Jobs

[ViviMasterMage]

Yes, it's my return to this forums and as the first post in a long time, I want to ask;

What sort of job do the people of TFF have as jobs? I'm probably going to get killed for not looking if this thread already exists and for that, I'm sorry.

Basically, I just finished a college course in Games Development and I've taken a gap year in the meantime to save up some pennies to maybe go abroad and pay those nasty student loans and an adviser asked me to post a topic on it on one of the forums I go on. I didn't have the heart to tell her it's a bit of a stupid idea as a lot of you are American or from other countries but it can't hurt to try, eh?

I used to work at Manchester United as a match-day runner but quit the job as the crunch time period of getting final projects at college in on time was creeping up and I was getting really stressed and hair was falling out and other such things. Before that, I worked at a milkshake store where we'd mix lots of different flavours and it was awesome. Other than that, I've never really had a PROPER job.

Enough of me, anyways. The point of this is to see what you guys do and if you'd recommend working there, if you enjoy it and stuff along those lines.

Also, hi to people that remember my existence.

[loaf]

I work for Hostgator.

I fix your server.


lol j/k no I don't.


My job is....

Teaching people how to tier their shoes over the phone.

I basically


am Tech Support till I learn all this stuff and become smarter and then find some job who wants to pay me like 60k.

[Taco-Calamitous]

I am a Maintenance Management Analyst in the US Air Force. My job is mostly inputting numbers into an excel sheet and analyzing the results to isolate the biggest causes of the numbers, to look at information other people have inputted into Information Systems and making sure they did it right, and occasionally to do a special study to see what is going on with some of the bigger number causers. I also put together slide shows for meetings in the morning and attend those meetings (not something an Analyst would normally do, but our squadron doesn't have the people who would normally do that) go to said meetings and occasionally brief, and an extra duty of monitoring people's training records and making sure they are doing the training they are supposed to. Every Airman's job is also to do whatever menial task needs to be done, like garbage, clean up, scraping ice off sidewalks, etc.

It is highly stressful, and the people who work down on the flight line don't think we do anything so we don't get any respect. We don't always help our cause either by doing and saying stupid shit when a Senior NCO is walking by. It is also extremely hard for me at least to be so far away from home all the time (except right now, heh.) There are other things I'd like to vent about but I probably should not vent about them online for the world to see...

It's a good choice if you are faced with struggling to find a job in the current economy, which I was. You get Tuition Assistance and a GI Bill, you get training, you get housing and food, etc. Your world kinda opens up beyond the small one that you're used to back home. It forces character growth and gives lots of experience. Over all, it is probably a good thing to do for most people.

[Djinn]

Currently I am a Comms Specialist in the Royal Air Force. It's quite a broad trade, anything computer based, radar, radio among other things. Similar to Taco, people think we don't do anything because they don't realise just how much modern technology relies on computers, after all radars just fix themselves right? It's a fun job, but being deployed for 6 months is a bit painful to say the least, no matter how busy you are you always think of home.

It's a good choice if you are faced with struggling to find a job in the current economy, which I was. You get Tuition Assistance and a GI Bill, you get training, you get housing and food, etc. Your world kinda opens up beyond the small one that you're used to back home. It forces character growth and gives lots of experience. Over all, it is probably a good thing to do for most people.

This is basically why I joined hah, the experience alone in the military is probably enough to get me a better paid job right now however the benefits of staying in far outweigh the pay in my eyes. Also had the pleasure of staying in Patrick AFB for a couple of weeks on the cheap, what a place, it's like it's own little city!

[Rowan]

I am a network specialist technician. My job cover a range of things, from repairing laptops/netbooks, server and network maintainence, the day to days of ICT programming for staff and students, maintaining safe and secure environment for technological ingenuity yada yada yada. But I feel this is only temporary until my PT buisiness kicks off... if it ever does. Unless I advance in this field to a higher salary, which is a distinct possibility.

[C:/Dille.Run]

I am currently a delivery driver for a wholesale electrical company.
We delivery anything from EMT conduit to light switches to spensive transformers.

