What is it that you do for a living?

[Propaintjob]

@Aragorn\'s Mate: Sorry, all the budget went into shopfitting and cool minis etc. Online shopping is something I wanted to do from the start but will have to wait for the future. It only opened on 4th Dec last year.

If there\'s anything you\'re after from the ranges listed (or others for that matter) just drop me a line or phone me up, I\'ll more than likely have it in stock & if not I can usually get it within a matter of days.

 

[Astonia]

Originally posted by Calavera

But i\'ll soon get money for painting 2000points of high elves.. if you can call that a job lol

Oh you are? Cool, if you ask me, paint those *******!!!!! spearmen first to get them out of the way lol I\'m just about to finish my second unit now, and never agin I tell ya! lol

 

[Propaintjob]

heh, the joys of army painting ???

I\'ve got the unenviable task (among others) of 4000 points of Skaven. I just wish each model cost more points :~(

 

[Modderrhu]

They call me an analyst/programmer. I\'m actually a lazy git who likes to tinker with toys and stretch them to their limits really - embedded programming. Then I design stuff and get all technical when people aren\'t sure what I\'ve designed, I tend to expose the details of my work, \'cos it makes me look more full than half witted.

Qualified at being that arrogant arse already, but doing a degree in maths and applied maths for the fun of it. And I paint (or try to) minis, am I a geek or what? I think that paragliding and scuba erased my notions of being a geek some years ago.

Unless I\'ve missed something here, and apart from the students, we all do different things for a living so far! Now that\'s refreshing.

 

[Helga]

profession: MANAGER

@dauber22---------------(quote of another thread)----------
*zoink* [momentary diversion of topic]
Helga!!!! Good to see you again! Where you been hiding?
* un-zoink * We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic

=DAUBER===I love you too =====

Back to thread. I\'m a manager now.
Got promoted to manager sytemmanagement & revision (was department man. accounting/controlling before). My company wants to introduce SAP at 1st of Jan 2006 and I\'m responsible for to make it jump from 19th century to 21st without hurt (and to take the blame if it jumps short).

Means
- getting lots of invitations to good-food-restaurants
- lots of travelling and staying in *starred* hotels
- attending important meetings where everybody looks at you for the final decision while you are totally clueless what they were talking about
- looking foreward to coming home to your loved ones - and arriving at a dark liveless place because everyone has gone to bed hours ago
- getting E-mails by old friends tagged high importance saying \"are you still there? \" because you didn\'t answer in months, being submerged by >60 incoming mails per day
- occasionally you realize that you have no hobby any more
- you get a good monthly pay turned to years of debt by your loved ones \"look at this ROLF BENZ catalogue, beautiful, isn\'t it , and we need new living room furniture, don\'t we\"\"

 

[nick_t]

I\'m a chimney sweep

[size=-2](jk... I\'m just a high school student and used to work at an office supplies/glue warehouse during the summer)[/size]

 

[Wolf_Fang]

personaly i dont have a job right now.. im hopeing to take an aprenticeship next yr and getting into construction saving money then going to college to get a liscence for aircraft matanence and repair and work doing that lol

 

[Jericho]

Working as a redshirt while studying Psychology at the University of Alberta. Honors degree for now, with either the Masters or PhD to follow. So far so good, even that C in Calculus last semester won\'t keep my GPA down for long

 

[Trevor]

I get paid to make mud pies, and wallow in mud, when I\'m not doing that I spend my time in front of a computer writing up what I found whilst wallowing in mud (usually lots of mud). Beats having a \"normal\" job

I\'m a sedimentologist masquerading as a marine biologist (I even have a PhD in marine biology, but I know nothing about fish, whales or dolphins )

 

[Spanky]

I\'m a career Firefighter/ Paramedic and I part time at 2nd fire department. I get to paint while on duty, (its really the only time I get to paint) but I have to transport everything I need, and it always seem something gets forgotten. Plus I get interrupted often. But still, its a sweet deal to paint on the clock and its a awsome career.

 

[No Such Agency]

I\'m a plant molecular biology technician - in the past few years I\'ve worked in research on medicinal plants, male-sterility in carrots and ripening of apples and pears. I work at a university so funding is \"soft\" and contracts tend to run 1-2 years...

In the past I\'ve been a Canadian Army reservist (Signals), though possibly the second-worst one ever (you don\'t want to know about the worst one, I met him).

