What Do You Do For a Living?

[Beeblebrox237]

Before you ask, yes, there is a thread similar to this, but it was conceived and last posted in 2007. The idea has been done before, but I thought I'd make a new thread since it's been a long time.

I almost always find it interesting to hear what different people do for a living. Not just a job title, either, I like it when people go in depth about what they do. It shows that they enjoy it and know it well, and hearing people talk about things they know and enjoy is almost always enjoyable. So I'd like to hear what you do for a living, in as much detail as you wish to go into.

Unfortunately I don't have a job I can tell you all about, as I'm one of those annoying students.

 

[Ryanswannell]

I'm only 18 and finding my first job was horrible, but fortunately the Jobcentre were really helpful with getting me my first job.
Right now I work night-shifts around 25+ hours a week on minimum wage at a discount store called B&M. I've been there a few months now and the work is easy enough, but is very boring. My duties involve putting stock out on the shelves, making the place look neat and tidy and doing general warehouse work. I get along with everyone I work with, and a lot of those are my age so I guess it's not as bad as it could be 👍. Hopefully I can get a higher paying job in retail in the near future, or a promotion at least to make my income a little more healthy.

It's not the most glamorous job in the world, of course, but I got O.K grades in college/sixth form so I can always go to university in the future if I feel like I want to head in a different direction.

 

[W3H5]

Currently unemployed, have been for close to a year. Soon to join the ranks of student-kind.

Was previously an EFL teacher and will most likely take that up again once I've finished being a student bum. It's what I'm good at and what I enjoy doing.

 

[Andrew R]

I'm an apprentice electrician. Currently first year, turn second year in May. Great job and it's just me and my boss who happens to be a good mate of mine that's only a year older than me so it's kind of just like hanging out with a mate every day. I was previously a construction labourer, the pay was awesome but it was mainly jack hammering and other tedious tasks. Sure do wish I saved some of that money though because living out of home, being 24 and surviving on apprentice wages isn't much fun at all.

 

[AOS-]

I'm doing part-time but that doesn't count.

I was going to try and be a bodyman through apprenticeship, but getting someone to employ an apprentice before I can go to a college was silly granted almost all local employers required 5 years of experience, yet I can't gain experience if I can' even begin an apprenticeship. So I gave up on that.

Now I'm going to try at IT or CNC after completing a college program.


@Andrew R, how much are apprentice wages versus permanent employed wages for electricians over there?

 

[Azure Flare]

I make the window regulator motors that go in all the Toyotas that are made in the NUMMI factory in California.

Your neighbor just bought a new Camry? I've had a hand in some of the parts that went in that car.

 

[kikie]

I try to be smart and dream of having a job.

 

[Slash]

I make the window regulator motors that go in all the Toyotas that are made in the NUMMI factory in California.

Your neighbor just bought a new Camry? I've had a hand in some of the parts that went in that car.

Reminds me of @Bopop4's job of boxing camshafts.


I'm currently unemployed but I am a trained auto technician and in the process of getting my vehicle inspectors license (I have been putting this off). I grew up with it and have a few years of actual work experience (that counts anyways, been in the field since I was a kid). I also am an avid classic car and vintage ATV restorer. I have helped in numerous projects such as a Willys Jeep, Model T, personal truck and a few others. As far as ATVs I specialize in the infamous three wheelers of the 1970s and 1980s; specifically the 80s.

 

[Andrew R]

@AOS- All depends on your age and employer really. Unfortunately mature age apprenticeships kick in at 25 and being 24 I don't qualify. Mature age is about $17 an hour I think, I'm on $14 but 17 year old apprentices get about $8 an hour I think. It obviously increases as you get further through your apprenticeship then it all depends on what line of work you're in and if you work for yourself or subcontract or whatever you decide to do. I know my bosses hourly rate is $88 and subcontractors get around $60 when qualified.

 

[XS]

I had a bookstore owned by a multinational corporation that went bust (the corp. My bookstore performed excellent every quarter). After that I started my own business helping hard-up students stay in school and/or college. My business parter and I poured our life savings in to that business (a very large sum of assets and money that is still hard to get over), then one of the biggest universities in America (and our largest client) pulled out of our contract illegally and basically stole our core business premise for themselves. So without any resources we couldn't find a legal team willing to take our case. And now I work in a FedEx warehouse, pulling myself back up one paycheck at a time.

 

[DQuaN]

IT Consultant/Engineer.

 

[D.Kadettdriver]

I started my own business nearly three years ago, specializing in import/export to and from African and eastern-European countries. I began with the export of low-priced second hand cars (VW Golfs, Nissans Primeras and other cheap to get-affordable to drive-cars), and because of the beneficial terms I offered the demand increased very quickly, and I got asked if I could supply other types of goods too. This caused me to expand to electronics, clothing and building materials, and as it seems I shall have to export foods and minerals in the near future as well.

At the moment, I don't have to look for customers anymore (somehow, they find me), and the necessities (transport of larger goods like cars, arranging the export papers, shipping, even obtaining the goods required) here are being handled by professionals so I don't have to deal with all of that myself.

Also, I now have some local agents in various countries who sell goods to end-buyers directly, making the demand for my goods virtually endless.

