Where do you work? And what do you do?
 

So, here I am, sitting at work, bored off my ass - and the idea came to me to make a post about what us GFFers do for money?

I'm employed at the Toronto-Buttonville Airport, by a company called Million Air. Most of the time, it's pretty slow here, because the weather hasn't been cooperating, and most of the buisness traffic has moved to the three other airports that are close by (mostly to pearson after the remodeling of the skyservice FBO there).

Anyways, the scope of my job is to go out and greet non-based planes when they land and taxi up to the terminal, and help the pilots and passengers with baggage, transportation (I'm also a hertz car rental representitive), and hotel bookings.

I've got a pretty sweet deal though, I only work on one day of the weekend, and for one weeknight. The weekend shift is from 0900-1700, while the weeknight shift is from 1600-2000.

What about the rest of GFF?

PHP Programmer. Working at the MATRIX Lab here at Michigan State. http://www.matrix.msu.edu

Although I guess my career is technically "Student" according to most classifications.

I work at my church. I run the audio mixing board, and I post-produce the sermons so that they're acceptable for purchase.

I have two jobs at the moment.

The first is workstudy. I work in web development and help maintain and update the Hampshire College Website. Because I'm a student, I'm not allowed access to much besides the CMS and editting the content of the site. But what I do is somewhat enjoyable and my boss is awesome, so it's not too boring.

The second came out of an internship I had with WPBT, a PBS station in Miami this past January. Basically, I write out lesson plans for tapes of features that the Nightly Business Report sends out to schools. That's a little bit more difficult, because each lesson plan requires some heavy research for the background information but overall not an unbearable time commitment.

I work for the University of Manitoba Students' Association and I set up and take down speaker systems for concerts and other events.

I work for a bank in Alabama. We have 28 or so locations/branches/offices and around 300 employees. I am the primary PC tech, which entails buying, configuring, and deploying new computers, troubleshooting user level PC problems, and fixing hardware problems with laptops and PCs. I suppose I am also a backup network admin, as I have domain admin rights and frequently create new users and manage network file shares. I will soon be getting into the physical network and telephone system side of things as well, since our WAN/LAN/telephone administrator does not have a backup. This means that I will start dabbling in the Cisco world {which is a good way to make myself a lot of money}.

I work for a company that owns a manages Assisted living and Retirement homes. There are almost 300 employees here at corporate and almost 8000 corporate wide. My technical title is Staffing Verification Auditor but I do much more than that... I also am sitting here at work bored, wasting a little time right after my lunch.

In short, I am a glorified paper pusher.

I work for a software house in the South of England. It has about 250 employees and I work as one of them as a programmer, or software developer, or software engineer, whatever you want to call it. I work on software testing tools and also perform training and consultancy, either in-house or on client site. It's pretty interesting stuff and the pay's ney bad either. ;)

I have a total of four jobs:

I'm a graduate assistant at my university, teaching 1-2 writing courses per semester for about the amount of money a full professor would pay to get a cavity filled.

I also work part-time at the university library in the government documents section, handling documents SO BORING that they have to be quarantined to avoid civillian casualties.

In addition, I write a weekly opinion column for the school newspaper, which net about enough to buy a used CD per column. But seeing my name and picture in print is more important, ego-wise, anyway.

Finally, during breaks and vacations, I work in the stockroom of a college bookstore, occasionally going out to do things on the sales floor. This is brute force labor, but it also means a lot of free bookage when we throw things away.

I have the unusual distinction of still being employed in every job I've ever had, since the bookstore job began as my high school summer job, and my library job began as my at-school job. Between the four of them, I make just about enough money to squeak by.

I work for gaming website, 1UP.Com, in Production, here in San Francisco. Essentially, I work on the back end side of things like the games database. I also have to police the community a bit (Augh), get our weekly newsletters together and other random projects.

I also find the time to do editorial work by means of Previews and reviews for the site. I also contribute to news every once in a while, but that's really just if it has something to do with Bemani (As I'm the expert on that) or Bungie (Because I'm a dirty fanboy). I've also been doing guest reviews for Electronic Gaming Monthly for the past few months, so it's been pretty awesome.

The only sucky part is that nowadays, it's hard to find time to actually play games :X My work blog is also here.

