How do you make your living ?

Spoiler - 4-15-2006 at 02:57 PM

just wondering what everone does for a living.

I'm a warehouse supervisor at one of the largest Tire & Wheel distributors in the US.
AMERICAN TIRE DISTRIBUTORS

serenity - 4-15-2006 at 03:25 PM

i work at swedish match, distributing cigarettes and tobacco

Lucabrasi - 4-15-2006 at 03:27 PM

i work mantainance at my towns JC Penneys. Im also a contract artist for a local t-shirt company called Live Life Like a Dog and i have my own design business.

XHonusWagnerX - 4-15-2006 at 03:58 PM

I am in the 'United Auto Workers' union and I work in the shop at Masoneilan. Its a huge company that makes valves for pipelines, refineries, nasa, gas stations etc. I sit at a computer, do some paperwork, put workorder packages together, staple a bunch of stuff and I run a small engraving machine to engrage the serial numbers and other information for each valve onto small metal tags that they pin or tie to each valve before its shipped.

Kid Ugly - 4-15-2006 at 04:15 PM

I work at a sign shop. We do all kinds of shit...aluminum street signs, window lettering, vehicle/truck lettering, business signs, real estate signs...you name it we make it (unless it's neon or wood-carved). The last biggest sign we made was on 20'w x 5'h lexan (which is basically indestructible plexiglas) for a light-box. We also do all kinds of banners and shit like that.

www.signsbytomorrw.com/paramus
If you go to the management section, I'm the last picture, where I look fruity as hell, haha.

JawnDiablo - 4-15-2006 at 05:23 PM

I am a Material Inspector for a company caled Clinical Trial Services. What we do is package , store and distribute pharmaceuticals for use inclinical trials for nearly every major pharmaceutical company like Pfizer, Merck GSK and what not.. My job is to inspect the material when it arrives, be it raw material or pre packaged to make sure it is all doccumented correctly, correct strength, dosage and so on. And no I cannont steal any of yous any Oxycontin, although we have tons of it.

DAK - 4-15-2006 at 05:44 PM

I do receiving, purchasing, and inventory control for a manufacturing company.

Discipline - 4-15-2006 at 07:04 PM

I get paid by Workers Comp and they pay for me to go to college.

forsaken - 4-15-2006 at 08:39 PM

I work as support staff in the Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences at Swinburne University ... basically I do things that teachers and students dont have time to do.

http://www.swin.edu.au/feis/

GOLD GRILL - 4-15-2006 at 09:41 PM

I am a field technician with Offshore Joint Serivices. I work on pipe lay barges applying Hight Density Polyurethane Foam around the weld. I protects the weld as it goes off of the back end of the barge and into the water. We set up and maintain an injection system for two chemicals that combine to make the foam. We train laborers to do the job and then we supervise. We are also responsible for all correspondense between our company, the client, and the contractor (dpr's, incident reports, time sheets, etc.). We are underpaid as fuck!

RomanticViolence - 4-15-2006 at 10:28 PM

I run the office for my boyfriend?s fathers company. They do carpentry, painting & remodeling. Whenever I get a chance to leave the office I go and work on the jobsites. I?m learning to be a carpenter.

Lucabrasi - 4-15-2006 at 10:35 PM

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Originally posted by Kid Ugly
I work at a sign shop. We do all kinds of shit...aluminum street signs, window lettering, vehicle/truck lettering, business signs, real estate signs...you name it we make it (unless it's neon or wood-carved). The last biggest sign we made was on 20'w x 5'h lexan (which is basically indestructible plexiglas) for a light-box. We also do all kinds of banners and shit like that.

www.signsbytomorrw.com/paramus
If you go to the management section, I'm the last picture, where I look fruity as hell, haha.

cool, im actually going into a local sign shop in acouple weeks in hopes i can get a job designing the signs.

DaveMoral - 4-15-2006 at 11:19 PM

I'm a wallpaper hanger. Self-employed subcontractor. Fairly stress free, until tax time... then it hits you in the face so hard that you're getting fucked by the government and penalized for being an entrepenuer(I can't spell).

