What do you do for a living...

[InfectedWithRage]

Are you paid well for what you do and more importantly, are you happy doing what you're doing?


I work for a big irrigation supply house in Florida. I have spent 10 years of my life either on the field or behind the counter with this industry. I'm a branch manager of a warehouse where we sell low-voltage lighting, irrigation supplies, and pond/waterfall supplies. The pay is horrible in Florida and the people can't drive...at least in Miami. :D

I started off working with computers at an early age and was hooked! I got my A+ Cert. back in the day where it was the thing to get you started and then I realized that reading is over-rated and dropped out of college.

I'm happy working in this industry. I love the castle/kingdom that I have created here. I know my stuff, but always willing to learn more. I don't want to go back being out in the field with this Miami weather, being from NJ, I'm not really built for heat 24/7.

Anyway, I was bored and was wondering if others were in the same boat as me or better/worse off. This is not a sob story or anything like that, but just a little curiosity. I never knew anyone with a similar profession as me playing videogames, nonetheless WOW.



-I

[amazing barrel of nachos]

Are you paid well for what you do and more importantly, are you happy doing what you're doing?


I work for a big irrigation supply house in Florida. I have spent 10 years of my life either on the field or behind the counter with this industry. I'm a branch manager of a warehouse where we sell low-voltage lighting, irrigation supplies, and pond/waterfall supplies. The pay is horrible in Florida and the people can't drive...at least in Miami. :D

I started off working with computers at an early age and was hooked! I got my A+ Cert. back in the day where it was the thing to get you started and then I realized that reading is over-rated and dropped out of college.

I'm happy working in this industry. I love the castle/kingdom that I have created here. I know my stuff, but always willing to learn more. I don't want to go back being out in the field with this Miami weather, being from NJ, I'm not really built for heat 24/7.

Anyway, I was bored and was wondering if others were in the same boat as me or better/worse off. This is not a sob story or anything like that, but just a little curiosity. I never knew anyone with a similar profession as me playing videogames, nonetheless WOW.



-I

right now i work at burger king employed as the guy who spits on the food...no not really i just serve drinks

[Stigg]

I get paid a great deal of money for what I do. But I hate it.

I am a Systems Engineer for a smallcontracting company to the Navy. My main job is to test simulators.

Vroom!! (Thats not me...)
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/arstout/100_0076.jpg

[Brene]

I create TPS reports :shocked:

[nocandyforu]

I'm a high School Student. I'm overworked and under paid

[blusun]

I buy food for about 400 people, 3 meals a day and snacks. Kinda the mage for these folks:grin:
Don't get paid.
I live in Chicago and haven't been outside for about 2 weeks.:sad: but I like it.

[Stigg]

I buy food for about 400 people, 3 meals a day and snacks. Kinda the mage for these folks:grin:
Don't get paid.
I live in Chicago and haven't been outside for about 2 weeks.:sad: but I like it.
Better brng your ice skates!
http://k43.pbase.com/u17/scherrer/large/39174542.DSCF7013_w.jpg

[xxlebox]

with a bit of luck I'll have my first real job by 13 february, I have an interview then, so wish me luck :D

and I'll be selling pc's

[kodeeak]

chemical engineer

[Ignious]

I work for the Canadian government. I did technical support for years and then acepted a job in project managment. project managment in the government is like banging your head against a very hard wall. the pay is good, the BS isn't. Enjoy my job and the people I work with, but with most people in the Cnd Gov, can't stand my boss. and of course the only other people here that play wow I left back in my old techie job, but oh well. and I am deffently the only father of two that I know of that plays wow. I had to take a break from it for a year and a half to take care of the new born but knew I wanted to get back into it, and now with the kids a little older can actually spend some time with it and not feel guilty about playing it!

forgot to add, since I don't like the cold I have a very good reason to stay inside and play!

[Foonyak]

I run tests on processors and other various chips produced by Texas Instruments. The pay is decent, but could be better. I like the job though, and the people I work with are really cool for the most part. I am pretty happy here, and would like to turn the oppoutunity I have into a career.

[kcma]

i'm a cook, the pay sucks :p i love and hate it at the same time :)

[amazing barrel of nachos]

I got a new job(well i havent got it yet but i start in 3 weeks)I now work(and live) in a greasy ol, flat cleaning toilets for a batty old woman and her 20 residents(yes every room in the building)my reaction when i asked to join was as follows:

whoot!:cool: a crazy old woman hired me for...oh s**t cleaning toilets!:shocked: man<three minutes later>wait oh crap its below minimum wage!:(:embarassed:

[kcma]

funny, isnt minimal wage... the minimal that they have to pay you? :)

[xxlebox]

you'd think so xD

[amazing barrel of nachos]

funny, isnt minimal wage... the minimal that they have to pay you? :)

yes it is i just seen how much i got paid exactly so im gonna quit (duh! im not that desparate)

[Foonyak]

Or you could just take your W-2 that they give you and then report them to the Federal Labor Board. Quit after you've reported them. It would keep the next person who wants to take the poo-scrubbing job from getting shafted with a job that pays below minimum wage.