Supervisor / Shipping Clerk for a catalog / store / company. I pretty much stand around all day and pack boxes of stuff, usually fragile items (Lamps, frames, trays, furniture, etc.) and later in the day, ship stuff via FedEx, and UPS.

Back in December we would be doing over 500 boxes a day, and over 1000 boxes a day on weekends. Now we're barely shipping about 100. I also had about 5 staff under me, plus had a bunch of temporary college girls that I had to watch over. :p Of course now that the season rush is over, all partimers and most seasonal jobs have been given the boot.

It's a seasonal job unfortunately, and I'm about to be let go. Though I had a good run, and tons of money.

I'm still in High School, so for now I have a part-time job at A&W. Usually I'm making burgers and fries, but there's a lot of stuff that we have to do that people don't think about having to do in a fastfood restaurant. We have lots of jobs to do, such as scrubbing shit out of the baseboards, weekly removing of everything from everywhere, cleaning, organizing, and replacing, LOTS of dishes (not customer dishes, those are done upfront, our dishes are condiment containers, meat trays, gravy pots, and the like). We also often have to clean the grease out of the canopies above the grill and fryers and empty the grease traps, which are disgusting. Another major part of working in a fastfood restaurant is daily injury. You NEVER get away without atleast one major cut or burn if you're working a shift, and sometimes injuries are worse than others, I've gotten grill cleaner in my eye(13.57 ph) and had to wash my eye out for a good hour before I could see, or even not scream from the pain again. We also have to deal with retarded customers, who return things or demand better food, the works...

So anyways, pretty much the extent of my job is to get walked all over by the publics insatiable appetite.

I am a groundskeeper for my university. My title is "Beds Crew Minion." I plant flowers, tear up flowers, spray flowers (I got my chemical certification last summer, mwa ha ha ha ha) and buy flowers. I also cut down trees and plant trees, do a bit of landscaping, and in the fall a Lot of shoveling bark chips. Sometimes we get a different sort of job like building a fountain or setting a brick sidewalk here or there, it's a lovely relaxing job with extremely flexible hours, pays 8.00 an hour (not terrible for an undergrad, though my bf makes 9.50) and excellent company. Besides that, I get to drive the Gators, which are way to much fun. I've done temporary jobs as a php programmer, but the hours weren't as flexible and I've usually got a class overload as an engineering student, so that was important to me.

Im a Full time Student @ City College... yea took me long enough to get here... lol lets see... i used to work at game crazy, but .... heheh...

I work in my home office. Company co-founder. I'm Graphic Designer and Webmaster. It's boring a lot of the time. I loathe forcing myself to log out of msn messenger when I need to get work done.

Currently, I am working as a Deskside Support Tech for the City of Minneapolis. I mainly respond to service calls for hardware (laptop/desktop) break/fix, printer issues, and the occasional PDA problem. Its only a temporary position but it is proving to be an invaluable source of experience (and frustration.)

I don't do anything. But it would be incorrect to say I don't have money. I just don't have as much money as I would like, I guess.

I hate working retail, and can't seem to even get called to an interview for a desk job, even though in some cases I'm overqualified. Although I'm not trying very hard to find a job. I'm actually waiting for next school semester so I can have something to do.

At the moment I could be considered a web designer, but since I'm not actually getting paid I don't consider it a real job.

@ OmagnusPrime (and anyone else here that might know) What's the software engineers role? I'm going for that because I want to do design and planning for scientific apps ideally, starting out as a coder, but a lot of the CS majors on campus are telling me that engineering isn't the way to go for that.

I'm not graduated yet. But I'm currently studying international relations, hoping I would someday become diplomat for my country. but too bad, in the country where I live on, chinese are rather discriminated, so it will be a bit surrealistic dream.

But friend of my mother offer to work in Prudential, perhaps I will apply for this instead.

I work at Safeway food and grocery as a courtesy clerk (aka bagger) which means the following:
--First and foremost I bag groceries and bring them to their car upon request
--Second I clean bathrooms, which means I stock toilet paper, soap and paper towels. That also means I must clean up any shit that anyone decides to leave in or out of the toilet
--I manage the bottle recycling room, I have to empty the machines, service them and make sure everyone gets their money
Also I empty the trash and clean up messes, but that was a given, wasn't it?

