So, do you like your job?

I have two jobs (gotta pay rent ;__ - one is simply work study for the school as an assistant (where I am now bored out of my mind). It's easy enough - especially this summer seeing as how there is no lab and I'm sitting in my boss's office on the laptop wasting the day away when I should be doing other things.
It's busy work really but I cannot complain.

My second job is freelance work drawing or dialoguing comic books - Disney (Mickey Mouse) and Archie (Sonic the Hedgehog) specifically. This is what I passion and ultimately want to pursue more of in my career via doing my own stuff eventually.

So how do you earn your bread and butter and do you like it, love it, loathe it, or simply tolerate it?

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I earn my income working as an environmental field inspector/field technician. It is not nescessarily a job I really enjoy, but simply I tolerate it because in my eyes it is just a stepping stone toward something greater. The biggest thing I want to get out of this job is experience so I can use that experience to get back home for good.

I'm more of an environmental researcher type of person. The funny thing about this job is that 70% of the work that I do is more in the field of civil and structural engineering. The best aspect of this job is that it is a worldwide company and they do have offices in my home province. As long as I keep a good work ethic and put in enough years up here I'll have enough experience to get a transfer.

Besides making anywhere from 5 to 6 grand a month is pretty good, with a 750 dollar living allowance. I can't complain except being away from the love of my life for three months at a time. It is basically a sacrifice that will hopefully pay off in the long run. As much as this job has its frustrating moments which it has plenty of (that I gurantee you). I tolerate it because the long term benefits that come with this work outweigh the short term benefits. Short term pain for the long term gain.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I doubt many of us are going to say yes. And I admit I am completely average in this regard.

No, I don't. I guess it could be worse. I work at Sam's Club. You know, like Costco. Warehouse retail. And it's not so bad, but I have a pretty, uh, low position, so essentially I have the same schedule day in, day out. You know those jobs where people tell you, "I wish I had that job because it's so easy" and you look like a total fool for bitching for such easy work... but in the end it's just too boring for you to appreciate?

I like to pretend that the big-kid-jobs out there are a lot more fun because they're usually career-oriented, but I'm cynical enough at 21 to not take that notion too seriously. =/

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I love both of my jobs, despite the overall low pay. I work twenty hours a week as a tour guide for my college. It's work I enjoy; gives me a chance to essentially talk about a place that I love to an audience that is very interested in everything I have to say.

The other twenty hours a week is internship time; I'm currently leading a group of six students designing and producing some official maps for America's Army, and we're working with several advisers from their California dev team. It's basically portfolio building/networking work, but it's tons of fun to boot.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I work offshore on a streamer boat. We gather seismic data from high-intensity bursts of compressed air that are sent in to the water. The particle movement eventually pops the surface, comes back up, and we gather data on the streamer kajiggers that we tow behind the boat. Varies from boat to boat, but the big Papa-sized Ramforms (Rammies) can tow 12 streamers, about 2.5 miles long apiece. We do this so we can find oil; that's right, we're one of the fuckers who take so much cash to find oil. Between platforms and exploration, you've got where most of the money you pay at the pump go towards improving.

I clean up the data on the boat and assemble it from the most primitive form in to a usable foundation for future processing. We also have clients looking over our shoulders all the while. The job involves five weeks on the boat (12hrs a day, 7 days a week) and five weeks off.

The pay isn't too great, especially for the oil industry (European company. Overtly fucks over US employees on pay. We're talking Europeans making ~3 times what I do for the same job and experience level). I don't look forward to leaving every time (flying to Spain on Sunday, in fact). I see a different group of people almost every single five weeks. Adding insult to injury, the guys who coordinate our travel agenda are fucking retarded. Plus, getting injured on the boats is pretty easy. I fucked up my shoulder (dislocation) and ripped some muscle on the left side of my neck on one trip. I also got attacked by a flying fish a few trips later

I don't like it, but I'll tolerate it. I'm about 1.2yrs in. Once I've got 2yrs under my belt, I am fucking GONE. Better paying job in an office somewhere is starting to sound pretty nice =V I'm a creature of habit, so this entire job is against every fiber of my being.

