Roofed houses, a meat cutter, and now in IT and love it. Have been doing IT for 15 years now and no schooling (or debt).
Small 3 person company where other companies outsource there IT to us, we have a ping pong and a pool table in our office. What I enjoy most is the variety of work, it can range from removing spyware to planning a complete network rebuild of servers and routers.

Work in a pretty big hospital in sterilization field. It's a pretty chill job with lots of women here. Next month will be 10 years I've worked here. I can say I enjoy coming to work everyday

 

Originally Posted by BubbaKGB

I hate that the company I work for treats us like crap because they truly believe that people value the fact that they have a job more than how their employer treats them. Everybody in the office hates it here, but nobody is in a position to do anything (some are pregnant, they all have families, stuff like that).

Bubba, I quit my previous job in April for the same reason. Company was terrible to employees, lots of lying, but i couldn't pull the trigger on quitting. I didn't want to quit without having something lined up for me after. But I couldn't take it anymore - when I finally did it was an instant weight off my shoulders, felt instant relief and cursed myself for not doing it sooner. Got another job a week later and it's been really good since.

Just pull the trigger and do it if its that miserable. Nothing is worse than working for dicks for a job you don't fully enjoy.

hate my job, going to school for a different job, but between a 2 yr old kid and my girl working part time and going to school full time i can only do like 1 class a semester...so i'll be a teacher in....40 bajillion years

 

Originally Posted by STOPPER19

I had all the same worries you have. I was at my place only 3 months lol. I thought quitting would look bad for me since it was the first job i had in the field I studied. Worried other companies would look at quitting after 3 months as irresponsible etc. etc.

That shit doesnt matter. The company you're at just isn't a good fit for you. Other companies would realize that.

Yeah I hear ya. Thanks for sharing your experience. It's nice to hear that despite the risk associated with what I prefer to do, it might actually be the most optimal course of action.

gl Bubba, let us know how it turns out.

FWK, where are you living now?

 

Originally Posted by BubbaKGB

Yeah I read something about you being in Canada, is this true?? You better not be in Toronto because if you are, there's no excuse for not hitting me up yet...

nah not in toronto, I'm in Waterloo. I actually haven't been down (or up?) to Toronto at all except to the airport but I'm sure I'll get out there sometime soon

 

Originally Posted by FenwayKing

I've been playing poker professionally for 1.5 years now since I graduated last May. It's a pretty sweet job in a lot of respects: every day, I can decide whether I want to work or not (the only day approaching a must-work day is Sunday), it's actually interesting intellectually, it's fun when you win, and the freedom is pretty great. On the other hands, the stress can be pretty high especially as you move up in stakes. Obviously I've had to move outside of the country away from my family and friends but since I've met a lot of cool people who are in a similar situation that hasn't been too bad. The one thing that can be kind of tough about poker is that the lows (downswings) sometimes are lower than the highs (winning a big tournament)---on the other hand, I haven't really had that big breakthrough that would feel 10x better than the low so maybe that's not true overall. In the end though, I do love it and hope to be doing it for a few more years.

I think not doing something you love as your job really sucks and although ppl say it's impractical sometimes, I honestly doubt it is for most people. There's no reason to be stuck in some dead-end job unless you have no discernible skills and if that's the case---get some! There's tons of online classes/community college stuff etc that you can do. Once you get your foot in the door, the rest is just up to you being a hard worker and good networker. Networking is so underrated it's not even funny. Even in poker, without networking, I'd probably not be doing this for a living. I think movetime's thread showed a little bit about how important that is.

and that's your daily installment of life advice from a 23 year old with not much life experience

btw, s1nnr whats your answer to that question?

wow you are mad withered thought u were like 27 at least. 23 shittttttttt. Good post tho.

I dig my job sometimes and other times wish I could do something else. I think erry1 is like that.

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

All I got to do is make it one more month aand a half and I will have been unemployed for a year.

GOooooooo me!

Let me know when you make it to 7 years. I've never been on unemployment or welfare etc for the record

Just started working couple weeks ago after 7 years of the good life (made most my money from poker but have never treated it like a job or put in anything that would resemble volume by any definition). If I had to do this new job everyday I'd show my feelings via self-immolation. Hopefully in about a year I'll have a job I love, that's the plan. Should have the opportunity to work around the world in a few years

I love my job an insane amount. I opened my own accounting firm one year ago, brought in a partner recently and bought out another one, and I love trying to grow my business and the day to day of it about 98% of the time. I get that people think being an accountant would suck and be tedious or whatever, but for me I wouldn't switch to anything else than what I'm doing right now.

found a pic of fwk relaxing after a long grind in waterloo


legal background, been working on my own (small) business for past while. hectic but 9-5 sucks imo. looking forward to building my empire so I don't have to work

would def have studied business/econ/accounting not political science bs lol

I work for a mid size privately owned US company in Canada. Been there just short of 25yrs. Like most companies, we've gone through a lot of transitions with multiple divisions. I've worked primarily in the operations mgmt side of the business but get involved with a little bit of everything. Used to travel about one week in four doing training at our various offices but now travel 4 or 5 times a year since we sold off one of our divisions. It's been a good ride for the most part but like any other job you have to roll with it and adapt to new challenges as they arise. Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug.

I am ambivalent about my job. It pays the bills and I enjoy the people I work with, but I do not leap out of bed every morning anxious to get to work and start my day. Nothing really negative to say about my company, and the main positive is that I am pretty much left to my own devices in running the warehouse. Decent enough retirement package . . .

If I had to do it over again, I might have gotten involved in the media in some fashion or another. Either that, or Lion Tamer.

I work as management in foodservice. Long hours. Wish I got paid more. But its pretty Fucking easy and its very easy to have a good time while working. Didn't go to school for it and its what I've always wanted to do. I work at a corporate store and the promotion opportunities are pretty nice.

 

Originally Posted by MattUNCC

Most people say they'd want my job, but I guarantee they wouldn't after a month. I'm the lead video editor for a adult films production company. We get raw media in from every porn company you've ever heard of and I edit and render files that can be transcoded into multiple bitrates and streamed by any device capable of internet access. Sounds cool, but it gets old fast. About 60-70% of the content I deal with is gay; there's nothing like frame-stepping through an anal bareback scene at 1 frame per mouse click when there are 30 frames per second of film... vomit. I double majored in political science and history, so no, I am not doing what I went to school for. If I had it to do all over again, I would have either stayed a co-sci major and been a DBA or pursued a career in neurobiology... or been less risk-adverse in poker and maybe I'd be a millionaire by now like most of the guys I played with on a regular basis back in 2003-2004...

Hi5! I'm also a video editor and love it! We always joke about editing porn too haha :D Didn't really know what i wanted to do, but Film Production seemed an interesting uni course to take, and then i loved all post-production stuff whilst there so got into this. In my current job our productions are split between high end corporate work and commercial work like tv shows and documentaries. There's a lot of variety which makes it pretty good though - but i can see how porn could get boring pretty quickly hah.