Pretty basic, gives me the monies needed to go to school.

[Xanatos]

I graduated as a building technician, specialized mostly in designing expressways and tunnels, to be honest I have almost no experience in my actual field other than doing some small parts of a much larger project. In other words I drew plans and profiles in AutoCAD, some had to be hand-drawn though. You need to be extra careful not to mess the measurements. My work was pretty simple, however, actual civil engineering is on another level and is both time consuming and hard but financially rewarding. Right now I fix PC's on my own as a mean to earn money while going through my final year of civil engineering.

[Pete]

I'm a construction inspector. It's not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. I basically go to a job site, read the plans, which are written in anything ranging from the kings English to Urdu (kidding, but sometimes they're shit), and I go about making sure that the laborers are doing the job according to the plans and the building code.

On one hand, most of my days are pretty easy. I'll post up at a job site and usually the jobs are simple enough, like making sure the guys are using the right bolts to connect steel beams to columns, or making sure rebar is put in the right locations. Other days, it absolutely sucks, especially when a contractor thinks they know everything, and is doing the job completely wrong. It sucks being 27 for these things, since you'll always get an asshole who gives you the "I've been doing this since before you've been born" line. I usually respond with "Well, then you've been doing it wrong for a long time." That doesn't go over well, but it's a job and it pays the bills.

Hopefully I'm out of this shit come January... then I'm sure I'll have a plethora of new and far more rewarding stories

[Rowan]

I'm a construction inspector. It's not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. I basically go to a job site, read the plans, which are written in anything ranging from the kings English to Urdu (kidding, but sometimes they're shit), and I go about making sure that the laborers are doing the job according to the plans and the building code.

On one hand, most of my days are pretty easy. I'll post up at a job site and usually the jobs are simple enough, like making sure the guys are using the right bolts to connect steel beams to columns, or making sure rebar is put in the right locations. Other days, it absolutely sucks, especially when a contractor thinks they know everything, and is doing the job completely wrong. It sucks being 27 for these things, since you'll always get an asshole who gives you the "I've been doing this since before you've been born" line. I usually respond with "Well, then you've been doing it wrong for a long time." That doesn't go over well, but it's a job and it pays the bills.

Hopefully I'm out of this shit come January... then I'm sure I'll have a plethora of new and far more rewarding stories

There should be some law against that. Like, a form of harrassment. Its your job to make sure they do their job correctly, age should not matter. You were chosen for the role because you were competant, not because you have 'seen it all'. Otherwise Mr.SmartArse would be doing your job, amirite?

I can sympathise with this scenario.

[Xanatos]

I'm a construction inspector. It's not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. I basically go to a job site, read the plans, which are written in anything ranging from the kings English to Urdu (kidding, but sometimes they're shit), and I go about making sure that the laborers are doing the job according to the plans and the building code.

On one hand, most of my days are pretty easy. I'll post up at a job site and usually the jobs are simple enough, like making sure the guys are using the right bolts to connect steel beams to columns, or making sure rebar is put in the right locations. Other days, it absolutely sucks, especially when a contractor thinks they know everything, and is doing the job completely wrong. It sucks being 27 for these things, since you'll always get an asshole who gives you the "I've been doing this since before you've been born" line. I usually respond with "Well, then you've been doing it wrong for a long time." That doesn't go over well, but it's a job and it pays the bills.

Hopefully I'm out of this shit come January... then I'm sure I'll have a plethora of new and far more rewarding stories

Reading your troubles is like hearing my friend all over again, you could say I have a gist of what you've been going through. He had the exact same job, although his duty was to inspect work on specific sites, anything related to water since he worked for a local waterwork company. Many did not take him seriously for the exact same reason as you, being young, he was a lot younger than you in fact, got this job straight out of college.

[Pete]

Oh I totally agree. Technically my company is a third party, working independent of the people who hire us to make sure that the contractors put the building up correctly. We get certified in a number of things, so technically, I can personally go anywhere in the world and do a soil, steel or spray fireproofing inspection, and I can test concrete in America. It's not against the law if they give us crap, or even if they do the wrong thing, all we have to do is tell them that we won't certify the work if it's not done properly. Once that happens, they usually change their attitudes. If they don't, I just write it up in a report, and then they have to answer to my bosses. The good thing about that is that if it's not done right, they'll make them re-do whatever work they did for that day, or fix it, and that costs them more time than if they would have done it right to begin with.

