What kind of jobs do you have?

[Master Terry Bogard]

Hey guys,

I have been a loan officer for about a month, & I never expected to get into this kind of business. So, I was wondering, what kind of jobs do you have, & how did you get about it?

 

[jaydubnb]

Right now I'm an Editorial Assistant. It's the best job I've ever had and I really dig it. Then again, after working at Funco and doing Medical Billing -anything- is an improvement

 

[NebraskaDragon]

Turkey Farmer. Grew up with it. Never thought I would do it once I got out of school, but look at me. I'm still a turkey farmer.

 

[Ghost-Dog]

Primarily I'm a Network Engineering student, but I'm also a power equipment technician trying to break into the IT field. Pretty boring stuff..

 

[not sonic]

im an interviewer in a mall location of a marketing research company.

i got into it because my mom has been in marketing research for most of her professional life and shes the manager

 

[phyrexiadamned]

im a body piercer

 

[Mike Shagohod]

Hmm... well herez everything I've done since age 16, in no particular order:
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Movie Theatre Usher
Car Wash "Detailer"
Martial Arts Studio Groundskeeper
"Loader" @ Builder's Square
Video Game Retail {*Don't know how I forgot this one! 2 times, once for Game World before it became EB GAMES, and once last XMAS for Game Stop}

Freelance Courier
Bouncer {on again off again up to and including 2004}
Roust a Bout {On Oil Derrick in the Gulf}
Freelance "Protective Escort" {for the paranoid and whores who needing a watchdog, age 18-19 off and on again.}
Range Officer {Rifle Range}
Talent Scout for "Legit" Modeling agency.
Political Gofer {for local represenative @ age 14, no pay but it was interesting}
Freelance "Graphic Artist" {for Chinese Video Rental Store in '95}
Cargo Courier {For Corporation}
Civil Air Patrol {Voulnteer *1 Tour}
Security Guard
Tele-Marketeer {Outbound}
Security Specialist {Freelance "Security Consultant" for interested employers}
**Still do this on and off again. *You'd be surprised how many security breaches a diligent person can find and get away with.



Lawn Care & Landscaping
Auto Recovery Specialist {Nicer version of a Repo Man, the dealership gives me the keys and I go pick the vehicle up, collect $100-$200 a vehicle, depending on the contract}


...currently looking into and in discussions with three different International Corporations to undergo training for Executive Protection/Protective Escort Bodyguard position. ~Damn process is a bitch though. I've got no felonys so I have nothing to worry about. Right now I'm mainly doing the last two things I listed.

MERCENARY X99

 

[SEGA_X]

I work at California Pizza kitchen sincce Oct 2003

 

[Big Shady]

Currently a Home Depot sales associate

Hopefully next week an intern at EA

 

[Shin-Strider]

Going on 4 years in Realtor Sign Production. It involves doing a lot of little things like artwork layout, material handling, shipping, etc.

 

[Buro Destruct]

"Clerk" in the Home department at Fry's Marketplace.

It means I'm a stocker boy. Hopefully sometime this summer I'll be getting into an editing position with a local company who produces demo reels for aspiring actors.

 

[aria]

Professional Student.

heh, actually that's the correct and appropriate title at my school for being in a "Professional School" (Med/Law/Dentistry) vs. a "Graduate School" (more academic so MAs/PhDs/etc).

Specifically I'm a full time law student.

I've worked a number of interesting jobs before that, but I'm not in the mood to type it all out.

 

[Kiel]

Currently a Home Depot sales associate

Oh man, me too. It sucks but pays.

 

[SSS]

engineering department on a USCGC.

 

[slerch666]

I am desktop support for a big company.

How'd I get my job? By working at another PC joint near where I work now, where I work now was looking for contractor help, I went through my company. After 3 months, they knew I knew my shit, I interviewed and I got the job. They love me.

 

[Neo Mike]

Art Director/Web Dev Manager for a dot-com.

 

[Dallas_Five]

Right now I work at a publishing company. Sounds kinda cool...but it isn't, as i work in the sales dept. putting info into spreadsheets. Hopefully there will be an opening in the editorial dept. and i'll get the job after i wow them with my mad english skillz...but i doubt it.

I too have worked various jobs including (but not limited to) guy who paints lines on running tracks, ticket taker at Gilette Stadium, CSR at a company handling long term disability claims for the State of Virginia, secretary (LOL), Snack Shack manager (AKA looking at chicks in bikinis and eating slush all day), and, for one brief shining day, amusement ride operator...that's right, i was a carny...

 

[kaos]

I wish to be a pimp

 

[Magnaflux]

Auto Service Tech

In engineering school I've been a designer/draftsman/sales as well.

 

[Mushiki]

Singer/Musician.

 

[beelzebubble]

Singer/Musician.

lol.. gackt joke?

ive been a glassee in a bar, kitchenhand at mcdonalds, 4 years at a 5 star hotel, three pt jobs as a sales assistant at a game store, english teacher, australian restaurant in japan, pt english teacherx3 and lastly my current job which is english teacher of course...

oh yeah i forgot i worked as a tour guide/translator for a japanese tour group one time which was awesome.

 

[syringe]

I'm a full time college student, and I'm employed four nights a week at a local home alarm call center. We're an independently contracted call center that gets local overflow from a few big providers like Sloman's and several smaller local ones. We also manage calls for a Life Alert type service.

Basically the procedure is that an alarm goes off (99/100 times it's a false alarm) in someone's home and it pops up on the monitor. It'll autodials their number (before the upgrade in march I had to dial their numbers manually, that's alot of work , yes this job is that boring). You try to contact them and confirm it's a false alarm, if you can't the local police dept gets notified and they send a patrol car over. With the elderly paging service since there's no direct contact, they press a button and a device connected to the phone line dials out, you just immediately contact their local emergency center.

What some of you will find alarming is that it's such a non-job (I mean you can't even risk fucking up the number given the auto-dialing equipment). That there's a TV in here and we can surf the web from our desks, study, and basically do whatever we want to pass the huge amount of time between calls, just drop whatever your doing when you get an alert and it's fine.

 

[GregN]

Test grader for Arkansas Benchmark tests. 4th, 6th, 8th grades. It pays good, it's easy work, but the drive is HELL 1.5 hours to work ONE WAY.

I would be doing something with my telecom degree, but due to a shitty job market, IT decripitude, inept college instructors (the chair of the department was FIRED when I went to school there, if that tells a story), and my own laziness/apathy the last 1.5 years of school, I'm in a perpectual HELL of job scrambling.

 

[bokmeow]

Japanese tutor (not on payroll statistics)
Sales associate at an apparel retail chain (on payroll statistics)
Typesetting & proofreader at publishing arm of a university (on payroll statistics)
Copyediting/Advertising layout artist at a newspaper (on payroll statistics)

And sales associate is the lowest paying of the jobs I have

 

[jocappy]

New and Used Toyota and Scion Sales Consultant