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What do all of you do for a living? Do you like it? Do you have some secret desire to be doing something else? I'm starting University in a few weeks to study Journalism, as some of you know, thats what I do. This may have been asked already, but I was too lazy to check.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dg was right about getting stuff on the new answers page.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i study ( art history and this year english), teach, write (in fact have something published tomorrow), assist a professor, cook, keep house ( except vacuuming) , cook and am a lector.

― anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Where is Hannibal these days?

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't you mean What are your job titles Ronan, as it is perfectly clear that most of us piss away the day arsing about on ILE.

― Emma, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That comes under the secret desire to be doing something else.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(surely NOT arsing about on ILE comes under that secret heading)

― mark s, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ah touche. I don't know how to do the accent.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm an "Internet Analyst". I might try and get my job title changed to the equally meaningless "Editorial Co-ordinator" since that sounds much better in the time of the dotcom bust.

― Tom, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What are you meant to do or qualified to do? Is that ok with everyone? I'm going to start getting a solicitor to check my posts in future.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My job title is Student Union General Manager. What I actually do is anyones guess.

― Pete, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a software developer in an investment bank. I want to get a more techie, engineery job, but I am scared of the pay cut. This leads to a spiral of self-loathing as I sit alone in my bedroom surrounded by gleaming consumer goods, crying.

― Sam, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Somehow this seems deja vu to me. Didn't we already talk about our jobs? Anyhow, I am a slave for my parents. They torture me but pay me royally. I tried to escape my fate but alas I was sucked in the sales world. We have a jewellery and antique lace shop. Before I worked for my parents, I did two years of psychology.

― nathalie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't see it so it won't kill you all to talk about them some more for my sake.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a bicycle repair man.

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shh, what about your secret identity?

― Pete, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the middle of September I shall go and pick apples for 3 weeks, then I shall probably go and work in Sainsburys until Christmas, go to Egypt, come back, work in Sainsburys some more, then go to university to do Egyptian Archaeology.

― Bill, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a novelist: you are my novel, or will be heh heh

Ch.28. Ronan and Pete have an affair

― mark s, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At the moment, technically I don't exist. I just finished my masters degree, but I'm not signing on, therefore I'm not registered as anything! I once worked in a library. I'm not really qualified to do much, I wrote my dissertation on "online diaries: identity, community and youth". I would like to do a PHd one day, and go into research or teaching. Though first I need money. So, I recently applied for a library job and got an application form for a 'communications assistant' job. Today, I walked the dog, and did laundry, so maybe I do have some skills after all.

I wouldn't mind being a writer, artist, musician or film maker, but who wouldn't want to be one of those things!

― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chapter 1: Marks novel fails miserably and he is left with no friends or money in the street.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I program computers. It is currently extremely dull.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I work in a job where people know how much I loathe and despite Excel and then give me shedloads of work to do involving lots of Excel knowledge. I can be found GLARING at Excel often and typing in "I HATE YOU" to the little Dog Help Thing.

Today is more of the same. BUT IN FRENCH.

Oh, temp typist is official title. My secret desire is a SECRET you fule.

― Sarah, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

househusband

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here. Too lazy to type more.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dole scrounger.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah = responsible for foot and mouth outbreaks.

― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I blame Ethan

― Graham, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No you're thinking of Head in Arse disease.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I study bacterial viruses.

― Kris, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Retired.

― duane, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I calculate the commissions of the sales people at the company where I work. The highest earners get ten times what I do each month. Don't enjoy it that much, but it's not all thankless drudgery. Heck, it gets me a trip to Denver on a burning death trap aeroplane twice a year, doesn't it?

― Madchen, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I go to school as of yesterday and do three to five hours of homework a night, which leaves me maybe half an hour a day for the computer. I am jealous of all you people who sit at work and check ILE all day.

― Lyra, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Student (=nowt) + occasionally this.

― Graham, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I edit text files for a living.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello. I am arguably a student, or at least between bouts of studentdom, but am spending more and more time daydreaming about how it would be preferable to change that particular job description to "dropout". In the meantime, my current job title is HTML Monkey, Company Scapegoat and Database Mangler Who Also Usually Ends Up Doing All The Cardkey Data Entry And Then Having To File It Numerically Which She Is Quite Shockingly Bad At Considering She Was On A Course Which Shared 20% Of Its Lectures With The Maths Degree. Catchy, eh?

Where is your shop, Nathalie? I mean, what town/city? I was in Bruges recently and saw many lace shops but didn't go into any; it would be weird to think that a fellow ILEr and pavelister might have been working at one of them. Not that I would have arrived stalkerishly at the counter if I'd known or anything, I'm just curious...

