for a living?
i work for a tour company here in berlin. i haven't actually started touring yet though so i'm doing promo stuff at the moment. should be starting the tours after christmas. i will be doing a 4 hour walking tour around the city. it's really fun and not at all boring despite the length. there's just so much to see here!
anyway i just thought this might make a (semi-)interesting thread. and yes being a student does count :P
im in 6th form
but also work in urban outfitters on the weekend.
its a hard life...
ditto
...except how I work at a vet's at the weekend, which is ever so slightly less glamourous. urban outfitters = awesome.
library assistant
working in a public library for a whole eleven and half grand a year.
Student
living off my student allowance :D
hairstylist
and call-centre worker
and very occassional petsitter
Film production
student.
I'm studying art
But I work at Paperchase as well.
play cards
Office
Monkey
WAIT STOP
you gamble for a livign???
yes
im not a reckless degenerate or anything though. I just play poker as my job.
i plan to be a
poolshark one day!
theyre a dying breed
ya but
aren't we all
online?
if so, which poker sites are the best?
Clinical Nurse Specialist
for elderly mental health
I work in a bookshop full time
it's ok the pay isn't we have a paperchase within the store ^^^^^5
Journalism Student
currently on work placement
.....
I listen to retards from Westminster complaining about their parking tickets
Mooch off my dad/work part time in a supermarket
but i'm only 16, so not much else would be expected i suppose.
It's gonna be off to uni soon, then a "proper" part time job.
oh ya, i mooch too
but off my husband.
Politics + International Relations
student. Many folk here are students I believe.
I'M AN OFFICE WORKER!
I'M A STUDENT!
YOU HAVE SOLD OUT TO THE CAPITALIST PIGS OLD MAN. I'VE STILL GOT MY PRINCIPLES DUDE.
I'm
a Problem Management Analyst. I would explain what that is but it'd really not that exciting! Oh and I work for Avon!
wow! an Avon salesperson
right here on DiSSSSS!!!!!!!1
God no
I work for them as in a proper job!!!! I don't sell that shite!!!! lol
haha :)
Marry me
I work at Starbucks
as a barista.
yay, I can join in the work threads now! (first official day of work today, I'm in pain!)
...
I work for an NGO and freelance writer.
...
I'm a news journalist. Yawn.
...
Freelance?
Ditto
Not yawn though, it's cool.
you are so optimistic and continental
i am a 6th form student.
i used to work at woolworths.
until i decided i didnt like money.
i'm unemployed at the minute but my last job was selling steroids & supplements
but the bastards sacked me.
i generally do monotenous admin jobs for £7 an hour, but if i didn't i'd probably be doing monotenous non-admin jobs for £7 an hour.
i'm
a student, and I work a bit during the holidays doing office temp jobs (this is where the next two weeks of my life is going, starting tomorrow. I hope they give me internet access.)
Student / Millets monkey.
Dream job? Writer.
Unemployed
Out of work sound engineer. Used to work in a deli style shop for minimmum wage. and before that, a cinema. for minimum wage. Life is not so good.
SAE? :P
?
Writer
Dream job? Actual monkey. Gibbon probably.
Pizza Hut.
I've had 2 weekends, but due to slow bankage, I'm not getting paid till next week at the earliest. So technically I haven't made a living yet.
Also an upper 6th form student.
english student
and i work in a small fruit and veg shop for extra money. i'm still poor though. my wage is ridiculous.
jobs
music promoter/dj/art pr/slashie - need assistants for promoting anyone want some work experience as a co promoter /press assistant- motor mouth/ booker?
I work in a call centre
do you get phone calls from a half asleep scotch girl asking you if you want plumbing and drainage cover? THAT WAS ME! I do it fove, sometimes six nights a week after college and i want to die.
five*
i
im an IT dogsbody for the NHS.. although i feel more like a courier at times
i applied for IT dogsbody jobs
but I wasn't eighteen enough for them. BASTARDS!
student
doing an MA in Librarianship and working part-time at the uni library. Fun times. Trying to write an essay on censorship and its just. not. happening.
I'm currently a 'commercial team support officer' (boring job)
But come the new year I shall be an 'assistant acoustics consultant' (interesting job).
Professional gambler
It pays surprisingly well
Student
But I work in my Union's Shop. Fun.
