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So What Does Everyone Do For A Living?

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Sax

11:57 / 11.07.05

Don't be cruel. You have to break 'em in up t'chimneys first.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:58 / 11.07.05

It's not a bad job really. And once you get used to the hours having every other week off (plus holidays) is pretty rockin'.

Spaniel

12:06 / 11.07.05

14K ain't too rocking.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:08 / 11.07.05

I'm on about 20 and a half, which ain't bad when you only work an average of three and a half days a week.

gingerbop

15:07 / 11.07.05

Right now, I'm doing bugger all to earn a living.
However, when I start paying back my living in a few years time, I'll be jumping and standing on top of people, being lifted around, somersaulting, and various other fun things.

If it goes to shit, however, I'll probably end up back in the I hate my job camp, working in Tesco or something equally enthralling. But right now, I'm in circus school, and (mostly) love it.

I feel smug.

Spaniel

15:39 / 11.07.05

What kind of stuff do you study at circus school? Do you specialize or do you give everything a go?

Any idea how you'll find work once you leave?

astrojax69

22:09 / 11.07.05

gingerbop, hope they don't pick you from you class in circus school to be the lady with hair all over her face, or the guy with no limbs who somehow still plays the piano...

do you all tumble out of school after the bell?? and what does p.e. become? like, maths?

sounds groovy - how long is school; when do you get to run away..?

Morpheus

02:36 / 12.07.05

This Rick James...Bitch.

Mourne Kransky

06:55 / 12.07.05

He was once a member of the band Crème Brûlée and now he pines for those days. Crème Brûlée did the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, and were nearly signed to Pickwick in '76. Their big hit was Voodoo Lady.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:01 / 12.07.05

It's a shit business.

Quantum

10:50 / 13.07.05

Working for a living sucks hairy arse. I spent fifty-odd hours a week phoning strangers to ask them to give regular donations to charity, and when not doing that I read Tarot cards see me in this month's Fate and Fortune magazine 'Seaside Psychics Tried and Tested', and in my few minutes of free time I fail to become a famous writer.

Oh for a life of leisure reading all day...

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:55 / 13.07.05

I spent fifty-odd hours a week phoning strangers to ask them to give regular donations to charity,

On the plus side, at least you get paid for it. I'm just really self-righteous.

Sax

10:55 / 13.07.05

Gingerbop, do people run away from circus school to become estate agents?

HCE

15:20 / 13.07.05

I miss carpentry. Aside from the Jesus aspect, it was the best job I ever had and the only one by which I never felt lessened in any way.

Disco is My Class War

16:10 / 13.07.05

hope they don't pick you from you class in circus school to be the lady with hair all over her face, or the guy with no limbs who somehow still plays the piano...

%Yeah, because who could think of a fate worse than being a woman with lots of facial hair?%

I'm a PhD candidate on scholarship clover. I get paid to think. I guess it's not a 'job' in the strict sense of the word, but I do love it. I even love being awake at 3am with 8,000 words of draft article to edit. When I run out of scholarship I make market research calls, and sometimes I do freelance writing and editing.

I don't know about jobs, though. All the ones I've had were either semi-voluntary, horrendously paid and fun, or slightly badly paid, corporate and boring. I have never been able to hold down a job for more than a year and a half at a time. I'm just not the careerist type.

That said, I've sworn never to go back on the dole, so at some point I'm going to have work it.

Benny the Ball

16:29 / 13.07.05

Boboss - Dinlow is a slight bastardisation of the Romany Traveller term Didalow Dunt, which indeed means 'cunt' (though, it is worth noting, not through the joy of ryhming slang).

Just thought I'd add that.

sad robot

16:33 / 13.07.05

I work in the NHS as a medical secretary in the urology department. I transcribe stories about undescended testicles and erectile dysfunction and work with two 40 year old women who still call urine wee wee.

I also make movies.

Mono

16:52 / 13.07.05

Retail Management. Yuck. Working for a semi-evil american whole foods supermarket now expamding into uk/europe. I really can't stand it these days, it's hot and sticky and most of my minions havre started taking the piss, big time. I get lots of free organic food though.

skolld

17:33 / 13.07.05

i'm an artist, so i pretty much love my job. Sculpture mostly but also love the painting, and pretty much any other medium that tickles my fancy at the time.

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

20:01 / 13.07.05

Communications enginering. I design hybrid fiber/coax broadband networks. I went to school for Mechanical Engineering, but I love what I do. I solve optimization problems all day and it suits me quite nicely.

