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Topic: What do you do for a living?
Khyron
Hello, my mushy friend...
posted 10-03-2002 01:24:25 PM
I am curious.

What does your job entail?

[ 10-03-2002: Message edited by: Khyron ]

Falaanla Marr
I AM HOT CHIX
posted 10-03-2002 01:31:56 PM
I sit on my ass at home for many hours a day.

While being a professional bum pays nothing at all, IT SURE IS FUN!

Also read as: I need a job.

Faelynn LeAndris
Lusty busty redheaded wood elf with sharp claws
posted 10-03-2002 01:35:09 PM
Network Admind, Database junkie for Games Etc.

Pool Tables, Video Games, Arcades, Slot Machines, Pinballs, etc etc.

I sit around make sure systems work, and do Data entry all day. Occasionally I go on a delivery and/or attend shows.

Also research monkey, so I analyze and research game media for the company, which includes System manufacturers, Console markets, publisher info, and release information.


My LAUNCHCast Station
"Respect the Forest, Fear the Ranger"
I got lost for an hour and became god.
Khyron
Hello, my mushy friend...
posted 10-03-2002 01:35:20 PM
quote:
Falaanla Marr enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I sit on my ass at home for many hours a day.

While being a professional bum pays nothing at all, IT SURE IS FUN!

Also read as: I need a job.


I wish I could stay home all day... and do what I love (Games).

Unfortunately, there isn't any money in that, so that idea is a no-go.

Reynar
Oldest Member
Best Lap
posted 10-03-2002 01:37:55 PM
Mostly program in house apps, a lot of webbased stuff. Kinda moving more into the business end of development now & hopefully not have to program much anymore.
"Give me control of a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws."
-Mayer Rothschild
Khyron
Hello, my mushy friend...
posted 10-03-2002 01:38:41 PM
quote:
Faelynn LeAndris was naked while typing this:
Network Admind, Database junkie for Games Etc.

Pool Tables, Video Games, Arcades, Slot Machines, Pinballs, etc etc.

I sit around make sure systems work, and do Data entry all day. Occasionally I go on a delivery and/or attend shows.

Also research monkey, so I analyze and research game media for the company, which includes System manufacturers, Console markets, publisher info, and release information.


What sort of education/experience did you need to land that job?

Falaanla Marr
I AM HOT CHIX
posted 10-03-2002 01:38:46 PM
quote:
Khyron had this to say about Robocop:
I wish I could stay home all day... and do what I love (Games).

Unfortunately, there isn't any money in that, so that idea is a no-go.


Not like its the best choice for me either, but its about all I've got in this area right now Aint shit here for tech type stuff, at least not right now, and at least not anything I'm qualified for. No college degree. Least not yet.

And I won't work fast food. Refuse to. Also wont do stuff that is 99% manual labor. Not because I cant, but because I dont want to

Peter
Pancake
posted 10-03-2002 01:47:57 PM
Parts Counter for a Stand alone Sears Service center. My Job consists of finding and Ordering parts for cust. ,
Takeing kin repair orderes, Warehose work-Mostly moveing heavy shit around. If you want a good ida what it's like, take a tech support job and bundle in doing cust service rep and Cashier Work alll into one bundle.
Mightion Defensor
posted 10-03-2002 01:49:06 PM
I am the voice on the other end of the line.

I am the person who is at fault when you call saying "The Internet is broken!"

I am the master linguist who is supposed to guess what your problem is when the only two words he understands are "Computer" and "broken".

I am the person who is ruining your business because it is currently "repair-backlogged" at the service center. If its any consolation, I wouldn't buy anything from a company that trusts all its information to one laptop.

I am the person telling to call the 900 line for support even though you're "only" six months out of your support warranty.

I am the person who will put you back in the same escalation queue you hung up on because 15 minutes was too long to wait. You'll be last in line, of course.

Reynar
Oldest Member
Best Lap
posted 10-03-2002 01:49:55 PM
quote:
Pyscho had this to say about dark elf butts:
Parts Counter for a Stand alone Sears Service center. My Job consists of finding and Ordering parts for cust. ,
Takeing kin repair orderes, Warehose work-Mostly moveing heavy shit around. If you want a good ida what it's like, take a tech support job and bundle in doing cust service rep and Cashier Work alll into one bundle.

You should be a proofreader.

..no really...

"Give me control of a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws."
-Mayer Rothschild
`Doc
Cold in an Alley
posted 10-03-2002 01:51:01 PM
I control a half-million-dollar autodialer, handle most of the administration for our web-based reporting system, keep about 200 PC's up and running (though only about 30 are in use at the moment), and am currently training one of the developers in how to use our SQL database. My boss handles administration for the majority of our servers, as well as for the telephone system.

In short, I would be a systems & network administrator, except the company I work for doesn't like to give people titles.

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Please keep your arms, legs, heads, tails, tentacles, pseudopods, wings, and/or other limb-like structures inside the ride at all times.
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Leopold
Porn maniac
posted 10-03-2002 01:54:33 PM
I'm spoiled. I am a jobless 17 year-old who gets a $40/week allowance because his family is frighteningly dysfunctional.

I am truly sorry, everyone who has a job. Please believe it.

-dj frosty mccarl.

"Leopold said it best. This is one of the few times someone besides me is right." -Mr. Parcelan
Falaanla Marr
I AM HOT CHIX
posted 10-03-2002 01:56:58 PM
quote:
Leopold, the Voice of Reason enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I'm spoiled. I am a jobless 17 year-old who gets a $40/week allowance because his family is frighteningly dysfunctional.

I am truly sorry, everyone who has a job. Please believe it.

-dj frosty mccarl.


My god, 40 dollars a week?

My parents didnt even GIVE US an allowance. We did housework and chores because "we lived in the house". We didnt get an allowance because "we didnt need one"

40 dollars a week. I hate you.

Curious, do you have to use that to buy anything you need, or do your parents still buy all that stuff and the 40 dollars a week is pretty much good off money to do whatever with?

[ 10-03-2002: Message edited by: Falaanla Marr ]

omfg i sux0rs
Pancake
posted 10-03-2002 02:03:21 PM
I go to school
then I go home and play vidoe games, a very simple but yet entertaning life.

[ 10-03-2002: Message edited by: Dark_Nemesis ]

just think about how much i suck in REAL LIFE!
Khyron
Hello, my mushy friend...
posted 10-03-2002 02:05:33 PM
quote:
Falaanla Marr had this to say about Knight Rider:
My god, 40 dollars a week?

My parents didnt even GIVE US an allowance. We did housework and chores because "we lived in the house". We didnt get an allowance because "we didnt need one"

40 dollars a week. I hate you.

Curious, do you have to use that to buy anything you need, or do your parents still buy all that stuff and the 40 dollars a week is pretty much good off money to do whatever with?


40 a week?

I make 40 a day easily 8.75 an hour, 8 hours a day...

King Parcelan
Chicken of the Sea
posted 10-03-2002 02:06:54 PM
I remove people who know too much.
Reynar
Oldest Member
Best Lap
posted 10-03-2002 02:07:56 PM
quote:
Falaanla Marr said this about your mom:
My god, 40 dollars a week?

My parents didnt even GIVE US an allowance. We did housework and chores because "we lived in the house". We didnt get an allowance because "we didnt need one"

40 dollars a week. I hate you.

Curious, do you have to use that to buy anything you need, or do your parents still buy all that stuff and the 40 dollars a week is pretty much good off money to do whatever with?


$40 a week is absolutely nothing. Unless you live with parents and have ZERO expenses. Which he does so thats just fine.

But dont be jealous of $40 a week, Mcdonalds employees make 5x that much

"Give me control of a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws."
-Mayer Rothschild
Falaanla Marr
I AM HOT CHIX
posted 10-03-2002 02:16:48 PM
Oh, Im not jealous of the 40 a week. Just comparing that to the money I got when I was 17 -- zilch.

