How do you make a living?

[intothewoods]

I stick people in the looney bin with needles, prep piss, shit, and blood samples to be sent to the lab. Good times

Seriously? Daaaamn.

 

[DVS]

In chronological order and simplified for your safety.
In my 20s:was a musician and song writer.
Some odds and ends mixed in, because music doesn't may much.
In my 30s: made eye glasses.
In my 40s: computer department supervisor for a mortgage corporation.
And now, in my 50s: after a short stint as a racist, security for a research company. I walk around at night and watch that I don't step in the deer and goose poop. It's a tough job, but I get paid quite well.

Although I've enjoyed everything I've done, my first love and still favorite is the music. Although I'm still a musician and song writer, I have nothing published. What I write doesn't seem to be currently in favor. My tastes are old, like me, mostly prog rock.

Making glasses has changed completely, from when I was doing it. Computers pretty much took the craft out of it. I couldn't get a job doing that now, it's changed so much.

The computer job doesn't exist any more. It's strange how things can vaporize. That company employed over 400 people with nearly 200 of them in the corporate office. The bank that was the mother company still exists and thrives, but the mortgage company literally has 5 people employed. From 400 in 1995 down to 5 since about 2002.

After 9-11 security has changed a lot. Companies that would never have thought of security before that date, now swear by it. When I couldn't get a job in computers (after trying for almost 2 years), I was hired by security in less than an hour.

Contract security sucks eggs. Low pay, and minimal benefits, often working with disgruntled people. In house security is where it's at, baby! High pay, great benefits and comfortable working conditions working with nice people.

Do I talk too much?








I didn't think so.

 

[culloden]

Magazine editor, how-to book author.

No degree - College sucked, so I went to work in the field I now write about.

 

[DVS]

Seriously? Daaaamn.

I was thinking the same thing. Needles?

 

[Rayven101]

Day job - selling rice for a AG plant that is owned by a Beer Company. And yes I get free beer

Side job - my own business - Spirutual and ritual items for the pagan community, healings, rituals, handfastings, mother blessings etc etc - this one feeds my soul - the other drains it lol

 

[Seurat]

I also take His blood weekly and run it to the hospital, dispense insulin and other meds, and generally care for Him - some days He is unwell or in a lot of pain with arthritis.

Ya know, once again my perspective on how things are for me when compared to others is radically changed.






I....am not supposed to talk about my job. I spend eight hours a day in what amounts to being a bunker. I have lots of time and no internet while I am there, so I read a lot. But the pay is good.

 

[be_ignited]

Childcare with some writing on the side. And hopefully graduate school in a year or so.

Although it's temporary, the pay is great and I come home from work happy every day. I hope I'm so lucky when I get a 'real' job.

 

[BiBunny]

My bachelor's is in psychology (with a minor in English), and my as-yet-unfinished master's is in English. So I guess you could say I'm sort of using them both.

 

[belle1025]

I'm a professional engineer (P.E.) in civil engineering working in the public sector.

 

[satindesire]

Best job ever! This would be my ideal

Being a stay at home mom and wife (for now) is nice. I am itching to get back into college though. I'd like to earn my Master's before I'm 30.

 

[Homburg]

Y'know, as a student, I'm curious to know what everybody's education was like. I'm primarily interested in whether your college major, if any, is related to your current job. Mostly because I am graduating in December with a B.A. in Deaf Studies, which does not, by itself, have any jobs associated with it.

BA in Philosophy. While I can connect the dots and make it related, sorta, it's really not.

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Contract security sucks eggs. Low pay, and minimal benefits, often working with disgruntled people. In house security is where it's at, baby! High pay, great benefits and comfortable working conditions working with nice people.

I am with you there. I did contract for a coupla years and it blew. Then I got on with MCI and it was cherry. Hell, I'd go work security for them again in a heartbeat.

 

[satindesire]

Unemployed accountant/auditor
Bilingual (english/spanish)

You hiring?

Que bein ver otra persona que habla espanol aqui.

Y'know, as a student, I'm curious to know what everybody's education was like. I'm primarily interested in whether your college major, if any, is related to your current job. Mostly because I am graduating in December with a B.A. in Deaf Studies, which does not, by itself, have any jobs associated with it.

Psychology. If I get my Master's, I can be a counselor for cereal, so I can get paid for all my relationship advice.

well I was told yesterday I had no job in september. I'm hoping to pick some research or lecturing work up, especially as Tescos wouldn't even give me an interview.

otherwise I buy old enamelled jewellery and renovate it and I'm in the process of setting up my own jewellery business.

I study for the fun of it.

THAT sounds awesome!

 

[MisterSir]

Y'know, as a student, I'm curious to know what everybody's education was like. I'm primarily interested in whether your college major, if any, is related to your current job. Mostly because I am graduating in December with a B.A. in Deaf Studies, which does not, by itself, have any jobs associated with it.

