Meme: So what do you do for a living

[liliaeth]

Just thought I'd start a meme and see if anyone picked it up. You know, in the interest of getting to know one another.

What do you do for a living?

I'm a cleaning woman, I take care of an office building, where I clean offices, hallways, lunchrooms, kitchens, toilets... I also occasionally work as a dishwasher. Before this I worked in a factory.

I'm currently pretty close to getting a contract, which means more money and hopefully more hours. The worst part about my job is that I have to drive about half an hour on my motorcycle to get there.

So what do you do for a living?

Comments

[scififan151852.livejournal.com]

I study, sit exams, and curse the teachers for giving me so much homework. College is a bitca.

[liliaeth]

and to think I specifically finished my first year of ortho just to extend the college experience, even though I knew I was going to fail somewhat around christmas. (the good part of state funded schooling, not having to feel guilty to the parental units for coasting for half a year longer*g*)

[scififan151852.livejournal.com]

*g*

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I'm a public Librarian who has worked in reference, acquisitions (buying things) and cataloging (assigning the numbers on the spine of the book).

[liliaeth]

sounds like fun :-)

[gillo]

I teach English and drama in a private school in England.

[liliaeth]

I did a year of regentaat, which is the study to be a highschool teacher, unfortunately I totally flunked my practical. Somehow standing in front of a class didn't seem like my thing*g*

[gillo]

If it's not someone's thing it tends to be very much not somebody's thing. Best avoided like the plague. *g*

[liliaeth]

Let's just say, when my teacher fell asleep during one of the classes I gave, I got the message*g*

[vagablonde.livejournal.com]

I'm an Audio/Visual Tech Level 2 for one of the Ritz-Carlton resorts in Florida. I set up shows, presentations, screens, projectors, sound-systems, lights, staging and stuff like that. Sorta like a roadie, without the road part!

[liliaeth]

cool

[hellsbells.livejournal.com]

I'm a homemaker (to give it the politically correct term!) and stay-at-home-mum.

Before having children I worked in a factory which made underwear for Marks and Spencer. This is where I developed RSI which is still with me today.
Before that, I worked in shops. My first job was at a pet shop and is the best job I ever had and also the lowest paid!

[liliaeth]

isn't it often that the most fun jobs are the worst paid?
At least cleaning is paid pretty well, makes up for having to take care of all the toilets*g*

[hellsbells.livejournal.com]

isn't it often that the most fun jobs are the worst paid?

Oh yeah! It was definitely a case of job satisfaction and not financial! It was also the place I learnt the most - coming from school where I'd totally lost interest into something which was a big interest of mine. I look back at that job with very fond memories.

Cleaning toilets - I hate having to do the ones in my home, I don't think I could do anyone else's!

[elisi]

I believe the politically correct term is 'home maker' - in other words a housewife. My husband works for the local government as a PA. Very dull.

[liliaeth]

poor him then ;-)

[elisi]

Well he wants to be a film maker, so who knows what might happen?

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Well after 22 years of working with computer mainframes (operations and programming), my husband and I both found ourselves out of work as companies stopped using the big beasts (and buy the programs instead of having someone there to write them for them).....so

Eleven years we started a commercial cleaning company. So I do what you do! We have a few employees, but do the work ourselves too. We have eight permanent contracts and subcontract to out of state companies to do floors (tile strip/wax, wood floor care and carpet cleaning) for mall stores in our State. I like it and do some of my best story plotting while vacuuming and cleaning bathrooms *giggle*. The work is hard and people are pigs, but I like the freedom and independence. I never ask an employee to do a job I don't do myself either.

Kathleen
sister in dustclothes!

[liliaeth]

I know what you mean, the fun part of cleaning is that you can make decisions, work on your own and that you've got a lot of independance. Sure there's the bosses, but as long as you do the job right, you get to make your own choices of how you do the job.

Plus there's nothing like thinking of a plot for your next fanfic while you're cleaning floors.

(it's surprising though how quickly you go from not noticing fingerstains on desks to seeing them at first glance.)

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

tee hee and how from then on you walk into a public place and notice EVERYTHING! The lint/dirt on floors that you'd never notice before, the sinks not properly cleaned and so on! It is like neon.

Just because Jim and I are the bosses, we do have to worry about the customer and their complaints too so that is no different (only 8 different ones, one for each place) and we also have to check on the job our employees have done because we are responsible.

I like it though.

Kathleen

[rudemuchness.livejournal.com]

I go to school mostly. I used to file(eww temping) for a small company in my area, then, recently, I worked at a retirement home as a buser. LMAO, just a horrible job, all the old people (rich old people btw) were so unsatisfied with many things. I quit about a week ago, so currently, I go to school.

[liliaeth]

well I've got the job I'm currently doing through temping, just like the last one and the one before that... so I'm not really against it. You just have to be lucky in what they offer you and open to different possibilities.

