What do you do for a living?

[danielsan]

Not sure if this has been posted before - I don't remember if it has - but with people posting up pics of themselves in the other thread it made me realise that you're all real people and must do something to pass the time so was wondering what you do for a living.

I generally imagine everyone's got fantastically interesting jobs so will inevitably end up disappointed when I find out you all work at B&Q but anyway, I'll start off. I'm an TV sports Assistant Producer currently working on a cricket show. Next??

[Lady Beaner]

Yeh there is a thread on this somewhere... but I'll be damned if I can use the search function without falling over and convulsing!

Edit: Oh, sorry... some people already know what I do. I'm a pimpette in adult services and dating sites.

[supinebeing]

i am also an assistant producer for bbc digital radio what a small world huh

[quadraspazzed]

dolescum mostly

[Artemis]

I generally imagine everyone's got fantastically interesting jobs

Why?!!

My job is unnecessary. I've already paid all my rent up until when I leave Manchester in August and I have enough money for bills and living quite nicely between now and then. Everything I earn is savings which I'll blow recklessly on drugs and prostitutes in the land of down under. To obtain this money, I sell my soul for four hours a day to a high street bank in a call centre, trying to help people who have exceeded their overdraft limit or missed loan payment(s). It's not exactly what I dream for in a job but I'm paid handsomely and since my working schedule begins at 5pm, I can't really complain.

[Murdo]

I run (into the ground) a property inspection service for a certain council. I'm desperately trying to get out of it however by applying for any job that'll take me.

[mrpants]

I'll start off. I'm an TV sports Assistant Producer currently working on a cricket show. Next??

i am also an assistant producer for bbc digital radio what a small world huh

I'm a dubbing mixer/ sound editor - hooray for media cunts!  Pass the coke will you?

[Burberry Ape]

My job is caring for teenagers who have autism / behavourial syndromes / epilepsy and all that jazz - it's very stressful and exhausting but rewarding and well paid AND the countryside surrounding the Centre is beautiful; I've never had a job before where you step outside for your lunchbreak and see baby lambs jumping around playing together in the glorious sunshine.

A far cry from painting and decorating, my previous daily grind.

[Neville Chamberlain]

I was going to think of a highly witty response in which I would proclaim to be the head of NASA or the Labour MP for Blackburn North, but I'm not. I am in fact a translator of German technical/marketing/software documentation for a Stuttgart-based translation company. So there.

[Lanky]

I proofread food packaging. At night. Well, someone has to.

[danielsan]

I'll start off. I'm an TV sports Assistant Producer currently working on a cricket show. Next??

i am also an assistant producer for bbc digital radio what a small world huh

I'm a dubbing mixer/ sound editor - hooray for media cunts!  Pass the coke will you?

Oooh, we don't do coke in Sport. We all play football, drink energy drinks and quiz each other on who won the FA Cup in 1965. Nobody even smokes!

[buttgammon]

It's Liverpool. Can I join you people in sport if you let me have a fag every now and then?

[danielsan]

It's Liverpool. Can I join you people in sport if you let me have a fag every now and then?

You are correct!! No fags for you until you can name the other years they won it!

[buttgammon]

Ah, well. I don't smoke anyway so that wouldn't really bother me.

[Sam]

I'm a full time student, about to finish my third and final year of my degree. I also work in a classical music specialist CD shop, part time.

[surreal]

I'm a web developer, hacking C# / ASP.Net 2.0 at the moment....

[mook]

I used to build lovely things, now it's just cunt hutches on the south coast for people with too much money and no taste. It pays the bills though.

[supinebeing]

I'll start off. I'm an TV sports Assistant Producer currently working on a cricket show. Next??

i am also an assistant producer for bbc digital radio what a small world huh

I'm a dubbing mixer/ sound editor - hooray for media cunts!  Pass the coke will you?

Oooh, we don't do coke in Sport. We all play football, drink energy drinks and quiz each other on who won the FA Cup in 1965. Nobody even smokes!

yo mrpants meet you in the bogs with the naked bitches and gak, danielsan, come and play some watersports with your bredrin

[Evil Knevil]

Hired goon.
I proof read and produce academic or encyclopedia articles on a freelance basis. I also do some freelance translating.

 Basically, every now and then somebody calls me up and asks me to do something involving writing about the Arab world and I get a deadline. It's a horrible, hand-to-mouth affair, although I'm sure it sounds fun to some people. Its a constant compromise between principle and starvation. Also, I write very very slowly, so everything I do is a slog.

For example, I was recently tasked to write an article on Algerian culture for a highschool textbook... but my initial draft was rejected because I mentioned the French occupation and the resulting massive changes (death, famine, destruction of tribes) that it brought about.
If you knew anything about Algerian history, you'd be a shocked as me.

[quadraspazzed]

For example, I was recently tasked to write an article on Algerian culture for a highschool textbook... but my initial draft was rejected because I mentioned the French occupation and the resulting massive changes (death, famine, destruction of tribes) that it brought about.
If you knew anything about Algerian history, you'd be a shocked as me.

Can't say I'm an expert in the field, but yes that is rather strange. Like writing about Irish trad music without mentioning the British. Bizarre. As you say 'highschool' I'm wondering if this was for a US textbook by any chance?

[Evil Knevil]

For example, I was recently tasked to write an article on Algerian culture for a highschool textbook... but my initial draft was rejected because I mentioned the French occupation and the resulting massive changes (death, famine, destruction of tribes) that it brought about.
If you knew anything about Algerian history, you'd be a shocked as me.

Can't say I'm an expert in the field, but yes that is rather strange. Like writing about Irish trad music without mentioning the British. Bizarre. As you say 'highschool' I'm wondering if this was for a US textbook by any chance?

Correctamundo. how did you know that?

[quadraspazzed]

Just the combination of 'highschool' and flagrant disregard for historical context! :D

[ccab]

I'm an assassin.

[the midnight watch baboon]

I wrap surgical instruments in special paper then sterilise them. I have done this for 2 weeks.

[Burberry Ape]

Yes, but what do you do for a living?

[the midnight watch baboon]

Generally I've been getting by on payouts to leave companies, idiot injury benefit and parent sponging. (I got given money by my folks, I don't bed-bathe people's parents for cash). Hehehehhe!

[hencole]

By day I'm an AV technican and deputy manager at a hospital conference centre. By night I sleep.

[extradave]

I'm a building services engineer. I argue with architects and builders all day long.

[solidified gruel merchant]

I'm a gardener on a lovely 1000 acre estate. Which is nice.

[Still Not George]

I'm a games programmer with a small firm here in Aber. I specialise (somewhat against my will) in file format converters and animation refinements.