What do you do for a living?

Elenedhel-moon-guard · January 16, 2019, 7:29pm

Part-time stock broker.
Costumer designer.
Party planner and organizer.

The days are just packed!

Levíathan-aerie-peak · January 16, 2019, 7:32pm

Puremallace-arthas · January 16, 2019, 7:33pm

Sr. Associate Analyst

Elae-nagrand · January 16, 2019, 7:37pm

So in simple words, you’re a surgeon or brain scientist?

Levíathan-aerie-peak · January 16, 2019, 7:43pm

Not that smart

I’m a tech trained in a sub specialty of neurology.

Elae-nagrand · January 16, 2019, 7:45pm

Oh I apologize I just didn’t understand a word of what you linked was all lol

Levíathan-aerie-peak · January 16, 2019, 7:51pm

Ha! It’s no worries!

Whenever I meet someone new and the inevitable “So what do you do?” is asked, I dread answering because the industry insists on using the flashiest words they can think of. Though in actuality, anyone can do it (assuming they can handle seeing peoples’ insides).

Elae-nagrand · January 16, 2019, 7:52pm

Yeah I only understand simple words, not industry jargon, people just make things more complex than they need to be when there’s always a simple answer to everything in life

anon28705397 · January 17, 2019, 2:49am

Same . My life is so much easy now as I have started to be content in my life with what I have .

Windcaster-laughing-skull · January 17, 2019, 4:40am

I shoot birds at the airport.

Wolfthorn-earthen-ring · January 17, 2019, 4:46am

Same as most people - work really hard to help the bottom line of management and take the blame for when things don’t go as they expect.

Mute-silvermoon · January 17, 2019, 6:25am

I was Nurse Supervisor for a private home health company that served 18 counties statewide. Mostly I got paid to drive around the state 6 days a week doing home visits, ensuring client satisfaction, training entry level caregivers how to use medical equipment, taking vitals, changing ostomy bags etc. I also delivered gloves and other supplies to other employees who lived too far away from our home office to come in and pick them up.

It was a horrible job, incredibly depressing, especially when I had to get APS involved. I also had to deal with employees stealing from clients, employees falsifying records and once one that was so lazy she nearly got a blind woman evicted from her apartment because she repeatedly failed her monthly home inspections.

I got a bacterial infection after I’d had surgery to remove my gallbladder a few years back that resulted in me having chronic stomach issues and extreme anxiety among other things. I am now unable to work so I’m a housewife.

Tsavis-area-52 · January 17, 2019, 7:08am

That sounds just awful. If I had a better vehicle I would work with the elderly. I am in my early 50s it would be an ideal job for me. It’s a sad world that exploits the weak and helpless for their own ill gotten gains.

Catelan-aerie-peak · January 17, 2019, 7:19am

I’m currently a domestic goddess

Miriel-dathremar · January 17, 2019, 7:31am

I think it’s a job only the best people can do. My sister is a palliative care nurse in a dementia ward, she’s amazing.

Kypookins-baelgun · January 17, 2019, 7:50am

I drive a forklift, in the lumber department of a Big Box Hardware store.

I put the wood on the shelf.

Later, I take the wood off the shelf.

I also engage in customer service activities throughout the store, as well as as assisting other personnel if they need something taken down with a machine ( I run them all.) I’ve been doing this for 13 years now, while it was never what I thought I’d be doing.

When they asked us in Kindergarten, everyone said stuff like “A FIREMAN.” No one ever said, “A FORKLIFTER AT A BIG BOX HARDWARE STORE, WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE!”

One good thing is that I don’t see my job being taken over by robots, at least not before I’m 75 or something (when I may still be working there…)

I always regret not getting into computers, but I’m 52 and all they had back then was “Programming.” I was never good at that; Things like “Networking Systems Management” came along later. So the only networking type stuff I do is at home, as kind of a hobby, with Linux (which is also where I play Wow, FFXIV, etc.) I’ve been Windows free since the Burning Crusade Expansion!

I’ve thought about going back to finally finish that degree, in Networking Systems (or something), but I can’t really picture people going crazy to hire someone who is 55 plus; The aged is the one “diversity” thing they don’t seem to go after.

Winner! Seriously, if that paid well enough…

OH, that is the winner!

Petsitter-nerzhul · January 17, 2019, 7:53am

My profession is being a broke college student.

Jmanwarrior-darkspear · January 17, 2019, 7:57am

I’m Snoop Dogg’s bodyguard.

Enkki-eonar · January 17, 2019, 7:59am

Nah, I can’t lie that good …

Catelan-aerie-peak · January 17, 2019, 8:00am

Oooh! I would love to drive a big forklift and play with wood all day