 

[DragonPaint]

I\'m a computer technician, I have my own company that repair and install computers and networks for the low end consumers.
I own also a part of a computer store so when I\'m not around trying to defeat a horde of viruses and spywares I have to talk with people that wants a Pentium IV 4.0 Ghz at the price of a Celeron 2.0

Helga: I have worked for a large store and managed to supervising the installation of SAP on their systems.
After 6 months the SAP consultants were ready to start and the manager has fired me because I was not sure that everything was ok.
Two months later the main and the backup systems crashed at the same time (the joy of use a crap power supply system) so they have to start again from the installation.
It was really funny

Paolo

 

[RedDawn]

Guess what I am -

I meal plan, make, shop, & clean. I tutor, scream, curse, & advise. I chauffer, ferry, & haul small beings around.

Hell, I pretty much do it all - I\'m a mom. I work harder now than when I had a paying job!

I also co-chair the Accelerated Reader program at my kids\' school (although my co-chair really doesn\'t do anything). I\'m at the school volunteering so much the school secretaries have teased me that I should get paid.

I majored in biology in college and ended up working for software development companies (go figure) before becoming a stay-at-home mom about 9 - 10 years ago.

 

[UncleHex]

Hello.
My name is David, I am a mini-sculptor.
I am 36 years old and my vital statistics are 46- 34(i...wish)-44(that\'s more like it!).
My hobbies include: worrying about my mortgage, getting drunk and comming to terms with male-pattern-baldness.
If I could have one wish, it would be for World (or even some) peace.

COPIED FROM AN EARLIER THREAD ;
I became a figure sculptor because I was a commercial giftware sculptor (you know the kind of thing, anything from chess pieces to corporate gifts to scale models) with wargaming as a hobby. It was inevitable that the two should meld, especially since one of my best friends encouraged me and helped me make the transition (a certain Mr Mike Owen).
But before all that, in receeding order (like my hair-line), I was: a new car sales-man, a drey-man, a bum, a circus performer(unicycle,juggling,firebreathing all at the same time), an engineer, a care-worker, an office bod, a bickies mate, a feotus, dead, Admiral Nelson, Joan of Arc and Sparticus.

 

[Grumb]

She ain\'t just whistling dixie...

Originally posted by RedDawn
IHell, I pretty much do it all - I\'m a mom. I work harder now than when I had a paying job!

She\'s not kidding...I\'ve tried her job, I don\'t want it and I certainly don\'t pay her enough!!!

Grumb

 

[nosferatu]

I have a degree in Applied Science majoring in geology. I guess that makes me a geologist, but I\'ve never really worked as one. Instead I\'ve spent the last ten years working as a geophysicist for a State government (Geological Survey) here in Australia. My official title is Geophysics Data Manager but in the last two years I\'ve been gradually doing more and more of our web content management, so now I have a second title: Minerals and Petroleum Web Content Manager.

Not that exciting but it pays ok and that means I can buy more minis than I can eat! :flip:

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by DragonPaint
... when I\'m not around trying to defeat a horde of viruses and spywares I have to talk with people that wants a Pentium IV 4.0 Ghz at the price of a Celeron 2.0

\"But www.cheapcomputerhardware.ru has it advertised for half this price!\"

After 6 months the SAP consultants were ready to start and the manager has fired me because I was not sure that everything was ok.

I think \"firing the bearer of bad news\" somehow made it into the ISO 9001 requirements. It must have, I mean, it happens so often...

 

[wereweevil]

Well I am currently working as a nuclear bio-physicist, with my spare time being spent painting miniatures and sending them to small, underprivilaged children around the world, to make their days a brighter place...

*snaps back to reality*

Oh that\'s right, I just manage an Industrial fastener retail/wholesale branch. I sell nuts and bolts...

can you see why that first bit was made up? :innocent:

 

[airhead]

Red Dawn = Ms. Grumb??? Welcome either way.

Back on topic. I currently kill many trees to build roads. (I push paper - lots of paper between the contractor and the state).

In addition, I am trying to get a computer cabling company off of the ground. ( I know - any geek with a punch tool is in the business.)

I am also a Reaper Black Lightning Assault Officer. (demo team). So I get to say I am a professional gamer.

Better jobs I\'ve had:
Owned my own pool store in Oklahoma. Opened just before the oil boom busted. You could get a house with a pool on auction cheaper than I could install you a pool.

Ran heavy equipment. Grew up on it. My dad owned a construction company.

Worked in a fishing lure factory while in college. I could have any lure as long as it had not gone to packaging. My tackle bag weighed about 100 pounds.

Was in the navy then worked for them for a while. Long periods of boredom interrupted by moments of extreeme excitment.

 

[Valander]

I\'m still a student, at least for about another two months! When I\'m done, then I have to find a real job.

I\'m finishing up a BS in Computing & Software Systems (basically a Comp Sci program with a much heavier emphasis on development methodologies and business practices), and I\'m doing my capstone project in the Computer Forensics field. I\'ve really gotten interested in that, and hope to go that direction once I gradumate.