Morpheus

01:21 / 02.09.05

Now I'm a life and death troubadour. I make my money spinning wheels and polishing knobs.
Please rebuild New Orleans.

lekvar

18:40 / 02.09.05

I work as a prepress technician at a printing company, This entails taking a designer's digital file and making sure the damned thing will actually print correctly since 90% of all print designers have the brains of syphilitic, crack-addled rodents. Oh, I'm sorry, did that sound bitter?

I hate my job with a white-hot passion, which is sad because I have no legitimate reason, aside from having to deal with idiot designers.

My boss defers to my whims.
I make my own hours.
I get paid well for only having an Associate's degree.
I have my own office with a pleasant view.
I get to play with the latest graphics software.
I make enough that my girlfriend can be a stay-at-home mom.
I get to play on teh internets all day.

I just feel that I'm being killed one day at a time.
I guess I'm just another whiny, entitled American.

Keith, like a scientist

16:41 / 03.09.05

and on that above note, I'm a print graphic designer. i design magazines, annual reports, brochures, logos, business papers, etc., mostly for schools, foundations, small businesses, and a couple large businesses.

been at the same company for 5 1/2 years. It was unfulfilling the first year, the second and third year I felt really good, then it's been downhill for there. I think i hit the ceiling of what the politics of the company will let me do. there is this entrenched "senior staff" that basically control what projects you do, and how much authority you get. one of them finally left to have a baby, but i doubt much is going to change. 2006 is my year of looking...

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

16:58 / 03.09.05

I'm a student and a cook. One third of the way towards the hours needed for my chef's papers. And half way towards my Bachelors. I am a classic over achiever.

I am the Bard, and I love my job.

lekvar

18:46 / 03.09.05

Wanna trade, Keith?

Keith, like a scientist

20:56 / 03.09.05

i actually did prepress for awhile after college...i had quite a bit of fun doing it, for some reason. no office politics was what i like about it. maybe that printer was just nice cause they were fairly small.

but i had went to college for 4 years, studying design, so when this job came along, I had to take it.

Liger Null

20:57 / 03.09.05

I am an Assistant Pricing Coordinator for a National Grocery Chain store. I hang tags and print signs when the prices change, mark down surplus items for quick sale, fix incorrect prices, reprint lost or damaged tags/signs. It's not that bad, but since the prices change every weekend I can't ever have Saturday or Sunday off, which is a real bummer.

velouria

16:40 / 05.09.05

2005 proved to be "my year" in terms of finally settling down into a job I *adore*. I was previously drifting in and out of short-term assignments since graduating from college in 2003.

Now I have a great "job" where I do is code webpages, take photographs, write, research and interview musicians/celebrities. And all this doesn't start before 11am. Ahhh...the life!

Silver

12:47 / 06.09.05

Yet another person in software -- by day, I work as a developer at a small software company. I complain about the job a lot -- there's a lot of unreasonable expectations and each day is a new panic -- but it's the best job I've had in the industry. Sometimes, I even feel appreciated.

By night I write, in the hopes that one day I will sell enough words to be able to make a living at it.

Someday.

Lysander Stark

13:05 / 06.09.05

I write about art. Only from the Impressionists on, and right the way up to taxidermied animals or those in vitrines. Although the grass is always, of course, greener and I often muse about other careers that lie waiting for me, I love my job, and it is the job that if I did not have, I would have killed for. If that makes sense.

Sadly, as I write about art for one of the bastions of the art market, I always have to say nice things about it. But that can involve some fun mental gymnastics in its own right...

Regarding the circus comments, I believe that one of the most famous people to run away from the circus to become an accountant was John Major. Politics takes all kinds of freaks!

Kit-Cat Club

13:25 / 06.09.05

Cor, what a great job. I envy you.

My job is all right and I do some interesting things in my spare (i.e. research) time (which are not my actualy research). I am a Higher Education administrator. Boo. But I have also recently written an introduction for a book on a subject I knew nothing about, fact-checked an insane polemic, and am shortly giving a lecture on British History 1660-1800 (all of it - in one hour argh).

The administrative stuff is actually all right, especially as I have a lovely boss who gives me little projects to do by myself - rather than endless photocopying all the time. I think the most frustrating thing about low-end jobs like this one is the lack of control one has over one's work, so it's good to feel as if the work I do does actually make a positive difference, rather than contributing to a large pile of paper on someone else's desk.

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