What do you do?

[nh23]

I'm incredibly bored today. I'm having a bad reaction to a new medication and I've been ordered to bed by Master.

I'm incredibly curious as to what everyone on here does for a living. I see posts and AV's and often wonder. I know what a few of you do, but not most.

Humor me?

 

[BiBunny]

I know you already know this, but I'm a writer/phone sex operator/grad student extraordinaire.

 

[the captians wench]

I think every one knows what I do. *giggles* but I'll help out.

I'm an assistant store manager for coporate McD's.

I also have my own company designing, constructing, and selling renisaince costumes along with a few gothic and fantasy pieces. I specialize in family costumes, and celtic wear.

 

[nh23]

I know you already know this, but I'm a writer/phone sex operator/grad student extraordinaire.

I should call ya.

I think every one knows what I do. *giggles* but I'll help out.

I'm an assistant store manager for coporate McD's.

I also have my own company designing, constructing, and selling renisaince costumes along with a few gothic and fantasy pieces. I specialize in family costumes, and celtic wear.

Do you do corsets? I've never been to a renfair but Master says they are great. Especially the costumes.

 

[RawHumor]

I'm a programmer/engineer. If anyone has an MS Office questions, I'm the guy to ask.

 

[nh23]

I'm a programmer/engineer. If anyone has an MS Office questions, I'm the guy to ask.

Oh, Master has shown a lot of interest in this. I'm in the process of going back to school again so we have to wait before he can go. How much schooling did you have to have?

Oh, and I'm sure everyone knows what I do but in case not. I'm a pediatric nurse. I also have my EMT, but haven't done that for ages.

 

[Samuelx]

What do I do ? Cop, writer, grad student.

 

[nh23]

What do I do ? Cop, writer, grad student.

Seems like we have quite a few cops in BDSM. Something I've noticed.

 

[Samuelx]

Seems like we have quite a few cops in BDSM. Something I've noticed.

lol, it gets better. I know of a gay white male cop whose fantasy is to get 'violated' by black male inmates ( his favorite porn scenario, he confessed it after a few drinks at a house party). Yeah, us cops are a strange bunch.

 

[RawHumor]

Oh, Master has shown a lot of interest in this. I'm in the process of going back to school again so we have to wait before he can go. How much schooling did you have to have?

Oh, and I'm sure everyone knows what I do but in case not. I'm a pediatric nurse. I also have my EMT, but haven't done that for ages.

My education is in Chemical Engineering, with some Computer Science thrown in.

The Office stuff was pretty much self-taught on the jobs.

 

[nh23]

My education is in Chemical Engineering, with some Computer Science thrown in.

The Office stuff was pretty much self-taught on the jobs.

Wow. You're the first chemical engineer I've met.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I'm a professional layabout.

Nah, seriously, I work at home in Tennessee, typing transcripts of trials and hearings (criminal, domestic violence, child dependency, juvenile criminal) for a court system in Florida. It's a long story how I got into it: my wife at the time (#3) was doing it when we left Florida, and was so good at it they wanted her to continue, working remote. I had recently been laid off as a billing specialist for a telco that was swallowed and barfed up by Bernie Ebbers/WorldCon, and to increase our income (my type of jobs weren't easy to come by in North Georgia, especially at my age {52 at the time}), I started helping her by typing some things when she wasn't working. Then I started doing it myself, on my computer.

When we split up, I took my portion of the work to Tennessee, she took hers to New York, and then she quit - she was burned out. I've been doing it now for more than seven years, and don't see myself quitting until at least a couple years after I start getting SocSec (not too long now, thank gawd/ess! Only a little more than 2 years until I can take early SS. ). If SocSec doesn't go broke before I can start getting it

Before anyone asks I can't get you into it. I did with four people in the past, one of whom lasted longer than six months (she's still doing it after 3 1/2 years, and is more productive than I am. But then, she has a family to support; I don't, and I'm lazy). It requires good ears - you often have to be able to discern one voice out of three or more speaking simultaneously, and then the others, one by one; you need to be able to type standard text at at least 50 wpm; your spelling skills have to be impeccable; you have to be able to figure out words and phrases you've never heard before (legal terminology, medical terminology, pharmaceutical names, scientific terminology, etc., all of which can come up in any trial); you need reliable high-speed internet; and there's more.

But the main reason I can't recommend anyone to get into it any more is that the company with which I contract no longer contracts with independents - they contract to another company in Florida that contracts with its own independents and requires that their contractors be local to their office. Sowwy.

Oh, yeah, one other job requirement: You have to know that you're smarter than the damn lawyers, judges, witnesses and defendants, so you can yell at 'em when they say stupid things.

Side note: Ex#3 tested consistently at 102-108 wpm on standard text typing, and even transcribing (which is by nature slower), I couldn't stand behind her and watch her type. I'd get dizzy trying to watch her fingers.

 

[nh23]

I'm a professional layabout.

Nah, seriously, I work at home in Tennessee, typing transcripts of trials and hearings (criminal, domestic violence, child dependency, juvenile criminal) for a court system in Florida. It's a long story how I got into it: my wife at the time (#3) was doing it when we left Florida, and was so good at it they wanted her to continue, working remote. I had recently been laid off as a billing specialist for a telco that was swallowed and barfed up by Bernie Ebbers/WorldCon, and to increase our income (my type of jobs weren't easy to come by in North Georgia, especially at my age {52 at the time}), I started helping her by typing some things when she wasn't working. Then I started doing it myself, on my computer.

