Yes...I must know everything :P

[Amber Eyes]

I've noticed we have people from many different walks of life here on Althanas. I know we have lawyers, tax accountants, students, stay at home parents, even a couple athletes. So my question to you guys is, what do you do?

I'm the GM of a Zaxby's. For those of you who don't live in the southeast United States, it's a quick casual (fancy fast food) chicken joint. I absolutely love what I do, but it takes up a ton of time (I put in anywhere from 50-80 hours every week) and Sei had to leave his job to stay home with our kids.

[Venessian]

I'm a professional slacker. I went to college and now I smoke a lot of pot and spend my days in a debauch of girlfriend and partying on weekends. Also, I play a lot of dungeons and dragons. I used to do yoga (Let's Yoga DS) but I've been slacking on that too.

Drugs, drinking, and writing for the win.

[Letho]

I've been working in digital printing for a little over a year and a half. It's a pretty dull job on the best of days, definitely not something I enjoy doing, but the pay is decent for this part of the world, the hours are rather good (40-50 per week) and it's usually not a very hard job to do. I don't see myself doing it much longer, though. I have this urge to change jobs every couple of years, once I get bored with the work and the environment or just generally tired of it. However, seeing as I'm starting to build a house, I don't think I can afford the insecurity of switching jobs right now, especially with the world's economy going down the drain and whatnot. :P

[Jasmine]

At present, I work for a company called Merry Maids. Basically, I go clean people's houses for them. Fun. (not) My last day will be next Friday the 19th, since I've already proven to myself (last fall) that I cannot work this particular job and do well in school at the same time. >.< So I'm kinda job searching right now too. (Yay! [/sarcasm])

I'm also a college student. I'm going for a BA in Early Childhood Development & Education. Once I get that, I want to go further and get a Master's in Early Special Education (birth thru 5 years). I'm not gonna bore everyone with the details of going that far here. If you want to know, feel free to just ask me in the chat or whatever, cause i'll happily share. It's just a bit of a long story for this.

[Wynken]

I'm the information systems administrator at a mid-sized corporation. Basically I do network engineering/administration and also manage information security/risk, business continuity, and other areas of regulatory compliance. In addition to that, I just started my own consultancy in November, and I have one business client that I manage IT for.

[Silence Sei]

Right now, I'm a stay at home father of 3. I also cook (sometimes), clean (decently), and take care of the guinea pig (Named Ezio Auditore de Firenze Gardner :P )

[Elrundir]

Been working for the past year doing full-time reception work at the clinic in Canada's only chiropractic college, because in this day and age that is what you do with a Bachelor degree. I'll be heading back to school in about a month to study Radiation Therapy and continuing to work here part-time until I'm done. Then, with a little luck, I'll find myself a job in one of the hospitals in lovely downtown Toronto. Assuming the world hasn't gone to shit by then. :p

[Mordelain]

I just graduated with a stupid high (and useless) classification of BA in Sociology, Criminology & Criminal Justice.

I'm intending to start an MRes whilst working 20 hours a work at a removal and storage company in North Wales, as an admin assistant and business strategist. I'm starting training to take on the role of Transport Manager in January too; this is me set for 4 years hopefully!

Then onto a PHD...then lecturing.

I also paint models, write too much, spend far too much time in the cinema and frequent the beach.

Word.

[Venessian]

Been working for the past year doing full-time reception work at the clinic in Canada's only chiropractic college, because in this day and age that is what you do with a Bachelor degree. I'll be heading back to school in about a month to study Radiation Therapy and continuing to work here part-time until I'm done. Then, with a little luck, I'll find myself a job in one of the hospitals in lovely downtown Toronto. Assuming the world hasn't gone to shit by then. :p

Hilarious. I went to Humber lakeshore in T.dot and when I was living in Toronto I lived not too far from there.

[Vigil]

Going to school for my BA in psychology. Following up and going to go for my doctorate in Clinical Psychology and get licensed so I can practice. All bodes well, I should have a job already lined up before I even get out of grad school.