Oh yeah. The commutes blow dogs for quarters I'm about 6'3.5", and flying on planes for long periods is hell given my height. My Africa and Australia commutes involved ~25hrs of flight time. I have about 12-13 total hours of flight to get to my Spain rotation, and I see that as a SHORT COMMUTE. How sad is that?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm a full time university student most of the year, but right now I sell beer for a living. The guy who owns the vendor pretty much only hires university students to work there, so it's a pretty fun environment. There are pretty tight regulations on alcohol sales in Manitoba, and this creates a very different kind of customer service environment. In a normal store-clerk type setting, the customer is always right, etc., but when you work at a beer vendor here, most customers act like you're doing them a favor. It's a pretty great summer job.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

For all the bitching I do, I really do love my job. But then, there are few jobs I've ever held which I didn't like. Provided I make a visible difference wherever I work, I'm happy.

The commute is practically non-existent, my hours are ideal, and my work load thrills me. I get slow times, I get insanely busy times - I roll with the punches and I have a blast doing it, even when I'm bitching about it.

How ya doing, buddy?

Well... I've never really had a 'real' job, in the 9-5 sense. But I've always loved what I do, "gigging" around (ie: Playing for weddings/funerals, church events, holiday musicals, high school/community musicals). I can't really complain about the hours, but I can complain about the stupid things people do at/for their weddings .

My 'payroll' job that I have while in-school is orchestra set-up, and that is much less pleasant. Basically, 3 days a week I set up the chairs, stands, podium and occasionally the piano for the symphony. It doesn't pay that well ($8/hour, but I only work at most 9 hours a week, if there's a concert during the week) and it involves heavy lifting, plus I have to deal with wind players complaining about what kind of chairs they want, conductors telling me to set up risers and change the layout of the orchestra, and everything is within fairly strict time limits.

The only reason I stick with it is A) I need the money, however little... B)I get to converse with brass, woodwind and percussion people, of which I interact with little outside of rehearsal. Also, if I didn't do it, I don't know who would -- I can't even get an assistant.

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Originally Posted by Hachifusa

I doubt many of us are going to say yes. And I admit I am completely average in this regard.

No, I don't. I guess it could be worse. I work at Sam's Club. You know, like Costco. Warehouse retail. And it's not so bad, but I have a pretty, uh, low position, so essentially I have the same schedule day in, day out. You know those jobs where people tell you, "I wish I had that job because it's so easy" and you look like a total fool for bitching for such easy work... but in the end it's just too boring for you to appreciate?

I like to pretend that the big-kid-jobs out there are a lot more fun because they're usually career-oriented, but I'm cynical enough at 21 to not take that notion too seriously. =/

hah, cart pusher right?
I also work at a sams club in the photolab. I dont really care for it because of the people and customers I have to deal with, but its an easy job and I work with a friend of mine and we slack off responsibly (yes its possible) and we collect pics of peoples cats.
But when Im done with school, Im out of there, it really gets depressing sometimes =/

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Pizza delivery driver here.

To be honest, I love the driving part, hate everything else. I like making my customers happy, and also like just being able to drive around town.

What I hate is working in the store. Boring shit like doing dishes, cleaning, etc. Dealing with asshole coworkers who can't tell a G from their head in their ass. Dealing with a penny-pinching company that just decided to stop reimbursing drivers for calls made on their cell phone, resulting in more free pizzas and less repeat customers (i.e. more money lost than gained from the 50 cents per call they USED to dish out). Having to scrub every fucking inch of the store to pass health inspection. Dealing with irate customers who are ready to call the Better Business Bureau because their pizza was thirty seconds late. In other words, being nothing more than a second-class citizen and everybody else knowing it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I like my online reviewing job that pays in fucking terrible games, but hate my non-online food cooking goon based job that pays actual money.

If only there was some kind of in-between job where half my body was real and the other half some kind of 0 1 number jumble. Then I'd thumbs up the Queen.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I have two jobs. One is with a church running their sound and performing sound editing on sermons. I like this job. I work with people that are friendly and build me up, and with all sorts of cool equipment. It pays well and I don't have to work too hard...

