Making a Living

[veg-o-matic]

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

 

[gadgetgary]

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?????

 

[hoover1060]

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

 

[petek]

I do nothing but sit around, smoke and look glam now that I have retired.

Veg I'm concerned about your health.. have you ever heard about librarians lung? google away.. LOL

 

[whirlcool]

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.

 

[Versatronic]

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.

TE Connectivity: Connectors & Sensors for Harsh Environments

TE is known worldwide as a trusted manufacturer of reliable, optimally engineered connectors and sensors for enabling innovation in data, power, signal, and sensing connectivity.

www.tycoelectronics.com

 

[jaxsunst]

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.

 

[jasonl]

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.

 

[mattywashboy]

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/

 

[mayken4now]

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

 

[seamusuk]

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

 

[panthera]

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.

 

[jasonl]

"... we make folks happy, then I asked to be paid"

What would Toggle say?

 

[nurdlinger]

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.

 

[toggleswitch]

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)?

 

[toggleswitch]

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.

 

[jasonl]

Hookers charge like a bus and partners/wives charge like a taxi.

(ducks and runs)

Well, now, Helen's Waiting patiently for July 8th.

 

[mixfinder]

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?

 

[mixfinder]

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