almost everyone i know, whatever it is that they do for a living, they aren't entirely happy doing it. i love my job and couldn't be more content. i actually look forward to going in and will make up excuses to stay late. it seems like most other people can't wait to get off the clock and go home.

anyways, sorry for those of you that have crap jobs. but is there anyone else who looks forward to going to work?

what do you do

i'm the customer service manager for a nancy's pizzeria. basically i get paid to kiss lots of ass and to make sure that everyone is happy. i do some p.r. stuff, i design ads/coupons and i'm basically the owner's voice of reason and right hand (wo)man. i work about 50/60 hours a week but it's really not tiresome work at all.

i love your job

i know right.

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my guy really, really hates what he does. i feel so bad when he has to leave for work cause he has the saddest expression on his face. :(

Most of the time, I really like what I do. Sometimes I hate it, but it's those few customers that do that to my day.

i absolutely love my job, though i work a pretty shite schedule. thursday-monday, 3-11. the only redeeming quality about that schedule is that i have the weekend (nil to few employees bumming around) smack in the middle.

pros of job:
- 8 hrs of a low-stress job
- the pay is great
- cable t.v.
- not easy to get fired
- experience working here would greatly help me out should i ever leave/quit (first aid, longest i've ever held a job, armed to the teeth, the clearance i have)
- a block away from where i live
- most everyone in the security office is awesome to be around/work with, we have a great rapport with each other
- free food/snacks every once in a while

cons:
- pigeonholed myself when i first started working here because i thought it was going to be just another job, so that coveted morning shift i want won't happen until i'm 35

- office politics with the rest of the employees (justifying our job, ect)

Most of the time, I really like what I do. Sometimes I hate it, but it's those few customers that do that to my day.


you work for starbucks right? how long have you been there?

and any time i feel like a customer's shitty attitude may be affecting my own - i look at it this way - if they're getting so fucking bent about a pizza - they must have other issues and i don't let those issues become my issues.

i love my job, and that makes it shitty sometimes since my place of employment is fully in the hands of incompetent leadership seemingly bent on unknowingly driving it into the ground.

I usually don't mind my job.

mariner and the juerto - what do you guys do?

I hate my job, but that will change come January when I quit... and then I can hate that job :)

you'll laugh at me, but i love my job of working for life drawing classes. Not that i desire to have people watch me naked, but the students are cool to talk to, i've met a lot of artistic types through galleries, other photographers and such (that will hopefully help me out in another career in a few years) plus the pay is fairly good. The hours are extremally flexible (i choose when i want to work, where i want to work), i get my schedule months in advance, i do get benefits from my school i work at, other places i get paid under the table- and often for longer poses (3 hours) i lie there and sleep or read and get paid for it. Sometimes i'm not needed and i still get paid for the time scheduled. The only downside is its mind numbing- when i start doing this full time next year, i don't know how i'm going to deal with staring at a blank wall all day- 3 hours a day seems to be a lot as is. Oh yeah, and whole summers off. Also i've seen very nice paintings and drawings of myself- I have a bunch of neat cartoon pictures of myself from several Disney animators.

yeah mine can be pretty good most of the time. i guess the worst thing about it is the pay, but its retail, so i live with it

you'll laugh at me, but i love my job of working for life drawing classes. Not that i desire to have people watch me naked, but the students are cool to talk to, i've met a lot of artistic types through galleries, other photographers and such (that will hopefully help me out in another career in a few years) plus the pay is fairly good. The hours are extremally flexible (i choose when i want to work, where i want to work), i get my schedule months in advance, i do get benefits from my school i work at, other places i get paid under the table- and often for longer poses (3 hours) i lie there and sleep or read and get paid for it. Sometimes i'm not needed and i still get paid for the time scheduled. The only downside is its mind numbing- when i start doing this full time next year, i don't know how i'm going to deal with staring at a blank wall all day- 3 hours a day seems to be a lot as is. Oh yeah, and whole summers off. Also i've seen very nice paintings and drawings of myself- I have a bunch of neat cartoon pictures of myself from several Disney animators.
ok, post is nothing without pictures.

