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So What Does Everyone Do For A Living?

 
  

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Pooky Is Just My Pornstar Name
03:34 / 07.07.05
Whilst perusing various threads I've noticed that a number of Barbeloids:

a) Hate their jobs
b) Are unemployed
c) Are looking for a job and/or a career change

Sadly, I have yet to come across anyone that says s/he loves his/her job. Anyway, all of the above got me thinking (always a dangerous thing!) and wondering about what it is that other Barbeloids do for a living. I know that Sax is a journalist/novelist, Ganesh is a doctor, and Triplets works in I.T. As for myself, I work in marketing/sales/customer service, acting as a bit of liasion between the three depts. I have earned both the respect - and resentment - of some of my peers because I'm relatively good at what I do, and because there is this perception that I am the director's favorite (which may be the case as that I'm the brightest, most dependable, and hardworking of our department).

What about you? What do you do that keeps you in bread, butter, beer, and out of the bailiff's office for non-payment of bills?
 
 
Bastard Tweed
04:09 / 07.07.05
Student, Writer, Actor.

Essentially, a proffesional poor person.
 
 
Jub
06:00 / 07.07.05
I started in recruitment a couple of months ago. I know that most people put recruitment types up there with estate agents et al and so be it.
 
 
Ariadne
06:26 / 07.07.05
I'm a ... technical writer, I suppose. I've been a technology
journalist for eight years, which I love, have had a mini-diversion over the past year into things I love less, but am about to go back to geeky writing and I'm very happy about it. I've just spent the night down in London with my new colleagues, even though I don't officially start for another two weeks, and it was great - I'm really looking forward to the job.
However, I came back on the sleeper and didn't sleep (it's so bumpy! I kept thinking I'd fall out of bed!) so I now need a snooze.
 
 
Benny the Ball
06:26 / 07.07.05
I'm a free-lance sound recordist, and I love my job. I just hate the waiting inbetween jobs and not knowing when the next one'll be.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:29 / 07.07.05
I'm a press cutter. I read newspapers for a living.
 
 
werwolf
06:45 / 07.07.05
i'm a product and promotion manager for warner music austria, handling all non-us repertoire and affiliate repertoire for austria. so, mostly marketing and product administration plus promotional duties.

actually enjoy my job, although it can get very tiresome, but i got visions for myself within this industry.
 
 
matsya
07:05 / 07.07.05
I'm a writer and an editor. I write web sites for whoever'll pay me, usually government departments. I edit freelance as well, for most of the publishers based in my home town. The writing money's better than the editing money so I'm looking to do more of that than the other.

m.
 
 
waxy dan
07:12 / 07.07.05
Lecturer/teacher in multimedia and basic cultural studies.

At present I do actually hate my job to the point of feeling nausea every morning when I get on the train to work, and spending the day with a screwed up pain on and off in my stomach.

But, on a broader note, it is a career that I love. It's just the specific place I'm working in at the moment.
 
 
Axolotl
07:58 / 07.07.05
As a Customer Sevices Officer I spend my time answering phonecalls from idiots, carrying out large amounts of tedious paperwork and, if I'm very lucky, shifting boxes. It's almost as much fun as it sounds.
Oh and hanging around barbelith, natch.
 
 
lonely as a cloud...
11:14 / 07.07.05
I'm a software engineer/programmer/computer wotsit. And I love my job, more because the boss is really cool, and has met the Pixies, although I do enjoy coding.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
11:18 / 07.07.05
Such a wiseass. But go ahead. Crack wise. That's why you're jockeying a register in some fucking local convenience store instead of doing an honest day's work.
Except the drug dealers hanging outside aren't as funny as in Clerks. I hate my life.
 
 
Aertho
11:24 / 07.07.05
I'm a wannabe graphic designer. Right now my business cards say "Production Artist", but the new Creative Director is using me mostly for concepts and art direction.
 
 
Spaniel
11:54 / 07.07.05
I'm a project worker for a joint Rail Union and Southern Rail project. Basically I'm paid to promote learning amongst my colleagues (all 3000 of 'em) and help break down some of the barriers to learning that they face: shifts, long hours, low incomes, lack of qualifications, lack of information - the list goes on and on.

It's a fucking thankless job - most of my time is spent banging my head against a brick wall.
 
 
Jack Fear
11:59 / 07.07.05
Finally made the jump to full-time freelance writer a couple of months ago.
 
 
Spaniel
12:30 / 07.07.05
Well done that man!

I plan on getting into something similar over the next year. Time I started to enjoy my work.
 
 
rising and revolving
13:10 / 07.07.05
Design videogames for a living. And yeah, love my job. It's let me travel across the planet, do nifty stuff, get recognition (geek recognition, but recognition none-the-less) and I do okay financially.

