I currently work for a Pizza Shop And it fine Pay Garbage if i was living on my own but I’m finishing my genEd to get my associates then move someplace cheap to get my Ba in Technical Theater i love my co workers except for 1 Driver that needs to grow up and are boss changers there mind to often to trust anything they say ever
I’ve been a software developer for a while now. Currently making “employee engagement apps” but kind of looking for the next thing. If I had my way I’d probably be opening a restaurant, but I do really love programming. I just love making food for folks even more.
sounds like you do a great job, makes me wonder if I could do something similar around here!
OP: I work part time in a produce department at a grocery store. I’m pretty good at telling different kinds of apples apart and tearing apart banana boxes.
(It could be worse, I used to be at a walmart)
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Engineer in the environmental/water treatment field for several years. I work for a small company and don’t get paid much, but it has also provided some tremendous opportunities. I helped install a treatment plant for a Syrian refugee camp in the country of Jordan, so that is something I will never forget.
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I work as a Business Systems Analyst for a fairly large bank in Canada.I love working within IT, but I think I’d be better off working for a technology company rather than a large bank. It gets pretty stale here and it’s not really interesting working with data that you don’t really care about lol.
I work as what is known as a “Pupil Support Leader” which is very Edinburgh council proper speak for what I do.
Essentially, my job is that of a high school guidance teacher, but certainly more involved than American high school ones (at least in my experience - I went to a private American high school and my guidance teacher was a terrible person).
It’s also in a weird place, the word “Leader” is important, as we have “Curriculum Leaders” too- which means the head of a particular faculty, whether English, Maths, Science etc. The word is to denotate that we are on their level, it’s a promoted post. We are technically just below the deputy heads, although we have a hell of a lot of freedom in what we do.
I started as an English and Media teacher, and while I miss the latter subject especially, I love me current job. I do everything from co ordinating social work, to ensuring pupils have the correct exam arrangements, to writing references for university. It’s such a cool job that I love every day, even when you get the really awful stuff that is happening at home - your priority becomes “what can we do to help this kid ensure normality at school”.
I’m not sure it equates to guidance jobs outside of Scotland as the people I’ve talked to in England seem to have a much more distant, managerial role. We speak to kids every day. It’s the best job and I wouldn’t want to do anything else
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Instructional designer. It’s a great time, but a long-ass grind to get here.
What do you manufacture? Don’t have to be specific (e.g. brand names), just curious.
I do call centerish tech support for restaurant point of sale systems.
It is so, so, so much better than working actual food service.
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I specifically put a coating on circuit boards to protect them from moisture and dust. So I help with a lot of stuff that goes outside or things around moisture. Lighting units that go into stadiums and arenas. We actually built the lights that they used during the New York black out and the Denver Broncos stadium. Water meters, fridge and freezer, some crazy stuff for smart showers, cooking stuff. And of course all of the stuff I legally can’t talk about… We actually build some pretty interesting stuff.
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Interesting, who do you design instruction for? In my past life I was a teacher and did some curriculum design, but from skimming the top of Wikipedia this seems different.
I work at a college. Mostly I work in developing online/hybrid/flipped classroom courses, so I work at the online learning department and we work with the various schools to help them integrate the LMS into their classes/adapt their courses for fully online delivery or help them support existing enhanced course shells. A lot of my job is working with content docs, chunking the content out into pages or whatever, looking for opportunities for interactive elements, and making sure that there’s alignment between unit learning outcomes/course learning outcomes/evaluations (the different schools look after the relationship between course learning outcomes and program learning outcomes). Doing games research on the side helps a bunch with designing those interactive elements.
I’ve done some teaching here and there, too, which has been pretty helpful.
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Same. It’s the absolute worst. Best of luck!
I’m an auto mechanic for a small independent shop. We specialize in VW/Audi old and new. Being in a small enough town we can’t support the shop on thoes makes alone so I get to work on pretty much any make/model of cars or light trucks.
i work customer service at a Best Buy, its horrid. day in and day out of people yelling at me for things i cant control or things that weren’t my fault. tryin to get a new job but its hard finding anything where i am.
also if i may say so, if youve had a poor experience with a cust service person before i totally understand, some people in the job are devilish, but please try to think of the person across the counter before you start yelling…
just for your consideration…
Web developer, specializing in front end.
I work 12-hour weekend night shifts as a shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant. I spend the nights looking at Excel spreadsheets and proprietary Java-based software which inform me of the situation of individual lots in our thousand-wide product category. I’m there to ensure that we’re making the right product at the right time and that our production flow (a single product takes between 2 weeks and 4 months to process to completion) is even throughout all these products. When it isn’t, I make repairs; go tell someone in our production to process something instead of something else, for example. I also seek out systematic flaws in our production pipeline through these means and try to tear them down.
It isn’t very rewarding as it has really began to rile on my mental and physical health of recent years. Changing my rhythm from normal to living between 7PM and 1PM and back to normal once a week is beginning to take it’s toll. It’s a well-paying, fun job that lets me do what I please four-and-a-half days of the week so I can’t complain, much. I’m trying to get into school to begin educating myself towards a masters in business administration with a focus on software development. I’d like to get into games and that feels like a decent way of going about it that would also allow me to use my greatest assets. I also have a practical nursing degree but haven’t used it in years as it wasn’t exactly for me.
I’m a speech-language pathologist working in neurorehab. It’s beautiful, deeply fulfilling, and crushingly depressing. Tons of fun, though.
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I am a “Museum technician”, which is a roundabout way to say I work with historic artifacts. I’m employed by State of Utah, who has had a long dormant collection. I was brought on to help get the collection inventoried, and online. Recently I’ve taken on the duty of photographer of the collection.
I started at the State doing an Archeology internship, which got me the collections job, it ended up going full circle and I also work in the Archaeology department again. I do mostly data cleanup there, but get to go on allot of Surveys and Excavations. My job is incredible I couldn’t ask for anything better.
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I’m a receptionist at a Vet Clinic for my day job, I also get paid to act in plays every now and then. I’m currently debating about going to grad school for Theatre or getting a BFA in Journalism, so I can write and talk about games for a living.