you'll laugh at me, but i love my job of working for life drawing classes. Not that i desire to have people watch me naked, but the students are cool to talk to, i've met a lot of artistic types through galleries, other photographers and such (that will hopefully help me out in another career in a few years) plus the pay is fairly good. The hours are extremally flexible (i choose when i want to work, where i want to work), i get my schedule months in advance, i do get benefits from my school i work at, other places i get paid under the table- and often for longer poses (3 hours) i lie there and sleep or read and get paid for it. Sometimes i'm not needed and i still get paid for the time scheduled. The only downside is its mind numbing- when i start doing this full time next year, i don't know how i'm going to deal with staring at a blank wall all day- 3 hours a day seems to be a lot as is. Oh yeah, and whole summers off. Also i've seen very nice paintings and drawings of myself- I have a bunch of neat cartoon pictures of myself from several Disney animators.

that sounds like a pretty awesome thing you have going with the modeling. was it easy for you to disrobe in front of a class for the first time? i don't think i know many women that would be comfortable enough to do it. i think it's really cool that it works out so well for you. it seems like something that would take some guts.

you'll laugh at me, but i love my job of working for life drawing classes. Not that i desire to have people watch me naked, but the students are cool to talk to, i've met a lot of artistic types through galleries, other photographers and such (that will hopefully help me out in another career in a few years) plus the pay is fairly good. The hours are extremally flexible (i choose when i want to work, where i want to work), i get my schedule months in advance, i do get benefits from my school i work at, other places i get paid under the table- and often for longer poses (3 hours) i lie there and sleep or read and get paid for it. Sometimes i'm not needed and i still get paid for the time scheduled. The only downside is its mind numbing- when i start doing this full time next year, i don't know how i'm going to deal with staring at a blank wall all day- 3 hours a day seems to be a lot as is. Oh yeah, and whole summers off. Also i've seen very nice paintings and drawings of myself- I have a bunch of neat cartoon pictures of myself from several Disney animators.

wow, I never in a million years would have guessed you were a nude model

k, thread just went awesome

that sounds like a pretty awesome thing you have going with the modeling. was it easy for you to disrobe in front of a class for the first time? i don't think i know many women that would be comfortable enough to do it. i think it's really cool that it works out so well for you. it seems like something that would take some guts.

no, i have never found it embarassing, though i have body issues like anyone else. I didn't find it difficult working my first class, because i worked for a small gallery where it was just 5-6 adults drawing- they were very casual, they would talk (even to me) all the way through and listen to music. All 4 of my previous roommates have drawn me and no one gave a shit. I've been life drawing for about 5 years now, so i'm really used to doing it as the person doing the artwork- i know that people worry about how their work is going, plus everyone that goes to these classes draws naked people every single day so the novelty wears off very fast. I run about 3/4 of the classes (open drawing, unsupervised) so if somthing was to bother me, i could kick them out (its never happened).

Its hard to explain, but it feels very normal and i don't feel like anyone is judging me (ie think i look gross). I imagine its how medical people view anatomy. A lot of life drawing models are freaking weird though- often people who could never hold down a 'real' job (ie a lot of them have mood swings, bad temperments and are really socially awkward). About 1/4 of my sessions are last minute because a lot of them just don't show up and i have to fill in.

oh yeah, i did some body casting once. I don't recommend it if you are the least bit claustrophobic.

mariner and the juerto - what do you guys do?

I'm a paramedic.

man, i really have a lifetime of hating my job in front of me:/

I'm a paramedic.


awesome. one of my older brothers started off as a paramedic and now he's the local fire chief.

is it stressful? (i guess i have the movie 'Bringing Out the Dead' in my mind.

hey alisonmonster are the cartoon pictures that you have of yourself nudes or what? i'm thinking that if not that they would be cool to see if you're able to share them.

is it stressful? (i guess i have the movie 'Bringing Out the Dead' in my mind.

