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i cook food it's pretty cool, I get access to restaurant quality foods and beverages for cheap, i get to move around instead of sitting on my rear end for 8 hours, it's not really that hard, the day goes by quick if it is busy, there's tons of beautiful (and broken) people working the front of house. just gotta watch you don't get screwed on the pay but I get full benefits and pretty good pay where I am Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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I enjoy my job, it's fulfilling and it's in my area of study and I meet lots of nice people and have a voice and a place in my community. The pay sucks and so does the commute though
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Nov 26, 2014 08:14
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BottledBodhisvata posted:I enjoy my job, it's fulfilling and it's in my area of study and I meet lots of nice people and have a voice and a place in my community. The pay sucks and so does the commute though So you have a voice in your community but you don't work in it? I want answers bub.
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Nov 26, 2014 08:26
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Ramsus posted:So you have a voice in your community but you don't work in it? I want answers bub. I take my secrets to the grave. You won't get them even if you torture me. I am susceptible to seduction, but psh, GOOD LUCK
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Nov 26, 2014 08:31
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I work in corporate finance and occasionally have dreams of having a job that is useful to society. Pay's alright tho
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Nov 26, 2014 08:43
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Hopefully going into avionics maintenance engineering soon (electrical stuff in planes). Reckon it will be fun until one day I forget to solder a wire properly and it kills hundreds of people 
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Nov 26, 2014 08:50
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Well, I have a cushy IT job where I basically just get paid to gently caress around on the internet all day.
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Nov 26, 2014 08:50
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It's fun working with aircraft most of the time. I'm amazed that I'm around birds that are worth more than all the houses on my street. Other times when I'm changing out a chemical toilet full of diarrhea covered notebook paper I want to throw a pilot off a bridge. Most part it's cool.
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Nov 26, 2014 09:01
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I am Toni Lippi posted:Other times when I'm changing out a chemical toilet full of diarrhea covered notebook paper I want to throw a pilot off a bridge. This is why I'm doing avionics.
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Nov 26, 2014 09:04
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krampster2 posted:This is why I'm doing avionics. That's exactly why I'm getting my certification also future avionics buddy.
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Nov 26, 2014 09:07
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I am Toni Lippi posted:That's exactly why I'm getting my certification also future avionics buddy. Alright, see you in the hanger next year.
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Nov 26, 2014 09:14
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Being a sub sounds like a good job if you enjoy teaching. Like, I assume you rarely have to deal with parents and the teachers I know always tell me that parents are the worst part of the job. Parents and paperwork, though my board is working towards reducing the amount of reports and updates that teachers have to provide because it's becoming the main reason teachers are leaving (when combined with planning, marking, and classroom). And yeah, it's great to walk in, quickly learn the material, and then teach it. I don't even have to worry about time constraints to some extent, as long as I know the teacher (e.g. The textbook was written in 1999 so I gave them a mini lecture on how Canada's policy on environment has changed since then) and won't get called out for not covering all of the material they left. I guess my girlfriend being a full time teacher helps me to enjoy it more, since I get her medical and dental.
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Nov 26, 2014 10:29
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I'm a straight up mad scientist IRL it's loving awesome
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Nov 26, 2014 10:51
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Scrub Lover posted:i do motion graphics, so i get to animate stuff with after effects, flash and maya when i have work, otherwise i just watch youtube and poo poo. i'm fulltime & salaried so i get paid either way 
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Nov 26, 2014 11:43
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I work in a private archive with documents dating back to 1152. People think my job is sitting around wearing half-moon spectacles, sipping tea, and exchanging witticisms while leisurely reading things like:  What my job actually is:  Hundreds and hundreds of spreadsheets. That and counting down the days until my lungs are so thoroughly infested with mould spores that I just keel over dead. 
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Nov 26, 2014 11:55
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I DJ at strip clubs, I play the music I like (and some I don't like), announce exotic names, am encouraged to do shots by the management, and get paid big bucks in cash. I did IT in telecom for a little over a year and that was the literal worst job I've ever had. I would have ended up blowing my brains out if I did it longer than that.
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Nov 26, 2014 12:13
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I'm an up and coming maintenance technician at the dick sucking factory
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Nov 26, 2014 12:33
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i really love my job but it requires me working in a location im not too fond of so i'll have to stop doing it soon. that really sucks. what do i do next?
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Nov 26, 2014 13:40
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Spanish Manlove posted:I'm aw and you almost had it
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Nov 26, 2014 14:14
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Titus Sardonicus posted:aw and you almost had it please don't deconstruct the purposeful word usage in my posts as i prefer some things to be subliminal and drier than an irishman at 4am
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Nov 26, 2014 14:17
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Oberleutnant posted:I work in a private archive with documents dating back to 1152. People think my job is sitting around wearing half-moon spectacles, sipping tea, and exchanging witticisms while leisurely reading things like: I work collections at a museum, so my job is a lot like that except with PastPerfect instead of Excel spreadsheets. Plus side is that I do get to see a lot of cool poo poo and get to occasionally research when and where old things came from. 
