What's your job?
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Pandox_Paradox
It looks like a stick figure wearing sunglasses
Currently looking for a job; but I have a good feeling about the job I had to take an exam for: library circulation clerk.
I've had a LOT of different jobs in the past including being a security guard, professional baker and cake decorator, car saleswoman, worked in deli and produce, as well as an administrative assistant. Guess you could say I like expanding my work skills?
I've had a LOT of different jobs in the past including being a security guard, professional baker and cake decorator, car saleswoman, worked in deli and produce, as well as an administrative assistant. Guess you could say I like expanding my work skills?
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ZeroVoidTime
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I did have a job a couple months back, but I left it. My job now is college, and I am sticking to that right now going into library science.
Murphy
Window Licker
I do dog training and I spin fire poi for events and stuff some times. It’s fun! I also work at a restaurant but only cause it’s good extra money and it’s in the same plaza as my dog job. Once I get my lappy top fixed I’m going to try and focus on digital art in my spare time. Hopefully it all works out.
Murphy
Window Licker
What is library science exactly? :O That sounds interesting.
Murphy
Window Licker
What’s your favorite/most memorable event so far? :3I work in live entertainment. AKA backstage stuff for live events like theatre, dance, concerts, theme parks, all that. I mostly work with video projectors but also do some audio and painting too
Kangaloon
New Member
Oh gosh they're all memorable in their ways, mostly because every show is actually a disaster Lmao! I've never worked an event that ran 100% smoothly.
It's always a good fun time when the projectors die in the middle of the show, and there's just a blue screen or worse, a windows home screen showing in front of a live audience xD Some of my more stressful moments have been troubleshooting computer systems in the middle of a performance and trying to get it up and working ASAP
I guess my favorite is one musical that I ran audio on, a bunch of my friends were in it and it was a relatively nice experience with only a few minor problems. I was just really proud of my friends on stage and I have a lot of happy memories from that one!
Simo
Professional Watermelon Farmer
Don't believe him! He's actually a very attractive swimsuit model.
A-ha! And so I found the person who lost my luggage at O'Hare...finally!
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Me, I work at a large university library, supervising student staff at the main desk, and helping users with disabilities, and various other library things. Oddly, though working in a library is typically pretty quiet, it can get a lot nosier than one thinks, especially the main desk, and 'learning commons' areas, where all the public computers/group study areas are. But it's a great environment, to work at a University of some 40,000 students; there's a huge deal of diversity, and I love to hear people's story's of the places they are from, and am happy to see so many people of various background, religions and nationalities getting along.
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GarthTheWereWolf
Captious Lycanthrope of Forum Legend
Simo
Professional Watermelon Farmer
Uh, oh! And here's me, that relates a lot more to Jack Nicholson, in that film. You're not gonna get me to take any of those damn pills!
GarthTheWereWolf
Captious Lycanthrope of Forum Legend
Uh, oh! And here's me, that relates a lot more to Jack Nicholson, in that film. You're not gonna get me to take any of those damn pills!
Whelp, you're free to refuse. Unless you're Qawi'd of course. Then its an IM injection for you whether you like it or not.
And Mr. McMurphy was an obnoxious malingerer. We get them all the time because mental hospitals are a much cushier place to serve out a sentence than prison. Sometimes we can document their behaviors and prove they're faking it. Sometimes we can't and we're stuck with em. And also like Mr. McMurphy many of them make the mistake of making plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and then discover once they get here that that means they wont be released until the doctors deem their mental illness to be in remission and that they are no longer a danger to society. Which more often than not means they'll be stuck there longer than if they just served normal prison sentence.
Never take a not guilty by reason of insanity plea people. That's my advice to you all. <;
Simo
Professional Watermelon Farmer
Thanks, nurse. I'll bear this in mind!