[amazing barrel of nachos]

Or you could just take your W-2 that they give you and then report them to the Federal Labor Board. Quit after you've reported them. It would keep the next person who wants to take the poo-scrubbing job from getting shafted with a job that pays below minimum wage.

i though minimum wage was just below average!

[Foonyak]

No, minimum wage is the wages set by the federal government that is the lowest wage you are legally allowed to be paid. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, though the individual states can set this rate higher than that, they may not set their state minimum wages to be lower than allowed by federal law.

As an example, the minimum wages for the state of Connecticut are $7.25, while the minimum wages for Texas are $5.15.

[amazing barrel of nachos]

No, minimum wage is the wages set by the federal government that is the lowest wage you are legally allowed to be paid. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, though the individual states can set this rate higher than that, they may not set their state minimum wages to be lower than allowed by federal law.

As an example, the minimum wages for the state of Connecticut are $7.25, while the minimum wages for Texas are $5.15.


:shocked: thanks for telling me

[kcma]

LOL, what do you do with $5.15/hr? live in a box? :D

[Foonyak]

Basically, yeah. You have enough for a new box every month or so, and food. But I have never had a job that paid minimum wage, even when I was working at that Hallmark store back in high school.

[Eonblue]

I get paid to play wow all day then send everything i get in game to some chinese guy...idk why he wants me to do this but it pays well.....lmao JK!,

Actually I'm a mortgage loan officer and the only website i get at work is http://forums.worldofwar.net yay!

[Tanitha]

I write strange software for a company that provides an ICS like solution to the Windows platform with Intrusion Detection, gateway based virus scanning and content filtering, VPN, mail servers and the like.

It's a brilliant, but exceptionally small team with stupendous support. We're flexible, work open hours and the pay is slightly above average when compared to our peers. I've got a beautiful plant on my desk, windows on three sides and my own little private corner. Our offices are built in an old factory, in the heart of a fairly posh suburb of Auckland. We're surrounded by multi-million dollar apartments and you wouldn't believe how snobbish they are. All noses in the air. Our offices are up a metal staircase, built into the roof specifically for us. The whole of downstairs is left open for parking / games and we have a basketball court outside for people to go monkeying around on.

Immediately below us is my boss' recording studio, so there are famous faces passing through there all the time. I remember wandering downstairs for a smoke a few years ago when this tattooed and strange looking chap said: "Hullo" or something like that. Might've been hi. I was too scared to respond with anything other than a quivering "Hi" and just scuttled outside as quickly as I could.

Later I learned that was supposedly the lead singer of the Beastie Boys! So yeah, we get all sorts filtering through there and it's great fun. The guys at the recording studio are definately insane, but thoroughfully loveable.

And we have coffee. Fabulous coffee. Fresh beans daily, a San Marco (?) machine in the office and our boss is such a fanatic he sends every new employee on a coffee making course.

So yeah - if I quit here I can go to work at Starbucks :grin:

[kcma]

I write strange software for a company that provides an ICS like solution to the Windows platform with Intrusion Detection, gateway based virus scanning and content filtering, VPN, mail servers and the like.

It's a brilliant, but exceptionally small team with stupendous support. We're flexible, work open hours and the pay is slightly above average when compared to our peers. I've got a beautiful plant on my desk, windows on three sides and my own little private corner. Our offices are built in an old factory, in the heart of a fairly posh suburb of Auckland. We're surrounded by multi-million dollar apartments and you wouldn't believe how snobbish they are. All noses in the air. Our offices are up a metal staircase, built into the roof specifically for us. The whole of downstairs is left open for parking / games and we have a basketball court outside for people to go monkeying around on.

Immediately below us is my boss' recording studio, so there are famous faces passing through there all the time. I remember wandering downstairs for a smoke a few years ago when this tattooed and strange looking chap said: "Hullo" or something like that. Might've been hi. I was too scared to respond with anything other than a quivering "Hi" and just scuttled outside as quickly as I could.

Later I learned that was supposedly the lead singer of the Beastie Boys! So yeah, we get all sorts filtering through there and it's great fun. The guys at the recording studio are definately insane, but thoroughfully loveable.

