What do you do for a living?

[Nachende]

I just have to ask this question in every forum I join, but I'm most interested in you guys. What's your job or career? Do you like it, and how'd you get started doing that? If you don't like it, what's your dream job?

I'm currently a university grad with a BA in English Composition, and I work at a dollar store. I'm looking for something better, obviously, but I have no idea what I want.

No, that's not true. I want to move out and live somewhere that's not New Jersey. Anything else is secondary. *nods*

[Elijah_Morendale]

For now, I'm an electronics department associate at Wal-Mart.

When I grow up, I want to go into journalism or radio news, but my dream job would be a morning show host at a rock radio station.

Imagine, if you will, getting paid a decent amount to act like a little kid for four hours a day!

[Witchblade]

At the moment I somehow hold two jobs.

I'm an early morning stock person at Michael's, which is an arts and crafts store if you didn't know.

I'm also a Projectionist at Silver City.

The projectionist position wouldn't be so bad if I didn't work with fucking retards who don't do any work or barely understand how to thread a projector properly and scratch up the prints. *sigh*

Dream job... lets see, I want to be an author and already have several storylines for novels in the making. I'm also extremely interested in jewellery making.

[Cyrus the virus]

I'm a university independent student with no major as of yet. I have about a week to apply for the Winter semester, but might wait until next Fall. My GPA is decent enough that I can apply for any undergrad program, woo.

I'm also a busboy at a tourist-attraction dinner theater. It's very interactive and fun. I pour soup into a bowl, then subtly switch it for an empty one, then the actors pretend to throw it in some unsuspecting person's face, but of course the bowl is empty. Haha sucker.

I make good money but don't get enough hours, so I'm kinda-sorta looking for a second job.

[Red Lightning]

Just getting out of high school. My dream job is being a writer and game designer, and I am already working on those, but right now I have my own job of making sure my gf doesn't go crazy from her job. Lmao.

[Corvus MacCallum]

Was a media and drama student for awhile, worked as a fitter (mechanic) on road sweepers for a few summers and had a hell of a horrible time working at a call center handling calls from the National Blood Service. These days unemployed and searching out work.

Dream job is quite a few things all in the entertainment industry, writer, director, actor, voice actor and various other similiarly titled jobs.

[Amaril Torrun]

I've been working at Publix Supermarket for over 4 years now in too many positions to count. I get paid less than the people just starting out even though I've been told by almost every manager that I'm the hardest worker. Needless to say, I've got a much better job lined up and coming in December (management of a coffee shop).

I'm an English major.

I'm an aspiring author and want to teach English or Creative Writing on the college and high school levels.

[Zook Murnig]

Sophomore full-time student at VCU (go Rams, undefeated in football!) and part time office assistant at Food Lion. I hate my job.

I'm licensed as a nurse. Licensed Practical Nurse, to be exact. But I haven't gotten a nursing job yet. Working on that.

My dream job? I want to work in the pediatric ward at St. Mary's (one of the best hospitals in Richmond). Either that or in the maternity ward there. >.>

[Ataraxis]

So many... openings for pregger jokes... can't... choose. Damn you, Zook!

I am a hobo in a box. I pay for internet and electricity with pennies from the cold, wintry streets of Canadia. Yes, there are special net providers for us!

We also have bears. They're MAGIC.

Unemployed, stuck in the devilry that is post-secondary/pre-university, also known as Cegep.

I mow lawns, give pedicures and shiatzu massages. You can find me on the street corners, downtown.

[Cyrus the virus]

Stupid fellow Montrealers who don't even want to meet me. You make me feel self-conscious.

[Messenger]

I currently work at a surf shop and I'm a student in high school. After I get out of High School I'm joining the Marine Corps.

[Elijah_Morendale]

Corvus, if you're looking for VA practice, I've got a radio drama group that's working on a fantasy satire, and we could always use an extra set of pipes...


This invite is open to all here who have means to record themselves, of course.