When I am not at school, I have an engineering internship program going with a small manufacturing company.
For the most part I spend my hours on Mechanical Desktop, copying other company's products whose patents have expired.
When I am not doing that, I might be doing product testing, or perhaps developing some small manufacturing environment improvement.
Nothing at all exciting.
However, there is the possibility for me to work for this company that makes various prosthetic parts and biomedical equipment. That would totally rock if I got that job.

I'm a college student but work at Gap part time. I fold clothes, ring people up, direct people to dressing rooms, ask people if they want to open Gap cards (they usually don't) and other misc crap you would find to do at a mall store.

Job sucks but I get 50% employee discounts and it's not exactly rocket science, so I live.

I work stagecrew at Oakton Community College because the hours are very flexible, and I love the actors and coworkers (PM me for free comps!). Outside of that, I run a small business that takes contracts for information system analysis/design and information technology. This essentially means if you want an office set up, I'll make it happen. I hunt down specific people who are good in the field needed to be serviced, and take a 10% agent fee. My employees like me cause I pay them $120 - $200 an hour, and I like it because 10% of $120 - $200 an hour adds up pretty fast.

I'm currently a substitute piano teacher due to school, which consists of teaching piano to the young'uns.
Also, I try to participate in Psych experiments for money ;)
I'm looking into a career change into the lines of call centre jobs (not telemarketing though)

I work part-time for a chain of Tops supermarkets as an in-house signpainter and graphic artist. My main responsibilities are the production and maintenance of the large signs used throughout the store. When promotions and events occur, I am often charged with creating an interesting eyepiece to attract further attention.

I'm also in charge of the seasonal decorations. This means ordering and putting up colored banners, flags, floral displays, oversized cutouts and various novelties. Christmas and Easter are pretty strenuous when it comes to this aspect of the job. But it's excellent portfolio work and great job experience for resumes, so I can overlook the emasculating side of it.

I do this not only for my home store, but also as an assist to two other franchise stores in the bi-county area. Between me and the other signmaker at another store, we handle 3 large supermarkets and a smaller Kwik-E-Stop styled store. It's a handful but the creative outlet is great.

I only work part-time since I've recently gone back to school and would be overwhelmed by a full-time job plus homework responsibilities.

I work as a lot guy at Home Depot, but I prefer to use the term "bitch". I'm generally yelled at by everyone in the store because I can't do a million things at once (well, realistically, it's 7), one of the managers keeps making stuff to get me in trouble, they refused to give me at least 30 hours when I kept saying that was I needed to pay the bills and it's gone for so long that now I need 40 hours a week to catch up and they still don't want to do that while meanwhile there are people who actually want 20 hours a week that are getting 40, they only give me as little as six or seven hours between shifts (tonight I get 10 hours before tomorrow's shift.... w00...), they lock up the doors at night and don't unlock them until fifteen minutes after everyone's clocked out but damned if you're gonna get any extra pay for those fifteen minutes and damned if you're gonna get to come in any later to your next shift which by all means I think is illegally close to the current shift as it is, it's a horrible job. I'm almost inclined to say Wal Mart looks appealing. I would have left long ago if I didn't need money and I'm actively looking for another job so I can get out of that hell hole as soon as I can.

I am a tax enforcement inspector for the federal tax enforcement departement in Brussels. I make people pay even when they don't want :dealer:

I'm a full time student, but this summer I will be doing some pretty cool research in a Cell Biology lab here at McGill. This is going to be my first taste of doing actual research, so I'm quite looking forward to it. Plus, I get to use a million dollar microscrope. :)

I'm a student and work part time at my locale Gottschalks and the receiving dock. My work day consists of me getting up at 3am, be at work by 4 and then listening to loud rock music with the other guys on the dock and lift heavy boxes and process them (i.e. putting censors and the cloths). However it's actually pretty fun. Great people work there and on slow days we get to screw off and play shuffleboard or...(picture of me):
http://freespaces.com/xerxesthemighty/p1060083r.jpg

Robot wars baby...YEEHAW!!! I won by the way. hahahah.

I have an office job(at Comprint Solutions) going around the various floors in business buildings stocking print rooms with paper and printer toners. Thats about all I do. so essentially I'm a paper boy at a printing company. but I think during the summer I'll get to learn how to fix printers and what not.

on a side note: wow, someone from 1up.com posts here too! amazing! I visit that site everyday. /cheer

I used to work for my dad at his medical lab, but with school, I decided to quit my job there and focus on my studies. Nowadays I just go with my dad on occasion and help him out with his carpentry work to make a few bucks here and there.

