What do you guys do all day?

Some of the posters on this board (and other boards, to be sure) post like a million times a day... what sort of jobs do you have that makes this possible? Just curious.

I work from home. I have no coworkers. I long for communication with others. This is my solution.

I build internets in the city, altho i guess i don't post that much.

But its pretty much my job to be online.

I'm on a computer all day and have my own office - and can alt-tab out of Brooklynian as needed.

I have two monitors.

Mougar wrote: I have two monitors.

Show off!

Hitman. Lots of down time between foreign dictator assasinations.

Mougar wrote: I have two monitors.

yeah well, if I got all my computers going at the same time I would have 5 monitors


SO SUCK IT TREBEK!

Trebek has 30 friggin monitors, I've only got two. Not even comparable. They are, however, a manly 20 inches each.

Ana and I make fun of Mougar.

The pay is lousy, so she supplements by being an assasin (see above). I supplement it by working at a non-profit

I work from home. I don't work that much. I am a communication junky and like to talk and have people talking to me all the time so I listen to NPR a lot, read newspapers, write and spend too much time on line in cyber conversations like this forum.

I am a professional "cyber loafer." The internet is the best time waster ever introduced in a work environment. Water coolers? Sooo 80's.

Carmen wrote: I work from home. I have no coworkers. I long for communication with others. This is my solution.

Yes! The cat isn't the great conversationalist she makes out to be.

What's a job?

sir_eccles wrote: [quote=Carmen]I work from home. I have no coworkers. I long for communication with others. This is my solution.

Yes! The cat isn't the great conversationalist she makes out to be.

Mine are. Non stop chatter all.day.long.

Stay-at-home dad

8thandPrez wrote: Stay-at-home dad

That's the job I want! Without the kids, though.

I work for an interwebs marketing agency so I'm online 8-10 hours a day here anyway. Plus I've usually got a good 10-20 tabs open at a time between my two screens so it's easy to disappear from it if needed. Though it wouldn't really matter, anytime I pop onto Facebook I see a good half my coworkers logged on as well.

you're all wasting your time.

I produce and manage a Movie Review website so I'm on this damn thing all day long and there are times that I just don't want to think about Watchmen or the Oscars or whatever else is all the buzz right now.

Plus I have band rehearsal after work so I don't get a lot of down time with the computer at night when I'd be doing my personal surfing

Which one, Stoney?

student... so online all the time.

Consultant. Which puts me here between gigs.

ljnd wrote: Consultant. Which puts me here between gigs.

Sometimes I think people really hate me when I say I'm a consultant.

Subject: Re: What do you guys do all day?

torisoaw wrote: Some of the posters on this board (and other boards, to be sure) post like a million times a day... what sort of jobs do you have that makes this possible? Just curious.

They are probably the same men and women you see walking around with yoga mats or riding skateboards on 7th Avenue at 1pm on weekday afternoons. These individuals display no discernible sign of financial support or employment, yet somehow they are mysteriously able to afford to rent apartments in one of the most expensive areas in the city. I would love to know what their secret is.

Subject: Re: What do you guys do all day?

Obamanut wrote: [quote=torisoaw]Some of the posters on this board (and other boards, to be sure) post like a million times a day... what sort of jobs do you have that makes this possible? Just curious.

They are probably the same men and women you see walking around with yoga mats or riding skateboards on 7th Avenue at 1pm on weekday afternoons. These individuals display no discernible sign of financial support or employment, yet somehow they are mysteriously able to afford to rent apartments in one of the most expensive areas in the city. I would love to know what their secret is.

If you'd really like to know, you should maybe read the previous posts in this thread. People are being rather transparent about their employment situations. I'd be more than happy to explain my job in full detail if you're really curious.

And how exactly are you seeing people on 7th ave at 1pm on weekday afternoons if you're off busting your ass at your minimum wage job (assuming its outside of park slope...)

Carmen wrote: And how exactly are you seeing people on 7th ave at 1pm on weekday afternoons if you're off busting your ass at your minimum wage job (assuming its outside of park slope...)

Don't worry about me, I've worked more and harder before the age of 30 than most nuevo-Slopers will in their entire lives.

As for my income, odds are I make more money than you--regardless, however, I would gladly work a minimum-wage job before being a grown adult who receives regular money from my parents just to be able to live in "the nabe," as a large number of newcomers do but will never, ever admit.

i'm independently wealthy. when i'm not posting on brooklynian i skateboard around park slope with a yoga mat.

i don't ever do yoga, i just carry the mat.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=Carmen]And how exactly are you seeing people on 7th ave at 1pm on weekday afternoons if you're off busting your ass at your minimum wage job (assuming its outside of park slope...)

Don't worry about me, I've worked more and harder before the age of 30 than most nuevo-Slopers will in their entire lives.

As for my income, odds are I make more money than you--regardless, however, I would gladly work a minimum-wage job before being a grown adult who receives regular money from my parents just to be able to live in "the nabe," as a large number of newcomers do but will never, ever admit.

That's a bold statement, friend- perhaps some of us have gotten here at such a young age because we've also worked hard before the age of 30 (or 20 as the case may be.) I cannot speak for the majority of posters on here, but I know personally I don't receive regular money from my parents (on the contrary, I supported half of family expenses through my highschool years and still send checks to my mother on a regular basis...) Just because someone is under 30 and lives here doesn't mean they're a trust funder. Some of us simply packed a bag and moved here...its not as unbelievable as it sounds.

my dad can beat up your dad