 

[Bopop4]

Reminds me of @Bopop4's job of boxing camshafts.

Aww hell naw.

I don't box 'em, I run the machine that does oil rings, front face, and undercuts.

 

[Danny]

Digital Marketing & PR Executive.

I am paid vast amounts of money to talk to people and write stuff.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

My title is "New Product Introduction Design Engineer" for a company making inflatable lifting aids for the elderly and disabled. I design and make conceptual prototypes of various ideas, from updates of current products to entirely new products. I joined back in November last year after being made redundant from old position as a Mechanical Design Engineer, and I've done very well out of a bad situation. I love the new freedom (before I would only work on drawings or CAD models, now I get my hands dirty making prototypes and tooling etc), the new area I moved to for the work and my pay increased as well!

 

[Cano]

I have two jobs. One is a very early morning shift (I check in at 6:00 am but I'm out by 2:00 pm) in a company that monitors information, be it from radio and TV news, the newspapers and the internet; the information gets divided by an in-house system into what our clients request and then processed and sent to them. I usually write stuff down for the most part, altiugh some times I get to edit video and audio and stuff. I have this job to procure me and my family with social security, specially my mom who's already had a heart surgery.

My real job lies in car magazines, I write, illustrate/photoshop and do photography for two of the biggest car mags in Mexico and their spin-off/one-time projects like books, special edition magazines and such. As you can imagine, this is quite the fun job and the best part is that I do most of it at home as I'm on a freelance basis, which means of course no contract whatsoever and no social security, hence the morning job.

 

[Slash]

I have two jobs. One is a very early morning shift (I check in at 6:00 am but I'm out by 2:00 pm) in a company that monitors information, be it from radio and TV news, the newspapers and the internet; the information gets divided by an in-house system into what our clients request and then processed and sent to them. I usually write stuff down for the most part, altiugh some times I get to edit video and audio and stuff. I have this job to procure me and my family with social security, specially my mom who's already had a heart surgery.

I'd say you work for the NSA, but that would be totally wrong given then you don't live in the US

 

[MagpieRacer]

I do telephone fundraising. Fun job, qutie rewarding.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

I split my time between freelancing (graphic design, specializing in editorial work and typography), part-time studies at school to make that official (people tend to pay you more ), and managing at a friend's bar/restaurant. It averages out to about 60 hours of "work" a week, more if you count homework, but it's what I like doing, and balancing all three surprisingly keeps me pretty motivated. Mostly because keeping that latter job reminds me of why I need to succeed in the rest.

 

[magic_town]

Qualified electrician. We do mostly commercial stuff, hospitals, pubs with gaming machines and some school works doing new buildings and renovations.

 

[phillgt2002]

I split my time between freelancing (graphic design, specializing in editorial work and typography)

You have some good work on GTP. GD is what I'm planning on going into in the near future...

Right now I just go to community college. I'm trying to get into a college hopefully in San Francisco but we'll see how this turns out. I've never really had a hourly job.

 

[somebody]

I'm a courier. Not a glamorous job but I'm mostly outdoors, driving around. One of our local clients supplies brake parts for all the V8Supercars not to mention many other racing outfits. You can tell when a race coming up from the amount of packages we're sending out.

In my delivery area I deal with Neal Bates / Toyota Motorsports which lets me walk among rally and track cars pretty much daily.

 

[Azure Flare]

Too many GTP members have cool jobs.

Maybe I should go back to my old gig of testing new products from a Japanese auto maker.

 

[niky]

"BAMF!"

"Okay, didn't hurt so much that time... this airbag is O.K.!"

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I do photography, graphics and layout work for our marketing division at the hospital, just getting into a new department to get the feel of it. Used to do purchasing and procurement. And quality control. And before that, purchasing. And before that... errh... publishing, graphics and layout work. Yeah... the more things change.

I've also been writing automotive articles on the side. Hard to believe I've been doing it for a decade, now. I'm on my fourth website and second print magazine, the first one was a bust, but I doubt the current one is going anywhere...

 

[DG_Silva]

I babysit whining, dole-scrounging, alcoholic, hypocritical dossbags... sorry, I manage a betting shop.

 

[Stotty]

Sales Director at Procter & Gamble.

 

[Barra333]

I'm a courier. Not a glamorous job but I'm mostly outdoors, driving around. One of our local clients supplies brake parts for all the V8Supercars not to mention many other racing outfits. You can tell when a race coming up from the amount of packages we're sending out.

In my delivery area I deal with Neal Bates / Toyota Motorsports which lets me walk among rally and track cars pretty much daily.

Do you mind me asking who, and who. I lived in Canberra most my life and didn't know that the V8SC came from there. Knew Neal Bates was a local though.

As to the question at hand, I do science.
I am trying to look at bacteria that land in the Atlantic Ocean as a result of huge dust storms coming from Africa.

 

[Adamgp]

I think my official title is "CAD technician".

I do CAD drafting/solid modeling/designing and part time engineering work for a company that makes small electric motors/gearmotors and nacho cheese dispensers.

 

[Danny]

I think my official title is "CAD technician".

 

[acascianelli]

Unix/Linux administrator for financial institutions. Primarily IBM AIX and Redhat Linux.