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What do you do for a living?
Just out of curiosity, what do all y'all do for a living?
I'm a user experience architect, which means I help make things (usually, but not always, on the internet) easier and more fun to use.
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I co-manage a holiday complex.
So I get to do anything from cleaning cottages and making beds, to dealing with guests and taking bookings to doing the accounts and website maintenance to light property maintenance. It's varied :)
I pretty much do anything that needs to be done on site apart from garden maintenance (I hate gardening with a passion).
Sometimes I get more free time than I know what to do with, other times... not so much.
At the moment, we're just going through a quiet patch, which is quite welcome :) November and February are our quiet months usually.
- student/retail, studying to become an archivist
- (Relatively) nubby web developer. User experience architect sounds wayyy awesome :). Didn't know you could get a job just doing that. Mind you, my country is probably too small.
- I'm a stay-at-home dad, caring for a 10 yr-old and a 1 yr-old. :)
- Props to you Whym!
- College student. Majoring in anxiety with a minor in slacking.
- I'm the opposite Kestin. Major in slacking right here :D
- Management Consultant. I spend a lot of lonely nights in hotel rooms, so Glitch is a nice way to burn time. :)
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Video editor in television news. Working on doing voiceover as a sideline/new career.
Have also been a planetarium lecturer, museum docent, and online gamemaster in my spare time. -
What Kestin said, except that I'm taking a year off at the moment for health reasons.
(My actual declared major is printmaking, though I make a lot of different types of art and will most likely end up doing something entirely unrelated for the bulk of my meager income.) -
@Elyd: There are days where video editing is my profession, but it isn't my passion - which the other jobs (all part-time) have been closer to: creating/educating.
As an old instructor once said, "You can be money happy or job happy, but it's rare that you'll be both." -
Program coordinator for an Adult Literacy program -- which helps illiterate adults learn to read.
The stat for low level literacy in Canada is 42%...not including ESL people - Web developer. My money comes from banal projects like business websites, but I keep myself entertained with game-related projects.
- Stay at home mommy to a lovely 18 month old and there's another onthe way. I'm working part-time at amazon.com at the moment, though. Next semester I'm going to culinary school,!
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Seeing as Whym gets props, so does Ralis! ;)
Just now I'm not working because I'm ill. I really picked a great time to be too ill to work in the UK, especially as it's not a visible condition and doesn't impair my ability to, say, walk across a room. Most of the time. So I'm trying to find a low-stress part-time job in a city where they're looking at me strangely because I obviously dye my hair. It's not going too well. -
Well now, let's see... I pet piggies, pick cherries, bubble and beans, and I mine a bit and make earthshakers....doh! you meant irl.
RoR based web design and system administration, with a bit of graphic-design and advertising thrown in. - I am a retail monkey. I sell a lot of lawn equipment. I also run a small online bookshop w my mom
- I bake bagels when sane people are still sleeping. I'm returning to school to be an occupational therapist assistant. I'm also an artist and musician :)
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Lots of stuff. Animation workshops are a big one right now, otherwise I work as a coordinator on animated film sets (that means I'm the person who knows what the hell is going on), make short animations, illustrate books, make websites, translate scripts and things...
With all of this, you'd think I would be able to make a decent living! :P But it's either a drought or a flood. Right now we're in a drought >:(. - I'm a social media manager and acting national sales manager. Totally unqualified to be the national sales manager, but love being the social media manager. Plus, not one person at my office has a technological bone in their body, so they have no idea what I do all day. Sometimes what I do all day is play Glitch.
- Software developer, internet marketer, Linux security. As geeky as it can get, I guess.
- Software developer for a major corporation. Basically Alice from Dilbert, with straight hair.
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I'm a science teacher. Right now, it's middle school and I love it, but I've taught just about every grade level from K up to college. I'd be an ecology or botany teacher if I had my way, but I keep getting stuck with physics or anatomy classes. Hurk.
I'm in the middle of a move to Germany, so who knows what I'll be teaching over there when I land a job. I'm certified to teach any science 5th-12th grade, which makes principals gleeful. Cross your fingers someone over there will hire me right away! :) - I used to mine a lot to earn the dough, but recently I've learned Animal Kinship so I've cut back on the mining to focus on my animals. These days I wander around Groddle harvesting everything I see.
- I sell books. National accounts for a major publisher. I'm hoping that books made out of paper will prosper long enough for me to get another 20 years out of my industry. I adore my job. Even the part involving hotel rooms cuz it gives me More Glitch and less Step Away From the Computer guff.
- Sculptor and Installation artist.
- I'm a sculptor and an improv actor. I mostly get paid for the former, but occasionally the latter.
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Ohhh, lovely! A couple of artistic folk in the mix :)
@Booknerd, love the name :D - High school student...how exciting :p
- I own and run a yarn shop (brick & mortar, not online).
- social media marketing, freelance writing, some web design
- I'm a librarian and I love it :)