― Rebecca, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooo did I get vaguely insulted by Ronan up there? I'm not quite sure as it wasn't funny. Ronan, you're going to HAVE to get better at this before you start your Sordid Hack Stewdent course.

I have a few interesting facts about Foot and Mouth Disease if anyone wants to know, but more interestingly I can talk about the Common Agricultural Policy which I believe Ronan has also mentioned fleetingly elsewhere. However as I am now even boring MYSELF, only ask if you are both sadist and masochistic and... MENTAL.

― Sarah, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Compuders

― gareth, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No I wasn't insulting you, I'll do my best in future though ok? Just so you don't feel left out :)

― Ronan, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"only ask if you are both sadistic and masochistic and mental" Is this a lost Ron Atkinson quote??????

― Ronan, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a lawyer. I work in trusts and estates, mostly in estate planning (lots of tax work) with some occasional trusts and estates- related litigation.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

I'm going to own up to being a librarian (though I have probably mentioned it elsewhere), because I just want to say that I HATE MY FUCKING JOB! I am telling you, because the people I regularly communicate with are tired of hearing it.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I spend most of my reference desk time signing people up for the internet, rebooting computers, and the like. It's ever so slightly tedious.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I run a bar. It's great.

― Matt, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

childrens librarian. its not a living but it gets me up and out of the house.

― ducklingmonster, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a filthy student.

― queenoftheharpies, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't realize you were a librarian, DRM. You and Nicole can compare horror stories (as a library assistant, I can share the burden ;-)).

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm on a sickness benefit. plus my dad died. also i arrange contract hits.

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Still a student, occasionally interning at software engineering firms.

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't realize you were a librarian, DRM. You and Nicole can compare horror stories (as a library assistant, I can share the burden ;-)).

I decided when I introduced myself (on the ILM introductions thread) to pretty much leave out nonmusical personal detail. I'm not entirely happy that I've put so much information about myself online, but then, it's not as though I am guilty of any terrible crime, just easily embarrassed about certain things.

Anyway, I hardly get a chance to do real reference work, and even that has turned out not to be my favorite thing. I often find myself feeling that I'd either like to do the research myself or truly teach someone systematically how to do it, rather than holding someone's hand as they stumble through their research, which seems to be a lot of what reference work is. I do enjoy the collection development side of my job.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, also, I'm not sure I know who Nicole is (with apologies to Nicole). I don't really even lurk at ILE very often, let alone post here, but I guess you have probably noticed that I mostly turn up on ILM.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why, Nicole is one of the Great and the Good. Or so I would say, having known her for years. :-) She'll introduce herself to you yet!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I did a search on both our names and it turns out that she and I haven't posted to many of the same threads. When I search under just her name, I see a lot of threads that I don't think I've even read, so we live in different ILM thread sub-sets.

About all I can tell is that we both like X-Ray Specs and the Carpenters.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it is an interesting philosophical problem to determine whether or not I am a philosopher yet

― Josh, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jel is a library person also!! sssssh!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am all alone in the library today! I forgot to bring my book! Grrrr! I will have to read medical books today (as that is all we have)!

Oh yeah! Check out the cover of the BMJ this week!! It's a picture that should be on B3TA!

― jel --, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today my job is shredding. Argh. I will try to pretend it isn't a gorgeously sunny day out there.

― Emma, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My job is being shat on from a GRATE HEIGHT today bah chiz.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no! 25 interlibrary loan requests just came in! Oh no!

Will look good in the stats though.

― jel --, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today my job is refactoring the build process yet again. Grebt.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Treading water at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. Major changes may soon be afoot.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In an effort to win the battle of job moaning I should also mention that before shredding I have to rip the hundreds of documents up so they are small enough to go through without jamming the machine. However being an impatient person I tend to shove loads through anyway and it jams and makes a terrible shrieking noise grrr.

― Emma, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray! The post is here!

― jel --, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Seeing Li54 04K35 makes a day very unpleasant. She has taken half of my stuff away as well "to review". Everyone hates her. But I hate her more. I am going to make her my first target of OPERATION ALL OUT WAR!!!!!!! But for now, input input input. BITCH BITCH BITCH!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm unemployed and have been for a wee while now.

I worked in IT for eight years, doing ever more tedious and unchallenging stuff in increasingly stultifying working environments; I bailed out last year thinking I'd land on my feet, but instead I've been dangling from this tree for a few months. I quite fancy something in broadcast media/sound engineering/archival & restoration but no luck so far. I know a few folks who've successfully changed career in their mid-30s, so I'm optimistic (today, anyway; often not).