Not much of a future with just a bachelor's degree in anything any more. Especially psychology. Those that just try to find job security with that end up spending a decent chunk of their lives fetching coffee for the people who went to grad school and got their doctorates and masters. =P

[Jack Frost]

I'm a junior in high school (hooray for not being able to vote!), I play the trombone in our marching band (why do I keep giving yall things to laugh about?) I live in Texas and currently slack off any chance I get. I plan on majoring in engineering, hopefully going to UTD or Virginia Tech. I dabble in robotics and as of this year, Computer Aided Drafting. No Drugs, no parties, no girlfriends in almost a year...

I also play Magic the Gathering, but very casually.

[Silence Sei]

Wow Jack.... you are such a nerd. I mean, Magic? Really? REALLY?! Dork.

<~~~~~ Secretly plays Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers on PS3.

[orphans]

I'm a junior in high school (hooray for not being able to vote!), I play the trombone in our marching band (why do I keep giving yall things to laugh about?) I live in Texas and currently slack off any chance I get. I plan on majoring in engineering, hopefully going to UTD or Virginia Tech. I dabble in robotics and as of this year, Computer Aided Drafting. No Drugs, no parties, no girlfriends in almost a year...

I also play Magic the Gathering, but very casually.

If you plan on engineering... all I can suggest is SLACK OFF AS MUCH AS YOU CAN NOW! Without grades dropping, of course. Engineering is... tough, to say the least. I was attempting that route my freshmen year in college and did not fare so well.

Rather... every other week without sleep and assignments that I start as soon as I get back to the dorm and finished at 4 am next morning for a class at 7:30 am is not fun.

... I like to play too much to make it in that so... I chose business related courses :D!

Thus... I am now an office drone inside a windowless room inside a section of the room known as, "The Cage," because... it literally is a giant cage inside the room...

Yeah... the work isn't so fun where I am, but the people are, so it's all good :D

[Wynken]

MTG is fantastic. Or was...considering I haven't played in earnest since around 6th edition, and the last cards I bought were 4th edition. Used to clean house in 3rd edition and revised tourneys.

I tried to teach my wife to play. That was fun. I told her how to tap land, so she touched it rapidly with her index finger. Close enough.

[Sagequeen]

I'm a radio dj. On the side I do voiceovers and web design. And music. Busy, busy!

[CaitieGirl]

I'm a second year student going for a BA in Philsophy. For the summer I'm working as a waitress at a small, family run place. I hate it with a passion. I'm going to be glad to be finished on the 21st. I'm not getting near as much writing done as I'd like.

[Skie and Avery]

I'm a full time student in the last nine weeks for my Associates in Elementary Education, however my bachelor's program is a BS in Environmental Science. I intend to do an alternative route to teaching licensure after I have my bachelor's and teach science at the 6-8 grade level while I work on my Masters. I work from home right now, babysitting two 8 month old infants and a 2 and a half year old. Sometimes I make extra cash by selling my handicrafts or commissioned artwork. I think everyone knows that my biggest and most daunting responsibility is keeping Zook Murnig alive.

[Inkfinger]

I currently (well, not this week, I am off this week) work full time at a Daycare Center (summers: 1st through 5th grade, fall, winter and spring: 1st through 5th, followed by 4 year olds), but my Bachelor's is in Elementary and Early Childhood Education. I'm certified to teach K-8th grade, and in about 3 days (it was supposed to be today, but surprise surprise the Praxis score date got pushed back again) I'll possibly be certified as a Library Media Specialist.

I'm currently working on getting all the massive piles of paperwork together to actually launch myself into the teaching job market, but that's a bit intimidating right now. I'm also getting my application packet together to start going to grad school for my MLS/American Library Association certification, which would enable me to work in pretty much any library in the country.

In my free time I write things, read things and occasionally draw things. Hooray?

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

Sagequeen stealin' my thunder!

I too am a radio DJ, based in Upstate New York. It's a tremendous amount of fun. The only thing I don't have my grubby paws in here is the sales department--which I'm allergic to.

[Inkfinger]

I'm a radio dj. On the side I do voiceovers and web design. And music. Busy, busy!


Sagequeen stealin' my thunder!

I too am a radio DJ, based in Upstate New York. It's a tremendous amount of fun. The only thing I don't have my grubby paws in here is the sales department--which I'm allergic to.

