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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Phoenix87x on March 09, 2017, 05:35:07 PM
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I was going to save this thread until after graduation, but that's a few weeks away and I've already started training, so what they hell.
My job will be hospital pharmacist. Whenever a doctor writes an order for a medication for a patient, it gets sent to my computer. I review it and make sure the dose/med is correct and verify it or call to make an intervention. From there, a technician prepares the med, which I check off on and then they take it up to the floor.
In contrast to a CVS or Walgreens, I have no contact with the general public. I just interact with doctors, nurses and people in my department. I work with a bunch of eccentric goofballs and we have a lot of fun. I consider myself very fortunate to enjoy my job.
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I'm into landscaping and painting. They both kind of offset each other nicely. I don't mind either as long as my back feels good. In the landscape dept, there is so much to learn about plants and trees it's fascinating. The heavy lifting gets old though. With painting, the indoor jobs can be fun because you can crank the tunes and paint away. They both have their pros and cons though. Work isn't always fun, because it's work..
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I work in Business Development
If you don't know what that means exactly - cool! Neither do I! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
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I work in distribution for a relatively small, employee-owned medical device company. My schedule is great, I get the opportunity to work a bit of overtime if I want it, and I get good benefits. It's repetitive, but it's a good gig.
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I'm a Process Operator/Firefighter at a Southern California oil refinery. I started my 27 years with the company as a Merchant Marine working on oil tankers. My career has been a love/hate type thing. At present, I'm 6 yrs from retirement, and can't wait to retire. In the grand scheme of things though, I feel VERY fortunate to have had the career that I have had. Especially as a High School drop out (GED) and no college. In my current position while I'm on shift I run one of the largest Process Units in our refinery, the Delayed Coking unit. It is challenging on a daily basis for sure! Always things to learn, new systems, processes, personel, etc.
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I worked as a GM for a 32 room hotel for 6 years eventually owning a part of it. It was a lot of fun for the first 4 years, I was in my early 20's making awesome money but it wore on me and the hours were nuts. Eventually the opportunity came to buy the remaining stake in the hotel and I just passed on it going into the IT field and I loved it.
I've been doing a lot of help desk roles since then but I just recently landed a job as a business analyst which (from what I was told in my interview) will meld both my business and technical skills. I start Monday and I can't wait.
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Creative Director. 13 professional years of design, print, and marketing experience. It's fun, but who I do the work for has a huge impact on the enjoyment level.
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I'm a psychotherapist as I work to finish my doctorate before officially becoming a psychologist.
I love my job.
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I'm a psychotherapist as I work to finish my doctorate before officially becoming a psychologist.
When I was in high school, this was what I wanted to do. I assumed that it would mean way too much reading and report writing, which I hated.
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I'm a psychotherapist as I work to finish my doctorate before officially becoming a psychologist.
When I was in high school, this was what I wanted to do. I assumed that it would mean way too much reading and report writing, which I hated.
I read way too little (no idea how I'm getting A's) and I love writing (not assessments) so I'm good with it.
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I don't have any regrets, but it was a big interest for me at the time.
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I sell electronics and electronics accessories and if my store sold guns some unfortunate migrant janitor would've been tasked with cleaning my brains off the linoleum a long time ago.
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I'm a Sausage Maker. The job requires me to be very meticulous when adding all of the various ingredients as I have to take care to make sure that I don't wind up with bits of hair and torn fabric in the finished product.
I'm a Horror writer. I will never again do anything else. ;)
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I am a manager at my family's grocery store, where I specialize in produce and beverages. Fancy way of saying I run those departments.
Best part is working with my family, worst part is working with my family. We all get along and recognize each others strengths and weaknesses. I can communicate a bit more honestly than I normally would at another job and can fight and argue and not really worry about getting fired or anything :lol. At the end of the day, we have each other's backs.
Other positives are a great schedule, great pay and benefits, and I get to work with some pretty cool people, some I've known since I've been a little kid. Another one, I've developed a close relationship with that helps me elevate my game to the next level and really brings out the best in me. We argue, we laugh, we kick ass and have great chemistry. I wouldn't trade that relationship with her for anything and was one of the main reasons I decided to stick with the job apart from what I already listed.
It's pretty cool.
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I'm a data center technician for an online advertising technology company. I enjoy it for the most part, specifically for this company compared to similar roles at previous jobs.
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I'm data
:eek
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I'm a physical therapist practicing for the past nine years. Pretty much done outpatient orthopedics during that time, helping people return to normal function after injury and/or surgery. Very gratifying work for sure. I love doing what I do.
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I bartend, serve and manage a fancy shmancy wine bar. I enjoy it for the most part. Obviously people being cunt fucks gets to me now and again but on the other end there are also a lot of cool peeps I get to meet/serve/work with. I'm too used to it now to do anything else at the moment and my other life situation has me more or less here for the foreseeable future. I work my ass off but I'm also banking so...it's a good thing for now. Might turn into a career. Dunno...restaurants have been my life soooo...*shrug*
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I work at our local social services office as an IT administrator. I take care of all things IT (computers, phones, printers etc.) and I also manage our website. I've been here for 9 years now.
