http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018534379What's the easiest way to extract information out of a primitive? Just ask them to talk about themselves:
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 AM
21. Scientific instruments
LocoNuts bites on this one here ^^^
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.
Well, there you have it, folks. While LocoNuts was in his early time at university, he wanted to be a physicist or astronomer. He settled for just being a cyst. And another thing, how does one have an "early" time at university, if they were only there for two or three weeks before having a mental breakdown, and had to be hauled away by their mommy and daddy?
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.
Read: unemployed
Star Member LiberalEsto (18,468 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:43 AM
15. unemployed former journalist nt
Also unemployed
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
Someone should introduce the arcanetrance primitive to nads.
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.
Imagine that.
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.
You're not underpaid. You're a DUmmie, so you're lucky to have a job to begin with. Shut up, and get back to work.
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
Someone should introduce the mossfern primtive to nads to help clean up her sorry excuse for grammar and spelling.
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.
"In this economy"? What's that supposed to mean? It's peaches and cream in this Obameconomy!
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
Hey, I know somebody else who uses that phrase to good effect.
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.
All of the sharpstick primitive's lab experiments also post at the DU.
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
Unpaid? Unemployed.
Star Member In_The_Wind (51,957 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 06:10 PM
94. I'm an Escort.
World's oldest profession, right?
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.
Unpaid? Unemployed. One wonders what the coyote primitive did to now be "unemployable" in their chosen field.
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.
I think I've located one of grasswipe's spawn.
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
No one ever calls you because you are a DUmmie, and by nature give terrible advice.
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.
I think dutch may have missed his true calling.
Star Member applegrove (61,646 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:49 PM
151. I'm a senior's homemaker
Read: unemployed
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.
More like plate stamper at the penitentiary.
Vashta Nerada (1,387 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 06:46 PM
158. Professional graduate student.
Read: unemployed
cliffordu (30,530 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 07:11 PM
159. Complete deadbeat.
Yup.
