What do you do all day?

[dwayne]

I've come to the conclusion that I spend an AWFUL lot of time on the internet for someone who is supposed to be working at her real job 40 hours per week (another reality check I got the other day when one online friend said to me "I didn't realize you had a job, I thought you were at home all day"!!!). I guess as long as I get all my work done as soon as it's given to me (i do), and I get positive reviews every year (i have), it's OK.

SO... what do you do for a living? Job outside of the home? Job inside the home? Mom or dad at home with the kids (and if you are, you are working harder than anyone with a job outside of the home!)

I am an Executive Assistant for a commercial real estate firm. I do the usual Executive Assistant (or as my dad calls me, a secretary) stuff... typing letters, scheduling meetings, gathering information for proposals, scheduling tours of office buildings for clients, filing, answering phones...

~Tara

[Must4ng s4lly]

Uhhh me too! LOL! I do marketing and a whole bunch of other stuff for a software firm..... I work from home and office and have no human children. I have plenty of other "children" tho! My hubby gets a bit frustrated with me if I am on too long, so I have to do it during the day - be on the forum.
I just get my work done fast, that's all. :)

[becky_e]

Hee, hee, right now I'm a stay-at-home mom. I watch my very busy 15 month old daughter. Since there aren't many people around to talk to, I'm on-line a lot.

I've only been a stay-at-home mom for 7 months now, before that I worked in a pathology lab in a hospital.

[dwayne]

s4lly... If I worked at home I'd never get anything done!

becky... you have my dream job!! I wish I could be home with my son every day (he'll be 2 on Monday). (Though I know that if I was home all day with him the house would most likely be a pigsty, and I would never, ever get online for adult interaction (he's like the energizer bunny) !!!) Thankfully he loves going to 'school' and knowing that makes it so much easier for me to come in here everyday.

~Tara

[Sensei_the_dojo]

I'm a systems administrator by day, (booooring, except it gives me time to check out AC) and I'm a waiter at a local Mexican restaurant evenings and Saturdays.

[OrionGirl]

Computer geek--build and maintain databases, troubleshoot hardware/software issues, install new machines, edit and file various reports, play with new hardware/software, etc. Means I have lots of time to goof off, as problems never arise when it's convenient. As long as I get my jobs done, projects completed on time, no one worries about what I do very much.

[Dangerdoll]

I'm a lead graphic/web designer for a pharmaceutical..... I work so many different programs though that I have a PC and a Laptop on my desk which allows me to keep AC open all the time :) I usually come in when I'm waiting for one of the programs to do it's thing :D

btw.... I just got my other sister (older one) to sign-up for AC ;)

[Watcher74]

Network security manager. 'nother computer geek.

[Sensei_the_dojo]

Funny how many computer geeks we have here. Y'all oughta try waiting tables as a second job. After spending 8 hours behind a monitor it's actually a blast to be up, moving around, and helping other people enjoy their dinner. And in my case, it actually pays better. ;)

[Watcher74]

Sensei, by "system administrator" do you mean IT manager for computers and the like or some other type of system? I find it difficult to believe that waiting tables could pay more.

[ChicoRaton]

Yet another computer geek. Although I'm unemployed ATM.:D :D it's nice being able to live off of your parents without anybody going "Jeez he's still living off of his parents!"

[Lila]

I'm a stay at home mom and writer in the making.

I will be taking classes at the local college to improve on my skill, and hopefully be published some day. Hopefully soon.

I'm researching short story magazines, and other magazines that publish them, for submissions. I have quite a few stories I would like to get published, just to have that under my belt when I look for an agent.

So, I write. I write every chance I get.

Oh, and I flirt a lot too! What? It's fun!

;)

Lila

[OrionGirl]

Depending on where you wait tables, it can be great money--I used to make about $20 an hour slinging pizza. In this town, it wouldn't be hard to make more working at a better place--service in general sucks, so if you're good, you make lots of money.

Problem for me? Well, I quit caring if the customer was happy.

