What do you do for a living?

[Cant trust em]

Are you fortunate enough to have a job right now? I'm just curious.

I'm a fundraiser for an economic development agency that works with low-income, Spanish speaking Latinos in San Francisco.

[no name no slogan]

1. I kick ass and take names

I work in IT for local government. My job is about as secure as anyones, as we're running a huge deficit right now.

[mwooldri]

27. Call centre coaching right now... but likely soon back on phones. nt

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I work with non profits. And, torture DS1.

Actually, we raise more money for non profits than anyone else in the world. If you need help? PM me.

[Left Is Write]

3. I don't make the living in this household, but I do have a job.

I manage the daycare operations for two health clubs (part of a local chain).

[Left Is Write]

76. Wanted to add...

I also do occasional voice over work, but it's far too occasional to make a living at it.

[av8rdave]

4. Pilot

I pile it here, pile it there...sometimes even get to fly!

[BarenakedLady]

5. Goddess Of All Things

It's a hard job.

[Inchworm]

10. Sounds tough

Do you wander among us simple drunkards?

:pray:

:7

[BarenakedLady]

18. Sometimes I wander

In circles...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

55. Hey, I might steal that title for myself.

Adoring and groveling fans, the line forms to the right.... :D

That's almost as good as "She Who Must Be Obeyed" in Rumpole of the Bailey, Mrs. Rumpole.

:rofl:

[Shell Beau]

6. I abstract title. I find out who

owned land waaay back when they started keeping record of it and chain it out to now. I keep up with the minerals (oil and gas, etc.) mainly. Does the person who owns the land still own the minerals? Do they own some of the minerals? Gotta make sure all the right people are getting paid when an oil well is drilled. Yes, I work in the oil business. And it is tight right now. Banks don't want to lend the money to pay people like myself.

[Thickasabrick]

7. I analyze stuff

[Deja Q]

8. Product analysis, tech support, web programming

I'm a jack of all trades.

And most don't think I'm a jerk of all trades, so I must be doing something good enough... :evilgrin:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. When I can't evade it,

I practice just a tiny bit of law with my old firm, but those occasions are, thank you, universe, few and far between, because it's more work than I care to undertake.

Mostly, I'm a novelist, although my godson would tell you - as he screamed out the first time he saw one of my books on display in a bookstore - "Tangerine is an ARTHUR?"

[nomorenomore08]

71. I know you've mentioned before on here that you're a novelist...

Are your books available, say, on Amazon? And would you mind giving me any titles (can be in the form of a PM if you prefer)?

I ask partly because I'm an aspiring writer myself. :hi:

[flvegan]

11. Management for a major title underwriter.

I do underwriting, oversee title production, I'm the go-to guy for any examination questions. Fun fun.

[XemaSab]

12. I'm an unemployed biologist

:shrug:

[Deja Q]

15. Damn. One would think biology and other sciences would be in demand...

Free market, where fallacy, insanity, and lunacy reign supreme I suppose. One would think we could use as many biologists as we could get...

[TZ]

39. depends on what type of biology.

Biotech is always hiring..Ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife biologists..not so much. Thats actually always been the case. I wanted to be a wildlife biologist when I graduated in 1991...and quickly found out how difficult it is to get a job in that field...

[NMDemDist2]

92. the National Park service is probably your only hope

outside a university

[GOPisEvil]

13. I work for a national insurance company.

I'm a supervisor in the claims department. My team pursues third party recovery on workers compensation claims and does some intercompany arbitration.

[Inchworm]

14. Desire

:grr:

[Chan790]

16. Sales...

I sell hardware and exercise-equipment. I hate it. I'm thinking about going back to school to do something else. I wanted to be a fundraiser once but I've been told repeatedly that I don't have the personality for it.

[midnight armadillo]

17. Read DU.

It's surprisingly profitable.

[OmahaBlueDog]

19. Something I can't talk about

Seriously

I was never here

[Cant trust em]

51. Please don't kill me. NT

[LeftyMom]

20. I wouldn't really call it a living.

:shrug:

[FarLeftRage]

21. I am an unemployed computer/chemical technician

Who has done alot of other jobs over the years...

[justabob]

22. waitress

The money is not great, but I am managing to stay afloat. The restaurnt I work for is owned by a nice couple, and has been able to keep a steady business. It could be a lot worse.

I also sell books via amazon on the side. I don't make a whole lot of money there either, but my business is growing, so I can't complain too much. :)

[mtowngman]

23. medical laboratory technician and part time student

majoring in biology.