[Wulfgang]

im not gunna lie, i still go to school! so if I seem a little juvenile at time its because i still am hehe. I am still in my teens and enjoying every minute, but over the summers I work at a vet clinic as a lab tech =P

[Moonlit Raven]

I'm a not so bored house wife. I take care of the house and husband, torment the cats and husband then do my daily stint in keeping the Bazaar up and running. ^_^


My dream job: I'm not really sure about that. I'm too paranoid to submit my stories to be judged and possibly published being a author is out. I get nervous around people, especially if they are looking at me so a career int he music industry is out too. I guess I would love to design jewelry.:cool:

[Reiko]

I work at Enterprise Rent a Car. I clean cars and pick people up. it's an alright job.

I have no clue what I want to do in the future... I just don't

[Renzokuken]

I work for the Department of Transportation. I feel old.

[Slayer of the Rot]

I smoke rocks and get drunk.

In honky terms, I'm unemployed, for the moment, but I'm looking.

I want to be a full fledged author as a "dream" job, although the real dream job is fucking good looking women and getting paid for it. Also, to have a mustache.

[Serilliant]

I'm currently a law student at Lewis and Clark School of Law in Portland, Oregon. I'm not sure what or if I'll practice after graduation.

I also currently work for the Princeton Review teaching GRE and LSAT and am also certified for SAT.

Ideally, I want to start my own business after I graduate either in a law or non-law related field. My two ideas right now involve admissions consulting for graduate school students to be or a small partnership with another law buddy of mine doing malpractice defense in healthcare.

My future's pretty much up in the air, as it were.

[Messenger]

I have an idea!

Well When I ever go on active duty I will write down little journal entries of my time spent on the war zone or wherever else I may be and maybe turn it into a book.

[Abenaki]

I graduated college in May, and now work full time as a software engineer for a data archiving service. It's good work, with good pay, so I'm pretty content for now.

My dream job would be to play cards for a living, living it big in Las Vegas, but I'm way to realistic about my chances to go for that. I may clean house at my home games, but doing it full time would be another matter entirely.

[HikariAngel]

My current job? Surviving college. I've been an unloader at Wal-Mart before for three years, but I didn't like it really. It was just a job.

My dream job is... I really don't know. I'd like to be a teacher, but I'd also like to be an editor. It's really up in the air what I want to do for a dream job.

[Skie and Avery]

I was a certified nurses' assistant for three years, and then went on to trucking for a while. 18 wheels and all. That would make my mortal enemy that sorry son of a bitch who left Althanas forever ago and didn't keep in touch with the Manda:


I work for the Department of Transportation. I feel old.

Now I'm a teacher for one and two year olds at a child development center. Trying to get a second job because everyone knows that teachers are paid crap, especially the ones who aren't real teachers. Someone's gotta put the gas in Mrs. Robinson.

Also, I give all sorts of "jobs" to people. Mostly Zook, but everyone around here knows I've got mah hunnie bunnies. That's why Zook wants to work in maternity, so he can be the first person to make sure the kid isn't half Columbian or Croatian. ^_~

[AdventWings]

I'mma best-seller novelist.

;)

OK! Just joking! For real, I'm a third year Biology student studying for a degree in Ecology. After that, I'm either going to head for UC San Diego or Down Under (depends on my final grades) and go into Marine Ecology. Or... just plain... you know. Ecology. But anything that has to do with fixing this whacked-out environment we have right now.

Dream job is... Marine Ecologist. And writing novels for a living on the side. I've already got 3 unfinished stories with lots of potential that just needs time to finish.

So, for now, I judge threads here on Althanas for a living. :D

Myao.

[Max Dirks]

I am a practicing alcoholic.

I also attend Creighton Law School in Omaha, and plan to work for the State Department when I graduate.

[Artifex Felicis]

Attempting to be a practicing Epicurean

Also in school, attempting to get into Industrial Design.

Failing at that, I plan to design the next hooooooooodge video game and make millions and bring video games to be viewed as things that can achieve High Art.

[Sidhe]

I'm a third-year full-time physics student well on track to make it in the not-so-standard four years. I've held a couple of part-time jobs, but never really needed the money so I eventually left when bosses got ridiculous or coworker drama got too irritating to make up for the meager monetary compensation. They range from a McDonald’s where my male supervisor got a crush on me and kept scheduling us together to a nice job at my university organizing big events. The problem with the latter was the uneasy feeling of having to conform to what they called a “productive worker”. They kept sending us to retreats to bond as a team.

I'm aiming toward my dream job as we speak. If I can get paid decently to do research on the physical laws that govern our reality for the rest of my life, I'll be as content as can be. I also like teaching, so I intend to be a professor while I go for all my post-grad stuff. I’ve been unofficially tutoring in math since my freshman year, even classes I was taking at the time, and I’ve been told I can translate the abstract into layman’s terms pretty well. The best part is, there’s not that much competition in my field of interest and I can make myself stand out with good grades (3.8 in-major) and an open sociability lacking in most of my peers.

Oh, like many of you, I also have a novel in mind. I’ve been working out details for months, but it’s definitely more solid now than when I started. I simply love the creative process involved. I feel it may be its own reward even if I never finish. I suppose I should thank Althanas for training me, because I know my writing is well above average and that’s helped a lot with essays and the like in the course of my career.

[Vampiric Angel]

I wouldn't really call it a living but, meh..

I load and unload trucks...no, seriously. >.> The only person that probably has/had a job closely related would be Manda, since she drove an eighteen wheeler for a while. I basically unload shipments from other places, then load up trucks from those shipments, to be transported locally. The main thing we do are appliances, i.e. Whirlpool, Maytag. Oh, and next time you get the urge to move a double stack of Maytag Ranges -- (ovens) -- don't. Plus, the job makes me wake up at 3 am every morning. Trust me, I am not a pleasent morning person.

I will be attending IUPUI in January. I hope to major in something English based. Since I want to be an author. I still have kinks to work out but hey, I'm getting there.

[MaxBlade]

I'm 13 so right now I have school, I'm doing college classes yes I'm that smart, in music and acting. I'm a great pianist, and great actor, check my facebook.

I also play piano at different churches occasionally. I get payed a whopping 250$ each time I play for more then a few months.

During the sumemr I work as a paper delivery boy, sacrificing my body (and my mom who drives me) to wake up at 2:00 am in the morning just to pass out some dumb papers. That makes 1000$ Most goes to the house mortage of course, whats a thirteen year old going to do except waste it! *Shouting at mom* When he could be saving it up for college! I also work construction part time during the summer, w/my dad's good friend. So that's my jobs.


I was dead serious about everything up there.

[Corvus MacCallum]

Corvus, if you're looking for VA practice, I've got a radio drama group that's working on a fantasy satire, and we could always use an extra set of pipes...


This invite is open to all here who have means to record themselves, of course.

Only problem with that is that first of all my mic isn't the best of equipment, I always get some fuzz and importantly, I live in Northern Ireland resulting in a rather different dialect and accent, still I'd give it a whack.

[Emma Ross]

I thought I'd posted before but maybe this wasn't cooperating. If I end up double posting, hopefully someone can fix that.

I'm a Quality Assurance Specialist at an internet company and I listen to the calls that regular reps take to make sure they're doing their job correctly. The job requires me to interact with no one whatsoever, and just basically sit at my little cubicle with two monitors and write stuff up all day. A lot of the time spent at work is devoted to nothing O_o I truly have an awesome job, and I love the people I work with. Supervisors are awesome.

My dream job would most likely be an actress.. I'm hoping one day to break out into that profession, but being in Arizona doesn't give you very many opportunities to do something like that.

I'm gonna kick myself if my other post ends up showing up. xD

[Nirov]

I'm currently a college student at UMass Dartmouth.

I have, however, had two jobs.

1.) At a men's wear store called Keezer's that sold Tuxedos and suits, as well as second hand tuxedos and suits. The prices were ridiculously cheap, and I learned a lot about fashion and the proper way to dress. Plus I love'n me some ties.

2.) At Dickson Bros. Hardware; a rather small family business that sold hardware and houseware, and a lot of random stuff too. It was fun, but I preferred doing register as I don't actually know a damn thing about hardware. But man, was I one fast register-ite.