It can be at times if you are running something challenging and it does tend to burn people out.

As for the "Bringing Out the Dead" thing, it isn't quite that bad. The only strange thing about it is the desensitivity you get towards death and violence. I ran a shooting to the head this last weekend and the only thing I could think about while waiting for the coroner was that my dinner was sitting back at the station and how much I wanted to eat it.

awesome. one of my older brothers started off as a paramedic and now he's the local fire chief.

I bet he is making a pretty good living...chiefs are usually pretty well paid (for civil servants anyway).

man, i really have a lifetime of hating my job in front of me:/

don't despair mistle. the beauty of life is that you don't have to settle. seriously.




god i'm tired. i should go to bed. :erm:

I love/hate my job.

I work for a company that supplies pictures -a picture library.

Sometimes we will deal with TV companies, warner music, vanity fair, The BBC etc.
Most of our imagery is related to military equipment & battles etc, so some days i have to spend researching some gruesome stuff. woo =(

I bet he is making a pretty good living...chiefs are usually pretty well paid (for civil servants anyway).


yeah. he leads a very comfortable life though the road getting there wasn't always easy.

Good to hear. I'm back in school myself. One of the major problems with being a medic is there is no opportunity for advancement. The higher up you get and then into management the further you get from the street which was the whole appeal to begin with.

hey alisonmonster are the cartoon pictures that you have of yourself nudes or what? i'm thinking that if not that they would be cool to see if you're able to share them.

i have a few that are nudes and a few that are portraits. Here's a quick one from my friend Peter, who worked in Florida for 12 years and now works on Disney books.

http://i11.tinypic.com/4iekqaf.jpg

^ Nice characature.

he's really talented and he can draw super fast and super accurately.He's one of those disney purists- he can't stand computer animation whatsoever.

so what are you aiming for juerto? what are you doing in school? my brother's education was pretty much continual for almost twenty years. he has a masters in criminology and in fire science. he was the city's arson investigator for about ten years before being promoted to chief. it seriously took so much work on his behalf and it really was a struggle...but he's always loved what he's been doing and he really is good at what he does. i just can't imagine going to school for almost twenty years.

that picture is neat. thanks for sharing it. :)

don't despair mistle. the beauty of life is that you don't have to settle. seriously.

life seems to be settling for me. but if i get out of this it's probably all the same. there's no way i'm getting an education so i'm probably just going to work a shitty job so i can play in a shitty band. then i imagine the others will grow up and get lives instead and i'll have grown complacent with the job and i will just live for the joys of being the perfect consumer drone for the entertainment industry

I'm taking a nursing bridge program which is a breeze. The goal is to get my RN degree and coupled with 5 years as a medic get on an aeroemedical unit as a flight medic/nurse.

As for the long term, I've considered working as a coroner when I'm done with the treatment side of it. I'd have to pad some qualifications by taking criminology classes which I would probably enjoy even on their own.

a coroner would be a great job choice i think. All the baby boomers will be dying soon, i bet there will be a bigger need than ever for those jobs.

The work is pretty interesting. We work hand in hand with them on all DOAs and they seem to dig it. At least half of them started out as medics and then branched off into it. My only fear that most poeple would assume you were fucked up or morbid if they found out what you do. :erm:

life seems to be settling for me. but if i get out of this it's probably all the same. there's no way i'm getting an education so i'm probably just going to work a shitty job so i can play in a shitty band. then i imagine the others will grow up and get lives instead and i'll have grown complacent with the job and i will just live for the joys of being the perfect consumer drone for the entertainment industry


that's a pretty bleak outlook. surely you most have interests or aspirations that don't revolve around you feeling sorry for yourself and watching life pass you by. what do you like to do besides make music? and for that matter - if making music is what you want to do - go to school for it. there are plenty of behind the scenes opportunities available for those in the know. a friend of mine just graduated from a pretty decent music engineering school and he's working in the industry right now making a pretty good living. and he didn't even start school until he was 23.

