What do you do for a living?

[slack 10+ year member]

31, Work for an ISP. I Plan, Design, Build, Support and upgrade their network... in 04 made just over 55K...
The job is pretty cool in some ways, but hella stressful in others... I'm salaried and work 50+ hours a week and on call 24x7x365...

I'm looking for something else to get into, even if it pays less...

did u have to take any special schooling for this or have to get any certifications? Im interested in this kind of work.

 

[EFFENDI 10+ year member]

20 years old, and I will be a millionaire within the next year.

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

18 year old senoir in high school. I'm currently unemployed and hate ever second of it. I love to work and do stuff. This just sitting around at home all the time in front of the computer is nice for a little bit but after so long it gets old quick. After schoolI plan on applying at the local sheriffs department and try and make a carrer out of it. My dad has worked there 25+ years so really all I have to do is pass the test and make it through thier training. In time I plan on going to college for criminal justice/law enforcement. I'm taking at least 1 year if not more off before i go back to college though. School has put a lot of pressure on me and i want a nice break from it before i go back into the grind. I'm not overly worryed about what I will make. I will mostlikly live within the same general area (finger lakes) i grew up in and the cost of living isn't to bad around here. Mind you there is nothing to due but if I get the job at the sheriffs department I will be working part time for 12/hr with unlimited hours. I will also be able to chose which shifts I take so if i need a day off, i just don't take shifts on that day. The job pretty much is this. I will have to check on the inmates about 1 every 15 mins or so. I will try and put as many hours in as i can for a month or so and then back off and then go for a lot of hours again. The main reason this is so appealing to me is the unlimited hours. But we'll have to see, its not garrented and things change...

Jon

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

18 years old, I go to highschool and college. I work at a moive theater, and making 5.15 an hour. F-in sucks, and I've worked there for a year and 4 months.

I hope to either do something in the IT field, or electronics..... either or.

 

[Getwild2 10+ year member]

I am 26 years old. I hold two positions with my employer, the largest and oldest collection agency in Michigan.

1] Inside Sales Coordinator. I fulfill RFP's (Request For Proposals) for new clients. I do special reporting & data manipulating. I think of ways to better the sales department. Try to find new ways to market our agency to gain new clients. Etc.

2] FACS Interface Design. Basically a FACS Enable Programmer. I program our collection system to accept the collection accounts delivered electronically by our clients. For instance, a client gives us a flat ASCII text file...I have to take that and turn it into something we can import into our system to use, I then program our system to import it. I also oversee a great deal of the electronic transfer of accounts, FTP, client I/T issues and a myriad of other duties.

I make right around $17 per hour. I went to school for Computer Science but got married before finishing so here I am.

 

[monte_carlo97 10+ year member]

i am 17 and live at home with the folks. I work at a computer repair shop making decent money while going to high school. Also run a car audio shop for a side job. Do quite a few installs. But probably charge way less than i should.

 

[swaptrex 10+ year member]

Idiot....

You jealous or what, that is what i do for a living, for the winter atleast, because i work my *** off in the summer and get laid off for the cold months.

 

[DARKHART 10+ year member]

I'm 19, full-time college student at the University of Cincinnati in Electrical Engineering with a double minor in Mathematics and Physics.
NG

Oh you are just going to loooooove "CAL III" and "DEF. E".....God have mercey on your soul....heheheheh

39yrs old, I work on and off in the field of Finance (automotive and mortages), depending on what state you live in you can make anywhere from $50k well up into the six figure range..... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[smullen 10+ year member]

You jealous or what, that is what i do for a living, for the winter atleast, because i work my *** off in the summer and get laid off for the cold months.

What do you actually do???

 

[awalbert88 10+ year member]

Last time a thread like this came around, I was doing two jobs - Gamestop for $7.65/hr, and Burger King for $7.00/hr. Now I'm a Shift Manager for Burger King making around $23k. I'm finally making enough money to move out and still have money leftover for car toys.

 

[SoundSplinter 10+ year member]

By the way, i put off college for a while to make some money. Im about to take up a few classes soon. My main goal in life isnt to be the richest or what ever. I think too many people "fall in love" with money. I'd rather have a job i love going to everyday and would go to it if i wasnt getting paid to do it.

I could go on for so long here, but I'd bore everyone and probably kill the thread

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I just wanted to chime in to state that my lifestyle is based on much the same principle Karleon mentioned in the above quote. The best way for me to put this lifestyle into practice is simply not to worry about things that are beyond my control.

For a short synopsis (edit: YEA RIGHT, go get your coffee!

), I'm in my early to mid 20s and attended one year at the University of California Santa Barbara where I began studying psychology. From there I decided I needed a new social atmosphere and booked it up to the University of California at Santa Cruz for the following two years. There, I continued studying psychology for a short while and moved onto my real interest, business. Unfortunately, their business program was not primarily entrepreneurial and essentially was best for lining you up in a big firm where you can work your life away as an accountant and get very rich as you climb up the corporate ladder... definitely not for me. Money is necessary, but it's not what makes your life great - YOU are!

