What's your work 2023?

[Narz]

I asked this like 10 years ago I think (and iirc around 10 years before that as well) but this forum is like birth control, very anti-bump, so I started a new one.

Job, side hustle, businesses, real estate, investments, twitch streaming, trust fund, pension, benefit/dole, domestic work, retired, youre a kid and still in school, whathaveyou

Also do you like what you do? And what are your aspirations careerwise?

I'm always curious the myriad ways people survive.

 

[Farm Boy]

I grow food(yes, your right, despite). I need a side hustle, but I'm trying to decide if the regular economy combined with my late wife's sister would provide better insurance + economy for my son enough for me to butt out. I suppose the next couple will show.

 

[Quintillus]

I'm a software developer. Probably not a big surprise since I write Civ3 modding utilities.

I'm good at it and I like it as long as I can work with other people (hard to find post-pandemic, but I did eventually find somewhere where I can work with real humans in a real office), and so long as there isn't too much bureaucracy and politics. The current gig is a bit high on the politics scale so it's TBD whether I'll stick around for another year.

I'm a lot more likely to change careers now than I was pre-pandemic since a lot of white collar jobs, but especially in IT, went remote, and that doesn't work for me. Not entirely sure what I would switch into though. Maybe a science lab position?

No side hustles (although that might change this year). I live below my means so I put savings into mutual funds. Boring, but predictable over the long term. Also requires little attention and does not tend to cause stress.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Retired. No side hustles. Clean bathrooms, feed cats, weed the yard, wash dishes, moderate CFC, read books, etc.

 

[sophie]

I work as an asset and inventory manager for a fairly large department at a university. Definitely not what I saw myself doing ten years ago, but I’m really enjoying it, and the pay and benefits are so far above what I’ve been getting this far in my life that it still doesn’t really seem real to me.

 

[Plains-Cow]

pushing buttons

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Renovate. Property Magnate.

 

[H4run]

Nice thread, let's see what do I do in 2023, hmmmm, I got fired from my job on 2022 10 December and that helps me enter 2023 as a new person, with a new vision and a new plan. So, currently I'm working on online-shop more seriously, trying to understand things that I never care and frown upon like TikTok, trends, Instagram, filters, photos and video editing, That's my jabs basically. Now I got a hidden overhand to sucker punch my luck for the better, there are a couple of businesses that are currently in discussion, like coconut charcoal cricket export or poultry system business, but I don't hold high hope on that, it's haymaker, you connect then you got a jackpot, you missed that? no worries, keep working on the jabs, that's life.

 

[The_J]

I'm a software developer. Probably not a big surprise since I write Civ3 modding utilities.

I'm good at it and I like it as long as I can work with other people (hard to find post-pandemic, but I did eventually find somewhere where I can work with real humans in a real office), and so long as there isn't too much bureaucracy and politics. The current gig is a bit high on the politics scale so it's TBD whether I'll stick around for another year.

I'm a lot more likely to change careers now than I was pre-pandemic since a lot of white collar jobs, but especially in IT, went remote, and that doesn't work for me. Not entirely sure what I would switch into though. Maybe a science lab position?

No side hustles (although that might change this year). I live below my means so I put savings into mutual funds. Boring, but predictable over the long term. Also requires little attention and does not tend to cause stress.

Yeah... this doesn't surprise me .




I'm a researcher at an university hospital. The job is good, you're hard to replace. In general interesting work (hopefully all research is interesting), and normally quite some freedom with rather little responsibility. The income is a good part above the average wage here, which is quite good also if you consider this is a public institution. I guess I could earn more money in industry, which I might do at some point. There are no further career options right now for me at my current work, but that's alright, I have not many amibitions right now and prefer to focus more to work on my private life. Might change in a few years, you never know.

 

[Arwon]

Continuing to be employed in my fulltime public sector numbers and spreadsheets job