All in all, it's not really hard getting up in the morning.
 
 
Fist Fun
15:14 / 07.07.05
I'm a software consultant. I love my job too. Let's me travel the world, be a geek, earn money, attracts the babes, etc...
 
 
All Acting Regiment
19:54 / 07.07.05
I have sold 12 jackets and two pairs of walking boots.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:13 / 07.07.05
I am a facilitator. I help NHS teams to work out how to improve their services. I like it.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
20:21 / 07.07.05
I install, monitor and maintain emergency alarms for the sick, vulnerable and/or elderly, for Hillingdon council. We give people a button to wear around their necks or on their wrist in case they fall over, have a fit, get burgled, harassed ... that sort of thing.

Shift work plays havok with your social life.
The job is worth getting up for but forces me to confront certain things.
 
 
grant
20:42 / 07.07.05
I write prophecies for a national weekly.
 
 
Shrug
21:11 / 07.07.05
You know when you can't find your cigarettes? Well that's usually me or at least someone in my employ.
But that's more of an avante garde theatre and film project than a career.
From the hours of 9-5 I work in a gah bank.
 
 
adamswish
21:43 / 07.07.05
I enjoy my job as new media/multimedia tutor and web designer, just could do with more security and money in my life (same old, same old really).

Oh and having to deal with the occupational hazards I call my co-workers can be a bit of a downer too but on a good day I get to play with some really cool software packages and tell others how cool said software is and then show-off using it.

Sorry that last line should read "show clients how to use said cool software packages.

Although truth be told I am looking for a secure position which is more playing with rather than showing how to use.
 
 
Cailín
22:36 / 07.07.05
I'm an architectural technologist. Which means I'm part-way to being an architect, only I make much less money and most of my ideas get vetoed by my higher-ups for being too weird. I make construction drawings and digital presentation materials for architects. Sometimes I do space planning, and I spend a lot of time talking to engineers and clearing up confusion with contractors. And I'm my office's idea of server admin and IT, which is more funny than anything else, since before I took this job I'd never taken the case off a PC.
To be honest, I'd rather have Sylph's job. Design videogames for a living. Geez. Architecture would be way more fun without all the damned physics and legal stuff to get in the way.
 
 
matsya
23:14 / 07.07.05
I once applied for a job as a videogame writer, but was interviewed by three children half my age who spent the whole time making me feel ninety years old and also made me realise that my decision to keep an arm's length from gaming because of how easily I get addicted to it had made it impossible for me to actually get the job. C64 isn't retro, it seems, just crap.

sigh.

m.
 
 
Baz Auckland
23:36 / 07.07.05
I'm a pioneer at a lovely Pioneer Village cica 1867.

I spend the morning chopping wood, then the afternoon covering the breaks of the various trade buildings. One day I'm the Printer, Cabinet Maker, Miller and Cooper, and the next the Harness Maker, Blacksmith, Broom Maker, and Tinsmith.

Fun job, (especially the blacksmithing) but it's only 25-30 hours a week, and I'm commuting about 4 hours a day round trip... a definite plus is getting to wear a silly costume and having January to May off each year so I can take off to Europe and look for work so I don't have to return next season...
 
 
ibis the being
23:51 / 07.07.05
I love what I do for a living. I started my own faux finishing business a year ago. I do decorative painting, faux finishing, furniture refinishing, and so-called straight painting as well. There are parts I don't like much - for instance, I actually hate doing furniture refinishing but I do it because I get a lot of inquiries and they often lead to more work - but overall I'm quite satisfied with my career.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:29 / 08.07.05
I am my own boss, I work from home, but a lot of the time I'd still like to kill the management.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
06:10 / 08.07.05
'They pay me $800 a week to tell a cat and mouse what to do!'
 
 
Morpheus
06:17 / 08.07.05
I used to play guitar and hang with Rick James. Now I'm busy dieing.
Your welcome to visit us at the international house of death.
 
 
Whale... Whale... Fish!
09:52 / 08.07.05
I think I'm officially deemed as being unwaged.

Student unemployment isn't good but I guess you could say I'm a barman... Just a barman between jobs... If only i could freelance.
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:01 / 08.07.05
Laboratory Supervisor, I brew up evil viruses in my evil lab and I work for an evil multinational pharmaceutical corporation.

Still, the pay's good and there are free biscuits. So that's what my soul costs.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:04 / 08.07.05
I used to play guitar and hang with Rick James.

Friend of the Hulk? Coool
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
10:09 / 08.07.05
What I've done for money could fill reams... Reams and reams and reams of cheap, frustrated, sweaty, agonising and trifling boredom. Anybody want a copy? %It's a great read.% e.g.
 
  

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