What do you work as? (1 Viewer)

[Super Dexta]

i'm an, ahem, market research assistant.
which actually means i work in a call centre.
it's bearable. i only do about 22 hours a week. i'll keep it up for the summer anyway, and then hopefully cut down my hours when i start my MA in september.

in the long term i want to be a Person Who Reads Books All Day.

 

[Rogue]

What they fire you for. Did you do a bit of a Sting on it?

Why yes, i did, their rainforest is now completely saved. Ungrateful bastards!

 

[plug]

I dance to the tune of the organ grinder...

..that is to say I occasionally make webshites, between long bouts of staring out the window and reading/posting on thumped...

*sigh*

 

[rampz]

i was in paris with the missus a few years ago and there was an organ grinder outside that famous department store "printemps"??. anyway he had a little dog and cat with him tucked up in a pram. it was so cute, even if both the animals' leg muscles were probably by now completely atrophied.

I dance to the tune of the organ grinder...

..that is to say I occasionally make webshites, between long bouts of staring out the window and reading/posting on thumped...

*sigh*

 

[Buzzo]

 

[rampz]

awwww.

 

[rampz]

im the guy who pours blue water into sanitary towels in the adverts.

they named a shopping mall after me.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I've worked in banking for the last ten years - since I finished my English & History degree.

While not the ideal career I am reasonably satisfied with it at the moment. For me it's a job which pays me enough money to live, cover the mortgage and buy records/dvds/books. I believe in doing the job properly while I am at work but have no interest in it becoming my life (unlike a lot of people in the sector).

I don't meet that many people in banking that share similar interests to me but there are a few and it's a mistake to dismiss everyone in the industry as boring or uncreative.

 

[muffin]

im a teacher..at the moment i am teaching horrible teenagers how to speak english..i like it..good money and im finished work every day at 12.20!!.|..|

 

[RSJ]

I've worked in banking for the last ten years - since I finished my English & History degree.

While not the ideal career I am reasonably satisfied with it at the moment. For me it's a job which pays me enough money to live, cover the mortgage and buy records/dvds/books. I believe in doing the job properly while I am at work but have no interest in it becoming my life (unlike a lot of people in the sector).

I don't meet that many people in banking that share similar interests to me but there are a few and it's a mistake to dismiss everyone in the industry as boring or uncreative.

I misread the first line as baking and spent a few confused seconds trying to figure out when it became a "sector"...

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I misread the first line as baking and spent a few confused seconds trying to figure out when it became a "sector"...

LOL

Like Lyle Lovett's character in Short Cuts. Nice baker.

 

[MDR]

I misread the first line as baking and spent a few confused seconds trying to figure out when it became a "sector"...

(resists pun about making dough . . .)

 

[roxy]

(resists pun about making dough . . .)

I don't think you resisted at all, Mr H.

Not at all.

 

[Anthony]

I wonder what I'm doing most of the time.
I do know that I have a VAT bill this week and am flat broke every October, just in time for christmas, yay!

 

[eoinbox]

am full time studente, work for a p.a company and do backline and tour stuff for bands also like. and im broooooohhke!

 

[chickenham]

I survived on music for a few years but since the birth of the wee one,teaching English to Japanese students has been putting bread on the table.

 

[MDR]

I survived on music for a few years but since the birth of the wee one,teaching English to Japanese students has been putting bread on the table.

Do you teach them the phrase "Put the bread on the table".

 

[Deleted member 3435]

im a teacher..at the moment i am teaching horrible teenagers how to speak english..i like it..good money and im finished work every day at 12.20!!.|..|

why horrible?

i have three sources of income at the moment.

i work in a library, in a bookshop and i give guitar lessons.

next year i'm doing the MLIS in ucd and then i'll be a full on shit kicking librarian.

 

[Zeelander]

why horrible?

i have three sources of income at the moment.

i work in a library, in a bookshop and i give guitar lessons.

next year i'm doing the MLIS in ucd and then i'll be a full on shit kicking librarian.

What would you consider the pros and cons of being a librarian? What sort of educational qualifications do you need? What sort of person is best suited to the job? I've often thought that being a librarian would be pretty ok.

 

[MDR]

What would you consider the pros and cons of being a librarian? What sort of educational qualifications do you need? What sort of person is best suited to the job? I've often thought that being a librarian would be pretty ok.

and please answer those questions in alphabetical order.