Subject: Jobs

Apologies if this has been done before..

What do you all do for a living?

When not devoting my time to the running my hareem of beetches (pimpin' aint easy as the immortal big daddy kane once said) I work for a phone company.

Downsides:

Anti social hours (like now for example)
Techie people

Upsides:

Big bags of cash, 4 days off out of every 8 & being able to plunder the transfer market when normal sane people are in bed asleep

Web designer for one of the biggest web design companies in the travel industy (apparently).

Downsides:

None!

Upsides:

I love it, I get to play with computers and the Internet all day, I get paid well.

Downsides:

Must be geek to get this job.




Fixed your typo, man.

not worked since 2003 due to unfortunate circumstances but im slowly getting my life back together so might look for work soon :)

I wouldn't hire anyone into dance music either, tbh.

Good call, under 25 & into dance music: fried from too many crap pills, over 30 & into dance - fried from too many good ones back in the late 80's early 90's...whereas the 25 to 30's got fried by 1st good pills then bad ones in a recreational pharmaceutical double whammy.

**note I am of course referring to branded nurofen vs the similar but less attractively packaged tesco version**

I make Shreddies.

Not real shreddies, the cheap own brand ones.

Impressive, so few of us are able to combine our vocational calling & our proffession ;)
(edited)

I work as the production planner for a plastics grinding company. Im also in charge of the factory when the operations manager is on holiday.

Benefits:

It pays, just. I dont have to wear a tie.

Problems:

Stress, abuse and aggrevation.

Architect and other stuff.

Downsides:

Long hours and large bar bills because of it. The selfish sensibilities that go with world domination.

Upsides:

Great pay, bonuses and perks. Stress, abuse and aggrevation (giving rather than receiving). Get to ride my bike every day. Being the boss lets me wear what I like.

Computer Programmer for Britains biggest publisher by volume.

Downsides:
The pay - makes it hard to leave and do a fulfilling job
The travelling
Some of the people
Users
It's dull

Upsides:
The pay - gives me a comfortable living

Secondary Science Teacher

Downsides: Kids, and having to deal with them

Upsides: 12 weeks holiday a year, quite well paid and massive job progression as I work in central London.

project manager for a small construction firm.

downs:
-greedy, dumb, lying scumbag german owner
-brain-dead general manager
-heavy commuting
-tedium

ups:
-ok pay
-plenty of time to look for a better job
-brilliant sri-lankan take-away round the corner

Technology manager for a company that sells a premium rate telephone service for automotive recycling. You phone us to find a car part, or use our web form, we charge you for the call at a pound a minute, and then sell your information to dismantlers. So we sell the same nothing twice. A work of twisted genius if ever there was one.

Downs :

My boss (the twisted genius) keeps having mad ideas that involve people I've never met before from various parts of America. He's involved in Trade Shows and Associations 95% of the time now, spending 3 months a year over there, leaving the day job to his son. As a result I spend ever more time developing what appear to be white elephant web sites for people i've never met who don't understand why they need something that my boss thinks they need. But then nobody understood why they needed the original service until he explained that to them either, so maybe he's onto something.

When I started here as a programmer there were 5 people in my office, now i'm the only person that knows anything left. I've got a part-time student who starts for us full-time in May, and a telephone operator who is learning on the job. Until they both get up to speed, I do most things.

Ups :

The wage keeps going up as people leave. I've run out of people now though, and need to train the next bunch so that they will leave :)

People leave me alone to get on with the work. Or to not get on with the work :).


*************************

Jaize, are you the good type of architect, or the evil type ? My dad's a brickie, and he reckons the main problem with architects is that very few of them have actually built anything, and don't understand the challenges that their designs cause as a result.

I would like to think I am the good kind of architect. I went into it after seeing how much damage "bad" architects can do. It is no accident that they are generally given the epithet "The C**t" on a lot of building sites!

I have built quite a lot of stuff so far, even award winning stuff, but the kids coming out of college now couldn't build an airfix kit! Your dad is right. I spent ages on site when I was first doing it, met some great people, but mostly learnt how "stuff" really goes together.

It is not getting easier though with supposed improvements and the whole invention of Quantity Surveyors spelt bad news for the industry. It is now difficult to get anything built that suits the people rather than the developers pocket!

I try to put my money where my mouth is too with a small development firm that I share with a friend (a QS bizarrely!) that champions good design etc. over profit, but it is an uphill struggle.

It's good to see that you're on the good side, it's too easy to take the money and run in most industries. Working as a programmer for a telemarketer, it's not easy to feel good about what you do, it's not exactly charity work. I console myself with the fact that it's promoting recycling, and that a lot of the recyclers are making a living as a result of the likes of Ford etc not being responsible for what happens to the toxins in their product when it dies. So at least I can pretend to be the bloke in the white hat, even if it is for a premium rate service.