What do you do for a living?

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:33 pm

[Note to self: Always be nice to Elfgirl. Always!]

Post by **Revan** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:40 pm

Elfgirl wrote:
Spring wrote:What exactly happened with you and the hackers, Elfy?
Nothing! I just turned up here today to see wha's been happning over the four days I was off and THIS had all happened!

I'm just a bit ANGRY at finding my ID and my posts all vanished. And of course I like to hit out at the perpetrators - would prefer to do it physically with a baseball bat wrapped in razor wire, but unless someone has that pus-faced little weasel's home address, I can't get Big Bubba and his gang of sewer rats to go round there to 'persuade' him to commit suicide!

I hate people who think they're being oh-so-fcking clever by destroying someone else's hard work. Hope that somebody DOES actually know who that idiot is, and gives him a nose-job with a chainsaw.

selah.

HAHAHA! Love the rant Elfgirl!

You're a feisty one

High Lord Tolkien wrote: Note to self: Always be nice to Elfgirl. Always

Yeah, I better make the same note...

Post by **Elfgirl** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:47 am

Ech, I can be a real pussycat as well, ya know...

Gollum got it right - "We be nice to them, if they be nice to us"....

if not...*starts chainsaw*

Post by **Loredoctor** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:36 am

Elfgirl wrote:if not...*starts chainsaw*

*Loremaster looks at map of Australia. Notes Elfgirl is only a four hour flight away across the continent. Makes note not to get her angry. Loremaster then strokes Mr Darcy poster. Then looks at monitor and realises he posted that.*

Post by **Seareach** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:22 pm

Loremaster wrote: Loremaster then strokes Mr Darcy poster.

Oooh Loremaster...I never realised.... <grin>

Post by **Bustedviens** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:30 am

I am the transporter just without the cool car and fantsy moves...
Break 1.9 (I am an

Over The Road Transpotation Specialist)

Post by **Rogical21** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:49 pm

I myself am a Quality Associate for 3M. I basically handle all of the customer complaints for our location. We make label stocks. (That's right folks, I make a living checking the quality of stickers. . .)

Not my dream job, but it pays the bills. I hope to complete my degree at some point in the near future and somehow pursue my love for the woods. Just not sure what is out there to be honest. <shrugs>

- Rogical

Post by **rxinhed** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:49 am

Geologist...really liked all the lava scenes in the books. Used to make walking staves (staff plural) for my friends attending Rennaissance Faire in southern California...couldn't make the One Staff

Post by **Empusae** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:54 pm

I am a security officer at a mail order pharmacy.

Although they are letting us all go at the end of the month (company wide) so I don't know if I will be working for the contract company or someone else. . . I hope for the someone else.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:10 am

rxinhed wrote:Geologist...

Oh you are so lucky!

Post by **Recluce** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:29 am

I currently hold 4 jobs.

1. Receptionist at a law firm

2. File clerk for same law firm.

3. Owner/operator of my own business of creating custom Lego accessories.

4. Forum Moderator and Project Consultant for a comic book company.

Heh, and those are just the jobs I get paid for....

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:35 am

Lego accessories? What kind of accessories?

--A

Post by **Recluce** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:56 am

Avatar wrote:Lego accessories? What kind of accessories?

--A

These! And a few others I've not photographed and uploaded.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:51 am

Cool!

--A

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:11 am

I LOVED Lego during my childhood.

Post by **Revan** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:12 pm

I loved it too! I even choked on it once. That's how close me and lego were, it nearly killed me!

Post by **Zarathustra** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:55 pm

I'm currently not working (which is why you see so many of my posts lately).

I'm not really sure what I'm doing--I work on my novel, I apply for PC tech jobs, I work out. Okay, here's the thing: I made lots of money recently as a roof salesman. I had no idea you could make so much money in such little time with no experience. It was ridiculous. I went down to Gulfport, MS, and signed up with a local roofing company, and then literally had people begging me to give them an estimate on getting their roof repaired. I had absolutely no sales experience and no construction experience. I had three days worth of training, and on my 4th day I was making $500/day. After a week, home owners were treating me like an expert--if they only knew! [Don't get me wrong, I worked for a reputable company with a 5 year warrantee on the labor. We helped lots of people get 1st rate, quality roofs.] My first $3000 day was one I'll never forget; I treated myself to a nice big steak that day!

But it was the day I was doing Christmas shopping in the mall, conducting business on my cell phone, that I realized I LOVED this job. I got to go where ever I wanted, when ever I wanted. I had no boss looking over my shoulder. I chose my hours and the neighborhoods I wanted to work. I could take lunch whenever I wanted, and do business while I was shopping at the mall. Truly a dream job.

But I was very far from home, and missed the family terribly. After four months, things started slowing down so I quit. Now I'm once again just a guy with a useless philosophy degree and a dream of getting published. I got my A+ and Network+ certifications (might get my MCSE, too) so I would have a computer career to fall back on. [Any tips from High Lord Tolkien or Esmer would be appreciated!] It's a little depressing thinking about going to Best Buy or Circuit city for an entry level position in PC repair after my experience in Gulfport. My roofing company is going national, and hail season is starting up. It's really tempting to get back in it.

I am a professional brewer

Dude, you are my hero. As a homebrewer, that idea really excites me. Who do you brew for? How do I get in that business??

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:12 pm

well, as much as a failure as my PC career has been, it's been about as much as I've put into it, so....

as much as I've seen of whats out there, if you're in it for the money, MCSE is the way to go. Network engineering, security, programming are all where the money is at, and excruciatingly boring and tedious, so I have avoided them like the plague. A good "street tech", like me, heh, really kinda gets the short end of the stick, in that we know better than any how bad software makes good hardware malfunction, and to know the difference in the reverse, throw in some "sh*t happens", and you end up with a voodoo superstar who can save your whole life you had in some file somewhere, yet we get paid like we're cookin dinner.....oh well, heh.

I've been thinkin of drivin a truck, actually.....

Post by **Lorelei** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:56 pm

I currently work for a small materials testing lab here in Maryland. We test all kinds of cool stuff....adhesives, medical devices, microchips, etc. Prior to that I spent 1.5 years in the specialty cement inudstry and prior to that I spent 10 years in paints and pigments. I have a 4 year degree in chemistry.

Post by **mortem** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:01 pm

I am a mainframe computer programmer. Since these days so many people ask, "Um, what is a mainframe?" I have to respond, "Do you remember those pictures from the 1940's with a guy standing in front of a room-sized computer? THAT is a mainframe. Except they're about the size of a refrigerator now."

Not many of us left now, but since nobody trains for them any more, not only do I have job security, but there's not going to be any outsourcing of my job!

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