What Do You Do For Your Job / Living • Page 8

Thanks!! :) One of the best days of the year haha. Kids are the sweetest.

 

Secretary at a university. It's a great job so I feel guilty about hating it

Ultimate unrealistic dream job is a music supervisor but I don't have the personality for it so I'm hoping I'll get to work with an animal shelter/sanctuary one day :)

 

Got a new job today!

Marketing/sales/entertaining planning stuff for a large food manufacturer. I've heard for years how great it is to work there which makes me more excited than usual that I got it. Happy times indeed. Hello new fitbit and some books!

Weirdest part though was when the interviewer asked if I was okay working with women... what kind of people used to be in this position? What the fuck kind of question is that?

 

I went to an interview once where they asked me (a white person) if I would be comfortable working with African Americans and I was dumbfounded. It would never occur to me to ever ask someone that

 

Sounds like the last person may have been pretty shitty.

 

I posted before, but pretty much just said I was a student. I work on campus as an RA in the residence halls, which has been pretty cool and has saved me a ton of money on housing and food over the last two years. It was crucial in allowing me to stay at UW-Madison as an out-of-state student.

I graduate in a little over a week. Still 100% unsure of what's next. I know I'm not the only one facing the great big Unknown of Adulthood, which should make me feel better, but it doesn't. I just want to know what's next.

 

I'm still not sure what's next.

 

Anyone here work in any type of event coordination/event management?

 

Awesome, how do you like it? I work at Capital One in Delaware. Cafe is pretty on point here :)

 

My soul is being sucked in an office too (banking). I'd like to get out of the office but have no idea what I'd do haha

 

Owning a dog day care business is what I'd wanna do too! I looked up how much it costs to franchise something like Dogtopia and its so expensive. If you don't mind me asking, was yours a franchise or a complete self-starter type of business?

 

How do you like it?

 

I like it, but it can be tough. In my short experience, it's an industry where there are always people smarter than you, so you constantly feel challenged and like you have to step your game up, which can be stressful. I'd like to move onto something in the film/tv industry eventually, but this job is great for now. Been at my job for almost 3 years now.

 

The only things I enjoy enough for a career are music and animals haha! The corporate life isn't for me. I'm doing everything I can to take my band to a level where that will sustain me. What else do you enjoy?

 

That's great to hear, good luck with the band! Where can I check out your music?

And yeah corporate life isn't for me either...actually my interests are the same as yours haha. I've been researching the possibility of opening a dog daycare or something along those lines. Or potentially opening a beer garden in my area - we don't have any in my area so it could do well.

 

You can check out our old EP here:
Electric Spirit, by Portal Frame

In July we're recording with Joseph Milligan of Anberlin so we'll have new stuff out soon!

Both of those sound interesting! Completely different industries. A beer garden does sound nice if your area is lacking one. Those can gain traction really quickly if done right! My puppies got kicked out of two doggie day camps They are super sweet to people but like to "fence fight" with the dogs in next play yard over.

 

Catchy tunes! I can really dig it! That's awesome, Ill have to check back later in the year then to hear the new songs.

Hahaha that's hilarious. Sounds like you have a couple bad asses on your hands.

 

They are sweet, they just love to bark haha!

 

I do. And it's awful.

 

Can you elaborate a little more? I'm in the beginning of a career in it and half of me loves it while the other half hates it.

 

I'd like to say a lot of it depends on the people you work with / the company. But it really doesn't.

The company I work for is very lenient with prices and such, which makes coordinating and selection processes easier, but sometimes that almost makes things worse.

Everyone and their mother has ideas for how it could be done better. Most companies I've worked with / don't this for want a committee to help decide things which wastes time and is mostly unproductive. I have to attend the events which I have little interest in and has really turned me off about people and group activities. There's a lot of waiting and sit on your hands time while you wait to hear back from one sponsor or group so while waiting for a building to okay the 350 person event, you have catering to figure out but you still don't know how many people will actually be invited let alone attend, and oh by the way management wants all these answers in two days while the print shop wants to know for signs and emails and shit.

Have to counter busy seasons, which are all seasons. Find events and festivities most will enjoy while those who don't like baseball or whatever you're doing complain loudest about having their feelings hurt because they dislike baseball and are "forced" to attend a baseball game / themed party.

No one ever likes the prizes.

Everyone is a Monday morning quarterback. Especially people in sales. We're setting up a 30-person sales team event in Colorado and everyone calls or emails their ideas for restaurants and things to do, but can't assign things themselves. "Events" in any company feels like a completely wasteful department. If sales needs a dinner, why the fuck can't they just set up a dinner? They know more of their schedules than I do.

Then add in flight bullshit, host cancellations, bad weather, endless odds and ends supplies... it's awful.

Worst for me personally, I like - and need - to be busy at work. I don't want to come in and have little or nothing to do and while I thought events and shit would always be going on for a company of 2,500 office folks, it's not and there is far too much down time that allows me to search for how to make the strongest noose.

 

I work for a medical billing/company. My official title is Applications Analyst, but they have me do a bunch of stuff. I basically manage some of our major applications from a workflow perspective, develop reports/tools via SQL and SSRS, build automation jobs, and now they have shifting more towards visual analytics.

I sort of fell backward into it. I had been working as the produce manager at a Trader Joe's and just physically couldn't handle it anymore. My friend got me a job at this company doing data entry and I've just worked my way up over the last 4 years.

It's not my dream, but it is challenging, which I enjoy. Up until a couple months ago I was also working on my Masters in Education and Creative Arts with the idea that I'd become a teacher next year. The further I got into the program though the more I realized that it was not what I wanted anymore at all. I could have stayed and finished it out, but in the end I would have upped my loans a ton and then been left with no job and a degree in a field that I didn't want to be in.

I've been reassessing where I'm at and seeing where I want to go next. I know I want to do something that helps people. Right now I'm mainly just helping my bosses. I don't want to live a life that feels insulated and where I forget that other people exist.

I'm hoping to take the skills I'm developing and combine it with something like nutrition, which is something I have been interested in and considering for a while.

 

I'm a photographer and organizer for an auction house. I specialize in clothes and fashion work when it comes in but I shoot a lot of various products from amazing vintage cars to Rolex watches to actual junk. I like it because every day is different and brings new challenges. It's a startup in the middle of expansion so I wear a lot of different hats which is fine for me but can be chaotic at times too.

I run a small business for photographing people on the side when I have time.

 

I actually start a new job in a week. I'll be Marketing Coordinator and Graphic Designer for my city's Waste Management/Recycling Department. It definitely seems like I'll be able to take a lot of initiative and get some major projects off the ground. I've worked at an aquarium for the last five years so I'm happy I'll be able to continue conservation efforts to some degree in my position. I left a place that I absolutely adore which wasn't easy. I'll be stepping up to run my own department with this job though so that's exciting/terrifying. Hopefully I'll have the time to continue freelance work on the side.

 

Has anyone here been to cosmetology school? I'm considering it but I don't really know what to look for in a school