What do you DO?

[Alys Kinch]

it'll be o.k. loki! (always knew there had to be some reason they hated each other. ;) )

[Vemynal]

I'm currently a college student working as a lifeguard and a swim instructer. I plan to be a nurse or a Doc. And while i didn't get a promotion to headguard they want me to do something else that i dont know about^^

[loki redfern]

they want you to relpace the hoff in bay watch dont they

[Vemynal]

naw it went "we arnt giving u the promotion but based on your skills if we have any extra work we are gonna ask u to do it, for no pay increase, no hours increase, and no title" ><

[Vemynal]

sorry for the double post, forums burbbed ><

[KuhalEarthShaker]

Hmmmm. My technical term is Telecom Network Design Engineer. I haven't the foggiest idea what that means. In reality I work for a large supplier of interconnect telecom equipment. I basically take what a salesman has tried to sell to a client and pick it apart. Tell them what will work and won't work for implementation of any given design. Every once in awhile they let me out of my box to go work on a client premise, but not often.

[Kivam]

I'm a liar. Wait, that's not how its spelled, is it? Meh, well, it sounds sort of like that. The other name for it is "attorney" :lol:

 

I'm a commercial litigator in NY for a firm called Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, (which is why I haven't been around much lately, as work has been keee-razy).

 

And if any of you folks with real jobs (yes, Hoppy, I'm looking at you :) ) ever find your company in need of a lawyer, give me a buzz, since this may be the only way I ever bring in business

 

For the rest of you, I also try to do my best to find answers for any legal questions my friends might get hit with, and I consider anyone from dragonmount a friend, so feel free to drop me a PM if there's anything like that clogging up your life (just do me a favor and don't be too specific in the first PM since I have run into conflict of interest issues before, where someone wants advice in a situation where the firm represents the other side).

 

I'm also (as the swifter among us know from my avatar/sig) a dad :)

[Swisstony]

When I'm not being the DL of the RP White Tower, I work for a leading European aircraft manufacturer - the department that I currently work in is making the wings for the new military transport plane that's due to take over from the fabulous C-130 Hercules (got some big shoes to fill there). Normally I work in the South West of England, close to where I live (by the seaside!), but my work is about to take me back and forth between here and Seville, sporadically, over the next couple of years. That's if I stay working there for that long.

 

I have a BSc (with honours) in Environmental Quality & Resource Management, which, like so many of the other graduates on here, just reinforces that rule that it doesn't usually matter what you did at university (mostly I got drunk and skipped lectures, which is hard to make a profession out of anyway).

 

In what little spare time I have that isn't stolen by DM, I like to read and write - I've completed Nanowrimo three years running now, and aiming for a fourth this year - I'm a musician of sorts, and I'm in the process of restoring the 100-year-old house that I live in with my two cats (they do the living, I do the restoring).

 

Oh, and I ride motorbikes, fly big kites, love cooking, and make stuff out of wood.

[HoppyQ]

Sorry Kivam, I don't deal with that side unless I absolutely have to. I do know we have a fleet of legal types under salary though. We have to run every contract, purchase agreement and press release by them.

[Hero of Satsuma]

Seven years to get my degree. No, I am not a doctor....

 

I am a project engineer at a very large environmental consulting firm. I design wastewater treatment plants, or more specifically, I design upgrades to wastewater treatment plants. I also oversee some of the construction of the upgrades that I design.

 

I am 27. Grew up in Michigan, now live in DC.

[the dude]

And if any of you folks with real jobs (yes' date=' Hoppy, I'm looking at you :) ) ever find your company in need of a lawyer, give me a buzz, since this may be the only way I ever bring in business [/quote']

 

define real job, kivam. my opinion (i've had this conversation with people before) is that if you pay taxes for it, it's a real job.

 

but, say, selling snorkeling gear online... would you qualify that as a real job?

[Kivam]

define real job' date=' kivam. my opinion (i've had this conversation with people before) is that if you pay taxes for it, it's a real job.

 

but, say, selling snorkeling gear online... would you qualify that as a real job?[/quote']

 

Yup - you pay taxes, its a job. As opposed to surfing DM, which some people treat like its their job

[Alys Kinch]

but, but, but... why can't it count?

