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post #1 of 52
6/15/03 at 12:41pm
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What do you do for a living?

I'm the editor and webguy at a large nonprofit in New York. It's a great job. I get to work on really important issues with some people are incredibly dedicated to what they do. Also I get to be creative and work from home!
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post #2 of 52
6/15/03 at 12:52pm
I am a "journalist". I say that in speech marks, because it's weird to think of yourself as one when you're in the games industry, which I am. Currently, I have stuff in three magazines, PSG 24-7, which is my mainstay and the one I write for most (and the one I was hired for), Tipstation (which is exactly what the title says, tips and cheats for the Playstation2), and our infamous Movie Insider.

It's a wonderful job, and as most of you know, I was hired by and work with fellow chewer Dan Whitehead, who's a great guy to have around in the office. It's weird, because people always go at me (my friends, etc) and say how cool it is because I play games for a living, but what gets me most about it is the writing. I mean, the games are cool, but I've always loved writing, and to be able to do it for a living is just, well, a dream come true. To have your name in something that's being sold across the country and beyond, well, it's just fucking cool, and it's still exhilarating to see my name there.
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post #3 of 52
6/15/03 at 12:56pm
What he said.
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post #4 of 52
6/15/03 at 1:02pm
DVD Producer, Production Illustrator/Storyboard artist and all-around name-dropper.

Didn't Devin post this once before?
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post #5 of 52
6/15/03 at 1:05pm
Thread Starter 
Yeah I did this thread before, but we have all these new faces. Why bump up a 100 post thread that no one will wade through when you can start a new one? Some topics seem perrenial.

I guess I should add "freelance journalist" to my curriculam vitae, as I get paid for the CHUD mag..
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post #6 of 52
6/15/03 at 1:06pm
Right on, my friend. Just checking...
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post #7 of 52
6/15/03 at 1:55pm
By day I work as a network systems engineer, all other free time is taken up working as a freelance sports journo.

I'd love to do more of the latter, but it just doesn't pay well enough over here.
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post #8 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:02pm
I´m a student but barely human. Becoming a lawyer.
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post #9 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:05pm
Quote:
Gandalf´s Father:
I´m a student but barely human. Becoming a lawyer.
If I had studied to become a lawyer when I left school, I'd be retired by now and living in some secluded Spanish Villa.

<Mental Note: remind children to always go where the MONEY is>
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post #10 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:09pm
College student. Majoring in English (concentration: 20th Century Literature). Minoring in Classical Studies.

Student assistant at an office of executive education, where I work with databases, expense reports, copy machines. Lots of bitch work, basically. This is my work-study job in the fall, and my full-time job over the summer.

Editor for my university's student-run newspaper. Spring semester I was the film editor, fall semester I will be the music editor. Over the summer, I write off-and-on for the summer weekly edition.

Writing advisor during the school year for my university. Once or twice a week I'll man a station somewhere on campus where students can come and I read their papers and advise them on structure, ideas, their thesis, etc. etc.

Of course, the one that pays best (the student assistant job) is the one I dislike the most. College is fun, but expensive. The editor job doesn't pay at all, but is easily the most enjoyable. The advising job is sometimes fun, but once and a while you'll get an unappreciative prick who comes to have their ego boosted, and when you don't comply, they get bitchy.
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post #11 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:35pm
College Stuedent/CHUD Newshound/Office Bitch for Young Audiences of Atlanta
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post #12 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:37pm
Currently unemployed, but REALLY need to find a job, and soon.
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post #13 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:42pm
Quote:
flyarz:
Majoring in English (concentration: 20th Century Literature). Minoring in Classical Studies.
Hey, that's what I studied too! I am now an over-educated Full Time Mommy.
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post #14 of 52
6/15/03 at 2:59pm
Quote:
Sister Gracie Lou:
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flyarz:
Majoring in English (concentration: 20th Century Literature). Minoring in Classical Studies.
Hey, that's what I studied too! I am now an over-educated Full Time Mommy.
Well, that's the job I entered the major for!
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post #15 of 52
6/15/03 at 3:11pm
Same as always. I have a job description, but it's irrelevant. I get paid to web browse, fill a seat, take up oxygen and to appear as part of the company. Every so often, I'm asked to interrupt this routine by rearranging some data, but they're courteous enough not to abuse this privilege.
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post #16 of 52
6/15/03 at 3:20pm
Hellboy, you didn't namedrop, you're not doing your job wink

To pay the bills, I do weekend tech support for a major international energy company.

I also write speculative fiction.

And pester Dan to join a project that he's too busy to join because HIS writing pays the bills.
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post #17 of 52
6/15/03 at 3:34pm
The last thing I did for money was design and babysit the production of the wireless half of wireless ethernet bridges.

Which is more interesting that it sounds, necessary corporate bullshit and unnecessary office madness aside. I got paid to invent something and fiddle with it until it worked. And no one had ever invented one like mine before. It was the first of its kind, and the runner up made by someone else didn't work properly when it got near mine. That means mine was better. That's job satisfaction, isn't it?

