I... Had a job at a "health food store." Really, I was surrounded by obnoxious hypocrites buying over-priced food. I got fired for calling some guy rude after he insulted me. That's what they get for making me work alone at the juice bar thing at 7.30 a.m. when I hadn't been taught to do anything.
A free-lance activist. Most of my life growing the sacraments of the psychedelic religion that I practice. When not doing that, working with water systems for outdoor music festivals. Currently drilling waterwells for people in Mozambique. Site logistics for enviromental protest actions.
I work as a "scanning technician". It sounds better than it is. I work in a hospital that is converting all it's paper records to an electronic medical record. If it is electronic, then the doctors, nurses, etc. can see the record on any computer through out the hospital- at the nurses stations, on the doctor's pda's, on the pull behind carts the nurses take to rooms, in the operating rooms, clinics, xray, etc. I put close to 1000 pages or more thru a scanner a day, look at each individual image (front and back) to check for copy quality, rescan bad images,then index them to a patient's medical record number and visit numbers, stamp them scanned, box them. Everything has to be perfect-- even though its not on paper it is a legal document. If I screwed up and for some reason a case went to court, I could get slammed and so could the hospital. I do quality checks for others. I also do lots of things not technically in my job. Fixing machines, cleaning machines, calling different departments to fix trillions of mistakes done by other departments (medical records is the end of the line for paper work, so we get stuck fixing EVERYTHING- nursing stuff, admissions stuff, etc). We do lots of testing for the software company and our IT dept (because our IT and software dept SUCKS ASS) I also do all the training for new scan techs because I've been the only one that has been there since the beginning of scanning. It's quite funny, I know more about the whole process than my supervisor too. I get at least 15 questions a day from her and her boss (why am I not getting more money??? ) Last month we had to fill out productivity reports for the whole month. Turns out I do over 2 times as much as the one other person that works the same shift as me, and like 4 times as much as the night shift. And the bosses are amazed. You know, you get a lot done when you aren't talking all day, or your cell phone isn't glued to your hand! Apparently I'm the only one that knows this!!!
Whatever you do, don't get into the food industry.. once you do, you'll never want to eat food served by another person again. But currently, I'm studying to become a classical guitarist. Pay is shit.. but I want to move to Brazil and study classical there. Pretty women is half the motivation
I work in a small coffee shop with other hippies. Its lots of fun and the pays not too bad. Im still in school and when I grow up I plan to make clothes and jewelery and sell it in a small peaceful town. For a year or two of my life after college (if I decide to go), I wanna travel all over the world and just see whats out there in life!
Now this thread is cool. Flag Hours, I was wondering about that too. Do they have a book that tells how long it takes to fix a TV that shuts down every 2 days or so? ZeppelinGirl, I feel for you ... ain't never done it myself, but have put my own experiences with OCR together with what I've heard about ST from a former secretary, and have come up with something less than the square root of 23. That has to be a bitch, She did the same BS with legal docs, I suppose with similar legal ramifactions. You should be proud of your productivity report, ain't too many people gonna trade in cell time for actual work Oh, and it's true about the food industry - I have a friend who worked at a frozen pizza factory for less than a year, and the meer mention of HotPockets makes his face turn red ....
It's fun to see how everyone spends their days... I am a Project Manager at a Large Insurance Company. (Auto Ins) I work in IT on Software Development Projects. Currently a project in which a legacy system is being replaced. I wasn't into going to college so six months out of high school I began at an entry level job at this company and over the last eight years have worked my way into this job. It's been a great ride. I've gotten to take part in some really cool stuff.
do the college thing, you don't HAVE to get a degree in a "job field." I did, but I wanted to write. Maybe some design, art, biz and marketing classes, or tourism, so you can run a profitable biz in a cool town.
also, I'm going to disagree with food service, just get real restaurant experience, not fast food. If you want to drift/travel, kitchen skills can feed you (cooks always eat, legally or not) for a long time. I've worked fest food, beer slinging (also a get a job anywhere skill), pizza. all good for getting a $20 out of your posterior when stranded, or into a show you could not afford.
wow, everyone has such neat jobs.....i work in pet grooming...bathing and clipping dogs....not very exciting, but i like it and it's something to do while i go to school (i'm gonna be a vet tech)
I manually masterbate endangered wildlife in captivity in order to artificially eseminate and protect their species
I work part time in an Art Gallery, and I was working part time behind a bar which was pretty fun and good money. In between all this I'm a student.
i work at subway as a sandwich artist. i'm currently looking for summer jobs- there are a bunch of hippie stores on haight street that i am applying to work at, as well as an awesome music store and a hippie restaraunt. i'm also interested in working at a tie dye company.
YO allister...i used to be a sandwich artist thats were most of us hippie kids try to work ahaha but now im currentally unemployed!
