what do you do for a living?

BackFromTheDawn · Number of posts: 4574 Age: 23 Registration date: 2007-05-19

What do I do for a living?

Hover close to the kitchen. Twisted Evil

I'm an unemployed student who lives with the 'rents, so no real living to earn quite yet. I do however perform the occassional odd job for neighbors--usually relegated to yard work.

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bikergirl · Subject: Re: what do you do for a living? Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:24 pm

Flight Attendant
for fifteen years, at five different airlines, at three different bases and just added my sixteenth aircraft

Once, I was a print journalist - until everyone stopped reading newspapers! study

! Now, I have a useless degree in an obselete field!

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shadow_zone · Number of posts: 482 Age: 23 Registration date: 2008-12-03

Im an electrician by trade. but I dont do electrician work, instead I do hv testing for one of sydneys power utilities.

BackFromTheDawn · Number of posts: 4574 Age: 23 Registration date: 2007-05-19

bikergirl wrote:

Once, I was a print journalist - until everyone stopped reading newspapers! study

! Now, I have a useless degree in an obselete field!

As someone minoring in communications, I've gotta think there is a future for the journalist....people just have to move to where the medium is larger.

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Stone Temple Addy · Number of posts: 537 Age: 35 Registration date: 2009-04-02

Im what my wifes a computer nerd

I do warranty Repair work on Dell Laptops and Desktops it would be a killer paycheck if the work flow was constant say 15-20 service calls a week

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Master's Apprentice · Number of posts: 745 Age: 37 Registration date: 2009-02-20

BackFromTheDawn wrote:

What do I do for a living?

Hover close to the kitchen. Twisted Evil

I'm an unemployed student who lives with the 'rents, so no real living to earn quite yet. I do however perform the occassional odd job for neighbors--usually relegated to yard work.

Classic mate.

Now listen up young fella Sleep

You gotta get a job if you wanna keep buying cd's man Twisted Evil

rush75228 · Number of posts: 264 Age: 53 Registration date: 2007-04-10

John Gilchrist Lodge wrote:

MetalH wrote:

Assistant Store Manager at Savemart Supermarkets.

Retail slave also. affraid

...make that three

BackFromTheDawn · Number of posts: 4574 Age: 23 Registration date: 2007-05-19

Master's Apprentice wrote:

BackFromTheDawn wrote:

What do I do for a living?

Hover close to the kitchen. Twisted Evil

I'm an unemployed student who lives with the 'rents, so no real living to earn quite yet. I do however perform the occassional odd job for neighbors--usually relegated to yard work.

Classic mate.

Now listen up young fella Sleep

You gotta get a job if you wanna keep buying cd's man Twisted Evil

I manage to gather the simoleons when I need to. Twisted Evil

But the job situation will be remedied once I finish school. Twisted Evil

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bikergirl · Subject: Re: what do you do for a living? Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:28 pm

BackFromTheDawn wrote:

bikergirl wrote:

Once, I was a print journalist - until everyone stopped reading newspapers! study

! Now, I have a useless degree in an obselete field!

As someone minoring in communications, I've gotta think there is a future for the journalist....people just have to move to where the medium is larger.

Once upon a time every midsized city had both a morning and an evening paper. Major cities had two competing papers that issued am and pm editions. As cable tv grew, readership dropped - thus advertising rates dropped, thus staffs were trimmed. Therefore the paper became less relevent since fewer reporters can't cover as much news and the budget for those surviving reporters grew smaller and smaller, affecting the amount of investigative reporting being done.

As CNN begat the 24 hour news cycle, readership dropped even more. News services began buying papers and creating large chains from the thousands of independant papers. Large companies make decisions like merging the am and pm editions into one. When you print one instead of two, you can cut half of your staff!!

Cub, junior and senior reporters were now fighting for fewer and fewer jobs. Some, like myself, worked for the smaller weekly papers in smaller communities. Others eeked out a living producing local club newsletters. resturant menus and church bulletins. We were very broke! Many of the more experienced journalists moved to corporate communications, doing newsletters and press releases. All of this was before the internet age. As the internet grew, most corporate communications positions shifted from journalists to web-masters.

So, those of us old enough to have learned BASIC in college, never had the benefit of spell-check and know how to layout a print quality issue with blue paper, wax machines and exacto knives are at a loss in today's news environment. I mean I know many a friend who's first job outta college was to call the area funeral homes each night, ask "who ya got?" and write obits for $100 a week.

That's the story of print journalism. Mass Communications has changed drastically. Whatever you're doing in school is entirely different from the skills I learned and know. Best of luck!!

