What do you do for work?

[Shoggoth2588]

I stack shelves, make the shelves look neat and ***** about you behind your back on break with my co-workers.
I also shout at my managers, shout at other co-workers and sometimes shout at customers for not moving out of the way while I'm carrying a box filled with pizza cutters.

Ah, retail.
How I love/loath you.

Oh hey, you stock the shelves out on the sales floor? Funny that, I work in the back room bitching about the stuff you bring back that you assure me won't fit out on the sales floor. Oh and hey, thanks for bringing back that broken pack of lightbulbs, THERE'S A SPECIAL PLACE FOR THAT, THANK YOU!

Seriously though, I work in the back room at a Target. I'm away from customers so I'm fine listening to music unless of course one of the more annoying HR people decide to waddle into the back instead of being busy with some kind of actual work. I get enough money to cover rent and expenses and I even have enough left over to maybe indulge in a steam sale or flea market sale but I'm looking for something that pays better...yeah, you may have heard that new hires are getting more per hour now because Target has to at least show they're willing to follow in Wal*Mart's footsteps but if you've been working there long enough to have a certain amount, you don't get to enjoy any kind of raise. The new people who are getting hired though; they'll be making what some of my coworkers had to work 2+ years to get. So thanks corporate!

I'm writing a book and I think I have enough material for a book of short stories which I'm considering self-publishing. I'm not sure how exactly to break into that though...yet...

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

I'm a small business owner. Along with my parents, we took over the lease of a general store in a country town in South Australia that was nearly broke. We posted a profit in our first year and late last year we purchased the building itself. The hours are long (I'm on 60 hours minimum, 7 days a week) but after we're done, we can lease the building to keep a source of income, which is a nice bonus.

 

[Bureacreative]

Get charged too much to learn engineering most of the year, then intern at a gun company for the summer.

 

[BreakfastMan]

I work in QA. I do manual testing, write test cases and test plans, and program test automation (both the frameworks and the automated test cases themselves). Not my dream job, but not too bad either. Hoping to move on to a software developer role sometime in the next couple years, but this is where I am for now.

 

[EvilRoy]

Its a pretty interesting mix of jobs in here, I didn't really expect to see such a variety.

I work as a structural engineer. For a time I did research, but between not great supervisors, low pay, and the meandering pace of work I ended up switching over to consulting. Now I have low pay, not great supervisors, and work that flips between breakneck and meandering at the drop of a hat. Delightful, I promise.

I still do prefer it though. As much as I enjoyed doing research and modelling with programs that cost like 40k a year for one license, I get a lost more satisfaction out of designing a structure that will eventually be built. On a few occasions I've been lucky enough to go all the way from writing the proposal, to designing the structure, to doing site supervision while it is built. Reasonably rare in my field, but definitely worth it.

 

[pearcinator]

When I am not Lord and Master of the Universe I am a volunteer at the local town Tech Centre, teaching oldies how to use their smartphones...for calling and texting smh.

 

[dr_what]

Trainee Teacher - high-school level maths.

I'm in a quarter-life crisis at the moment though, due to the realization that I don't like teaching. The problem is that I have no idea what I'd want to do instead. Teaching was almost the "obvious" conclusion to finding a compromise between what I like and what I can do but it feels like the worst of both worlds.

Hey dude, I was the exact same way two years ago, but since I finished up and got a proper teaching job, I've really grown to like it


OT: I'm a secondary school teacher, I teach English and history, which I love ! Bit challenging at times but when you get kids through exams or encourage a genuine interest in your subject, there is no better feeling

 

[Kyr Knightbane]

I do Tech Support for a major Tax Company.


It's helped me harness my hatred for other people. Rather quickly actually

But I do love my co-workers. I also have a Furlough Coming up and I'm just gonna drain my 401K and live off that til I get Hired back again. (Nearly 3.4k in there, I'll be fine)

 

[kissthebottle]

All about that two job life.

The crappy job is working for minimum wage in a pizza place as a counter person and server...but my boss' official label for that is "counter girl." I am vastly underpaid for what I do (like...I do so much shit out of my paygrade and I'm ServSafe certified which...like...that should be more than enough grounds to give me a raise). It sucks but I've worked there off and on for three years and have fallen back on it when other jobs of mine have gone awry. It's also awkward because most of the other "counter girls" are still in high school or barely in college and I'm 26 and constantly get asked by customers which high school I go to (at least they think I look young).

