What is your job/occupation?

Cimmerian Nights said:
Never knew that Sua. I'm starting my MCSA exams next week - joy.


Y'ever work on a Trump property?
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Yea on two. He paid our wages and benefits on time on one job and on the other paid our benefits 6 months after completion. Which is the max we allow before court and penalties.

Did some big jobs back east. Giants stadium, devils arena in newark, freedom tower. Got to sign the steel beam up top and shake hands with the president which was pretty damn cool regardless of anyones politics. Its still the president.
 
I fix computers for local hillbillies who can barely turn them on and off, it's quite profitable. Keeps food on the table and a roof overhead, that's all I need/want. I hate money more than anything - except Fallout 4. I prefer a solid barter system over the monetary system we have in place now.

I've been into computers since Commodore 64 was a thing - my other main trade is I'm a qualified Boilermaker, however, too many greedy employers tried to screw me over by not paying the right wage, not paying holiday pay and flat-out stealing all my tools I'd accumulated over the 10 years I did my time. Not to mention it's a filthy shitty cunt of a job that I really dreaded waking up to every day - now I wake up whenever I want and do as little or as much computer fixing as I feel like.
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
Never knew that Sua. I'm starting my MCSA exams next week - joy.
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I'm mostly a virtualization guy by trade, but currently I'm leading a project to design and implement new datacenter environments on board of our fleet.

Challenging conditions, to say the least. Potentially high latency to shore, potentially unstable power, potentially unreliable AC, a gazillion connectivity options (VSAT, Iridium, 3G/4G, shore wifi, etc depending on location), space issues (some ships were not designed to have IT shit on board), possible vibration issues, no IT staff permanently on board (the electrician(s) moonlight(s) as IT sometime), crazy costs for downtime when on projects,...
Gorefiend said:
Yea on two. He paid our wages and benefits on time on one job and on the other paid our benefits 6 months after completion. Which is the max we allow before court and penalties.
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Seems like standard operating procedure nowadays. Companies will hold off on paying for the longest time possible to hang on to their cash reserves.
 
AskWazzup said:
You joined the forum in 2003 and waited 13 years to start posting. That is serious dedication.
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He actually contacted the staff/me over Google+ to recover his old account from 13 years ago (with two posts on it!) as the email adress associated with it was dead instead of just registering a new account. Proper dedication right there.
 
Jonsson,

welcome back. :smile:

Me, as I stated awhile back, I'm in a co-operative through which I can do different types of work, like teaching etc. After getting out of uni I've worked in different places. Been thinking about maybe going back there for the doctorate or something.
 
Risewild said:
I worked on many jobs before, but now due to my health problems and disabilities I am off working... To be honest I wish I could work, I am tired of having no spare money at all :-(.
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I'm glad to see this reply so readily. I recieve disability payment, though, which is better than nothing, but it took a long time to get there, lots of uphills, menial jobs going nowhere, and re-set processes with the municipality

I had a lot of ambitions too, that had to be laid to rest, one reality check after another. I still have ambitions, but now they are mostly keep-myself-sane projects that maybe-just-maybe I'll see if I can turn into contribution-to-society (creative projects)

There is a growing climate of "if you can't cope, go and die in a ditch", so admitting this kind of situation is often very uncomfortable
 
Student. Graduating the 8th grade in like 5 days or so. Then I can finally say goodbye to that damned place and go to a better school.
 
I basically help production companies estimate the costs of shooting their films (music videos or short films, mostly). If they want to find a way to make a project meet their budget, I try to find a way for them. It's the movie industry, but the accounting side of it. Not very glamour, a lot of paperworks and excel files. Currently, I don't have a lot of contracts because I take some time to work on a personal project, but I sometimes make little videos for blogs, youtubers, local events or little businesses.
I'm also looking for a more stable job. Hard to get a credit when you're paid on delivery only, so there's that.
 
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