[SBoydW]

Hey that means that I have two jobs.... Cool....

[DragynFli]

I'm in the U. S. Navy...for the last eight years, did four in the Marine Corps before that.

 

I used to load ordnance (bombs, missiles, explosives, etc.) on the F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet. Now I am a bodyguard for chaplains...very cool job at times.

 

30 years old, married, kids...the whole nine.

 

Used to play MMORPGs...way too much. No time for that anymore. Barely enough time to read it seems.

[Cleopatra Narisse]

I do too much... *lol*

 

1. I am a working artist/illustrator.

2. A Realtor

3. A Loan Officer (working in many US states)

and I run a Credit Improvement service for people who need too clear up some bad credit and raise their FICO Score. (little plug there)

[scoop]

I am a janitor, chef, baker, nurse, tutor, authority figure, person of comfort, counsellor, child care provider, the amazing fixit lady,....

 

 

BEHOLD! THE ALL POWERFUL SUPERMOM!!! :D

 

Okay,okay, housewife just didn't cut it. I have two great kids and a wonderful husband. My days are generally filled with toddler chasing, cooking, cleaning, directing the completion of homework and trying to sneak in a snuggle with the hubby.

[the dude]

define real job' date=' kivam. my opinion (i've had this conversation with people before) is that if you pay taxes for it, it's a real job.

 

but, say, selling snorkeling gear online... would you qualify that as a real job?[/quote']

 

Yup - you pay taxes, its a job. As opposed to surfing DM, which some people treat like its their job

 

haha, glad we agree.

 

what if i just surf a lot on DM when i'm at work?

[Calyn Jessand]

OH NO ANOTHER TEACHER!

 

That's right, I'm new and I'm a teacher, though I do love it. I am an elementary special ed teacher, working with primarily children with learning disabilities. They're great kids (even if they drive me crazy sometimes) and I love them. Neat to see a couple other teachers out there, too! :)

[Gryphan_Crymsonstarr]

I work in network operations for the Travel Channel and Discovery Home Channel and I am a native Marylander.

[- D]

Did 6 in the USAF as an aircraft weapons mechanic and computer system operator, now I'm a junior support analyst (help desk) for a large company.

 

On the side I fix stuff and make knives, write articles for friend's webzines and wrestle bulldogges.

 

- D

[Shendare]

I am the Technology Manager at a nonprofit free legal services organization (just barely paid for with city, county, state, and federal grants) serving low-income and elderly residents of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California.

 

I am the sole I.T. guy among 75 employees in 6 offices throughout the Inland Empire. *laugh* I am network  maintenance, hardware/equipment installer/troubleshooter/purchaser, webmaster, programmer, database specialist, and hardware/software tech support, among other things I'm not remembering at the moment.

 

It's a fun job, when they don't expect Jupiter from me when I can barely hold the Earth on my shoulders. I don't get paid nearly what I work for even with the overtime, they know it and I know it, but I'm helping provide a necessary service to the poor and elderly in the largest two counties in the country (geographically), so I'm okay with it. For now. *laugh*

[Cadsuane]

Shendare, are you anywhere near the fires? Hope not, they're pretty scary now.

 

I did some work with a few school districts in both Riverside and San Bernardino counties, but I don't know much else about them.

[Shendare]

Slightly. I live in Riverside and do most of my work from the Executive Office here, which has been safely away from the fires themselves, and the smoke and ash in the air have lessened considerably since the Santa Ana winds died down.

 

We do have a legal office in San Bernardino that was partially shut down, since the courts were temporarily closed as a result of the fires, and our Victorville office on the other side of the mountains says they've been getting evacuees in town from the mountains.

 

We've got our problems here, but San Diego's got it worse.  We'll pull through, though.  Natural disasters are, unfortunately, a natural thing... except when they're started by idiotic psychotics with matches.

[Tigersfs]

Hey -D, I've been in the USAF for 18 years. Where were you stationed? I've been at Travis AFB, obviously Lackland (3 times now), Keesler, Roslyn LI NY, and I'm stationed at Stewart AFB in NY now. I've also been to Saudi, Kuait, Iraq, Afgan, Germany, Azores, and England. I used to be a Computer Systems Operator but now I'm Security Forces.