But about a month ago, I nabbed a part time position working for a photographer and I LOVEEEEEE IT. I assist her on photo shoots and do office stuff like invoices and organizing client info, and do graphic design stuff for her or whatever other stuff she needs that she doesn't have time to do because she's been getting more clients. I'm hoping this job takes off to where she will be able to employ me full time and I can say goodbye to the pizza place forever.

I also do freelance art and design work here or there when I can nab some.

 

[cathou]

i'm working in IT, in an hospital. it's like a regular IT job, but sometimes i have to put sterile clothes to go check a computer in an operation room, replace a keyboard that have been splattered with blood and work on a computer next to a dead body in the morgue.

it add a little something unexpected to my day

 

[Leon Royce]

I'm training to be a shaman.

I've been to South America several times as part of a small but growing group of people who are bringing back astounding healing techniques from the amazon. These healing techniques put western medicine to shame, especially concerning psychological ailments (depression, PTSD, anxiety, child abuse/ neglect etc...).

I'm fortunate enough to be an only child with a rich but way too frugal dad, so I work doing things I want rather than earning money. Right now I'm beginning a book translation project for a friend of mine who has been practicing as a shamanic healer for about 12 years.

EDIT: I'm in my mid-twenties.

 

[Section Crow]

I'm an apprentice field consultant for a Subway franchise, for the actual job the 'apprentice' part is nothing more than a excuse when I mess up or an explanation for 'why is there a guy following you around?'.

Anywho, my job entails a lot of things that i'm sure will keep piling on up as I go, though for the most part I visit stores and I check to make sure they are not doing dumb things (Selling expired products, routinely washing hands, how they 'treat' the customer). When i'm not doing that, i'm calling up potential trainees to attend a work trial, writing up reports, wasting away on public transport, in the office doing some good ol' spread sheet fun and generally being a telephone wire between people.

I enjoy the variety, I think it will do good by me to be doing a fair amount of different things on my first job, I hope it will give me the insight to look into a plethora of jobs I may want to pursue in future, though for the time i'm content in gaining experience.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I'm a computer science student at the moment, but from the middle of June onwards I'll be on a placement year as a sfotware engineer intern in Newbury, just outside Reading, UK. Looking forward to it

 

[Mid Boss]

I work a janitor job while making and selling geek themed crafts and starting up a nsfw humored puppet show youtube channel.

 

[Fappy]

I've been designing and making cosmetic items for Valve games (mostly Dota, stepping into CS:GO a bit more lately) full time for about a year and a half. I've been making cosmetics as a side thing, with mods before that, for over five years. Eventually it got so overwhelming that I chose to quit my studio job to focus on doing this.

It's been pretty cool. I can work on what I want, make art that I concepted, and there's a lot of skills I didn't normally have to do or think about, from art to business-related stuff. Setting my own hours and being able to take off whenever I want to travel is also great.

On the other hand, I don't know how much longer I can keep working from home like this. On a typical day I interact with about zero humans. I relocated halfway across the country about six months ago and know very few people here. I tried livestreaming my work for a while and determined I sorta hate doing it, and it doesn't really take the place of talking to other people. I often miss the environment of working in a studio and being surrounded by awesome artists and having opportunities to make friends and stuff. I might start looking for one by the end of summer, at this rate.

I have major respect for anyone who is able to work from home and not go insane. I love what I do for a living, but I just don't know how people do it!

I know what you mean. I was working from home for a solid two years straight before I got laid off in January and the only reason I never went insane was thanks to my cats (I called them "co-workers"). Home offices are kinda the way of the future in some respects and I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

I'm currently in the midst of a job search right now and kind-of-sort-of hoping I get an office gig. Working from home is convenient, but I feel I am a lot more productive when I am working along side meat-space humans.

 

[DoPo]

the only reason I never went insane was talking to my cats (I called them "co-workers").

This is how I read that part at first. I thought it was an interesting way to stay sane.

 

[Iwata]

I write news briefings for banks and other companies.

Basically, I summarize political and economic news for people too rich to read a newspaper.

 

[happyninja42]

Just curious.

Currently I work at a paper processing factory where I spend 12 hours a day grabbing bits of cardboard off a conveyor belt and stacking them on pallets. Only work 3-4 days a week though, so it's aaalll goood.

I used to do that, we made corrugated boxes, call them cardboard and the managers would lose their minds. xD

Currently I work for my state VA office, helping veterans and their families determine what benefits they have based on the veteran's service, and then help them complete the applications. Been doing it for 7 years now.

 

[Artina89]

I am a scientist that specializes in Immunochemistry. I love my job. Paperwork kind of sucks, but it is a necessary evil.