[Sensei_the_dojo]

Originally posted by Watcher74
Sensei, by "system administrator" do you mean IT manager for computers and the like or some other type of system? I find it difficult to believe that waiting tables could pay more. Yes, but I'm not a degreed IT manager. I work for a public library. The city's payscale isn't high enough to attract a true IT person for this position.

I have an associate of applied science degree in computer application systems (basically a secretarial degree). I hired on here 5 years ago as bookkeeper/systems administrator after working as a secretary for a small CPA firm. At that time we only had 2 public internet computers, circulation and catalog ran off of dumb terminals, and there were a handful of administrative pcs. Now we've got 17 public internet computers, about 40 other pcs, our own website (which I maintain), our own mailserver, two firewalls, etc. I'm over my head and starting to swallow water if you know what I mean.

And, you'd be surprised what kind of money a good waiter can make.

I figure that about one more year of working both jobs I'll have my house paid off. Then I'll say goodbye to a computer based job and figure out what I want to do full time.

[Sensei_the_dojo]

Originally posted by OrionGirl
Depending on where you wait tables, it can be great money--I used to make about $20 an hour slinging pizza. In this town, it wouldn't be hard to make more working at a better place--service in general sucks, so if you're good, you make lots of money.

Problem for me? Well, I quit caring if the customer was happy. My problem is the opposite. I've quit caring if the freaking computers are working the way everyone wants them to.

[OrionGirl]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I can relate--I'm pretty insulated from most users. I deal with only a few of them, most of whom consider me a genius because I can turn on computers without spending 5 minutes finding the right switch. :D

[Walrus]

Well i guess you can add me to the list of computer geeks. I'm a software engineer (Java mainly) for a company with 20,000 + employees. I also work a couple hours on the weekends at a golf course (the pay sucks but i'm there for the free golf).

I have many PC's in my office that i test software on and at least one of them always has AC open.

[Watcher74]

Find me a waiter job that makes me more than 70 grand a year and I'll sign up.

[StreetCypher]

I make sure people at pools don't drown.
I also teach little kids how to swim (so they don't drown at pools).

Other than that i'm a full time university student.:thud:
Nice to have no school during the summer semester.

[RTR]

Blissfully retired... from being "Senior Business Process Analyst" consulting for various corporations, the last 5 years for Sprint. Could be considered computer-ish, but I am realy not a computer person. Although it paid a lot better than being in charge of drug development labs for NIH, and for a pharmaceutical multi-national, certainly way better than waiting tables - at least consulting is a defined conract, even if you spend ungodly hours in front of a couple of computers and in endless teleconferences. Moving from a 60-80 hour per week job to a forty hour week leaves so much more time for fish and kites and gardens, especially when it pays better. I still dabble a bit, but only short-term stuff, and that largely from home.

[kikuchiyo]

What do I do all day:

Not one darn thing :)

I was thinking I was going to take physics all summer, but since I changed majors (from psychology to biology, still pre-medical) I decided to take physics my senior year (with organic chemistry! fun! :()

Since my summer's a bust (hopefully, next summer will be better; a 2 week lab trip to Savannah GA for marine biology and then a month study abroad in Japan) I've just been studying Japanese and genetics, watching Japanese TV and movies, and playing a lot of Fire Emblem on the Gameboy. And, of course, making an fool of myself on these forums ;)

Ah well, I should enjoy it. I'm taking Genetics and Chemistry for science majors next semester. Plus with being a residential assitant and hopefully a DJ for the campus radio, I won't have this kind of free time in a long while :)

[cgrabe]

I work full time in the Tech. Services department of a community college and am taking classes full time through Strayer Online. That tends to keep me busy.

At work these days, I spend most of my time writing queries for PeopleSoft (student information system sitting on top of an Oracle db), managing the user accounts and related security for half a dozen different systems, maintaining our firewalls, and doing odd repair jobs every now and then. I used to do all grunt work, but I think my job changes every day. I do take pride in my work, but, like others, I get tired of it. I could easily make an extra couple hundred dollars every weekend, but the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is use a computer for anything other than socializing or making things blow up.

