I'm a teacher - secondary school level (that's 11-19 year olds). It's always interesting to see the RL jobs of people that're brought together by a common interest.
Amber Panyko is an artist.
Damaris works middle management.
I'm a lazy slacker.
Bill is a noob.
RJ is a squirrel.
And llearch is a box.
www.aeries.com
I'm IT Support for the New Orleans sector of the USCIS.
Quote from: RyudoLee on May 02, 2007, 04:25:41 PM
I'm IT Support for the New Orleans sector of the USCIS.
Alas, a kindred spirit. We shall have to get mad at stupid people together. :mowignore
I'd be one of those. All the teachers get given laptops in our school and when something goes wrong, I tend to run down to the IT dept with my best whining voice on and whinge about a problem that their magical techie hands can solve with a few keystrokes.
Quote from: Netami on May 02, 2007, 04:27:07 PM
Quote from: RyudoLee on May 02, 2007, 04:25:41 PM
I'm IT Support for the New Orleans sector of the USCIS.
Alas, a kindred spirit. We shall have to get mad at stupid people together. :mowignore
Oh don't get me started. I used to work for lawfirms and a corporation. But being in the government is far worse. :mowdizzy
I'm currently un employed
As per my doctors orders
I'm presently employed to cut open cardboard boxes and extract their innards so that people may purchase them.
What do I do? I do many things. I write, I draw, I read, I laze on the internet, and I worry about life. I'm a person, that's my occupation. :U
...Okay, I'm also a college student. And currently awaiting the start of summer vacation.
One week to go through...just one... :blink
See, I'm already thinking that if we were all put into a room without explanation, nobody'd talk to anyone. That's what's ace about the 'net.
Quote from: superluser on May 02, 2007, 05:01:22 PM
I'm presently employed to cut open cardboard boxes and extract their innards so that people may purchase them.
I knew there was a reason I didn't like you. ;-]
Quote from: rabid_fox on May 02, 2007, 05:04:09 PM
See, I'm already thinking that if we were all put into a room without explanation, nobody'd talk to anyone. That's what's ace about the 'net.
Erm. Given the number of posts I have, I think you'd have more luck duct-taping my mouth shut... :-]
It's a strange thing that people who talk a lot online are often quieter IRL. I mean, I can't keep my mouth shut for love nor money, but usually I get shot down by dirty looks when I'm meeting new people. Bless
Software Engineer, specifically mobile data capture (on Windows CE... ewww)
I'll (hopefully) be graduating from high school at the end of May. Thank God! D:
I wouldn't have (much) of a problem talking to these peeps in person. I just recently took a trip to a theme park with a bunch of peeps from a rollercoaster forum I visit.
I've met a few folk off the 'net. Generally, once the alcohomohol gets flowing, it's all good. There's always a moment of "Um. What the friggle are you saying," though, when I start gabbing off in my normal speaking voice.
Yeah I hear ya, I'm about a good 2 weeks and a half from finishing my first year of college. Then I got a little more then a month before classes start up again. :rolleyes
meeting people off the net laways has that moment of "Ummm now which one are you"
and dispite the fact that I do have long fluffy ears hanging down my back I don't look much like what people expect
thats one of the reasons I started bringing the cookies to AC I mean they are a great Ice breaker. I mean few things set people at ease like the offer of a cookie.
"Cookie? What kind?"
"Well I've got cherry, sour apple..."
"Wait did you say Sour Apple Cookies?"
I sell baby stuff. :B
Or, at least I will come monday.
Ooo, no laughing at the knocked up teenagers. Hard as it may be.
I'm a complete and utter failure. Hi!
Hmm. First year college student, and on a different schedule than the others here. I've still got a month to this term, and I've gotta take summer school to catch up a little bit.
I used to review video games before the site that employed me went under...
Freshman in high school. I also work in the school's science department on the side. (Cleaning and stuff like that.)
I'm a professional axe murderer. If you need a good axe murderering, let me know.
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on May 02, 2007, 08:35:59 PMI'm a professional axe murderer. If you need a good axe murderering, let me know.
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t102/superluser/shining_johnny.jpg)
Nah, we're good. (even have a backup (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001625/))
Also: Bill, I'm a complete and utter failure, too. We can be failures together!
Think we can incorporate? I'm sure there's a niche market for failing.