So jealous of all of y'all, by the by. If I hadn't thought (at the time I entered school) education was a safer bet (ha ha ha, self. Ha), communications was my next choice. I got to be a dj on the school station for two semesters, and it was the most fun I had in my entire college career.

So yeah, totally jealous. ;)

[RumpleGrumblePuss]

I'm a housemouse (slow immigration paper work and all that crap) with an associates degree in culinary arts. I kill time by tormenting my husband, 4 cats and far too many video games.

[Sagequeen]

Sagequeen stealin' my thunder!

I too am a radio DJ, based in Upstate New York. It's a tremendous amount of fun. The only thing I don't have my grubby paws in here is the sales department--which I'm allergic to.

I avoid sales like the black plague of horrificly slow and flatulent death.


So jealous of all of y'all, by the by. If I hadn't thought (at the time I entered school) education was a safer bet (ha ha ha, self. Ha), communications was my next choice. I got to be a dj on the school station for two semesters, and it was the most fun I had in my entire college career.

So yeah, totally jealous. ;)

I actually went to college for communications. Then I realized after the first semester that the year of experience I'd racked up board-op'ing my senior year was worth more than a 4 year degree as far as getting an actual job in radio. Amazingly I got the first job I applied for, in a smaller, but still major market city. The rest is history.

If I ever wanted to do the college thing again, I'd go for broadcast engineering. Good BE's are SOOO hard to find. But if you really enjoyed it, see if you can board-op or do a show on the weekend. Dependable part-timers/board-ops are notoriously hard to find and it's the surest way to get a foot in the door for the broadcast side of radio.

<3

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

But if you really enjoyed it, see if you can board-op or do a show on the weekend. Dependable part-timers/board-ops are notoriously hard to find and it's the surest way to get a foot in the door for the broadcast side of radio.

<3

This, this, and oh god this. One of my friends started as a board op and traffic reporter, then she got a weekend shift, and now five months later she's doing nights in a medium market college town.

By the way, Sagequeen, my GSM saw the sales comment over my shoulder and laughed. It's pay day. Lol.

[Christoph]

Speaking of sales...

I used to be a door to door salesman for a telecommunications company, but I recently left for a variety of reasons. Currently, I take care of my infirm grandparents, write (both for roleplaying and "for serious"), and bide my time before I return to college for a degree in either English or Psychology. And I also sometimes busk, playing my trumpet on the streets for whatever money people toss my way. I'm like a stationary vagabond who takes showers. XD

[SirArtemis]

I...
...
...
hate my life...

Let's see what said life entails.

I graduated May 2010 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Operations Management. I focused in Finance, had a second major in Economics, and also got a minor in Information Technology. I have practical experience in doing financial analysis but hate it. I also graduated with honors from the honors program. I worked as a Resident Assistant for 5 semesters and racked up a lot of experience, awards and extracurricular.

Yet I live at home with my parents in NYC, working part time for Gamestop (I have since about February). I also do some volunteer work for a retired professor from the university I graduated from - specifically, I help manage his website with another individual, posting information and articles and events. I get a small stipend now which is nice. However, my life is gar-bah-hey (garbage) and so I plan to attempt to enter a masters/ph.d. program in either Economics or Sociology so that I could either enter the government sector more easily or become a professor.

I'm also single and emo (not the makeup and black outfit wearing - just the sad kind).

[Max Dirks]

I'm a lawyer, who works as a Home Theater Supervisor at Best Buy. Very lucrative, I know...

[The International]

I'm retired.





















.... And 25

[SandStorm]

Haha, man you guys are so productive.

I'm a professional mixed martial artist who spends 6+ hours a day (6 days a week) working out, getting beaten/bruised, and staying in shape. Fighting has been something I've been doing, and training in, since I was a youngster with a chip on his shoulder. I'm 22 now and building my own gym (The Phatlip Compound) in the Midwest of America which is being generiously sponsored by one of my sponsors. Pretty soon here (after my next fight at the end of August) you can expect to see me fighting for Bellator on MTV2, for the Featherweight division, and once I go through that hopefully the UFC in about a year. So tune in.

As far as my freetime goes, I have a lot of it. I wake up at about 2a.m. everyday and play PS3 with my buddies back home till about 6 in the morning. After that I get my day going, which includes three different two hour workouts, a lunchtime nap, and a bunch of nasty-health food that I'd rather not eat.