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am trying to avoid more hardware work. making standard build macs for designers suXoR. esp as despite getting better machines they can always find something to whine about. gits.

love them really

― Alan T, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I facilitate independent adult learning.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have days off in the middle of the week. Today is one of them. Huzzah! (Though must tidy house - chiz).

― Matt, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today my job is opening all the post on my desk and ploughing through e-mails that haave accumulated throughout the day. And also failing to realise that Ronan is sitting behind me until about 15 minutes ago (sorry).

― Anna, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Couldn't you smell him?

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

N., that's not nice. The fruits of my labours can be found here.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a Resources Assistant in a Language Learning Centre. This is a bit like being a library assistant, but more boring. When I grow up (24 today and still no career - bah!) I want to be a poet-librarian like that nice Mr Larkin.

― Archel, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pissboy knows I love him really. Everyone loves Ronan. He's the Spencer of ILE.

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

spencer can stay if he agrees to let the others (ha!) call him Mr Pissman. Alex = Mr NoPissman.

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually he's not remotely the Spencer of ILE. I take that back.

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I usher at a cinema, study Arts/Law (arts major is critical theory) and do a tiny bit of crappy music journalism on the side. Also involved in quite a bit of student politics which is K-Laymurr but fun too.

― Tim, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't he say hi?

(Woudn't Mr Pissman be the Johnny or the Alyson?)

― Graham, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was in a meeting for ages. But, no, actually, he didn't say hi. OI RONAN!

(There's something really wrong with using a messageboard to communicate with someone sitting behind you.)

― Anna, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello.

Can someone sort out my BB identity once and for all, this eternal insecurity is enough to make a man mad.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You should use AIM instead Anna

― RickyT, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK Ronan you can be Jade. Now quit your whining.

― Emma, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anna make ronan do face erection!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck you all.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, now he's PJ.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anna make ronan do face erection!!

What!? No! How? What is this?

― Anna, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Get him riled.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/media/news/26/26_jade_adele_fight_bottom.jpg

― jade vamps adele, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://vassun.vassar.edu/~jamundy/Zygotic.html

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually it's just as well that didn't work as I don't want to get anyone sacked. It was the Chapman Brothers thing and it's here if your not going to be offended.

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Err - here if you're not going to be offended.

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You know Nick, flexability is all well and good, but I don't think I could do that. (And Ronan and I only have four limbs between us)

― Anna, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no! Ronan & Anna in hideous amputation shockah!

― Emma, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am staggered that you object to this on flexibility issues and not on face-cock issues.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a strange and varied moral code Dan.

(And besides I was envisaging myself as one of the non-penis faced people)

― Anna, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am old and fickle and am on my third career. I was an accountant, then a comic book editor (the standard career path), and now I am a system analyst and programmer at University College London. My primary responsibility is the student records system. No I will not arrange doctorates all round for ILXers. Sorry!

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Martin: Ever run across an American named Theo Hong? He was my college roommate.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All librarians I like your job the best.

― maryann, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

all maryanns, i like you the best.
when are you coming home?

― rainy, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a lawyer. I wish I could say "I don't like it and I only do it because the money is good and I get a good high when I win," but I kind of do like the work itself. I like the writing and research. The parts I don't like are the tedious things like discovery, or when the client is obnoxious, or when I'm asked to represent a losing argument. But overall I do like it.

― felicity, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Dan, I know Theo Hong. He's a nice guy. He did some of the teaching on my MSc course.

― bert, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Theo R0X0R. I need to write him.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That Hong site has some k-groovy wedding pics on it, I note.

― Tim, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, it does. PH3AR our enormous wedding party.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Property Manager for 176 apartments in Beaumont, TX. Sometimes I love it sometimes it really stresses me out... I have started to drink more and I am sort of noticing thicker skin.

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

Beaumont! That brings the ILX Texas crew to 5, I think?

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:45 (sixteen years ago)

rrrreally???

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

Myself, Oilyrags & former poster Ms Misery are all Austinites, and iirc my man m coleman is a San Anto guy.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:47 (sixteen years ago)

allllrrright!

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:48 (sixteen years ago)

xhuxk lives in Austin now, too.

And Kenan spent the first 10 years of his life in Beaumont!

― jaymc, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

to the .xls mobile!

― cozwn, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:50 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah I know Kenan was here for a while too. Xhuxk! That's a surprise.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

Also: milo z, if I'm not mistaken

― jaymc, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

Too bad you guys aren't in Beaumont

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

And ryan, although he posts very rarely.