BSc Economics. Coming out of university into the worst recession since the war, during which no banks are hiring, with a degree sadly not good enough to get me noticed anywhere and, because I'm unemployed, it obviously has nothing to do with anything.

 

[Seurat]

In house security is where it's at, baby! High pay, great benefits and comfortable working conditions working with nice people.

Can be!

 

[where]

Y'know, as a student, I'm curious to know what everybody's education was like. I'm primarily interested in whether your college major, if any, is related to your current job. Mostly because I am graduating in December with a B.A. in Deaf Studies, which does not, by itself, have any jobs associated with it.

BSc (Hons) 1st class, MSc, PGCE, and now PhD student. I like to think the reason I didn't get the shelf stacking job at Tescos was because I was over qualified, but nowhere on the form did I have to write my qualifications, so it must have been the micky-mouse psychometric test.

THAT sounds awesome!

I'm pretty excited about it. I've been picking out my hallmarks and have finally perfected the optimum way to get the fingerprints onto the silver. Hoping everything will be off the ground in the next week or so. Just hope I'm not making it too expensive.

<<<< is feeling smug

 

[Bi_Kitty]

BS in Accounting and Economics.

I am a loan processor for a bank. I am a phone sex operator. And an accountant and photographer to a very select few.

 

[belle1025]

Que bein ver otra persona que habla espanol aqui.

Igual. ¡Que bien ver otras personas cuales hablen español.

 

[CurlyKat]

BS in biomedical science, working on my master's in science and technology journalism. In my first post-graduate job as assistant editor, I used my degree a handful of times on specific assignments. Most specifically, I used my risk assessment class in a story on lead in the soil on post because it was almost exactly like all the exercises and projects we did on Super Fund sites and the like. The master's degree will tie in the undergraduate degree with the journalism experience and hopefully I will be able to focus more on those sorts of scientifically related stories or publications.

As a neuropsyc admin, I used my undergrad degree and minor (psychology) every single day for work. While it wasn't necessarily required for the job, it helped immensely understanding medical terminology, processes, and behaviors while working most often within the medical clinics.

 

[CutieMouse]

Y'know, as a student, I'm curious to know what everybody's education was like. I'm primarily interested in whether your college major, if any, is related to your current job. Mostly because I am graduating in December with a B.A. in Deaf Studies, which does not, by itself, have any jobs associated with it.

A long long long looooooooong time ago when I was in college, my intended degree was English Lit with a minor in Education. The semester I dropped out, I was considering a change to a BA in Classics (Literature, Greek, Latin, Art History & Western Civ - yummy).

But then I dropped out.

Since then I've sort of self-taught whatever strikes my fancy. Which means I have a heck of a lot of childbirth and breastfeeding physiology, Doula training, old semi-formal IBCLC stuff, developmental theory, educational theory (mostly Montessori, Waldorf, etc), sociology, a smattering of anthropology, general research skills, sales, development of the book/rare book cataloguing, fashion history and construction (especially lingerie), sewing, hand crafts, household management, cooking, homeopathic/alternative healing, budget planning, customer service, and probably stuff I can't remember... alll swirling about in this odd odd little mind of mine.

 

[Bandit58]

No tertiary qualifications other than a teacher aide certificate. Which made it difficult to find work when I left my 23 year first marriage in my 40s.

Teacher aide work is mostly part time (no more than 15 or 20 hours a week) which didn't make the dole office very happy They wanted me on full time. So I went on a sort of "work for the dole" scheme. I worked in a council office in customer service (answer phones, mail, word processing/dictaphone, stuff envelopes, filing). Mostly doing what the other two girls there found boring and repetitive. The boss did say that if there had been enough work for a third full time person he would have hired me, but by the time I'd been there 6 months and caught up with the backed up filing and helped set up their database of properties, there wasn't enough work

By then Sir and I had developed our relationship so I decided there was no future for me in NZ and moved to Australia. Sir is a full time job in Himself!

 

[the captians wench]

Que bein ver otra persona que habla espanol aqui.

Hablo espanol tambien. Pero solo paquito cuando no estoy in la restorante.

 

[satindesire]

Hablo espanol tambien. Pero solo paquito cuando no estoy in la restorante.

Haha! I get a lot of help from Mister. He's fluent, I try hard but I am so not as good as he is. So I totally know how you feel.

 

[YoungFlyer]

Registered Nurse and now a Commercial Pilot

I have a Bachelor in Nursing and a couple of diploma's!

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

Y'know, as a student, I'm curious to know what everybody's education was like. I'm primarily interested in whether your college major, if any, is related to your current job. Mostly because I am graduating in December with a B.A. in Deaf Studies, which does not, by itself, have any jobs associated with it.

I work for a government recruitment company.

I'm studying Wine Science.

I'd say no, not related.



When I finish my degree though, I'll dump the shackles and move into the industry. Hopefully with my credit card paid off and some savings in the bank, cos I want to go OS.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

I go postal for profit