I like it a lot, since it's what I want to do and what I've studied to become. It can be stressful at times, but it's rewarding - I often hear from the others "What would I even do without you?".
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I'm a web developer. Mainly front end but these days, I do get down and dirty with some backend stuff as well.
I love the front end part of it, it's an ever evolving line of business where much of what I studied 8 years ago does not apply at all today. But that's the fun part of it - I never got too comfortable and bored.
Also, I get to hang out with fellow nerds all day and discuss the latest Zelda so that's a plus. :lol
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Business Analyst for a major insurer. I hate it. I think the role of business analyst actually isn't all that bad, but insurance is the most god awful and boring subject matter on the planet.
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Mainly front end but these days, I do get down and dirty with some backend stuff as well.
:zydar:
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I am a manager of a company that works on our customer's site (Wal Mart Distribution Center) We sort the pallets buy quality and ship out these pallets and well as give pallets back to Wal Mart for reuse. We also handle the cardboard for recycling. we did $90,000.00 last year in cardboard bales alone. Crazy to thing about it.
We have 25 employees on 4 shifts 24/7.
Do I like my job. Yes and no. I love the challenge of taking on new responsibility and growing in a company. The part I don't like is dealing with people who can't get their life together affecting us and myself. Dealing with personalities is the hardest thing about this job.
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Business Analyst for a major insurer. I hate it. I think the role of business analyst actually isn't all that bad, but insurance is the most god awful and boring subject matter on the planet.
After reading you posts I'm really worried about starting this new position :lol
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I'm in Marketing. Currently, I'm working for an engineering and environmental consulting firm as a Marketing Coordinator. My responsibilities vary from designing and writing proposals, to developing marketing material, simple graphics layout, print coordination, etc...
Generally speaking I like my job, my company treats us well and the people I work with are pretty cool. Some days it's very stressful, others not so much.
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I work in the administration of a large auditing firm. Mainly I'm dispatchign work for others. The job is not that interesting but I've got two lovely colleagues that are fun to work with. But I find myself questioning what the firm stands for more and more as I grow older. It's not that it's illegal what we do but it's very capitalist orientated and I can't really identify with their goals and tactics any more.
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Software engineer, mostly C++ and Java. I do a mix of app development on Android and core machine learning algorithm implementation, since my company does speech recognition.
Do I like my job? Yes and no. I know I'm pretty damn good at it, but lately the migraines from monitor looking have been killing me, and after 15 years in the industry I feel I'm getting ready for a change. The problem is that I don't really know what else I would be doing. Omg option I've been considering lately is taking a sabbatical.
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rumbo: Have you tried the cave approach? Kill all fluorescent and overhead lighting and only use low wattage desk and/or floor lamps? It allows you to lower the brightness on your monitor and dramatically reduces the amount of eyestrain when viewing a monitor for long periods.
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Yeah, I'm already doing a lot of that. I have always had a very hyperactive visual system (I see the color wheel of projectors, and I have outstanding hand-eye coordination), but I think that's haunting me when it comes to screen exposure. My visual system doesn't like all those sharp parallel lines.
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Yeah I get it. I used to work in a cave and while I hated being like a shut-in, it saved my eyes for years when I was putting in 70-hour weeks.
These days I vacillate between overhead and natural light and low desk light, depending on the intensity of my work and how my eyes and head are for the day.
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Yeah, I'm already doing a lot of that. I have always had a very hyperactive visual system (I see the color wheel of projectors, and I have outstanding hand-eye coordination), but I think that's haunting me when it comes to screen exposure. My visual system doesn't like all those sharp parallel lines.
Hm, sounds like the problem could be the PWM flicker of the backlight of your monitor, which on a cheaper monitor is even worse at lower brightnesses, and could cause your issues. You could try finding yourself a monitor that's flicker free.
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I remember when adjusting the refresh rate on old CRTs would have a drastic effect on my eyestrain. There was a time at work I couldn't get my eyes to stop hurting and on a whim I switched from 75Hz to the same res at 60Hz and suddenly my eyes felt better.
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Mainly front end but these days, I do get down and dirty with some backend stuff as well.
:zydar:
Man, I didn't even think of the innuendo in that sentence. :lol Innuendo? In YOUR endo!
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part time retail at a sporting goods store (20-25 hrs/week), full time Dad. I've only been at my current job for about six months, but the rest of the staff are pretty laid back and I can talk sports with the guys so I'm good with it.
I thank my lucky stars everyday my wife has a very successful career.
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I'm an engineer/project manager for a medical device and sterilization company. I mostly like what I do. This is the best job I've ever had. That being said, I'd quit in a heartbeat if I didn't need to work to support my family.
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I work as a manager in a home-applliances e-commerce. I like it, i've been in the company since 2009, started as a salesman and worked my way up. It can be stressfull, but it's quite dynamic and i am well adjusted to it.
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I work for a commercial insurance company in the claims department. We don't insure individuals, only businesses/organizations (mostly in or associated with the construction industry), with policies like workers comp, commercial auto, commercial fire, builders risk, general liability, umbrella, etc.
I like it quite a bit. The pay is fair, even pretty good for the work I do, the people I work with are great, and the company puts forth quite an effort to create a good culture. I am very fortunate.
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I'm a Sausage Maker. The job requires me to be very meticulous when adding all of the various ingredients as I have to take care to make sure that I don't wind up with bits of hair and torn fabric in the finished product.
I'm a Horror writer. I will never again do anything else. ;)
I KNEW it... Jack Ketchum or Clive Barker? Come on man, give it up. By the way, nothing wrong with bits of hair and scalp in the finished product... little hair, little "Hand of Glory", little graveyard moss, you never know what the reader will turn up with. Speed-iron machines marching down the streets, fighting with "the worm that doth corrupt" shambling beyond the stars... it's all good.
I'm a Mortgage Broker/ Insurance Agent for a small company in SW Virginia; we are blessed by The Lord to be successful (especially in the current regulatory environment). When I say small, I mean small... the mortgage side has 5-employees (spread between three offices) and the insurance side has 2 (I don't count myself because I don't really do anything with the license).
The business owner and I have known each other most of our lives... went to school together, played AAU and school ball together, went to VA Tech, etc; he married his High School sweetheart, I married my High School sweetheart, and we all work together. A family, in the truest sense of the word.
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I'm an engineer/project manager for a medical device and sterilization company. I mostly like what I do. This is the best job I've ever had. That being said, I'd quit in a heartbeat if I didn't need to work to support my family.
This is a good point.
How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
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I'm an engineer/project manager for a medical device and sterilization company. I mostly like what I do. This is the best job I've ever had. That being said, I'd quit in a heartbeat if I didn't need to work to support my family.
This is a good point.
How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
I'd do a complete 180. I'd never set foot near a cubicle or corporate office ever again.
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How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
If I had all the money I needed, I would quit my job tomorrow.
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Dealing with personalities is the hardest thing about this job.
And this is why I work better with computers than people :lol
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Commercial insurance agent. I work for two salesmen as their main customer service rep. Commute 50 miles each way (90 minute train ride into the city). Thankfully they are awesome bosses and the agency I work for is incredible, with excellent support and the ability to work from home when I need to. It makes the 13 hour days bearable, though I can't stand other commuters and the "me first" attitude that they have towards public transportation. Pushing, shoving, blocking the aisles, rushing to try and get their favorite seats, saving seats, and just acting like obnoxious jerks on the train.
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Yeah, I'm already doing a lot of that. I have always had a very hyperactive visual system (I see the color wheel of projectors, and I have outstanding hand-eye coordination), but I think that's haunting me when it comes to screen exposure. My visual system doesn't like all those sharp parallel lines.
Hm, sounds like the problem could be the PWM flicker of the backlight of your monitor, which on a cheaper monitor is even worse at lower brightnesses, and could cause your issues. You could try finding yourself a monitor that's flicker free.
You know, I think I'll look into this again. I had bought decent monitors for work (or so I thought) that had LED backlighting, but then I learned only recently that, as you say, anything but full brightness is actually achieved by (60Hz) PWM. I'm very sensitive to refresh rates.
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Dealing with personalities is the hardest thing about this job.
And this is why I work better with computers than people :lol
Amen.
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Yeah, I'm already doing a lot of that. I have always had a very hyperactive visual system (I see the color wheel of projectors, and I have outstanding hand-eye coordination), but I think that's haunting me when it comes to screen exposure. My visual system doesn't like all those sharp parallel lines.
Hm, sounds like the problem could be the PWM flicker of the backlight of your monitor, which on a cheaper monitor is even worse at lower brightnesses, and could cause your issues. You could try finding yourself a monitor that's flicker free.
You know, I think I'll look into this again. I had bought decent monitors for work (or so I thought) that had LED backlighting, but then I learned only recently that, as you say, anything but full brightness is actually achieved by (60Hz) PWM. I'm very sensitive to refresh rates.
Yeah, the majority of LED monitors have crappy PWM that will cause issues if you're sensitive to the refresh. You need one that specifically doesn't use PWM, which would probably mention flicker free as a feature. I think it's becoming more common recently.
I splashed out for an expensive graphics monitor for my video work, so it's flicker free, and calibrated to the correct recommended brightness to not destroy my retinas. I don't have any problems with spending the day at my computer, although I'm not as sensitive to flickering anyway.
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How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
If money wasn't a concern I would quit today. I think I would still like to do some work, probably some charity work or similar just to have something to do.
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Dealing with personalities is the hardest thing about this job.
And this is why I work better with computers than people :lol
:lol Yup.
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If I didn't have to work, I'd do a lot of home projects. Some of them still in technology, but a lot of them not.
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How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
People think I am weird because I come in to work early/ look forward to going to work, and actually, when people at my job start bitching about how much the place sucks, I pretend to go along with it just to fit in.