― jaymc, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

I had no idea about Milo! Learn something from the .xls every day.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:56 (sixteen years ago)

What do you drink to thicken the skin, SR?

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:56 (sixteen years ago)

Oh! How could I forget: Kevin John Bozelka in Austin as well.

― jaymc, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

And Kenan, iirc, is not terribly fond of Beaumont.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

Oh duh I feel bad for forgettin KJB--he's a bro.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

Energy Efficiency Program Administrator

cooler than it sounds!

― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

Don't you have a state filter, jaymc?

― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

Database programmer/developer. Side career as an iPhone programmer (nothing particulary cool, it's an internal corporate app)

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:59 (sixteen years ago)

I kick people out of hotels.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:59 (sixteen years ago)

Side-side career as a Guy In Band(tm) and record label owner.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

you kick people out of hotels?

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

iirc my man m coleman is a San Anto guy.

I'm from Ohio/live in NYC actually but I have visited Austin, Dallas, Houston and Midland/Odessa (long story). no San Anto but if i lived in Austin I would totally want to hang out w/big hoos & smoke while we listened to jazz and discussed the weather.

oh I'm a stay-at-home dad and (coughs) freelance writer

― m coleman, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

I r attorney.

― the monte cristo is like the greatest collective cry for help (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

Was going to say, I thought m coleman was NYC, but hey sometimes I'm wrong.

Former poster Dee the Lurker lived in San Antonio, though.

― jaymc, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, and to keep on topic: I'm a copy editor/fact-checker.

― jaymc, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

That sounds like fun

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

Sunny--I work at a Doubletree and once famously kicked someone out for insulting a coworker, then came to ILE and started a thread about it.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:13 (sixteen years ago)

lol I kick people out all the time

― Sunny River, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

management accou_untant

― wilter, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

systems analyst for i.t. wing of gigantic company.

― wishes to be referred under the pseudonym of kronos (call all destroyer), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

geometry and chemistry teacher

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

xp yuh also in big corporation

― wilter, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

get paid not to make things, l8ly

― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

Crappy design/prepress for a livestock industry magazine.

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

Also ~freelance writing~ lol

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a gardener-for-hire, or "landscaper" if I'm feeling insecure. I also work in a nursery.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

systems analyst for ~~i.t.~~ finance wing of gigantic ~~company~~ lawfirm. Can't stand it. Trained as a graphic designer, but was looking in vain for a job around the time the economy started to tank. Now, I'm right on the brink of quitting and, I dunno, waiting tables for a living while I jump whole-hog into theater stuff. Because...why not? I'm not getting any younger and I've got the whole back-end of my life to be boring and safe.

― Hi, there you're being haunted! Dont you notice it? (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

Conceive institutional plans and exhibition concepts for museums and historic sites. Like it a lot.

― paulhw, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

I was a "health care provider" in various capacities (licensed nurse, then in unlicensed/"counselor" capacity when I moved to a state that didn't have Psych Tech licensure) until 2003, more or less - there were several years there when I tried my hand at other things, but nursing is sort of What I Do in my mind - I will always think of myself as a psych nurse & there are things about my old work that I miss so bad I couldn't begin to put it into words. mainly the kids I took care of. being there for kids in crisis, being able to provide any small help: that's a blessing from God right there.

in late 2003 I became a full-time musician. it has made me insane & completely wrecked my health in a whole bunch of ways, but it's also pretty much What I Dreamed of Being (although: the "become a super famous novelist who changes lives & blows mind" precedes the Makes Music For A Living dream, and is still, like, possible, if I work hard) and that's something I feel every day, so I try not to complain about the Now I'm Crazy and My Health Is Permanently Wrecked, though I am kinda whiny sometimes and given to complaining if I don't check myself.

― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:02 (sixteen years ago)

The Sabbath book would indicate that your literary dreams are wholly graspable, J0hn. Reach for that star!

― Hi, there you're being haunted! Dont you notice it? (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

yeah deric man i'm def not thrilled with my job either....pretty much chilling there until i finish more grad school at which point i'll strike out for something better.

― wishes to be referred under the pseudonym of kronos (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:12 (sixteen years ago)

I mostly just be rad.

― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

You excel in your field.

― Hi, there you're being haunted! Dont you notice it? (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:16 (sixteen years ago)

moonship journey to baja, do you like your job?

Right now I am a 'peer educator,' meaning I teach students of ~20 students 1/3rd of the week's biology 111 info @ my university. (ie instead of 3 lectures a week, there's the 200 student lecture hall gig 2x a week, and on the third I do the teaching to a smaller group). It is a pretty groovy job.

