Other than a writer/author. What do you do for work? This can be currently or in the past. I am a release of information (Roi) specialist. I work from home processing medical record requests. Because my job involves protecting patient information, I have to keep my office and everything in it private. Even from family! Thankfully my job can be done all electronically. I have gone to school and am days away from graduating with an associates in Health Information Management. I hope to either go into management with Roi, or become a medical coder.
I'm a figure drawing model. I mostly work at colleges, but I've got an occasional gig at a private studio. It's a lot of fun! It's such a chill atmosphere, and I get to meet all kinds of artists. And I don't have to wear pants. Some (safe for work) portraits I've posed for over the years: Spoiler: uhhh i think this is how you use the spoiler tag?
Right now I don't have a career other than author, but in the past I've done a bit of everything; from farming, to tech work, to security, to driving cab.
I glue boxes for a living. Though it's only about a month left of that job and after that I'll try applying for jobs in a new country so that'll be... fun... Before that I've had most jobs where you don't need an education, more or less. I've worked a few stores, customer service, cleaning both hotels and trains... industries, both the box one I work at now and an aluminum in my past. For a while I had an internship as a librarian at a school with a really tiny library. There is more of them but I can't be bothered to remember them at the moment. This is minus being a writer - by the way - since I haven't written anything worth mentioning in... probably all my life to be honest.
Those are really good. I wish I had drawing talent. A lot of people in my family seem to be good at it, but I'm terrible.
I am a cashier at a fast food place in the mall. I also hand out samples at the same place when I am not cashiering. I do not mind cashiering but it gets tiring sometimes.
Yeah, I've met some really amazing artists! I'm teaching myself to draw, but I'm not very good yet, so seeing the stuff people can crank out in just a 3-hour session gets me like
I'm a tool and die maker by trade. If everyone got to take a look at the people responsible for your vehicle's structural integrity, we'd be back to the Middle Ages in no time. "yo Jim, this supposed to be on fire?" "I don't drive a Jeep man, whatever, paint it black and ship it at night."
I've spent my whole life in restaurants. When I was a waiter I had oodles of time to write and piles of cash money. Now that I'm a general manager and operations director, I make like seven cents an hour and barely have time to pee. ETA: be careful what you get good at, kids.
Right now I’m working part time in wireless phone sales while I go to school for my undergrad (political science). I’m graduating a year early and plan to start applying for law schools soon (I’m really hoping to get accepted to Notre Dame or Vanderbilt).
Stockroom work for a charitable organization ($1 an hour - still have my first paystub.) Rifleperson and ground radio repairman in the military. Bowling alley pinsetter mechanic (part-time while in the service). Collector for a consumer finance company (Worst. Job. Ever. - I'd rather clean septic tanks with a straw). Beekeeper (working for my Uncle Bob). Clerk and eventually receiving manager at a department store that made K-Mart look like Saks Fifth Avenue. Installer/repairman for three different burglar/fire alarm companies. Various temp jobs, including moving furniture for the State of Michigan and working on the assembly line at Amway. Busboy at a restaurant in a Holiday Inn (lasted one night - manager was a ring-tailed bitch). Pump jockey at full-serve gas station (lasted one day). Pizza delivery (lasted one night). Newspaper delivery (did this on and off for twenty years - great part-time job). Assembled bicycles at department stores for Huffy (also BBQ grills and RTA furniture). Clerk and eventually manager at a 7-11 store. Had a handyman business for a while with my brother-in-law. Baked bread and made pizza crusts at a pizza/grinder restaurant. Gourmet coffee roaster. IT Manager for a smallish company.
I'm one of the founding team of a software company. My main roles are product management, marketing and copywriting. Before that, I was a freelance copywriter. I still take contracts on the side when they hunt and kill themselves.
Furniture delivery, lumberyard worker, gas-station cashier, live-in attendant for quadraplegics, college mailroom worker, social service worker, news reporter, PR guy, judicial law clerk, trial attorney, attorney editor, retired. Always writing something somewhere.
I'm a Software Engineer. My skillset is an intersection of graphic design, usability, programming, and copy editing that I call UX engineering. I turn software into something that people can actually use. So far I've worked mostly lin the defense and aerospace sector. Right now, this industry is all rock and roll. I get the faint feeling though that either an economic bubble is going to pop, or automation is going to to create a demand black hole compared to the current supply. I guess that uncertainty is natural with a professional that's only about 80 years old, and that's being generous. The only way I console myself is that once we automate away programming, then we'll be able to use that to automate away basically every other job pretty quickly. I dunno, the future is scary.
Not for me. I sell food, booze, ego, and sex. People will literally die without me. And have to face reality, specifically that their lives are meaningless and nobody cares. You'll never go unemployed in the restaurant biz. And my wife is a hospice nurse who takes care of dying people... not likely to run out of those any time soon!
