What the hell do you do?

Hanover Fist · Post by **Hanover Fist** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:39 pm

I'm just curious about people in this forums employment. I tend to gather little snippets from peoples posts, but curiousity is getting the better of me.

I work for Thanksgiving Coffee Company here in Northern California as a Field Operations Manager. Sounds impressive doesn't it? I don't even know what it means. I do get an office though, which enables me to peruse this forum for hours on end. You gotta love capitalism.

Ames · Post by **Ames** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:54 pm

I'm a licensed secondary (middle and high school) teacher.

mtne · Post by **mtne** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:11 pm

Electrician by trade, anthropologist and artist by study, trustafarian at heart.....................

Guder · Post by **Guder** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:58 pm

Commercial tire development analyst. I do the same job as the design “engineer” I replaced, but I won’t be using the title until I complete my degree.

the_rog · Post by **the_rog** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:47 pm

Computer geek, and don' t ask me to fix your PC. I run mainframes.

Charles

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:36 pm

"Application Developer"

I write code for web applications that, if you're smart, you'll never ever use. Because only stupid, terrible people have access to the apps I create.

Right now I'm learning blacksmithing, and eventually I want to do THAT full time (no, not shoeing horses. Those are farriers.).

RevSin · Post by **RevSin** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:45 pm

I work for Comcast in Operations Management. Basically I sit in this roon that has 10 huge flat screen monitars with ALL of Comcast's services on em, and veiw for audio and video quality and control. The facility I work in broadcasts stations all over the world including all of the Discovery owned services, BET, Oxygen, many of the wreched home shopping networks, BBC America, and a shit load of International Channels most of you have probably never heard of. Hopefully I will be in Master Control, Encoder Operations, or Satelite Uplink Tech soon. I actually really love my job, which is cool cause I dont think I have ever been able to say that before in my life.

Rev§in

P.S. No I cant get you free cable. I have nothing to do with that.

red · Post by **red** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:28 pm

I used to be an EMT but I'm back in the IT Field. I get paid to fix phones for a local Hospital. But I'm a lowly contractor, so I'm basically the IT department's bitch.

deaconblooz · Post by **deaconblooz** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:50 pm

Telecommunications - Project Mgr for acquisition of sites to build towers and rooftop antennas for cell phone companies. We build the stuff for all the major service providers in the great lakes region of the midwest.

Spend most of my time in the office but still manage to get out in the field. Good excuse to ride.

D

The Shifty Jesus · Post by **The Shifty Jesus** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:33 pm

-Student again.

-Turnin' wrenches for the local Vespa shop when school allows.

-Hopefully back to being an Environmental Graphic Designer when school ends.

Ban Guzzi · Post by **Ban Guzzi** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:46 pm

Chemical monkee... Currently working in water treatment (NOT turd herding!!) and have spent the last 10 years in chemical recycling and production, household bleach and ammonia production, proto type refinery construction and operations.

ps~ fabric softener is just cow fat with perfume and dye...bleech!

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:21 pm

go to http://www.michelvaillant.com/
clic on "français"
clic on "le studio graton"
clic on the image on the far right

see the "fuck the wife/ride the bike UTMC" logo on the right of the table? that's me.

Rabbit_Fighter · Post by **Rabbit_Fighter** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:42 pm

Artist Data Quality Specialist - I work for a big (okay, biggest) photography provider in the world and make sure the photographers get paid. A lot of data analysis and trouble shooting.

I had the very good fortune of meeting Hanover last July and receiving a tour of the Thanksgiving Coffee Company. Very cool facility and an interesting operation they've got going on.

problemaddict · Post by **problemaddict** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:44 am

I drive a big rig for Pitt Ohio Express. work the graveyard shift. Drive out of Allentown, PA to terminals in Harrisburg, New Jersey, Baltimore, etc. and do relay runs to western and northern PA.

Dobbs · Post by **Dobbs** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:11 am

Real Time Analyst "Big Brother" for a Global Operations Company...Much fun, ya!!

smashinator · Post by **smashinator** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:06 am

Anonymous wrote:"Application Developer"

I write code for web applications that, if you're smart, you'll never ever use. Because only stupid, terrible people have access to the apps I create.

