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Chef! People like my food, my cooks are not dumb or lazy, the servers are smart and cute, the bartenders know their poo poo, and the owner likes what I do and how I do it. I am paid handsomely to do something that I naturally enjoy, and as an added perk I rarely pay for food or drink when I go out. (medium-sized city, but when you reach a certain level everyone knows everyone else). It's not easy by any stretch of the imagination but it works for me!
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For me it's more about the environment. I'd be happier doing worse work that is appreciated and noticed by those who matter, than having an easy job in which no one really notices the work I do.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:22
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i work in a government lab doing science poo poo and it's great because i can spend half the day getting paid to gently caress around on the internet
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Nov 26, 2014 02:22
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I had a stressful but cool job, now I have an incredibly boring but stress free job. Both pay about the same. I hate both in different ways but I'll take not getting calls from my supervisor at 9pm over being bored any day.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:22
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I wouldn't know about that. I get paid like poo poo, have enough responsibilities for 3 people, have to deal with the general public all day, and my managers are overly pedantic and micro-manage everything. I'm leaving as soon as possible and one day I may actually enjoy a job.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:22
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I haven't found one I've liked yet so I don't think I'm going to work anymore op.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:23
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I'm a TA for a really cool class and I get to help people learn to write.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:24
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It must have sucked in the 70 & 80s when you couldnt read the wikia of your favorite tv show all day and had to actually do a job
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Nov 26, 2014 02:24
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The Mad Archivist posted:can't we do both? i'd rather you didn't because it makes for really boring conversation but if it makes your day go by easier then knock yourself out!
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Nov 26, 2014 02:46
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I'm the guy who tests new urinal designs for Kholer. At work I drink a lot of coffee and Snapple (diet, of course) all day then piss on things employing various arcs and angles. The urinal engineers graph my stream and improve the designs based on splashback amount.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:52
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THS why do you have the first response in every thread
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Nov 26, 2014 02:59
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evilpicard posted:THS why do you have the first response in every thread if you go through every thread you would find that this is not often the case. you just believe this is the case because when i do have the first response it is extremely memorable and well-written
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Nov 26, 2014 03:02
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TEAYCHES posted:most IT jobs are NOT like this just a BIG warning wanna put that OUT there No. No they're not 
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Nov 26, 2014 03:02
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It's easy to get first response. Just constantly refresh GBS and click fast. It's a great way to annoy.
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Nov 26, 2014 03:03
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TEAYCHES posted:if you go through every thread you would find that this is not often the case. you just believe this is the case because when i do have the first response it is extremely memorable and well-written No it's because the first response in every thread is hidden so I know it's yours.
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Nov 26, 2014 03:12
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someone please post that wage slave pic thing tia
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Nov 26, 2014 03:26
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my job owns i test for trace metals in soil/water/plants and get to learn to use big expensive machines that do crazy magic to figure out that this particular amount of water has uranium in it at .005 parts per million or whatever it is a sweet gig
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Nov 26, 2014 03:28
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paranoid randroid posted:what is a good career to go into if you want a basic kind of job where managers do not swoop in to corner you about getting your unwavering support in their feudal turf wars
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Nov 26, 2014 03:29
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I work the night shift in a resort in the middle of woods that is itself in the middle of nowhere. I barely ever have to deal with other humans, and I split my night between 1) hauling rear end and doing doughnuts in a suped-up golf cart 2) getting homework done 3) sexxing my wife in exciting places when she wants to visit It's p drat awesome
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I am lead of my entire shop. My boss is 5 states away, and happens to be very chill, logical, understanding, and effective. I do what I need to do, and when I do everything I need to do, I can do whatever I want to do. I can take a 5 hour lunch ,if it works out (and get paid). Basically my job has 95% of the reasonable attributes people all wish their job had, and let me tell you - it still sucks. None of that matters if you're not making a lot of money. In fact, unless you trick yourself into thinking otherwise, you'll never be happy with your job unless it puts you significantly ahead of most everyone else. And since mathematically you're most likely gonna be in that "everyone else" pie, you'll never be happy with your job. feel better
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Nov 26, 2014 03:33
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Healthcare work is p good. A lot of money, applies to your own life outside of work, generally intellectual crowd, fairly well respected professions, excellent benefits/etc.
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Nov 26, 2014 03:36
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Daedra posted:It must have sucked in the 70 & 80s when you couldnt read the wikia of your favorite tv show all day and had to actually do a job my dad told me stories about how he managed to find an abandoned room in one of his old jobs in the 80s and proceeded to fill it with porn magazines, snacks and a hammock and would barricade the door to take a nap or have a wank.
