What do you all do for a living and for how long?

[spacebear]

Quite shrimple. What's your career? How long have you been working it? Is it enjoyable are you gonna try to stick with it until you can retire or is it a temporary thing?

 

[KenShjIN]

I work as a Chef for about 20 years now.Everything from German and French cuisine,Pizzaiolo (Pizzamaker),Made even Burgers for some time.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I'm currently a live-in groundskeeper, but I'm actually planning on leaving within a week or two.

Before this, I did food sanitation in a grocery store for the meat and deli departments. It was actually pretty peaceful as I mostly worked alone after closing time.

 

[Tonberry]

I'm a quasi-freelance graphical artist, and have worked as an all-round creative (I've done work in graphical design, illustration and music composition) for a decade, but I'm not making any money from it right now because I'm focusing my efforts on me and my brother's own game project, and we're not at the point where we are looking for money yet.

I'd like to imagine I'll be working with my own art for as long as I live. It's worked out well enough so far.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I teach history, Spanish and English when that's available, but I have also done plenty of other things when it's not... And some, I have enjoyed quite a bit! Movings allowed me to remain physically active whilst doing something easy. Yard work was so relaxing and mechanical as to allow me to zone out with my headphones on, listening to music and podcasts until everything was done. Even something as simple as babysitting proved extremely fulfilling.

But I'm looking to lock down a permanent teaching position soon. Economic insecurity takes its toll on you, particularly when it's not just you who depends on that income.

 

[Tonberry]

But I'm looking to lock down a permanent teaching position soon. Economic insecurity takes its toll on you, particularly when it's not just you who depends on that income.

I've always fantasized about becoming a teacher (and a librarian), but I kind of chickened out when my social anxiety developed, and I probably wouldn't have the patience to deal with parents.
I've always admired people who work with teaching because it's so important, so thank you for your service

 

[ladyerrant]

Embedded systems engineer for the past 20 years. I work on both the firmware and electronics engineering side. I also do backend software dev when theres no embedded work to pick up.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

I do mainly carpentry and old furniture and Art restoration(Learned the craft from one of my Uncles).
I also have been doing(in the course of my life) quite a few of the so called "odd jobs" like pollster, barista, cleaning, etc.
I occasionally teach Martial Arts(not paid).

 

[Tonberry]

I occasionally teach Martial Arts(not paid).

My immediate thought upon reading this:

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

My imm ediate thought upon reading this:
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I don't teach people hadoukens, although they're learning to throw fireballs and magic missiles.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

Working just to get paid and get by and having a career are two different things, my friend. I work to get paid and draw as a side hobby.

 

[middler]

I operate my own business and I basically split it into 2 areas, the side that makes income, and the thing I would rather be doing. For income I work for a carpenter as an independent contractor. For me I am developing a tabletop strategy wargame.
This setup allows me to get the tax breaks for tools and materials I need for either one.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Currently attending a candy store in my front door, not much money but at least we manage to get though the week

 

[ciro64]

I guess you could say I'm trying to start a software developer career.

 

[JackNoir413]

Is being a depressed, disabled NEET a job? Because that's basically my job, lol.

A VICTIM OF THE NHK! i kneel....

im a student on weekdays but i work as a security guard on weekends and holidays at a public hospital. it sucks, you'd think it'd be chill but the amount of people who come with the sole intention of ruining everyone's day is amazing. im hoping public healthcare gets entirely suspended in the near future and if im lucky the whole hospital might get carpet bombed by the new world order while im at uni.
then i'd get relocated to someplace with zero activity where no one can interrupt my 10 hours coffee break.

 

[spacebear]

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Nearly a decade.

How long have you been in the trucking game? I heard it takes forever to hit a position where you start earning a decent amount but once you do you're making bank.

 

[medisinn]

I work as a shipping clerk at a local tool shop. We make stuff for some pretty big semiconductor and aeronautics companies, which sounds neat, but it's a very mundane job. My department is at the end of the line and is very short-staffed, so it's more stressful than it should be. All in all it's fine, but I'm unhappy with "fine". That's been most of my jobs. I'd like something creatively fulfilling, but that seems unlikely, so I at least want to learn a skill and get certified in IT or something so I can at least make more money with hopefully less stress.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

I’m President of the United States

 

[MajesticSiN]

I'm President of the United States

 

[fake-chan]

I’m President of the United States

I'm President of the United States

This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!

 

[Kamako]

I'm in IT.

Before that I was a TA, and before that were the dark times, when I was holding down two jobs (retail and job coach) and yet I was STILL somehow broke af (always work FT if you can).
A few more leisure and retail gigs before that, but they're a distant memory.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

I'm the official beer taster of the abbey's brewery

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Working at the gas-station in germany for over 5 years .

I like the job.

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Nearly a decade.

Brother , we are both depended on each other .
Without me , you cant drive . Without you , i have no job !

Like butter on bread . Like tomato-sauce on pizza . Like a bullet for a gun .

 

[Blamhammer]

Press brake setter and operator for sheet metal (1mm to 10mm) for about 5 years now. I've only been on machines that have Windows 2000 and XP running on them, none of the fancy modern stuff where it's all set and ready to go for you. I gotta calculate and program it all.
Machines also beat up and somehow still working after two decades of work. At least the dopamine release (and the muscle gain) is a given from pulling off silly customer requests on machines that should have been scrapped a decade ago. Ugh, management these days, don't wanna spend a penny...

This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!

 

[Android 18]

I teach English, History and Social Studies at a very nice school, and I've been working since 2022. I am quite happy with my job, and I don't think I'll experience the loathing and burnout that many others new/new-ish to the field end up experiencing, quite simply because I am a) very good at my job and b) beloved by the students, which makes doing my job a lot easier. I'm particularly adored by many of the neurodiverse students and it is almost a second job of mine to make them feel happy and enjoying their education, so I really don't see myself losing the passion for the field any time soon.