As far as the schooling, I finished my Associate's degree in 2001, I believe, and will have my Bachelor's degree finished in about 6 months. At that point I aughta be able to weasle some more cash out of my boss or start looking elsewhere for a job I might actually enjoy. (what a concept) Down the road I'd like to shift into teaching at the college level at least part time. I think I'd really enjoy that.

[skippy2]

I am retired and do nothing all day and loving it. I spend a couple of hrs. on the internet in the afternoon and then again at night. I have 5 grandchildren (big extended family) and 1 great grandchild on the way. Geez, I'm not even in my 60s yet. I wonder how many more kids I can claim.:p
I used to be a waitress, bartender, bouncer at a bar with live bands every weekend. The most fun job I ever had. Good money too. I worked 4 nights, 24 hrs total and brought home between 3 and 400 a week. Not bad for having fun.

My daughter works at a bar full time and makes great money. Her husband works at the same bar on weekends. Between the 2 of them they do quite well .
I would go back to work but I can't walk without a cane anymore.
Thank God for the internet, my tanks, my cats, my books. I am never bored. Oh. I bake alot too. I just made an ice cream cake.

[Leopardess]

I also do "nothing"...and it seems to take a lot more time than one would think.

We wake up around 10 or 11 (hehe) hang out, do errands and eat some lunch. Then chris goes to work around 1pm (and works until 11pmish).

By the time I'm done doing water changes, cleaning litter boxes and cages, picking up, doing dishes, messing around with my crafts and goofing off online in between...chris is home and we putz around until 3 am or so...and wake up the next day and do it all over again.

I thought I'd get a job this summer....but I kind of keep putting it off...and at this rate, I'll put it off until September, at which point I'll be too busy for one LOL.

PS. Where's my ice cream cake?!:D

[Finaddictfred]

I'm looking for the fish shop job that pays 12 bucks an hour and has a great benefit package *shudders awake after having THAT same dream again *
I'm currently bewtween jobs as a machine maint. tech

[Andy16]

Wake up
Take a shower
Look to see how Lance did in the tour
Call up my friends
Go the Cousins subs
Go the fish store
Go do some stuff at the park with our bikes
Practice 180 endos/drops off the stage at the park
Go biking with my brother for 20 miles
Call my friends again. Do whatever else we think of.



Sometimes this changes but that is my day to day thing that I normally do.

[Snake Eyez]

Originally posted by kikuchiyo
What do I do all day:

Not one darn thing :)

I was thinking I was going to take physics all summer, but since I changed majors (from psychology to biology, still pre-medical) I decided to take physics my senior year (with organic chemistry! fun! :()
Ah well, I should enjoy it. I'm taking Genetics and Chemistry for science majors next semester.

Hang in there if you still want to go into the medical field. It's a long road, but it worth the trip, even if it doesn't seem like it is.

What do I do? Well I am currently taking care of patients as a 3rd year medical student doing a Vascular Surgery rotation at a VA Hospital. The hours suck, but the interacting with the patients and the time in the OR sure beats the book work I've been doing for 2 years.

kikuchiyo, if you have any questions, ask away.

[Walrus]

Originally posted by Leopardess
I also do "nothing"...and it seems to take a lot more time than one would think.

We wake up around 10 or 11 (hehe) hang out, do errands and eat some lunch.

Just curious..............are you hiring for any positions like yours?!?!?!?!?!?!? :D

[kikuchiyo]

Neat Snake Eyez. I defintely want to do it; I'll complain the whole way through, I'm sure, but its the thing I want to do.

I dunno, if you have any advice, I'm all up for some. I'm a bio major, but I hope to make my application stand out with a lot of extracurriculars and especially my Japanese stuff. As it stands I'm taking a year off after my senior year so I can study more for the MCAT and do a lot more volunteering and lab work. After that I'm not sure about my plans, but I'm defintely considering working at the base in Okinawa.

Like I said any advice is apperciated. Just hearing it's worth it defintely is a confidence and motivation booster. Thanks :)

[happychem]

Oceanography graduate student. Did my bachelor's in Chemistry and was looking around for graduate work. Saw "Oceanography" and wondering what it was, clicked the link and did some reading. Then I moved out here.

