What's your Job? pt 2

[LoneWolf16]

I'm currently vying for the position of The All Being, Master of Time, Space, and Dimension.

 

I am often nostalgic for my old summer janitorial job at a school. I could just go off on my own for hours and clean desks, shovel mulch or mop floors. Nobody bothered me, I just received my orders at the beginning of the day from the head custodian and did my thing.

 

Now, people are always bothering me. Write a story about this, write a story about that. Write a story about my new business and write it just like this. We need you to get so-and-so to say this particular thing, there's the story.

 

Don't these people know my creativity must not be caged?  :cool:

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That really what it's like?

 

I'm going for a Journalism/Writing major and a newspaper seems to be a viable career path...or something on the internet, like a game site or whatever.

[Petay]

Student.

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+ the added bonus of washing-up dishes for spare cash. Yay!

Edited June 1, 2006 by Petay

[Darth Drabek]

That really what it's like?

 

I'm going for a Journalism/Writing major and a newspaper seems to be a viable career path...or something on the internet, like a game site or whatever.

 

Sometimes, like when you get to tell a great story of amazing people beating adversity into submission with a sharp stick, it's worth it. The rest of the time, it's a pain. Awful hours, awful pay, and dealing with lots of people who a) don't trust you or b) want to use you.

 

I never wanted to work for a daily, but like many young idealists, I thought I'd review albums for Rolling Stone. That dream died when I went to college and realized how many people had the same idea. So trade weeklies became the new dream job after a slick internship with a magazine that covered the plastics field. Problem is, the good ones require three years at a daily before they'll hire you.

 

Three years at the daily I currently write for would be like 30.

Edited June 1, 2006 by Darth Drabek

[LoneWolf16]

Crap.

 

All I really know how or like to do is write, so it just seemed like the best option. It's not too late to abandon that idea, as much as I would hate to do so, but I'd first like to know if it's even worth it to try continuing.

 

That, and I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life career-wise other than something like this.

Edited June 1, 2006 by LoneWolf16

[Darth Drabek]

I'm no guidance counselor, but my advice is to intern at a neighborhood weekly-type paper one of your first few years out of high school. They usually need the help, and that way you'll know for sure if it's something you'd want to spend the rest of your life doing.

 

In hindsight, I wish I had done something like that. Academics in college is generally presents the noble profession of journalism, but at an internship you would see the grim realities of the industry.

 

i.e. Let's do another story on the big car dealership doing a renovation, because they're our biggest advertiser. Or let's critique the police force's spending because the chief's been withholding public records.

[tarna]

Same as last-time you asked.

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Working in a factory putting rubber a**holes in wooden hobby horses.

It's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it.

[Calax]

It's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it.

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which is why "illegal aliens" should be allowed to work in the states

[Musopticon?]

So that your horse gets new rubberage?

[Walsingham]

Is your cloak tinted beige?

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So that was you I saved from the burning bathtub?

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Oh, hi! :D What does the B in your crest stand for?

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Which one? There are five.

[Musopticon?]

Well, the second one from the left, of course.

[taks]

It's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it.

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which is why "illegal aliens" should be allowed to work in the states

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no, that's why there should be a mechanism for legal aliens.

 

taks

[WITHTEETH]

I'm a full time cool painter dude till fall comes around, then Ill be only half as cool. :cool:

[Rosbjerg]

I still work at an institution for addicts and "social misfits" (as they call themselves)..

celebrated my 12 month here just recently .. but soon off to join the annoying ranks of the telephone inteviewer that we all despise .. I do it for the money and joy of pissing people off! :D

[Raymond Luxury-Yacht]

Student. Within the past 3 months I've written nearly 130 pages of essays and keep writing still. My job, is to be an unmitigatedly verbose writer; keep getting distracted from my real priorities because of stupid school requirements; and kill off time playing Turrican, watching Monty Python, and posting here as a way of coping with stress.

Edited June 4, 2006 by Raymond Luxury-Yacht

[Gromnir]

since we were just a little Gromnir, we has always wanted to be an Inqusitor for the Catholic Church... smite heretics and expose witches n' such. unfortunately even though we had the SATs our latin weren't good 'nuff and we couldn't get no scholarship... tanked the interview too when we let slip that our great grandfather were a Oglala shaman... so we went to Berkeley instead.

 

*sigh*

 

so now we is one of our firm's brain surgeons. not too long ago we were the hired gun, but there ain't no sense dwelling in the past.

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Azure79]

Working for a Big4 accounting firm.

 

Its a good firm to work for, though it does tend to work you hard, but you learn a lot and are open to a lot of information on various big name companies.

 

I'm just apathetic towards the work. Don't know why. The world of Finance and Accounting just doesn't intrigue me. There goes my chances of ever rolling in the dough~ heh

 

I'm going to start school next year and start studying Biology and hopefully work my way up to med-school. I always wanted to become a pediatrician since I'm really good with kids and was very sick when I was young. I'm only 25 so I figure its not too late.

 

I got side-tracked somehow.

 

Anyways best of luck in your jobs fellow posters.

[Darth Launch]

I've just recently finished my final year exams for my Psychology BSc, so I guess that makes me a non-studying student and amateur insomniac until Graduation... after that, I intend on working as an Assistant Psychologist until I get sick of working (approx. one year) and return to university to do my Masters

[Walsingham]

Well, the second one from the left, of course.

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*thinks: lucky break!*

 

THAT one stands for brave.

[mysterious stranger]

I'm a baker.

I bake lots of things.

Donuts and french bread for example.

I wake up at 2am every morning.

It has it's nice parts and it's bad parts. At 2am there isn't anyone awake to annoy me, and commuting to work is pretty easy.

But I have to wake up at 2am, and that is difficult.

[Lare Kikkeli]

I'm a baker.

I bake lots of things.

Donuts and french bread for example.

I wake up at 2am every morning.

It has it's nice parts and it's bad parts. At 2am there isn't anyone awake to annoy me, and commuting to work is pretty easy.

But I have to wake up at 2am, and that is difficult.

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i was going to be a baker, but couldnt stomach the early wake ups. baking is fun though, and i still do it regulary.

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

Working on this.

 

It seems as though I have a webpage link that I did not know about (that goes to a 404 error naturally).  Guess which name I am? "

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Scripting ewwwwwww....

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

What am I?

 

Hard to say currently fingers cross moving from one thing to another, going from student/lampy to student/games programmer.

[julianw]

I am a student/assembler. Graveyard shift sucks but at least burning moths with a torch during work is always fun...

Edited June 6, 2006 by julianw

[Dark Moth]

That's not cool! <_<

[alanschu]

Working on this.

 

It seems as though I have a webpage link that I did not know about (that goes to a 404 error naturally).  Guess which name I am? "

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Scripting ewwwwwww....

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Most of the work I do isn't specifically scripting based, though there is some code gen.

 

The point of the program I work on is to allow people to create scripts without having to do the actual scripting.