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Okay kids, time for our annual poll of The Sacrifices We Make To Support Our Bad Habits, otherwise known as What do you do for a living?

I'll start. Please hold the snoring 'til the end.

I run the online catalogs and do networking for a Major Metropolitan Library System. Oh, it's a glamour job all right; work in the basement with mildew and without windows. Really, if I didn't smoke, I wouldn't get any sunlight at all!

Unlike some others in the department, I have perspective. It's not, after all, a heart/lung machine. Lighten up, honey.

What about you? Tell us all about it! Occupations of spouses/SOs welcome, too.

veg
 
What do you do for a living?

What a great thread veg.....
I sling Hash.....Kind of like Alice....but a bit more butch(LOL).....
Actually been in the 'hospitality' business for years....so relax and....

What can I get you Sir?????
 
I send out money...

Loan funder, Countrywide Financial, will have 5 years with Countrywide in August.
I'm the guy who gets everything ready for the closing. I get the file from the branch(The branches I work with are Tarrytown NY and Rutherford NJ) I review all the fees on the settlement statement and make sure they balance, then send the closing package to the title company via email.
After signing the package comes back to me, is reviewed by a compliance team to make sure everything is properly signed, and I wire funds to title. Once they confirm the wire, I give them the ok to disburse and thats that.
The above process takes 4 days from start to finish for a refinance, if its a purchase it all happens over 24 hours.
Last month I did 220 loans
 
Captain with a large bankrupt legacy carrier. I am currently left seat on the 757. I got here via a series of mergers and buyouts. I originally started with North Central Airlines in 1974 on the Convair 580.
I'll be able to retire in 5 years, if I last that long. It seems all the fun is gone from the industry. It certainly is not what it used to be.
 
Hi Ho, Hi Ho

I work for one of those megacorporations. Perhaps you remember my former boss, Dennis Koslowski? He and his sidekick are on a long vacation at the present time. I saw his name in the credits for the remake of Fun With Dick And Jane recently.

Anyway, I'm a systems analyst/project leader for our electronic catalog. In other words, I'm responsible for a large chunk of my company's website which I have linked below. The stuff that looks good, that's my stuff. The stuff that looks bad, someone else is responsible for that.

http://www.tycoelectronics.com
 
I am a Senior Systems Analyst for a third party insurance processor. We have several large clients including all three US auto makers. If your insurance card has a globe wrapped in a S, that's me.
 
IT Geek

I"m one of those IT geeks that surf the net all day and tell the users "It's not my problem". Actually, I try to be as helpful as I can even though alot of times it IS user error.

Helen is an LPN and she won't have any trouble getting a job down here in the most unhealthiest state in the country.
 
Two jobs, ones a career, ones a money spinner

I have two jobs plus i'm a full time student. How does this work you ask, it requires much time and energy and not much sleep. During the day i go to Edith Cowan University and am studying Primary Teaching. Half of the day is spent at Uni and the other half of the day i work at North Beach Education Support Center as an Education Assisitant, helping students with disabilities learn. Thats the career occupation next is the one that just generates cash so i can spend and afford to live out of home.
Three nights a week i work at our local Italian Restuarant- Oscars as a dishwasher and kitchenhand (i.e- someone to blame for everything goes wrong). Well thats my occupation(s). I finish university in 2009 and then hopefully i will go out into the Australian bushland towns and work with Aboriginie children.
The link is to Oscars Restuarant where i work at night.
Happy working
Matt

http://oscarsrestaurant.com.au/
 
Steven L. Bollich Home Repair

Yep you got it, we make folks happy, then I asked to be paid, not before.

We do kitchens, baths, decks, painting, plenty of customer service etc.

Steve
 
Has a VERY appropiate job for a vacuum nut!!!

I work for an independent appliance sales/service shop- MAJOR benifits include cost on spare parts and the odd nice old Hoover :). Both my nice late 652A Senior(Convertible) and VERY rare 1124A Convertible(Dial a matic) were saved from the dump pile!!!!. both had tool sets as well :)

Seamus
 
Teach at a poly-tech.