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Nov 26, 2014 14:25
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Riosan posted:I work collections at a museum, so my job is a lot like that except with PastPerfect instead of Excel spreadsheets. Plus side is that I do get to see a lot of cool poo poo and get to occasionally research when and where old things came from. We're actually in the process of converting our old catalogues over to Axiell CALM, but I cba to open it just to grab a screenshot. And yeah, loads of really beautiful artefacts here that we see and handle, but really only in the context of pulling them out for researchers to look at, and it's usually just a brief "ooh that's pretty" before diving back into the trenches of trying to keep one of the biggest archives in the country vaguely up to date. I wish I had time to actually do real research, because we have some fascinating private papers of diplomats from the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars that are basically virgin territory, academically speaking.
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Nov 26, 2014 14:31
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Oberleutnant posted:What sort of stuff does your museum hold? Natural History, etc? Local history from our city and county, it's a very small-scale museum. We house physical artifacts from our city and county while one of our sister organizations houses papers and manuscripts from the region, so they typically get more research inquiries. Our biggest issue is where to keep everything, we've literally run out of storage space and have had to start using offices. 
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Nov 26, 2014 14:48
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I'm a software developer for a small company. I mainly write the desktop application(s) that are used to maintain the business. I like my job in that it pays me pretty well and I enjoy relative freedom and autonomy. I hate it as well though because my company has very little benefits(lovely health insurance and a gym membership, nothing else) and the company is very chaotic. It also sucks that my company refuses to give me an actual job title. Being called "The IT guy" when I do very little on the IT end and my primary duty is writing/maintaining software is really really lovely. P.S. If most companies are like a western government like the US or Canada, my company is like somalia. Filled with warlords vying for power.
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Nov 26, 2014 14:50
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After six years of working for an awful evil company (Comcast), I quit to pursue a teaching degree. I am working as a teachers aide in a special ed class while I go to school. The pay sucks, but the job is great! It's nice not to be screwing people over for a living and to be doing good for once.
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Nov 26, 2014 14:54
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Riosan posted:Local history from our city and county, it's a very small-scale museum. We house physical artifacts from our city and county while one of our sister organizations houses papers and manuscripts from the region, so they typically get more research inquiries. Our biggest issue is where to keep everything, we've literally run out of storage space and have had to start using offices. I know that pain with lack of space. We occupy 5 floors of a huge tower and we are reduced to cramming shelving into our office and bathrooms (nice Victorian bathrooms with the plumbing removed, but still) just to fit anything in, and we can't alter anything because it's a listed building. Luckily we don't collect much on a month-to-month or even yearly basis, so we're okay for the moment. But every time there's a death in the royal family, or a coronation, or a major birth we get flooded with tens of thousands of papers. The next ten-fifteen years should be...... fun.
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Nov 26, 2014 14:55
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Oberleutnant posted:Private or Public sector? I hear Public sector heritage is getting squeezed hard - certainly our County Record Office is having its budget ripped apart. Half and half. The museum itself is a nonprofit organization, but the history room we work with that holds all our papers is counted as a branch of the county library. We get a number of stuff from people in the community on a regular basis, and some of it can be pretty large and unwieldy. A few months ago, we got a late 19th century operating room table, which is really cool, but since we had no place to put it, we had to leave it in our mechanical room for some time. Not good. We hope to get a grant to have all our stuff moved to one spot in an old building on the other side of town, but the city and county are dragging their feet every step of the way.
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Nov 26, 2014 15:03
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I am going into law and I don't know why. I was never any good with science/maths so anything else was right out. I don't think it's possible to enjoy any legal jobs, but regular 12 hour days are a certainty!
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Nov 26, 2014 15:05
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I work in retail and have very few responsibilities but all the people I work with are really cool and nice and I essentially get paid to be a dumpster diver
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Nov 26, 2014 15:08
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mysterious loyall Y posted:I am going into law and I don't know why. I was never any good with science/maths so anything else was right out. I don't think it's possible to enjoy any legal jobs, but regular 12 hour days are a certainty! lol have fun getting a legal job nowadays
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Nov 26, 2014 15:11
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Spanish Manlove posted:lol have fun getting a legal job nowadays My girlfriend has a job lined up with one of the 10 biggest firms in the world so maybe I will just be a useless gay goony househusband forever
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Nov 26, 2014 15:14
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I started a video production company with a friend. Dodging client phone calls and running a minecraft server keeps the soul satisfied and the mind sharp. It's fun to take the (sometimes hilariously bad) ideas of businesses and turn them into watchable bits of entertainment. In between the actual paying video work, there's a lot of R&D that entails dicking about on the internet and watching tutorials. Also mandatory team building starcraft matches.
