What do you do?

Wafer Fabrication Photo Technician.

I pray that none of you ever have to do this job. :(

I work primarily in an office where I have to print labels for the products we manufacture. Quite often, I have to sub in for someone else in the factory and do product testing. We manufacture lifting slings, lashings and harnesses. On paper, the job sounds sweet, sit on your ass and print things, but you're always busy doing mind numbingly boring work. As a result, I always fuck up from my mind wondering from the job at hand. one time I broke the tensile tester and it cost $8000 to fix, another time a mistake I did on a label resulted in a small airport being closed for half a day.

www.spanset.com.au

(my dad designed the site LOL)

EDIT: I was just looking for a pic of our tensile tester, and I didn't realise how pussy most testers are. The machine I operate is a 6 metre monster which lays horizontally and is capable of 800kN of pressure. To test the products, they're stretched end to end at double the labeled capacity (they usually break at 4x). You know how uncomfortable it is when someone is aiming an elastic band at you ready to fire? imagine that but with a 50kg 6m band with 40 metric tonnes of pressure behind it. Its quite scary sometimes.

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Originally Posted by MVS

Wafer Fabrication Photo Technician.

I pray that none of you ever have to do this job. :(

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What the hell is that?

And arjue...careful, you don't want to take a shot to the stomach and get lopped in half.

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Originally Posted by Satsuki

I just got offered a comission job today, to basically be a seamstress. Unfortunately, the woman wanted some eveningwear done for her and her family- and I'm not too experienced with jackets and pantsuits yet, so I think I'm going to have to decline for now, which sorta sucks.

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Bad idea, learn as you go. Practical work is easily the best way to learn. You'll force yourself to learn for the money.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

26 isn't even old, man. You better hope you'll be thinking about the bone at 26.

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One foot in the grave.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

There is a really easy way to improve your life. Get out of that CC you are in.

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But that wasn't his complaint, and he said he was. EVERY design student doubts themselves. And when I say doubts I mean to the point of thinking they're going to be found out they don't know what they're doing.

I got along with everybody in my design classes, sans 1 person and they all had doubts. Some people had minor doubts while others were ridiculously worried about getting fired or being under qualified. He's in his second year, which I'm guessing is in a 3 year program (maybe not, I'm guessing). He should finish out his education and go from there. That's my advice anyway.

Also, a lot of people here are graphic designers or are in a graphic design related field (haha Dyne, prepress). I'm happy with the field so far, although I know i've lucked out with my internship. I'm designing albums and shit, but I know a lot of kids in my class get stuck doing reception or designing newspaper fliers.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

I am a retailer with a Gamestop in Sugar Land, TX and I am also a waiter at a Denny's (overnight) in the same town. Gamestop money gets saved and nothing else. Dennys money gets saved and spent for everything. I live entirely on tips and everything that gets deposited into my bank (i.e. all paychecks) might as well not exist.

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:eek: SUGAR LAND! Is it everything I dream it is and more?

Im on catering staff on a football pitch...it sucks...the pay sucks...i sell cups of tea and coffee and pasties...get on!

I work in a bakery/pastry shop making the stuff and cleaning around when I'm done. The pay is great, I do very little work, and when I do, I get free cake. Can't complain.

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Originally Posted by Gohron

I do sweatshop labor in a factory that makes photomounts (think paper picture frames). I recently asked for a raise but I don't really make all that much (I make $8/hr and my raise will probably be somewhere from $.25 to $1.50 an hour). It pays the expenses that I have for the time being while I try to figure out where my life should go. I generally work 45 hours a week though I do plenty of 40 hour weeks along with 50+ hour weeks depending on how the schedule is looking.

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You probably make more money than me. Go Airforce. :\

Mmm...free cake!

I work in a small office near my house as an "administrative assistant" aka "secretary", doing all of the usual secretary stuff ie, answer phones, make phone calls, make trips to the post office, computer work, etc. I'm also the assistant to my boss, and I make $11 bucks an hour. I love my job ^^

It sure beats working at the supermarket.

And I also work in the school's audio lab where I help students put their radio projects together.

I get to live in the dorm I'm currently in all summer for free, thanks to my new job. Groups who come through Boston can rent space out, and myself and the rest of the Summer Conference staff are basically hotel employees. We'll be working the front desk, cleaning, making beds, etc. Considering it's a job and rent-free housing all in one, I'm extremely pleased with this arrangement.

I make sammiches (and by make, I mean do nothing since my shift is dead) for $13 an hour off the books and eat lots and lots of food.

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Originally Posted by animegirl

You probably make more money than me. Go Airforce. :\

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The airforce makes crap, but $1000 in the military is like $10000 for civilians.