I loved working at both places. They were both small businesses, and I had friends working with me. Do you know what it's like to swordfight with canes in the basement on a slow day? Or to have political discussions about Cuba in the hammer section?

I suppose my dream job would be retail, like above, that paid more than eight bucks an hour. Something along ten would be good.

[Cyrus the virus]

I load and unload trucks...no, seriously. >.> The only person that probably has/had a job closely related would be Manda

Yeah, that's shipping. I did that for about two years and busted my back up pretty badly. I nearly had a serious accident a few months ago (this is long, long after I stopped working in shipping) when my back locked up while I was doing something at work. I, uh, kind of fucked up my life.


I'm 13 so right now I have school, I'm doing college classes yes I'm that smart

Oh my, that's impressive...


in music and acting.

Oh.

[Melancor]

Nothing, I am not old enough to work. I still have a projected income of 3,233$ a year.

[Ashiakin]

I'm a student studying political science and anthropology at College of Charleston in South Carolina. I'm not sure which is my major/minor yet. I don't work during the school year, but over the summer I generally work in the service department of a car dealership cleaning tools and washing cars and stuff.

I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life aside from put off the decision longer by going to grad school. I'm interested in applied anthropology, exit counseling, and have a wary interest in academia in regards to anthro and poli sci. Ideally, I'd like to be a fantasy/sf novelist, but I don't have the drive or the talent. If someone would pay me to talk about the intersection of leftist politics, anthropology, and fantasy/sf, I'd be so ecstatic that I'd probably die.

[Agnirei]

Sophomore full-time student at VCU (go Rams, undefeated in football!) and part time office assistant at Food Lion. I hate my job.

I'm licensed as a nurse. Licensed Practical Nurse, to be exact. But I haven't gotten a nursing job yet. Working on that.

My dream job? I want to work in the pediatric ward at St. Mary's (one of the best hospitals in Richmond). Either that or in the maternity ward there. >.>

Hey you're in Richmond, I'm from one of the tiny towns 'bout an hour away.

I'm still in Middle School. I want to be a graphic designer or a writer when I get at job age

[Caden Law]

I load and unload trucks...no, seriously. >.>

Done that. Combined with some other things, it damn near wrecked my back. Currently, I'm just another register-monkey at a small store in a tourist town; saving up money to try at college (need to look into financial aid, too).

My end goal is to become an author successful enough to live off my work. I'm currently working on my first try at a publishable novel (which, due to rampant Perfectionism and the fact I'm fricking neurotic, is on its third go-round through the Rewrite Machine), and I've got...three whole consecutive series and two or three sidebooks planned out to some extent in my head, several other universes (and a current 8 or 9 alternate universes), and a combined cast that numbered in around four- or five-hundred last time I felt suicidal enough to count it.

[Stanley Anderson]

I'm currently finishing up my last year of high school, I'm only going about 2 hours a day though. I'm on my senior year and I only have one half credit of math and I'm done. Its a Collage math class, so at least next year I'll be ahead.

I've worked at a local Burger King recently, That was a fun job, because I worked to closing time, and the store is out in BFE (Way out there, for those of you who haven't hear that term) so no one ever came in. It got so boring that me and my buddies would play in the playpen thing for the children. We ended up getting caught in the slide while there was a car in the drive through at about 12:30am. My coworker dove over the desk and got there just as the guy drove away. He got Fired, I just kinda quit.

Before that I worked at a place called Fisher Auto Parts and a delivery boy, but since I actually went to class all day last year, I had to quit because I would only have about 10 hours of work a week, because they closed at 5 .Every once in a while I do graphic art / advertising for a small paper in McMurray, PA. My brother used to work for them, but quit, so they haven't gotten a hold of me for a while.Well, I Modeled for a local shop's brochure, but that was back when I had long hair, I had it all cut off last week, so the ladies haven't been swooning over me so much.