Odd, despite all the talk these days about depression, therapy, medications, and how much less stigma is attached to mental health, and seeking help, one thing I have noted that is still not openly discussed:
Mental hospitals, and what it is like to be in one. Of all the pieces in the NYT, on television, and all around the media, it's something I have hardly ever seen discussed, and seems to remain a rather taboo topic.
malibu
Well-Known Member
I'm a video editor, graphic designer, and web developer rolled into the job title of Multimedia Specialist. I film/edit/color correct videos, create motion graphics, design logos, develop print material, design web UI/UX, code the layouts, and do front end/back end coding.
I also doodle cartoon animals on the side.
I also doodle cartoon animals on the side.
pheonix
back'n up back'n up
I'm a manager at a pet store. Retail is pretty horrible but they pay pretty well.
Never realized how lazy people are till I started working there. Instead of doing research on an animal they want they get it, find out how hard it is to take care of it, then want to get rid of it. Someone left a rabbit in our store and just left. People are pretty terrible.
Never realized how lazy people are till I started working there. Instead of doing research on an animal they want they get it, find out how hard it is to take care of it, then want to get rid of it. Someone left a rabbit in our store and just left. People are pretty terrible.
SwirlyLion
Dizzy Lion!
I am currently a student studying in Drawing and Painting and New Media Art! I used to work retail at Petsmart! Had to quit for college, didn't have the time to keep up with it!
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ScrewLoose
Guest
Sheet metal worker and machinist.
Seems I'm one of the only young people left willing to take upon this trade
Seems I'm one of the only young people left willing to take upon this trade
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raaky-draws
Guest
I'm a software engineer - at least, until I can get a career as a self-employed electronic music producer off the ground. Started playing with music production software a couple years ago and I really like it, so that's what I want to do long term. It's a long way from here to there though.
On a side note, if anyone needs any melodies composed or weird sound effects created, let me know!
On a side note, if anyone needs any melodies composed or weird sound effects created, let me know!
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raaky-draws
Guest
Dang that's ballsy. I took the safe route. Good luck to you!
Solid advice. I hear big pharma is where all the money is these days.
Firuthi Dragovic
World Serpent, overly defensive
Well, my job title says "Marketing Associate", but... without going into too many details, it's in the financial industry and my main job is sorting out the mess my boss inherited from a previous manager.
Should, yes. Unfortunately, the closest I've ever gotten to customer service is call center work a few years back and... I've been repeatedly told I got an exceptionally BAD scenario, but rigid protocols and time limits so tight you basically HAD to ignore protocol to make it (5 minutes if it's about phone lines, 10 minutes if it's about broadband - yeah, telecom industry) have pretty much fatally poisoned any perception I have of working customer service, even without involving phone calls.
Should, yes. Unfortunately, the closest I've ever gotten to customer service is call center work a few years back and... I've been repeatedly told I got an exceptionally BAD scenario, but rigid protocols and time limits so tight you basically HAD to ignore protocol to make it (5 minutes if it's about phone lines, 10 minutes if it's about broadband - yeah, telecom industry) have pretty much fatally poisoned any perception I have of working customer service, even without involving phone calls.
Folhester
Smutty Scribbler
Lol I know your feel
I'm in the Training Team of a Call Center, and I conceive trainings focused on soft skills, like how to argue better about the product you're selling or how to answer better to objections, in order to ensure a better quality customer service. The employees are supposed to have one hour a week to do these trainings.
3 weeks after a big push, we learn that their teamleaders didn't let them do the training hours cause they'd rather have them sell more lol
So they end up with 100 shitty calls with few sales instead of like 50 quality calls with better conversion rate and customer satisfaction.
No wonder why my Call Center ended up last on a national customer service contest they were so hyped about.
JinxiFox
Insanity can be such a beautiful thing.
"All these people in the thread with fairly good jobs makes me wonder what went right with you guys, so awesome job!