My only fear that most poeple would assume you were fucked up if they found out what you do.

hey, welcome to the club!

Hehe very true. I already get enough of that stuff. I was drunk at some house party a couple of weeks ago talking with some dude about being a medic and he was saying "so do you think about twisted bodies and shit while you're fucking your girlfriend" and all I could think to say was "well, do you think about pizzas while you are fucking yours?" (he managed a pizza joint).

a coroner would be a great job choice i think. All the baby boomers will be dying soon, i bet there will be a bigger need than ever for those jobs.


i agree with this. and i think the idea of doing aeromedical work is pretty great too. i have an ex who's father is a pilot for loyola hospital in chicago and his mother is a flight nurse. match made in heaven. :)

haha, thats awesome. Most people assume i'm either a nudist, a whore or an attention whore. My life would be more exciting if i were those, but i'm not.

i agree with this. and i think the idea of doing aeromedical work is pretty great too. i have an ex who's father is a pilot for loyola hospital in chicago and his mother is a flight nurse. match made in heaven. :)

wonder how many times they've had sex in a plane

i agree with this. and i think the idea of doing aeromedical work is pretty great too. i have an ex who's father is a pilot for loyola hospital in chicago and his mother is a flight nurse. match made in heaven. :)

Nice. In this area the flight crews are the top dogs. That is why I've been working hard taking outside classes, getting teaching certs and generally trying to build a rep as a solid medic.

it's a helicopter that he pilots. which makes imagining that scenario all the more entertaining i think.

wonder how many times they've had sex in a plane

I can safely say it wouldn't be possible on a cramped aeromed helicopter. However, if they are doing fixed wing (planes), autopilot would be their friend. :smoke:

that's a pretty bleak outlook. surely you most have interests or aspirations that don't revolve around you feeling sorry for yourself and watching life pass you by

i don't know. it's a new thing for me and maybe i've just grown apathetic, but lately i've been thinking maybe i just don't. i picture something nice like i have a girlfriend and i'm making music all the time and eeeverybody loves me, and i don't really care. it doesn't do anything for me anymore. maybe settling with whatever and getting over myself is the best thing to do

what do you like to do besides make music? and for that matter - if making music is what you want to do - go to school for it. there are plenty of behind the scenes opportunities available for those in the know. a friend of mine just graduated from a pretty decent music engineering school and he's working in the industry right now making a pretty good living. and he didn't even start school until he was 23.

that's what my mom is planning for me. if i don't come up with something myself she wants to send me to some school like that in january i think. i'll sooner kill myself of course. no way is that happening. but anyway i don't care about music like that. that's just a job like any other

i don't really want these conversations either. it's pretty boring

I love my job. I work doing webdesign for 3 newspapers, taking care of their sites as well as external customer sites and online advertising. I've done it for almost 2 years now and I am comfortable enough that I can do any job that comes in relatively quickly.

That gives me time for reading up on stuff, general surfing and listening to music. The IT guy has a 200gig odds mp3 server, and I've got an external HD in today to swap a bunch of .avi movies with him. The other people I work with are mostly cool as well.

I'm supposedly getting made a part of the editorial team soon and put in charge of our move over to this new newspaper website template, after which my job will involve more audio editing and some video editing and my title will apparently be 'digital producer'... which sounds pretty pimp. And hopefully a rise, cause my only problem with this job is that I would be on a much higher salary for what I do if I worked for another company.

I don't love my job, but I'm quite happy with it. Hours are flexible, colleagues are pretty rockin', pay is decent, benefits are AWESOME, stress is minimal, and I get to use some of those skills I went to university for.