And god damn where do mcdonals employees make that much money? I mean, damn. here they make 5 15 an hour. Thats IT. minimum wage. 200 a week. Sure, 5x that before taxes and all

I made all of 7.60 an hour at my last job, and they ended up screwing me in the end.

Reynar
Oldest Member
Best Lap
posted 10-03-2002 02:25:46 PM
quote:
Falaanla Marr had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Oh, Im not jealous of the 40 a week. Just comparing that to the money I got when I was 17 -- zilch.

And god damn where do mcdonals employees make that much money? I mean, damn. here they make 5 15 an hour. Thats IT. minimum wage. 200 a week. Sure, 5x that before taxes and all

I made all of 7.60 an hour at my last job, and they ended up screwing me in the end.


Most fast food jobs are starting out around $8 an hour now, at least in my area.

The wendys near Michigan State University hires people in at $8.50 an hour.

"Give me control of a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws."
-Mayer Rothschild
Il Buono
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend.
posted 10-03-2002 02:31:17 PM
I job hunt for a living.
"Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."
Kirane
Pancake
posted 10-03-2002 02:36:14 PM
I'm head waiter at Pizza Hut.

I just deal with idiots all day, and they pay me lots. I bring people drinks, food, napkins, and plates..

I make 5.25 from the company, and then I make around 20-25 bucks an hour depending on the time of day. Minimal 15 dollars an hour though.

I also goto high school. I also goto college. Hurrah for my 2 hours of free time A WEEK.

Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 10-03-2002 02:39:53 PM
I'm the Project Manager of our IT section. I get the fun job of juggling budgets, writing up contracts for (duh) contractors, and ordering people around. My job is to basically tell the Management when software/hardware is getting out of date, then advise them on upgrades.

We're talking 250+ users here.

It can become annoying as hell, because the Management knows sweet fuck all about computers.

Trillee
I <3 My Deviant
posted 10-03-2002 02:41:40 PM
I watch children while parents leave em to go do some shopping.

Simple.. yet challeging

nem-x
posted 10-03-2002 02:42:18 PM
Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 10-03-2002 02:43:00 PM
quote:
Aanile had this to say:
I watch children while parents leave em to go do some shopping.

Just watch them? Hell, I want that job! Laziness ahoy!

Grendel
Pancake
posted 10-03-2002 03:03:27 PM
I work in a 34 degree warehouse, and am timed to run around and select boxes and crates of food, through them on a pallete and dirve them to the dock door. God, it'a awful but for a part-time job that pays $11.07 I'll keep my mouth shut.
Trillee
I <3 My Deviant
posted 10-03-2002 03:04:39 PM
well.. also have to make sure they ain't beating anyone, or gettin hurt. I get called "the Drill Sargent" though.. I don't let the kids get away with anything they're not supposed to. And not afraid to give time outs. (which, in the 2 years i've worked there, not one single parent minded)

Also when Parents come to pick them up, and their kid won't listen, I boom out telling them to leave. *snickers* Parents like that to, kids run like hell when I do.

Vorago
A completely different kind of Buckethead
posted 10-03-2002 03:09:16 PM
leckzilla!
Squeak!
posted 10-03-2002 03:46:49 PM
quote:
Falaanla Marr's fortune cookie read:
I sit on my ass at home for many hours a day.

While being a professional bum pays nothing at all, IT SURE IS FUN!

Also read as: I need a job.


What he said, except I might be getting one within a week. Expect crying if they don' take me on.

Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 10-03-2002 03:51:52 PM
quote:
Reynar had this to say about Captain Planet:
Most fast food jobs are starting out around $8 an hour now, at least in my area.

The wendys near Michigan State University hires people in at $8.50 an hour.


We start at 5.15. I've been here a little over a year and make 6.30.

Cry for me.

