StarBird
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Age: 22
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Location: California
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If you have a job, what is it? What do you do? Do you like it?
If you don't have a job, what job would you like to have?
I am an English tutor at my college. Basically, I do whatever the professor tells me to do which is usually help students with grammar questions or facilitating group discussions about in-class readings. Though I am often dealing with groups of people, which isn't my favorite thing in the world, I find that I do like my job very much. In a world where I tend to keep to myself and feel useless, it's nice to feel important sometimes.
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oddness
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Joined: Apr 20, 2011
Posts: 81
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| Im female and an engineer. I spend most of my time doing calculations and designing the lighting and power for buildings. I like the predictable parts of my job which are 80% of the time, these are when Im using the same equations to calculate the same things just in different buildings. Sometimes I have to visit places to survey what lighting they have and I always find this a bit daunting and spend most of the time watching what is going on around me and how people are interacting when I know I should be concentrating on what Im surveying. I think most of the engineers in my office (there's 12 of us) are on the spectrum. Im the only female but I feel I fit in because because Im as socially adept or not as the rest of the people there. |
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cathylynn
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Joined: Aug 25, 2011
Posts: 2024
Location: northeastern US
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i'm a social worker. working with people is a joy and also a drain. i can handle this job because i get plenty of alone time to recharge. there is no high like the high that comes with helping someone.
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Giggity
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Joined: Nov 02, 2011
Age: 25
Posts: 4
Location: Victoria, Australia
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I'm a personal trainer. I screen people, put together a exercise routine, coach them through it, motivate them, give nutritional advice, etc.
I like the helping people part but I just can't talk to people properly. I don't have a very energetic personality. I'm just not a people person.
I'm thinking about studying Biomedical Science and getting in to lab work. |
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kirayng
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Joined: Nov 13, 2011
Age: 36
Posts: 745
Location: Maine, USA
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| line cook, will do only pastry in a few years, would also like to be a chemist. |
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kritie
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Feb 11, 2012
Posts: 35
Location: USA
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| Tax attorney. I love my job because I basically get paid to solve logic puzzles all day long. |
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krampus
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Age: 37
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| IT guy specializing in test data management and gets to write SQL all day. I'm the guy that writes the tough queries for everyone. |
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CoMF
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Joined: Feb 08, 2012
Posts: 328
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| Back when I was still working, I had a job as an industrial maintenance mechanic which I thoroughly enjoyed because I worked alone most of the time and had a fair degree of autonomy. |
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semikaatskillian
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Joined: Jan 28, 2012
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Location: USA
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| Computer programmer, sometimes euphemistically called "Software Engineer". |
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jinto1986
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Joined: Sep 29, 2011
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| Respite/hab worker... I like it well enough. Pays decently, but I can't get more than part-time hours as I am male. Basically males can't get a female client or a client under the age of 6 because we are all assumed to be perverts. So I can get afternoon-evening hours, but that is only about 4 a day a few times a week. Not enough for full time hours, barely enough for half-time hours. During the summer it should be better because my client will be out of school, as will other potential clients. |
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amazon_television
whatever feels good is good
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Age: 30
Posts: 1400
Location: the chamber of spectacular death
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Finally got a state job as a mental health specialist.
I've been interning at this place for what seems like forever (on and off since 9/09 as I've been working on masters, I don't even have it yet but...) it finally worked out.
Stoked to have a chance to for the first time make some genuinely OK money for someone who's 29 and has a bachelor's degree and plenty of experience.
Stoked more so to be at a place I'm familiar with and can step in from day one kicking ass with zero learning curve.
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luvsterriers
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Joined: Sep 03, 2009
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Location: Fairfax, VA
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:08 am Post subject: Re: What job do you have? |
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| StarBird wrote: | If you have a job, what is it? What do you do? Do you like it?
If you don't have a job, what job would you like to have?
I am an English tutor at my college. Basically, I do whatever the professor tells me to do which is usually help students with grammar questions or facilitating group discussions about in-class readings. Though I am often dealing with groups of people, which isn't my favorite thing in the world, I find that I do like my job very much. In a world where I tend to keep to myself and feel useless, it's nice to feel important sometimes. |
I do have a job. I'm a GIS analyst. It's ok, but right now its stressful due to the new Census coming out. So 2020 it will be very busy again with redistricting plans.
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/
I been with this job since June 2002. I'm a contractor, not an actual DOJ employee.
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Quadesh
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Joined: Mar 14, 2012
Age: 41
Posts: 11
Location: Look on the map, i'm near the Arrow
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I'm a Process Coordinator by the DOJ in Holland.
What i do is figuring out easier ways for people to do there work. I like the figuring out part but not so much the explaining it to people.
Most of the time i work for a couple of weeks on a department and see how they work, then i go to my office and do allot of thinking and calculating. Its not a part of my work to make sure they can do the work with less people but to make it saver and faster. |
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Khaibit
Emu Egg
Joined: Mar 16, 2012
Age: 30
Posts: 8
Location: Portland, OR
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| I work in a call center, which is not great for someone who has lousy social skills and hates talking on the phone, but as long as I stick pretty much to my call script or the scripts I have in my head, it's really okay. My boss has an appreciation for bright, detail-obsessed people, so that helps. |
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CrazyCatLord
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Joined: Oct 25, 2011
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| I'm an early retiree and get paid a little over 1k € a month for doing nothing all day. That's the one part of my life that doesn't suck. |
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