How do you make a living?

[Bette_coquette]

I'm curious what others do to earn a living. If you happen to stay at home, well, that's a living, too!

I work in the electronics field. I fix stuff. I don't like it, but the pay is pretty good, the benefits better, and the hours are great.

 

[Mads]

I work security and door supervising.
Long hours, poor pay, but it keeps a roof over us.
And I get to muck about online during the nightshifts.

 

[Soumis]

RN - labor and delivery at the moment

 

[FloggingMolly]

part-time sales assistant in a fashion store

 

[FungiUg]

I work with large database systems, in particular business intelligence (datawarehouses, etc).

 

[CurlyKat]

Past Life 1: newspaper editor
Past Life 2: neuropsychological assessment administrator
Current Life: dog washer and soon to be grad student
Future Life: combine 1 and 2

 

[graceanne]

I'm a stay at home mom. Although I don't know who decided to call us that, cause I'm actually a stay-in-the-car mom.

 

[tenchikoi]

If I told you....you really wouldn't believe me.

 

[FloggingMolly]

If I told you....you really wouldn't believe me.

zombie-pirate-sasquatch-ninja?

 

[ImOnIt]

zombie-pirate-sasquatch-ninja?

Those sasquatches are born right into the job, and two of the three others require a lifetime of training <.<

 

[CutieMouse]

I pimp silk and lace.

 

[ecstaticsub]

Clinical pharmacist. I love my job, though after all these years i'm getting tired of having to work my share of weekends and holidays. Plus the profession has changed dramatically since I finished my residency.

 

[BiBunny]

Freelance writer and phone sex operator. Not the most noble of professions, but I do like the writing I do.

 

[ivantheterrible]

at this time i am a caretaker of what used to be a bed and breakfast. HUGE house with 6 bedrooms and 500 acres with lots of ponds and wildlife. i take care of it all, 6 cats and 3 dogs. the owner is in england and can only come in at times to visit. only a small salary, but i get free room and board, free electric, free heat, free internet, and local dialing phone. but i get access to all this. can't argue with that.

 

[LadyGreyFortress]

RN/CNOR Operating Room

 

[FungiUg]

I pimp silk and lace.

So... where does a guy find a good hanky around here?

 

[RawHumor]

I'm a programmer/engineer/data miner.

 

[Homburg]

Insurance work, in the field. And, wow, business has sucked lately.

 

[EmpressFi]

Over the phone tech support for many Fortune 500 companies. I used to only provide the support, but now I manage a team of 10 consultants and 2-3 trainees.

I've also been a registered nurse with ventilator dependent patients (spinal cord injury rehab) and managed one of the largested clinical labs in the Philadelphia area

 

[chy_girl]

I'm a stay at home mom. Although I don't know who decided to call us that, cause I'm actually a stay-in-the-car mom.

Ain't that the truth.

My job (jobs?)? A little bit of everything once you actually look at the job description. Unfortunately the pay is shit.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I don't know that I'd call it "making a living," lol... It brings in enough money to cover my share of the bills and let me play a cheap Texas Hold'em tournament most weeks, and sometimes blow a few bucks on fireworks (the 4th is right around the corner! )

I type transcripts of trials and hearings for a court system 1800 or so miles away from where I live. I download the audio via computer, type it up, and send the typed transcripts back to the company I contract with. It's sometimes interesting, more often boring (because I've heard the same old crap a few hundred or thousand times), and very convenient, since I can work anywhere that I can get high-speed internet service.

(Before asking how to get into this field, be warned that over the last 6 years or so, I've recommended four different people to the company I contract with. ONE of them made it past six months. She's been doing it for about 5 years now. Also, business is going down; I don't need competition.)

 

[BiBunny]

I don't know that I'd call it "making a living," lol... It brings in enough money to cover my share of the bills and let me play a cheap Texas Hold'em tournament most weeks, and sometimes blow a few bucks on fireworks (the 4th is right around the corner! )

I type transcripts of trials and hearings for a court system 1800 or so miles away from where I live. I download the audio via computer, type it up, and send the typed transcripts back to the company I contract with. It's sometimes interesting, more often boring (because I've heard the same old crap a few hundred or thousand times), and very convenient, since I can work anywhere that I can get high-speed internet service.

(Before asking how to get into this field, be warned that over the last 6 years or so, I've recommended four different people to the company I contract with. ONE of them made it past six months. She's been doing it for about 5 years now. Also, business is going down; I don't need competition.)

So...how do I get into that field?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

So...how do I get into that field?

You live in Alafreakin'bama... to get into a field, just step out the door and turn left.

 

[Etoile]

Used to do tech support for pay, now I just help friends and family for free!
Sometimes still do sign language interpreting.
Mostly I'm a full-time student.
After graduation, I hope to get a research grant/book advance, but I will probably go back to interpreting as well so I don't starve.

 

[BiBunny]

You live in Alafreakin'bama... to get into a field, just step out the door and turn left.

*Groan*