A few years ago, for reasons having nothing to do with an impending recession, I switched from about 30 years in construction.

Turned out to be a lucky move.

[mentalsolstice]

24. Nothing now. I was a non-profit attorney

I did disability rights for several years, and then moved on to domestic violence (go, Joe Biden, go). Now, I'm washed up and can't physically keep up, so I get SSDI. My mind keeps up when it's not fogged by painkillers, and my body is just shot to hell. I have very mild cerebral palsy...great that it was mild and I could keep up when I was young, but now that I'm 48, my joints are like they belong to a 75 to 80 year olds body. My bones audibly creak when I move.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Free-lance translator who occasionally does contract editing work

Business is actually good right now, thanks to an international legal matter that has generated literally millions of pages. (No, I'm not translating all of it by any means. But there's plenty of work to go around right now.)

[LibraLiz1973]

26. Kindergarten Teacher

:-)

[femmocrat]

82. God bless you.

:hi: You have the toughest job in the entire school system (except for bus drivers!)

[LibraLiz1973]

83. I love the kids and I love my job sooo much. I don't know how the middle and high school

teachers do it though!! lol

[AllenVanAllen]

28. I am a freelance artist

A sculptor to be specific. This bad economy has not left my profession unscathed.



I posted this 90% done bust in the artist group a while back.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. Wow!!!! You're INCREDIBLY TALENTED!

That's a gorgeous piece of work.

You're very, very good.

I wish you all good luck - an artist's life is difficult, but, with a talent like yours, you can't do anything else.

Just beautiful.................

:toast:

[Left Is Write]

30. Wow! That's beautiful.

[abq e streeter]

33. also gotta say, that's friggin fantastic !

[AllenVanAllen]

35. Thank you for the wonderful compliments guys!

It's a very tough profession, especially in the Bush aftermath!
It isn't always easy but it's always worth it!

[Xipe Totec]

31. Mis respetos...

And I wish you every sucess in helping them.

Yes, I have a job. I am Hispanic. I have been out of work exactly 2 months out of the last 32 years.

My good fortune, unfortunately, is not shared by many of my brethren.

PS: I have been a computer programmer now for 32 years.

[kwassa]

32. Rob banks.

[abq e streeter]

34. substitute teacher and musician

played a lot last year, real slow so far this year, really since about October...may or may not ever pick up again to what it used to be, but not sure I want it to. I'll be 58 this summer and even though I keep myself in good shape, doing that 4th set really has started to take a lot out of me...I'm also a damn good teacher, but too stubborn and/or lazy to jump, at my age, through the hoops required for teaching certification , so I sub at a relatively small circuit of middle and high schools and generally enjoy it.

[old mark]

36. Retired. Last worked in a state mental hospital,previous to that did

drug/alcohol counseling at various places. Now an artist, but not for money, which is a good thing...


mar

[datasuspect]

37. haul ass

[RebelOne]

38. I'm 70 years old and still working full-time.

I am a copy editor for hunting and fishing magazines that are published nationwide. This company is not going to be around much longer. Because of the economy, we are losing advertisers and that's where our revenue comes from. So, I'll just hang on here as long as I can, and then retire when the company goes belly up.

[PRETZEL]

40. I'm fiscal director of a county agency

love the work most days.

[county worker]

79. Do I know you?

[1gobluedem]

41. Public radio station general manager

Recently promoted from marketing and development director...which I still do.

[guitar man]

44. need any help?

:hi:

[guitar man]

42. I'm a TV station manager

Traffic Manager is my official job title, but I oversee a lot more than just the traffic dept since I came up through the engineering side. I do a lot of operations management in addition to traffic.

[Born_A_Truman]

60. Been there, done that!

Got my start at KY3 many moons ago! Copy writer too.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. Sell my soul

[lumberingbear]

45. Drugs are my life...

Retired Pharmacist ;-)

[Orsino]

46. I maintain Internet connectivity for business customers, mostly.

I identify and isolate problems domestically and globally. Often, this means forcing the telcos, at figurative gunpoint, into fixing their shit. Sometimes I'm convincing a customer that the trouble's in their own equipment. Mostly, I'm trying to understand sketchily-reported symptoms and get customers to clarify what the hell's actually wrong.

[MissMillie]

47. I have absolutely no idea

I come to the office, people ask me to do stuff. I do it. I get paid.

I guess I'm just a Do-er.