This engineering gig is okay. Beats digging holes for a living, that's for sure.
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post #18 of 52
6/15/03 at 3:36pm
I'm a college student/student worker/movie reviewer. I work in my college's Student Center and get paid to sit on my butt and cruise the net and occasionally make ID cards for people. I also write reviews and editorials for The Movie Vault (www.movie-vault.com) but it doesn't really pay in anything other than giving me something to put on my resume and the satisfaction to see my opinion get counted as something.
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post #19 of 52
6/15/03 at 4:33pm
I'm in the videogame industry.

Sort've.

At least that's the way I like to say it. I work at Gamestop.

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post #20 of 52
6/15/03 at 4:43pm
I run a loading dock....shipping...receiving...paperwork...truck delivery schedules...unloading trucks....yes I know...exciting isn't it?...god help me...
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post #21 of 52
6/15/03 at 4:45pm
I'm a bartender/bar manager. That is how I pay my bills.

My college degree is in journalism (emphasis: professional fiction writing). I do occasional free lancing in sports reporting and entertainment news reporting. I would do this more (I love sports reporting) but I don't like working for newspapers and there are no magazines worth shit around here.

I also am working on a second bachelor's in film and video, I write a lot of screenplays and make movies that I enter in film festivals. This is what I want to do as my job someday, so it is what I work hardest at.
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post #22 of 52
6/15/03 at 4:52pm
I'm an unemployed holder of a psychology degree currently employed as an information systems operator/paratech. I work the dead-of-the-night shift at the headquarters of an international discount shoe corporation-like-substance, building this computer or restoring that person's network signon or putting up with that supervisor over there's total lack of brain power. It pays much better than my old psychology job. It also includes lots of time to post funny (or not-so) things on these here boards.
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post #23 of 52
6/15/03 at 5:31pm
Student.

And during this summer I am a temp worker at my father's office where I get paid hourly from 8 to 5.

That's it.
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post #24 of 52
6/15/03 at 7:03pm
Quote:
Dances with Chainsaws:
I run a loading dock....shipping...receiving...paperwork...truck delivery schedules...unloading trucks....yes I know...exciting isn't it?...god help me...
Hey, you're looking at a logistics systems engineer (of unreliable systems). We own the world's ass, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

<grin>

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post #25 of 52
6/15/03 at 7:46pm
Quote:
DJ Dylan is Furiously Masturbating:
Currently unemployed, but REALLY need to find a job, and soon.
Same. I just finished up two years as a Technology Parprofessional (an uncertified, highly-underpaid technology specialist) at a 6-year-old elementary school that is part of the same school system I was educated in. Essentially, I provided desktop support, though my bachelor's degree is in Telecommunications Management.

I am looking for another desktop support job, but those are few and far between these days, so I am considering trying my hand at some acting and maybe some voiceover work as well, since I am not tied down anywhere.
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post #26 of 52
6/16/03 at 10:20am
I'm a telephony specialist for Verizon.
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post #27 of 52
6/16/03 at 10:34am
I am a Mechanical Engineer for the US Navy. I am a civilian employee, so I am not actually in the Navy. Though, like Micah and Brian I really just take up space and surf the web. This is more a result of my being new then anything else, or so I am told.

I also work part-time at Circuit City to feed my DVD addiction. Though, I think I have made it worse by working there.
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post #28 of 52
6/16/03 at 10:34am
I'm an outsourcing manager/office manager.

Meaning - I work for a company that goes into other companies and runs their mailrooms and fixes/services copiers and printers. We come in so the customer can save money for their companies...

but the site I ended up at, I pretty much run this other company. I am kinda the office manager there. I set up meetings for the people, do maintenence and call in work orders to get major work done, I walk around with contractors and show them what needs to be done and follow up on the jobs, I order supplies for the office, I...well, you get the idea.

The Dude does a lot for a company that he doesn't even technically work for.

God I can't wait until the time for raises comes in...hopefully it will be nice...

But, y'know..the Dude abides...
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post #29 of 52
6/16/03 at 10:36am
I sell training and training accessories (web courses, guides and classes, online help systems, snazzy little things to clutter your desk or workstation).

Actually, I mostly provide tech support for users of said training and training accessories.
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post #30 of 52
6/16/03 at 10:45am
I'm pretty much a jack-ass of all trades...

Right now I'm working nights at Wal-Mart, stocking shelves and what not. A brothers gotta pay the bills. Hopefully I will be gone in a few months once I have saved enough scratch to move down south to Toronto.

I am also a part-time university student working on my Bachelors of Social Welfare.

Right now I am spending a lot of time working with my music. I have produced 2 bands thus far and have been requested to compose a soundtrack for 2 independant films. Hopefully this works out for me, then I can ditch Wally-World and concentrate on school and music.
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post #31 of 52
6/16/03 at 11:18am
DVD/VHS Marketing and Materials co-ordinator for a London-based film distributor, which, because we're an indie, involves script assessment and some acquisitions mularky as well. I just got through project managing the Donnie Darko R2 release and convinced our MD to release Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss for the first time on R2 DVD. Both of which makes the rest of the time I spend emulating Micah's conduct, seem a little worthier.
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post #32 of 52
6/16/03 at 11:23am
i make and develop microelectrode biosensors out of the flabby under arm of new england...
i also do sushi bar/bartender/bus boy at nights at a local restaurant...