I am also a student, undergrad, working on it since 2k1 and I *might* graduate a year from now if I am lucky.

― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

You excel in your field.

so does jaymc.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

I do nothing. OK not true, I temp BUT someone just contacted me today because she remembered me from a previous job I'd applied for (good sign, I think!) about what could very well be my dream job - Community Health Educator in the Family Planning division of a local medical center. *fingers crossed*

― ENBB, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:21 (sixteen years ago)

That would be the coolest! I hope you land that gig!

― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:23 (sixteen years ago)

hey that's great!

i am an unemployed not-lawyer btw

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

A and H - I know!!! It's also near where I live so I have a personal interest in the particular community. I really really want this job and am hoping that since she contacted me (I hadn't even seen the listing!) that I have a good shot. I've already emailed her back and applied online so we'll see. :-)

― ENBB, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

Another attorney at LOL here

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

harbl, did you just take the bar?

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

i h8d my job so i quit now im unemployed and then i go to croatia and then ??????????????????????????

― max, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

film producer imo

― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

Punctuation school!!!!!!!!!!11!!!
xpost

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

I'm an 'assistant lecturer' in English for a year at a community college in Hong Kong, aka escaping maturity and responsibility and thoughts of a career for one more year, although I will admit I've been studying for the LSAT

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:52 (sixteen years ago)

I will admit I've been studying for the LSAT

Turn back now, while there's still time.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

Why, do you know someone who took the LSATs, Daniel, Esq.?

― Hi, there you're being haunted! Dont you notice it? (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

:> but I really think I can help Frank, Gwen, Henry, Joan, Victor, Wanda, and Yvette figure out who finished first and second and third

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

As of a few weeks ago I'm a program analyst at the EPA. I'm in yr govt, analyzin' the programz.

― PIN number at the ATM Machine (Z S), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:59 (sixteen years ago)

good luck usa

― PIN number at the ATM Machine (Z S), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

jenny--yes

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

Why, do you know someone who took the LSATs, Daniel, Esq.?

Sadly, yes.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:01 (sixteen years ago)

lol ;_;

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

I'm the assistant director of student media at FIU, which means I help oversee the student newspaper, radio station, and website; I'm also an adjunct professor of English.

― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

take hart u guyz - whenever u throw a dinner party coming up with alternate seating arrangements should be a breeze

― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

IIRC Hart can only be seated at a table if he is giving a speech

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:05 (sixteen years ago)

oh, i just got what lamp was saying

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:06 (sixteen years ago)

it won't be a breeze because i stopped thinking about seating arrangements on september 30, 2005 iirc

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:07 (sixteen years ago)

Seriously, I'm a name partner with a small law firm in Miami.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

And I was kidding above, BTW. Nothing wrong with taking the LSAT or being a lawyer. I've been in one really big firm and now a small firm; there's a good fit for everyone.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:11 (sixteen years ago)

I help build pipelines.

― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:32 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a computer programmer for the federal government.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:36 (sixteen years ago)

I'm in arts admin.

― your vah chef (fields of salmon), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

abbott,

it's a tough job but i like it okay. the hardest thing about it is that adolescents are really cued in to your emotions and reactions, and having to keep up a very professional front can be very exhausting, especially with the demands of the job. i mean, the plus side is that i get to talk and think about things that i find fascinating (really) for a living, the downside is the same one i imagine real-estate agents face: the constant pressure to keep it positive, be upbeat, be happy-peppy, etc. you really gotta be a cheerleader for the teenagers, and for me that's been tough this year because i'm going through a divorce. so i've sucked pretty hard at that aspect of my job, though i hope to be better at it this upcoming year.

there are a lot of threads on ilx about becoming a teacher or being a teacher and i talk at length about it on most of them, but let me know if you have any other questions.

ps - there's a huge maturity gap between college students and teenagers, so i'd try doing what you're doing with teens for a while, maybe as an afterschool tutor or a substitute teacher or whatever before you get any preconceived notions of what it's like.

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

im another lawyer (for the govt)

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:53 (sixteen years ago)

gonna lol gonna lol gonna lol for your government

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

lol for your government that's shit

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:20 (sixteen years ago)

i'm in my li'l grad school chrysalis right now and by this time next year i will have emerged as a beautiful butterfly of a "moving image archivist"

― chesty la roux (donna rouge), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)

im a senior systems analyst for a telecommunications company which is not exactly what i wanted to be as a kid but it gets me a lot of $$ and the $$ are the only reason i go to work so bingo.

― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

I got a letter from the government the other day.
I opened and read it.
It said, "LOL."

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

lol for your government that's shit
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:20 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

<3 <3 <3

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)

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