I'm Rob from filing. Hi! :>
RAWR I AM A DRAGON >:3
I mean...I'm a freshie like Modelin. I'm usually a good Dakata (I have 3 A's, 2 B's, a C minus, and I'm passing a Pass-or-fail class :3) and I do my work unless someone makes me mad.
Then I have to kick some butts! >:O *Tries to look tuff and mean*
I also play on Neopets...and 3 other pet sites. And 2 Pokemon petsite-ish sites. And I scream at kids who go to my school on MySpace. Because they can't spell. :<
And when I'm not doing school-stuff or dorky stuff, I'm usually kicking Boogeyman's butt. 8) Someone's gotta show that mean 'ol closet-monster who's boss. *Tries to look tuff again*
You know what else Daka does? Not draw me stuff he's supposed to draw me, that's what. :<
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/ (http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/)
Quote from: superluser on May 02, 2007, 05:01:22 PM
I'm presently employed to cut open cardboard boxes and extract their innards so that people may purchase them.
I use to do that.
Now I just take said innards that people purchase and bag them after asking them "paper or plastic?".
Quote from: Shadrok on May 03, 2007, 12:36:32 AM
Quote from: superluser on May 02, 2007, 05:01:22 PM
I'm presently employed to cut open cardboard boxes and extract their innards so that people may purchase them.
I use to do that.
Now I just take said innards that people purchase and bag them after asking them "paper or plastic?".
I used to do both of those,
and tell people "You have to come inside and pay before you can pump gas"
and my last job involved cutting up animals, grinding them up, scrubbing blood and bone off walls and floors and out of machines
I work for a company the buisness of which is to do for real what the 'can you hear me now' guy does in commercials.
Except I don't do that part uinless we're short handed. I do a little of everything else... inventory, data processing, coding, tech support, server and network administrator.
mainly inventory, though, since we're pretty small and the tech side stuff doesn't need to be dealt with often
(Gods know what I'm going to put on my resume when I go looking for a new job.)
Mostly I sit on my butt and wait for someone to need something, though.
Porn Star, College student, part time mail clerk and gofer.
In that order.
Quote from: BillBuckner on May 02, 2007, 07:39:33 PM
I'm a complete and utter failure. Hi!
.. Gonna tell us something we didn't know? :-]
College student,
the only reason I have a positive grade is English, because I hang out to much with you people.
and my education is real (repeat the l to infinity) low.l But at least I don't have to put to much effort into my school >:3
I'm also a full-time naive dork that has nothing better to do than stare at a computer screen all day long :)
Quote from: Zorro on May 02, 2007, 11:24:19 PM
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/ (http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/)
Can I rent some time on the Universal Constructor?
I'm a recluse :/
Quote from: Darkmoon on May 02, 2007, 04:18:17 PM
RJ is a squirrel.
Ohhhh, so THAT'S what I'm supposed to be doing. I got mixed up and thought I was llearch. :B
(But seriously, I'm an Arts student studying to be a journalist/writer. Every full moon I turn into a paper delivery girl though. It's a horrible curse.)
Quote from: RJ on May 03, 2007, 06:16:29 AM
Ohhhh, so THAT'S what I'm supposed to be doing. I got mixed up and thought I was llearch. :B
No, you're not supposed to be boxed in.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 03, 2007, 08:36:34 AM
Quote from: RJ on May 03, 2007, 06:16:29 AM
Ohhhh, so THAT'S what I'm supposed to be doing. I got mixed up and thought I was llearch. :B
No, you're not supposed to be boxed in.
The last five months weren't pretty, that's for sure... :<
I'm a writer. Yes, a real one, no, not famous.
I also work part-time in a local farm and feed store as a human forklift, so you can imagine how well/often my writing pays.
Maybe you could be a bouncer and make people buy a copy of your book before you let them into the bar/club/disco/rave/bouncy castle.
I teach a subject at university and work 6 hours a day as a programmer. Yes, I work too much.
i.... don't do much.
was a carer for my grandmother, now looking to work on my graphic art and web design..
Quote from: Turnsky on May 03, 2007, 02:25:44 PM
i.... don't do much.
was a carer for my grandmother, now looking to work on my graphic art and web design..
Oh? I had the impression you were a student as well. :P
Quote from: rabid_fox on May 02, 2007, 04:17:24 PM
Out of interest - what do we all do?
