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[Loony BoB]

I'm in IT. My job has varied a lot since I joined the company, but basically I do a bit of everything from light engineer work, projects, reporting, a lot of logistics, a lot of admin, and if there's something else they want me to do then I may do it. I don't get bored often.

Mum worked for a temp agency, so I signed up for that one first and before I applied to others, I already had a job interview lined up (possibly thanks to my Mum being in the temp agency ). First interview, I got the job. Started working for a very small amount, within four months my wages went up by 40% when they realised that not every 18 year old who never went to university is hopeless. Which was nice. A few months after that, the contract my company had with the client that I was working for expired, so they offered me a full time / permanent position elsewhere. I almost got made redundant six or so years later, and at that point a manager I did reporting for snapped me up immediately.

I've had more successful job interviews than I've had jobs. I guess I just come across pretty well or something. Someday I intend on moving up though... hopefully at some point this year I'll sit the Prince II course and then later I'll learn to drive. At that point I'll be qualified for the next Projects job that comes up in our company, and they tend to pay a bit better. If not, oh well, there's always the option of moving back to NZ.

Wow, I went off on a tangent, huh?

Am I doing what I always wanted to do? I don't know. I never had one job I always wanted to do. As a kid through to my teens it would vary from architect, the video game industry, the IT industry, motorcycle racer, engineer... as for what I want to be at the moment, it would probably be something like an IT Project Manager. If I could do anything, it would be coming up with ideas and direction for JRPGs and MMOs for a major game developer. This is not something that is ever going to happen because of the amount of sacrifice I would need to make for this to happen, and the lack of skills I have. But if I was a billionaire and could invest in my ideas, I would definitely out-pay all the other bigwigs out there and ensure my ideas for an Aiyon MMO became reality.

[Bunny]

Jobless student. I got the position by being lazy and not applying myself. So far, I'm enjoying it although I'm a little underpaid.

[Raistlin]

I am a full-time law student, but I work as a research assistant for a professor and part-time during the season as a high school basketball official.

I received the RA job -- which isn't really a "job," but close enough -- as part of my scholarship. I help my professor out with a project (in my case, a habeas corpus petition for a criminal conviction) and receive a regular stipend in return. It's not much, but it does cover rent.

The basketball gig I got just from signing up, going through training, and doing well enough that I get as many assignments as I can handle.

This summer I hope to work for a civil law firm as a paid legal intern.

[Miriel]

I work as a photographer. I've always done photography as a hobby and I started learning how to develop and shoot film since the 4th grade. Was doing my own thing and found that people would actually pay me to take pictures. Now I do it full time! It's fantastic to be in a creative field and it can be so rewarding sometimes, but being a small business owner is incredibly stressful too. Sometimes I envy people who have a standard 9-5 job. There is almost never a long period of time when I'm not thinking about my business, the finances, clients, answering emails at 1 in the morning, etc. It's on my mind ALL the time. It think there's very little distinction between my work life and my non-work life. Even in my "off" hours, I'm still reading about industry news, looking at blogs of other photographers, keeping up with what Canon is doing, figuring out how to budget for new lenses, and even just browsing fun sites like Photojojo. Even when watching movies I'm paying a lot of attention to the cinematography, the lighting, getting inspiration. It consumes my life.

Eventually I will move towards opening up my own restaurants, but that's all in the future.

[Peegee]

When my friend was asking us if we knew any photographers, I thought of you (Miriel) but realized you lived in San Fran and the travel cost would make your expenses not competitive enough.

It would've been awesome otherwise

@Raistlin - does being a research assistant just mean you run around looking up court cases to support the rambling rantings of the lawyer you are trying to help?

[Raistlin]

@Raistlin - does being a research assistant just mean you run around looking up court cases to support the rambling rantings of the lawyer you are trying to help?

No. I did a lot of working writing up and editing our draft of the brief in support of the petition in state court. I'm currently working on how to frame our arguments for the presumably inevitable federal claim.

[Shiny]

I'm a college student and I work at a film festival. I'm also interning at a distribution and producing company partnered with Magnolia Pictures. I recently applied to HBO's internship for the summer, and if that falls through there's also NBC, CNN, Viacom, Comedy Central, and The Onion News.