As far as personal life goes... I have none, besides the occasional post-fight party. I'm 1200 miles away from my home with a bunch of country-bumpkins who I steer clear of at all costs. It'll pay off someday soon, but honestly I'd rather be back home smoking herbs and partying sometimes.

[Savas Tigh]

Starting senior year with a major in Political Science and a minor in Spanish. Had a second Major in English but, depending on how the year goes, I'll probably drop it so I can make quicker progress on getting into graduate school. Aiming for an MA in international relations, followed by a PhD. Failing that, I might go for a Masters in Public Administration.

Long term goals right now boil down to a job with the State Department, followed by a Professorship. Preferably on the West Coast. Tired of the Southeast.

[Vigil]

Haha, man you guys are so productive.

I'm a professional mixed martial artist who spends 6+ hours a day (6 days a week) working out, getting beaten/bruised, and staying in shape. Fighting has been something I've been doing, and training in, since I was a youngster with a chip on his shoulder. I'm 22 now and building my own gym (The Phatlip Compound) in the Midwest of America which is being generiously sponsored by one of my sponsors. Pretty soon here (after my next fight at the end of August) you can expect to see me fighting for Bellator on MTV2, for the Featherweight division, and once I go through that hopefully the UFC in about a year. So tune in.

As far as my freetime goes, I have a lot of it. I wake up at about 2a.m. everyday and play PS3 with my buddies back home till about 6 in the morning. After that I get my day going, which includes three different two hour workouts, a lunchtime nap, and a bunch of nasty-health food that I'd rather not eat.

As far as personal life goes... I have none, besides the occasional post-fight party. I'm 1200 miles away from my home with a bunch of country-bumpkins who I steer clear of at all costs. It'll pay off someday soon, but honestly I'd rather be back home smoking herbs and partying sometimes.

If I ended up going through what you did, I'd want to fight people for a living too. Instead I'm learning how to put people back together. *thumbs up*

[Slayer of the Rot]

I don't do anything. I eat a bunch of drugs, leech off the government, and write. In October I work at a haunted house every year. I basically do some jobs once in a while that pay me under the table, and most of the time I live with friends for months on end and live on their couches.

I am the american dream.

[Sagequeen]

This is probably one of the most interesting posts I have read. ^^

The most unexpected is SandStorm the UFC hopeful. Props! My husband got me into it a while back; I was drawn in by my (limited) experience in martial arts. I was the only chick in my class to actually break the boards, lmao. Freakin 8th degree black belt who flew in from Korea was our overseer, Master Lim. (But I screwed up on the language/verbal test.) My teacher was on America's Got Talent the season before last, made it through first cut... the arrogant guy named Chip (http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/jun/03/abilene-talent-breaking-through/) who named his team after himself.

Sandstorm, I hope I see you there. Though I doubt I'll know if it's you. Unless you PM me your name. Then I'll root for ya and not stalk. I promise.

[Vigil]

I don't do anything. I eat a bunch of drugs, leech off the government, and write. In October I work at a haunted house every year. I basically do some jobs once in a while that pay me under the table, and most of the time I live with friends for months on end and live on their couches.

I am the american dream.

You're like the shining posterchild for Social Welfare.

Joe the Plumber 2012?

[Sagequeen]

You're like the shining posterchild for Social Welfare.

Joe the Plumber 2012?

At least he's level 9.

[Atzar]

I'm on the cusp of graduating with a BA in Economics. I'm also realizing that this piece of paper isn't going to do me any good at all without prior relevant job experience, which I really don't have. So I need an Econ job to get an Econ job. Fucking wonderful.

So it's looking like more school for me. I'll probably go back for awhile to take some classes in finance/accounting. That might broaden my skillset enough to get me straight into a decent job, but I'm expecting to just use it to bolster my GPA to go for graduate school somewhere.

[Vigil]

I'm on the cusp of graduating with a BA in Economics. I'm also realizing that this piece of paper isn't going to do me any good at all without prior relevant job experience, which I really don't have. So I need an Econ job to get an Econ job. Fucking wonderful.