Well, most of us die at some point.
Maybe not llearch, he gets recycled.
Quote from: Gabi on May 03, 2007, 02:06:04 PM
I teach a subject at university and work 6 hours a day as a programmer. Yes, I work too much.
Fantastique! I'd love to teach at a University; ended up in secondary education instead. Which is a lot of fun, cause you're never bored, but I want to be a smug pretentious git again and wear black polo sweaters. Grow my hair long again too. Put it in a ponytail. Smoke flavoured tobacco. Think that philosohpy is a real and worthwhile subject. Ah...yes. Good times!
Im a glompholic,Doctor Who freak,And a part time guy who shoots chickens at the window of airplanes :B
Quote from: Zedd on May 03, 2007, 04:15:38 PM
Im a glompholic
The first step is to admit you have a problem!
I'm in retail, and everyone that is a customer for the most part can die where I work at. It's okay though, I have learned as long as you are in a calm state and remain that way, you can still be mean as heck and get away with it. Yeah...retail is icky, but oh well. Being a some what drunk after hours is always fun. Hmm...I'm quieter on the internet these days then irl...but i do talk alot on the cell phone haha
I work as Custodial/Janitorial at the Green Mill restaurant here where I live...I I work from 8 AM to 11 AM (11 AM is when they open) in the mornings. If you happen to stop by in Grand Forks, ND...feel free to stop by on Columbia Road at the Green Mill (course I may not be there at the moment you stop by).
I screw around on forums, go to college, and get denied good employment repeatedly simply because of a bad credit history.
I actually am a circulation supervisor at my local library. The reference librarian calls me a "para professional" but I think she's just jealous of my mad reference skillz. Although middle management isn't too far off.
I also deal blackjack, three card poker, poker, and craps for a casino entertainment company, write press releases for hideously bad books, have a Pennsylvania real estate license, can put a woman in a comfortable yet flattering bra, know the secrets to great skin care, can tell you the difference between body spray and eau de toilette, can define a proper legal radio identifcation announcement, and can carry four full glasses or four plates of steak and random sides (although not at the same time).
Darkmoon hates me in a room full of strangers. I'm the kind of person that will strike up a converstation about the weather, and then get your life story whether I want it or not. Get me drunk and I'm even more fun. ;)
Quote from: Tapewolf on May 03, 2007, 03:59:03 AM
Quote from: Zorro on May 02, 2007, 11:24:19 PM
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/ (http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/)
Can I rent some time on the Universal Constructor?
Does not exist.
There are no Titanium Armored Space Shuttles at SLC 6 either.
QuotePosted by: rabid_fox
Maybe you could be a bouncer and make people buy a copy of your book before you let them into the bar/club/disco/rave/bouncy castle.
Except for the bar, none of those exist here. And what they use for bars tend to be backwards, in that they're full of gigantic, sweaty, obnoxious men instead of having them guarding the doors.
Officially, I'm a student. That said, I've held a number of other "real" but short jobs since turning eighteen, and a few not so "real" ones before I did, mostly construction, service and cooking. Stuff that I know. But I won't go into the things that I really shouldn't have done, even after turning eighteen.
Right now, I'm really just a student, full-time, what with tests and plans for working in other countries and such.
i am a full time househusband. i say full time because the toddler in question has a knack to climb and has often been found in the posesion of knives as a result. you dont know how hilarous something so cute and dangerous can be untill you see a toddler chase grandpa around the kitchen with a knife.
fortunately most of the time i just teach her new words, let her chat on MIRC and AIM (she can and does, she knows how to type 'hi' and knows the names of several of my online friends, for a 2 year old thats impressive), watch some movies, draw with crayons, clean, and cook (she likes helping me cook, which is a problem really)
also i am a part time manager at the newspaper....means i sit in a distribution plant and make sure the paper carriers arrive and leave on time and have people complain at me. you have no idea how important it is for companies to have someone to be complained at. hopefully someday i can quit this and get a job at a bookstore or something...
QuoteMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Quote from: rabid_fox on May 03, 2007, 03:55:19 PM
Quote from: Gabi on May 03, 2007, 02:06:04 PM
I teach a subject at university and work 6 hours a day as a programmer. Yes, I work too much.
