What do you guys do for a living?

[dunk]

I write documents, change them when someone doesn't like the landscape orientation of one of the pages. Then I fill the empty boxes in with a black ball-point pen and initial and date it all.

Then I write reports stating that I filled everything in and it was all initialed and dated.

Sometimes I get to watch people clean manufacturing equipment.

Sometimes I get to push buttons.

But most of the time, I simply flip pages in the documents around.

I also contribute to the high cost of pharmaceutical products through my greedy employers.

Engineering students... STAY AWAY FROM PHARMACEUTICALS!!!! You have been warned.

[MrFun]

I am an undergraduate student at St. Ambrose University and I am going for a BA in History.

I plan to immediately go to graduate school after this, but not sure where. I plan to get my PhD, and work as an underpaid professor, and teach undergraduate college students U.S. history.

My special area of interest, and the area I am most knowledgeable about, is U.S. history from 1850's through the 1880's.

I still have a lot more reading to do in regards to good secondary sources, and primary sources. I got a list of books I have read, and books I plan to read.

[connorkimbro]

I'm a bit more than half way through a bachelors degree in Political Philosophy, but i probably won't finish that. I'm about to graduate DLI after having completed the basic Korean course, i plan on finishing my bachelors in whatever, and then going for a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language, and a PhD in linguistics. (these are my current goals)

As for what i get paid to do right now, i'm a US Army Soldier, and basically i listen to the "bad guy's" radio transmissions and interpret what they're saying.

[SlowwHand]

Could you do the same for me here, connor?

[faded glory]

I fix/redesign manufacturing flaws in industrial printing plates we produce.
I travel sometimes. If there is a problem they will send me. I look at it ; evaluate and compare it. Find the defect ;and report to HQ on how to avoid/fix it.

It doesnt pay much. But not very old; the money i make suits me well.

edit: I take lots of calls. Try to answer as many problems as I can. I also represent my company at trade shows. sometimes anyway.

[Velociryx]

Studied Economics with an eye toward joining the Peace Corps and going to Kenya when I graduated to help them set up businesses (I like a challenging environment). Got married, and the new wife wasn't too keen on the idea, so I wound up not going.

Ditched the new wife two years, and MANY dollars later, and wished like HELL I'd gone to Kenya after all....but by the time I was once again ready, the climate there, and my own desires had changed somewhat, so I stuck around the USof A.

Chanced into a computer job, found out I had a knack for it. Also found out it left me lots of time to design games and write...two of my passions.

So....I was hooked.

-=Vel=-
(reader's digest version...the full version has a great many bizzare details best told at three in the morning in a Waffle House booth after a night spent drinkin....c'mon down to SC and we'll do just that!)

[Gatekeeper]

I am a journalist — specifically, a copy editor.

My main responsibilities include story selection, placement on the page and/or Web site, headline writing, photo selection/sizing/placement. I also edit stories, write/edit cutlines and add deckheads, liftouts and pull quotes to stories (intended to convey key information and/or pull the reader into the story). So, basically, my job entails the complete design of the pages one sees in newspapers on a daily basis (there are, of course, differences from paper to paper ... not all copy editor duties are uniform in that sense).

It's a nice job, although it doesn't pay a super great salary (the longer you stay in the field, though, the better the pay gets). I enjoy the variety of the job, my co-workers (most of the time) and the fact that an average of 16,500 subscribers (more, if you include their families and friends and rack sales) read what I do the next day. The drawback to that is if you make a mistake — then 16,500 people (plus their families and friends and rack sales) see your screw up. That's incentive *not* to screw up.

And, no, I'm not a "superstar bigshot" journalist. You find those types in the big cities and centers of power. Washington, D.C., comes to mind immediately.

Gatekeeper

[Chris 62]

By profession, hardware design Engineer.

Also freelance writer.

After spending years getting a history masters, I quickly discovered it wasn't going to pay much, so I returned to school and recieved an AAS in Engineering and an AOS in Computer design theory.

All of this leads to my "fabulous salery", so good that I suppliment it with writing.

[Provost Harrison]

Not a lot at the moment, currently unemployed and seeking work. A biochemist by education.

[faded glory]

I dont have any college expierence. When i lived on Long island, I had a friend who got me a job at Javon. And they trained me. And then I went to a week long accelerated class to get my current job.

But no college here. Please say wether you went to college.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Not a lot at the moment, currently unemployed and seeking work. A biochemist by education.

unemployed biochemist? sheesh come here and work for pfizer for 150k a year

[Starchild]

Highschool student, planning on studying Biochemistry in university. Work part time as a "sales associate" which basically means I'm assigned open to close shifts at the mall store, deal with customers, cash, and quasi-manageresque duties without manager type pay.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I've fallen into a strange corporate abyss. I turn up, pick at bits of administrative work that any school-leaver with a shred of common sense could do, and get paid paid about three times the going rate for it.

It's all a bit strange. One day I suspect they'll realise that I'm both ludicrously overqualified and overpaid, and start giving me the work they spent a small fortune training me to do. Or pay me off.

[Provost Harrison]

Interesting idea Faded Glory, but I wouldn't know how to go about emigrating, but it is an intriguing idea...

[Asher]

Originally posted by faded glory
unemployed biochemist? sheesh come here and work for pfizer for 150k a year

Provost's speciality is under-the-counter drugs (he's somewhat of a dealer). It's harder to find jobs like that. He's trying to make a new drugs that have the short-term effects of marijuana but none of the long-term effects.