Right now I'm learning blacksmithing, and eventually I want to do THAT full time (no, not shoeing horses. Those are farriers.).

Dammit.

That was me.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:23 am

I claw at the walls of a little beige cube in a building with no less then 3000 other little beige cubes, all os uf answering the phones in customer service. Somewhere in my building, if you work for a fortune 500 company, is someone you've talked to about your benefits package or 401k or pension.

With every breath that isn't sterilized office air, I test my ass off to get on a local fire department. #3 on one, and #2 on another. Various other less mentionable rankings around as well. I'm already an EMT, but private ambulance services suck if you didn't know. Within about 6 months or so, I should be working 24 on, riding 48 off, and making a lot more then I do now.

It's not a bad career move, if you're ok with bleeding people and burning buildings.

-Rench

vespaboy · Post by **vespaboy** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:58 am

I did work in customer service and operations for a coffee company, but they laid me off in June. So now I am a full time student, studing electro-nuerodiagnostics, and hoping to get on in a larger trauma center's nuero-unit. It all just some fancy words for stick electrodes onto people's skulls, but when I graduate I'll be allowed to stick electrodes directly into brains during surgery! WooHoo!
Now I have to go study my ass off...

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:58 am

Student....and part time....telemarketer But I only call people who provided their adress voluntarily, I swear!!
I mean, fuck, I need the money! Forgive me!

UVF02052 · Post by **UVF02052** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:12 pm

I print high end pressure sensitive labels. Yeah yeah yeah, stickers.... and yes I'll try and get some UTMC made up.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:14 pm

Multi-Class Commercial Vehicle Operator, specializing in the New England regional transportation and delivery of aggregate and vibration-formed/steam cured almalgamated aggregate/cement products used in the construction and landscape industries.

Uh, sometimes I drives a dumb truck with sand in it, sometimes one of those boom trucks, and sometimes one of them there 18 wheeler flatbeds with see-ment blocks on it. Yessir, yep.

spectre · Post by **spectre** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:10 pm

I am a mechanic for a New Holland dealership, turning wrenches , welding, doing services calls , allkinds of crap to keep the wheels of agriculture rolling. Sometimes I just smile and nod.

badi · Post by **badi** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:18 pm

I'm not working at all, no sir! But before I took myself out of the army of wage slaves I was a whole-saler (steel), a press photographer, a worker in the harbor, an office clerk for the press department of a huge insurance company, a failed student, a santa claus, a night watchman, a surf instructor, a skipper on a charter yacht in greece and once a even worked in a chocolate factory and helped producing xmas-calendars. I feel like throwing up every time I see chocolate now. What a crappy job. And then I worked some other shitty stupid jobs I even can't remember anymore.

Okay, I'm a jack of all trades but a master of none.

SidVicious · Post by **SidVicious** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:42 pm

well, i used to work at a local grocery store. i was the back door receiving manager, until i was fired, along with everyone else, when our lease ran out and the owner decided not to renew.

now i work at a cabinet factory, in the shipping department; pulling orders off the floor and loading trailers. not a terrible job, but it's heavy lifting, and hot in summer, cold in winter.

what i'd LIKE to do is, perhaps, work in radio communications, maybe at a radio shop. i just got my amateur radio license last month and have had a GMRS license for a couple, three years now. i love high-tech electronics and am fascinated with radios.

brockster · Post by **brockster** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:13 pm

Rench wrote: customer service.
work for a fortune 500 company
local fire department.
EMT, but private ambulance services suck if you didn't know.

Ambulance services? Suck they do!

Worked at one in Cincinnati for a year. 50% turnover in one year just of the EMT's. There are too many fat sick people in the world for an EMT to put up with dispatch managers who fire dispatchers if they refuse to book a run--no matter how many crews shorthanded they were. ARRGGH. Did the volunteer fire dept. thing for 8 months. Too many of them had SERIOUS drinking problems. A beer tap was in the dept.'s meeting room!

Worked at a Denny's in the Tri-County area of Cincinnati(busboy/dishwasher) in 1982. They had cooks at that location who would destroy food stores to make managers that they didn't like get fired! Wild place. Store closed a couple months after I walked out and it never reopened as a Denny's.

