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I am a Sr Technical PM at Intel Corp. I LOVE my work as it is varied and challenging. Today I built a BIOS, tested it on the next generation platform, wrote up defects (and debugged them) and made sure there were test cases. I also supervised the contractors in the lab, played a game of nerf gun wars with my peers, went to the gym and a free movie. Tomorow, I will build an application, prepare a presentation for next week's status meeting and leave early to go see my shrink. My job rocks.

I work as a janitor and I like my job. I move around at work so it keeps me active and it's in routine, sometimes a change occurs like I have to do someone else's work because they are out of town or called in sick or whatever. Good thing this is my last week because I have been in pain since 3AM this morning off and on. Dumb contractions.

I have not had a job since 2005. I have had 3 jobs total, two of which lasted less than a year, one slightly more than. I have started and stopped college 3 or 4 times. Someday I would like to have a job again. I feel like there are a lot of viable options, but none with sustainability for me. It's frustrating.

Software implementation and pilot testing.

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What's employment? Nah, seriously, modern slavery doesn't suit me.

I do visual effects and motion graphics for a small advertising agency / industrial film company. If a nice closing animation is needed to show the company logo at the end of the film, it falls to me. If someone shot an interview and there's a sesame seed stuck to his lip, but they really need that shot, I get to erase the seed. Need to composite someone shot against a greensceen over a new background; that's what I do. I also do a bit of photography and post processing on the images.

The boring part of my job is when I get stuck doing technical support stuff like the other day when the editor output a film and the bottom half of the image was cut off for no apparent reason (I suspect it's a codec issue) I often end up fixing things that no one can figure out why they've gone wrong.

Big databases. Logistics industry. Delivering the cheap and nasty Chinese made consumer tat no-one can survive without.

Im a freelance translator. For this my perfectionism is useful, and the biggest challenge is the communication with the constituents. Sometimes I use half an hour to write 3 lines when delivering a job.
Its not my dream job, but its much better than a job with fixed working hours and coworkers.
I also cant complain about the payment

I was a cleaner (janitor) for many years. I then finished a pharmacy degree and worked as a pharmacist for ~ 3 years until drug abuse and anxiety issues forced me to quit. I'm unemployed now.

I work in IT doing records modernization/knowledge management. I love it, but it is not for everybody.

I am retired now.

When I was working I did applied mathematics and software.

ruveyn