I like my job for a couple different reasons:
1. It has nothing to do with money/profits/profit margins. I just provide patient care.
2. Its challenging without being overwhelming, and I feel like I can use my mind to make things more efficient and it works.
3. The drama in the place is like a soap opera and I LOVE watching it. I don't get involved, but just sit back and enjoy the show.
4. Wearing pajamas (Scrubs) to work is incredible
5. The hours are all over the place. There is no such thing as (M-F) 9-5pm. Its like: work tuesday morning, off wednesday, work thursday evening, off friday, work on saturday off sunday. I feel so much better about my job when its scattered all over the place.
They money is sweet, but I would honestly do this job for free. It feels more like a hobby than a job.
The only other jobs I could see myself doing would be: Psychiatrist or homicide detective or just some detective of some sort. Maybe a snowboarding instructor as well.
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I'm a Horror writer. I will never again do anything else. ;)
Under which name do you write/publish? I'm interested to read your work.
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Folks around these parts have been speculating about that for as long as I can remember. As far as I know, no one has ever figured that out.
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We will never know. That's ok. He needs his privacy.
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Yeah, I'm curious too but can understand if Tempus wants to stay incognito.
But I think Bosk knows?
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Strange, but fair enough. A writer's desire for privacy can be covered to a large extent by the use of a pseudonym, and in any case, I've noticed he makes many, many mentions on here of his being a writer (horror is my genre, hence my interest in reading him), so if someone was that extra bit concerned about privacy to the extent they actively don't want people to read their work I just figured they wouldn't make such frequent reference to it and it would be normal for me to ask what his published name was.
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He also tells us he's friends with Rush and hangs out on tour with them but we all still don't have a clue but what's the big dealio?
Just because he shares his life here doesn't mean we have to know his name. That never bothered me. To each his or her own giving out info on one's self.
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He also tells us he's friends with Rush and hangs out on tour with them but we all still don't have a clue but what's the big dealio?
Just because he shares his life here doesn't mean we have to know his name. That never bothered me. To each his or her own giving out info on one's self.
No 'big dealio', it's just I'm a huge horror nut, there are maybe 15 main writers currently working in the field ('main' here means their books can be found in shops and not just published online), and I'm positive he isn't one of them (you can't disguise your natural writing style to that extent), so if there's a new up-and-coming writer on the scene, I'd love to read his work, that's all. When he said he was a horror writer I was excited and wanted to read his work. I didn't know he was known for not wanting to give out his published name, and if he doesn't want me or anyone else to read his books, that's absolutely fine, no big deal. I'll just re-iterate that if someone says over and over again that they are 'a writer', they have to expect that people will ask what their published name is, and so if the desire to remain private is a factor it may be better not to do that.
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I work in Project Management, in Healthcare. I work with end users establishing what equipment (anything from trash cans to MRI's) they need/want in their new space....help them lay out their workflow....then coordinate all the mechanical/data needs/requirements of said equipment with the contractors and vendors.
I work with the vendors negotiating costs of the equipment, I order the equipment for the job and then make sure it delivers to the job site when it's needed....I keep the budget for our departments portion of the project and report that each month.
I honestly love it. The two people I report to are very laid back, it's essentially just a 'get your job done' environment. No one looks over my shoulder and they just let you do what you have to do and rarely are in your business. It's noticeable if you're not doing your job so it's not like you can just screw off all the time but the freedom and flexibility is nice as you come and go from job site to office as you please, I can work from home if I have to/want to...it'd be tough to leave this type of environment and return to a "normal" 9-5 position.
I'm an engineer/project manager for a medical device and sterilization company.
Aren't you with STERIS? Or am I thinking of someone else? I work quite a bit with them.
How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
Probably not 'something similar' but I would find something I enjoyed to do and stay busy. Volunteer at a Nature Center, maybe Marshall at a Golf Course....something outdoors for sure.
Under which name do you write/publish? I'm interested to read your work.
:lol Nice Try. That'd be funny if it were that easy and TV just throws his real ID out there :lol
Better to save the mystery than surrender to the secret...... ;)
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Mabye he's not a horror writer but another style and does that to though off people like you trying to figure that out. :lol
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He's pretty damned successful, so I'm sure he's not worried about whether DTF reads his books or not. Still, given his level of success, it's likely we have. :)
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He's pretty damned successful, so I'm sure he's not worried about whether DTF reads his books or not.
Success shouldn't enter into how a writer regards his work being read. I'm not asking him to be 'worried about whether DTF reads his books' (condescending though that would be to the users of DTF), I'm simply asking a horror writer (him) if a huge horror fan (me) can read his work. If he wants to PM me his name I can assure him I'll keep it private. Anyway, that's probably enough of this theme in this thread. I'll hope for and wait upon his PM.
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All the money I'd ever want... I wouldn't quit immediately, but I'd give my three/four weeks notice (only reason I don't say two is because I work so much and the schedules are so far in advance that it'd be just useless).
Not too sure what I'd do other than that though...because I'd certainly be screwed both mentally and physically if I just did whatever I wanted all day. Which would consist of building PCs and sitting in front of them...