Teach bright young people at a local university. For the last six semesters I have had the luxury of only teaching elective courses.
Unfortunately, somebody in the admin. noticed.
Drat.
Beginning Winter Semester, I am back to teaching bone-head English to 19/20 year old students who somehow made it through 7-9 years of English/Latin/French in secondary school without learning anything.
 
Embedded Systems Programming

This means I program tiny computers buried within other devices to give them their controlling intelligence. Over thirty years I have worked on machine tool path monitors, remote data acquisition systems, small operator interface terminals, networking systems for integrated circuit testers, ruggedized PCs, and a number of devices used to instrument equipment in open pit mines. For the last twenty years the preferred programming language has been "C", but I've had to learn the arcane machine languages for a dozen or two microprocessors. What I do is part of the greater classification "Product Development", and it is great fun almost all the time.
 
What would Toggle say?

Visa, MasterCard, Amex or Discover?
or, as a former accountant "CASH is king"

This requires a two-part entry:

DR CASH .$500
CR A/R . $500

DR A/R .$500
CR SALES . $500

Question is, does one charge like a bus (before you get on) or like a taxi-cab (after you get off)?
 
oh, in the UK
A/R ("Accounts Receivable") would be "Debtors"

In G-d we trust. Al others must pay cash.
Want credit? Go to Helen Waite, located outside of this office.
 
Pay before or after

A bus collects your money and drops you off whether or not you reached the correct destination.
A taxi asks for the correct destination, drives you until you have reached it and then, collects the money.
Taxis cost more, you ride alone, but the driver isn't always attractive.
In the end, it's better to drive your own car, control your own destiny and choose who occupies the seat next to you.
Now, you just have to hope your "engine" is large block, 8 cylinder with dual carbs and turbo!
Kelly
But isn't it true, even 4 cylinder "engines" reach the same destination, with fewer tickets and less fatalities?
 
Good Morning Miss Landers

I am a chef with a culinary and food science degree. I worked for a major hotel chain as the corporate chef, taught 12 years at a culinary institute and finished my career as a food technologist/stylist with a consortium of 53 food manufacturers and a territory of five states. In my retirement, I still do some product testing and consulting.
Mostly I love cooking and serving people I love.
Kelly
 
I am theoretically a "Director of Consumer Relations" for a small internet company, but that sounds much too formal for what I do. I basically handle all of our consumer coorospondence, monitor trends in consumer behavior, and go to lunch.
 
This is work?!?!?!?!?!

Veg...you psychic beoytch...you did it again! First my dream analysis, and now this! I was bored yesterday, lurking behind the scenes in the old archived threads, and was reading this exact same thread from last year. How do you know these things boi? :-)

It was very interesting and entertaining to say the least. I love this site. I can have a really crappy day, and come in here and find something halarious to laugh about. Not to mention how much I have learned hanging out here, and the wonderful people who I have a chance to meet....

So my job is basically to come in to work and look busy. I can do that very well, LOL. But honestly hard work makes me happiest. Am I sick or what? I love construction, building, etc...I have had many many jobs in my life...the Flash Dance Movie pretty much sums up about 7 years...LOL (I am certified in HDPE pipe, and I won't go about here about the "other")
I like to refer to myself as a Jane-of-all-trades, Mistress of None.

Currently I am a Project Secretary for a South American LNG (Liqified Natural Gas)Construction Project. Make that 1 in S.A.; 1 in OZ, and the other job I am trying to get is located here in Texas, all are based out a a nice high rise building overlooking downtown. It's a cushy job, and I do so many different things around here...but I would really like more of a challenge.

Are hobbies coming soon? LOL

C~
 
My Job

I am the Coordinator of Media Servies and Distance Education for the 4th largest school district in South Carolina. I was a high school Librarian for 13 years before moving to the district office. I visit and consult with all my librarians at the school level. I also coordinate all the textbooks for the schools and will be coordinating the new virtual high school this fall that our state is starting. I like my job and the people I work with. In 9 more years I can retire and move onto another career.

