some of the rants about bosses got me thinking... what does everyone DO?!
what's your daily job, your "9 to 5"!? are you a gamer all day, a stay at home mom, a waitress, a teacher, a VP of some super large company!! I think it'll be interesting to see what kinds of things we all do different from eachother, considering the one thing we all share is GAMING!!
I'll start! I'm a CAD drafter (I Love working with CAD!!) for a small locally based company here in Washington State. I work at the Microsoft-Redmond Campus working on floor plans from around the world for all the Microsoft buildings. On occasion, I get to do site visits to verify info, but only here at the Redmond campus! My favorite visits are to the Studios buildings. All the Xbox stuff makes me jealous!
I also just started a cake decorating business with my best friend (she's the monday-friday gal, i'm the weekend gal). I've made Lego cakes, a WOW: Horde cake, Sock cake, and many others. it's my other free time hobby that i figured i'd use to make some extra spending cash!
I'm just two months shy of hitting my 24th year mark working at UCLA Medical Center. I admit patients for about three hundred doctors. I also keep all sorts of data to make them look good. *grins*
I am a part timebook repair technician a local one branch library. I love it! I like working with books, I like working with my hands, I like learning about how to do it and how books are made. Just wish I could do it full time.
I work in a roofing company but on the side I'm a secret spy lol
I'm not kidding you I really am! LOL
My job is a complicated system involving my now deceased uncle's girlfriend of 10 years trying to sabotage his family and business partner - and guess who I'm stuck with all day? Crazy lady. So I report back any findings/revelations of this crazy wench. We can't fire her because she is actually BLACKMAILING my family because my dad is working while disabled though she doesn't work at all, she just talks on her phone, smokes, sleeps, and complains all day long. This is my life.
For a lol:
She can't spell/write for the life of her. She knows how to make a $ sign but not a % sign. She wrote in a letter "65 0/0 per cent"
I work at a jewellers and have done for the past 11 years, I'm looking to go to uni next year however, finally get a degree that's worth a damn in the real world. :p
(Basically that means I have a diploma and certificate 4 in Gemmology, but it's a diploma that isn't recognized by the education department. Rather than the only recognizable certification to jewellers in Australia. It's also recognized worldwide. Finally I'll be getting something that gets away from the jewellery scene).
Right now, I'm a stay-at-home mom to my 2 1/2 year old, so it's all play dough and playgroups for me .
I used to be a mainframe programmer though, and I worked for an insurance company programming in COBOL and PL/I. I'm probably going to have to go back to work at some point, but I'm getting more and more nervous about the longer I'm out of the work force.
I'm a secretary/data plugger. Literally I answer phones and key in data all day. On rare occasion I work on the company website. I've been working there for almost four years and while I have gotten raises, there is no "up" in the ladder. So every day it kills my soul just a little more. It's also construction so we work by getting contracts so at any given moment I could be laid off if we don't get more contracts.
Mine is 9am - 3pm now thankfully. I work in a "contact centre" (read as call centre / hell hole / place for people to yell at you) for HM Revenue + Customs - before I even mention the job itself as a civil servant I get little pay and absolutely do NOT have big pensions / any bonuses despite what the media make out.
My actual job is taking calls for Tax Credits which is kind of a top up for earnings for people working on low pay (like me) or with children. Some people are alright but mostly all day I talk to total idiots (i.e. british public) who cannot answer simple questions / tell us of any changes / give us info we ask for by the deadline that is the same every year often its lazy buggers who've been on benefits all their lives yet keep having more children (with different surnames) and complaining they don't get enough money (my damn tax pounds) and the idiots in charge are always changing the rules we have to work by. I SO need a new job!
I'm a Legal Secretary/Assistant. Been here for over 9 years.
Its really good job but extremely boring. My boss is pretty good but he has his moments. His snooty attitude makes him not such a great person at times, which grinds on my last nerve.
I just graduated from a Medical Transcription course and trying to get work but no one will hire me because I don't have at least 1 year of experience. If I can land a job, I'll be working from home making about the same as I do now.........it is production based so until I get use to doing it, I'll be slow and making less money at first.
I just graduated from a Medical Transcription course and trying to get work but no one will hire me because I don't have at least 1 year of experience. If I can land a job, I'll be working from home making about the same as I do now.........it is production based so until I get use to doing it, I'll be slow and making less money at first.
I worked Medical insurance for almost 5 years while going to school, and got a certification in Medical Transcription.. it can be VERY hard to get into, but being able to really work your own hours has many advantages once you can get in!! Good Luck to you!! I'm glad i have my Certification, in case i ever want to be able to work from home again in the future! My advice would be to call local clinics and see if they have any part time, or per day work that they need assistance on. that's how some of my friends have gotten the experience they need to turn it into full time!!
Thanks for the advise. I really want to do this and knew it wouldn't be easy but dang, no one will give me a break.
I actually have contacted all of my local medical offices but guess what. They use the local hospital to do their transcription. I know the lady in HR and talked to her but they aren't willing to take on a n00b because of the requirements of their turn around time.
I've put my resume on Monster and Mtdaily and have applied to many jobs online.