[edited for scungilli marinara]

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post #33 of 52
6/16/03 at 12:02pm
I fix computers in a big Chicago based insurance company. I get paid to read Chud.com and surf other parts of the ninternet. Then I go home and play intendo.
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post #34 of 52
6/16/03 at 1:33pm
I am a patient care coordinator at the UNC dental school.

Thats a fancy name for a receptionist and appointment clerk.

I have also been a contributing writer to Heckler magazine, writing Skateboarding and Music features, but I'm not sending them stuff naymore, and explorinmg bigger publishers for my work(fingers crossed)
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post #35 of 52
6/16/03 at 2:10pm
I build, maintain, and monitor Windows 2000 (and a few NT stragglers) Servers for a multinational Chemical Corporation. So mostly Isurf the net and occasionally (far too occasionally) work on a novel and some short stories. Oddly enough in spite of the fact that I have great internet access at work adn at home thanks to this job and make decent money allowing my wife to be a stay at home mom I enjoy this job about as much as waiting in a Dentist's office.
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post #36 of 52
6/16/03 at 3:39pm
I'm a junior in college with no major. I have no idea what I want to do.

For the summer I'm working at a law firm. I get to do fun stuff like filing, copying, and driving all over town. Right now I'm summarizing a deposition. It's not that bad when they're interesting but sometimes they're hellish. Everytime I start to hate this job I have to remind myself that last year I spent the summer outside weedeating in 90+ degree temperatures. Then it doesn't seem that bad.
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post #37 of 52
6/16/03 at 4:17pm
I'm a stay at home dad, full-time Mortuary Science student, and deliver pizzas at the Pizza Slut on the weekends.
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post #38 of 52
6/16/03 at 6:18pm
I'm an avid editor for Artisan Pictureworks, a full service video production house here in Atlanta.
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post #39 of 52
6/17/03 at 3:28am
I'm a College Student/Asst.Mgr at a Movie Theater.
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post #40 of 52
6/17/03 at 4:54am
Quote:
The Hellboy
[QB]DVD Producer, Production Illustrator/Storyboard artist and all-around name-dropper.QB]
Hahaha, I like that!
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post #41 of 52
6/17/03 at 9:33am
my business card says,

Advertising/Marketing Coordinator.

So I guess I coordinate for adverts and markets?

anyway I was a graphic designer for 6 years who was at the right place at the right time. Now I'm promoted to my current title. I had to give up the fun of photoshop/quark and a nice Mac computer for excel/word and a crappyass pc running windows 98. But I did get a hefty raise. Makes my dvd habit ALOT easier to handle.
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post #42 of 52
6/17/03 at 10:09am
Quote:
hesterthe13th:
I'm an avid editor for Artisan Pictureworks, a full service video production house here in Atlanta.
I would kill for your job.
Seriously, watch your back.
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post #43 of 52
6/17/03 at 10:54am
I completed a B.S. degree in History/Social Studies. It is aptly named.

I have since taught in both public and private schools, from preschoolers to high school seniors. The most recent and memorable portion was teaching two years of advanced Kindergarten/1st Grade. Best job ever.

To make ends meet and to pay off school, I currently run a small divison for a local surveillance company, putting cameras on school buses to catch the Evil Ones in the midst of misbehavior.

I do a lot of other little things, all half-ass.
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post #44 of 52
6/17/03 at 12:24pm
Quote:
Dave Brosius:
I do a lot of other little things, all half-ass.
You have half an arse? How do you sit down?
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post #45 of 52
6/17/03 at 12:51pm
My guess is it's a really big half.
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post #46 of 52
6/17/03 at 12:53pm
Quote:
Hubris: Crimson Lad:
I'm a stay at home dad, full-time Mortuary Science student, and deliver pizzas at the Pizza Slut on the weekends.
I guess as long as you keep all of that straight it's cool.
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post #47 of 52
6/17/03 at 12:53pm
What happened to the other half?
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post #48 of 52
6/17/03 at 1:10pm
I'm flattered that Old Restless likes my job description. It means the world to me.
Really.
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post #49 of 52
6/17/03 at 2:05pm
What's a job?

No, I am a job seeker right now. I spent January thru May working as a permanent sub at my wife's school.

Now I look for work and struggle with writing.
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post #50 of 52
6/17/03 at 3:02pm
Quote:
The Great Straxby:
I just got through project managing the Donnie Darko R2 release and convinced our MD to release Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss for the first time on R2 DVD.
Strax, your company wouldn't be called Wild Side video? Cause we have a DVD pack of these same two Fuller movies that are being put out in France by a company name Wild Side.

As for me, I majored in Film Theory for three years (boring as shit). Now I'm out of the Uni (and hope to never go back there again), I'm applying for a technical film school in Paris, which will allow me to get a diploma that's actually worth something. On the side, I write news and reviews for a French website and do a fanzine with friends (both non-paid). And I once had a paper published in a professional film magazine.
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