What do you do irl?

[Erik Mynhier]

Was having a chat with a buddy lastnight and got on the topic of careers. Pretty interesting since we had never really talk about it and honestly I never pictured him doing what he does.

 

So now I turn the question to you who are willing to chat about that which pays for our addiction. What sort of work do you do irl?

 

I am a nurse in an end of life facility. My job is to bring comfort and courage to those about to take the great adventure. I find it hard and fulfilling as people at the end unburden their souls to us (the staff) and I feel blessed to help.

[Nebbs]

From my Enjin page

 

Mature RPer of many forms.

 

From CompuServe and BBs, excesive amounts of table top, played and created LARP, and more recently MMORPGs.

 

To fund my life I lead Enterprise Architecture teams, which means I get to draw pictures on whiteboards.

 

As I will be writing much here I should mention I am Dyslexic.

[Aaron]

I've done a lot of jobs. From Wal-Mart to small business graphic design and photography (amateurish but I got paid for time example being getting paid 300 for following someone around snapping pictures all day lol)

 

But currently I work at a animal shelter. The same place I got my little doggie from.

[Zaiaku]

I'm the person every one hates. I work for a private company that runs a lot of parking lots in my city. If you dont pay to park I will cite and tow your vehicle.

[Arter Wood]

Absolutely nothing ᕙ (° ~͜ʖ~ °) ᕗ

 

ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ I'm just in college for Accounting, looking for a job as well.

[shotgunbadger]

Currently in school to become a funeral director myself. Not exactly the cheeriest job but it's very fulfilling. I volunteer at an animal shelter on free time.

[ChewableMorphine]

Construction.

 

Going into the military after uni.

[Manari]

I am an IT person for a pizza corporation based in mostly Illinois with some franchises locations in Indiana. I'm mostly on the software side of the IT department, mostly specializing in problems the store managers have with their point of sale systems with a large portion of my time being taken by having to manually log into each of our 35 location's main database servers using Logmein client and build each and every one of their coupons and specials by hand each and every month... because we currently have no way to enter them here at the corporate office and push them out to all the stores!

 

Oh well, job security

[ＧＲＡＶＥＭＡＮ]

I uh.... I make grenades.

 

No joke.

[Aaron]

I uh.... I make grenades.

 

No joke.

Can we trade jobs?

[Aysun]

I'm a Medical Laboratory Scientist (the Bachelor's degree kind). You know, that medical profession no one has heard of but is involved in about 70-80% of all medical decisions?

 

I work in an independent reference laboratory in the Microbiology department. Our lab services a lot of small hospitals in the area as well as retirement homes and clinics. Basically, if your doctor takes a swab or sample to look for infection, I get that swab and we culture it, and identify what's causing the infection. We also do antibiotic susceptibility testing, which helps the doctor know how to treat the infection.

 

It's a great career.

[Steel Wolf]

I'm a supervisor for the Accommodations department of a casino. Been doing this sort of work for around 8 or 9 years now, but only with my current enterprise for about 3.

 

Hardly a snazzy job, but we are the beating heart of the resort. If we falter, the whole damn thing crashes out....but if we run well then nobody notices. :3

[Erik Mynhier]

Just chiming in at work to say you guys are as cool and varied as hell.

 

#coolpeople

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I work for the Devil itself a Comcast company. we steal clients from TicketMaster with our superior product and customer service

[Vali]

Customer service representative at a supermarket

[Jonexe]

Atmospheric research for the USAF; particularly in the area of international nuclear treaty monitoring.

[Blue]

Formerly horse trainer, now jobless. I'm currently working on improving my formation in the hope to rise my job offers ratio. I'd still like to work around horses, but at this point, I'll take anything..

[Reshie]

Previously I worked for Right from the Start Medicaid in Georgia. I'm now a house wife going back to school for a second degree in Accounting... cause my first one could only get me a job working for Medicaid... and dealing with DFCS. School for the win!

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

i watch erik's voidsent while he's at work ;p

 

basically i'm not working atm while our younger daughter is still little but i've done a loooot of retail management and medical office work in the past. .-----.

[ShoggMommy]

Currently full time student for commercial photography, two more semesters then done.

I've been published in several editorials. I'm also a freelance illustrator to bring in a bit of money over summer breaks.

 

Ideally once I'm finished I'll be working commercially or working as a digital tech. Both are pretty enjoyable.

[Leggerless]

Currently a full time student in industrial engineering.

[U'roh Tia]

I'm ashamed to admit this. I work at McDonalds... -runs off hiding in the corner-

[Kellach Woods]

Currently in a temporary position as Senior Administrator (a fancy title for what is essentially Test Lead but we don't want to pay you Test Lead) in Functionality QA for Keywords/Babel Montreal.

 

and i've probably just outed myself to anyone who knows what all of this is.

 

Yes i have my name in really little in various vidja games (...4 to be exact, and 2 of them are ports)

[Stormsrage00]

I'll pipe in next

 

I'm a process controls engineer that works for Fisher Controls International. I engineer control valves and regulators that keep power plants and the like from going boom. If there's a fluid flow that needs to be controlled in the southwest United States, I've probably engineered a valve for it!

[Gegenji]

I've mentioned it in passing in a few places, but I'm a contract programmer. My company finds people who need programmers, hook me up for an interview with them, and - if I impress them - I go work for them writing code for a while.

 

Currently, I'm doing work for a county in Maryland. Most of the code has been deciphering and trying to complete unfinished code done by other folks (which I've complained about quite a bit in the HUMANITY WHY thread), but I've also worked on a couple from-scratch projects (which I probably also complained about). I'm also snagged pretty often for testing applications, though they are often confused by what being a tester MEANS - the people who coded the application often try to get me to get the source code and make the fixes myself (not what a tester does).

 

I can't complain too much, though. Deadlines are mostly flexible, most of the unfinished stuff I get is usually just a few bits away from being done, and I get a decent bit of downtime between said projects to sorta hang out watching YouTube videos and (occasionally) doing some studying on stuff like Project Management. :blush: