The "What Do You Do For a Living" Thread

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

So, what DO you do for a living?

I am but a lowly, poor student. But Saturdays, I work for Royal Bank (Internal Control). I'm also a piano teacher, and a substitute dance instructor.

Just curious as to the kinds of professions people had here....

 

[adamswildhoney]

Poor College student/Babysit my gramma

 

[Elvis Presley]

animal lover and possum trainer.......

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

student/retail slave

 

[Zoo-vox]

I?m jobless now

 

[BAW]

self-employed small business owner - hubby investigates suspicious insurance claims, I run the office and find people who don't want to be found

 

[Elvis Presley]

I feel so guilty for lying, Im actually in Technical Support for an ISP......

that possum thing was years ago....

 

[Laura M]

Doing a-levels

 

[nbcrusader]

In-house counsel for a wireless service provider - responsible for So.Cal and So. Nevada

 

[Sicy]

Legal Assistant for an immigration lawyer.

 

[bonomofo]

college student/ starbucks off and on

 

[FizzingWhizzbees]

I'm also a student...so know well what that student poverty is like

 

[Cajun]

I'm a student and store security/bouncer for a skateshop/gamestore

 

[Angel]

no comment

 

[dsmith2904]

Business writer and freelance music critic.

 

[nbcrusader]

no comment

You're a politician??

 

[Angel]

no. Just extremely unhappy in my current place of employment, and I don't feel it is a very good representation of who I am. Therefore... I don't want to share.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

i am a retirement consultant. i work with mainly CEO's, CFO's and HR directors in the small to mid size business market on their 401(k) pension plans.

 

[meegannie]

I don't feel it is a very good representation of who I am.

Neither is mine!

 

[Mrs. Edge]

I am a Development Manager in the charitable sector. In other words, I raise big bucks so good things can happen.

Right now, I am raising money for puppies and kitties.

Any day now, Bono is going to come after me to run things at Data for him and to set up the Hewson Family Foundation.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I work in the legal automotive business,

 

[Basstrap]

I breed lemmings and market them to young children

 

[Bonochick]

I finished college this past December, and now I am job hunting. I lost my job when I graduated because it was a position on campus that only lasted while I was a student (I was a computer technician).

 

[HelloAngel]

I am also a self-employed small business owner. We are a computer software company.

 

[nbcrusader]

no. Just extremely unhappy in my current place of employment, and I don't feel it is a very good representation of who I am. Therefore... I don't want to share.

Don't let your job define who you are.

Also, I've spent many a year in places where I was unhappy, but I found it was preparation for where I am today.

Hang in there

 

[cass]

....a man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done..."
an old old saying that, but so true.
I have all sorts of dumb answers to that inevitable question...I used to say "the oldest profession in the world" meaning a mother...but it can be seriously misconstrued. So can"kept woman" teeheee.
Someone once asked "are you an artist?" I so regret my cleverclever answer..."bullshit artist".
We eke our living from performing music and repairing musical equipment and hub works at a music college.All good fun.They had the auditions for the new intake of students a couple of weeks ago. I hope and pray he gets a better crew this year...last year was damn hard work.I enjoy being the woman behind that particular man .
I volunteer in lots of areas of the community...jack of all trades, master of none. I have done some projects I derive a great deal of satisfaction from. I am about to launch in to Stage 3 of my life I feel...this should be the really interesting part, back to feeling like just me again. I feel priveleged to have been a mother.

 

[Angel]

Don't let your job define who you are.

Oh, I don't. But I have found in life that people tend to judge you by your position. It's unfortunate, because I just may be one of the smartest people in my office, but get disrespected simply due to my title and lowely position. *whatever...
I hope to be doing what I have been working hard towards very soon.

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

I am a Development Manager in the charitable sector. In other words, I raise big bucks so good things can happen.

Right now, I am raising money for puppies and kitties.

You work for the Humane Society, right?
(Didn't yuou used to work at a hospital? Correct me if I'm wrong, I could have sworn...)

Originally posted by nbcrusader
Don't let your job define who you are.

Oh, I hope no one takes this thread in the wrong way. I think we (society) often let our jobs/our salaries define who we are. We shouldn't.

 

[Zoomerang96]

photo-journalist for pretty much the last two years. im considered full-time freelance which is great, cause i get no deductions, and because i took a class and bought a laptop i get to use em for writeoffs, meaning ill likely only have to pay about 700 dollars in tax for my entire 2002 fiscal year.

im also volunteering currently as an esl assistant in town. in august i *SHOULD be in europe teaching it. ya.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

a wise man named kuni said it best:

"NOTHING!!! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!"

oh, and i go to college.