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What does everyone do?

Im a student and jobseeker, never been employed

Full-time college student, majoring in geology.

Tim

I was a graphic designer. I'm currently unemployed because I don't want to do graphic design anymore, but I don't know what I do want to do.

I'm a houseperson.

Full time student majoring in psychology. I have no idea what kind of job I will get.

I do child support enforcement for a state agency. I fix interstate cases that are malfunctioning, and never talk to anyone except people in other states who do what I do.

I also do some work in the office from time to time as a locator, looking for people who should and don't pay their child support.

I'm a college freshman aiming for a law degree. Other than that, i plan to figure it out.

army

I'm an engineer. I guess I'm lucky since I'm working with vehicles and enjoy reading service manuals. I have had other engineers ask me why I was so posessed by my work. I just told them I like this suff. I could not imagine doing anything else.

Unemployed COBOL programmer looking for the next gig.

This is an interesting topic.

I just take any kind of employment that supports my children and myself, but my luck ran out this year. I have been six weeks without a job. Many interviews in the line of work I do (service, janitorial, manufacturing) but I worry that it is my age, uncoordination and possibly how I appear to others that is preventing me from being hired.

Still, I keep trying.

1 Word: "Student".

I honestly feel that I have been a failure in the workplace. I am going to ensure my son doesn't end up that way.

The grandmother of my son's friend (this is the only way you get work in Melbourne.....it's WHO you know, not WHAT you know, at times LOL) has asked that I work for her part-time as her office manager/exhibition orgnaniser. She's a well-known botanical artist in Australia and Europe, and needs someone who's crap at art (pick me!...oooh...pick me!) to keep her business running as the person she's had for years is too good at art and now wants to pursue her own art career.

It'll suit me fine....no bloody corporate crap with which to deal.

Oh - and I'm getting back into editing so I can work from home.....I'm qualified and experienced, but terrible at working in publishing houses. Can't do that political-thing at work.....you know....?

Man, I've talked too much, huh.

Fiona

Journalist.

Assistant manager at Papa Murphy's Take-and-Bake Pizza, woo-hoo!

I get to prep toppings, make pizzas, and yell at my teenaged co-workers all day.

I usually just say "Banker" when people ask.... but I don't make loans... I break 'em. I'm the Collections Manager for a mid-sized midwestern bank in Northern Michigan. I spend most of my time going over administrative crap and rarely get to talk to a customer. By the time they hit my desk, it's probably already after the Foreclosure or repossession. While we didn't have any "auto manufacturing" plants in my area, MOST of the "living wage" jobs were in factories that made auto PARTS. Those jobs are gone and those factories are closed down, which means our people are packing up, leaving what they can't carry behind, and moving to other states looking for work. I don't think there's been anything like this in America since the dust bowl.