I think more anything than else I'd need to find a way to keep some discipline. That's what I like most about my job, honestly. It promotes a hell of a lot of humility, discipline and hard work (if you don't want to be fired or not ever scheduled...granted, which stems back to money).
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For the record, I was just trying to (half-heartedly) get VOX to make a comment about the two authors I mentioned to see if he is a contemporary of them... or any of the other big boys (King, Straub, etc). I'll consider Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) one of the big boys... even if the industry may not.
If I had all the money I felt I needed (how do you calculate that number anyway?), I'd stay until my position was filled so the company wouldn't suffer loss; I've invested more than a decade of my working life into it and I wouldn't want to leave my friend in a bad position. Perhaps I could originate files from Everest Base Camp between acclimatization climbs... or from that cabin in the woods that I would likely build.
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Aren't you with STERIS? Or am I thinking of someone else? I work quite a bit with them.
Yep, I do. I work for the laboratory group within the sterilization arm of the company.
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I work as a Senior Support Worker currently supporting adults with learning disabilities. I LOVE the job for the support side of things, the guys I support are real characters and all really sweet. What I hate is the mountain of paperwork that goes with care in todays world, also the politics that goes with it all. Finally there is next to no money provided by our government for these guys nowadays, they are all funded a criminally low amount of hours and we, as a staff team, have to try to support them as best we can within that. It results is staff doing bits here and there in our own time, unpaid. I could rant about the injustices for hours.
I will actually be starting a new job in a few weeks though supporting kids from 9-19, who may have come from broken homes/abusive situation/childhood traumas as well as some diagnosis's of Autism, ADHD etc. This will be a totally new challenge and I hope it goes well, the job is far better paid and I won't be lone working so the pressure will be off there a bit.
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Aren't you with STERIS? Or am I thinking of someone else? I work quite a bit with them.
Yep, I do. I work for the laboratory group within the sterilization arm of the company.
Missed a chance to get hired on there about three years ago as a Installation Project Manager. Didn't have a Bachelors degree, although i did make it to the final round of interviews but ultimately the non Bachelors degree killed me. I've been slowly chipping away at night and online schooling ever since to get that Bachelors. Don't want to miss any similar chances if they arise in the future.
STERIS is top notch all around....
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I fire giant X-ray lasers at things.
It's neat.
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How many of you guys would keep your job (or something similar) if money wasn't a concern anymore?
Probably not 'something similar' but I would find something I enjoyed to do and stay busy. Volunteer at a Nature Center, maybe Marshall at a Golf Course....something outdoors for sure.
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Same here, I would volunteer in some capacity. I certainly would work *no* where near 40 hours a week.
About the OP, I do and don't like my job as a mental health therapist. I overall enjoy it, but I don't like doing it full time. I like the setting and population I work with, just not as a therapist all the time. Eventually I only want to do it part time on the side.
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Account Manager in Transportation, for the logistics side of a major trucking company. Our office is about 15 miles from the trucking office.
Yes, I like my job a lot. It is a lot of meticulous details and keeping a million things in order, which is perfect for my brain. :lol :lol
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Account Manager in Transportation, for the logistics side of a major trucking company. Our office is about 15 miles from the trucking office.
Yes, I like my job a lot. It is a lot of meticulous details and keeping a million things in order, which is perfect for my brain. :lol :lol
I deal with you jerks all the time. :lol
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Account Manager in Transportation, for the logistics side of a major trucking company. Our office is about 15 miles from the trucking office.
Yes, I like my job a lot. It is a lot of meticulous details and keeping a million things in order, which is perfect for my brain. :lol :lol
I deal with you jerks all the time. :lol
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We have a handful of shippers that drive me nuts. I sent you our BOL for a reason, numb nuts, so it gets routed correctly, but hey, look, the LTL carrier is already taking it somewhere else because you are too dumb to follow my instructions, ones you confirmed, and made up your own BOL and gave it to the driver. :facepalm: :lol
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Yes sir!
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LTL=Learning To Live :metal
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I make dead animals taste good. :RJ:
By title, I'm a garde manger sous chef at a high end SF Bay Area hotel, my team and I take care of all cold aspects of banquet service. In the long run I do enjoy what I do and couldn't see myself doing much else (though working in a counseling environment with addicts/alcoholics has its appeal).
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I'm a genetic engineer, my speciality is cancer biology.
I like being in growing sience literally every moment. It keeps me updated. The things I don't like being unsocial due to over-activity. I don't even time to go shopping sometimes. And I need to see same faces everyday, they are all at least 15 years older than me. I'm the youngest one in my research lab.
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I do customer service for an international brand, mostly chat but also phone calls and and occasionally e-mails.
As you can guess with 99% of customer service, I hate it. Not the assistance itself, I like to write so the chat medium is perfect for me, what I hate is being scapegoat for faults that are never mine, and that unlike internet trolls, you can't put customers in their place like one would do if someone on the web would be insulting, saying incorrect crap or patronizing.
I get along with coworkers just fine, and I don't know if it's good or bad - good in the sense that at least the people I have to work with are cool (most of them anyway), but that the office is just good enough to feel sometime tempted to go along and not actively search for another one every waking moment.