Fantastique! I'd love to teach at a University; ended up in secondary education instead. Which is a lot of fun, cause you're never bored, but I want to be a smug pretentious git again and wear black polo sweaters. Grow my hair long again too. Put it in a ponytail. Smoke flavoured tobacco. Think that philosohpy is a real and worthwhile subject. Ah...yes. Good times!
I guess you can do that if you want to. Me, I wear my hair really long, but almost always loose, I don't smoke and I prefer to dress in either bright colors or shades of blue. And philosophy is one of the few things that I know are real.
After a semester of Descartes methodic doubt I decided that if I stepped out on a motorway that the articulated lorry hitting me at 70mph was proof enough that it existed, even if, on an intellectual level, I could say "Hey, lorry, you're not real."
"i am not, therefore i am" is slightly flawed pholosophy, and it would be pretty hard to present your findings.
other fun ones are
"i do therefore i am"
"i shop therefore i am"
"The evidence of existence is existence itself"
"im not dead yet"
"pain lets me know i'm alive"
QuoteDidn't you get enough quotes already?
I dance therefore I funk.
"I don't think so", said Rene. Just then, he vanished...
I'm a third-year computer science major. I poke at computers and type in things that make them do cool stuff.
Right now, though, I'm just sitting around and trying to make something amazing.
www.nvrinc.com
I work at one of 6 construction yards that churns out the frames of those.
I'm a second year college student, my goal is to earn a Bachelor of Science in Visual Media Digital Cinema.
I used to be in charge of a game room as a recreation assistant II for the city of Henderson.
My duties included:
Maintaining, repairing, and cleaning the ping-pong table, bumper pool tables,Billiards table, air Hockey table, re-organizing the Game sets [ finding and replacing missing peices from othello, chess, mancalla, checkers, etc.], watching over nasty little vampires, helping them with their homework, and staring in amazement at how a television turns them into motionless zombies when "sponge bob square pants" begins...shivers.
Quote from: GabrielsThoughts on May 05, 2007, 11:48:04 PMand staring in amazement at how a television turns them into motionless zombies when "sponge bob square pants" begins...shivers.
Gyah! >:O I can't stand that show. Can someone explain to me why it's so popular? I really don't understand.
Quote from: ITOS on May 07, 2007, 03:20:56 PM
Quote from: GabrielsThoughts on May 05, 2007, 11:48:04 PMand staring in amazement at how a television turns them into motionless zombies when "sponge bob square pants" begins...shivers.
Gyah! >:O I can't stand that show. Can someone explain to me why it's so popular? I really don't understand.
Maybe its a sponge who sends brainwaves from the show that slowly kills people and tricks them to buy all the merchandice
Quote from: Zedd on May 07, 2007, 03:33:05 PM
Quote from: ITOS on May 07, 2007, 03:20:56 PM
Gyah! >:O I can't stand that show. Can someone explain to me why it's so popular? I really don't understand.
Maybe its a sponge who sends brainwaves from the show that slowly kills people and tricks them to buy all the merchandice
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Junior in high school. Applied for a job at a kennel recently, and I petsit and babysit around my neighborhood. I'm also a member of my state's Children's Chorus.
Quote from: ITOS on May 07, 2007, 03:20:56 PM
Quote from: GabrielsThoughts on May 05, 2007, 11:48:04 PMand staring in amazement at how a television turns them into motionless zombies when "sponge bob square pants" begins...shivers.
Gyah! >:O I can't stand that show. Can someone explain to me why it's so popular? I really don't understand.
It's probably the same reason they like Barney.
Quote from: ITOS on May 07, 2007, 03:43:52 PM
Quote from: Zedd on May 07, 2007, 03:33:05 PM
Quote from: ITOS on May 07, 2007, 03:20:56 PM
Gyah! >:O I can't stand that show. Can someone explain to me why it's so popular? I really don't understand.
Maybe its a sponge who sends brainwaves from the show that slowly kills people and tricks them to buy all the merchandice
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Arent you made of metal anyhow?
Quote from: Black_angel on May 07, 2007, 05:33:40 PM
Junior in high school. Applied for a job at a kennel recently, and I petsit and babysit around my neighborhood. I'm also a member of my state's Children's Chorus.
My sister got $800 to watch someones dog for eight hours...I wish I could get that kind of job.
Currently a struggling Full time Law student.
Though Im getting a job next month as a call center agent.