What do you do?? (1 Viewer)

[Chippy McChiperson]

Mental Institution Orderly

We could use you in the Trump/Clinton thread

Edit: to remove the unemployed bum part

 

[AK Chip]

Sold popcorn and peanuts at local baseball games 10-12
Referee for youth hockey 12-14
Lawn maintenance - landscaping 14-19
Exxon Valdez oil spill 20-21
Land surveyor 21-24
Underground utility line and grademan
Heavy equipment operator
Pipe crew foreman
Superintendent
Project Manager
Department of Transportation Assistant Project Engineer

Goal is to be a bum as soon as possible.

 

[bergs]

I worked in IT starting at 16, and am still in IT 28 years later. I'll do IT until I drop dead, at which time my occupation will be providing nourishment for worms and other carrion.

 

[abby99]

PeopleSoft. You can all hate me now.
(If you aren't familiar, it is an ERP software solution that makes everyone's lives miserable)

LOL! True story.

 

[carlin]

caddy
janitor
furniture delivery guy
bartender
ic design engineer
mixed signal design engineer
seaplane pilot/instructor
craps dealer
ic design consultant
unemployed

-gc

 

[Fleming]

Fun thread.

I work in ecommerce user experience. So, basically I spend my days looking into how people get frustrated online, and try to turn things pleasant for them.

 

[Big Jilm]

I do a ton of things, but this is not one of them:

(prolly better for wtf thread)

 

[GoStumpy]

Small business owner, auto glass repair and replacement.



And for everybody who is trying to be funny this is the only non serious post in serious thread that wins, the rest of you are horrible at comedy and life.

Hey.... I am a small business owner in auto glass repair and replacement LOL! We also do detailing to supplement

 

[Phantom]

(15 to 18) KFC - Food Service Worker;
(18 to 19) Just Jeans - Sales Assistant;
(18 to 20) Video Store;
(20 to 36) Police Officer (16 years - uniform, plain clothes criminal investigation, later - operational skills instructor at the Academy);
(28 to 38) Personal Fitness Trainer (10 years - self-employed, spare time) Sold all my equipment to finance the CPC chips ;
(36 to current) Loss Adjuster - personal injury insurance claims investigations for local and state government;
Aspiring author (current); and
Husband, and Father (full time)

 

[keshaldra]

Do you have a CISSP?

I do, but haven't put it to use in a bit, and I'm actually about to let it expire...I've been more on the training/auditing side lately, and I'm actually looking to leave the field altogether.

Side story: In college, I started off as a math major, just because I loved it. Had this conversation with my counselor, sophomore year:

Counselor: "So, you're a math major, huh? You like it?"
Me: "Yeah, I love it!"
Counselor: "Do you want to be an engineer?"
Me: "No, not really"
Counselor: "How about a math teacher?"
Me: "Definitely not"
Counselor: "Then why are you a math major?"
Me: (hmm...why AM I a math major?)

I switched to computer science the next day (and ultimately switched schools and graduated in networking security).

I've always loved prob and stat, and especially game theory (so naturally, it's a big shocker that I love poker), but the jobs were few and far between. Data science wasn't a thing yet, and I'd never heard of a quant before, or else I'd have done exactly that. Now I've forgotten everything that comes after DiffEq, but I don't like IT enough to stay there either. Ahh, the mid (third?)-life crisis

 

[Blaster]

For the last 24 yrs, owner of a retail specialty electronics store, both B & M and online, specializing in Police radio scanners, Ham Radio & CB radio equipment ...

 

[inca911]

Grocery store bagger/cashier
Loaded trucks for a house moving company
Chef at a fairly nice Italian restaurant (covering for someone's maternity leave)
Chemist (med device)
Software, Hardware, Sensor, Algorithm Product Development Scientist (med device)
Project/Program Manager (med device, small molecule pharmaceuticals, large molecule pharma)
For the past 6 years, Sales + Product Development for a medical device company
Hopefully now only single digit years to potential retirement....

 

[pltrgyst]

For the last 24 yrs, owner of a retail specialty electronics store, both B & M and online, specializing in Police radio scanners, Ham Radio & CB radio equipment ...

