Star Member Arcanetrance (1,864 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 08:31 AM
So I've been curious about this for awhile what does everyone do for a living here
You don't have to give company names and such just your occupation. I'm a sous chef
Star Member Ptah (25,864 posts)Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:13 AMLocoNuts bites on this one here ^^^
21. Scientific instruments
Star Member Locut0s (4,566 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 05:25 PM
91. OMG jealous!...
I wanted to be a physicist or astronomer early on at university. I still keep up with developments in the field. I also envy engineers. Your job would have been a bream job for me. Hope you got much joy out of it.
LibbyTreehugger (33 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:05 AM
7. I'm an..
Account Manager for a food company.
graywarrior (58,726 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:30 AM
10. Was a video editor
Now I'm the resident complainer.
Star Member LiberalEsto (18,468 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:43 AM
15. unemployed former journalist nt
Star Member Arcanetrance (1,864 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:45 AM
16. I'm sorry to hear about the unemployed part the world is short on real journalists
Star Member LiberalEsto (18,468 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:51 AM
18. Corporate media only wants to hire loyal trained corporate "journalists"
and I no longer have the energy or stamina to pursue things the way I used to.
In three months, I'll be eligible for early Soc. Sec.
Star Member MissB (10,485 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:03 AM
20. Engineer
Environmental.
Iggo (24,247 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:15 AM
23. I'm an underpaid de facto purchasing agent....
....with no job title who works in the "job tracking" department of an HVAC distributor in Los Angeles.
Madam Mossfern (1,735 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:41 AM
25. Instructor for Adult Basic Education and ESL
I work with Department of Labor for training for unemployed people. I help people get their math and reading skills to a point where they qualify for job training through the Work Investment Act
JimDandy (3,303 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:30 PM
146. Good for you!
Reinventing yourself can be the way to go in this economy.
Grantuspeace (815 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:56 AM
34. I am a self employed electrician.
I get paid to check people's shorts...shocking isn't it?
Star Member Arcanetrance (1,864 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:58 AM
37. Lol in the words of George Takei oh my
Star Member Kaleva (12,192 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 11:06 AM
41. I live off the hardworking taxpayers.
On full disability.
sharp_stick (10,110 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 11:38 AM
50. Toxicologist
I try to figure out why weird things happen when people take drugs and medicine and then how to mitigate the bad ones.
Basic conclusion: People are just weird.
Ranchemp. (1,290 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 12:29 PM
60. United States Marshals Service
Fugitive Task Force, 40+ years.
My team goes after the baddest of the bad and brings them to justice.
eShirl (12,388 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 01:20 PM
66. unpaid family caregiver
Star Member In_The_Wind (51,957 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 06:10 PM
94. I'm an Escort.
Star Member Coyote_Bandit (6,711 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 06:42 PM
95. Unpaid sole caregiver
for an aging parent wih dementia.
Licensed to practice law in 2 states with previous careers in law, property and casualty insurance (claims, compliance and reinsurance), investment portfolio management, and computer graphics.
Have done a good deal of volunter work for animal welfare, art and religious oganizations.
Was long-term unemployed before assumng my current caregiver role.
I'm unemployable and will have to re-invent myself one more time after this chapter in my life comes to an end.
Star Member hunter (17,925 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:36 PM
115. I'm a feral human...
... and, like Dr. Who, a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing. Unlike Dr. Who, my abilities to modify the past are limited, not any greater than my powers to modify the future.
I never knew what I wanted to "do for a living" and probably never will.
Off my meds I'm a dumpster diving street person, the kind who is invisible, not the kind who is in-your-face. (One of my grandmas was a bag lady with a pension, so it's probably inherited.) At my very worst the cops were nice to me and I was nice to them, I was always an entertaining break from their usual sordid late night duties. It helped that I'm white. I have some really funny stories about that. Like the time I lost my clothes on the beach after midnight. Body surfing in the moonlight seemed like it would be fun, and it was. But in the dark a pile of clothes looks a lot like a pile of kelp, and there were many piles of kelp.