[TZ]

48. most people know that I'm an evil pharma shill...:)

Which in real life terms is Reasearch and Development Associate for a large biotech. A slightly jumped up lab rat..:)

[HERVEPA]

49. Penguin salesperson

[Cant trust em]

50. I'll give you 50 bucks.

[mainegreen]

52. Programmer/DBA/Business Analyst.

:D

[UndertheOcean]

53. researcher

[Roon]

54. Before I was disabled, I drove

Cab, truck, courier..

[redqueen]

56. Admin....

yes, I'm fortunate.

They're announcing cutbacks after the fiscal year ends at the end of this month. *fingers crossed*

[Bertha Venation]

57. happy to be a worker bee

legal secretary

[graywarrior]

58. Duck Wrangler

[Born_A_Truman]

59. Broadcast Traffic Diva

I'm a partner in my own company and we do broadcast traffic for agencies and clients directly.

To translate: I get television and radio commercials on the air for network, syndication, national cable and network radio in the US, Canada and beyond. We also traffic spot television and radio.

So when you see the Superbowl winner going to Disney World (or Disneyland) within hours of the game you'll know I worked all night that night.

[MrCoffee]

62. I thought you meant broadcast traffic as in flying over the freeway in a helicopter

That would be a kick-ass job.

[Sheltiemama]

61. I'm a copy editor.

At the News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tenn.

[Soylent Brice]

63. ...

[Pierre.Suave]

64. I am a Stud

I offer my services to Supermodels who want a really good looking kid...

:P

[rug]

67. So, you're unemployed.

[Pierre.Suave]

70. ...

:rofl:

[nomorenomore08]

65. Two years out of school and unemployed the whole time, looking/applying here and there but not

too optimistic right now. I'm hoping to eventually make a living as a fiction writer, though I realize how difficult that is, but you'd think that with a degree in creative writing I could find *some* kind of writing/editing type job. Too bad they all seem to require like 5 years experience in some specialized field... :(

[sakabatou]

66. Student

amateur video editor/producer.

[SeattleGirl]

68. Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

I work with people who were hurt on the job. Assess their ability to work based on the effects of their work injury. Sometimes they need to be retrained, so I write retraining plans for them, get then through school, things like that.

[sniffa]

69. Very fortunate to still be a land surveyor

We may have to have another layoff soon (Cut 7 employees to 5 or 4) so we'll see if I can make the cut again.

[backwoodsbob]

72. of all things I make roof bolts for coal mines

HARD labor but it pays good,the company gives anywhere quarter to quarter a 100% to 150% 401(k) match and insurance for the family is 6 bucks every two weeks.

PLUS the job keeps me in shape :) 44 years old and 160ish pounds and do sets on my benchpress with 180 :)

[kaiden]

73. Legal Assistant.

[Mike 03]

74. I'm an unemployed, self-employed writer, basically living off of past earnings and investments.

I am not writing by choice (or, not by choice but by volition, meaning I would love to feel passionate enough to be writing now, but I am not interested in doing so); just at a crossroads right now, with a lot of bad things going on in my life, hoping to find my way over the next few years or so.

[rucky]

75. Product Manager/Project Manager/Business Analyst (Software)

don't ask what the difference is. my title changes weekly but the duties do not.

[Sultana]

77. I'm a stripper

:sarcasm:

:D

Nah, i'm a student

[county worker]

78. Cost analyst, employed

[arbusto_baboso]

80. Now: Social Worker. Formerly: Special Forces Officer

With many, many other career detours in between.

[femmocrat]

81. Teacher.

Art K-12, but in elementary for the past 3 years.

[blueknight]

84. im a retired

railroad engineer, 30 years was enough for me

[Texasgal]

85. Sugical Nurse.

Things are going well, no layoffs that I know of right now.

[Pacifist Patriot]

86. I am a minister.

I serve a Unitarian Universalist congregation part-time and have an independent wedding ministry. So essentially self-employed.

[DarkTirade]

87. Right now... 1 retail job, 1 full-time job taking care of my grandparents, and full-time school.

Needless to say the only time I generally have to surf DU is at night before I go to bed.

[bluedigger]

88. Disaster capitalist

Proudly serving my corporate masters by serving as an archaeologist for FEMA.

[pokerfan]

89. choreoanimator

because it sounds a lot cooler than electrical engineer.

[NMDemDist2]

90. I have the hardest and nastiest job I've had in my whole life

but am oddly content in spite of the shit pay and sometimes literal shit work

thank heaven my hubby has a great job

[MilesColtrane]

91. I play all types of music for all types of people.

Much of it is met with indifference and the pay is low, but I'll only stop doing it when I'm physically unable.

[Lucian]

93. I am an unloader for a fucking Walmart.

Can't get any more pitiful than that.