Jobs

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:00 pm

What do you do for a living? What have you done before? What would you like to do?

I work in the storeroom of a state facility for the mentally retarded. There are more than 150 residents. I also work half the week in the computer department.

I've also worked at:

McDonalds
Lee's Chicken
Winn Dixie
Burger King
an engine parts warehouse
Brand (chemical cleanup)
a Krogers Warehouse
a veterinary lab
a U.S. Postal facility (temp job)
and a wholesale printer,
besides a host of odd jobs.

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:26 pm

I sell used houses, and work on publicity. Very boring stuff, heh.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:24 pm

I work in what you guys would call a 'department store'. Before that, I worked in a catalogue shop (best job ever!) and a bar.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:41 pm

i'm pissing away an early inheritance while dabbling in freelance graphic design, illustration and website construction. before that, i did graveyard-shift tech support for earthlink. before that, i worked in advertising for a couple of small newspapers.

(or maybe this is what the witness protection program trained me to say)

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:54 am

Rodr-Evil wrote:I sell used houses, and work on publicity. Very boring stuff, heh.

My brother's been buying and selling houses for a while now. I just helped him fix up a house to resell a few weeks ago. New carpet, laminate hardwood flooring, paint, landscaping, etc.

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:56 am

Jesus Prime wrote:I work in what you guys would call a 'department store'. Before that, I worked in a catalogue shop (best job ever!) and a bar.

I don't like I'd like working in a bar. But why did you like the catalogue shop? (I'm not even sure I know what that is.)

And what do they call a department store in moon-bog country?

Pinonomicon · Post by **Pinonomicon** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:00 am

we call it a shop.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:02 am

Like he said.

And catalogue shops (like Argos, or Index) are incredibly easy jobs. Just sit there and throw shit at a wall until the three customers a night show up.

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:42 am

Pinonomicon wrote:we call it a shop.

I'll be damned. Brief, and yet lucid.

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:42 am

I worked in a used book store...but it closed down.
So now I'm just a full time student.

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:44 am

Jesus Prime wrote:Like he said.

Just sit there and throw shit at a wall until the three customers a night show up.

I knew a few guys once who had similar jobs. But they lived in a cage and probably had more than hair than you.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:04 am

Yeah. Probably had a better wage though.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:28 am

Wages usually suck.

I have worked the following jobs (in order)

local Chinese restaurant (busboy/dishwasher)
local steak house (busboy/dishwasher)
airport (washing planes)
Bakers Square (cook)
pet shop (fish guy)
Sound and Stagecraft (equipment testing and delivery)
North American Gear and Axel Corporation (drafting)
dorm cafeteria (various jobs)
United States Marine Corps (infantry/operations)
campus security
webmaster/online marketing/graphic design
Engrish teechur

Now that I think of it, wages always suck.

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:41 am

E.A. Lovecraft wrote: [*]airport (washing planes)

I'm seeing a sponge on a really long stick. What did you use, pressure washers?

E.A. Lovecraft wrote: [*]Bakers Square (cook)
[*]pet shop (fish guy)
[*]Sound and Stagecraft (equipment testing and delivery)
[*]North American Gear and Axel Corporation (drafting)
[*]dorm cafeteria (various jobs)
[*]United States Marine Corps (infantry/operations)
[*]campus security
[*]webmaster/online marketing/graphic design
[*]Engrish teechur
[/list]

It looks like you've done a little of everything. What finally drove you to Engrish?

Enkil · Post by **Enkil** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:56 am

Only two jobs. I was the coat boy at the Capital Grille, a really fancy resturant. and I wasa file clerk at a local doctors office for 2 years, I recently quit because I was tired of my boss fucking me in the ass every wednesday without taking me to dinner and movie first (aka I was tired of being under paid). But hey, I found some great names for stories, and saw some awesome, Ansel Adams quality, photographs of colons.