Poll: How do You Bring Home The Bacon?

[Kae]

Well I'm the personal assistant to my camp's Commanding Officer. Meaning he calls, I jump and get whatever he needs getting. He wants something done, I go make sure it's done. I wouldn't mind it too much, if I had actually PICKED the damn job instead of being fecking conscripted and having no say in the damn matter.

I hate the army...

That's considerably less awful than what I imagined[footnote]Going by your profile.[/footnote, it's still pretty crap though, you've been there for a while now, so how long until you can get out?

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I work two jobs, one being part time at a comic book store (one of only the two in my city) and the other part time job is at a super market, may not be the best job ever but I like both my jobs.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Full-time student. No bacon is brought home by me... But it's cool, I don't eat bacon anyway.

This ^
I'm a uni student atm, but I worked at a pharmacy last year when I was in college. Apparently I look quite a bit older than 19 in a suit, because people kept assuming that I'd done my degree and knew what I was talking about... when actually I basically was just supposed to work the till and stack shelves.

 

[Raikas]

Black market organ salesman here.

Sounds so much more exciting than "Corporate Drone/Systems Admin", no?

 

[Artina89]

I work as a biochemist. I have to wake up early to get there on time, but it's a good job, and I learn something new everyday.

 

[Saulkar]

I work two jobs. The first is in the produce department of Superstore and the second is a 3D modeler for a small local advertisement company.

 

[Hap2]

I work part time at a vintage video game shop, which is not as glamorous as some may assume, although nonetheless is interesting. Most of the job involves a lot of cleaning, customer service, and having to know/figure out fair prices for the stuff people bring to sell/trade in. As I am living at home (since our lovely city council refuses to do anything about our huge affordable housing shortage), I am saving my earnings.

I am graduating with a BA in the spring, and trying to figure out if I want to take a crack at freelance writing for a living, or networking about and possibly landing a day job that can fund my desire to write stories. Failing that, I might take up a trade. I am not particularly fussy about what I do as long as it does not drain my energy to the point I cannot write, or frustrate me in such a way it contributes to my depression.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

That's considerably less awful than what I imagined[footnote]Going by your profile.[/footnote, it's still pretty crap though, you've been there for a while now, so how long until you can get out?

I'll be free in December. Coincidentally, my release date is the same day as my birthday. Best present ever?!

 

[MetalMagpie]

I'm a software developer.

Specifically, I work for a company that deals mainly in text messaging.

My boyfriend is a mechanical engineer who works in special effects. Guess which of us spends longer talking about our job at parties?

 

[Sonofadiddly]

I write dumb content for dumb websites at a dumb digital marketing company. I get to write all about pet supplies and home exercise equipment and belt buckles. Then I write blog posts about how awful people can make their awful websites seem less terrible to idiots with too much money.

Currently seeking more satisfying employment.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I pack shelves and clean floors and shit in a supermarket for a few hours a week.

What can I say, being a student and in a relationship doesn't leave that much time for work.

 

[geK0]

I go to the grocery store and buy it

Occasionally I'll go to the market or a butcher shop, that's where you get the good bacon.

I generate the finances required to purchase my bacon by being a Walmart Cashier (I'm done college in a few months, so that wont be the case for much longer)

 

[rednose1]

I work as a mechanic at a nuclear plant. Lucked out with ending up here, didn't really have any career path planned. We do basic routine maintenance, replace/clean/repair valves, pumps, compressors, etc. We also handle all the fuel movements (new fuel, refueling/defueling, dry fuel and the like). Been pretty awesome so far, got to see Cherenkov radiation first hand, (that glowy effect you see in movies/T.V. It's real, only it's blue, not green) and get to be the last person for thousands of years to be able to touch the brand new fuel. The worst is when the crap breaks while at power and they don't wanna shut down. Going in at power SUCKS!! It's hot, you have to follow an EXACT path to the work, and they constantly ask for updates on the work/tell you to go faster.

Normal work is basically 10 hours a day, 4 days a week. The work itself is usually fairly simple (though the paperwork can cumbersome. At times it seems like 4 different people have to sign off just to flip a lightswitch). Of course, the flip side is...while we wait for all that paperwork, we sit around and shoot the breeze, browse interwebs, etc. Normal pay is $31/hr, then there's overtime, but thanks to NRC rules/union workings, we can also get what is called "sweet deal." That basically is double time and a half. Doesn't happen often, but when it does...

Again, I am really grateful job situation turned out how it did, especially considering how the economy is for college grads still. If I had gone to college, think I'd mostly like would have dropped out, didn't have any real discipline then. I've been thinking about going now though, turning 30 this year, so it's not TOO late, but "grumpy old guy in class" age is fast approaching.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

College dropout. Freelance repair/building/virus removal of people's desktops and laptops. Root Androids, Jailbreak iPhones. My dad owns a consignment store and I do his accounting/finances for a profit share. I do well enough that my wife and I are never hungry and can afford too many video games. I could be happier, though.

 

[Harley Q]

I bring home the bacon by setting up complicated traps in order to lure the piggies in. I am just dolescum at the moment. I think I'm just above hobo... Until I get my bakery off the ground

 

[Spygon]

I am an o2 Guru..... pretty much a technical expert for a large mobile network for people who don't know what o2 is.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Been working at one of the few Videostore's left in Montreal for the past 5 years or so. Though it has it's ups and downs, I get free movie rental and compared to most retail jobs, it's bloody nirvana here.

 

[Entourian]

Military-Funded Researcher here. It's an interesting job but the work schedules can be schizophrenic prior to a major inspection. You can swear some people in this world just don't sleep.

 

[acturisme]

Professional weed murderer. I'm like Dale Gribble. Except competent.

 

[Araksardet]

Currently work as a technician in a concrete lab, testing various characteristics of cylinders/beams/bricks made of concrete, mortar, and grout. Not very fun, but pays okay for unskilled labor. I code games and some other software in my spare time; I'm just about to release my first app on Google Play.