I want to move out and live somewhere that's not New Jersey. Anything else is secondary. *nods*


In that case you might find Voltaire's song "Bomb New Jersey" on his new CD quite funny, I lived there for a few months with relatives, and I hated that damned place. I'm currently living in this place called Fairmont in West Virginia, its about 45 min from Pennsylvania (if you drive like a wimp, it only takes me like 20 min) Anyway, we are the location of the proposed space elevator, so I think I'm going to work at the NASA Center here. Its not like "Wrong Turn" West Virginia, its really beautiful, peaceful, and normal. Except for the first of the month when the psychopaths come out of the hills to bounce their Social Security Checks at the super Wal-Mart =D. 3 biggest Wal-Mart in the country + Apallaichia on the first = Scary.

[Vampiric Angel]

A tip for all those that messed up their back in shipping, i.e. Cyrus and Caden:

Lift with your legs. :P

[Nirov]

In that case you might find Voltaire's song "Bomb New Jersey" on his new CD quite funny, I lived there for a few months with relatives, and I hated that damned place. omfg I'm glad someone else has listened to that CD. I fucking love Ookie Spooky.

[Stanley Anderson]

omfg I'm glad someone else has listened to that CD. I fucking love Ookie Spooky.

Hasn't Left the CD player in my car since I got it.

[Letho]

I work in a factory that makes cardboard boxes. When the stacked boxes come out of the machine and the workers stack them up, I'm the guy who counts them, inputs the number into a computer older then your grandmother and prints out a piece of paper that states how much boxes are there. Then I tie those stacked boxes up, wrap them up in transparent foil and haul them off to shipping. It's a monotonous job, mind-dulling and sometimes even back-braking, but there are worse ways to make ends meet.

I have no idea what my dream job is. If I knew, I probably wouldn't pack cardboard boxes.

[Caden Law]

A tip for all those that messed up their back in shipping, i.e. Cyrus and Caden:

Lift with your legs. :P

I did. :p

[Cyrus the virus]

So did I.

I have no idea how to put a 120-pound bucket on an ankle-tall pallette without using my back. I pretty much had to choose between bad back and bad knees.

Why are the shitty jobs the only ones that pay decently? Ha.

[Emma Ross]

Why are the shitty jobs the only ones that pay decently? Ha.

I dunno, I sit on my ass in front of a computer all day barely doing anything and get paid almost $15/hr for it. I like my job :p

[Caden Law]

I dunno, I sit on my ass in front of a computer all day barely doing anything and get paid almost $15/hr for it. I like my job :p
Die in a fire. Thanks. :p

[Cyrus the virus]

Well yeah, I do an easy busboy job now for about $12. But when I was working in shipping, breaking myself, I was making $25.

THE PRICE OF PAIN BABY :o

[Call me J]

I am a first year graduate student at the University of Iowa in their department of Political Science. I work as a Research Assistant for the department, which basically means I do grunt work that professors would rather not do themselves.

Eventually, I want to be on of those professors assigning grunt work to overburdened graduate students.

[Rok the Blade]

Quite evidently, I kick all kinds of ass in my spare time. Just plain, straight up, hardcore ass. I'm a young man without a job so no gas money, sadly... I'm a student though, so I don't really need one. My living includes staying up all night, writing on Althanas, and doing random stuff with friends.

Thus is the end of Rok.

[Caine Raienbark]

My life consists of school, working on a portfolio for college, writing, working at a local Gamestop, and seeing movies. Lots and lots of movies.

[The Bard]

Right now I work at a surf shop and build skateboards. Funny thing is we don't sell surfboards but it's a surf shop.

In a year or two I already made my 100% choice of joining the Marines.

[Ther]

I have an easy job - I'm a Graduate Student in English Literature specializing in Medieval English, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory. I've also done copy editing work and tutoring on the side.

[Lavinian Ambition]

Corporate Criminal Background Investigator.

I basically make sure you really DIDN'T commit a felony or misdemeanor and tell your would be employers what you did!

[Sighter Tnailog]

I'm getting a B.A. in Religion and Political Science, with every intention to move on to graduate work -- probably an M.Div first and then a Ph.D, preferably in something having to do with theological conceptions of crisis and crisis resolution.

Or I might scrap that and get a J.D.

In any case, I either want to work in ordained ministry or something that would involve politics and religion.

[AdventWings]

Throw Biotechnology and Genetics in relation to Ministry of the Church in there, too, Finny! :D