My other job is with Kroger as a night stocker. I actually liked this job until the new manager took over. The people are funny and mostly competent, the work is strenuous but not difficult, and they are (well, were...) getting ready to promote me to full time with ordering gun privileges after only six months. The last time they did this was seven years ago. Unfortunately the new manager is not only a prick, but a complete idiot with a huge ego. He cares more about looking good to corporate and staying off of any shit lists than running the store efficiently. Back stock is out of control and everybody is always in a bad mood now, so I went ahead and put my notice in, because I can't work in that kind of environment. What is the point of keeping track of my own product balances and minimums if the manager is just going to bump the orders all the time?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Currently, I love the job I have at home. I've worked in this little friend-of-the-family-owned diner, serving little besides the area's specialty of steamed cheeseburgers for seven years at this point. I worked whenever I was back from school, and honestly, although I joke with my boss that I'm worth more than he's paying me, I make an amazing amount for a waitress. Almost all of the customers know my face while I know their orders, and its just a great place to be.

I'm currently working on getting a job outside of this place... you know, putting that whole 'college education' to good use. But in addition, I asked my boss for shifts every now and then during nights and weekends... I'm not ready to let go of the place yet. =)

I was speaking idiomatically.

The pros of my store retail job outweighs the con; the pay sucks but everything else is all good. The healthcare plan/401K, 5 mins drive/15 mins walk, smaller group of employees (30+), you'd know everyone by now (which works very well for a deaf employee), decent merchandise (at least outside of gaming lol), and the prospect of me becoming an assistant manager over THERE is more likely than any other retail place thus far. The managers are lax on silly policy rules ie tardies/absences/strict scheduling and assures their ex employees are allowed to boomerang back if needed. Also they're extremely flexible on the hours. Thank god. Because I was such a good/reliable employee, I could come in at 8:30 am on a shipment/truck day than at 7 am, so I could drop off SD at his job first. I don't think I can find another awesome job that can top these pros.

I had a lot of sick days but I haven't gotten written up due to not only they love me but as I said above, they're lax on the policies, and they rather put their employees first than the good for the corporate or whatever which is really nice. The managers here were managers for a long time... And most of the people here were among the firsts when the store had its grand opening. It has been about 4 years now... oh my duties actually range throughout the whole store. I'd be a stocker most of the time though.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I currently work at a Panera Bread, and I must say that it's not bad, certainly less horrible than you'd expect a food-related job to be. Sure, you still get stuck on dishes sometimes, and the customers are still whiny prats, but at least the customers and managers don't treat employees with active contempt like their equivalents at fast food places or chain restaurants; indeed, most of the managers are quite likable. Also, most of my co-workers are college students and share my distaste for Linkin Park, which certainly doesn't hurt.

The biggest downside is that the pay is crap, not much above minimum wage, and the annoying shortage of hours during the summer, though this is offset to some degree by employee discounts and the nightly free-for-all on leftover panini sandwiches and bagels.

FELIPE NO

Well, right now, I'm getting paid close to $700 a check to ride a bus for an hour to my base, chill out for seven hours with the occasional cleaning or other menial task in-between, and catch the bus back home. I'd say that's a pretty good job.

My shop where I will eventually be working on Predator planes is still in the process of being built, and likely won't be finished until January or February next year. So until then I've got it pretty easy.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Meh I'm just a part time bus boy, but I can pretty much pick when I work and everyone is pretty nice so I don't mind making minimum wage as it is.

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I dunno whether to like my job or loathe it. I work for the Feds as an auditor. I love the stability (during this crappy economy) and the perks working for the government. Loathe it because your performance is based on how much money you get back and how many reports you turn in, and the budget you used to get the money back.

My most favorite thing I love about the job, if the customer pisses me off (you have to try pretty hard to piss me off on the job), I will try my hardest to find something wrong or use some regulation that i wouldn't on others, to get money back from the govt to PISS them off. Sure they can fight it, but they have to spend extra money to pay for the 100 an hour consultant.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Assistant sound engineer. While there are aspects of my job that I like (mostly on the technical side of things), I hate most of the physical stuff that comes with it. Speakers are fucking heavy. 100 foot cables are fucking heavy. Fuck that shit.

However it pays almost $30 an hour, so... not going anywhere.