This isn't stopping me from going back to school and getting another degree, of course.

no, definitely not.

it's not that bad that i dread going to work or anything, and it's only a 2 year contract (which will finish this summer), so i'll stick it through. but that's only because it pays ok, and i want to save money and go back to school so i can be a kindergaten/primary teacher.

no, i have never found it embarassing, though i have body issues like anyone else. I didn't find it difficult working my first class, because i worked for a small gallery where it was just 5-6 adults drawing- they were very casual, they would talk (even to me) all the way through and listen to music. All 4 of my previous roommates have drawn me and no one gave a shit. I've been life drawing for about 5 years now, so i'm really used to doing it as the person doing the artwork- i know that people worry about how their work is going, plus everyone that goes to these classes draws naked people every single day so the novelty wears off very fast. I run about 3/4 of the classes (open drawing, unsupervised) so if somthing was to bother me, i could kick them out (its never happened).

Its hard to explain, but it feels very normal and i don't feel like anyone is judging me (ie think i look gross). I imagine its how medical people view anatomy. A lot of life drawing models are freaking weird though- often people who could never hold down a 'real' job (ie a lot of them have mood swings, bad temperments and are really socially awkward). About 1/4 of my sessions are last minute because a lot of them just don't show up and i have to fill in.

oh yeah, i did some body casting once. I don't recommend it if you are the least bit claustrophobic.


this is really cool. my sister took life drawing classes for years, and i asked her about the nude models and all that, and once i went with her to the AGO to one of the classes, and it seemed to me to be a perfectly good and nice working environment for the models who were there.

if i had any self confidence about my body or anything, i think i'd like to try body casting.

if I consider teaching my job, I really like it.
Yesterday we had our last class, and most of my students came to me individually and shake my hand and said it was fun. It was a great feeling.

<font color="dab9ea">My job has been awesome. We don't really do much, it's just like you're hanging out with friends. Everyone I work with is awesome.

It's going to suck when they lay us all off in March. </font>

ive liked one job

he's really talented and he can draw super fast and super accurately.He's one of those disney purists- he can't stand computer animation whatsoever.



mister dinosaur is in denial !!!

I don't love my job but I do love certain things about my job. I love the fact I get to wear scrubs and don't have to worry about what I'm wearing to work and being on my feet all day instead of chained to a desk. I also love that I do not have to leave to go buy lunch and that it is easy to get to without a car. Other than that, I tend to sway between apathy and complete boredom when it comes to work.

mariner and the juerto - what do you guys do?


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he's an OB-GYN Kenobi

Oh, and I'm really liking the fact that my company is paying for some of my classes next semester. I wrote them a proposal to explain why those classes would be beneficial to my status in the company, and they agreed to pay half of the cost upfront, and the rest after the class is over, as long as I get a B or higher.

And the fact that my boss makes me a cup of coffee on days when I work the morning shift instead of my usual later shift is already pretty sweet. He does that for all of the coffee drinkers (otherwise I'd be suspicious).

i love my job, and that makes it shitty sometimes since my place of employment is fully in the hands of incompetent leadership seemingly bent on unknowingly driving it into the ground.
you feel about your job like i feel about my country

i love my job, and that makes it shitty sometimes since my place of employment is fully in the hands of incompetent leadership seemingly bent on unknowingly driving it into the ground.

incompetent leadership is what made me leave a job i loved. more often than not management got in the way of us accomplishing anything meaningful. assholes!

do you miss it?

i work for myself but to say i really love it would be a stretch. i enjoy it a lot. I think at one point i really loved it and found myself working pretty hard to do as much of it as possible. and it wouldn't be for the money, it would be for the joy of working with new people and figuring out how to fix problems that seem pretty bad on the surface.

i have things going on in my life now though that are currently much more important to me and that i care about more than my job. And I am thankful for them.

hey mister kiss, are you talking about fantasy football?

Holly, I'm hungry. Send me pizza!