What do you do for a living?

I hire and train crisis actors

then i join forums and promote the fake news threads

on the side im a plastic surgeon who gives the succesful actors news faces for their next assignment (weekends only)

 

Not sure if we are collegues or competitors.

 

Are you currently holding auditions? I am very interested in working as a crisis actor. I am pretty dramatic, and can fake cry on command and wail like a banshee after losing a fake loved one in a terrorist attack.

 

I act on behalf, and service, the queen----so I am on call 24 - 7. I have to be ready to act on a moments notice, no matter how risky, demeaning, or mundane the job is. Weather is not a consideration on whether the job can be done or not. Nor is illness. Generally I am on the move every 2 to 5 minutes. I could be fast asleep at 4:00 am, and suddenly have to swing into action.

Sometimes I wonder why I ever married her...

 

...oh, you mean, more like career wise.

Generally I will wake up---about the time I finally get my eyes open----eat some breakfast (or lunch if appropriate), shower, and whatever else helps me actually wake up. Eventually I will get over to Starbucks where I sit and watch the people, and write. Eventually I will make my way back home, where I will eat, watch tv, and then sit up late writing again----until I decide I can't really keep my eyes open anymore.

Then I will go to bed.

Or at least, I used to think that was how a typical day might go, trying to write books------sometimes I actually do have days like that. But most days, unless we are travelling, are more like what I described in my previous post...

Some days I'm lucky if I even make it to Starbucks...

 

That's nice, the formality of nice dress seems superfluous. I'm lucky to have a very limited dress code. Most of the staff wear yoga pants and hoodies. I usually do jeans and sweaters, I'll add a nice blouse if I have an important meeting.

 

For the last 35 years I've been fishing for halibut and Sable fish (black cod) in Alaska.

 

If I haven't said, I've been a mother and grandmother for the last 33 1/2 years.

 

Yoga pants at work should be obligatory.

 

I also am the Vice Chairman, Treasurer, and token white boy for a small nonprofit that helps Native Americans---our main focus is protecting and promoting Native Spiritual traditions, so we will help fund ceremony, or help a medicine man get to ceremony or whatever the case is. For example, medicine men tend to be very poor. If someone asks a specific medicine man on a reservation in South Dakota to come do ceremony for them in Denver, Colorado, but the medicine man's truck is broken down, we'll get him the money to fix it, for example. Typically the family in Denver may not have the money for it either---so we get him down to do ceremony. We also have done toy drives, and food drives and stuff to help the Denver Indian Center and to get toys and food and clothing up to the rez. I am trying to think of something we could do for the very serious issue of youth suicide on the rez. It is epidemic.

We are a very small non profit, so none of us get paid for anything. On the other hand, we do get to have cermonies such as vision quests and the sun dance financed for our own spiritual adviser---a medicine man.

A typical somewhat small sun dance could cost $5,000 - $7,000 to do. The site has to be mowed and cleared, food provided, a security detail to keep out trouble makers and troublesome animals (rattlesnakes, coyotes, bears, etc) latrines or port-a-potties have to be set up, materials, and all kinds of things. Then the dancers might need gas or transportation to get there. A sundance is a sacred ceremony so no one should have to pay to go or participate.

 

Sounds great, MVWolf! Damn around 6000 dollars for a proper sun dance ritual...? And they used to cost no dollars back in the day (I understand times and circumstances change, just thinking out loud )

 

east coast rain so not very much at the moment

 

Was randomly checking out this thread and saw this.

A prophetic post for Mr. Spiff?

 

i give the government a reason to exist,
which is their way of thanking me for something i did for them a long time ago,
that i didn't volunteer for having to do, but did volunteer for the way i did it instead.

and if that makes no sense, this is good.
translation my non-service connected anxiety disorder disability.

which enables me to spend my time making the kind of art i like to see,
without doing so having to be about money, which i could never live with the stress of if it did.

(what i did for them was being in the airforce when i would have liked to have been at woodstock instead)

there are however, a lot of different things i've done for a living over the course of my life.
and i never knew i was elegable for this until after my wife died.

the best job i ever had was the year or so i spent working for the railroad,
before and after that, mostly odd little jobs having to do with resteraunts,
and some having to do with geology.
the longest i'd ever held the same job was several years of kitchen work for a buffette resteraunt.
also worked in the coin room of a casino, back in the days when one armed bandents took real coins.

even did some farm labor a couple of different times.
best of those was in a strawberry packing shed.

drove a truck for a while. not common carrier, but equipment hauler.
apprenticed on a large truck mounted backhoe kind of a thing.

but anyway, all that's in my past now.
i'm just an old guy who makes pictures of what i like to see pictures of and the kind of world i'd like to live in.

 

loser with no job

 

dream, explore, photography, martial arts, banker

 

I deliver genuine GM parts 47-49 hours a week

 

keep those Chevys running

 

I was a Salesman that both Ford and Chevrolet but decided to do something else. Selling cars is not the most honest business in the world even with new cars. The dealerships do so many things that the customer has no idea. I am not into screwing over people and no matter how hard you try they still make you lie if you want your job. Being a parts driver is way more respectable to me although now I make 3 times less than I did.

 

and another 8 hours delivering the fake parts.