What are your jobs?

[hasher]

ezra,

May I ask what company you work for? A good friend was just promoted to run the residential side of my company for the entire UK.

[Ezra Hogbin]

ezra,

May I ask what company you work for? A good friend was just promoted to run the residential side of my company for the entire UK.

Ours is a medium sized local company call MAS
Our ( bad ) website is mercuryalarmservices(dot) co (dot) uk

A company with coverage of the entire UK, based in the US? I presume it starts with TY and ends in CO   (A D T )?

They don't have such a good name in this area, but from what I can gather, that's down to local management, as we currently employ a technician from another part of the UK who worked for them and he has nothing but praise for them.

[The Kernel]

I've not thrown my two pennies worth in yet as my job is rather confusing.

Technically I'm self employed under contract rather than directly employed with my main professional role which often includes strange hours and sessions.
In addition my secondary but closely related roles include being an undergraduate tutor for the local university, with post-graduate training/supervision and beyond, appraisal of colleages and administration.

Told you it wasn't simple.

in the past -
Landscape Gardener's labourer (between school and university)
Barman ( 5 seasons in a hotel in Blackpool (while at university) - public bar, cocktail bar and "nightclub")
Almost 2 decades with the British Army (TA and regular attachments)

[hasher]

Ezra that be them.

I know a lot of changes are coming. It was mentioned to me about coming over into management. However right now I am in far to good a place to make that jump.

I understand about the reputation thing. It is somethign that can take a lifetime to build and a day to destroy.

[Major Dickie Woodruff]

Currently unemployed actor security specialist and transport manager
my persona and love of this comes from being a mad marine and in the later years of my service curator of RM museum therefore giving me a love of the NeoVictorian look

[Major Dickie Woodruff]

BTW any UK members have any jobs for clinical insane Majors

[Ezra Hogbin]

Ezra that be them.

I know a lot of changes are coming. It was mentioned to me about coming over into management. However right now I am in far to good a place to make that jump.

I understand about the reputation thing. It is somethign that can take a lifetime to build and a day to destroy.

Small world, isn't it 

[hasher]

aye mate it is.
I will have to looks you up if i ever make it to the UK stag hunting.

[Mécanicien de Vapeur]

Well, I used to be until they made me a manager, somehow I still class myself as a technician.....maybe that says something about me 

I feel exactly the same. I have minions staff, but I still regard myself as a schedule compiler rather than a manager and would much rather be crafting a nice roster than managing people 

[ShredsnPatches]

I have worked as an office assistant/secretary type. I'm currently studying anthropology, am hoping to get a job... well, just about anywhere to start with, but I like the idea of going into logistics and my ultimate ambition is to make costumes for stage and screen, and for friends what like dressing up.

[Ezra Hogbin]

aye mate it is.
I will have to looks you up if i ever make it to the UK stag hunting.

Feel free Sir 

[Ezra Hogbin]

I feel exactly the same. I have minions staff, but I still regard myself as a schedule compiler rather than a manager and would much rather be crafting a nice roster than managing people 

Managing people I hate. Managing jobs is the fun part, unfortunately, I then have to get people to do the jobs, most of whom couldn't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag!

[Copper]

I am a body piercer and trainee tattooist. My aim in to build a Steampunk tattoo machine for use at work but will first have to learn to build a normal one haha. Love my job and the only other thing I've ever wanted to do was be a writer.

[Mr. Winter]

currently a US Army NCO. Supply Sergeant for an infantry battalion. because of my nature and skillsets I tend to get the odd/creative jobs.

"I'm working on a project for the Command Sergeant Major" is a great reply to the question "What are you doing?"

[Guinevere Meander]

currently a US Army NCO. Supply Sergeant for an infantry battalion. because of my nature and skillsets I tend to get the odd/creative jobs.

"I'm working on a project for the Command Sergeant Major" is a great reply to the question "What are you doing?"

so....what are You doing...? JK --thank You ever so much for Your service Dear good Sergeant;because of You and your kind, I can live in this wonderful country....*deep curtsey*

[Miss Monstreux]

There is quite an impressive assembly here.
I'm an Optical Tech for Costco.
I polish the lens to their prescriptions.
It sucks....just so BORING, but the benefits are amazing.

[hasher]

Dear like you I also work for the big evil corporate empire. And the benneies are truly amazing.

[Mechanikles]

House carpenter, general handyman, and jack-of-all (building) trades. Because most of my town is historic district, I do a lot of work on victorians and antebellum storefronts.

[Lt. Thomas Corvidae]

I am a body piercer and trainee tattooist. My aim in to build a Steampunk tattoo machine for use at work but will first have to learn to build a normal one haha. Love my job and the only other thing I've ever wanted to do was be a writer.

I would say that you are already a writer (of sorts). You get to scribble all over people!

