What Do You Study/Do For A Living?

[Necronopticous]

I am a lead developer at a large e-commerce company.

[Acid King]

At night I work in a hotel and during the day I do public policy research and blog for a nonprofit.

[sjewkestheloon]

School librarian and cover teacher.

[Skykid]

I deal drugs to school kids.

[StarCreator]

Studied database design and networking in college. Somehow ended up developing desktop and web applications instead.

[Jon]

I am a commercial property manager.

[blackoak]

I'm the typical unhappy attorney. I used to practice environmental law, but became disillusioned with the piecemeal and pale reformist approach to these problems, to say nothing of the prosaic nature of legal research and writing. Now I use my Japanese and work for Toyota, which pays obscenely well but is as boring as Chinese water torture, and only slightly less debilitating.

If I ever pay off my student loan debt, I'll probably go back to teaching English or doing translation work. Music composition and loafing in the sense of The Razor's Edge is my real aspiration, though.

[Klatrymadon]

both of which are undeniably pretty pointless but also ridiculously fun. I guess providing the necessary tools to fully appreciate film, television, music and so on is somewhat worthwhile.

Definitely, mate! That's precisely why it isn't pointless! I really can't stand this business ontology that has a whole generation of students believing that the only purpose of education is to earn money.

I hope to be in similar shoes to yourself at some point. Going back to university to do an MA in English this year, and from there I'll probably end up pursuing academia further and either doing research or teaching in some capacity. What level do you teach at, if you don't mind my asking?

[mrsmiley381]

Currently employed in web development that is nothing but Ruby On Rails. Technically it's a co-op job that functions as an education credit, with my major being game design and development, which is better than it sounds aside from students being disgusting and the actual industry being terrifying. Probably going to become a semi truck middleman or something out of college.

[Blackbird]

Gas station attendant
Grave digger/cemetary maintenance
Caregiver for violent mentally handicapped adults

Wow man, that really sucks >_<. I feel bad for complaining about my boring job now.

[Teufel_in_Blau]

I'm a waiter.

[brentsg]

I deal drugs to school kids that have no interest in sex.

Good for you..

[Skykid]

I deal drugs to school kids that have no interest in sex.

Good for you..

Smak chronically reduces the sex drive, so it's a cyclical business model.

[guigui]

I'm a math teacher for those students who want to get into a financial/business school here in France. Almost all my free time is spent on it : 30 past midnight here, just finished preparing the math test for tomorrow.
However, it is very rewarding to see how those kids DO learn stuffs with you.

[rugdoctor]

Pharmacist by day, father and homemaker by night.

[BulletMagnet]

I have a degree in art education, but work as a bank teller: not heaven, certainly, but it beats the heck out of the lengthy period of unemployment and underemployment that preceded it.

[CMoon]

I deal drugs to school kids.

As a middle school teacher I approve of this message.

[Davey]

Looks like we're chock full of tech nerds.

I'm a glorified SQL monkey, more or less.

[burgerkingdiamond]

Mechanical engineer. Attempting a Master's in Aerospace Engineering (so someday people will have to call me a rocket scientist) part time.

[brentsg]

Mechanical engineer. Attempting a Master's in Aerospace Engineering (so someday people will have to call me a rocket scientist) part time.

Funny, I had the Aerospace degree and then got a MS in Mechanical eng.

Of course I don't use either..

[Mero]

No one in this thread beats my job: shelf stacking at Morrison's on nights, since '04

[Seahawk]

College student in computer science. To keep the money flowing I work as a hardware programmer in one of the campus labs. FPGAs, PSoC, Verilog, that sort of stuff.

[burgerkingdiamond]

Mechanical engineer. Attempting a Master's in Aerospace Engineering (so someday people will have to call me a rocket scientist) part time.

Funny, I had the Aerospace degree and then got a MS in Mechanical eng.

Of course I don't use either..

I want to get the Master's in Aerospace in order to keep myself busy and my mind active (plus work pays for it!). Unfortunately, while my current engineering job pays well, I don't use any of the engineering/math skills that I studied so damn hard for. I'm hoping that with the master's in Aerospace (focusing on control systems) I'll be able to transition to something more interesting.

[sven666]

I'm a slave shamelessly promoting the profit of shareholders of an evil multinational corporation.

[Eaglet]

I do... what do i do again?

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

I study the language of the flowers.

[Nasirosuchus]

Tier 1 IT Support and Hardware Deployment Specialist

Mostly resetting passwords and configuring terminals, workstations, servers, and printers for deployment and then phone-based support with installation as well as remote configuration and troubleshooting when something goes wrong.

It's my first IT position out of school so it's helping me get the experience that I need.

[chempop]

BulletMagnet, give me your Art-Ed degree! I need one bad, not having one is keeping my from getting a full time Art Teacher position at the school I work at
My salary would triple...

Maybe I need to go to college, bleh!

[pixeljunkie]

i move pixels

[undamned]

I study the language of the flowers.

Government subsidized research, eh?

I write firmware for things you can't play video games on.
-ud