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Nov 26, 2014 15:16
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I get to fix crazy expensive bikes and ride them around. During the winter months when things slow down I spend a lot of time on the internet. The pay's not great but otherwise my job is pretty sweet.
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Nov 26, 2014 15:34
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I currently work for Pornhub (well, Mindgeek, the parent company), which is pretty cool. It's out of Montreal. I deal directly with the user-uploaded photos, and sometimes the community vids. I really like it, very low stress and great people to work with. Very professional, but obviously nothing is NSFW. In fact, it's weirder to have Facebook open up during work hours than some girl getting a facial or something. Free breakfasts every morning and a birthday lunch celebration once a month for everyone to enjoy. Before this, a couple years ago, I worked as a sound designer/composer for casino games and some may remember a (small) Ask/Tell thread I did about it. That was my favourite job ever, but I left for Montreal as my wife got a really great job with Traffic Junky (also owned by Mindgeek, we work together) that paid way more than my audio job. I'm really lucky in that the casino company still sort of needs another sound designer, so they've been giving me per-game contracts to work on as a second job. So, in a way, I still work for them. Getting paid to create sound effects and write music is the best thing ever.
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Nov 26, 2014 15:36
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I help to maintain the virtual reality matrix that we all live in. I'm not a 'person' as such, more of a sentient algorithm but I do enjoy keeping all of you losers plugged in now and forever. Occasionally I even get to shoot or beat someone up, which is pretty sweet.
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Nov 26, 2014 16:49
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My job is loving awesome. I work from home as a risk consultant to the insurance industry. Basically, I got trained at one company to inspect chemical plants, large manufacturing facilities, and paper mills. Another insurance company liked the training I got at the first one, and gave me 40% more money to work for them, then I got another request to move to another insurance company and got 30% above that last company. So I make a lot of money, which is good if you're into having a house and kids. I get to travel to a lot to cool and exciting places all over the world, and inspect the facilities my employer insures. I'm ensuring their maintenance is adequate, fire protection is adequate and tested, and looking into other exposures. The travel is about 1-2 weeks a month, but the rest of working from home. I have mastered the art of playing turn based strategy games while working at home, and still meet all expectations. I am given $1,000 / month as a personal car allowance so I dont have to use my salary to pay for stuff like a car. I also get an expense account to pay for internets, phones, professional fees, bla bla bla. Today I work up at 8:30, got to my home office at 8:31 (long rear end commute) and have almost finished what I was planning on doing by now. I could never go to an office, or commute. I have to go to our head office once or twice a month and I hate it. How can you waste 1-2 hours of your waking day in a stupid car. Working from home is the poo poo! Here's some images to prove I'm not full of poo poo;  An FM 200 system that had the actuator removed since it was installed 5 years ago (and was reportedly serviced every 6 months by a jerkoff sprinkler company)  Nazi valves? Nope, these valves in Union Station in Toronto were stamped with a Swastika because that was Good Luck!  You guys ever wonder how paper is made? Well, this pictures shows the smelt spouts of a black liquor recovery boiler. The lignin and poo poo that comes out of wood in the digestor is burned in the boiler, and the smelt is the non-combustible portion of the black liquor (basically caustic lime and impurities). It is poured into water in a dissolving tank below where it becomes green liquor and is sent for regeneration into white liquor so it can be used again. Also, the smelt bed at the bottom of a boiler has a nasty habit of getting water on it and exploding boilers. BOOM!  The best place to lock up bikes is a transformer pad. Seriously, there was a bike that had a chain around the cooling fins.  First class flight! Lots of leg room.
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Work is always degrading and stultifying unless the benefits are great (travel, creative autonomy, etc) or you have great coworkers or you are self-employed.
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Nov 26, 2014 18:14
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Beef Turret posted:Work is always degrading  no exeptions except if you work in a communist utopia
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big dig posted:Today I work up at 8:30, got to my home office at 8:31 (long rear end commute) and have almost finished what I was planning on doing by now. I'm a lot less efficient working at home unless I'm doing some menial stuff like Design AutoCAD Drawings and technical specs. i'm always like "hmmmm okay let me clean the kitchen so i have can have a clean house to work in, ok let me now clean the bathroom, ok time to start work, nah wait ill toss some sheets and clothes in the washing machine and then start work. okay not quite feeling it, let me make a cup of coffee and hten ill be totally ready to sit down and work!". It' sprobably just because I don't from work that much (maybe once or twice a month). And at least my commute isnt too bad: about a 30 minute train ride, ~5 minute bike ride downhill in the morning to the train and ~10 minute bike ride back uphill coming home. But good for anyone who can because in theory, it should own bones.
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i'm a research librarian and i get to help students and faculty members find information for important studies and experiments. it is challenging, rewarding, i have a lot of fun doing it, and i learn a lot about all sorts of random topics i would have never been exposed to otherwise. i actually enjoy my job whatis fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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