[Miles (a sailor)Martin]

In H.S. i worked as a dishwasher in a resteraunt for six months,

then six years in the US navy in which my duties included ,bilge cleaning,mess cooking, electro-pnematic and electro-hydralic troubleshooting ,chipping rust, painting, fire tending,lookout ,helmsman ,planesman,missile compartment roving patrol,launcher watch,messenger of the watch,duty sniper,and torpedo room watch, loader on a 5"/54 naval cannon, assistant gunner on a M2HB(tripod packer),line handler, crew of the Captains Gig.

since getting out of the service

  Truck Driver-Long haul, Equipment operator for a construction company, handy man at an apartment complex, Plumber's helper,machinist, cashier at a convenince store.

also built my own home, rebuilt 5 automobile engines,and linked a set of chain mail, driven cross the USA seven times round trip and twice one way. vacationed in Alaska oncecamped out in 17 of the 48 states, hope to camp in the rest at least one night before i kick the bucket.
                                                      Miles

[Lady Ashgrove]

wow - what a list of jobs here

me - I was a waitress for about 8 months and then I got my current job at Crown Equipment making TV anntenna rotators (in 1978)

I still work there but making and building the electronics for the lift trucks (they shut down the rotator line in 2000)

but I have worked all around the facilities over the years - in the injection molding department - office - electronics - rotators

in my hobby life -
dollhouse minis (which covers just about any hobby you want to name)

SCA - been doing medieval since 1995 ( and learning new things every day)

[Chestnut]

I recently worked at at a BBQ restaurant but quit on the spot just a couple days ago, so now i'm unemployed.

For the earlier part of my life i worked for an Elk call company designing "game calls", various other hunting gadgets, manufacturing, packaging, shipping blah blah blah.. honestly i just raided good will stores, dollar stores, garage sales and boxes acquired from estate sales + various things around the home and office, glued screwed, floated, tied, taped, cut, and melted things together until i had soothing that sounded exactly like an elk with the ability to adjust tone, pitch, bass, volume and what not.. and as a marketing strategy something that was actually ascetically pleasing, made molds, sent those molds off to get injection molds made then those off to a factory and wahlah! big sellers until Primos decides to change the mouth piece and shy away just slightly from key details of the patent and release it himself.

Worked for a Timber falling company, learned quite a bit of mechanical skills from working with all the rigs and saws

Guided hunters in the wilderness for anywhere from 3 days - a couple weeks at a time in primarily in Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

Worked as a bee keeper for a honey & bee's wax manufacture, keeping bees, bottling honey, molding wax and what not

worked as a digital artist /game designer/ creative detector for a video game company.

Made jewelry from recycled materials and fallen branches.

I have also worked at some gas stations a grocery stores

I'm still young, have no college or even high school degrees, everything i have learned over the years is from odd jobs, books, people who are happy to share their crafting knowledge, the internet, video, and countless hours of thinking, sketching, tinkering and wandering

After quitting my last job i'm going to focus on making jewelry again as well as props and clothing.

[Mahogany]

I currently stand on a street corner with a large sign and hold it up so people will know which way to go to the new housing track.

The human billoards, they call us.  Four hours a day, on weekends and holidays that fall on Friday or Monday, for 12/hr.  It's keeping me afloat for now.  I really like it because I'm able to take a 45 minute lunch and all of the breaks I feel that I need to (within reason, obviously).  The only thing that sucks is that it's right in the middle of the day, so it's hard to do certain things that are only on the weekends - like go to the Farmer's Market or garage sales.

[citizen_erased]

I study Japanese, going into my 4th year after the summer holidays. Haven`t had very interesting jobs either. In order: library, Wibra (a type of shop in the netherlands), cleaning, cleaning old people`s homes, register duty at the castle ruins.

So as expected, I don`t have many brilliant skills or anything. Working on them through this forum now XD

What I *have* learned so far is how to arrange things to make them look better. I`ve done Japanese flower arrangement, I`ve re-arranged entire shelves in the Wibra, I can rearrange things to make them more efficient and nicer to look at XD

[barb dwyer]

I worked whatever low paying job I had to
to keep two kids in Nike's and their game boys in games.

I've worked set design and building off and on Broadway
Secretaried at horse shows
answered phones, filed, cleaned -
bartended (a decade or so can't remember was drunk most of the time)
Night Audit (left me time to draw and write)
Marketing and merchandising consultant
(have always had a 'hand' in fashion in some capacity or other)

On the side -

I've always been blessed with the capacity to draw things
and craft/create things of interest that people want to buy.

Every time I crafted something - 'they' called it 'art'.


It was something I always did in order to make ends meet
and was never the center of my endeavors.
Was always to buy something special,
get some kind of horse or horse equipment
pay off a doctor bill or just make the power bill in time -

but never was I able to just put everything else down and 'do art'.

Now I am doing that.

I'm full time in college
pursuing a double major
(right now as long as my health holds out)
psychology and art.

I hope to finish up my degrees in Europe.