I worked in Subway last year. That was worse. I worked in a hotel as a waiter this summer and in a warehouse the summer before last, packing bank statements for Halifax customers.
ugh
i'm a sales assistant at hmv and a waitress at a restaurant.
gonna get some boring full time office monkey job in the new year. or maybe a boring full time retail slave job. only til september though, only til september...
haha ailsa!
hey! 'tis emma. we have met on various occasions including connect. i saw your post and though 'i'm sure i know someone called ailsa who works in hmv!'
so hey!
hello yoou
it's been aaaaages!
I think I saw you
one time when I went into hmv, do you work in the one in St. James Centre?
yes i do!
ohhhhh that's freaky, edinburgh is so tiny!
Until friday,
I work in a scientific library in a big institution with dinosaurs and that. After Friday, I am sans job.
did you quit?
Yes! The pay is good
but everything else is a bit shit. I need some new employment, please.
I work in Design review for a construction company
we basically look at Architectural drawings and check the buildability, flag up any issues that we spot.
I work in media monitoring
on NIGHT SHIFTS.
I believe colonol_k and sam_power do the same thing but in DIFFERENT COMPANIES and NOT ON NIGHT SHIFTS.
student/book shop
Unemployed for the past two weeks......
but still getting paid for now, I'm doing some temping for while in my previous job, but, for way more money!
Various applications for permanent jobs are pending at present, but, for the moment I'm taking it easy.
are you
going to go ahead and try for the snowboarding dream job?
i am a library and information assistant.
and an award winning one at that. GET ME.
there seems to be a disproportionate number of people doing library jobs on here.
I work here.
Hello.
working in a cinema and a sandwich shop/deli
and as a freelance journalist, and also in the process of reapplying for uni next year after starting and subsequently quitting a shit course this year.
i work
at a drainage company but on an interesting department. i've been tempting for 2 months and will be until February when i travel to the US > Australia > Hong Kong and then home in June when i shall then attend about 4 festivals in the summer before going to uni in September somewhere up North.
thats cos
library workers are ACE :D
this is true
I considered being a librarian for ages, applied for 10,000,000 traineeships, didn't get any of them, wrote an angry poem about not getting any of them, and am now in a job I think I prefer.
I work in Zavvi for the next three weeks.
I will then need a job or some source of income for 3 weeks.
Then I have no idea.
i stude
right now i desperately need a job. would anyone in manchester like to make me do demeaning things for money? i have no standards.
DJ
At Club Nights/do promotional footwork (e.g - postering/flyering any shops that'll take stuff) for a Leeds Venue.
American Studies student
But prior to that I worked for Royal Mail in Derby sorting office...oh what fun that was.
Unix computer operator
for a Geophysical Exploration company.
I'm at work now, until 8am. rm -f mylife
ls -l
drwx-------+ the_man the_man 666
that was better in my head
I work for...
a charity that improves disabled access to live music.
www.attitudeiseverything.org.uk
i really do actually love being an office monkey.
^^^^^ props to you for doing that job
I work for a charity
which stop disabled people from having access to live music
we basically run about concreting large sticks into ramps and the like
actually, I put on bands and play records and am about to start working in a rehearsal studio.
usually a barista
Currently unemployed. I applied for a job at this awful tourist trap today and I'm half hoping I don't get it. If I do get it I have to take it.
Journalism Student
It's pretty much soul destroying.
Biomedical Scientist
wooo
Teaching Assistant
Biomedical scientists UNITE!
I could have been
a biomedical scientist, but I got bored of being in my lab for all hours ever in the world. Now I work for a production company that makes sciency/factualy shows
i am also
someone who works in a library.
Project manager
at a media monitoring company. Today I will be mostly reading a stack of newspapers and cutting bits out of them.
i work full time in a dull office job
that pays me a silly wage for what i do, and i work part time (at the moment) for an indepedent record label. i'm hoping to swap the two around within the next two years or so...
Solicitor
I make music videos
Anybody in a good band and need a video?
me!
www.myspace.com/inku
except its just me, so you'd have to record me playing each instument and wack the footage into one many meee live action shot.
Edit stuff.
^this
I edit science
I'm a database developer
It's really more interesting than it sounds...I guess.
If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
...
I make