When we split up, I took my portion of the work to Tennessee, she took hers to New York, and then she quit - she was burned out. I've been doing it now for more than seven years, and don't see myself quitting until at least a couple years after I start getting SocSec (not too long now, thank gawd/ess! Only a little more than 2 years until I can take early SS. ). If SocSec doesn't go broke before I can start getting it

Before anyone asks I can't get you into it. I did with four people in the past, one of whom lasted longer than six months (she's still doing it after 3 1/2 years, and is more productive than I am. But then, she has a family to support; I don't, and I'm lazy). It requires good ears - you often have to be able to discern one voice out of three or more speaking simultaneously, and then the others, one by one; you need to be able to type standard text at at least 50 wpm; your spelling skills have to be impeccable; you have to be able to figure out words and phrases you've never heard before (legal terminology, medical terminology, pharmaceutical names, scientific terminology, etc., all of which can come up in any trial); you need reliable high-speed internet; and there's more.

But the main reason I can't recommend anyone to get into it any more is that the company with which I contract no longer contracts with independents - they contract to another company in Florida that contracts with its own independents and requires that their contractors be local to their office. Sowwy.

Oh, yeah, one other job requirement: You have to know that you're smarter than the damn lawyers, judges, witnesses and defendants, so you can yell at 'em when they say stupid things.

Side note: Ex#3 tested consistently at 102-108 wpm on standard text typing, and even transcribing (which is by nature slower), I couldn't stand behind her and watch her type. I'd get dizzy trying to watch her fingers.

I'm deaf in my left ear so I wouldn't be able to hear well enough anyway.

I bet it's really interesting work though! Do you ever get to do really exciting cases?

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

I go postal

(mailman)

 

[intothewoods]

Oh, yeah, one other job requirement: You have to know that you're smarter than the damn lawyers, judges, witnesses and defendants, so you can yell at 'em when they say stupid things.

Lol.


I'm a professional genius.

 

[nh23]

I go postal

(mailman)

Do you like it? I would imagine it has great benefits.

Lol.


I'm a professional genius.

I'm pretty sure I know what you do. What area do you specialize in?

 

[Kajira Callista]

Mine is easy. I stick people with needles and get paid for it!


Oh and I test pee and proccess poop and tubes of blood to be sent to the big lab.

I also know how to do and read ECGs but I don't really get to do them and I liked that the best of all when I was in school.
More school is in my future... I wanna be a paramedic... but I'm poor so that is on hold.

 

[rbijon]

Professional student & cartoon watcher

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

most days

tho walking 10 miles in 90o+ (hit 100o today) wears you out hard


still beats sitting in a cubicle

 

[RawHumor]

Wow. You're the first chemical engineer I've met.

I may be the first chemical engineering major that you've met, but I've never actually worked as a chemical engineer.

I've worked as an electrical engineer and an industrial engineer, but never chemical. Just the way life works out sometimes.

 

[nh23]

Mine is easy. I stick people with needles and get paid for it!


Oh and I test pee and proccess poop and tubes of blood to be sent to the big lab.

I also know how to do and read ECGs but I don't really get to do them and I liked that the best of all when I was in school.
More school is in my future... I wanna be a paramedic... but I'm poor so that is on hold.

Great job I only went as far as my EMT. I make more as a nurse than I would as a medic. Low pay for some of the hardest working people on earth. Rewarding job though. I hope you can go back soon.

 

[intothewoods]

Do you like it? I would imagine it has great benefits.


I'm pretty sure I know what you do. What area do you specialize in?

I'm not telling! But I'll PM you.

 

[nh23]

Professional student & cartoon watcher

I'm jealous.

most days

tho walking 10 miles in 90o+ (hit 100o today) wears you out hard


still beats sitting in a cubicle

I bet it was horribly humid here today, I can't imagine where you are.

I may be the first chemical engineering major that you've met, but I've never actually worked as a chemical engineer.

I've worked as an electrical engineer and an industrial engineer, but never chemical. Just the way life works out sometimes.

All sounds impressive anyway.

 

[Keroin]

I'm a professional layabout.

Nah, seriously, I work at home in Tennessee, typing transcripts of trials and hearings (criminal, domestic violence, child dependency, juvenile criminal) for a court system in Florida.

I have a couple of good friends in Vancouver who have done this for years and years. No, not an easy job, they've told me lots about it.

Me?

Professional nomad. Seriously? I am a Jill of all trades. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I do whatever moves me in the moment and this gave my parents no end of grief from the day I quit university onward. (Sorry Dad!)

My longest and most important career to date was as a professional stunt performer. I did that for over a decade. I walked away six years ago for a variety of reasons but mostly because I have itchy travel feet and wanted to see the world.

Four years ago, I decided to pursue writing as a career. I am published but a long way from achieving the goals I've set for myself. I think I'll be at this one for a long time to come, working at whatever I can, in the meantime, to pay the bills.

But really, my resume reads like the yellow pages.

 

[nh23]

I'm not telling! But I'll PM you.

Thank you!