I'm an internet jane-of-all-trades WAHM (work at home mom). I do freelance web editing, online community management, tech administration & support but it only amounts to part-time right now. I've worked with vBulletin software in various capacities for 12 years now. Web editing is me doing a lot of data entry to add articles to webpages and in the past, entailed my fixing the previous web editors boo-boos. In my management role I do the technical writing (website-specific How Tos, FAQs, etc) and policy enforcement. In my tech admin/support roles, I help folks by setting up their boards, squaring away permissions, then teaching the admins how to perform daily tasks and do their own basic maintenance. If they need anything they are wary of done, I do that too. lol Training is one of my absolute favorite parts of the process. I love helping people be less afraid of technology so they can put it to work for them and then have FUN with it. My other favorite is the policy enforcement. I'm pretty protective of the online 'homes' and a great deal of the time, policy violations are made my newbies who just need things explained, or someone who got caught up in heated moment. But the bonus of clearly explaining the rules is if/when they do it again, you know it's on purpose and can infract or use the banstick accordingly. Heh. Basically I like building 'homes' and keeping them happy and safe places.
Gearbox Software posted my dream job the other day - Community Manager. Unfortunately, it's located down in Texas. All of our special needs supports are really good where we are right now, and I'm pretty big on "Do what works until it doesn't," so home stays in NH for now.
I also have this website idea that's been percolating in my mind. It's kind of a lofty goal, but now that school is in session, I'm going to be spending my days researching how to make it work.
[ Edited: 30 August 2010 11:13 AM by fullofgrace ]
I'm an internet jane-of-all-trades WAHM (work at home mom). I do freelance web editing, online community management, tech administration & support but it only amounts to part-time right now. I've worked with vBulletin software in various capacities for 12 years now. Web editing is me doing a lot of data entry to add articles to webpages and in the past, entailed my fixing the previous web editors boo-boos. In my management role I do the technical writing (website-specific How Tos, FAQs, etc) and policy enforcement. In my tech admin/support roles, I help folks by setting up their boards, squaring away permissions, then teaching the admins how to perform daily tasks and do their own basic maintenance. If they need anything they are wary of done, I do that too. lol Training is one of my absolute favorite parts of the process. I love helping people be less afraid of technology so they can put it to work for them and then have FUN with it. My other favorite is the policy enforcement. I'm pretty protective of the online 'homes' and a great deal of the time, policy violations are made my newbies who just need things explained, or someone who got caught up in heated moment. But the bonus of clearly explaining the rules is if/when they do it again, you know it's on purpose and can infract or use the banstick accordingly. Heh. Basically I like building 'homes' and keeping them happy and safe places.
Gearbox Software posted my dream job the other day - Community Manager. Unfortunately, it's located down in Texas. All of our special needs supports are really good where we are right now, and I'm pretty big on "Do what works until it doesn't," so home stays in NH for now.
I also have this website idea that's been percolating in my mind. It's kind of a lofty goal, but now that school is in session, I'm going to be spending my days researching how to make it work.
And how do you get into this business?! This is like my dream job!
I was very lucky and apprenticed under a website admin way back when I first started (12 years ago). I was a moderator for a good while and then she saw that, for a n00b, I was pretty intuitive to how the board technology worked. So she suggested showing me the ropes and walked me through the admin control panel. After that she actually just let me 'play' with the message boards a bit. lol After that I became the Assistant Admin. But what she did for me is a why I like training so much now.
I'm able to work part-time from home because the two sites I assist are ones I have participated in for some time and are ones where I've built relationships with the owners. Though I've learned that one of the two is being completely overhauled tech-wise and the management is getting restructured, so they may not need me, so I'll be down to little to no time instead of part-time. Oh well. lol
Nothing tech'y (: I'm a social care worker within residential services. Long hours, 12-24hr shifts. Starting my second degree next month in psychology. Pretty. Darn. Excited.
I just graduated this year, but I'm already in a 9-5 as an artist at a small studio that does educational programming for kids. Right now I'm doing some animation work for a client, but I also do character design, background design, and other random art things like cleaning up sketches and animation frames.
9-5 is killer, I know I'm pretty young to be saying this already, and I've only been working for about 4 weeks, but it's really draining. =( By Wednesday, I'm like bleehhhh
i dont particually have a 9-5 i have a 24/7 365 days jobby, being a full time mom has no days off, no sick days no annual leave nothing... would i change it........NEVER!!!!
I work at the Hartford in commercial insurance...I wish it was 9 to 5, my schedule is 10:30 to 7, which I guess is okay for me right now cause I like to sleep late and we don't have any kids yet. I've only been there for going on 9 months now so I'll switch schedules to an earlier one sometime in the near future. I definitely sympathize with you call center ladies, my job is considered call center as well. It's the second one I've worked in this one is a much more lower volume than my last job so I'm happy about that but phones still gets kind of old some days. Luckily I talk to business owners and their agents so they're not as bad as regular customers and it's a small stepping stone to maybe becoming an underwriter (we'll see, I'm not too sure on that point yet) I worked in credit cards before and it was a nightmare! I'm going to try to get back into school to get my Masters but I have to decide which degree I want to use first, I have one in English and one in International Relations. I've been toying with the idea of being a librarian because I would just love it. I work M-F and I'm off weekends yay but those two days go by SO FAST :(
I also keep all sorts of data to make them look good. *grins*
lol
often its lazy buggers who've been on benefits all their lives yet keep having more children (with different surnames) and complaining they don't get enough money (my damn tax pounds) and the idiots in charge are always changing the rules we have to work by. I SO need a new job!
Basically I like building 'homes' and keeping them happy and safe places. 