Ham radio license? Call?

Anyone else licensed besides Joe at PGI?

(WA2QCM since 1959...)

 

[Blaster]

Ham radio license? Call?

Anyone else licensed besides Joe at PGI?

(WA2QCM since 1959...)

Yes, N2IUJ
Some years back I bartered Joe at PGI getting a couple sets of Custom labeled China clays, & buttons ect, in exchange for some Ham Radio related equipment ...

 

[12thMan]

Ham radio license? Call?

Anyone else licensed besides Joe at PGI?

(WA2QCM since 1959...)

Not that this is important, but since you guys are talking about HAM it reminded me that I am needing to get my HAM radio license because some of the vtx we use to fly fpv (first person view) quad copters are powerful enough to cross the low threshold for having to have an amateur operators license or whatever they call it. I have obviously not done enough research on it yet. lol Unlike the FAA regulations that were put into effect for this hobby that are totally misguided (they are working on correcting their mistakes though) I am actually excited about studying and taking the test to get the HAM license. From what I understand from other people just taking the test will teach me a lot about radio waves, antennas, etc and I think that's pretty cool, definitely not an area that I have learned much about before.

 

[johnnycnote]

For the last 24 yrs, owner of a retail specialty electronics store, both B & M and online, specializing in Police radio scanners, Ham Radio & CB radio equipment ...

You forgot this Blaster!

 

[Blaster]

You forgot this Blaster!

You are Goat - Obsessed!

 

[MikesDad]

Large property underwriting consultant.

Insurance is booooorrrrrringgggggg

Thought you were a tree surgeon

 

[Mr Tree]

Thought you were a tree surgeon

Lol when he was younger my father actually was!

 

[Payback]

Anybody on here in pharmaceutical sales or medical sales? Thinking about a career change.

 

[David O]

Anybody on here in pharmaceutical sales or medical sales? Thinking about a career change.

@inca911

 

[inca911]

I do medical device sales, but to large corporations rather than to physicians. Drop me a note if you want to catch up sometime....

 

[doakwolf]

I've avoided this thread because I don't enjoy my job and don't seem to have the balls to make a change

But reading that some others are having trouble finding a job makes me feel silly for worrying about it and I should feel lucky

15-18 McDonalds 'chef' & trainer
18-20 ICT trainee
20-23 ICT network admin
23-24 rounder at the local casino
24-now (33) call center technician

The call center job started when I realised I wasn't good enough at poker to sustain a regular income!

Moving forward, I'd like to be an excavator operator or a fitter & turner. Working on a plan to get my creds and make it happen. I have long service leave very soon so it should be achievable.

 

[SemiNumerical]

I work at a large internet company doing product support for 3rd party ad serving.
You want to know anything about the exciting world of 3rd party ads, feel free to reach out.
Though I might think you are mad, who the hell likes 3rd party ad serving...

If I have bought something off you or you have shipped something to me, you probably know which on as I get most things sent to work ;-)

 

[MD Mike]

Software Engineer on the Apple end of the mobile world.
On the side I also dabble with arduino / microprocessors and 2D/3D video games.

You and I would get along better than I thought.

Now I sound like that creepy guy in the window pic.

 

[Mtvernonbryan]

I sell Freightliner trucks. The more trucks I sell the more chips I can buy the more pron I will provide. Buy a truck for good of the forum....

 

[David O]

I sell Freightliner trucks. The more trucks I sell the more chips I can buy the more pron I will provide. Buy a truck for good of the forum....

The company I work with has about 200, We also have a couple hundred Petes and just purchased 10 KW's as a trial

 

[Mtvernonbryan]

Let's do this!!!

 

[AllinBallin]

PeopleSoft. You can all hate me now.
(If you aren't familiar, it is an ERP software solution that makes everyone's lives miserable)

I can totally relate to this!

 

[bigblind]

Sr. Radiology Engineer

repair: C.T. Scanners, M.R.I. Scanners, Cardiac Cath Labs, E.P. Labs, Neuoro & Interventional Labs