SHAKO KEN - 4-16-2006 at 05:37 AM

i study medicine and biomedical sciences and probably want to do medical research in the future. i inherited some money that's enough to live off for the next couple of years until i finish my studies.

beaner - 4-16-2006 at 07:04 AM

Fuck all.....i do nothing.

beaner - 4-16-2006 at 07:09 AM

.......but only cuz im on state benefits cuz im ill. had surgury last sep and im still not right yet. used to be a driver delivering shit and used to drive for local governmet. bored as hell being home all the time

Kid Ugly - 4-16-2006 at 10:05 AM

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Originally posted by Lucabrasi

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cool, im actually going into a local sign shop in acouple weeks in hopes i can get a job designing the signs.

What design programs do you know?

Lucabrasi - 4-16-2006 at 10:41 AM

photoshop cs and illustrator cs2

Jason the Magnificent - 4-16-2006 at 11:00 AM

I'm a union sheet metal worker...but about 8 years ago my hand got jacked up in a machine so they retrained me in the office. I do shop drawings on autocad of hvac ventilation and piping systems. I basically take the engineers cartoons and coordinate them with other trades to make installation drawings. Work mostly on hospitals it seems, but have done airports, theatres, schools, ice rinks and high rises.

BDx13 - 4-16-2006 at 11:14 AM

i do contract design and programming.

jason, i'm curious... which pays better, the actual metal work, or the autocad position?

Jason the Magnificent - 4-16-2006 at 12:42 PM

In Chicago sheet metal draftsmen have to be members of the union so I'm still getting scale. No other trade in the area has union draftsmen.

upyerbum - 4-16-2006 at 03:09 PM

I too am a draughtsman. Mainly industrial piping, some HVAC. Right now we're laying a pipeline in New Brunswick. We also do a lot of work in the pulp mills around the Maritimes down into Maine and New Hampshire.

newbreedbrian - 4-16-2006 at 10:07 PM

im a cook. glamourous..

Dave - 4-17-2006 at 07:44 AM

I work with Brian.

under paid for the time i've worked there, it sux.
i can't wait until i find another job, oh yeah and our boss is a douche bag.

oh i'm also hoping to go back to school in the fall, if i get in, so i finally leave that hole.

sippers - 4-17-2006 at 06:02 PM

cable tv service tech for the last 5 yrs..about to go work in the oil industry again as a hydr test techinicain for subsea control systems.had 9 yrs exp w/that got laid off got the cable gig.

defstarsteve - 4-17-2006 at 06:08 PM

I make merch for touring bands, record labels, and skate companies
after all is said and done I make less then minimum wage and work way too much....
but you all know me and what I do,

XHonusWagnerX - 4-17-2006 at 06:58 PM

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
I make merch for touring bands, record labels, and skate companies
after all is said and done I make less then minimum wage and work way too much....
but you all know me and what I do,

I was thinking about what each of us make money wise. I didnt know if it was a personal question to ask or not. I am amazed and saddened to hear that you make that little money doing the amazing work you do!

defstarsteve - 4-17-2006 at 07:21 PM

meh it's no big deal
I do so much behind the scenes stuff that is just what it breaks down to
late nights doing art and web stuff

my bills are paid my family is fed
so what if I haven't touched my music in almost 2 years and never have time to skate

if we keep going at the rate we are we'll have an auto by the end of the year and my time printing will be cut to less then a quater of what it is now

I spent 5 hours printing on saturday
4 colors on 140 shirts
a little fewer then 30 shirts an hour
on an auto the same job would have taken about 30 minutes running slow....

anyone want to become a silent partner and invest soI can buy an auto and have a life

DaveMoral - 4-17-2006 at 09:04 PM

Tempting, for sure Steve...

XHonusWagnerX - 4-17-2006 at 09:23 PM

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
meh it's no big deal
I do so much behind the scenes stuff that is just what it breaks down to
late nights doing art and web stuff

my bills are paid my family is fed
so what if I haven't touched my music in almost 2 years and never have time to skate

if we keep going at the rate we are we'll have an auto by the end of the year and my time printing will be cut to less then a quater of what it is now

I spent 5 hours printing on saturday
4 colors on 140 shirts
a little fewer then 30 shirts an hour
on an auto the same job would have taken about 30 minutes running slow....

anyone want to become a silent partner and invest soI can buy an auto and have a life

Check your U2U messages Steve