And we have coffee. Fabulous coffee. Fresh beans daily, a San Marco (?) machine in the office and our boss is such a fanatic he sends every new employee on a coffee making course.

So yeah - if I quit here I can go to work at Starbucks :grin:

are you all sobered up now? yes baby, we were making out and you were amazing <3

[Tanitha]

are you all sobered up now? yes baby, we were making out and you were amazing <3

Yes! And I wasn't drunk - just ... tipsy. How did we make out long distance?

[kcma]

i guess you were more tipsy than you thought!! spiritual making out <3

[amazing barrel of nachos]

i guess you were more tipsy than you thought!! spiritual making out <3

yeah whatever after you die do i get your liver?

[kcma]

sorry someone else claimed that already :p

[xxlebox]

too bad, we can't make porkbelly.. let's make that, kcma liver pie!

[kcma]

if my liver falls out of my body one day... and i can't put it back... i want to eat it :)

[amazing barrel of nachos]

sorry someone else claimed that already :p

damnit it would make good ginger beef nachos

[Idol]

I'm a Sixth Form student. In other words I do no work whatsoever.

[kcma]

that's what i've always wanted for myself...

[Idol]

It's not hard. Grow a beard, wear a hat and go to College/Uni ;D

[ambushingAnA]

:O!

Ana works at Woodchester hospital with people who are about to die from cancer etc

[kcma]

and pounces them?

[ambushingAnA]

*shakes head* a few i have to wear masks and stuff its fun to dress up in the lil protection outfit

[rottentomato]

i work highway patrol....yup yup so i spend all day at a desk reading about how to be better at wow and watching youtube

[kcma]

can you get me off my illegal left turn tix? i'm broke...

[Clavina]

i work in tech support for a huge company.. the money isnt great but i have been here long enough to be able to get away with doing virtually nothing :grin:

[Zuline]

I work as a Maintenance Planner for the largest Nuclear Power generating company in the US. I plan all the main turbine and generator work for 4 different plants. Money is great, but the job is really getting old. Sitting in front of a computer all day is not my thing (working anyway--wow is different).

[Atoz]

Field service Engineer.
maintain machines that are used to make microchips. Chemical vapor deposiotin (CVD), Physical vapor deposition PVD), and Plasma enhanced Dry Etchers (RIE, ICP). Can be pretty buszy and messy to maintain. Most the time I sit and wait for them to break, and while I do I log on WoW or sleep.

[PlayThemAll]

Computer programmer, Oracle DBA.

Some days, the last thing I want to do when I get home is use a PC.

[Esperance]

I'm a senior in college; currently student teaching.

Next year I'll probably be a post-baccalaureate student taking prerequisites for a Master's program. I want to get my Master's in Speech Language Pathology.

So instead of making money, I'm forking over $30,000+ each year so that I can have a sweet job when I'm all done. Ha. :laugh:

[mesonm]

I'm a professional shark....seriously

:thumbsup:

[kcma]

I'm a senior in college; currently student teaching.

Next year I'll probably be a post-baccalaureate student taking prerequisites for a Master's program. I want to get my Master's in Speech Language Pathology.

So instead of making money, I'm forking over $30,000+ each year so that I can have a sweet job when I'm all done. Ha. :laugh:

Mmmm grad school :) while i do miss my student days... i'm glad that's over :p

[Falgorn]

Solicitor

Work Hard - Paid a lot.

[earindur]

Network and Systems Administrator.

[Whitevladje]

1 st line helpdesk in a telecom buisness in belgium.
phone problems, adsl, sdsl en digital tv is my domain.

boring but great hours and a lot of hollidays.

[Chunderpants]

President of the United States of America

[Foonyak]

President of the United States of America

Chunderpants, you do realize that we have to kill you now. :grin:

[myusernameistaken]

Major Incident Analyst (IT) for a large UK company. Pays pretty well but I am hating it. I spend most of my days stressed out, shouting at people or being shouted at :embarassed:

I've got a promotion coming up to a shift leader role which would work out as being quite a lot more money but right now I'm starting to look elsewhere and see if there's anything that I could be doing that I'd actually enojoy. Also working for a company that I could give a damn about would help too.

[farafel]

My main goal in life is to be the boss of my boss then I can rest...

[AeroJonesy]

Chunderpants, you do realize that we have to kill you now. :grin:

Great, now we're on the Department of Homeland Security watch list. Thanks a lot Foonyak. :(

FBI/CIA/NSA/Secret Service:
This forum does not condone talk of killing any elected official. Please remove us form your watch list. Thank you.

