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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 02:42:49 am

Title: Real Life Jobs
Post by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 02:42:49 am: I\'m just sitting here thinking what you all do for work? Do you guys have jobs, go to school, millionares that spend all day on computer? Would be interesting to hear what you do for work and what not :)

Me I\'m 18 graduating in 3 weeks or so and I currently work as a part time shift manager at Co-op C-Store a full serve gas station/ and propane supplier.
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Post by: seperot on May 16, 2004, 03:01:32 am: one job at a supermarket another at a market

supermarket - boring boring hatefull >.<

market fun i get to boss people around better pay

*nods*
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 03:04:00 am: Ooh a boss :] Yah your right it does feel good to boss other people around sometimes, I only do it to the people I don\'t like! Like this Michael Rae that started working a few months ago, lets just say he has alot of experience cleaning the bathrooms and mud gutter :P
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Post by: Icefalcon on May 16, 2004, 03:05:53 am: Im in high school, after school I go to work...in greenhouses! Haha, you may think that working in greenhouses would suck, but I love working there. Its not extremely hard, but it works your muscles ;) I get so many bonuses from my boss...its awesome.
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 03:08:12 am: green houses? Our city is a power, oil, and gas city with the most millionares per capital living here that is for our province :P Anyways we have greenhouses by the powerplants but I\'ve never actually seen what they do in there
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Post by: Icefalcon on May 16, 2004, 03:12:25 am: grow plants ;)
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Post by: Altharion on May 16, 2004, 03:13:36 am: i am a millionare that spend all day on my computer.
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 03:15:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Altharion
i am a millionare that spend all day on my computer.

Howz that for you :] That is my dream and If I can\'t get it only one other destiny for me Welfare
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Post by: AendarCallenlasse on May 16, 2004, 06:50:43 am: I work in a cafe. The job kicks arse and I have the coolest boss ever. Plus the food\'s really good. we even have a website Bazil Cafe (http://www.bazilcafe.com/)
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Post by: Kintall on May 16, 2004, 08:44:34 am: I\'m a student, I got a little paying work doing art for my universty\'s magazine
(http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~lookit/SWScan0000dd03.jpg)

I got the cover this month :)
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Post by: Ghostslayer on May 16, 2004, 09:18:48 am: I\'m a University student taking Chemical Engineering. Last semester I was working in the department as a research assistant, doing a bunch of different measurements and experiments. My last month working there involved using lasers :D. Just started up this new semester so im back to learning stuff again.

Edit: Cool Kintall 8) Your student paper looks a heck of a lot better than ours :)
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Post by: SaintNuclear on May 16, 2004, 11:52:07 am: I work at my parents\' (gah) photolab.
The job isn\'t that bad, except for the customers, of course.
Sometimes they just bitch around, sometimes they give films that are hard to print, sometimes they argue and think they know better than me about photography (annoying, but very satisfying when they realize they\'re stupid and shouldn\'t argue with a professional about something they clearly know nothing about :P).

The two best things about this job are:
* Porn (no need to explain, right?)
* Tons of bleach (http://isuisse.ifrance.com/emmaf/anarcook/plexfrmb.htm) >: )
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Post by: Caldazar on May 16, 2004, 01:41:18 pm: I\'ve got two years to go before my graduation, after that I will take a year of to serve/travel/earn some cash. Then, it\'s back to school for me. =/
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 04:55:35 pm: Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Mmm after graduation I am suppose to go to the big city and live with my dad but nothings been written in stone yet...My step brother produces commericals and what not for CTV (Its basicly the channel most canadians watch for news and local programming but is pretty big!) So I could probally get on the sets and pull some experience from there! I would love to make a movie for the Independant Film Channel!
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Post by: Xalthar on May 16, 2004, 05:23:12 pm: I normally just leech on the relative wealth of my parents.. No need to take a job.. And oh yea, I also leech on the state too, they have this nifty idea of supplying us young people with enough money to go buy tons of beers every month (although they\'ve named it educational support, education\'s not exactly what I use it for.. :P)
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Post by: Icefalcon on May 16, 2004, 05:53:55 pm: Gah! What is this free money your talking about? :D Where do you live?
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 16, 2004, 05:55:05 pm: no kidding, free beer wtf is your state smoking give you such things!
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Post by: rumblebelly on May 16, 2004, 06:24:58 pm: i get paid to play vidio game\'s all day.....but then i wake up and have to go to my real job.
i\'m 36 yr\'s old and i am the supervisor in my department for a large company that sell\'s restaraunt and food equipment (yes i\',m boss :D )
i have 16 people that work under me and i make a very good living at it not to mention the perk of being able to carry a whip around to keep my slave\'s in line lol 8)
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Post by: Xalthar on May 16, 2004, 06:29:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by DepthBlade
no kidding, free beer wtf is your state smoking give you such things!

Denmark.. our government supports the people who study .. each month we are given a fixed amount of money to get by. Little do they know, however, that we use their money to go get drunk :rolleyes: :P
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Post by: KwartzTheKran on May 16, 2004, 06:59:55 pm: Im at uni studying business and company law, i make money on the side by a 3 night a week job taking bets as a runner at the dogs, which is average pay but amazing tips (literally doubles my pay)

I also earn some cash by occasionally helping out at my dads engineering firms on the drill bit grinding stuff.

And a final source of income is from general poker and buying and selling on ebay.
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Post by: TheRedMonk on May 16, 2004, 09:00:13 pm: Im 18 and study English at university in Sweden.
I get my money from the state (like Malentor) and waste some of it on booze (like Malentor). :D I hope to one day have a job where I can wear a nice suit like Kwartz ;)
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 17, 2004, 04:07:02 am: Quote
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Originally posted by DepthBlade
no kidding, free beer wtf is your state smoking give you such things!

