What do you do for a living and what would you like to try.

[kvnchrist]

I've done about everything, except those jobs that pay well. Presently, I driver over the road and pull a refrigerated trailer. We usually haul food products, but on occasion we pull medical supplies.

I kind of like it, because whenever they load me wrong or there was too much delivered that was not ordered, the consignee,(place where I deliver to) somtimes rejects the product. They put it back on the trailer and I have to call in to my company, and they call the shipper to see what they want done.

9 out of 10 they tell us to dump it. When they do that, we are supposed to go to the nearest dumpster and throw it all away.

 

Well, there are times when it's only a ripped box and the product isn't damaged at all. Heck I've had a whole pallet, of these kids packaged drinks that you stick the straw through and drink, that was rejected because a few packages from the pallet atop that had busted and split liquid over that pallet and it stained the boxes. Heck, I took home 9000 of those packaged drinks and distributed them amongst my family.

 

Just coming in before I started my vacation I had 2 cases of Twix bars with well over 500 candy bars in each I kept. 2 cases of pudding that had about 200 individual cups apiece, and 4 cases of margarine, with about 12 tubs per case. My relatives got most of that.

 

 

As far as the job I'd like to have, well I have several but I'd like to get a job as a millionaire and retire at the same time.

 

I don't sell the stuff like most truck drivers do. People can loose their jobs over that. If the customer finds out that a driver is selling their product they could cancel business with the trucking company and the company won't stand for that. There are stupid people all over the place and I've been a victim of that since birth. I'm just more experienced at hiding it.

 

I drive all over the place, but they usually keep me in the mid to lower East of the states. I used to go into Canada, with another company, but thankfully I don't anymore. It's not that I don't want to. I love Canada, especially the upper West. British Columbia is gorgeous. The mountains in that area are staggering. I mean Colorado has beautiful scenery, but B.C. is beyond that.

 

No the thing I hate is more going through customs on the way back into my own country. It seems you leave a country into the welcoming, but cautious arms of another country, but return an expected criminal, needing to be colonoscpied to death and ran through the ringer, then tossed out of the building, for the sin of not having something interesting to bust you with.

 

That makes travel outside the country less and less appealing. So I just stay here. Buzz up and down the Eastern seaboard. Sometimes I get a run out west. The load I had that brought me back to Kansas was heading to California, but I was due my vacation and after being out over the road for 1.5 months. I was ready to come back in. I'd forgotten the color of my own bathroom

[Flintlockecole]

Me? I do odd jobs and such for the time being, personally I wouldn't mind being back in England but life takes you where ever it pleases. BC is where I'm currently stuck at and such although I don't mind traveling it's the homesickness that gets to one self.

[Illiad86]

I'm a housewife ^_^ Honestly, I wouldn't want to try anything else...it's the best job in the world :D

[dthumb]

I used to be in cartoon animations, now I'm learning 3d to try my luck. :whistling:

[Pushkatu]

1st job: I assembled and did the finish stuff for these things, before they where sold:

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It's called "press"

 

2nd job on a construction site, we built blocks, most of the time 4 floors high, but some where 10 floors

3rd and current job I work at a 3 stars hotel as a receptionist

[BarefootWarrior]

Good topic. I started out as a farm boy long ago, wheat, barley farming. Became a field mechanic but in time I realized this wasn't for me. I started flying in the late seventies and was working towards my commercial license, but the gas crunch that occurred more then doubled my costs for flying and sadly had to give it up, with over 500 hours on the log book. Went to college for photography, and again for electronics (computers), and moved into graphic imaging (publishing arts) and now graphic design. I am now self learning 3D applications. I wish I had done this years ago, that is, move into the graphics industry. No regrets however, In the eighties I was a broadcast engineer, and in the nineties I was lead projectionist and technician for an IMAX theater for nine years, loved that job, but in hindsight, I left at the right time. Now in my mid fifties, I can tell anyone, it is never to late to learn new things.

 

Still not rich, now un-employed, but not giving up. These last few years I have used the time to continue learning. I want to work with 3D and create some of my own artwork and learn more on creating textures. I enjoy working with Photoshop and Illustrator and use both for my projects. My first mod (Simple Linen Small Cloth) was for DA2 and that project showed me that my skills are improving and I gained a lot of satisfaction from that. I am now working on updating that project. It would appear the my skills are on the path of a texture artist.

[TheCalliton]

just got a job at vector... I sell cutco stuff now

[ub3rman123]

Moochin' off my parents.

[Ghogiel]

Worked as apprentice carpenter, bartender, dry liner, book wholesalers, recycling plant, gardener, street performer, circus arts teacher, light and sound technician at a monthly cabaret night. I'm currently making ends meet by performing and working in the building trade.

 

I would like to do a stage solo, and of course just work on my artwork till the end of time.

[marcsilvester]

I'm an educational workshop provider, sounds grand but it really isn't. I try and sort out people who are in the process of divorce or separation to get them to see sense concerning the welfare of their children.

 

Before that I was a youth worker, also worked for local social services and in a community funded inernet shop for young people. My dream job would have been a secondary school/high school teacher but i dropped out of university within the first year. But if i hadnt dropped out, i would have never met my wife and had the wonderful child i have now so i guess life is strange like that.

Edited July 13, 2011 by marcsilvester