I currently work in retail, which is looked down upon because it's a dead-end job and I'm only getting a few hours a week, but I live with someone so it's only really important that I'm at least working. I have an associate's degree and a certificate in graphic design, but I also live somewhere super small where you really can't find anything with those degrees. It doesn't help that jobs that are heavy labor-based have caused me to have injuries I've seen doctors for and customer-facing jobs make it difficult to hide my anxiety issues, so I'm made to choose the lesser of 2 evils here.
I am still trying to do commissions for art and graphic design goodies. I've gone at it for 3 months but only got 4 clients so far (my boyfriend, my mom, her friend, and a tumblr friend), so hopefully I can get more in the future by taking different approaches. I hope for a day in the distant future where I can just work on my art for the rest of my life or at least work somewhere comfortable."
I have a storied educational background. (i.e. Started out for a science major with an art minor, ex-husband stole my tuition money and too me awhile to start back up and then I went for a more of engineering graphics with a minor in psych/development)
So getting a job became a hassle because I kept getting "You don't have a lot of experience with blah."
I hold a degree in Engineering graphics, art history and I was almost at a flight theory, but scholarships and grants aint what they used to be and student loans was never on the table.
With these degrees, I have worked;
plenty of retail gigs
temporary drafting positions with various petrol-chemical companies (never again)
light construction
home health care giver
hospice care giver
repairing marine propellers at my uncle's shop
clergy for hire
vet tech
dog groomer
teacher (high school special education)
a consulate courier (basically running documents between foreign consulates and state department buildings)
plenty of low level office gigs
a professional body piercer
belly dancer and palm/tarot card reader at at themed club
Bartender and bar manager
Drawing and project archivist
street performer
freakshow performer
a client case manager for a non profit orginaztion (read that as a social worker with out the certification)
And now here I am, at 45, a total mess of anxiety and a freelance bum (as my dad calls me) I guess my point is that ANY JOB IS A REAL JOB. You put in the hours, you do the work, get paid and deal with the bullshit that comes with the job; therefor it's a real job.
I currently work in retail, which is looked down upon because it's a dead-end job and I'm only getting a few hours a week, but I live with someone so it's only really important that I'm at least working. I have an associate's degree and a certificate in graphic design, but I also live somewhere super small where you really can't find anything with those degrees. It doesn't help that jobs that are heavy labor-based have caused me to have injuries I've seen doctors for and customer-facing jobs make it difficult to hide my anxiety issues, so I'm made to choose the lesser of 2 evils here.
I am still trying to do commissions for art and graphic design goodies. I've gone at it for 3 months but only got 4 clients so far (my boyfriend, my mom, her friend, and a tumblr friend), so hopefully I can get more in the future by taking different approaches. I hope for a day in the distant future where I can just work on my art for the rest of my life or at least work somewhere comfortable."
I have a storied educational background. (i.e. Started out for a science major with an art minor, ex-husband stole my tuition money and too me awhile to start back up and then I went for a more of engineering graphics with a minor in psych/development)
So getting a job became a hassle because I kept getting "You don't have a lot of experience with blah."
I hold a degree in Engineering graphics, art history and I was almost at a flight theory, but scholarships and grants aint what they used to be and student loans was never on the table.
With these degrees, I have worked;
plenty of retail gigs
temporary drafting positions with various petrol-chemical companies (never again)
light construction
home health care giver
hospice care giver
repairing marine propellers at my uncle's shop
clergy for hire
vet tech
dog groomer
teacher (high school special education)
a consulate courier (basically running documents between foreign consulates and state department buildings)
plenty of low level office gigs
a professional body piercer
belly dancer and palm/tarot card reader at at themed club
Bartender and bar manager
Drawing and project archivist
street performer
freakshow performer
a client case manager for a non profit orginaztion (read that as a social worker with out the certification)
And now here I am, at 45, a total mess of anxiety and a freelance bum (as my dad calls me) I guess my point is that ANY JOB IS A REAL JOB. You put in the hours, you do the work, get paid and deal with the bullshit that comes with the job; therefor it's a real job.