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

I'm a college English professor.

[gillo]

What sort of college? Lit or language?

(Fellow English geek wants to know.*g*)

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

LOL! I saw your reply and clicked on your LJ to be snoopy, too. :)

I teach in an American university. We don't have English majors here, so the courses I teach are "general education," i.e., composition and intro to literature. I'm teaching a Colette story today. :)

My field of expertise is African American and American lit.

[gillo]

Snoopy is good. ::does the Snoopy dance::

My knowledge of American lit is somewhat limited - not much beyond the obvious, really. (Twain, Fitzgerald, Miller, Harper Lee, Steinbeck and suchlike). I teach ages 11-18, which at the top end is close to your sophomore college level, while the youngest are just lovely enthusisastic kiddies. ;-)

[liliaeth]

now that's a job I wish I had, unfortunately I totally flunked at practical for becoming a teacher. I did dutch, religion and history for a year.

[spangel-kat.livejournal.com]

I am a full-time college student at UC Berkeley, and a part-time circulation desk student assistant (i.e. shelve books, check out books, etcetc.).

[liliaeth]

There's no time like being in college. Enjoy it while it lasts, I know I did*g*

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Frustrated unempolyed Administrator. I went to Uni to avoid admin, but got suckered in anyway.

[liliaeth]

it's annoying isn't it. I hate being unemployed, which is why the temp-office knows I rarely if ever refuse a job they offer me*g*

[raemcn.livejournal.com]

For 11 years I have been a housewife and stay at home mom. Before that I worked at a lingerie factory and my first job was waitressing.

[liliaeth]

I never tried waitressing, well I served at receptions and I went for jobinterviews as a waitress. I just never got hired.

It's bad how often people ignore how hard a job being a fulltime mother can be, isn't it?

Working

[athenewolfe.livejournal.com]

I am a grad student and I TA and RA plus all sorts of other school related stuff for my school. If I get outside of this area it is normally for working with access databases. Before I went back to school I managed a video store and had my own company. (major clients were in the computing area and they all went under after 9/11)

Re: Working

[liliaeth]

Must have taken a lot of courage to go back to school like that. I wish I could get myself to take the risk.

[dark-amia.livejournal.com]

Finished college and currently job hunting (which is not going well) Learning to drive which should increase chances (fingers crossed)

[liliaeth]

I hope for you that you'll find a job you like soon :-)

[itsabigrock.livejournal.com]

I work at Oregon State University in the Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Department's office. I do grants, the website, accounting, and general office type stuff.

In the past I have worked as a Substitute teaching aide in Grade schools & Jr. High, I also worked for a glass importer for years doing all of the import/export/accounting/office stuff. I've worked as a TA, worked in a plastic factory, insurance warehouse, and have been the world's worst waitress. Seriously, you're never getting your toast, stop asking.

[liliaeth]

nice bit of diversity, but are you really sure about that toast ;-)

[nagain.livejournal.com]

I'm an program analyst for a company that designs software for utility companies . . . Hmm. Yes, I know. Before that I was a snowboard instructor in Vermont.

[liliaeth]

Now that had to be fun, wish I could do something with software, unfortunately just having taken an windows software course is not enough to get into a job like that ;-)

[nagain.livejournal.com]

Its not really fun - programming for utility companies is quite tedious. I deal with meter readings and installation numbers, and copious amounts of debugging other peoples code! Its all a bit frustrating really. I'd much rather be doing something else . . .

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

I work as team leader in a business support unit in a local authority (Council). My work is mostly firefighting other people's problems and is supplemented by the headache of answering corporate freedom of information requests. I am currently the fount of all knowledge for our new logo/image which has just been introduced. God knows why, I'm no expert...!

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

I do payroll, administer benefits, and deal with HR issues for a smallish tech company. In the past, I've been an HR asst., a payroll specialist for a company with about 2500 people on payroll, been general admin for a really small company, where I answered the phones, supported the sales staff, did purchasing, international shipping, and data entry. Before that, book stores, and stay at home mom, and somewhere in there, worked at a fast food place.

[dragonflymuse.livejournal.com]

I'm a registered nurse working at a tertiary care paediatric hospital. My unit is mostly acute/surgical/trauma care. If it can be operated on, it comes to us :)

[makd.livejournal.com]

I'm a college professor of sociology. I teach courses from the freshman to the junior level (we don't have a sociology major, so no 400-level courses).

The courses I teach run from introduction, marriage, family, urban, pop culture and mass media, sociology through film, and field methods.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

As of now, I work in a warehouse full time as a checker (checking merchandise for accuracy through count, price verification, ect. ...a bunch of paperwork lol) and I am also a part time student studying comp. programming :D I love my computers *big cheesey grin*
Jenna;)