What do you do for a living?

I'm a med aid at a nursing home for people with Alzheimer's and dementia.

 

A clog in the military industrial complex.

 

I started working as soon as I was old enough at sixteen and paid for everything I needed myself except for bills. I lived on the streets, sometimes without a job. I know what hard work is. I don't have a legit job because I don't have time and my boyfriend prefers me to keep the house, which is work whether you believe it or not. I work, just not in the same way as most. And if you read correctly, I do work in a machine shop. It's just that I work when I feel like it because my boyfriend is the owner and it's a family business.

Kids should not have to worry about work until sixteen. At that point it should be merely for the values it teaches you more than making money. All a kid should be worried about is doing right by their family, doing good in school, and having fun. We do start kids to young. Families don't take care of each other like they should anymore. If you need the money, maybe when the kid is eighteen they should contribute, but until then no. They will have to pay bills for the rest of their lives. They should be able to look back and remember a fun, carefree childhood. Too many parents just boot their kid out the second they turn eighteen. There's too much "I can't wait until you're eighteen." There isn't enough of everyone in the family working together.

 

Hey ... stop worrying him, Ty. Falling never killed anyone.


(Landing did, of course ...)


As for what I do ... I work for a lawyer. All day typing letters and documents and photocopying and filing. Whoopee!!! But it pays the bills ...

 

I found myself wondering what people around here do for a career, so I thought I'd bump this thread, just to see if anything is new/changed.

 

I sell new Fords at the highest volume Ford dealership in my city.

 

I work one day a week as a cheese courier (this day) and am fucking tired! That's the curse of not getting in a routine I like it a lot, I like the short interactions with the people, the driving around the province, helping out my parents (who produce said cheese).

Do you enjoy your work with those kids, YouFreeMe? It sounds intensive (not always bad, could be very satisfying)!

 

what do you do, youfreeme?

I stumbled into a job doing insurance billing earlier this year - its really exposed me to the dark side of health care but I fancy myself a bit of a patient advocate. I find I actually enjoy arguing with insurance companies in order to get a claim paid for a patient. Eventually I would like to really get more into the patient advocacy side of things, but I need to explore career options in that type of work.

 

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and Heaven knows I'm miserable now

 

Some days I feel like my bosses personal arse wiper. I do admin. work in the healthcare world for the most part, but whatever needs to be done....I DO IT! "My job is to do & die & not to ask the reason why." Pah...yeah right!

 

Sounds like a worthy task but also like it could be intense and at times frustrating..! It's great that you find satisfaction in that job Do you still plan to look into beekeeping? Me too btw.

What kind of job?

 

http://youtu.be/TaUUYV7wKos

 

Ah right Thanks!

 

i dream for a living. its how i figure out how to do things. it doesn't look as productive as some people seem to think everyone else owes them to be. but it very definitely avoids making everything worse. which it has always been my morality to avoid doing. as much ever and however i was allowed to and could. i've always sought the most harmless tasks. sometimes they've been the most simple and humble ones. and as often as not, i've had to get by on what i put aside when i had one. a very non-spectacular life it has been, in any visible sense. and yet i have kept myself reasonably presentable in appearance, more then sufficient to remain inconspicuous. and now finally, in my age, i've a bit of a pension, to keep shelter and sustenance, something much too much of my life before, was spent in anxiety of.

there are lots of things that i do. always have been. all that i've been able i've continued doing. almost none of them "for a living" though.
they all involve creating or exploring, in one form or another.

links to examples i have posted before. they can be found if looked for. you won't find any of them on etsy. i've yet to take commissions. not completely against it. but i do refuse to put myself in positions of anxiety as long as i can avoid to.

 

"through dreams i influence mankind"

 

ghetto taxi driver..

 

I'm a developer with a tech company for the travel industry. I really enjoy it; it combines my two longest loves, traveling and gadgets. I'd recommend it if you're good with logic and like interesting problems. The demands great, and the amount you can learn is limitless.

I never saw myself as a programmer before I started writing code. Abstractly it seems almost dull. As soon as I wrote my first line of code, I became hooked. I think it's a combination of love of good problems, and a bit of megalomania. If information is power, and you can be it's captain... It's pure creation.

 

I'm an educator and work with young children. It's very rewarding and I get to speak french all day.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAs9UxClOFk



Hotwater

 

I've got a job type job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0_XCfxHyg

But basically I don't like posting tmi about myself on the interwebz