I would gladly quit for something else, anything office related that requires good writing skills, even if it's not in the technical field.
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Yes sir!
This happened Thursday, and we discovered it first thing yesterday. For a bit of disclosure, one of our customers is located on the west coast, but they have a midwest location where we always cross dock freight that comes from the east, and then move it all on a full truck load from the midwest to the west coast (it's more cost effective for our customer to do this). In this case, the shipper used their own BOL based on the customer's request (which will always have the customer's home address), so when the LTL carrier picked it up, the BOL told them to move it from NJ to CA, instead of moving it to the midwest to cross dock. This will cost our customer like four times as much money to move this ONE PALLET (which is literally what it was) straight to CA, instead of having it cross docked and put on the truck that is already going to the west coast. That shipper is gonna get an earful from our customer, to say the least. :lol :lol
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Kev, I ship only pallets and cardboard bales. If you told me money could be made in just these 2 items I'd laugh but last year my site had a half million in sales alone. Crazy!
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That is pretty crazy. But like I said before, despite my annoyance on occasion with shippers like that, I really do like my job a lot.
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I make dead animals taste good. :RJ:
By title, I'm a garde manger sous chef at a high end SF Bay Area hotel, my team and I take care of all cold aspects of banquet service. In the long run I do enjoy what I do and couldn't see myself doing much else (though working in a counseling environment with addicts/alcoholics has its appeal).
What if you helped train recovering addicts in the culinaiy arts? That would be cool!
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I work at Citi in the institutional client group, which provides middle office and fund administration services for large investors that act like (but are not) hedge funds. Mostly insurance companies and state pensions. My team is responsible for pricing their OTC derivatives. If you've heard of credit default swaps from reading about the last crash or watching The Big Short, that would be one kind of investment that I look at on a daily basis.
All in all it's a pretty sweet gig for now. It's a lot of math and spending time in Excel, with some light VBA coding, all of which is right up my alley. I've got one colleague in the office with me in Jersey City, two employees who report to me in Columbus Ohio, and our boss is in Dublin Ireland. Having both your subordinates and your boss being hours away from me comes in handy when I'm having days where I'm... less motivated :lol The compensation started out a little low, but I've basically gotten the equivalent of just under a 15% annual raise (in more discrete chunks) and I'm finally bonus eligible :hat I also get almost 5 weeks off per year, which will go up by another week when I hit my five year anniversary next year.
The normal progression is to start somewhere like where I am and then make the jump to working on the other side at a fund. That's where the real money is. I'm planning on staying for a while yet because I feel like I still have a chance to develop my knowledge/skills some more here, and it's a bit more stable than working at a fund, which could shut down at any time through no fault of your own. That said, if I didn't have to worry about money I would probably go in on Monday and give my notice. I'd stay on as long as they wanted me to in terms of training/hiring a replacement, and then look to get a job at a craft brewery.
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I'm a film composer but I also compose for other media & artists as well. I also do a bit of video production on the side. I absolutely love my job and the fact that I make my own hours (which can be insane sometimes).
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Account Manager in Transportation, for the logistics side of a major trucking company. Our office is about 15 miles from the trucking office.
Yes, I like my job a lot. It is a lot of meticulous details and keeping a million things in order, which is perfect for my brain. :lol :lol
I deal with you jerks all the time. :lol
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We have a handful of shippers that drive me nuts. I sent you our BOL for a reason, numb nuts, so it gets routed correctly, but hey, look, the LTL carrier is already taking it somewhere else because you are too dumb to follow my instructions, ones you confirmed, and made up your own BOL and gave it to the driver. :facepalm: :lol
Now see, people like you are the reason Jesus invented the 3PL. If something goes wrong it's my acct. mgr's problem. I'll let him and you fight it out. :lol
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Third party. :lol. I love it!!
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I became a Store Manager for a major chain supermarket chain when I was 29. I did that job for 15 years. Then 3 years ago, I stepped down to a Grocery Department Manager position.
I have a special needs son, who when he was going into the 7th grade, our town could not really accommodate him, so he went to a school in a neighboring town. It really made no sense for my wife to take a step back. But we needed some flexibility in one of our schedules to help him.
I totally miss my job, and my back is killing me, but my son has had the best 3 years of schooling that he's ever had.
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Account Manager in Transportation, for the logistics side of a major trucking company. Our office is about 15 miles from the trucking office.
Yes, I like my job a lot. It is a lot of meticulous details and keeping a million things in order, which is perfect for my brain. :lol :lol
I deal with you jerks all the time. :lol
:lol :lol
We have a handful of shippers that drive me nuts. I sent you our BOL for a reason, numb nuts, so it gets routed correctly, but hey, look, the LTL carrier is already taking it somewhere else because you are too dumb to follow my instructions, ones you confirmed, and made up your own BOL and gave it to the driver. :facepalm: :lol
Now see, people like you are the reason Jesus invented the 3PL. If something goes wrong it's my acct. mgr's problem. I'll let him and you fight it out. :lol
Bring it. :hat
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I like the work I do. How could I not? I work with computers and basically can control the world if I wanted to. ;) The problem is that I work with a bunch of inept morons whose work I have to constantly correct.