You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 10-03-2002 04:01:35 PM
Like once a month I work at a comic convention, makeing/handing out flyers, looking for popele, and other such grun work, i get like 150 if I work both days and go back with him to new jersy and unload the trucks at his office

im tyrign to get a regular job though, t wont pay as much, but it will be cosntant, and thjeyll acutally rember to pay me, guy at the super market said i could do deliveries at ngiht and weekends, but the aldy at my school who gives working papers is like never their


Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work and allready the evil begins to be repaired
- Self Rreliance
Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 10-03-2002 04:15:06 PM
I work in a call center that takes a multitude of lines as a customer service rep. We have a line that is a store locator service for Shoe Carnival shoe stores. We have a line that authorizes insurance benefits and gives insurance information for LensCrafters and LensCrafters affiliated doctor's offices. We have a line that takes orders for Super Duper Publications, a speech therapy item catalog. We take contact lens enrollments and orders on another, and more.

All in all I think we handle about fifteen or twenty lines. I don't take them all, because some are just in the morning, and I work second shift, but I know and handle the majority.

Of course, I could soon be saying I do tech support for the Dow AgroSciences Prolinx software and Dolphin hardware, etc, as that's the position with our Dow department that I've put in for. Different from normal tech support, as I'll only be dealing with Dow reps and not the normal consumer, and these reps at least have basic training in the software and hardware they use. Prolinx just basically irons out problems that occur.


Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin

Burger
BANNED!
posted 10-03-2002 04:15:09 PM
I have 2 jobs, at the bad one i get 1 8 hour shift a week and i do full service gas pump attendant (gas monkey). At the busiest sunoco in ontario. last year we did 14 000 000 litres of fuel (3.7 ish million gallons). I clean windshields, pump gas, give change, collect cash, check fluid levels, and adjust tire pressure. I also am licensed to pump automotive and portable propane.

My good job gives me 4 7 hour shifts a week, pays better, and it's a self serve gas station attendant, at one of the slower sunoco's in the city. I get paid $8 an hour to read a novel, or talk on the phone to my girlfriend, and take people's money occasionally. It's normally only like 140 transactions in a 7 hour shift which averages to around 1 customer every 3 minutes.

I love my jobs.

Bite me.

No, Really. Bite me.

Tristan
Vidi, vici, veni.
Nae's Stooge
posted 10-03-2002 04:43:36 PM
I learn!

Oh, and min wage here in oregon is $6.50/hr

Veni, vidi, vici
MorbId
Pancake
posted 10-03-2002 04:55:26 PM
I put away books.

Sometimes people try to talk to me, but they go away if I hide behind a shelf.

Faelynn LeAndris
Lusty busty redheaded wood elf with sharp claws
posted 10-03-2002 04:59:49 PM
quote:
There was much rejoicing when Khyron said this:
What sort of education/experience did you need to land that job?

Self taught, 4 years experience.

Experience > Education, depending on the employer.


My LAUNCHCast Station
"Respect the Forest, Fear the Ranger"
I got lost for an hour and became god.
Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 10-03-2002 05:04:59 PM
quote:
MorbId had this to say about Pirotess:
I put away books.

Sometimes people try to talk to me, but they go away if I hide behind a shelf.



I used to do that as a second job up in Illinois. And that was my first job when I was fifteen.


Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin

Pvednes
Lynched
posted 10-03-2002 05:06:03 PM
I persuade people to give me money.
Azrael Heavenblade
Damn Dirty Godmoder
posted 10-03-2002 05:10:42 PM
College student mainly, though I am a DJ for our radio station, though I do not get paid for it(sadf).
"The basic tool for manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them." - Philip K. Dick
Addy
posted 10-03-2002 05:14:55 PM
Professional High School Student.

I take classes and hang out friends for a living. Then I come home for my nightjob: Professional Annoyance. I always seem to get my parents/brother angry at me for whatever reason. I'm the innocent one, honest! Then I play computer games, teehee. ^^

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