Joe
jamman_98
 
"Business Analyst" is the official title, but I sit 8 hours a day in front of my computer testing for defects in programs they are getting ready to load on the mainframe. Been working on this mainframe now for 18 years in one capacity or another.

There is nothing real about a computer...

Then there are the 2 coin laundries I own, which are the sunshine of my day, even when there are floods, changers out of quarters, and 16 tons of quarters to count at home. Not to mention my 2005 taxes that still need to get done.
 
Also, with a bus, many people have ridden so things are usually worn and loose.

With a taxi, you might luck out and get on a new one with low miles, but once you get there, you get taken for everything you got.

Carol, now I know who to call when my pipe needs fixing HEHE.
 
Officially...

My title is "Administrative Assistant to the Director of Property Operations/Dispatcher".

Translation: I do two jobs, secretary and dispatcher but only get the wage of a secretary.

I work at a local resort, and for the most part it's not too bad. I have my own office with a beautiful view, my own bathroom and kitchenette. Plus, I'm so out-of-the-way, nobody wants to make the trek to my office so I'm not bothered by any or my coworkers.
 
My job classification title is "Office Systems Specialist I", a title which replaced the gender-charged and technologically inaccurate "Secretary IV, Transcribing".

What I actually am is a faculty secretary (Faculty Assistant? I'm still working on a title) at a regional medical school. It's okay money, excellent benefits, and perfect hours.

T.
 
My resume

For a number of years I was at the parts counter for Allied Appliance Parts, which blew up (really!) and then was bought out by the Sundberg Co. of Chicago. Soon after that I was promoted to branch manager of the North St. Paul store. (hence my screen name of partscounterman). Finally just got bored with that and went to work for the nice folks at Plaza TV and Appliance in St. Paul. I loved working at Plaza-everyone there got along so well; going to work was such fun! Quit there when we went back on the road with out Airstream. Then went to work for the concessionaire at Mesa Verde National Park. They even let us move our trailer up to park headquarters at the Spruce Tree House Ruin. That was one nice piece of real estate! It was during that time that we made the decision to move to Maui, as pet quarentine laws had changed (no more 4 month prison for our Kittyboy!)so we wnt back to St. Paul to settle our affairs and I worked at Plaza again for 3-4 months.
Got here on Maui-went to work in Sears Appliance dept. HATED IT!
Then got the crazy idea to open my own shop. Crazy indeed. I should have done a better job researching the market and I would still be in business today. My shop, Appliance Garage, went down about a year ago. It was a tough time for me but I got much support both emotionally and financially from the fine folks on this board. You know who you are and I still remember and thank you!
I am now working at Savers (national chain thrift store) as an Assistant Operations Supervisor (read-glorified cashier). I am afraid I am reaching my saturation point with retail and am seeking something else right now.

My Dennis works for the State of Hawai'i, where he not only gets every major federal holiday off, but also about 6 hawaiian holidays as well (Does your state celebrate Admissions Day? I thought not.)He is really riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels, feeding at the public trough. I have 5 applications in right now so I can get on that train and suckle the state teat.
 
oh and...

Since almost nobody can make it here with just one job, we also share a job delivering pizza 3 nights a week for Pizza in Paradise. Its a fun job, but there are things that happen in restuarant kitchens that you really don't want to know about. I get the feeling that surprise health dept. inspections just don't happen here in "rural" Maui
 
I co-own (with my dad & brother) & manage our appliance store. We sell new Maytag, Amana, Magic Chef, & Crosley Appliances. We also stock/sell a large amount of newer used appliances. Since it's only 3 of us, I basically run the office (accounts receivable/payable), answer the phones & schedule all serivce & delivery appointments, all the sales, go on deliveries, recon & repair, etc. I keep the old man out on the road (and OUT OF MY HAIR AT THE SHOP!!) doing serivce even though he's in his mid-60's. He doesn't really ever want to retire. We used to be the only Maytag store in town. Now, there's about 15 stores that sell Maytag in my local, small county. The business has been around since the early 1930's, so we basically just keep plugging along, doing what we do & not worrying about our "competition." I like keeping the business small like it is. No other employees to worry about and I can sleep well at night.
 

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