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L8T · Number of posts: 4087 Registration date: 2007-03-13

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So, those of us old enough to have learned BASIC in college,

Wow, way to go Old-School on us OC,..... Razz

I thought "Basic" meant "basic".....so, got a "D"...and, had to take a "personal computer" class......... to get the credit......

lol!

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woetoyou · Number of posts: 396 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-09

I am the General Manager of an 8 screen movie theater. I get paid to watch movies and boss employees around. Lama

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GODSWIZARD · Subject: Re: what do you do for a living? Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:56 am

Points:

1. Bikergirl said:

Quote:

I have a useless degree

Yeah.....

....me too. Neutral

I can relate.

2. I was in the DP/IT field for almost 30 years (except for time out spent at University to earn my useless history documents) and lost my job last Spring. Things are bad out here in La--La--Land too. I'm not the only person out here that can't get work back in their primary field.

So.......

Right now I am driving buses/vans for a living. Boring. Sleep

Besides......now I can't sit back and listen to 12--16 CDs per night (i've always worked graveyards) at work each night.

I'll just keep looking for something back on mids......i'm a night person, anyway.

3. Oh.....I almost forgot.....I scratch my groin, burp, fart, and attempt to make rhythmic armpit farting noises. I do those things on top of driving a bus/ban.

KISS

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wv_metaller4christ · Number of posts: 563 Age: 23 Registration date: 2009-06-02

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i've always worked graveyards

I work graveyard too. 5:30 pm to 5:30 am

GODSWIZARD · Subject: Re: what do you do for a living? Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:02 am

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i've always worked graveyards

I work graveyard too. 5:30 pm to 5:30 am

Yep. That's the ticket. Sleep

So......let's see. I've worked in four different shops and had hese hours:

8 PM to 4 AM
Midnight to 8 AM
10 PM to 6 AM
Midnight to 8 AM (Again)
11 PM to 7 AM
5 PM to 6 AM (For the last six years, 13 hour shifts)

KISS

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**alldatndensum** · Subject: Re: what do you do for a living? Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:23 am

I did my share of nights at Bridgestone for many years working 6 PM to 6 AM. I am not a night person. I become a hideous, hateful monster after midnight. I prefer to be asleep before that.

I got to go to day shift in 1999 working 6 AM to 6 PM and did so until I was laid off in March. Of course, now I have no schedule, but that changes starting next Sunday.

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_Wes · Number of posts: 1898 Age: 41 Registration date: 2007-04-07

I'm in IT - work as a Technical Analyst - Web for an insurance company. Basically, I'm a systems admin.

I'm also a Comm Officer in the air guard - and i'll be off doing that for 8 months in the next few weeks. . .

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Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3284 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

Project manager for a civil engineering/surveying firm. I manage subdivision and land development plans through government approval processes and I design site facilities such as parking lots, walkways, subdivided lots, new streets, grading/earthwork, utilities, storm water management facilities, etc. Basically, when anybody does anything that involves construction, I do all that stuff outside the building.

stevegarveyfan · Number of posts: 421 Registration date: 2008-07-29

Follower of Jesus wrote:

Project manager for a civil engineering/surveying firm. I manage subdivision and land development plans through government approval processes and I design site facilities such as parking lots, walkways, subdivided lots, new streets, grading/earthwork, utilities, storm water management facilities, etc. Basically, when anybody does anything that involves construction, I do all that stuff outside the building.

That sounds like a pretty cool job. How did you manage to get into that?

GODSWIZARD · Subject: Re: what do you do for a living? Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:23 pm

Alldat said:

Quote:

I am not a night person. I become a hideous, hateful monster after midnight.

So.....you are saying you are like Dr. Alldat, Mr. Hyde. Twisted Evil

Cool.

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Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3284 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

stevegarveyfan wrote:

Follower of Jesus wrote:

Project manager for a civil engineering/surveying firm. I manage subdivision and land development plans through government approval processes and I design site facilities such as parking lots, walkways, subdivided lots, new streets, grading/earthwork, utilities, storm water management facilities, etc. Basically, when anybody does anything that involves construction, I do all that stuff outside the building.

That sounds like a pretty cool job. How did you manage to get into that?

I have always liked maps and drawings of sites. When I was kid, I would sketch different stuff and often did roads. Anyway, I went to college to learn computer-aided drafting, and got a job out of school at a civil engineering firm. From there, experience taught me design, ordinance research, and eventually project/client management. I like what I do most days. Some days I relish it...other days, not so much. But on balance, I'd say I'm closer to Confucius than not: "Find a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life."