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Old 11-05-09, 12:29 PM
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I am an Assistant Cameraman for film and television, And collecting unemployment after the restaurant I serve tables for shut down.
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Old 11-05-09, 12:46 PM
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paralegal, not exactly my dream occupation. Pay is decent and with the economic state being what it is, a job is better than no job at all.
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Old 11-05-09, 02:10 PM
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Moderate chat for a playstation network game. pays well and I get tons of gamer perks and such plus I really dont do much!

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Originally Posted by Ranger63
I'm retired.
Caveat here..our 'penison' took a 90% nosedive in the financial collapse last year.
Obamas stimulus whatever ressurected the BOCES vocational courses and as of last week I'm teaching BOCES Basic Electrical w-w-f 6:30-9:30 and Saturdays 9-3
The pay is sinfull (put a large smile in there)
The hours will let me snowshoe and cycle and kayak weekdays and Sundays
Who the duce could ask for anything more D!!
You said penison.
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Bike Mechanic. It sucks. I'm only in it for the employee discount plus I get to build wheels for a living.
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Old 11-05-09, 02:46 PM
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I go to school for biotech here in berlin. When im not at school, i work for Fat Tire Bike Tours, in the shop renting bikes and whatnot.
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Old 11-05-09, 02:52 PM
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Clinical data analyst for a large healthcare system. I'm currently putting my son through art college, daughter wants to get a degree in piano performance (she's gifted), and another daughter wants to be a writer. It is a good thing they all get along really well, since they'll be living together; starving artist, starving musician and starving writer. Hopefully they'll come to vist their starving old man. :-)
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Old 11-05-09, 02:59 PM
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Navy veteran here! OS/MA/recruiter
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Old 11-05-09, 03:19 PM
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Master stage hand at the theater on my school's campus. I've worked there since i started college(i'm in my last semester) so i basically know how to do everything in a theater, carpentry, lighting, audio, fixing stuff, running the fly rail, and whatever else my boss tells me to do.

that and i'm a full time student for a little longer, studying history, so i'll be a stage hand at the theater until i find a "real" job.
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Old 11-05-09, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by dayvan cowboy
Master stage hand at the theater on my school's campus. I've worked there since i started college(i'm in my last semester) so i basically know how to do everything in a theater, carpentry, lighting, audio, fixing stuff, running the fly rail, and whatever else my boss tells me to do.

that and i'm a full time student for a little longer, studying history, so i'll be a stage hand at the theater until i find a "real" job.
I was a history major. I went to law school because I couldn't get a real job and I didn't want to spend 10 years (and have to learn Russian) to get my Ph.D.

Don't give up show business.
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Old 11-05-09, 10:17 PM
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I'm a part time job interviewer

I really think interviews should be paid. I come to your office, I sit in your chair and I answer questions for you...that sounds about like what the people you employ do every day.
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Old 11-05-09, 10:34 PM
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I'm 18. Been working in the Publix Deli (its a grocery store from Tennesse down most of them are in Florida). I make $8 an hour. It's not very fun and I work with old Cuban ladies who boss me around (I'm also Cuban and I point out that they are because they are manipulative and annoying, I'd say unlike most old ladies).
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Old 11-05-09, 10:41 PM
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work with old Cuban ladies
me half bred Cuban, I married a Cuban, I'm not married anymore.
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Civil Infrastructure Project Management - other people work their asses off and I get paid to pass that little fact on. I have on occasion been known to do things like ask others to research how someone else did similar things (thus teaching me how to do it) and with unquestionable authority label it "historical research findings", show people drawings made by someone who actually knows what they are doing accompanied by contrived, industry buzz words to throw off any attempt to embarrass me by asking a real question or God forbid say the word "detail" (this is why meeting rooms are so full. The people talking know nothing. Those sitting quietly give real answers on the rare occasions that is business appropriate), pass off months of other peoples research and findings along with arbitrary inflation as "my" preliminary (great word preliminary - it the business equivalent of "pulled out of my butt") budget estimate, convince all sorts of people that I'm a better caretaker of sometimes enormous sums of their money than they are, ask dozens of people when they would like to begin doing something for a change (this requires one to promise the chance they will be paid money should they decide to actually work) and forward those vague and barely committal ideas as a "schedule". There is more. But, usually around that time it's lunch. I think of afternoons as "me" time.
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Originally Posted by BianchiDave
Navy veteran here! OS/MA/recruiter
I worked as a ships MA, ran a watch section for a year. Mostly I was a PH though
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Originally Posted by oldfixguy
Civil Infrastructure Project Management - other people work their asses off and I get paid to pass that little fact on. I have on occasion been known to do things like ask others to research how someone else did similar things (thus teaching me how to do it) and with unquestionable authority label it "historical research findings", show people drawings made by someone who actually knows what they are doing accompanied by contrived, industry buzz words to throw off any attempt to embarrass me by asking a real question or God forbid say the word "detail" (this is why meeting rooms are so full. The people talking know nothing. Those sitting quietly give real answers on the rare occasions that is business appropriate), pass off months of other peoples research and findings along with arbitrary inflation as "my" preliminary (great word preliminary - it the business equivalent of "pulled out of my butt") budget estimate, convince all sorts of people that I'm a better caretaker of sometimes enormous sums of their money than they are, ask dozens of people when they would like to begin doing something for a change (this requires one to promise the chance they will be paid money should they decide to actually work) and forward those vague and barely committal ideas as a "schedule". There is more. But, usually around that time it's lunch. I think of afternoons as "me" time.

Awesome post. I love when people are realistic about office positions, I am about mine. When did you realize this is how things worked?
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Old 11-06-09, 07:56 AM
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