I hope that did the trick...

[Tanitha]

Alternatively - open an account, go to Foonyak's server and engage in some creative world PvP ... uhm. Wait. That's my server. On second thoughts ...

[kcma]

it's okay, you can hide behind me *wink*

[MixedVariety]

Chemist. I have 3 labs and can do whatever I like as long as it eventually makes money for the company. An awesome job, really, except that I work alone evenings (I guess so any resulting explosions don't take anyone else with me) and it gets lonely. I miss my family. But weekends make up for that, and being home during the day is cool too.

[Ju Smurph]

Insurance Broking...

[snowieken]

I have two diploma's: Elementary school teacher and web developer. Not doing any of those at the moment though, working in a warehouse.

[kcma]

I have two diploma's: Elementary school teacher and web developer. Not doing any of those at the moment though, working in a warehouse.

when i very first saw you i thought you were a girl, and i thought, wow, you'd make such a cute elementary school teacher... and then i remembered that you're not a girl... :p

[snowieken]

Seems I barely escaped the kcma love machine.

[kcma]

Seems I barely escaped the kcma love machine.

it's too bad snowy, it's too bad... it's okay, if one day you decided you've became a woman i'll still be here :D

but why aren't you working in the field of your study? just seems random :)

[Chunderpants]

Great, now we're on the Department of Homeland Security watch list. Thanks a lot Foonyak. :(

FBI/CIA/NSA/Secret Service:
This forum does not condone talk of killing any elected official. Please remove us form your watch list. Thank you.

I hope that did the trick...

How did you know I have a list?

Anyway, as a very important person I have an image to uphold and cannot allow myself to become confuddled between real life and fiction. I have therefore "suggested" to certain people that erradication (or shall we just say removal) of the more weird people who play WoW would be of benefit to society and myself.

Right Im off to clean a blockage from the toilet and then meet up in game with Butros Butros Ghali (Warlock lvl 58), President Putin (Rogue lvl 15) & Tony Blair (Paladin lvl 12) so we can set the world to rights with our mighty power.

[Tibbs]

I work for a Produce Company as a Marketing Analyst. I figure out why people buy the things that they do. I also get to predict the future (I'm not very good at the second part...)! lol

Pay's ok, but I'd like more, so if they don't give me a fat raise at my next review, I'm off to pastures new...

Tibbs

[Foonyak]

So, Tibbs, why did my wife pick up the red-leafed lettuce last weekend when she usually grabs the Iceburg?

[Tibbs]

Because she has impeccable taste (she married you didn't she!?) and she realised that Lollo Rosso (probably what she bought) is tastier and makes a (dare I say it) more sophisticated salad for the romantic and delicious meal she made for the most important person in her life. :grin:

Tibbs

[Foonyak]

Wow...you pretty much hammered the Valentine's dinner notion spot on. Though she would scoff at having her taste called impecable, and we'd both agree that our daughter is more important to her than I am.
:smile:

[kcma]

it could've been a radicchio or trevisio... and omg can you be a bit more flattering? you're gonna give Foonyak a woody!!

[Foonyak]

you're gonna give Foonyak a woody!!

I'm gettin' a classic car?!? YES!!! Gimme gimme gimme!

[kcma]

not that kindda woody :p the one tanitha gives me :D

[Foonyak]

Man, keep your thoughts out of my pants, please. :grin:

[kcma]

uh oh, Mrs. Foonyak is reading and fell in love with me...

[Wasabee]

I work for a Temp place. I hire them. I fire them. It's great.

That's why I started a design company.

You can e-mail me fore details. Looking for all levels of designers (web, graphic, and print).

[kcma]

I work for a Temp place. I hire them. I fire them. It's great.

That's why I started a design company.

You can e-mail me fore details. Looking for all levels of designers (web, graphic, and print).

need a photographer dood?

[Akshell]

I'm a student, and the SLC gives me £3000 pounds a year for my troubles, and an extra £3000 for my studies. Also try and support myself on poker ;)

[Valas Azuviir]

not that kindda woody :p the one tanitha gives me :D

You know, getting angry reports in my mailbox does not make me a happy camper, especially if said angry reports are correct in their complaints. We got kiddies coming to these forums. Watch the language.

Do it again, and I'm going to tempban you for a while.

[Tibbs]

it could've been a radicchio or trevisio... and omg can you be a bit more flattering? you're gonna give Foonyak a woody!!

Trevisio is a version of radicchio - and you wouldn't want to eat one of those on its own, unless you've roasted it with walnuts and blue cheese (a really pokey Grogonzola would do it, that kind that crawls off your fork into your mouth all by itself...), so I made the assumption.

