Rin has piqued my curiousity, so: what do you guys do for a living? You certainly don't have to say if you don't want, but I know a lot of us don't mind, and I AM SURELY CURIOUS. I'll even show you mine before you show me yours. :)

I'm a certified public accountant, specializing in research for sales and use tax. Currently I'm working for certain hospitality company best known for a heiress who enjoys showing her coochie to the world at large.

No, I haven't met her.

Rin has piqued my curiousity
Way to go Rin! Does this go along with that time when Ing was keeping you up?

As for me, I work in the IT department at a fairly large hospital. I mostly sit on my ass all day, surf the net and read all these silly posts.
When I get really bored, I grab my clipboard and wander around the hospital. Everybody thinks you're busy when you're carrying a clipboard!

I create ads for a newspaper, real estate guide and various other printed publications. Specifically, what I do I get annoyed the FUCK out of by salespeople who, apparently, think I am stupid.

I also get to make up stupid poems for really lame ads like I did the other day:

Find the Pickle in the Nickel & enter to win,
your chances could be one in ten,
but then again, the more you play,
the more fun will come your way!

Look for all the Pickles in the paper
and mark ‘em down, ‘cause it’s safer.
If your’s is the name that is drawn,
You’ll be the envy of everyone!

The prize is huge & it’s big
It might even help sell your rig!
If your name is the one we call
you’ll be the winner of it all.
You’ll get a free classified ad, and be a star
you’ll also win a pickle jar.

I work in a cancer research lab for a fairly prominent hospital/school. It's not regular academic research but rather more precise tweaking for clinical cancer therapy trials, which makes things a bit more cool. 9 months out of the year I'm also a masochistic grad student.


Everybody thinks you're busy when you're carrying a clipboard!


Thanks Zan! I really need to order one of those for days like, uh, today.

....Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me
'Cause I can't come
I sold my soul to the company store

...The museum I worked in had that as the background loop music for the replica coal mine. It will never, ever get out of my head. Nor will the first six notes for "I'm A Believer," which was the intro music for Virtual Volleyball at the same place.

And, err, back on topic, I'm a web developer. With an English degree.

I was a solutions architect for HP before being consumed by the Compaq merger.

That being the layoff that broke the IT monkey's back, I jumped industries and now work as a technical consultant for a luxury kitchen appliance distributor.

My job is stifling and unchallenging. I hate what I currently do...

That said, I'm also finishing up my degree in Economics and Finance. I'd like to pursue a career change into finance. I'm interested in either pursuing an MBA after I change careers or possibly going to law school.

And, err, back on topic, I'm a web developer. With an English degree.

Yeah, my degree in Environmental Biology is doing me real good working in IT...

I'm a claims adjuster. I handle Auto/Property/General Liability losses. Basically I get yelled at for 7 hours a day by people who want their money yesterday - even if the accident was their fault. Only one has made the mistake of trying to acktually come up here to collect on something that was not his fault. This job will make you lose your fear of hell.

On the upside we take beer lunches once a week, the pay is ok, and we take beer lunches once a week.

I am also Teh Fat Jesus.

I used to to do high level support for virtual webservers. I worked for VServers/Micron/HostPro/Interland. Then the towers fell, everything moved to Atlanta and I was unemployed for 3 years. I miss unix :(

I'm a client biller for a Medical Testing Laboratory in the OC. No, I don't know what that means either, but I like to work most of the time.

Network Engineer for a global marketing company. Lots of work and lots of traveling. I was previously a security engineer for a different company (and the AirForce) so I still do that type of work but my primary focus is networking/telecom.

I'm an auditor! n_n For a BANK. It is tremendous fun, and sometimes Jamisia brings me coffee.

Make him bring the rest of us some. I take mine black with 1 sugar.

Web app developer for a federally funded non-profit. Mostly I write web form templating systems, because coding web forms by hand is shitty.

because coding web forms by hand is shitty.

... ... .... ;_;

What, you disagree? Or you are stuck in the hell of coding web forms & processing by hand?

I code by hand on purpose. I do all my code in vim, because it color-codes my lines for me and I don't have to worry about forgetting a ?> somewhere, and I absolutely cannot work in shit like Dreamweaver because not having actual physical control over every line of my code drives me bugfuck. XD

I feel the same way Aro.

Now that I am quite adept at using InDesign and Illustrator though, I might see what it generates for the web. I know it does nifty xml stuff.

I code all my HTML by hand. Have done so since 1994. But when you have a data entry system whose data validation rules change every 3 or 4 months, you simply can't recode all your web forms all the time. Unless you want to do nothing else.

So I simply wrote a web form API, basically. Define the form and its elements in text files (using http://hobix.com/textile/ for markup) and poof, you're good to go. The system turns the template into a xhtml compliant form, handles the retrieval and saving of data to the database. As an added bonus, you can also store all of your data validation in your text files. So when the feds decide to completely revise their rules, you alter a few text files and you're off.

.... I push the button that says "update", that's my job! Okay, well not all of my job, but a lot of it. I work in a position Aro used to have, in her very own ex-cube, maintaining websites and serving as all-purpose IT grunt for a company that tracks advertising.

I spend my days and sleepless nights as the Senior IT Manager / I.S.P. (Information Systems Professional) for a cardiac/heart disease registry in 6 Canadian provinces. Lately I've been focusing on systems & security now that we have a new development manager (I am soooo happy there is someone else to deal with the head-ache known as software developers!). ;-)

My job is unemployed college student :D

No actually, I just graduated from college a little over a week ago (still proud of pulling off cum laude), and I'm going to graduate school in the fall for my masters. While there I'll also be working 30 hours a week as a research assistant. I don't know what this will entail but I am sure it will be terribly boring. I think I might need to get an Ipod to survive it.

As for now, umm I babysat yesterday and I'm probably going to be tutoring tiny children in the ways of English (that being the subject of my degree).

I work as an Oracle DBA.

I am an Army wife and mother of a teenager and a tantrum-prone 3 year old. :D

Don't you guys ENVY ME!!! MUWHAHAH!

/eats a bon bon

/eats a bon bon


I see you and my mom have the same rates!