The all new "What the hell do you do for a living?" thread
 

Feel free to post what you do for a living here. I work for Hitachi Computers. It is a manufacturing facility that builds high end RAID machines. I work in "Customer Repair Service" as an electronics technician.

Assistant Vice President, Director of Information Services, Reinsurance Association of America

Or more simply put, The Computer Guy.

Reinsurance: Insurance for insurance companies.

I put rapists and child molesters behind bars.

Trucker (insert airhorn sound hear)

Drive for Emerson, formerly known as Emerson Electric but they dropped half of the name for some reason. Big company, makes lots of shit. Most of the stuff I carry would be electric motors that go in Whirlpool, Frigidaire, and other appliances. Then the Copeland compressors go into air conditioners and stuff like that. Also Rigid/Bosch power tools.

I understand we make fans, too. They even put them on our trailers. Never seen one though, in one of my trailers or in a store.

You're that specialized?


Oh, I'm a Maytag repairman. :D

This.

Right now, nothing.

I own and run a web design/online advertisement company...that is the polite way to say that i work designing and advertising porn and casino websites since 5 years ago :)

Before this i worked with my father in a computers shop/repair service that we still own, since i was 14 year old. At same time i studied at school and later at university. I left the university before finishing the Computers Technician career to fund my own bussines (the porn one) as i felt i was loosing my time in the university, i whish i thought about this bussines 2 years before when the boom started in 1998.

Work for a worldwide telecom corporation that develops hardware and software for corporations. I'm the global consolidations financial analyst, and develop financial programs.

Subby - we used to play you guys in softball when I used to live in the Princeton, NJ, area. What are you guys doing for DR? How many data centers do you have?

I'm a Storage Networking Solutions Architect for a company that specializes in the design, implementation and management of optical networks (SONET and dark fiber).

I am a stay at home mom/housewife and trying to get my own business started.

In my former life I was a customer service rep working in different types of companies, and also handled insurance claims for a short period of time.

1. Go to school. (at RPI)
2. Sell shoes. (at Dick's Sporting Goods)
3. Push papers around for a catering company. (Sodexho)

My wife and I own/run an advertising agency. A heavy concentration in media planning & placement, but we're pretty much a full-service shop, handling things ranging from endorsement negotiations to focus groups/research to creative.

I help take from the rich and give to the poor once the rich is done abusing them... hence the need for tort reform lest the political coffers run dry.

I'm a Senior Production Planner for a coach manufacturing company called Prevost Car (www.prevostcar.com). I basically set the schedule and the production mix for a production line that employs some 600-700 workers. We should make around 600 or so of these coaches, either long distance touring coaches or motorhome shells ready for conversion.

FM

i sell new homes for Richmond American Homes in Jacksonville Florida, run the USFL, and do some acting when I can. I just had an audition for NAPA in which, if Iw ere to get it which is slim to none shot, would do some commercials with the OCC guys. Thatd be cool, but like i said, slim to none shot.

I am a Sr. SAP Business Analyst for RF Micro Devices. www.rfmd.com

I'm an attorney. I work in the legal department of a mutual fund company.

I work for Bank of America as a Marketing Analsyt. My area of speciality is distribution strategy which means I am involved in determining where to put branches and ATMs and then analyzing their performance.

I am a Lead Business Systems Analyst for an investor education company. Running joke around the office is that I am the CDO (Chief Documentation Office). Bascially, I get to meet with the end user document their request, go back to my desk, flow chart and spec out the proposed project, take it to the lead developer, sit with him, figure out technically, what they can and can not do, come up with a time line/time frame, go back to my desk, technical spec it and flow chart, combine both reports, perform a Cost Benefit analysis on the requested project as well as determining if it works within the business rules and functions of the company.

I also own my own web development/advertising/marketing agency. I do a lot of stuff for small businesses, however I did have a couple of large clients (One credit union, another one was tied with a relegious company, that focused on providing their ministry with stores, shops, chat programs so they could ensure they dealt with good wholesome people like themselves)

And last but not least, I sell AFLAC, have done so for over 2 years, it is a nice part time gig that is slowly building a nice monthly residual check for me.

High school English teacher. Retired Army officer.

Tech Sergeant in the US Air Force. I've been doing comm and computers for 14 years now and have generally enjoyed the experience enough to continue to doing it.

i host a talk show on the internet at www.nranews.com and Sirius satellite radio. The NRA in question is not the National Restaurant Association.

I'm in the Navy. By trade, I'm an electronics technician. In the past, I've worked on Shipboard Nontactical ADP Program (SNAP), AIMS MKXII IFF, UPX-29 IFF, as well as a specific switchboard, SB-4229, and Shore Communications equipment.