Personally if you want red leaves you can't go wrong with Red Oak Lettuce, but it's a PITA to find.

Tibbs

[Tibbs]

I'm gettin' a classic car?!? YES!!! Gimme gimme gimme!


You can have my Land Rover if you like. The thing's a money sink...

But I love it - work that one out! lol :ponder:

Tibbs

[Whitevladje]

landies are cool.

I do own a 90 2.5Td (chanced the engine into 200Tdi) and a series II2.5 petrol.

If u don't need it anymore just let me know. :wink:

[Tibbs]

I have the 2.5TD, a truck cab in green. It failed the last MoT and so it's sat over the winter while I wait for the weather to improve so I can get in and fix the stuff that needs doing. It's an ex-farm vehicle so it looks like hell but it was really well maintained and the chassis and the engine/drivetrain are still very strong. I have a day to day car and I'm finding it really hard to justify the added expense of a 2nd motor vehicle. When I get the MoT and time to tidy it up it's going in the paper :undecided: :cry:

Still I have my white Mark II Golf, which I love just as much, and so I guess I'll get over it. I've owned 2 of the 3 cars that I promised myself I'd own (Landy and Golf) just the round headlight 3 Series Touring 325i to get lol! :grin:

Tibbs

[Whitevladje]

there is no car compaired to a landie.

just the sound, the looks and the oil on the road are great aspects (not of cheetah) of the car.

Once a landie always a landie.
I do drive all day with my 90. weekends with the series and even off road with the series.

u just love them ro hate them.
and yeah always something to repair, fortunately we can fix it ourselves and the parts aren't expensive. specially at the billing event

[Wasabee]

Since you guys seemingly have alot of money (owning a Land Rover...they are over 100K in the states for some models) wanna help me out?

[Whitevladje]

farming and grinding :tongue:

no just kidding, over here for a second hand one (10 to 20 years old) u only pay like 7000$. and that is for a defender

range rover and discovery's of that age are much cheaper

[cdalman]

I'm a tech support for a very large health insurance company here in the states. We deal with problems from the very mundane (aka I.D.10.T errors) to the more complex (oops sorry we fried the server).

Its a stepping stone into a better IT job along the way. Just finished my B.S. degree in Securities along with numerous IT certs. Looking forward to a long career in IT. =)

And to touch on the current topic of the thread, I'm currently in the process of restoring a 76 Mercury Cougar. Not to many of em around anymore, but I love the look! Black and gun metal grey two tone paint with pinstriping . . . learn to love it!

[Tanitha]

I need to see a picture of that Cougar. Please cdalman. Pretty please! I have a love affair with old American cars, especially the late 60's and early 70s V8s. Currently driving a 67 Mustang which is an absolute beauty.

[kcma]

i love both old v8 powered americans and the tweaky 100hp/Liter japanese motors :p I'm driving a RSX-R right now (or Integra for those of u in Japan), i miss RWD cars tho...

[cdalman]

She is in storage over the winter sadly. Cant wait for spring to hit!

I've got some pics floating around. I'll post one up soon.

[Tanitha]

I've got some pics floating around. I'll post one up soon.

Cool! Then I will be evil and will post mine so long :grin: My daddy is a mechanical engineer, so ever since I was small he's had me around all sorts of big, mechanical things. And my granddad drove an old Mercedes, I don't even know what year it was. But it had a bench seat, a massive red leathered steering wheel and it smelled nice inside. I used to sit in that car, parked out in his driveway. He was a train driver and I have many fond memories of the time spent at their house. Anyway, that explains my love of these cars. There's something very permanent and very solid about them. I don't quite get that feel in a modern car, it doesn't have the same feel of being a car. (And of course, new cars are much more expensive to buy and run too!)

http://knightly-slumber.com/images/thestang_small.JPG (http://knightly-slumber.com/images/thestang.JPG)

That was taken one morning after a light spattering of rain when I arrived at the office. As you come down the ramp, there's a big old roller door that you drive through. With my start time, I'm almost always first so when I had finished opening the door the way the light and headlights were combining just screamed "take a picture!"

So I did. It's still my favourite.

Edit:
Aaaanyway. After seeing that rather cool vampire movie - The Forsaken (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245120/) - I've been in love with the idea of owning a Dodge Charger. There is something about those door sills. They're just so wide. I know, it's a silly reason to love a car but every time I see them I just want. Badly want.

