What's your job?
POSTED BY: Aramina
UPDATED: Sunday, January 14, 2007 22:36
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IT professional, work for the Alliance(US Goverment). In the Operations Dept. we still have large mainframes (5) and tape drives and printers.
I work at night, and I get to play on the PC, and go to all the FF sites, not a bad job... 
...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal
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I've got my eye on you Alliance girl.
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Good luck with the English teaching, Sassi! I hope to do something like that someday.
I'm an IT Trainer. I teach adults how to use computers, from basic computers for the over 55's to Microsoft Office Specialist exams and all the fun stuff in between. I specialise in teaching older adults who are nervous of technology. Hence the name Desktop Hippie. Cuz I promote peace and harmony with your PC.
Geddit? Geddit?
During the summer I teach English as a Foreign Language to kids visiting Ireland for the season.
I worked in office jobs for many years, but finally made the leap to teaching about a year and a half back. I'm a lot happier with this job, although since my boss has me helping her run the company I'm sort of back in office work again!
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...where have I heard that one before
are you willin' to back that up?
I'm really a Browncoat spy.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I've got my eye on you Alliance girl.
...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal
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I work in the office of a high end furniture store. Processing the special orders and tracking them with the manufacturers, making sure the designers get proper commissions, and making sure the import of (mainly) Italian leather furniture goes smoothly. Which it never does.
Previous Incarnations: Bookstore Manager, Spa Manager, and once I sold kites on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD!
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Corporate lawyers aren't necessarily evil. They're just... amoral. When I was in private practice, I was guided by professional ethics requirements, but aside from those I really wasn't supposed to think about good and evil or justice or consequences for the human beings involved or anything like that. I was a flunky, and it was my job to help rich people get richer by making sure their contracts were well-written and well-structured and would stand up to a court's scrutiny in the event of later litigation between these rich people.
I've mentioned in other threads that I think there are a lot of similarities between the practice of corporate law and the work of a Companion. You get to dress really snazzy and hobnob with the rich and powerful and go to all their parties, and the rich and powerful are very complimentary to your face about how much they value you. But the fact is, you're a service provider; they are paying for your time and attention, and you have a job to do pretty much anytime you're with them.
Oh, and the other similarity -- the polarity of reactions when you tell people what you do. There seems to be general distaste for the professions among the people who don't use those kinds of services, and yet those same people seemed generally impressed when they find out you're one of them.
Oh, well. That's all behind me. Now that I work for the government, I'm on the side of the good guys... right? Right? :)
Indigo S.
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I'm a medical transcriptionist and also have my own small biz selling stuff on my website and also feePay.
Steamer, about twice a year we get a steam train loaded with tourists through our town! It never stops, but I can usually - USUALLY - hear it coming in time to dash out there with a camera. I have yet to figure out their schedule. It follows the line up the west bank of the Mississippi, not sure how far.
I'd love to take a ride on that train.
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Huh. Good thread. And such a wide diversity of jobs, too! Gee, I guess Firefly does reach across all sorts of boundaries, doesn't it? So why, why, why, did it get cancelled?!?
*ahem*
Sorry.
Ok, job...for cashy money and the enjoyment of job satisfaction (I am not kidding...I really do love my job), I am an Insurance Agent. Everything from small personal accounts up through huge commercial...my main area of "handling" is bonds; probate, estate, etc. Not bail bonds. Totally different ball of wax.
For fun, I design and build costumes and armor, mostly from the Renaissance period. Lately, though, I have been doing quite a number of Firefly costumes!
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Originally posted by IndigoStarblaster:
Oh, well. That's all behind me. Now that I work for the government, I'm on the side of the good guys... right? Right? :)
Hehe... if you say so girl.
I can't say too much about it though. I work with credit card companies so I'm putting food in my mouth and money in the bank and the 'ol 401k while working for the alliance myself. It's very impersonal for the most part though, so I think of it more as being the guy in the bunker who pushes the red button instead of being one of the ones on the frontlines. It helps me sleep at night anyways.
My dream is to save enough by the time I'm 40 to buy some land in the middle of nowhere, learn how to raise crops and livestock and find me a little lady that I can settle down with... far away from computers, politics, illegal search and seizures, traffic cameras and lawyers.
Ahhhhhhhh.... dreams.
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Originally posted by fillygirl:
I'm really a Browncoat spy.
Intrigue and espionage... this could get interesting.
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