Whats everyone do for a living?

This has come up before a lot of people rather keep a little privacy on the web Like me. But then again if your want you life easily googable

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37085&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Media company by day, writer by night.

I'm a former lawyer, now e-discovery expert for law firms. hate my job, want out of the law biz and wish I could sleep, read and drink champagne for a living. anyone know a dying 80 year old with a large bank account requiring companionship?

I'm a picture framer by day and a World's Fair freak by night. Sundays I fly my kite.

oh. and I play poker. not good enough to go pro. wish I were. fucking hell.

Part-time slacker, full-time interactive/graphic designer for a multimedia production company that does mostly photojournalism work.

Wannabe photographer on the side.

Déjà vu :shock:


I'm still doing the same thing as last time.

brooklynpotter wrote: ceramic artist/product designer. (former magazine editor)

and hello, snails? i saw some the other day in the nabe as well. i didn't know we got snails, i'd only seen them in CA. try a dish of beer (or is that for slugs?)

So many snails! My neighbor told me there's a product that is non-toxic called Escar-go or something similar. I'll have to look for it.

i never would have guessed that

web developer at an interactive agency, freelance web designer and mama to two very pretty kitties i found right here on brooklynian. (see my icon)

I design exogenic modulators for a living. If I try to explain in more detail what that involves, most people's eyes glaze over and they say "oh that's interesting, unusual" and change the subject.

Jack Krohn wrote: To those in the legal profession:

I often hear the refrain "I hate my job" from lawyers. Why is that? Just curious, as it seems that quite a few lawyers feel this way. Thoughts?

when I practiced law it was because I was too emotionally engaged with my clients. I felt like their problems were my problems (which, in a sense, they were given my profession) and I never learned the proper emotional boundaries. when I quit practicing, after a few years of doing great trial work in criminal defense, family law & immigration, it was because I was at dinner with family and suddenly burst into tears. everyone wanted to know what was wrong and I just said "another fucking couple are fighting with each other using their kids - mom called CPS [children's protective services] on dad saying daughter was sexually abused. a fucking 9 year old had to have a gyn exam because mom is fighting dirty. obviously, everything came back negative but in the meantime, kid is traumatized and parents are total assholes." then I cried more.

now I work in a arguably less stressful aspect of the legal industry but, really, it's still stressful. I dislike a lot of the people I deal with on a daily basis, I feel like I have to rip people off to get work done and I don't feel like my superiors appreciate and/or respect me (despite excellent performance evaluations). I regularly have to work until the wee hours of the morning and almost all of my friends have had to listen to the painful calls I have with people on weekends/evenings/late nights explaining how to do something that is, really, pitifully easy.

all in all the legal profession is pretty thankless. when you do good work - as in admirable, etc - you're working with people who are often totally fucked no matter what you do (death penalty cases, immigration cases using vawa, etc) so you regularly walk out of court feeling like shit. if you do sleazy stuff ... well, you're sleazy. and if you are in any support position that is a profit center (like mine) your personal life and personal time aren't, well, yours.

Computer programmer, mostly interactive stuff for medical conventions and web stuff for various med ed crap (I just write the code, folks). I do some development for law case management and various accounting type stuff on the side.

<---- Hospital pharmacist

Aside from babysitting the occasional set of too-smart-for-their-own-good and well-behaved kids (my favorite mix) for a nice chunk of UES change, that sends the bills off the doorstep for another month, the best things I do/did/have done have been for little to no pay:

Attend college (the second time around- first time...not so much)
Intern at a youth theater (building sets, stage managing, fund-raising)
Hospital volunteer for children's hospital
Starting an externship in Alzheimer's research/testing.
Spend many hours singing in a great choir.
Pet sit for my friends' pets.
Writing/editing a Psych newsletter.

The "things I've done for a living" (e.g. to survive and drive myself insane simultaneously):

Worked at Bath and Body Work- I hate selling people expensive crap they don't really need (and when it is something they need, they don't want it/can't afford it)
Lots of work study jobs...below minimum wage, woo.
Hostess
Nanny for the less smart/well-behaved children and their extravagant and obstinate parents who don't have time to take care of their children- and then decide they don't need me half the time because they miss their children.
Office stuff- but I suck at sitting in one place, doing mundane tasks 40 hrs a week.

However, these jobs made me have great respect for those who can handle it and enjoy it on a long term basis. Kudos.

Ah to be a student. Struggling at the expense of edumacation and inexperience.

I have dreams of being a professional alternate side parker, bargain hunter, shoulder to lean on and above all, cynic.