[kcma]

it's all that metal baby, a more nostalgic time when cars are build like tanks :p nowaday they build car to crumble upon impact to better absorb the shock and protect the driver :p

i'll have to disagre on newer cars being more $$ to run tho :p my Celica GTS always gave me 25mpg no matter how hard i drive it, and my RSX always give me 23+mpg. tires... however.... are a different story :p and as i get older, i have more appreciation for Japanese's ability to crank out the power they do from such tiny motors :p but i'd still happily trade my car away for a RWD...

[Tanitha]

Well, the cost savings comes in the form of maintenance and initial purchase price. I only paid NZ$16,500 for her and that thing does not need to see a mechanic. Ever. I have her in for a six monthly tune-up when, under New Zealand regulation, we need to get a Warrant of Fitness to ensure the vehicle is roadworthy, etc. but that's just to be safe. 'Course, I might be dead wrong there! But nothing sounds bad yet and she still drives dreamily. (The guy who owned her before me added power steering!)

Then in terms of insurance, it's so cheap it's just not funny. I pay NZ$120 per YEAR for comprehensive, all inclusive insurance. That's what you can get under classical car cover.

In terms of gas - well - yeah okay. She is a guzzler, I can't deny that. But it costs me just over NZ$35 in gas per week, but that's on a quiet motorway and only 10 minute trips at a time :grin:

[kcma]

;) i used to burn soooooo much gas with my camaro and mustang it was ridicules :p and as for maintenance... the new hondas and toyotas are pretty much maintenance free. first schedule checked up @ 100k miles... 160k Km?

i love them both... they are beings you fall in love with... what i can't stand is the sedans and cheaply slapped together cars that most people drive... and cars that are sooooo soft and comfortable that you feel completely disconnected from the road! the soft leather seats that are comfy like a cloud!! make you wanna Zzzzzzzzzzzz...

[Foonyak]

i'd still happily trade my car away for a RWD...

Trade in your high-priced Honda :grin: for a Nissan 240SX. It's one of the only Japanese cars to be found in the US with a RWD drive train. They were only made from 1989 to 1998 (S13 is from 1989-1994, S14 is from 1995-1998), but for the size of the engine (2 litre) they have great pick-up and top end.

[kcma]

i'll pass, the torque on that motor is... okay at best and there is no top end to speak of whatsoever... the car can barely stay in the 16s stock...

and there are a ton of Japanese imports with RWD, MR2, Miata, 300zx, rx7, lexus IS, 3000gt, supra, 350z/g35, RX8, s2000. i love the s2000 and there really isn't another car more fun at that price range. unfortunately it lacks makeout space that ppl call backseat...

i don't really know how to drive FWD car all that well even tho i've been driving them for the past few years... seems like everyone has a different personality, the prelude, celica, rsx... that or i can pick up a WRX/Evo and join the AWD fun :p

[Boneshadow]

i am in a 4 month program learning to weld. The company gives you a 16,000$$ student loan at 6% interest, 4000$$ a month, and you learn everything they can teach you about welding, and in return, you sign a 1 year contract. You work for the company for 1 year (or 2,200 hours) (after gettin thru the school part), and they take 12$ an hour from you. The job pays 30$ an hour, so you still make 18$ an hour. After the contract year is up, the loan is paid off (and some, 2,200 hours x 12$ an hour is about 26,400$$, i guess that 6% interest hits pretty hard) and i can continue workin for 30$ an hour, or find a better paying weldin job, since ill be a certified, licenced welder with a years exp. Most blue collar jobs in america are goin down, especially production (duh), but electricians and welders are goin up. Way up. Not to mention they will be building something like 5 nuclear power plants in my home state of SC alone, and good welders are a rare commodity. So Im set for the next 5 to 10 years. Plus nothing beats usin a high amperage electric arc to instantly superheat a piece of metal to several thousand degrees, hotter than lava and enough light to blind you if you look right at it without protection, and badly sunburn your neck just below where your weldin mask ends. Not kiddin, I peeled a layer of skin off my neck yesterday. Meanwhile, ill be drawin unemployment juuuuust long enough to get thru the 4 months of school with food and gas money... not much, will have to grind, but enough.

[Boneshadow]

I work as a Maintenance Planner for the largest Nuclear Power generating company in the US. I plan all the main turbine and generator work for 4 different plants. Money is great, but the job is really getting old. Sitting in front of a computer all day is not my thing (working anyway--wow is different).

Well, ill never make as much money as this guy lol, no matter how many nuclear plants i end up welding for. But ill have more fun, plus i might get away with being a dopehead, depending on how hard they drug test me.

[Ju Smurph]

I want one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurion#Sports_concept).

atm i have an 05 rolla which i purchased new.