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I make dead animals taste good. :RJ:
By title, I'm a garde manger sous chef at a high end SF Bay Area hotel, my team and I take care of all cold aspects of banquet service. In the long run I do enjoy what I do and couldn't see myself doing much else (though working in a counseling environment with addicts/alcoholics has its appeal).
What if you helped train recovering addicts in the culinaiy arts? That would be cool!
One of my old bosses did that. Worked with ex cons in a restaurant environment teaching them skills to make them employable in the culinary field. Unfortunately funds ran out, it was a good program.
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I'm a project engineer that does work with wireless telecommunications sites (Verizon, AT&T, etc.) and associated projects. I really do like my job since it's a good mesh between the ever evolving field of wireless and being on the front line of the latest network upgrades. I get to learn about a lot of things on my jobs like general plan design, some electrical designs, some mechanical designs, working with different municipalities, working one on one with different clients, etc. so it's expanding my capabilities as far as managing different aspects of the projects. The only bad part about what I do is that I've spent so much time with cell sites that I can't not see a cell site nowadays whether it be on a rooftop or a tower. You'd be surprised how many of them are out there if you knew how to spot them.
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I make dead animals taste good. :RJ:
By title, I'm a garde manger sous chef at a high end SF Bay Area hotel, my team and I take care of all cold aspects of banquet service. In the long run I do enjoy what I do and couldn't see myself doing much else (though working in a counseling environment with addicts/alcoholics has its appeal).
Bullshit.
By title, you're a badass motherfucker.
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I'm in Marketing. Currently, I'm working for an engineering and environmental consulting firm as a Marketing Coordinator. My responsibilities vary from designing and writing proposals, to developing marketing material, simple graphics layout, print coordination, etc...
Generally speaking I like my job, my company treats us well and the people I work with are pretty cool. Some days it's very stressful, others not so much.
Can you say what firm? I used to be counsel for an international engineering and environmental consulting firm headquartered out of Pennsylvania.
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Basically, I sell trains. I'm commercial counsel for a major international train manufacturer. I love being an attorney - I've used that to be several different things - but if I had FY money, I would probably quit and either try my hand at songwriting or do something along the lines of Adami.
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I'm in Marketing. Currently, I'm working for an engineering and environmental consulting firm as a Marketing Coordinator. My responsibilities vary from designing and writing proposals, to developing marketing material, simple graphics layout, print coordination, etc...
Generally speaking I like my job, my company treats us well and the people I work with are pretty cool. Some days it's very stressful, others not so much.
Can you say what firm? I used to be counsel for an international engineering and environmental consulting firm headquartered out of Pennsylvania.
I'll PM you.
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In-stores sales for AT&T.
Do I like it? That's a complicated question. I love the people I work with, I love two thirds of my managers, and I love that I barely have to do shit to make a pretty good amount of money.
Things I hate:
-Yelling customers,
-Old customers who think we are tech support.
-"I can't get my Facebook to work." Not my circus, not my monkeys. Do a password reset.
-Stupid customers. "My bill's messed up." No it isn't. You're just stupid and don't understand things. 1 out of 100 people who say their bill is messed up, have a messed up bill.
There's a lot more to add, but most of them would only be relatable to people who have worked there.
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I hear you on the bill thing, although there are times where the fine print gets glossed over and all the customer sees is the big fat number that's being advertised which is typically just the data plan and maybe the line access fee. Then add in any local taxes and fees (which most customers assume the wireless carrier is trying to shove in there despite being federally and state mandated for all carriers) and any additional things like phone insurance and you'll probably end up with a very confused customer who thinks you're trying to bend them over a barrel. I'll admit the advertising for these plans is only slightly dubious but outside of some changes here and there the general things you pay for (data, line access, taxes/fees) haven't changed in many years so, no, Mr. Customer the wireless company isn't trying to screw you with any hidden fees.
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I became a Store Manager for a major chain supermarket chain when I was 29. I did that job for 15 years. Then 3 years ago, I stepped down to a Grocery Department Manager position.
I have a special needs son, who when he was going into the 7th grade, our town could not really accommodate him, so he went to a school in a neighboring town. It really made no sense for my wife to take a step back. But we needed some flexibility in one of our schedules to help him.
I totally miss my job, and my back is killing me, but my son has had the best 3 years of schooling that he's ever had.
You are 10lbs of awesome in a 5lb bucket.
I used to be a sales leader at a Fortune 100 company. For 14-ish years, I loved the jobs that I did, the people, my customers (for the most part), the pay, suppliers, partners ... everything was just dandy. The last year-ish or so, it was a grind. Getting packaged out has been glorious. Two weeks ago today, I was liberated, and I've loved the freedom it brought. So, to answer the question of keeping my job if I had the money - no. I'd do something that I enjoy, is relaxing, and whose primary purpose is not simply to pay the bills and fund my lifestyle.