I currently work at the United States Naval Research Laboratory. I work in the Tactical Electronics Warfare Division. I write applications and plug-ins for a 3-D simulation, visualization, mission-planning tool. I got this job two summers ago, before my junior year of college. Because I'm an undergraduate, one would think this is just a co-op/internship; but my hiring process pretty much makes this a real job, just with an undergraduate pay. Once I graduate and decide to continue here, I'll get paid tons more. During the some semesters, I worked part-time; and when I couldn't work, I'm put on leave without pay.

I am going through interview processes right now as well as awaiting decisions from other companies. So far, I only got an offer from Lockheed Martin. I'm trying to move more in the way of "Computer Engineering" rather than just the "Computer Science" I've been doing.

And then on the side, I'm trying to get into some technology start-up ventures. I'm taking classes and entering area events and stuff... it's pretty fun. Maybe one of my groups ridiculous ideas will come through.

I'm currently a part-time student at Florida Atlantic University, and work part time as an associate manager at a local Regal theater.

After summer, I intend to quit my job and become a full-time student. I'm going nowhere at this rate.

I'm a paper carrier. While this job is a pain in the ass, for example delivering papers in a foot of snow with blistering cold winds blowing into your eyeballs, it's also not that bad because I work however and whenever I want, to a certain extent of course. I should apply for a "real" job soon, though. I'm getting sick of this.

I work for an Oil company as an exploitation engineer. But I'm just a coop student.

I am a leasing and marketing director for a residential and commercial property managment firm.

I'm a full time student at Columbia State Community College, and I work part time at a department store.

I teach piano in my home. It's pretty good money for a 19 year old, and its not time consuming at all, flexible hours, under the table. It doenst get much better :)

Currently, I'm unemployed. I am, however, a full-time college student, who should be admitted in physics next term. I've already been accepted at the three universities where I've applied. As it is, my first choice is McGill University, assuming I'm accepted in their honours program which you have to apply to after applying for physics and which requires better grades than the regular "major/minor" program, meaning I can't be certain I'll be accepted for that. If I'm not accepted, then I'll probably be going to another university in the province of Quebec.

I hate choosing schools. And applying to them.

Does that mean that you spend your days analyzing current events and attempting to spin them in such a way as to raise oil prices across the continent?

I'm the microbiologist for a small food company in San Francisco Bay Area. This basically means I analyze food samples (nut seasonings, sausage seasonings, spices, etc) for dangerous bacteria (E. Coli and Staphyloccocus to name a couple). I also assay these samples for yeast and mold.

I'm a freelance musician, mostly in quartets. This means I play for weddings, wine & cheese parties, and other generally boring events. BUT I make good money while doing it.

I was in my hometown's local symphony, and if I'm ever there when they have a concert I could sub in. I also do some freelance graphic design and art, but that's not nearly as often as the music gigs.

I'm a dealer... and no, not the drug kind.

I play cards, blackjack, baccara, and a few other games for one of the three casinos in Quebec. It's a pretty decent job except for the fact that everyone blames their life-problems on you...

I stock shelves, on the night shift.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...k/P1010462.jpg

Here is a picture of where I work. The church had an auction today, and I was there all day playing music and controlling the auctioneer's mic. No big deal. Tomorrow and every sunday though, I get to mix live music! Woo hoo! Most people are very intimidated by the apperance of the board, but it's not even 1/16 as complicated as it looks.

:lolsign: I work at Toys R Us, and I watch little kids come in and mess the store up for me to clean later on. Then on Thursay, I go to the back and unload the large truck full of useless plastics.:lolsign:

Also i'm a full-time college kid like "YeOldeButchere", so I dont have much time to do anything.

I graduated from college last december and have been looking for work in my field (graphic design) since then. Til i find something, I'm still working for Blue Cross Blue Shield doing data entry. Its some of the most boring work on the planet, but my manager leaves 3 hours into my shift, and I kinda/sorta don't do anything the rest of the night.

