So, what do you do already for a living?

[Yeeek]

Took a few pictures this past week of what I'm currently working on at my job. I'm not really sure what is the proper word in english, lets say i'm a woodworker. It goes from furnitures for your homes, offices and what not to more.. exotics things such as follow :

This is probably the most important part, sticking everything together. The use of clamps is crucial for the wood glue. Not only that, if you don't do it right, ie bad use of the clamps, all the work of you have done thus far will be lost.






Hmm? Yeah it seems to have worked! Still work-in progress through. Will be done this week and post a pic of it finished.






But what is it? Well, it is a Dutch Sjoelbak! You can read more about it right here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjoelbak


Here is now something I worked on a while ago. Yes, its a truck! Not the kind of thing i work on every days. Was quite hard actully, hopefully the lil boy who has it now is happy with it.







I did not work on this, but thought I would share it with you. To show you the range of the things we do.



Took those the day they came at the office to pick it up, from the back :



This is the person who has worked on it, Andrej.

 

[Phlegmak]

I'm a programmer. I hate the place I'm working at. I desperately need to find a new job.

 

[puglover]

I'm a sample server at a small kiosk at the mall. Good job to have in high school, as I make $7 an hour just for handing out samples and smiling.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I'm currently a joiner. If there's woodrot of some kind in a house, it's my job to rip out the area and replace it. Smashing walls with a sledgehammer is my speciality

That said, work has dried up at the moment, and I only took the job to help out my Dad. I'm looking for something more simple now - shopwork was fun when I did it before, or even just some simple filing for a year or so.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

i'm unemployed right now, but i will have a small job soon, idk what.

i may work at the local record shop.

but in a few years i'll hopefully work at my friend's record label. and a record shop too.

 

[downtown]

I am a Musician...I perform with my blues band (www.myspace.com/theaceshighband) on a regular basis, and I also give drum lessons, and give clinics at various schools. I've also been brought in to tune and set up percussion equipment.

This isn't what I'm going to school for...and I'm aware that my chances of "making" it as a musican are very very slim (although I am toying with the idea of grabbing a business degree along with my poly sci degre...go into intellectual propety law and go into the actual music BUSINESS)...so I'm studying political science. I am debating if I ought to go to law school, or grad school for Public Administration/Business.

I recently completed an internship in local government (working with Economic Development), and I loved it. I might go back and work this summer and actually get paid.

 

[Nylan]

self employed in a lawn service, not hugely profitable but I pick my hours and salary, which is all my educational schedule will allow . It's only a small step above unemployed.

I'm considering going into journalism or political science, and will be participating in a mock-government at the State Capitol this summer

 

[ComradeDavo]

I work part time in a wine shop and still live at home.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I work part time in a wine shop and still live at home.

Don't build it up, you work in bloody Threshers

 

[Drewcifer]

For the next month I am a chef, I've put in my notice at my job though so after that it is glorious unemployment, probably followed by another chef position.

When you are the head chef of a large restaurant you don't spend much time actually cooking. There are 26 people working in my kitchen and I spend an aweful lot of time trying to make them all happy about being here, working out differences between them and trying to fill their heads with as much cooking knowledge as possible. A big part of being a sucessful chef is getting your cooks heads in the right place for them to work at the highest level possible; it is like being the coach of a sports team. Much of the rest of my time is spend organizing the logistics of making the kitchen go, ordering the 500+ ingredients it takes to execute our menu, scheeming to get better prices out of our purveyors, looking for hard to find products (like organic semolina flour or trans fat free shortening), making sure stuff gets cleaned properly, paperwork, getting the right plates to the right tables in the right order and generally making the trains run on time.

I prep the dinner specials, besides that the only cooking I do is when somebody gets hurt, is sick or is on vacation. I miss it but I don't have the time.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

I don't make a living, lol

 

[CaptainF]

Professionally unemployed.

 

[Ansar]

Professionally unemployed.

Sounds like a job that requires a lot of experience...

 

[Ramius75]

IT manager and investor.

 

[CaptainF]

Sounds like a job that requires a lot of experience...

Haha!

With how little money I spend, and how cheap I am, it does require experience!

 

[Dann]

Architect at a real estate consultancy firm.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

Computer support engineer.

 

[Maimonides]

I'm not really sure what is the proper word in english, lets say i'm a woodworker.

The word in English is carpenter.

I am a Musician...I perform with my blues band (www.myspace.com/theaceshighband) on a regular basis, and I also give drum lessons, and give clinics at various schools. I've also been brought in to tune and set up percussion equipment.

Very cool. I played the skins in a rock band for six years. Very hard to make a living at it. Good luck!

My answer is here.

 

[Grisu]

I'm a Java Programmer, pretty interesting job, I just wish it would pay better, but it's ok

 

[blackheart]

College student