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Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-31T05:21:12-04:00

just got off my first night back working at an upscale gastropub/wine bar in downtown Stl. worked there for abt 8 months before I left for school and now I'm back since i'm here for winter break. its run by cool people, staffed w cool people, serves cool people - good gig. i just wash dishes/bus tables/do whatever the servers and bartender don't want to do but still make good money. being back made me realize how much i actually miss it and dread getting a shitty campus job. didnt really miss getting out of work at 3am after a 10-hour work day though.

Statistics: Posted by harmsalmon — Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:21 am

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-31T00:50:41-04:00

I work in a Mexican restaurant, been doing it Since I was ten. What I really hope to do is go to college and become a teacher. I'm so passionate about education and helping others out. I used to be a fuck-up, big time. Bad grades, shit attitude and was in a bad place. But I got out of it thanks to my teachers. And I hope if I can even help one kid that was like that, it'd be worth all the struggle. Plus, I want to teach!! I want to know and love my job, and help the next generation.

Statistics: Posted by mahi-mahi — Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:50 am

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-31T00:26:39-04:00

Been a while since I first posted in this thread, figured I'd update with my life.

Had a few different jobs throughout school including Jimmy John's bike courier, glorified office assistant, glorified code monkey, and /legit/ bike courier working for a local courier company in mpls.

since graduating in may i picked up an internship as a front-end developer at a local design firm and interned there for about 3 months before being brought on as a contractor of sorts. It's a really weird job position and i'm not too happy with how they've handled my employment. but i've heard from a reliable source that the rumor is my company will be out of business pretty soon, so i'm dusting off the resume and talking to some other firms in the area.

in terms of actual work, i enjoy being a front end dev, especially with a design school background. i get to interact with the designers and take their visions and translate it into something that actually works and functions. it's hard and i struggle a lot with self doubt because i have no formal teaching in programming, it's all stuff i've taught myself and continue to teach myself. so i struggle a lot with imposter syndrome and feel like i don't know enough to actually get paid any money, and as a result i'm woefully underpaid currently.

yeah.

Statistics: Posted by silvaeri — Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:26 am

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-30T22:17:47-04:00

I am the Jack-of-all-trades at Target. Cashier,Guest Services, Food Avenue, Starbucks, Cart Attendant and occasional GSA (front end manager). I have only a few bills which are once a month so most of my income is for fun :-)

I plan on moving up, but it will take some time. If not, i can always move to another area/store to concentrate more on retail

Statistics: Posted by meatjacket — Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:17 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-30T17:04:35-04:00

I work in "Asset Management" in logistics for a medical device company. The company is on the cutting edge of technology and has an extremely unique business model that involves the distribution of equipment that costs thousands of dollars to customers and patients. Due to warranties, these must be replaced ASAP after failure. I am responsible for making sure the equipment is accurately tracked across the entire network as well as creating and bolstering existing processes for the returns team. I work a bit with IT to fine tune systems to help these processes. I also do a bit of analytics, and am currently involved in the planning of the rollout of a massive service advisory.

Unfortunately, the job mostly involves me just answering emails and doing banal stuff in Excel. It is extremely soul sucking and doesn't pay particularly well. I'm feeling a bit stuck and unmotivated. I know I should be better than this but it can be hard to put in the effort to show that I am when I find it hard to care. Fortunately I do get showered with a fair bit of praise from my superiors because I guess nobody else who took this job prior to me was able to figure it out, let alone make so many improvements. At the same time...I find myself slacking off due to being so tired all of the time and on other days finding it so hard to get out of bed due to SAD now that the cold started, that I just work from home a ton, which I worry is frowned upon.

I plan on applying to teach English in Japan soon so I could start when my lease is up in August. My life is too boring and I haven't really had any of the interesting experiences that I was hoping I would have by this age. I feel like some extreme culture shock could give me a motivational thrill.

Plus, it is a completely new environment in which I can work on my photography. I plan on applying to grad school for photography while I am there so I can start that when I come back. Don't let people influence you to take the "safe choice" when it doesn't align with your life goals. Sure, going to school for business was "safer" than going to art school like I wanted to, but now I basically have to restructure my entire life as I'm in a worse place than I was a few years ago due to the choices I've made. No regrets though, I made some excellent friends in college, found a place I'd like to settle in future years thanks to it, and started to take my photography more seriously as it became a true creative outlet for me and not just a hobby to pass the time. Who knows what I will do for a living if I do go the photography route, but I think that doing something I love will give me the motivation to at least explore more options instead of just wanting to get the hell out.

Statistics: Posted by zayg — Wed Dec 30, 2015 5:04 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-29T20:32:45-04:00

I worked in restaurants through high school and during my undergraduate degree. Odd jobbed at a slaughterhouse and as a lab tech. Currently doing a masters so I get paid to teach a lab and mark undergraduates.

