Your Job

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:03 pm

I saw a thread like this in another forum and thought it would be interesting to see what everyone does here.
I read gas meters for Trace Services (sub-contractor for Columbia Gas)

Pros: I can smoke cigs whenever I want, I have a company vehicle and don't have to pay for gasoline, if I get done with my route early I can go home and I get paid for 8 hrs. no matter what.

Cons: I have to be outside for about 90% of the day working in extreme cold/heat/rain/snow/etc., getting bit by strange dogs, it's physically exhausting (tons of walking), if someone calls off I have to make up their route, getting up at 6 A.M., dealing with traffic jams all day, and going in absolutely disgusting basements to read meters. (you would be shocked to see how some of these people live)

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:36 pm

well, up until 2 weeks ago i made the blades for massive wind turbines which i quite enjoyed. then me and about 100 other people were made redundant. tomorrow i start my new job 'fairing yatchs'. ive never done it b4 but ill be doing this in france for a while all expenses paid so im quite happy. i better brush up on my french.

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:28 pm

hexagon son wrote:well, up until 2 weeks ago i made the blades for massive wind turbines which i quite enjoyed. then me and about 100 other people were made redundant. tomorrow i start my new job 'fairing yatchs'. ive never done it b4 but ill be doing this in france for a while all expenses paid so im quite happy. i better brush up on my french.

Wow, that sounds like interesting stuff. Not your average everyday office job, that's for sure!

Goiter Sanchez · Post by **Goiter Sanchez** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:55 am

I work at an insect zoo! I tour people around a building full of insects and spiders, hold them and tell people all about them!

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:04 am

Goiter Sanchez wrote:I work at an insect zoo! I tour people around a building full off insects and spiders, hold them and tell people all about them!

That would be sweet! I've alwways had an interest in creepy bugs and spiders.

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:13 am

I fix/built/destroy/rebuild two wheel human powered vehicles, better known as bicycles. I also run Relapse Bmx Clothing. Sometimes work as a Trek Team mechanic during the summer season. It's an pretty good gig, especially traveling to races. We take our team (Relapse Bmx) out on road trips about 2 times a year and that can get totally out of hand. All and all it is fun.

dj_todos · Post by **dj_todos** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:29 pm

I work as a sound engineer and technician for City College Manchester. Im one of a team of 3 who look after, run and maintain the recording studios, midi suites, rehearsal spaces etc. We also have a commercial studio in which we are hired to engineer and record clients, bands etc that book studio time with us. We also have a nice PA which me and my mate hire out, so we do a lot of gigs, live engineering. Absolutely love it. The senior technician is my best mate and our boss is Martin Moscrop who is a member of A Certain Ratio (ACR) ((who loves to party)) We work hard and play harder!! He pretty much leaves us to it as he knows we get the job done well.
Oh and pretty much round the clock access to some very nice studios, for free!!!

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:03 am

I read this yesterday and meant to reply to it, so here it is.....HOLY SHIT THATS AN AWESOME GIG! ok, there it is.

zander two · Post by **zander two** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:21 am

Hey Derail, have you ever seen A Clockwork Orange? Specifically the scene with the line, "No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter!"

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:35 am

zander two wrote:Hey Derail, have you ever seen A Clockwork Orange? Specifically the scene with the line, "No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter!"

Haha, yeah I totally forgot about that part. I have'nt seen that for ages.

Post by **Aesthetics** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:58 am

It's cool to see what all you all do out there.

I work in a DIY store as a salesman. I work there for quite some years now including the time I only did it part-time.
I worked on every department by now and the job is still challenging. There is still so much new stuff to learn, evenso because my company bought another DIY company which went bankrupt about 5 years ago. And this company also had a garden centre, so that's totally new for me.

I always wondered what I would do for a living and never really thought about this option until they offered me a full-time job. The most coolest thing of it all is that the job is extremely varied and that makes the time pass by very quick , plus it's very healthy as I walk about 5-10km a day.

loga (xn) = n loga x · Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:54 am

DJ/Graphic Designer/Apprentice Piercer

OK... I work Mon-Fri 8 hours a day as a Graphic Designer, but it's flexitime (which means I can work any 8 hours I want during that day i.e 7-3 or 10-6. Or I can work say 7-7, build up overtime, then have the time off the following day or whenever I want, If I keep building up overtime time, I can have whole days off) The graphic designing that I do is for a religious book publications company in south-east England, I have been there 6 months, after moving back to the UK from living with my father in Sydney Australia (there I did funature delivery, which was nice because I got t drive around and see a lot of Sydney) On Saturday nights I DJ at my local club (it's not great, but I can get drunk and walk home) Unfortunatly though, It's very difficult to have free rein on the choice of music I play, all the other DJ's only really play house music, and thats sort of all I'm allowed. So I've had to buy a few records that I would otherwise have picked up, I managed to get away with Nlogax twice anyway. And once, Everything You Do Is A Balloon as the last song of the night. So for £100, I cant complain. The Apprentice Piercer job is Saturdy's 10-6, I start tomorrow, so wish me luck...

loga (xn) = n loga x · Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:27 am

loga (xn) = n loga x wrote:The Apprentice Piercer job is Saturdy's 10-6, I start tomorrow, so wish me luck...

It went well, fired coffee across the shop as a result of putting it in front of the till, luckily the brunt of it hit my white Ralf Lauren trousers, so great. covered my Boards of Canada T-shirt in someone else’s blood, even greater! I think this week I’ll go naked… actually the coffee might burn. Maybe just wear black. Yes, that’ll be better, wear black.

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:15 am

ross adey wrote:don't suppose there's any labouring handy? have a few interviews coming up but
i've been unemployed as of last friday.

ciaran.

what happened?

well i was just let go from my job on monday last. so lookin for work too. Dont know why i was let go....

anyway my topic was canceled so keep posting here now.

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:31 am

boardsofdublin wrote:
ross adey wrote:don't suppose there's any labouring handy? have a few interviews coming up but
i've been unemployed as of last friday.

ciaran.
what happened?

well i was just let go from my job on monday last. so lookin for work too. Dont know why i was let go....

anyway my topic was canceled so keep posting here now.

I'm unemployed too.... glad I'm not alone. If any of you are employers living in the Phoenix area, PM me cause I need work.

I need to fly my girlfriend out here at some point. Unemployment sucks.

Steve-O's contribution to the One on Twoism does not, however. Been listening to it quite a bit today.

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:08 am

in some sort of weird way i make WMD. thats all i can say...

silo flame · Post by **silo flame** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:09 am

hexagon son wrote:in some sort of weird way i make WMD. thats all i can say...

...depressing.

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:14 am

that may explain my karma, i am not happy in life, but i make a living. i dont make missiles etc...

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:19 am

Weapons of mass destruction? Care to elaborate?

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:24 am

i build aircraft, any canadian care to alaborabe how they elected a conservative govt in my absence, and btw, thanx a f'kin lot!