[Boneshadow]

Id rather have this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron) myself.

Proven top speed 250+ mph...

0-60 2.5 sec...

Never mind, i dont want one. I wanna live at least another 10 years.

[InfectedWithRage]

Since we got a little off topic, I prefer sport"y" sedans. I have an '03 Acura TL Type S with some minor mods. I'd love to have either an Audi RS6+ or the RS8.


>melts<


>drools<

[kcma]

i'm not the biggest fan of the extremely exotic cars anymore... not like how i did when i was 15... and yes, good sports sedan has grown on me... i'd take a BMW or Evo myself :p

[Chemm]

I'm in the U.S. Army, Currently stationed in Germany at the moment, going to the states soon I believe...

[SirNoSir]

I'm a student :laugh:

Getting my PharmD and BSc Pharmacy in 6 years, then working as a pharmacist with a starting salary of 105,000$/yr US

I win. :ponder: :wink2: :sunny:

[Ju Smurph]

Id rather have this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron) myself.

Bugatti Veyron, yeah well given the very few of them that they will ever make and the price... i doubt any one here will ever get one.

[kcma]

that bugatti is a 1 seater... make out room? sex machine that fails to perform :p

[Ju Smurph]

that bugatti is a 1 seater... make out room? sex machine that fails to perform :p

No... thats perfect. No Little Miss Conscience (girlfriend) telling you to slow down:tongue:

[kcma]

Mmm, i thought it's really cute when i went a bit gas heavy and happycow sayd, "gas kc, gas!" or when she finds out that i drive faster than she does on the freeway and she kicks me <3

[SLUGFly]

I'm a teacher in S.Korea :grin:

I love my job. I'd rather be a paid novelist but I'm not quite there yet. I teach English to a bunch of kids from kindergarten to around 13 or 14... my favorite classes (and the bulk of my classes) are around 10 and 11 years old.

And of course I end up telling them a lot about WoW :grin:

[kcma]

cute single s. korean hotties?? :)

[SLUGFly]

loads! :D

cute single s. korean hotties that speak english:

not nearly enough... :(

[InfectedWithRage]

jomji (sp?)

[kcma]

they dont need to speak great english :p just a tiny lil bit would do <3

[Mercot]

Disability claims examiner for a large insurance company. Cube city. I do have a nice window further down the aisle with a decent view of downtown, though.
Says journalism (news-editorial) on my degree, though I've currently no desire to work in today's journalism market. I'm happy doing whatever as long as I can live relatively comfortably.

Edited for a typo.

[shifttusk]

I write strange software for a company that provides an ICS like solution to the Windows platform with Intrusion Detection, gateway based virus scanning and content filtering, VPN, mail servers and the like.

It's a brilliant, but exceptionally small team with stupendous support. We're flexible, work open hours and the pay is slightly above average when compared to our peers. I've got a beautiful plant on my desk, windows on three sides and my own little private corner. Our offices are built in an old factory, in the heart of a fairly posh suburb of Auckland. We're surrounded by multi-million dollar apartments and you wouldn't believe how snobbish they are. All noses in the air. Our offices are up a metal staircase, built into the roof specifically for us. The whole of downstairs is left open for parking / games and we have a basketball court outside for people to go monkeying around on.

Immediately below us is my boss' recording studio, so there are famous faces passing through there all the time. I remember wandering downstairs for a smoke a few years ago when this tattooed and strange looking chap said: "Hullo" or something like that. Might've been hi. I was too scared to respond with anything other than a quivering "Hi" and just scuttled outside as quickly as I could.

Later I learned that was supposedly the lead singer of the Beastie Boys! So yeah, we get all sorts filtering through there and it's great fun. The guys at the recording studio are definately insane, but thoroughfully loveable.

And we have coffee. Fabulous coffee. Fresh beans daily, a San Marco (?) machine in the office and our boss is such a fanatic he sends every new employee on a coffee making course.

So yeah - if I quit here I can go to work at Starbucks :grin:


Hiring? I do db software development, get payed well but the joint is well.... BOOORING I like it though

[Hoonah]

Corporate Financial Controller for one of largest companies in Alaska (not for profit 501c3) - Healthcare & Engineering are our 2 largest divisions.

Big corner office with all the perks but so bored out of my mind it isn't funny. My education and prior work history is geared more torwards financial analysis / MIS Business systems. I got talked into this job and was told I could slide over in 2 to 3 years. That was 7 years ago :shocked: I have got to learn not to do such a good job!

The money is fantastic enough to keep me from jumping out the window.