Uh-oh.. looks like I'm startin' to ramble on, let me try to wrap this up

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Those three years of college treated me well, but I ultimately decided to go on hiatus and haven't gone back since, save to take a few classes purely out of interest here and there. Ever since running my own web host in the mid 1990s for a few years, I got the taste of self-employment and I loved it. That business ultimately failed due to rising overhead and rapidly declining website prices throughout that decade... but I knew that I wanted to call my own shots from then on.

I also cleaned grease traps and handed out food at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, for about 5 years off and on. Worked my way up to the point where the boss let me manage the stands at times and made some good money for a high-schooler ($10-15 / hr + all the free food you could eat). I liked the manual aspects of the job, and I enjoyed meeting tons of interesting peeps.. but when it comes down to it, I am a introspective and meticulous person, and I wanted something to really call my own and run as I felt fit.

So last year I started helpin' TC Sounds out with their back-inventory stock and they wanted me to design some websites for them. The projects we began dwindled, and one of the sites they initially had me make them (soundsplinter), was given to me to run as my own. Here I am now, well less than a year from throwing some serious effort into this project and having a great time doing it. I can work at 4pm or 4am, I get to call the shots, and I get honest feedback from the people I transact with.

I've also been good at saving a large portion of my money which has been continually invested for about a decade now. I will always keep putting money into investments (primarily real estate related), since it is almost like getting paid to not to work! I tapped these investments for my initial capital contribution to SoundSplinter, which has run me about $15,000 in start up costs. I have no idea how much SoundSplinter will make me, but it's more of a hobby for me than something I'll be scraping to get rich off of. I just want to run my own business and ensure that my customers get personal service that they may not be used to in so many of today's huge companies

Well chit, looks like I did go ramblin' on there for quite a bit. Suppose that's what happens when you tip back a few brews in the eve' hours

In addition to those heaps of life experience I just laid out, I've also spent much of my spare time volunteering to assist in the administration and maintenance of one of the largest psychedelic communities on the internet today, the Shroomery. While I am by no means an obscene drug user, I do enjoy the ocassional toke of Mary Jane and my limited experience with Psilocybe Cubensis mushrooms has opened my eyes to a new perspective on life that has helped me to live my life the way I want to, and not how society or anyone else would have me.

I truly believe that accurate and readily available information could promote the responsible and beneficial use of so many substances (both legal and otherwise), and ultimately make for a more tolerant and accepting world climate. Obviously it won't happen in the blink of an eye, but using fear and misinformation as a tactic for prohibition just doesn't make sense. I could go on and on.. but this isn't the Shroomery, this is CarAudio!

Just figured I'd express my sentiments on this, since it seems many of you are interested in pursuing careers in law enforcement, and I hope you will take the time to view things from alternate perspectives in efforts to improve your own objectivity. I also hope that many of you will be able to speak out against some very strange and at times detrimental legal policies we have in effect today in the United States. But above all else, to each their own, much

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Good luck switchin' up your path psycho72

Here's wishing you and yours the best this world has to offer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/toast.gif.bc0657bf54b9ee653b6438524461341e.gif

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wowflash.gif.89a61f4caede63a11dac36e97d61323e.gif long post !

 

[SoundSplinter 10+ year member]

Yea, I better be careful or I might find myself (post) whoring it up here quite a bit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/offwall.gif.29a91b9b265d47af4b8e33fc5b558d18.gif

When I get to writing, I just keep going until I've said what I set out to say in copious detail.

One of my other BB accounts has over 7,000 posts

.. I may just give you a run for your money yet //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

... or not, considering it took me near on four years to get that many posts

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

Pshh, i have no competition

 

[psycho72 10+ year member]

Good luck switchin' up your path psycho72

Here's wishing you and yours the best this world has to offer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/toast.gif.bc0657bf54b9ee653b6438524461341e.gif

Thanks alot bro. I am trying to find something that will reward me for my work not my a$$ kissin, unfotunately I live in the a$$ kissin capital of the world. I definately want to own my own business. I am actually looking into getting an educaiton in fixing life support systems in the hopes that later I can open my own business but at this point I am as far as looking at what type of education, cost & time commitment. I got bills now that cannot wait (got a kid).

As for drugs well I have 5 years clean and for me although there were what I call good times there were never any REAL good times because I never really felt anything but numb and high. Not nocking you just sharing my own experience. My demon is snorting cocaine and crystal (together actually) and it put an a$$ whoppin on me. Not to mention hanging out with the homies, chasing ladies & making dirty money (although I was not really good at it because "A monkey can't sell banana's" and because I don't really like hurting people, unless they do something to deserve it).

I started getting high and messin with girls when I was 12, was going to undergrounds at 15 and stayed high from 17-26. So now I am working on growing up and trying to catch up to everyone else in this world who did'nt phuck off shyt. I mean really if I look back there were alot of good times and if anything were different I would not be who I am today and I am a good person, my word actually means something now and I really do care about people but there is a lot of pain from those years too and now there is the pain of trying to make it working a bu!!shit a$$ job with a bu!!shit a$$ boss and no education and a child who has needs. I give him love and he is always with me but love does'nt buy food, cloths, provide a roof or pay for preschool.