It also helps that I was a thrifty little saver up until I discovered buying clothes as a hobby.

Statistics: Posted by thecanadiancook — Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:32 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-29T15:07:08-04:00

I'm a Product Manager at a very small software company in Boston. It's a really nebulous job title that can span a lot of different things depending on the company. My day to day work consists mostly of managing our engineering team, deciding with our CEO and sales team how we prioritize what to make next, and doing all of our visual and UX design.

Statistics: Posted by CMYK — Tue Dec 29, 2015 3:07 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2015-12-29T08:31:43-04:00

Thanks for digging this up ! Really interesting stuff.

I'm studying electrical engineering in university right now (perpetuating the german stereotype). Not 100% sure if engineering is the right way to go for me but I'm going to try and give my best and see if it works out. Additionally I work 10 hours a week in the shipping department of a small local business working in manufacturing mechanical components. It's very physically demanding but keeps me in shape, which is good thing. I basically climb ladders and carry heavy boxes all day, but my colleagues are great people and a lof of fun to work with. Also the hours are very flexible and I'm paid well enough, the fact that I can basically come and leave whenever I want is a huge bonus.

I used to work in retail in a grocery/department store but social anxiety made it hell for me... glad to be back in the shipping department where the work itself is harder, but less mentally stressful.

Considering I live with my parents and don't have much else to pay except gas, it's a pretty good deal since most of my income is disposable and can be used for whatever I want.

Statistics: Posted by evilfriends — Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:31 am

Re: How do you make your living?

2018-03-10T11:15:17-04:00

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Dec 28, 2015 10:23 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2014-09-19T13:25:32-04:00

Student grants and occasionally working as a runner in a 'hip' luxury fast food restaurant. It barely pays enough to make it worth while considering I really should be studying instead.

Statistics: Posted by Indieguy — Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:25 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2014-09-19T13:23:10-04:00

Have you considered opening up a MTO leather jacket business.

Statistics: Posted by bels — Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:23 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2014-09-19T13:15:09-04:00

I spent a few years working in banking and hated my life, left that for another offer and worked for a consulting company within the lumber/forestry industry that paid a very very nice salary but required living in the middle of nowhere. Decided I wanted to go back to school, the original plan was to get a degree in Poli Sci (which I enjoy very much) and then goto Law School somewhere else but I am in my last semester of undergrad and really miss making money. I work part time (20-30 hours a week) at a locally owned clothing store, they don't sell anything I'm too hyped on (Wings + Horns is probably our ' best ' brand) but the people are mostly awesome and on weeks when I hit my sales goals I can make pretty good hourly wage with commission bonus, it's not uncommon to get between $20-$25/hr and at Christmas time, etc. even between $30-$40.

My GF lives in Korea where I used to live and I really miss it there, I want to go back but the only way I can is really to be an English teacher, which kinda bums me out cause I could make twice that salary even working for my family here. It's also not a very ''respected'' job there, which I'm sure can attest to. Still it gets me there and I have a couple business idea's I kindof want to try in Korea and the teaching job would give me a fairly comfortable living salary with enough free time to pursue other ventures. Maybe this isn't the right thread for this but I'm fairly open to opinions on this situation.

Statistics: Posted by JtotheWhat — Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:15 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2014-09-19T12:53:03-04:00

I'm a busser and soon to be runner @ Tavern on the Green. First job, pretty much only got in cause of my inside connect who's big fish there or something. I work with so many great people (many of whom think i'm gay as i recently discovered) and I always get complimented by the managers/servers on how good of a job i'm doing :') + the customers are always happy & cool

god bless america

Statistics: Posted by Bryan — Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:53 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2014-09-19T12:25:24-04:00

I'm accepting a position as general manager at a relatively new restaurant in the coming week. it's a really good fit, the owner is a really amazing guy, the chef and sous are both super passionate and I've been able to be completely transparent about my anxieties regarding the position throughout the whole process since this will involve a serious amount of learning for me.

glad to be leaving my current job where I report to a large and corporate hospitality group full of shareholders, pr groups, marketing teams etc. I started off in the industry working for a small family business who took excellent care of its employees before focusing on the bottom line, and in many ways this feels like a return to that.

I'm also going to be running my own beer program which is so so exciting!! they only have five lines but the current program is atrocious and the chef is looking to bring in more local craft beer, and I happen to be extremely well connected with NYC metro area breweries and suppliers. it's a major cherry on top.

Statistics: Posted by can- — Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:25 pm

Re: How do you make your living?

2014-06-20T11:20:05-04:00

I make forum signatures for millionaires and earn about 100k a year from it

Statistics: Posted by oucho — Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:20 am