What the hell do you do for a living?

[melancholy]

I'm working at Best Buy until I graduate from Ball State with my design degree. My boss at work is trying to help me hook up with some people on the corporate level so that when I graduate, I might just move to Minnesota and work for Best Buy's design house. But more than likely I'll end up just getting a small design job for some local studio instead.

[not just souLLy now]

I'm a multimedia Developer/DVD Author.
I work in a production/e-learning company and handle all the web/cd-rom/dvd stuff. It's fairly interesting stuff but now I've built templates for everything I do most of my time is spent copying and pasting, so not the most demanding or creative work, but it pays fairly well.
I also do freelance graphic/web design once in a while, not nearly enough to cover my bills but enough to pay for a few DVDs a month and a way to get out that stifled creativity in me I intend to actually do this full time in the future but at the moment I'm moving into my own flat and getting married in 7 weeks so job plans have gone out of the window right now.

[JellyWarrior]

By night I am a millionaire cowboy astronaut.

By day I run my own web development business.
I've been fairly small time for the past few years but it's exciting times at the moment because after a lot of planning and work I am about to go to the next level of my "master plan" (within the next month). It's gonna mean a whole lota work but also a whole lota fun too I hope.

[StriderXg2]

The position? Flying J truck stop/retail/restaurant manager. Better than instocking i suppose.

Also lets hear some crazy work stories, knowing the people on this forum there have to be a bunch of hilarious and crazy ones.

Yeah, id love to too, i even asked for that earlier when i started it, and i guess it got overlooked, in bold and all.

[Smiley]

I'm working a crappy job in retail right now.

[pixel]

I'm working at Best Buy until I graduate from Ball State with my design degree. My boss at work is trying to help me hook up with some people on the corporate level so that when I graduate, I might just move to Minnesota and work for Best Buy's design house. But more than likely I'll end up just getting a small design job for some local studio instead.

If you end up in Minnesota, I'm taking you out for drinks.

[az_bont]

I'm working at Best Buy until I graduate from Ball State with my design degree. My boss at work is trying to help me hook up with some people on the corporate level so that when I graduate, I might just move to Minnesota and work for Best Buy's design house. But more than likely I'll end up just getting a small design job for some local studio instead.

If you end up in Minnesota, I'm taking you out for drinks.

I hear Minnesota's Crazy Carrot Juice Bars are an absolute riot.

[MKE]

Right now i'm working at Geek Squad, and a full time student.

And for all the crap that geek squad gets for not fixing computers, i was kind of surprised at the work we have to do. yeah some of it is extremely simple and boring, but there's other times where you really have to spend all you time trying to fix a major problem.

[CupNoodle]

I work in a home for people with developmental disabilities. I shower, change, feed, administer medication and play Goldeneye with them all day. Fulltime student on the side.

[jaredfogle]

I deliver pizzas.

Hopefully when I start school in the fall I can stop doing it.

[JKKDARK]

I'm working in the street

[CupNoodle]

HOOKER

[CupNoodle]

HOOKER

[Ceeg]

Department Manager at Walmart and hopefully Assistant Manager this time next year.

[BlueCrab]

Right now, I'm a full-time intern at Microsoft (Ironic, eh?).

When I get back home at the end of August, I'll go back to being a full-time student, and working in a grocery store (Bakery clerk and Cashier).

[toastman]

Right now, I'm a full-time intern at Microsoft (Ironic, eh?).

When I get back home at the end of August, I'll go back to being a full-time student, and working in a grocery store (Bakery clerk and Cashier).

Go BlueCrab. Some people may consider Microsoft "the devil", but it is still a good company to work for from what I understand (from a developer's perspective).

Right now I am an everything-computer-related person for an EMR VAR. I'm the Network/System Admin, Database Admin, Developer, Webmaster, etc. We're tiny.
I'm also doing some freelance contracting on the side. (in C# nonetheless).

[BlueCrab]

Right now, I'm a full-time intern at Microsoft (Ironic, eh?).

When I get back home at the end of August, I'll go back to being a full-time student, and working in a grocery store (Bakery clerk and Cashier).

Go BlueCrab. Some people may consider Microsoft "the devil", but it is still a good company to work for from what I understand (from a developer's perspective).

Right now I am an everything-computer-related person for an EMR VAR. I'm the Network/System Admin, Database Admin, Developer, Webmaster, etc. We're tiny.
I'm also doing some freelance contracting on the side. (in C# nonetheless).

The managers all seem like very rational, levelheaded people, which is always a plus. Also, they don't restrict any of my other programming, as long as I don't bring it with me to work (and of course, I don't start leaking out confidential information).

Ah, the joy of C# (that's what they're making me learn how to program in right now). So far it doesn't seem too bad, but I like C++ better for a lot of reasons.

[toastman]

Right now, I'm a full-time intern at Microsoft (Ironic, eh?).

When I get back home at the end of August, I'll go back to being a full-time student, and working in a grocery store (Bakery clerk and Cashier).

Go BlueCrab. Some people may consider Microsoft "the devil", but it is still a good company to work for from what I understand (from a developer's perspective).

Right now I am an everything-computer-related person for an EMR VAR. I'm the Network/System Admin, Database Admin, Developer, Webmaster, etc. We're tiny.
I'm also doing some freelance contracting on the side. (in C# nonetheless).

The managers all seem like very rational, levelheaded people, which is always a plus. Also, they don't restrict any of my other programming, as long as I don't bring it with me to work (and of course, I don't start leaking out confidential information).

Ah, the joy of C# (that's what they're making me learn how to program in right now). So far it doesn't seem too bad, but I like C++ better for a lot of reasons.

Yeah, the guy I'm doing the work for runs a total Microsoft shop (they're a gold certified partner and all that mess) so my options were limited (read none). But he's a friend and a decent guy to boot (and technically, he's subcontracting the work to me since his people are too busy at the moment). But C# isn't that bad. It's close enough to C++ to where I'm comfortable.

BTW, I'm going to be in the Seattle area August 21st - 27th for the Penny Arcade Expo. So if you are still in the area (assuming you are an intern at the main campus in Redmond), we should meet up. Disregard that, I saw your profile and noticed that your location is on the east coast. Disregard the initial disregard and please reregard the initial comment (in blue). If you are going to be in the Seattle area August 21st - 27th when I'm in the Seattle area, we should totally say hi to each other.

[|darc|]

BTW, I'm going to be in the Seattle area August 21st - 27th for the Penny Arcade Expo. So if you are still in the area (assuming you are an intern at the main campus in Redmond), we should meet up. Disregard that, I saw your profile and noticed that your location is on the east coast.

BlueCrab is actually in Redmond; his location is outdated.

[BlueCrab]

BTW, I'm going to be in the Seattle area August 21st - 27th for the Penny Arcade Expo. So if you are still in the area (assuming you are an intern at the main campus in Redmond), we should meet up. Disregard that, I saw your profile and noticed that your location is on the east coast. Disregard the initial disregard and please reregard the initial comment (in blue). If you are going to be in the Seattle area August 21st - 27th when I'm in the Seattle area, we should totally say hi to each other.

I am actually at the Redmond campus, as |darc| said, so we could definitely meet up. I'll be there until the 24th of August, so hopefully by the 21st most all of my real work will be done.

As a side note, I'm too lazy to update my location, since I'll just have to update it again on the 25th of August. My location on Facebook, however is correct. I guess I should update my address here too, since I did do it on facebook though...