I have 2 jobs:

1. I'm a pianist at my local church, and do that during the fall and winter months. Good pay, few hours: works well.

2. I'm a Cedar Point ride host during summer, starting last day of April and going through the end of August. This year I'm starting on maXair. I get to wear a fake smile, push buttons, ride rides for free, and have a great summer!

Right now I stock shelves on the night shift at the local Zellers.

And shortly I'll be doing some occasional fletching as a sort of apprentice to a crazy bowyer/fletcher I know. :)

1. Full time student. Takes up a shitload of time, given my major. And that I go to A&M >__<

2. Undergrad research assistant for Geophysics lab. We take out Electromag gear on occasion (every saturday starting next week until school ends) from early in the morning to the evening across one day. Then we look at the data, filter out the noise in the waves, and get nice, clean data. Upper tier oil companies get a real hard-on for EM work.

3. On afternoons or off-days from school, I work in a jewelry store. I make, repair, appraise, and sell the jewelry. Quite a fun job ;D A nice cruise-control type of mental stress as compared to the Geop EM stuff *shudders* Not that being a Jeweler is easy or anything like that...

I stock shelves, on the night shift. same as arrowhead but i also stock in the mornings. it's ok except when you finish early. oh and when costumers ask you where something is, and it's like right infront of their face, but at least it's better than been a bagger i mean comoon who ask to double bag their bread ridicoulos i tells you

I'm on an apprenticeship/course of sorts in catering. Most of it is me in the kitchen cooking stuff, but there's also a paperwork side of it. Considering how much I work (9:30-2:00 Mon & Wed, 9:30-12:00 Fri) I get a fair amount of money.

I work in IT for my college.

Wooooo for the late night shift!

The Law and Justice Department called me today and said that I got the job.
I will be working for the CSI from July/August

:biggrin:

I work for a financial consulting firm for dentists/orthodontists/endodontists/pediatric dentists/etc. - basically we provide financial services to any dental doctor.

I do lots of different things, but the main ones are paying the bills, maintaining and issuing reimbursements through our company's Cafeteria and MERP plans, processing payments from clients, making bank deposits, analyzing doctors' annual profit and loss statements, working in our newsletter subscription department (we have a newsletter written by my boss who is a CPA, MBA, JD and all sorts of other letters, with about 8,000 subscribers), answering phones when our receptionist is out to lunch, filing, and registering doctors for seminars.

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but I guess not.

Oh, and so far Roph has the coolest job.

EDIT: I forgot to say that I only work part-time, from 8:45 - 1:45, which allows me to be home before my kids get home from school in the afternoons.

I am a drone for a "risk management" company (whatever the fuck that entails). I mostly test computer applications that BAs and call center reps use to do work that someone or some company could very well do themselves.

The nice part is, they pay well, pay for my grad school, have neat benefits and the office is in the same town as my apartment.

I am a graveyard shift worker for Kroger - or a night grocery clerk and I do this sickness hellish job 55-70 hours a week, and it's a weekly paying job. Yea I'm one of those guys who fills the shelves up before you day shoppers begin your daily shopping routines.

Right now for side cash, I work as a stocker at a drug store putting up crap.

In the summer after this semester, I'll be (hopefully) working for Chevron at Port Fourchon and on some oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. ($$$)

Where I shall be hoping for many hurricanes and tropical distrubances so I don't have to work and I will still be paid. =D

I applied at a bank at 14 and got the job soon after I turned 15. Now, I'm 16 and do alot of different things like scanning and waiting on customers. Can't give out any more information though. I'd have to kill ya. It's one of those CIA things....
Joseph

I work at a Deli. Roughly 20 hours a week. Rarely do I ever touch a slicer or help customers. I make my own sandwiches and clean and stock. That's my job.

I'm not in college yet, but as soon as I am, Ill rely on eBay for spending money and devote myself fulltime to college I think.

I work at a dollar store. I work 4 hours a week.

I'm starting a new job at Subway. It'll pay more than the stupid bakery I worked for.

This is somewhat late, but better than never (right?). Sorry, I really should pay better attention, so oops.

So anyways, I don't really like the term Software Engineer as it feels too fluffy for my liking, mostly because it's a generic term that can cover such a huge range of jobs within the computing industry. But people like labels so there you go. If you're looking to get into designing applications then that'll have to be a question you put to any potential employers, make sure the opportunities you are looking for are there. Don't be surprised if you have to start out as a bit of a code monkey, it's quite common in a number of companies. If you have any specific questions feel free to PM me.

