We had a thread like this on the old boards, and I've always found it quite interesting - so, since a lot of people here joined since then (and I want to find out if what Tamyra says in her profile is true), I shall ask the question again.

What do you do to earn a living? Is there something else you do that you wish was your day job, or that you intend to make your day job?

I'm an accountant (still in training). Surprisingly, I really enjoy it. You get to snoop around in other people's personal affairs, which is great fun.

Before that, I worked at a funeral director's as a secretary and receptionist for three educational years.

Before that, I was still at school, but I worked at the Register Office at the weekends and during holidays, ushering for weddings and compiling a computer database of old marriage registers.

My ideal job would be writing.

Mrs G
The Garner who cares.

I want to do journalism for games or writing.
at the minute I'm a student.

I am a student but my dream job would be in some field of psycology (not decided which but i am considering sociology)

Writting would be an amazing career but I feel I need more experience and a bit more practice before i can consider it.

Well...

I work for an oil company and I'm the manager of a team that designed and now deploys a project management system for our engineering projects worldwide.

It sounds very boring, but it's pretty cool to whizz around the globe doing this. And I get to sit and type things to message boards.

Been with this company for all my working life, started out as a drilling roughneck, crane driver, storeman and then worked up through project engineering to where I am now. This puts my music/english language degree to absolutely no use whatsoever.

Before that I was a professional musician. For about 2 years, from the time I left university until I got too hungry to be one of those any more. Also did a bit of acting (same story)

School / university vacation jobs were: fish factory, beach lifeguard, pie factory (honest!!) and delivery driver.

My ideal job would be: rich, retired and with a recording studio as a hobby

Curse your misleading thread titles! I thought this would be some bizarre who's line is it anyway type thread.

Anyway, I'm a Tape Librarian, Head Tape Librarian.* I was hired to reorganise the tape library for Talent Television,(ha! Dyslexic alphabet for them!) so my job was pretty much moving tapes around.

I want to be a runner (Tape Librarian is probably abouve runner but can't lead anywhere) then to researcher. Eventually, I'd like to get into Development- where your job is thinking up new TV shows, considering the rubbish you see of tv these days (there is a show about how to train for dog on next week!) it shouldn't be too hard. Ideally, I love to work for a comedy company like Baby Cow (makes Alan Partridge) or HatTrick (Father Ted). I'd be great to be the guy who commissioned the new Monkey Dust or some thing. Too Be honest I'd love to be involved in those shows on any level.



edit: Stupid stars

* Ok, i'm the only Tape Librarian.

Heres to the dream!

I'm currently working in Customer Support for an electronic goods company, been here about 3 months and the sing-song telephone voice is really starting to improve. The pay isn't great, but the jobs alright, allows me inordinate amount of time on the internet and keeps my brain ticking over without it being forced into overdrive.

As for the future? I don't have a clue. Before I went to Uni I wanted to go into software design, I still half-clung to that when I left, but without any real enthusiasm which is why I never got a job in that really.

So now I'm in a kind of directionless limbo while I decide what the hell I want to do with my career and if I can be arsed to do it.

(Playing blind Pictionary, me drawing)
Ella: Is it a giraffe?
Me (stops drawing): No
Ella: Star Trek?
Me: Yes!

I'm a doctor and I'm currently doing my compulsory term of serving a rural area for a year. When we're not buried in snow it's kinda cool.

I'm an accountant. I work for a company that buys bankrupt companies for cheap and turns their books around and then sells them for loads more money.

Yup, I'm working for 'the Man', helping the great beast that is corporate America suck the life out of the helpless masses.

Which is odd, seeing as how I am a revolutionist and I want to topple the corporate hiarchy. Oh, well, I guess I'll have to do it from the inside out by sowing seeds of dissent. I have an accounting ruler that I have been using for about 6 years now in accounting. It has a big red sticker that says "Corporate greed is unpatriotic". Thats right, me and my ruler will crush the oppresive regime that is crushing the spirit of humans worldwide.

Muahahahahahahaha....you can't stop me corporate America, even though I work 11-12 hour days sitting behind a computer screen with the tiny numbers on the excel spreadsheet that make my eyes water......hahaha

Fuck Shoes.

I'm a student. One year left. Scary, scary stuff.

At the moment I'm working in a clothes shop called Jaeger, which is dead posh and bloody expensive. I have to posh up my accent and smile ALL THE TIME. I don't like it much.

I've had a wide range of jobs...

-Before Jaeger I worked for a different clothes shop, same kind of thing.

-Before that, pub. waitressing and barmaiding.

-Before that, I worked for a company called Ann Summers for a while, selling sex toys and underwear and the like. I personally think Ann Summers is cheap, tacky and horrible, but it was amusing for a short while.

-Before that, a different pub. Got sacked for serving underage kids. oops.

-Before that, DIY superstore, not fun.

-Before that, wildlife park. Great fun! I got to hold a badger there.

-Before that, laundry in an old peoples home. Couldn't deal with washing shitty sheets all day. I applaud anyone who can.

-First job ever was... washing up. £2.50 an hour. I'm so cheap.

as for the future? Not a clue. We'll see. I have to survive my degree first :|

That would also be... CONDENSATION.

I'm a student. I'd like to be an artist some day. I'd also quite like to work in the creative side of advertising or marketing. I would really like to be a music journalist and organize Bloc Party concerts and the like, but mainly an artist. :bear:

I'm still at school, but I'm fairly in demand in the babysitting circuit. This is probably because most of the people at my church who have kids ask me to babysit for them as I am the only girl of about the right age - I dunno, people seem to think boys don't go in for babysitting.

Anyway, assuming I ever grow up (which is looking unlikely) I'd like to do something in educational psychology... but as with many other people on this board, my dream job would be author. I just don't think it'd be steady enough money. Plus I can't take critisism so reading reviews would be a bummer. :roll:

No doubt you were confusing the '90s entertainment show with the '50s quiz show about people's jobs. Also, your asterisk goes nowhere. My advice is to always write the footnote immediately after typing the asterisk, and then write the rest of the post!

Sarge, what instruments do you play?

Snails, you've done loads of interesting stuff! I'm jealous! And I bet none of it ever involved trying to stop a dead body falling on the floor after the hydraulic trolley broke!

Mrs G
The Garner who cares.

Err well define play....I am sitting here looking at a synth, a guitar and a set of drums..I can get em all to make a noise. Singer and guitarist mostly.... (thats what almost paid the bills anyway)

I'm an automation and control engineer which really means I get to play with robots and cranes and stuff. Unfortunatly these robots aren't like the ones in Rinso's head but there still pretty cool. I spend most of my time tracking data that's been passed from one system to another, such as from production to the automated warehouse manager, thats the pretty boring part. The good part was seeing a Robot flip last month and knock over a huge stack of primals. 8)

It wasn't so cool having to pick them up though and re-teach the robot. :(

Back to stay!

Starting my English Language and Culture study in a few weeks. I plan on getting a full-master's degree along with a bachelor's in Political Science.

I'd like to teach at university or maybe work for NATO or the UN.