Done customer service as a temp at Lenscrafters HQ in Mason, OH. Also worked for a year as a temp in the 'vision care management' program (eye insurance) there. Saw them break at least half of their 10 corporate values while temping there.

Worked at HP in Cincinnati for 5 years in the early '90's as admin-catch-all and fleet car hamster.

Drove a cab the winter of '97-'98 in the slummy Over-The-Rhine section (and the University Of Cincinnati campus) before the 2001 riots. That was 3rd shift. Didn't know Cincy had whorehouses until then. That was 'my time in Iraq'. Frazzling job.

Temped a ton of warehouses and factories. Got fired from a German-owned plant that made coil springs for BMW's. Germans treated the American employees like we treat illegal aliens. Glad to be gone from that place!

Contractor at the life insurance department at Procter & Gamble for 18 months. Tat was just before they moved all the jobs to Costa Rica (and made the downsized train their replacements). Had a great boss there. If you worked for P&G and died, your survivors probably dealt with my boss, or at least my paperwork from 1997-1999.

Got a degree in Journalism (Photo specialty) never went into it.

Worked third shift at a now-closed ITT-AC Pump plant in the Bond Hill section of Cincinnati. Studied for my amateur radio license then. (KC8LWV - 73 to ya hams !)

Drove for a year for a company the had the shuttle contract for the Norfolk, VA international airport. 2003 Ford Crown Vics rock. Cooler than cab driving without the assholes, drunks, and holdup dangers. Not uncommon to have to go to the bank three times to see if they could cash my paycheck, though.

Was a little pickup truck-type courier independent contractor one summer in '95.

Now working as a support clerk in a hospital in the nursing administration department in midwestern Ohio. Cool job.

Great benefits. I am one of two men in the department. Unpredictable atmosphere, but it's great to have benefits that cost one limb, instead of an arm and a leg.

Been there, done that, lost the freakin's shirt. Have had many odd jobs and heard many interesting stories.

Smokey · Post by **Smokey** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:16 pm

I am paying the bills right now as a machinist (5 years) in an FAA Certified Repair shop. We mostly grind, chrome, grind Boeing 737,747, 777 hydraulic units such as flap actuators, and landing gear rams.
Somtimes we do work for alot of the fishing and crabbing boats that are docked right outside on the Seattle Ship Canal. We re-bulid cranes, gears, ect. Funny thing is, most boat captains have all year to get the boat ready for many thousand miles trips, harsh conditions and getting the boat beat to shit by mother nature, and they always come to us a few days before they have to pull out of port with a million things to be made or fixed. Now that I know how well these boats are maintained, i am glad I never went up on one.
Before this career move, I worked for the K-2 Corp in ski and snowboard production as a silkscreener, UV Clearcoat applicator, and final inspector. I started snowboarding in its infancy, well pretty early, 1988, and rode ALOT up thru '98. It was pretty easy getting free equipment and cheap lift tickets. nowdays, it is real pricey, i dont do it much.

Merlyn · Post by **Merlyn** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:30 pm

Whew- Depends on the week I guess:

I am currently an Apprentice in the International Union of Operating Engineers (Heavy Equipment Operators) which means I have been going out as a rigger, oiler or front-end hand. Rigging, mostly right now.

Short version- I work construction with/around/on cranes.

Merlyn
IUOE Local 450

eyeball · Post by **eyeball** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:14 pm

Well I've bin a printer for the last 5 years at meadwestvaco the largest tree killers I mean paper Co. in the world it sucks

Post by **Beemer Dan** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:51 am

I've done a lot of different jobs over the years but no experience or amount of school could have prepared me for my current job of taking lots of pain killers and drawing pictures. I can't complain since I get to work from home, but it can be pretty crazy when I have to stay awake for a week straight to make a deadline. This is the kind of stuff I do:

I'm hoping I can actually start getting paid for my writing, I'm going to start sending out the book I wrote to potential publishers in December.

I still want Xtian's job tho

rumblehed · Post by **rumblehed** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:39 pm

I'm a mental health case manager. Individuals with severe mental illness are sent to us for re-integration into the community. Geeze, when I say it like that, it really sounds creepy.

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What the hell do you do?

What the hell do you do?