The 'what do you do for a living?' thread.

[Sharky]

Nice one! I'm glad you found something you like.

I'm still doing part time gardening as my main job... Not making a whole lot.

I'm doing a new art for someone’s 'book of rhymes' which I’m doing very slowly because I'm not very enthused about it.

Also I've finished the first draft of the children’s/young adult fiction book I want to write and now the long slow process of fixing my many spelling/grammatical errors and tarting it up. Then finally, I'll do the artwork.

[MadeManG74]

^Glad to hear you are loving your job!

And speaking of which, I now have a job I really enjoy as well. For the last 6 months or so I've been on the buying team for the Video Game department of a major retailer as a Merchandise Assistant/Co-ordinator.

So yeah, while it's pretty demanding work, it's also very interesting and i'm working with a product I already have a great interest in and with some great people.

[George]

I run Fat, Ugly or Slutty

http://fatuglyorslutty.com/

Pretty much bringing in that ad revenue.

[ShaunShikeishuu]

I work at a Salvation Army doing all the bull crap work. That includes moving around furniture, dealing with trash all day long, putting things into storage/taking things out of storage and a load of other crap that I don't feel like going into details about. It's actually a tough job but I've grown use to it. Also classic video games come in a lot which I can get at a very cheap price. Example stack of N64 games for a dollar, DC in the box with a stack of games for like 5 bucks.

[Toggi3]

I work in the datacenter and web hosting industry.  

[CrazyT]

Work at post company. Nothign special really. thousands of letters come out of lots of machines next to eacht other, dependant on the city and postal codes, and I put them in a box. When the box fills up, I put it on a wagon, replace a new box in it's place and repeat till the wagon fills too. It pays good and makes it possible for me to buy stuff

[Emmett The Crab]

I do Real Estate in Fairbanks, Alaska.

[max_cady]

Oh, boy, last week we finished the biggest shipment of wine to one of our customers in Poland. About 4 pallets with 100 boxes each. And we had to make sure we'd stick the official Polish Ministry of Commerce sticker on every single bottle of every single box.

Fun fact: In the US, it doesn't matter where the imported good comes from, it must have a label in english.

And I finished my first professional web programming assignment.

The second job starts tomorrow.

[George]

Wine? Do you get free wine for working there? If so, it would be the PERFECT job.

[max_cady]

Well, my boss does ocassionally send out free bottles to new customers. He let me try a glass or two of sweet red wine yesterday.

[MadeManG74]

^Already drinking on the job... tsk tsk

:p

[max_cady]

In my defense, it was after work hours.

[Sega Uranus]

Wine is beer's gay uncle.

Man up and grow a tree inside the building and rip the berries off of it with your teeth, do not clean off the bird shit either.

[max_cady]

But Portuguese Wine is the Superior Wine!

[tarpmortar]

Bump, I was unemployed for the past two years but now I book keep for my Dad's Pallet Manufacturing company, it's boring as all get out. I did manage to land a IT job for a real estate office, it pays very well (in the neighborhood of $45 a hour) but it's only a few hours a month to maintain all their computers and crap since the real estate agents think it's a great idea to install random shit on the comps. Either way, easy work.

I was thinking of starting a taco stand, and I have been writing a couple books for a bit now. Doubt those will go anywhere though. Just being realistic of course, but if they do, fantastic.