CICS for OS390, JCL, Assembler, RPG, EasyTrieve, VSAM, DB2, and IMS. Oh, and MQ-Series. That sounds like a lot but like I said, I don’t know it all (barely any of it)I just manage it.
For fun I do a web site for a Boy Scout camp that I worked at for ten summers and do amateur sound-engineer (read the guy at the sound board) work for my church.
NP: Pink FLoyd - The Wall Live
Yep, the CIA is a worldwide designation, and it’s an excellent designation to get if you can. The financial part is what I’m worried about as well-though if I’d break down and take(pass) the CPA I wouldn’t have to take that part. I really only want to take the CIA though. It’s offered through the Institute of Internal Auditors the IIA.