So it's looking like more school for me. I'll probably go back for awhile to take some classes in finance/accounting. That might broaden my skillset enough to get me straight into a decent job, but I'm expecting to just use it to bolster my GPA to go for graduate school somewhere.

Get money. Watch some Mad Money. Play the stock market.

Problem solved? =P

Some peers of mine went into labor economics. I know one of them will be heading to graduate school in the future, but he really advocates Kramer and is bright enough that he said he might be looking at a career in the stock market eventually. Rob those bastards on Wall Street. Fuck knows they've done it to the rest of us. Repeatedly.

[Atzar]

I follow that stuff a bit. It's something I'd definitely look into in the future, but it takes a lot of money to make a lot of money at that.

[Jasmine]

Which is why my ultimate dream is to get married to a guy that makes enough money with his job, that my job is like a giant icing flower on a cake: totally unnecessary, but nice all the same. Cause in all honesty, private childcare is not going to be very lucrative since i'll only be able to take a few kids at any one time.

[Slayer of the Rot]

At least he's level 9.

Not as hard as you think. Just do a lot of MQ's and FQ's and the Adventurer's Crown if it ever happens again. Easy fat stacks of exp.

[Silence Sei]

Not as hard as you think. Just do a lot of MQ's and FQ's and the Adventurer's Crown if it ever happens again. Easy fat stacks of exp.

Ladies and Gentleman, this will be the only time Dan will ever use the term 'Easy fat stacks', and not be referring to some sort of drug.

Just sayin.

[Knave]

I'm turning 21 soon, and I'm not happy about it in the least, nothing special. I tend to do things that I like until I get sick of them, in all things. Quickly. So drinking and meth are things I'm going to pass on just in case I begin to take a liking to the habit.

On the other side of the spectrum, when things become boring, I subconsciously move away from them, if I had a kidney stone I'd probably stop drinking just to avoid dealing with it. I am actually too lazy to sleep. It is boring. You know what its like to dream about working at Publix? I do.

I work at my college library, play SGA rep for the Philosophy Club, and spend my days trying to stave off increasing levels of boredom and disinterest. I have a massive caffeine addiction, not something I need consciously, but nothing feels right without it, and best of all: I keep forgetting about it. I think I have ADD.

Bottom line: I avoid structure, when I'm not fixating on something that may be and is usually not important I have no idea what I'm doing, I get nervous about AIM conversations, I am a tight-ass, I spend way too much time watching cartoons (Monkey Dust is awesome), I am mostly normal, I live in chaos, I am telling you nothing about me, all things not explicitly stated that you might fancy to be true are likely false. I like stress. I am often told I have a great voice. I don't like compliments. I find this hilarious. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWw5YdW57Es) I don't know what I'm doing, ever. I feel a horrifying kinship with Jon Arbuckle. I don't have normal people problems because what I consider a problem is fundamentally different from the way most people value a problem.

I like working myself up into a nicely contained frenzy.

[Inkfinger]

And as of 9:30 this morning, I am a librarian. \o/

[Visla Eraclaire]

I'm the employed lawyer. That's why Max runs a message board and I just drop by to make fun of shit on a bi-monthly basis.

Seriously though, hopefully the industry gets a lot better soon. Tons of well qualified people sitting on their hands. Well, that's true everywhere, but I only feel bad for the lawyers.

[Logan]

I have the pleasure of working from home now doing tech support work. I work for a third party tech support provider who handles the tech support for a few lesser ISPs, though apparently some of them are well known in some areas. Anywho, I love what I do, and I do it full time (which means benefits). Unfortunately, I work graveyards to do what I do, and thus I am rarely on when most are now. Which means I should actually be able to find some sort of comfortable flow to work multiple threads (haven't been able to say that in a LONG time).

[Grandjester]

I'm currently doing a TAFE course that will give me an ATAR score I need to get into university for further study. For Americans, what I just said translates (I think...) to something like "I'm doing a bridging course into college because I didn't finish highschool". As for what I plan to do, I have no idea. I have absolutely no passion for anything these days, I'm in quite the slump. Basically just doing this course so that I have something to stand on if I ever get a spark ignited.

[Khaian Memory]

I'm an accountant, believe it or not, a fully fledged Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians.

I wanted to be an Astronaut.