What Do You Do For Your Job / Living • Page 12

I'm highly likely getting a job as a caregiver. I have no caregiving experience whatsoever. I didn't think I had much of a chance but was happy be at least get interviewed. Let's say this time around my educational background helped me and the people I interviewed with loved me

 

Been a server/bartender for about 3 years now. Not glamorous in the slightest (I'm actually pretty sure I hate the job itself), but man, the money. How could I leave?

 

i have a cousin that does this at a very fancy restaurant in his home town. there are nights where he makes $300 or so in tips. he bought a foreclosed house for super cheap (obviously) and will likely be selling it in a week for about four times what he bought it for. he'll likely continue to live this way (being a server, making a shitload of tax free cash and then buying/repairing/flipping houses).

he's 20 fucking years old.

i'm 28 and going back to school next week for my second bachelor's degree so i can continue to live in a nice, but not great apartment and work until i'm 75 because i likely won't have enough to retire at 65.

clearly, i made the wrong life choices

 

If I put in 12 hours every Sunday and if I make less than 500, I'm usually very upset. It's grueling, unappreciated work that really breeds abusive and reckless lifestyles (I'm the first to tell you I'm horrible with money) over time, but the people within it are amazing and if you're one of the lucky servers who has a handle on their finances (of which there aren't many), then it's a surprisingly viable career choice. All that being said, though, nobody thinks of the concept of being a server forever positively (I know for sure I do not), so it's usually viewed as a transitional job by those even 15, 20 years into the industry. What you're doing until you 'make it.' I don't know, I'm really intrigued by the field and the people that work within it.

 

So this explains how people I went to high school with can afford to live in NYC as a bartender. Always thought tipping someone to open a beer for me was strange (though I always do it).

 

I work in IT for a large Oil and Gas Pipeline company in Canada. Its pretty great, awesome corporate culture, amazing benefits and the nature of our work allows me to travel and see a lot of great places that you wouldn't normally travel to, often via chopper which is also fun.

 

i have an uncle that worked in the oil/gas industry. something with engineering i think but he was always traveling and moved to so many different states. i've always been terribly jealous of anyone who gets to travel regularly for work. at my last job i'd get to go to Mexico and North Carolina, but after 5 trips to each it gets old fast haha

 

My current job I was hesitant to apply for because I knew nothing about Sales Tax and never worked with it before. Turned out that that didn't really matter because my boss and I kinda hit it off and he felt that I'd be able to learn it over time. I would think most other jobs are like this as well.

Ummm it's not tax free cash...

How's the industry affected y'all? I worked for a small O&G company until last year and got laid off when the O&G market shit the bed hard.

 

Its been pretty rough, although the mid-stream companies like us haven't been hit as hard as the producers since a lot of our stuff is based on long term contracts but we did have a bunch of layoffs. Luckily my job is pretty unique and I'm one of only a few guys doing it so the chances of it affecting me personally are pretty low.

 

Glad to hear! At the time I was pretty devastated because in the span of 3 days I went from finding out we were pregnant with our first child(on my birthday no less) to being unemployed. I'm at a way better job now though and really couldn't have gotten more lucky.

 

I think people would be surprised at how much relationships mean more than experience when landing a job. If people LIKE you, you have a much better chance of getting the job than someone who is more experienced, but maybe not as personable. Corporations/companies/organizations are big on culture and fit and feel they can mold likable/personable people into however they need them to fit in.

Relationships are everything when it comes to jobs, in my opinion. (Unless we're talking about brain surgeons or something).

 

Shipping in a warehouse. Not a bad gig.

 

moonlighting as a server/bartender could be interesting...

 

I read this as sleeping in a warehouse

 

Anyone do some extra shit for money on the side? Online work or anything?

 

I'm about to start in the underwriting department at an insurance company. My entire career until now has been in the public sector, so I'm looking forward to the change.

 

I'm a medical transcriptionist. Been doing it for around 5 years and it's whatever. Not my dream job at all, but the hours are good and my company is good to work for (I can take as many days off as I want....don't get PTO but it's nice not having to work any holidays. I also get every weekend off which is amazing).

 

I play in a bar band for cash on the side. Just play your typical covers, but I drink for free and get paid decent, it's not a bad deal.

 

I don't but my dad and brother both umpire baseball and ref basketball. They make good money doing so, too.

 

Same thing haha. My body is moving but I'm dead inside.


There's a smiley because that came off dark af.

 

I have a Risk degree and have always thought about Underwriting but am still not sure. Is this what you did for the public sector?

 

Nothing now but I'm thinking of doing a bit of Uber driving on the side.

 

It's not, it's actually completely different than anything else I've done. There's a lot of training involved which I'll definitely need. I'll let you know how I like it.

 

I write Android apps like the ones on the Google Play store, for a company. It can be an interesting job at times but honestly it feels like just a higher paying form of mindless labor. I hope that one day I can pursue my dreams (Music and/or gaming), luckily my gf supports me.

 

I am a software engineer for a commercial real estate startup in NYC, where I work with extremely nice and smart people on extremely boring things. Lately, I've been considering taking a remote position with a consulting firm I used to work with in order to have more free time to pursue music business/journalism (which is what I wanted to do to begin with, but moving to NYC isn't exactly cheap, so I chose the path that made immediate dollars instead).