Denmark.. our government supports the people who study .. each month we are given a fixed amount of money to get by. Little do they know, however, that we use their money to go get drunk :rolleyes: :P

*note to self move to Denmark, become a citizen, take alot of school classes*
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Post by: dfryer on May 17, 2004, 08:42:32 am: I\'m half way through 3rd year of a 4-year computer science degree, I\'m currently at the beginning of an 8 month term working for the provincial government as a \"Jr. Business Analyst\" ( <---- translation: forwards email to appropriate people, messes around with hideous MS Access apps, and reads PS forums & CVS repository)
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Post by: Uyaem on May 17, 2004, 12:28:08 pm: I\'m a software developer in a small company that makes web-based content and category management platforms for large companies. IT budgets are still tight this year, so lets see for how many more months we can delay insolvency. ;)

Remark: Damn you, rich scandinavian scum! ;) I gotta pay my Lagers myself. *meh*
Remark2: Anyone offering a job in my region? PM me! :D
Remark3: Anyone speaking Dutch and willing to translate a platform or write a \"gebruikers handboek\"? PM me, too! :D
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Post by: Xalthar on May 17, 2004, 02:51:15 pm: hehe, yes, scandinavia is a liberal paradise ;) But we pay for our social benefits with our wages later on, high tax rates aren\'t really all that fun :P
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Post by: Ineluke on May 17, 2004, 05:18:16 pm: I work in the student life office at my college. We aren\'t that busy so for most of the day I post on these forums. It\'s the only thing that prevents me from dying of boredom.
Great hours though and I dont have to work Friday, saturday, or sunday.
I\'m also about to start a job a gamestop. I worked there last christmas and they are hiring again so I\'m a shoe-in (mainly cause the manager\'s lazy and would rather hire someone he\'s trained already he\'s really cool though)

Thats me.
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Post by: XpYtZ on May 17, 2004, 09:21:51 pm: I?m working temporarily as a Bookkeeper at an accounting firm. Trying to get into school to learn to be a Programmer. (Oh I hope, I hope, I hope!) But mostly I sit around writing the background stories and ideas for a RPG I?ve been working on for the last ten years.
Yep that?s me Ol? lazy cakes.
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Post by: Kintall on May 17, 2004, 09:33:42 pm: Quote
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no kidding, free beer wtf is your state smoking give you such things!

Denmark.. our government supports the people who study .. each month we are given a fixed amount of money to get by. Little do they know, however, that we use their money to go get drunk :rolleyes: :P

*note to self move to Denmark, become a citizen, take alot of school classes*

Man come to Australia, here everyone gets paid, even if you dont want a job, hell since I\'ve been unemployed and bumming around studying I\'ve bought myself a $1000 buck com PS2 GCN DC and a 52cm tv I share a house with my fiance thats 3 bedrooms, and all with no work no how, and if I wasnt studying, I\'d get the same money :) and I can be unemployed as long as I want :)

Australia rocks :)
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Post by: Icefalcon on May 18, 2004, 03:08:33 am: *whimper*
Thats is crazy... Ive never heard of these things! How stupid can the government be? Giving teens free money...what do they expect them to do with it? Go out and buy some new history texbooks to study in their spare time?!
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Post by: rumblebelly on May 18, 2004, 03:14:41 am: well in me book\'s being a bum isn\'t somthin ta be proud of i be a hard workin fella and i\'m proud o that :D :]
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Post by: Icefalcon on May 18, 2004, 03:31:45 am: Well so am I, but who would refuse free money? And the whole thing about the government doing in for educational purposes is rediculous.
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Post by: tygerwilde on May 18, 2004, 04:26:40 am: I\'m a student here at SEMO state U. as an art major. been thinkin about getting a greencard, movin to china and teaching conversational english there. it\'s a great deal, you don\'t need to speak any english, and you get paid huge amounts of money to sit around and talk to asians about whatever you want to talk about. hell, you don\'t even need any teaching skills.

I still don\'t know what my brother is still doing in america. he can legally claim dual citizenship in japan because he was born there, kyoto if I remember right.. he could be over there teaching english, and he has the hots for asian girls anyway. he even speaks a little of the language, he was stationed in tokyo for a few years when he served.
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Post by: Ineluke on May 18, 2004, 08:42:41 pm: Quote
Originally posted by tygerwilde
I\'m a student here at SEMO state U. as an art major. been thinkin about getting a greencard, movin to china and teaching conversational english there. it\'s a great deal, you don\'t need to speak any english, and you get paid huge amounts of money to sit around and talk to asians about whatever you want to talk about. hell, you don\'t even need any teaching skills.

I still don\'t know what my brother is still doing in america. he can legally claim dual citizenship in japan because he was born there, kyoto if I remember right.. he could be over there teaching english, and he has the hots for asian girls anyway. he even speaks a little of the language, he was stationed in tokyo for a few years when he served.

You don\'t have to know the language?
How will you ask things like wheres\'s the bathroom?
or make statements like \"Ho my god there\'s an axe in my head!\"
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Post by: Abemore on May 19, 2004, 01:06:04 am: <-----------
Two Associate Degrees: computer programming and LAN management
working as crappy Internet tech support for Cox Communications (an ISP/telephone/television company)
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 19, 2004, 04:30:06 am: Well looks like most of us aren\'t bums yet so thats good! I am still alittle shocked about the whole getting money for education! I want it!!

I am 16 got my license when I was 16, turned 17 managed to purchase alcohol at the age of 17 but not cigars or lotto tickets which still confuses me to this day, turned 18 I can do it all. its all legal for me to do except purchase alcohol gotta be 19 in this province to do that :]