Jobs

Our_Time_Is_Now

So what does everyone do for a living? I work at a McDonalds and live with my rents. But I'm so moving out next year.

Symmetry

I'm one of three electrical engineers at a tiny little company near Boston. We do lots of work with structural monitoring, piezos, sensors, and such.

MrRoboto

I've been a grocery bagger, internet cafe clerk, a bookie, line mover for an online sportsbook and now I work on a small graphic design place.

raquor

I'm a programmer for a small company in Minneapolis. I just started a few months ago so it's still pretty interesting.

Andrew

Programming intern for a large Department of Defense contractor in D.C.

Zeehat

McDonalds

Oh, I looked that word up. Definition: Satan.

Neito

Student at a small community college in Bristol County, MA.

Sail

McDonalds

So, you quite literally have a McJob?

I started my job as a sailing instructor the other day.

Rym

I do enterprise IT for large corporations...

Jason

I'm a reporter and editor for a small conglomerate of weekly newspapers in Ohio.

Apreche

Software Engineer

Our_Time_Is_Now

McDonalds

So, you quite literally have a McJob?

Yes. I do have a McJob. I've worked there for a year and five days. (Yeah I'm keeping count.) And I'm thinking about transferring to a McDonalds that is opening next week. Cause everything would be clean. I'm like the only one who tries to really clean that place. I do my time and get 6.95 an hour. I should do waitressing or something. But all the jobs are taken by those who only want summer jobs.

Josh Bytes

Ninja Butler and Cook for the super ass kicking Valiant Denim force.

Kiey

I'm unemployed, but hopefully that will end soon.

[anyone know of any jobs in the NJ area? worth a shot.]

Cramit

Bank Teller right now, I student teach technology in the fall.

Erwin

I am a timelord by trade and I am trying not to interfere in other people business, sometimes I am also  a writter, but in the mean time I try to decieve by being a normal college student with some extra free time and a nice part time job :P

m16 elitest

Unemployed, but I graduate high school tomorrow and after that I plan on doing a dual college diploma and university degree program. Three years of networking engineering and security analysis at a community college and then two years of IT at university. After that I hope to get a good job, being passionate about said subject I should be able to.

YoshoKatana

I'm an unofficial manager at a moderately large dry cleaners. Hopefully I'll get a job as an IT Manager for a small design studio in the area. Hopefully. Otherwise, I go to high school and do some tech support for people.

Dr. Timo

Researcher in theoretical high energy particle physics, working on my PhD.

Corbin

Full time student, used to work as a customer service agent part time while going to University, but as I am going to Osaka, Japan this fall for study abroad I quit that dead end job. Right now I volunteer as a fansubber with Ureshii (I'm BABBiTO). After I grab my bachelors going to either teach english in Japan to get 100% fluent or do an internship through JET if I get really good while I'm in Japan the five months that I am over there for study abroad.

Apreche

I'm unemployed, but hopefully that will end soon.

[anyone know of any jobs in the NJ area? worth a shot.]

In Jersey you can always get a job at a comic book store.

Pilitus

Grad Student and lab technician for a student printing facility. (Grad student and I work at one of RIT's two in-house Kinkos)

J.Sharp

Biomedical Engineer

cosmicenema

Technology Project Manager . . . please don't hurt me . . .

Bromley

I work at the Ben and Jerry's. Its awesome, you're around so much ice cream, you don't even want it anymore. Anyways, I just finished ironing my tip money, so I have to go count it now. Cheers.

Rochelle

Medical Biller for the Department of Veterans Affairs. I love it. I type at a computer all day with my iPod on, no one really bothers me and I get to go on the internets as much as I can. Only thing that sucks, a lot of my favorite sites are blocked. >.<

HMTKSteve

I work for at&t in a "Maytag man" capacity. I've been here for over ten years yet I am low on the seniority list. Yes, some people I work with have been here for 30+ years with no intention of retiring.

The money is good but there is very little work to do. Once we made the jump from analog to digital switches in the 90's most of the work went away. The only way to describe the work loss is how home networking changed when you stopped using wired and went wireless. Where we used to wire up each individual trunk circuit we now just plug an OC-48 (or faster) fiber into a piece of equipment and we are done.

As one of my mentors explained to me early on, "we don't get paid the big bucks to work all day, we get paid the big bucks so that when something breaks we can get it working again fast. As long as you can fix things quickly no one here cares what you do all day. But, when the shit hits the fan, you better be able to get that equipment working!"

glimpster

Just graduated from high school, and working at a factory brand shoe store. Going into radio broadcasting soon, and taking classes at a local college

CrimsonGenesis

I work in the Trust department of Wells Fargo's Minneapolis center. I do operations... so pretty much all the transactional and maintenance related work on the accounts.

fuurin

Biomedical Engineer

Wow... same here, or studying to become rather.
I hear the industry in the US is a lot better than UK though... most graduates from my uni end up going into banking.

HungryJoe

I attended the University of Kentucky where I received undergrad degrees in physics, math, and history. Then I went to law school at the University of Kentucky. I've been an attorney for 14 years now. I did most of what you would probably think of as real legal work in KY, where I did a lot of criminal law (43 felony jury trials, 30 odd misdemeanor trials), family law (divorces, custody, child support, domestic violence orders, etc.), personal injury, social security, worker's comp, bankruptcy, probate, etc. I also taught Algebra at Jefferson Community College and Criminal Law and Evidence at Daymar College in Louisvlle, KY. Also, I took some electrical engineering and chemistry courses at the University of Louisville.

My wife Carole is also an attorney. She's been a prosecutor, she's worked for the Education Professional Standards Board, and she was an Assistant General Counsel for the Cabinet for Families and Children doing parental termination cases.

Nearly two years ago, we moved to the DC area since Carole landed a great job there. While I was waiting to be waived into the DC Bar, I taught high school algebra at a crappy inner city charter school. Then I started getting jobs doing document review. It's pretty weird. I sit for up to 13 hours a day reading documents produced in antitrust cases (usually - I was once on a state tax case) and code them as to whether they're responsive or privileged. I can go all day without hearing a word from a supervisor. The supervison and responsibility levels are really, really low - almost nonexistent. For this I get $35.00 per hour plus time and a half. Sorry if you think it's crass to say that, but sometimes I have to cling to that to keep from falling into a pit of despair when I think of how futile document review is.

I keep saying I'm studying for the Patent Bar, but it's really hard to stay motivated because (1) the material is dreadfully difficult, and (2) I'm making nearly as much as a first year patent associate without any of the attendant responsibily and liability. I'm sure I'll do it someday. There are nasty rumors that they might start outsourcing document review stuff to India and China.