[LucidSpirit]

Work for an investment bank in London as a software analyst/developer. My current work involves maintenance of foreign exchange trading systems. The salary is good and the job at the moment I still find interesting, especially real-time systems.

The office itself is situated in the financial centre of London we call the City. It is surrounded by very expensive, exclusive buildings (some are a real work of art) and overlooks the River Thames. Despite this, the nearest office window has a superb, and in all weather conditions, a view of a brick wall. :shocked:

You can’t win them all.

-LS

[Tikki]

Well...firstly, I really like old people...but not in the perverted fetish way.

I'm a full-time gerontology graduate student, doing ma'thesis...my work involves data analysis and other qualitative research on issues related to aging and caregiving, and its application to policy analysis .. aka...I sit at a computer and read forums like this all day.

[Onofius]

Nothing hehe I go to school then game all day:D

[Tikki]

I'm jealous of your life.

[kcma]

Well...firstly, I really like old people...but not in the perverted fetish way.

I'm a full-time gerontology graduate student, doing ma'thesis...my work involves data analysis and other qualitative research on issues related to aging and caregiving, and its application to policy analysis .. aka...I sit at a computer and read forums like this all day.

so you're 18+ oh... that's all i needed to know *wink wink*

[Valas Azuviir]

so you're 18+ oh... that's all i needed to know *wink wink*

And she's also spoken for.... So....

*Gets out a Supersoaker and squirts Kcma back to his basket*

Bad dog.. Bad... No hassling the female visitors.

[Stigg]

And she's also spoken for.... So....

*Gets out a Supersoaker and squirts Kcma back to his basket*

Bad dog.. Bad... No hassling the female visitors.

So you have a "ban hammer" and the "kcma down dog squirt gun". What else you got hiding away VA?

[Valas Azuviir]

So you have a "ban hammer" and the "kcma down dog squirt gun". What else you got hiding away VA?

You forgot the Spankystick of Banning +5.
Don't use that thing that often these days. The Baka Hammer seems to get my point across well enough. :sinister:

Plus, most of the folks I've banned, either temp or perma, tend to be male, not going to use a Spankystick on them, that's for sure. :grin:

As for the rest.. That's for me to know and for you folks to worry about. :evil2:

[Tikki]

lol
I am spoken for, quite spoken for infact!
But I've yet to take offense to any of kcma's post - infact, they're very welcoming in a strange way!
thank you valas azuviir - I love the ban hammer lol

[XxLankyxX]

I work for the same agency that Rottentomato does... I sit behind a computer all day and think of nothing but going home...

[Tikki]

is anyone else so into WoW that you make reference too it in everyday life?
Last night I was getting food and I said to my boyfriend, "do you want a salad? It gives 3456 health over 26 seconds, but you must remain seated"...
I can't believe I publically admited to that.

[kcma]

lol
I am spoken for, quite spoken for infact!
But I've yet to take offense to any of kcma's post - infact, they're very welcoming in a strange way!
thank you valas azuviir - I love the ban hammer lol

dont be a hater VA, tikki <3 me :)

[Tikki]

it's true...
the one I have now is just to hold me over lol

[kcma]

it's true...
the one I have now is just to hold me over lol

alright next time i cook dinner it'll be dedicated to you <3

[forevergamer]

I work for the same agency that Rottentomato does... I sit behind a computer all day and think of nothing but going home...

same here!!!once i punch in,all i can think about is lunch and going home.:grin:


Been a gamer since,been a gamer still....

[Valas Azuviir]

alright next time i cook dinner it'll be dedicated to you <3

Course, he's only said this to about every female poster on the board. :rolleyes:

Side note, I'm not a hater, I'm a grouch, there's a noted difference between those two categories.

[Idol]

Course, he's only said this to about every female poster on the board. :rolleyes:

Side note, I'm not a hater, I'm a grouch, there's a noted difference between those two categories.

Yeah, Grouchs steal christmas.

[Valas Azuviir]

Yeah, Grouchs steal christmas.

That's grinches.. They're distant kinfolk. It's like saying that Night Elves and Blood Elves are the same subrace. :tongue:

[AeroJonesy]

I'm a law student. Basically, it means I read all day every day and I've been in college way too long. Only 2.5 semesters left, and then I'm never coming back!

[kcma]

I'm a law student. Basically, it means I read all day every day and I've been in college way too long. Only 2.5 semesters left, and then I'm never coming back!

we need to do something together :p i need the help of a lawyer partner :D

[Solvi]

I get paid fairly decently. I am a Security Counselor at a State Security Hospital. I work with Mentally ill and Dangerous, Borderline Personality Disorders and Pyschopathic Personalitys.