I work in an asian restaurant by the name of SOBA Noodle & Rice as a prep cook. I stand around all day, making crab puffs, sorting noodles, and preparing vegetables. God, I can't wait until I move, where I can go to college and get a better job.

Libarian. Although, I don't have any degree. Working in a library makes me a librarian automatically. As least thats what the patrons try to make me believe.

I'm just an office bitch.

And a poor college student.

Where: The Detroit Incinerator Plant.

Title: Heavy Equipment Operator

Description:

I operate bulldozers, front-end loaders and cranes...I basically push garbage.

I work at a Law firm and I'm a coder or a data entry clerk. Basically entering things into the database and get legal documents ready for a case. Pretty boring, but the pay is not bad.

I need a weekend job.

I'm a Systems Administrator at a University. That means that even though I maintain servers, network infrastructure etc... I also have to do the gimp jobs like installing operating systems, fitting DVD writers, telling 'tards how to copy and paste etc... Not boring though, and the pay and holidays are OK too.

I'm a waiter at Ruby Tuesday. I kiss peoples' asses and bring them food to bitch about to my boss because their bacon was on the side instead of crumbled on the baked potato. I'm basically a prostitute.

Who is your daddy, and what does he do? [/arnold]

i'm a research scientist at a medical center. basically spend like 8-12 hrs/day and pretty much half of the weekend at the lab, trying to get some publishable data. it's getting a bit frustrating these days since nothing works! argg!!!

I work at blockbuster as a csr. I like it when i done have to work with the cranky old man (ass manager), Joe. I don't like weekends. I feel bad when we don't have anything to rent...
and if i hear someone ask one more time for chronicles of narnia.

I have to go in at 6.

I'm still a student, but I'm planning on getting a part time job as a chambermaid or something for a little while; I'm fed up of being short of cash. I'm also hoping to get some kind of voulenteer work at the local hospital (a sort of optional and late work experience) but that won't be paid.

I work in an elementary school basically taking care of kids... no complaints as they generally behave good :)

I'm working on a Bachelorship of Business Management and work part time in a bookstore, which is awesome. 30% off any books.

The downside is I'm the only one who knows anything about computers so I get dragooned into doing any kind of installation/maintenance/network problems. The work is fun as hell though so I don't mind. I will tell you my favourite story yet though.

The owner of the business is in no way computer literate, but thanks to the wonders of the internet she can now pay her bills over the internet. All well and good you say. So she calls me to the back of the shop to take a look at the computer because its not accepting her credit cards, I figure she's either entering the wrong number or she's in the wrong section for making payments.

But no. That would be too easy. Turns out that when she said that it wasn't excepting her cards she meant it literally. She had stuck a card into the floppy disk drive. Which promptly got eaten. So then she tried the CDROM drive. Same again except this time it was scratched. Not to be defeated she continued to insert credit cards through heating vents until the time that I got there, she had no less than 11 credit cards sticking out of the thing. The poor computer looked like a white cactus.

So yeah, interesting times to be had.

I have two jobs (sort of) one during the summer, and one during the school year.
During school I have work study in the Nature Library at MICA, except no one ever comes in to check things out and am often found weeping softly to myself out of sheer boredom.
Second job is back in my hometown, which is why I can only work summers, and I host and cashier at a local breakfast resteraunt. Its incredibly fast paced and stressful, but I love it dearly none the less.

I have a great part time job. One day a week, on Fridays, I work as the head computer technician and assistant computer teacher at a local private elementary/middle school. I also work there full time during the summers as the head (well, only really) computer specialist.

Basically, I maintain a labful of 20+ Macs and another 20+ classroom computers, plus the servers, switches, etc, while also helping with the older students classes. The main teacher isn't too technically minded, leaving me to teach the fun stuff like Macromedia Flash, digital movie making using iMovie, and some 3D animation with Blender.

Originally I entered the job just for some extra easy money, but I've fallen so in love with working with the children, that I've decided to pursue a teaching career instead of one in research. Just seeing the similes on children's faces, and seeing how I'm a positive influence on their lives, brings me a sense of fulfillment I've never found anywhere else.