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Business Octopus posted:my dad told me stories about how he managed to find an abandoned room in one of his old jobs in the 80s and proceeded to fill it with porn magazines, snacks and a hammock and would barricade the door to take a nap or have a wank. so your dad has an account here too?
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Business Octopus posted:my dad told me stories about how he managed to find an abandoned room in one of his old jobs in the 80s and proceeded to fill it with porn magazines, snacks and a hammock and would barricade the door to take a nap or have a wank. Are you George Bush Jr be honest
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i'm a web developer and it's what i've enjoyed as a hobby for a long time, so i quite enjoy it. coworkers all rule, management is a bit lovely lately but oh well. it's pretty cool and nice op.
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evilpicard posted:No it's because the first response in every thread is hidden so I know it's yours. lol if youre so fucktarded that you use the ignore button
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VelociBacon posted:Are you George Bush Jr be honest yes, I was the president of the united states of america for 8 years. AMA
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Business Octopus posted:yes, I was the president of the united states of america for 8 years. AMA do you smoke trees?
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Business Octopus posted:yes, I was the president of the united states of america for 8 years. AMA are u gay
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:do you smoke trees? like all successful ppl, i prefer blow over weed The Wizard of Poz posted:are u gay hell yes nigga
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Business Octopus posted:like all successful ppl, i prefer blow over weed wanna make out?
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paranoid randroid posted:i had a job where i was paid to gently caress around on the internet all day but thats because there was a gigantic work bottleneck and management would rather call endless meetings than actually pay someone to fix it Holy poo poo, this sounds exactly like my old job.
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I stab holes in people's bodies every day, it pays pretty OK and I get to meet tonnes of different kinds of people and have weird conversations. It's really fun and social and I get to learn a lot about piercing and tattooing and if the shop is empty I dick around on SA. I think any job that pays well that you can show up to in jeans and a tee shirt is a win though, after breaking my balls in a warehouse 11 hours a day, constantly tired and dirty for minimum wage.
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Shoehead posted:I stab holes in people's bodies every day, it pays pretty OK and I get to meet tonnes of different kinds of people and have weird conversations. It's really fun and social and I get to learn a lot about piercing and tattooing and if the shop is empty I dick around on SA. Your job sounded cool until you revealed that stabbing holes was piercing. Would have been cooler if you had to poke holes in corpses so that they didn't explode which I think is a real job or at least part of a real job that is cooler than giving dudes Prince Alberts all day.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Your job sounded cool until you revealed that stabbing holes was piercing. Would have been cooler if you had to poke holes in corpses so that they didn't explode which I think is a real job or at least part of a real job that is cooler than giving dudes Prince Alberts all day. I was actually going to ask to elaborate since anything to do with corpses is a job I know I couldn't do so im always interseted in it then it was like, tattooes, etc and so I was sad
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Your job sounded cool until you revealed that stabbing holes was piercing. Would have been cooler if you had to poke holes in corpses so that they didn't explode which I think is a real job or at least part of a real job that is cooler than giving dudes Prince Alberts all day. I assumed it was phlebotomy and that, too, would have been way cooler.
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guy I went to HS with gets to drive for Tesla. as an aside he posts a lot of links to worldtruth.net or whatever but whatever
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in immediate retrospect i like tattoo chicks so perhaps that job is actually cooler IRL, but still, not here
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Your job sounded cool until you revealed that stabbing holes was piercing. Would have been cooler if you had to poke holes in corpses so that they didn't explode which I think is a real job or at least part of a real job that is cooler than giving dudes Prince Alberts all day. Sorry. That would be awesome but I think the conversations would be a lot weirder.
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Alan Smithee posted:guy I went to HS with gets to drive for Tesla. as an aside he posts a lot of links to worldtruth.net or whatever but whatever Someone I went to high school with has been working with some coalition to cut federal funding since he was a freshman in college and makes 6 figures a year doing that and constantly posts pics on facebook of him shaking hands with ron paul, getting drinks with mitch mcconnel, etc. i keep a text file where i just copy/paste all his best statuses, i keep meaning to make a thread about him the best FB status was idiot posted:I have drunk Johnny Walker Black Label and Glenlivet 21 yr with John Stossel in the penthouse of the Capitol Hilton and have his cell phone number, I am personal friends with and have gotten drunk with Elon Musk's SpaceX partner Stephen Davies, yes that Elon Musk. I am personal friends with Ron Paul's legislative director, Rand Paul's legislative director, I am personal friends with Senator Ted Cruz, Congressmen Justin Amash and Thomas Massie. I have contacts in politics, academia, and business all over the country. that was just a status he posted one afternoon, apropos of nothing, it got no responses but like 15 likes from me and some other friends who follow him for laughs
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