Re: TV - I always pictured him as a <insert whatever> For Dummies writer. Still fits the horror genre I suppose.
This has been a fascinating thread to see what we are all supposed to be doing when we're here. :lol
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This has been a fascinating thread to see what we are all supposed to be doing when we're here. :lol
:lol
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I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be.
Oh wait...wrong board.
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*snip*
You are 10lbs of awesome in a 5lb bucket.
Thanks Chad.
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This has been a fascinating thread to see what we are all supposed to be doing when we're here. :lol
In all fairness, I almost never post from work.
On occasion, if I come home for lunch (I'm 10 minutes from home and I get an hour for lunch), I might hop online for a few and post in a thread or two.
That aside... :lol :lol :lol
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This has been a fascinating thread to see what we are all supposed to be doing when we're here. :lol
:lol
:\ Ummm.....
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Materials Mgmt Analyst. The job is fine. The people are what make it so difficult. Thankless work.
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Well, I am about 7 months into working as a pharmacist and I do really enjoy it. Working as a hospital pharmacist is a lot of fun. The people I work with are crazy eccentrics and there's a lot of laughs all day long. The job itself is not too bad, and I work together as part of a team with multiple pharmacists and techs to get the job done, so we all kind of divide the work up so its not bad at all.
It can definitely be tiring, but rarely if ever have I felt legit stressed out. Overall it just wears you down more than anything.
I really couldn't see myself doing anything else.
On the other hand, My best friend who works at Walgreens, is not a happy camper :P And If I am able to get him a job, I definitely will.
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This is a fun thread!
I work in Quality Assurance for a medical device reprocessor. Basically we take used medical devices, clean them, and re-sterilize them. In quality assurance I make sure we aren't going to kill someone and that we follow federal regulations. I love what I do, but some people I work with are vile. This is another start up company, I think after this one pays out I'm gonna look at switching up careers somehow.
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I seem to be a minority here. I work with my hands (and head!) As a finish carpenter/ site superintendent for a commercial construction company. With 32 years in, I still love my trade but it has taken a toll on my body. Been with a great group for the last 5 years and that makes all the difference in the world!
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I'm a retailes sales consultant for AT&T. Fancy words for "in-store sales."
Do I like my job? Typically. My answer is different every day of the week. I live in a small town that I refer to as "The Florida of Oklahoma." It's a slightly upscale town with a sizable elderly population. With that being said, a lot of our walk-ins are crypt-keeper looking people who can't figure out how to access voicemail on their flip phone, forgot the Facebook password on the phone they shouldn't have, or have a gross misunderstanding of their bill (and of course it's our fault). The rest of the walk-ins are people who just have questions, want to upgrade their phone, or want new service.
It's my job to turn every interaction (all the way down to SIM swaps and bill payments) into a sales opportunity. Who do they have for TV, and for internet? Those are the biggest money-makers, and, as a result, our biggest goals.
I'm good at sales, but better at troubleshooting. I've been at my job long enough to know everything about everything, for the most part, so co-workers will come to me with their questions, and I like that.
Also, the money is really good.
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I am a hospice social worker. I work with a team to give people as much quality of life as possible until they die, in a nutshell. I love it (you kinda have to), but it's more emotionally exhausting than most occupations.
Most of my patients are old, and old people rule.
If money was no object, I probably wouldn't do it full time. I don't think I'd stop working altogether but I might do something a little different in the same industry. Or I might open my own funeral home and become an advocate like Caitlin Doughty for changing that shitty industry.
I'm a film composer but I also compose for other media & artists as well. I also do a bit of video production on the side. I absolutely love my job and the fact that I make my own hours (which can be insane sometimes).
Ohh, that's cool! Any well known films?
Loved reading through this thread!
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Awesome to hear you're still doing that, Jackie. I was wondering if you were still. Badass lady, to say the least.
It's funny reading my post that was just in March and it seems like well over a year ago, I actually had to check the date to make sure when I posted that. I'm at the same place but am just leading the bar and working event parties now and am slowly easing my way out. Fuck doing this as a career. :lol Funny how a shift in management and corporate ideals (or lack thereof) can shift a work environment so drastically. That said I'll probably be in the industry itself for a while longer, till I'm off probation at least. Got an offer to work at a Mariott so...eh!
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I'm a CNC Machinist. I make prototypes in the injection molding industry. Although I could be earning a lot more money with another employer doing the same thing, I really enjoy what I do. I get to work with my hands and my mind.
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I'm a CNC Machinist. I make prototypes in the injection molding industry. Although I could be earning a lot more money with another employer doing the same thing, I really enjoy what I do. I get to work with my hands and my mind.
I've spent my career working with and purchasing custom products from machinists. Much respect! :tup
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I work in the family business (auto body repair) but unfortunately I can't think of a more boring subject than cars. Although I 'work' out in the shop regularly, most of my time is in the office dealing with paperwork, customers, phones, computer/technology issues and a whole bunch of other stuff, I'm all over the place. Some days there's a whole lot of downtime on my end... I enjoy working in a small business.