What's your work?

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I'm curious as to what work you guys/gals have? care to share?

I work at a hardware store. It sucks but I have made some good friends, and the boss isn't too bad.

I am now also starting to make money playing music, but it's hard to think of that as work.

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I currently detail cars at a pretty high end dealership.

Before that, I was in the US Airforce for 4 months.I was training to be a munitions systems tech. 3 months into it, I had a huge breakdown which caused me to get a psych eval. I don.t remember everything the psych said, but I do remember her talking about schizoid and avodant personality disorders and aspergers as possible explanations. Don't know if I was actually diagnosed with anything. I was discharged 2 weeks later

Before that, I installed irrigation systems.

Then was my first job at Sonic drive in.

I study history in college, and work part-time as a covenience store clerk.

I work as a janitor.

Most recent job: Network Administrator almost 10 years. I'm looking for another position in the same field

Previously: Video Store clerk -- very successful as videos were a special interest at the time
Animal Care Assistant at a primate sanctuary -- 7 years! I could relate to the residents better than I can most humans. left to go back to school to be a netAdmin.

My next (retirement) career will be mystery novelist. My sleuth is an Aspie cat lady, who used to be a NetAdmin, living in the deep south

I deliver pizza full time. It lets me minimize the amount of contact with others while also indulging my special interest in auto mechanics and cars in general. It's not that I don't like all of the people I work with, some of them I get along with really well. It's just that I don't want someone watching me do my job constantly and that I enjoy having the time to think while I am driving. Plus, I enjoy trying to beat the system by making the math work in my favor. I do this with the car I drive (a 3 cylinder Geo Metro), my proximity to work from home, delivery area knowledge, and my ability to repair anything that could go wrong with my vehicle. Plus, I have held the same job for several years now and the people I work with have forgiven me for my eccentricities and learned to accept me as I am. No one sees me as normal, but many people see me as a caring person who is understanding and easy to talk to (if not a little too talkative, literal and pedantic!) Learning how to shut up, listen and ask others to talk about themselves while not talking as much about myself was not easy for me, but it has made me at least able to not develop enemies, if not a lot of outright friendships. Plus, being a good mechanic in a pizza place means that no one really wants to piss you off. They never know when I might be needed to get them back on the road and making money!

I work at CVS, where I stock shelves and pretend to like our customers. Sometimes I strike up idle conversation with the other employees, but they are all far older than me and I have difficulty relating to them. My future roommate's dad is my boss, and he is pretty cool: very lenient and he is trying to set me up with a job as a pharmacy tech there. The work is easy, but soul-crushingly boring and strenuous. Also, people get peeved at me when I cannot do anything about their coupon not going through. I despise those people. Honestly, could you not tell that I do not call the shots around here just by my age alone? If that is not enough, then I also have a distinct lack of a tie, and my tag does not say "management." Also, I have most of our commercials played over the PA memorized, as they are played at least once an hour, and the music played over the PA makes me want to go back in time and stop 80's soft pop from ever happening.

Newspaper business - reporter, copy editor, typesetter, graphic artist, paginator

<--- Between jobs at the moment. Used to be a teenage enema nurse, though.

Disability.

Do my best to manage my mother's rural property though (there's as much work here as you can physically and mentally handle).

I make hammocks for Twin Oaks. Very independent work. Usually late at night.

Music teacher.

I currently get money by teaching bass/guitar lessons, doing gigs in the bands I'm in, and busking.