What do you guys do for a living?

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1. I’m a transponster.

2. I fix medical imaging equipment. So x-ray, MRI, CT scanners those sort of things.

3. Well retired

4. I work as a teacher aide in an elementary school, and my husband is a carpenter and builds luxury apartments and mansions typically.

5. I build stuff.

   Although I technically don’t build anything. Used to build stuff… but now I point and yell a lot while other people build stuff.

6. High school teacher. Usually when I say this people react with a mixture of awe and pity, like I’m doing humanitarian work in a war zone or something. Honestly, I love it. For sure there are hard days, and lots of stuff that can grind you down. But most of the time it’s actually fun: watching young minds grapple and grow, and at this age they’re nearly people, so you can goof around with them and occasionally be very real with them. They’re old enough to have things to say, but young enough to still be cute and goofy. I love those fuckers.

7. Financial systems analyst. I usually describe it as specialized IT for the accounting and finance teams of a corporation.

8. I’m a geologist working in the aggregate industry

9. Medical courier.

10. Part-time cashier and full-time student.

11. I do fast food part-time while attending school; I’m trying to save up so I have some cushion for college where I hope to eventually become a Psychiatrist

12. I’m a chef, I stepped into a summer camp kitchen as a dishwasher at 12 years old and 37 years later I have never left kitchens. In high school I worked for several locations of the golden fast food chain, moved onto deli-bakery jobs for the now defunct Florida based grocery chain and the big blue “K” grocery chain. Since then I’ve cooked in country clubs, independent restaurants, corporate restaurants, hotels, factory cafeterias, and now a from scratch kitchen in a small residential college dining hall in the greater Atlanta area. I’ve been mentored by two award winning chefs and have managed to find a relatively low stress position as a sous chef at the aforementioned dining hall, with great pay and outstanding benefits.

13. Work in the steel industry on a steel slitting line

14. I have degrees in electrical engineering and physics but work in tech mostly engineering large distributed systems for high throughput/bandwidth applications. Working in software just pays so much better it’s not even close.

15. Im an architect.

16. I work at AutoZone.

    I’m also in school right now for art.

17. I’m in college rn studying for a BS in biology, and I’m helping with some research

18. Software Data Consultant. Work with companies that have purchased quite expensive software (2000 – 2500 per seat per year) and need assistance to learn how to configure the program to their specific needs, training on how to use and general consulting to get them up and running.

19. I fix fiberglass, composite and acrylic bath tubs and (sometimes) vinyl windows

20. Nursing, I just graduated (again) and I start my first job soon. I was in tourism before this.

21. I’m a mariner. I move barges with a tugboat. Usually oil barges, usually in NY Harbor.

22. I’m in college majoring in biology and Romance languages with the goal of going to medical school. I’m mostly funded by scholarships, with some help from my parents to cover living costs (which I am very lucky to have), and I’ve worked/am working a variety of jobs in the side. Chemistry tutor, Spanish interpreter at a clinic, working in a research lab, waitressing, driving for Uber… I’m never bored, that’s for sure.

23. Librarian, working in a government law library. Prior to my current job I was an academic librarian.

24. IT Jill of all trades.

    I work for a small software company. I don’t do sales and I don’t do serious (C) programming. What I do is client support, new client implementation, some JavaScript programming some VBA programming, some SQL programming, some PowerShell scripting.

    Some of our clients are Apple enterprise accounts, in which case I manage their certificates and provisioning profiles.

    I do some web design, some documentation, some client information management, some translation for our French Canadian clients, and I handle invoicing and deposits when we get checks.

25. Truck driver. Formerly was in sales for 20ish years.

26. I draw softcore porn and fetish art and have a part time job working at a thrift store

27. Military for nearly 18 years, pursuing my MPA in national security to prepare for a future career working with the military as a civilian.

28. I run the tech solutions for a child abuse nonprofit.

29. Software engineer for Lockheed Martin

30. I’m a plumber and a bouncer

31. Currently in college studying mathematical economics and Russian. My dream job would be to work for the Federal Reserve as an economist, but academic research could also be interesting.

32. I sell the wines and the beers to the people who sell the wines and the beers to the people.

33. I’m a high school history teacher in the Detroit area. I get to teach my hobby.