Things I Should Know About You By Now: What's your day job?
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Desk monkey for a CPA firm. Add a dash of audit report composition and tech support, and viola. But I moonlight (err, maybe weekend'light?) as a windsurfing instructor.
I give blow jobs for cash.
Sorry, I can't break your $20. Exact change please, mister.
If I tell you, I have to kill you.
Then again, if I knew, I'd have to kill myself. So don't feel alone in this.
I'm in indirect auto lending for the Orange County area. I get the deals after they are bought and see if they meet the criteria for funding.
Show of hands of the folks so far: whose job doesn't, you know, suck?
We know for sure that Osteo's does, of course.
My job isn't great, but it doesn't suck. The only thing that sucks in my office is the management.
i'm the print/online biz manager for a large advertising agency.
mostly i clean up other people's fuckups.
Administrative slave during the regular work week. I organize stuff and file other stuff and wipe my boss' buttcrack, basically.
On the weekends, I get paid to go to clubs/bars/concerts and talk to strangers and get parties started and pass out free shit that people don't need/want. This is also known as radio station promoting.
I'm a student editor for a small but snooty literary journal.
And a dental assistant on weekends.
My job sucks in that it's for a finite length of time. Otherwise, it's fantastic, and don't let me tell you otherwise.
k. you don't really need training. but you do need to put up with people's annoying (sometimes drunken) bullshit. i'm sure you're already good at that.
subsitute middle school teacher by day, waitress on weekends. soon to quit both jobs to become a full-time grad student in july. i love both my jobs.
Restaurateur of a fairly big cafe with about 20 people who get to do what I say.
I work for a high end 3d animation software company as an account executive/ marketing person.
Trying to explain this job thoroughly would take time. But I hang out with math nerds who make all the pretty pictures you all like to see in movies.
I've been told to just say I'm an artist, as I am now too old to admit to what I actually do with most of my time.
digital licensing @ warner music group.
um, i do research on contracts and make sure everyone's getting paid what they're supposed to be getting paid and then i plug it into some program. i kinda love my job more than i should.
Director of Sales Engineering for a not-quite-'lil systems integrator. I like my job. It just needs to pay me more.
Lots o' people with real, grown up jobs here. How's that work out for you folks?
Sales application engineer in industrial heat treating equipment (i.e. heavy metal process) in the aftermarket division.
I moonlight as a Polish lounge singer.
Having a real grown up job is odd. I'm still not sure I prefer it to being some hourly bonehead. There was definitely less stress, and I got overtime. Granted, I have more leeway to do what I want, now, but the jury's still out. If I leave this job I think I'm just going to be a cook somewhere or something.
I don't FEEL like a grownup. Especially when i roll into work hungover at 11am.
And yet, there you are, working in an office, describing yourself as a professional.
Also, it seems that a lot of you have jobs that might be described as "important".
While I'm perfectly happy to not be accountable for much, I must confess, I'm kind of jealous.
yeah, my job has become more and more "important" and while that's nice in some ways (like requesting a raise) it's annoying to not be able to go on vacation without coming back to catastrophe.
@Johnny: Didn't think there was much call for banditos anymore.
@pepper: Even in positions that aren't important, that whole "If you want something done right..." thing tends to be true.
that's why it's such a good choice. there's no other banditos taking all the good bandito jobs. when someone needs a bandito nowadays, they either come to me, or that record company in london.
You'll be singing a different tune when all those Mexican banditos start coming over the border.
Then you might have to move to the less lucrative field of skullduggery.

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