What Do You Do II: The Return

[Guest DVD Spree]

Well, it comes up periodically and, like the last time I remember it being posted, I'm doing it becuase I'm bored. But it's been a year, there are a lot of student-types here, and I've started talking to whole new bunch of TSMers recently, so I was just wondering what everyone finds themself doing for an occupatoin these days. Feel free to ignore if you're sick of this topic coming up yet again.

 

Me: Working for an Xbox magazine in the UK, doing loads of freelance for DVD mags and geenrally getting paid to watch films and play/read about games.

[LatinAssasin]

I'm still working at the same trucking company that I've been working at for three years. Except my boss quit on New Year's so I took over and am now the Terminal Manager for our office here.

[Murmuring Beast]

Unemployed currently after a training scheme fell through.

[Mik]

Biochemist at UNC Chapel Hill, soon to be Cornell again.

 

I do cancer research and am working towards a doctorate.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Keeping Mik in business, I am still the night shift cigarette sensei for ze largest Kroger distribution center in the nation. Much like this messageboard and many other things, I seize some measure of control of my coworkers/peers within a couple years. I'm still below the managerial echelon of ugliness, which is grand, because my dream is power without responsibility.

 

I'm considering a radical career change. Possibly deep-sea welding on oil rigs.

[Art Sandusky]

I drive drunk people around on Friday and Saturday nights by riding a moped to where they are, putting the moped in the back of their car/truck/SUV, driving the car to their home with them in it, and then taking out the moped and skeedaddling away. I make about $50-$70 a night when I do this, for only five or six hours of hanging around in a jumpsuit and eating Taco Bell, dependent on how busy we are.

 

My second job is dishwashing at Mellow Mushroom, a massively drug referential restaurant downtown. Turns out I was just put back there to see if I'd be reliable before they moved me to the front of the house to eventually be a host (under how they pay, the host/hostess ends up making the most of anyone working front of the house), saying my "force of personality" had me working the front one day anyway.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

What kind of business is that designated driver on request thing? I've never even heard of that.

[Art Sandusky]

It started over in London, then spread to other European cities, then came to our country a ways back. It's massive in Los Angeles and New York, and similar businesses have been popping up in large metropolitan areas/college towns for a while. The dude who owns it started Charleston's back in January. So far, it's him and I doing it, with a third person joining us this weekend. It's slightly profitable already, even after all the ad space he's bought in different bars and all the business cards we've got, plus some evenings where I got paid my flat $50 and we had maybe one or two calls. We charge a $15 minimum and then it's $3 a mile from five miles on. These people have already given an arm and a leg at a bar, and our customers are generally the middle aged or younger professional types, so while I think it's a bit much to charge, they have no problem with it. The alternative is also thousands of dollars from a DUI, so that helps motivate people.

[TheFranchise]

I'm a supervisor in a bakery.

[JHawk]

I'm a product specialist at Circuit City. Basically, I sell you shit you don't need andtry to convince to buy an extended warranty on it.

[ragingfear79]

DSL and Voip provisioning, 8xx routing, international call routing, bill analist lets just say without me this company would fold and die.

[swan]

Enigneering and design of precast concrete products.

[Dr. Tom]

I still work for The Man.

[treble]

I work in a packaging factory who's business seems to be 95% cigarette packages. So if you smoke, there's a chance that my grubby hands were on the package at some point, especially if you're Japanese.

[haws bah gawd]

I am 1 year from finishing with an Associates in Web Developement and certificates in Programming, Multimedia, and Computer Apps (I know, big whoop on the Certificates)

 

I work at Gamestop.

[Cartman]

Still working for Bayer Health Care. I'm a Service Tech. who does maintanance and calibration of chemical testing equipment as well as inventory control of all chemicals and their ingredients. Among other tasks.

 

Basically we make tests used in Hospital diagnostic testing.

 

Our chemicals + your blood = healthy or not healthy.

[Mystery Eskimo]

Crappy civil service job, in which I spend half my time avoiding work, surfing the net and writing novels to be subsequently rejected.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I'm a film/digital productions major at Miami International University of Art & Design, while working at Starbucks on the side. I've been there since Valentine's Day, so just a bit over 3 months now.

[Art Sandusky]

No wonder you're up so late each night, unless you don't actually drink your products.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I only drink caffeine in the daytime, actually. I usually smoke out at night, and try to sleep, but I have a real terrible case of insomnia.

[Carnival]

DSL tech support.

[Guest JMA]

I'm about to start work at a deli that mainly serves pizza and sandwiches.

[Guest SP-1]

Now that semester is over, I'm about to try and go back to painting for the summer, and doing editing work on the side, as well as filling in a few times for my pastor over the next month or so. But thankfully that one is quite limited.

[Guest Joshua A. Norton]

Cleaner. No women, no kids, that's the rules. Five grand a head.

[Guest *KNK*]

I am a driver for a small custom manufactoring company.

[franchise632]

I am a blackjack dealer at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake Minnesota, havent actually started there yet. Although I have been a dealer before. So if you are in the area come by so I can take some of your money.

[Slayer]

Still working for my university's TV station, though I'm leaving in August (right on the two year mark) to start my master's degree in math, as well as being a GTA (namely, cheap teaching labor)

[The Niggardly King]

I'm a Sandwich Artist at Subway.

[Red Baron]

A Chef at the Casino

[Special K]

Still work for the man as an engineer.