With proper medical care I've loaded and unloaded trucks, moved furniture, worked in medical labs, taught science, fixed up crappy student and low-income housing, and written software. Married with kids too. Imagine that.
I drive an $800 car and I wear clothes I find in thrift shops. The computers I post here with were once somebody else's discarded trash.
Whatever excess this society hands me I give away.
If someday I die on the streets under a pile of garbage it's been a wild ride.
This doesn't mean I'm nice. Like any feral animal, sometimes I bite.
Star Member Arcanetrance (1,864 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:43 AM
130. No one ever calls me to seek my opinion I guess I'm not that important
Star Member vanlassie (2,019 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:28 AM
127. I am a lactation consultant. I have supported mothers and babies to breastfeed for 30 years, the last 20 or so as a Board Certified Lactation Constant.
Star Member applegrove (61,646 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:49 PM
151. I'm a senior's homemaker
jmowreader (25,862 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 02:30 PM
153. Plate maker at a daily newspaper
Easy job if everything goes right, but that's infrequent.
Vashta Nerada (1,387 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 06:46 PM
158. Professional graduate student.
cliffordu (30,530 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 07:11 PM
159. Complete deadbeat.
World's oldest profession, right?It means she's a cheap ride.
Ranchemp. (1,290 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 12:29 PM
60. United States Marshals Service
Fugitive Task Force, 40+ years.
My team goes after the baddest of the bad and brings them to justice.
Star Member In_The_Wind (51,957 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 06:10 PM
94. I'm an Escort.
To put it kindly.
The old whore is turning $5 tricks in an abandoned car behind the bingo hall. She'd blow an orangutan for $20.
But would the orangutan let her? I'm sure he has some standards.
Any orangutan who shows up behind the bingo hall with $20, pretty much knows what he's in for.
Star Member BainsBane (21,383 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2013, 07:34 AM
164. I'm a grant writer
She is not an "escort." Who would pay for that?stevenumbers
lactation consultant.....sperm donor to unwed government freebie leeches.....tough job when the recipient is DUmmie wymins.
Do women like Bainsbane have to pay extra when visiting a lactation consultant? Sort of like how you have to pay extra for a t-shirt larger than 2XL?They just send them out back where they keep the dairy equipment.
Response to Arcanetrance (Original post)I'm sure the students are not (amused).
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 12:23 PM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (36,222 posts)
57. Retired.
Was an instructor at an airline, before that was a self-employed lawyer. I still teach part-time at a local college and keep myself amused.
A lactation consultant??
I have now officially heard it all.
Star Member CTyankee (37,859 posts)
82. I am retired from Planned Parenthood of CT where I was director of Major Gifts.
I got a Master's in Liberal Studies at age 63.
A lactation consultant??
I have now officially heard it all.
Star Member Locut0s (4,649 posts)
202. Lol. That's cool...
I come from a mixed racial family. My mother is Chinese and my father is white.
Somebody here said that LocoPuffs looked Chinese.Worse than that, he's Canadian.
Which is completely immaterial in a "what do you do for a living" thread. I guess LocoPuffs didn't want to say "I am a diaper-wearing, thumbsucking, adult baby living in my parents' basement" - again.
Star Member Locut0s (4,649 posts)He's everyone's favorite nephew.
202. Lol. That's cool...
I come from a mixed racial family. My mother is Chinese and my father is white.
Star Member Locut0s (4,649 posts)
202. Lol. That's cool...
I come from a mixed racial family. My mother is Chinese and my father is white.
Star Member Locut0s (4,649 posts)
202. Lol. That's cool...
I come from a mixed racial family. My mother is Chinese and my father is white.
And judging from your comments about your looks, you must think you are the male (or at least metrosexual version) of Nancy Kwan.
You're not.