It's amazing how quickly a contractor will change their tune when they find out that they'll be working for an extra week without getting paid by their client. Especially when my office gives the building department the final say if a certificate of occupancy (the thing that lets a place be officially legally open for business/living) can be issued, based on the work done.

[noxious.sunshine]

I'm a caretaker for my dad right now.

[Josh_R]

Right now I am a department manager for Lowe's. Pretty easy job. I am over the Outside Lawn & Garden department. Right now is great cause it is a slow time of year we have are annual trim-a-tree shit going on right now, so it gets a little busy. But after next week it will be dead for a couple months. Throw on my jacket and stand outside haha.

[Cyanist]

Well, seeing as how I am currently unemployed - no, now that isn't quite correct, my duties are in fact numerous and cover a diverse range: From making certain my underlings do not incinerate/shatter/snap off every item in the mansion, to ensuring the most succulent and optimal delicious detail to every tiny morsel of my perfectly prepared dinner and extravagant dessert, and then ultimately tucking my young master in bed at nine sharp.
A grandmaster of domestic engineering, you say? Not at all.

I am simply 'One Hell Of A Butler'

[Michael Swayne]

I am and have been for the last seven years and three months, an employee of The Adams County Messenger. It's my first job, and with some luck it will also be my last. Nearly ten thousand miles later, I have a pair of the greatest legs I have ever seen on a person. As some have said, my legs are a cannibals wet dream.

But it isn't my only job. No, I have been doing some online work (transcription, translation, etc.) with Amazon's Mturk Program. It doesn't pay much, but it helps.

And then I also write news articles and other pieces for a website that I cannot talk about much in public forum spaces, because it is a rival of TFF. The kind of site that sends private messages to several members of TFF to try and get them to join over there. Three guesses as to what site I'm talking about, but I wouldn't tell you if you're right or not. It doesn't pay, but I have gotten the chance to interview some up-and-coming people in animation and music. There's also the chance for travel and Square Enix merchandise.

[Dawezy]

Nightfiller at Woolworths, thankless job but the money is good. (better then no job at all.. f*ck the welfare system down here seriously >_>.) And why my sleeping pattern has changed from being awake during the day, sleeping at night - opposite, I sleep most the day and I'm up most the night/morning now heh.

Not much else to say, been at it for about 6 1/2 years now.

[Alpha]

Nightfiller at Woolworths

We have Woolworths in Kiwiland, too. They're owned by Progressive Enterprises, who also own Countdown and Pack 'n' Save (IDK if these exist in Aussie). Except Woolworths apparently has a poor brand identity here, so now all the Woolworths have been re-labelled Countdown, but they've kept the Woolworths logo, and all the Countdowns now have the Woolworths logo. It's kind of confusing to have that big "W" but be going into (what was once) a different kind of store. [\end weird digression]

I work as a research assistant at a independent research institute at a university in New Zealand. We research things (my research is mostly related to transportation issues), try and get people to pay us for research, and present research. We're a non-profit (no shareholders, board memberships are voluntary roles), but we need money to pay for staff etc. Also, I got a scholarship to do my Master's thesis next year, which pays for all of my fees (about NZ$7,000 or US$5,735.80) and NZ$15,000 (US$12,291) cold hard cash, so over the forty or so weeks I'll be doing my thesis, I'll be getting paid. Of course, I'll be working on it for more than 40 weeks, and for more than 40 hours a week. So it's not a huge amount all said and done, but the alternative was to borrow... and that would have been a maximum of about NZ$12,000. I can live of the stipend comfortably, and I'll be working a bit alongside it.

[Omega]

I work for Cleary Building Corporation as a Building Sales Specialist, pretty decent gig. I also go to college for my Bachelors Degree in Accounting at University of Phoenix.