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Nothing special or notable about my old jobs. My first one was at McDonalds, where I worked drive through for almost two years. Nothing really special about that. I worked at Target after that for more or less the same length of time, as a cashier mostly and before I quit (college) was a cart pusher. I actually didn't mind that job all that much. Gave me plenty of exercise, time to think, fresh air, the ability to, for the most part, not need to deal with people, and the occasional tip when I got to help people put furniture in their cars.

Now I'm on the payroll for my school, which is very nice. Our department (film/video) does a nice job of taking advantage of my school anyway (we get our film developed for free [school pays, I mean], we have an unspoken discount deal we have with a certain lab), and we operate almost independently of the rest of the (small) school anyhow. We don't really do any real work right now (summer, not much to be done), but when tasks need to be taken care of, the few of us in the department (faculty and students on the payroll alike) we get them done. I'll make usually about $500-700 every two weeks depending on what's going on. I get paid enough to comfortably pay my bills and eat.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm a dispatcher for an office furniture installation company run by 2 guys from Brooklyn
(like me ). I've been with the company for almost 3 years. I don't have a problem with it other than the whole "working" aspect. It's actually a very relaxed environment. I can dress however I want, practically do what I want as long as I get my work done (I've had a few drinks here and there on the job :P). It can be a pretty stressful job but it sure beats stock/warehouse work having a herniated disc and all >.>

The pay is good for what I do. It's a pretty cozy living. Ultimately I want to live off my music. I'm working on my first album which I will either send off to record companies or just put up on itunes. I love writing music and have a ton of ideas. The problem is I'm not focused and I get pretty overwhelmed.

So I guess I'm where I want to be right now. I don't wake up anymore saying "I don't want to go to work today", I have enough money to live off of and invest in my music, and I haven't worked a weekend in almost 3 years.

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I look at this thread, and I see some people who have some interesting jobs. I also see other people who have average jobs that the average joe will have.

I fall into the latter. I work at McDonald's. Do I like it? No, not really. Does it pay well? Not at all. Is the only reason I have this job because I can't find a better one? Of course!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I dig my job. It started out as a way to make decent coin while having fun between film jobs, but it's actually become a steady thing even with a recent influx of film-based employment.

A few friends of mine own a rather well celebrated brew pub out my way, and they hired me on as a co-executive chef to bring some Asian fusion and a new look to the menu, since the guy who was doing it wanted to spend more time actually cooking and less doing menu-building. So, basically I hang out in a great kitchen for a few hours, spend the rest of the time drinking some of the best micro-brew on the planet, talking to the regulars, flirting with waitresses and learning the art from the brewmaster. I used to be there three or four days a week, now I put in the same sort of time and get paid a hefty chunk of change for my troubles. It's actually pretty badass, and I've recently started putting away some funds to open my own brewpub when I move out to Montreal on a more permanent basis, since they have a sad lack of proper pubs out there.

That's not to say I'm abandoning life behind a camera lens. One of the boons of this job is a boss who is really liberal with me just disappearing for a week at a time.

FELIPE NO

I enjoy my job of a QA Tester for THQ. I recently got promoted to a permanent position after over a year on contractual work. It was supposed to last one year but it was extended by several months. I recently did an interview for Test Lead which would have me overseeing the QA Testers and doing more managerial tasks.

The people I work with for the most part are good and the atmosphere again is very relaxed. The schedule is steady though having overtime sucks from a life point of view but rocks when it comes to time and a half pay. I have put in nearly 80 hour work weeks for a couple of months before. Brutal but great pay.

The games I have tested are nothing really special, NHRA, Juiced 2, Let's Ride Friends Forever and WALL-E. But again the people make up for it and it's really cool to see some of the design documents that the developers provide us.

On the side I do animations for an independent MMO called Infernal Worlds. It sounds like we're gonna get picked up, at least some publishers are interested and so this could turn into a paying gig. It is designed that way based on a royalty plan so that would be awesome.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I work in a call center. That means speaking to angry customers almost every day, graveyard shifts, tons of cigarette and alcohol, incompetent co-workers, bad food, no life, but the pay's good (which I need since I'm one of the breadwinners in my family). Been doing this for a year now.

Yeah, I think I kind of like this job. But what I really like is to get paid to draw all day, just like Dubble here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.