Right now, I'm billeted to Great Lakes, IL. I'm here for instructor duty. Up until the new year, I was teaching about 500 students (in blocks of 250 at a time) Navy Military Training (NMT). It was a lot of fun, the students enjoyed it as much as I did. I didn't go by the book very often.

I was also in charge of civilian contracts for the building I worked in. Basically I signed off on any kind of corrective or preventative maintenance, as well as answered any questions. I reported to the main building about audits and spot inspections I conducted.

Since the new year, our commanding officer has made a lot of changes to our base, and I've been reassigned. They took away my contract supervising and my teaching time, but have me in the same building. About the only thing I'm in charge of right now is to make sure students get to the schoolhouse for training. If they don't, I notify the student's barracks. A few other minor things sprinkled in there, but not much. Yesterday I didn't even change into uniform while I was there.

I recently (December) picked up a second job. I work at GNC here on the base as well.

I'm back working as an electrical engineer for now. I also have a freelance technical writing business, and did a lot of substitute teaching last year.

Secret Agent. I was a hitman, but decided to go legit.

I'm a shepherd.

sometimes a man needs a little time, just him and a few sheep.

You gotta love the navy. Acronyms inside of acronyms! :p

I pick on the Navy all the time (because I've worked with you folks for nearly 6 of my 14 years in service). One of the most notable projects I had in the Air Force was working with the Turkish Army to get Naval Task Forces in the Med vital information about suspect shipping in time for them to decide if they need to interdict or not. That's everybody working together and it was very rewarding. Especially getting one of your Navy Chief's to try and drink the Turks under the table on Turkish Raki. That was ugly. :)

My dad retired from Copeland Corporation 4-5 years ago.

i'm a network engineer/designer for a very large manufcaturing company with responsibility for the global network.

....but I digress.

I have been working in Geographic Information Systems since 1982: as a Planning Technician in San Diego in the early 1980s, then as a GIS Consultant in the late 1980s and since 1989, as an Applications Lead for Colorado Springs Utilities. As a lead, I have been doing System/Network/DB Admin, long-time Applications Development and recently, Project and Technical Management. I am a Cartographer by profession and I just tell people I make maps.

I spent a few years programming, mainly VB and COBOL, but decided to change careers and am now a Licensed Massage Therapist.

Senator just stole my line (see my profile), so I'll actually answer...

my night job is sales at PCConnection.
my day job is stay at home dad.

I just thought it was the white version of N.W.A.

Now what in the heck does the National Wrestling Alliance have to do with restaurants? :D

I currently have no meaningful employment, but I'll be graduating with a Masters in English this May so if anyone has a good job to offer me that involves writing, I'd be happy to listen. :)

Asssistant volleyball coach at Washington & Lee University. Will be earning my masters in coaching starting this summer or fall.

I go to college and am currently seeking a 10 hour a week job. :D

I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them.

I have been a CNC (Computerized Numeric Control) machinist for 20 some odd years now. I program and set-up computer controled lathes and milling machines as well as all PC related stuff at the shop. I am also Quality Assurance Assistant and program and operate our CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine).

You could just go on foreign study and visit Wales... I think they'll let you tend to all the sheep you want.

For some reason I had a feeling Easy Mac's post would be in response to me.

It's than Espn I tell you.

I'm a college student and I coach Junior Varsity Hockey for the high school I graduated from last year

By day, I am a multi-billionare playboy who runs my own company here in Gotham. By night... it's none of your damn business.

Actually I work at a radio station, pushing buttons, keeping shows on the air, bleeping idiot callers who thikn that it's alright to say "fuck" on the air. I also program the automation, so that when you hear a commercial that is streatched from 60 seconds to 120, or the news doesn't come on and there is dead air, everybody blames me.

Apply for a Federal job.

Do you like saying the word 'fries' alot? ;) How do you feel about paper hats?
Seriously, good luck in your job search.

I'm Superman.

But in the daytime, I work as a processor for the escrow arm of First American Title, and on the weekends I still work at my old college job of waiting tables at TGIFriday's.

I have also worked as a journalist, including a stint as a community beat reporter for the LA Times, have done some fictional writing on the side (but yet to actually get myself an income with it), and have taught myself some programming with the intent to someday work on my own text sims.

CR

Graduating in May with a B.S. in Management from Rutgers. Currently looking for work in financial services, consulting, all that other crap. If anyone is looking for an underling in the NYC area, give me a buzz.

For the past year and a half I worked part-time during school/full-time during breaks at New Jersey One Call as an operator. Your state has something similar. Anytime you (contractors, utility companies, homeowners) are planning on digging, you are supposed to call and register with your state so the proper utility companies can come to your dig site and literally "mark-out" all the utility lines in the area, so your dumbass doesn't blow anything up.

For now, professional student, academic, whatever you want to call it. When I get my next piece of paper in May, could change to something totally different.