EDIT: I knew I'd always be doing something in the film industry, I just didn't know what it would be, and still don't. Time will tell. I hope to do a multitude of things like I'm doing now though.

[Peegee]

@Raistlin - does being a research assistant just mean you run around looking up court cases to support the rambling rantings of the lawyer you are trying to help?

No. I did a lot of working writing up and editing our draft of the brief in support of the petition in state court. I'm currently working on how to frame our arguments for the presumably inevitable federal claim.

That's far more interesting.

[Freya]

I work at a convenient store, I work as a waitress, I work in a nursery at a church, and I work at gamestop.

Am I doing what I wanted? No. I applied at a lot of places here but I couldn't seem to land a full time job. So I strung enough part-time jobs to equal out to a ty paying full-time job. I'm no where near what I wanted to do with my life but that's my situation right now and i'm working to change it.

The waitress job was because it was my "neighbor". Then she got me the nursery gig then I applied at the store and gamestop. I'm sure my being female landed me the gamestop job.

[Yar]

I am an intern. I got the job because the roommate I live with who is trying to kill me also works at this company. It's a Japanese company and I'm a Japanese major. It makes sense.

I don't want to quit.

[Unbreakable Will]

My job interview went fantastic today, they want to see me tomorrow morning for a final interview to speak with the other manager

[Shlup]

I'm a substitute teacher. You don't have to interview for it; you just have to meet the qualifications. So far I haven't worked very much, but that's fine. I want to be a stay-at-home mom but a certain someone isn't yet willing to help me with that.

[Jessweeee♪]

I don't have a job. I suspect it's because I've never once had one, and I never talked to my teachers/professors more than what was necessary, and was an overall mediocre student, so I don't have any references outside of friends and family. I'm thinking of doing volunteer work just so someone can say that I do stuff.

[Iceglow]

Currently I am an Games Assistant Full Time at His Masters Voice's flagship store. I got the job through applying to be a FT audio assistant but got turned down. However my experience within my previous role with similar products and the fact that I was according to the audio manager of the time Tracy, the second on the list for possible job candidates at the end of the interviews meant I got referred to another department where I got accepted straight away before even re-interviewing. I ended up working with blank media, books & toys/merchandise/clothing for 2 years. I then got moved to the games department due to my experience and knowledge of the product and ability to sell the consoles and additional "value" products with them well. After 4 months or so they decided to move me from Games because they felt the team didn't work, instead of realizing the problem wasn't the staff it was the supervisor. I got moved to Specs audio department, selling country, rock n roll, jazz, blues, folk, new age, easy listening and world music. I knew very little down there and came close to quitting my job because I was unhappy with it. Eventually however thanks to a good relationship with the supervisor, I got moved to audio campaign on the rock and pop department, this allowed me to get stuck in to music I was more familiar with and actually enjoyed and got me back to being happy working with the company and I realized though I had hated it at the time I had learnt a lot and broadened my tastes and abilities through the stay in the Specs team. I ended up getting moved back to the games department at the end of summer last year because I had proven in a couple of "loan shifts" to the games team and the new manager there that I was pretty much the best salesman he could get for the products and services he had to sell as much as possible. Right now I kinda like my job a lot, the company is going through a rough patch and the uncertainty isn't pleasant but I know I'm safe enough in the flagship store. I also like the fact that I am our main "demonstrator" when it comes to new hardware. Over Christmas this meant I had to demonstrate the Microsoft Kinect Sensor a lot of my time on shop floor was spent either on this or on a till and currently my entire day revolves around me playing on the Nintendo 3DS a full month before it gets released, I have been doing so for 2 weeks already (prior to Japan got the console and even prior to companies like IGN UK getting their hands on the console) and whilst I am frankly getting rather bored of the AR card games and Face Raiders and of repeating myself (there's so much less I can talk about than with Kinect because I don't have any of the 3DS games to play/demo to customers) I wouldn't change the opportunity I have been given here for much less than the opportunity to do this kind of stuff full time permanently as a job.

[escobert]

Come on now you were already out done by BoB earlier. You've got to try harder! WE NEED MORE
Although, that one solid paragraph does give you some extra points!