Some days/weeks I have a million things to do at once, others I'm stretching to find stuff to do until the afternoon. It's too bad in a way, I took the project 'cause I thought it would involve a lot of lab work, in the end, I've spent more time reading papers (which is fine, so long as it pertains to my work) and fiddling with numbers and equations in Excel, or just working on the computer in general. Not what I signed up for, but those few times that I've gotten out into the field for sampling have been great and I love the project. And for the dead space, there's always ac.

[dwayne]

Thanks for all the replies!!!

I learned so much about everyone (and realized I'm not the only person in the world who has a regular full time desk job and plays on the internet alot!!)

~Tara

[Sensei_the_dojo]

Originally posted by Watcher74
Find me a waiter job that makes me more than 70 grand a year and I'll sign up. We obviously live in parts of the country with vastly different economies. I seriously doubt there are any IT jobs in this neck of the woods (southeastern New Mexico) that pay close to 70k. My total compensation (including all benefits) is less than half that.

[RTR]

Location does count - in the DC Metro area there are plenty of IT jobs in six figures, but cost of living here is pretty steep as well, but far from the worst in the country.

[geoffgarcia]

web development (jack of all trades, master of none) contractor 6-24 month gigs typically

[Cheech]

I "design" furniture and custom wine cellars/wine rooms. Also recently opened a family business selling architectural coatings and water proofing membranes.

Bringing old threads back to life rocks. :D

[J double R]

i am a personal assistant for one of the Submarine Squadron Commodores on the Subase in CT. I get to sit here when the Commodore isnt traveling. :dance2:

[marc515192]

I am a computer trainer. One avantage to this job is all of my personal work ie web design and other type of prep work is ok for me to do on the job as it falls under class prep.

[bkw1982]

two part time jobs....customer service at a bank and graveyard bellman at hotel. go to school part time, got my BA in psyc hoping to get master in I/O psyc (goin to take me forever)

[ILOVEBETTAS]

I go to school but today I'm off

[GirlieGirl8521]

I work part time as an office assistant at a Children's Hospital. I pretty much do what people around here need me to do. Most of the time I'm at my desk and computer though, so I can be on AC alot during the days I work. :D I am in college full time majoring in Nursing...only 3 more semesters to go!

[DawnieGA2006]

Stay at home mom for the last year...... before that I was working for a Real Estate Aprraisal Firm - I also design and create webpages and graphics on occassion. I help run 2 online paint shop pro graphics list on aol, send out a weekly newsletter to the groups, take care of the fish, hamsters and the house, oh and the kids lol My hubby is a truck driver and brings home the bacon lol

[daayda3]

Im on here allmost all day LOL:D
Then I do my "stuff" on my fish tanks... then come on here:p:
Then do something in my room...ten go on here:p:...ect

[Siren]

Well, up until a little under a month ago, I worked at an Eye Dr's. and did their insurance claims,worked on glasses, and played desk jockey....but, the Dr decided to go to greener pastures and sell his business. I didn't go with it. So, I am a stay at home kinda gal, trying to write the novel that will make it so my hubby doesn't have to work either :) I swear we should start a support group...

ME: "Hi. My name is Siren/Dahija/FishR. I spend too much time online when I should be doing something useful, like washing the dogs and the dishes or writing my book. I even do housework between posting. It's like doing things around the house during commercials. I feel great about it."

GROUP: "Hi, Siren. We feel your pain, or lack thereof."

[legendaryfrog]

I work 55 hours a week as an internal audit for pepsi. If you don't know, an internal audit reviews (and take parts in) all financial desions and makes sure the decisions comply with law.

[jm1212]

i am a student, so HW and school takes up alot of my time, not to mention clubs and sports.

[donfenk]

I am an electrical engineer moved to a techincal sales job covering eastern USA and eastern Canada - working from home since my company is on the other side of the country - when i am not traveling i am at my home office all day - there is only a limited amount of time you can work at home without hitting the frig or doing a bit of surfing.

My 55 Gal African tank is in my home office so i spend alot of time watching them also.

[lwooters]

Add me to the geek list. I work full time as a network administrator for a small bank. Oh, and my husband has his own business installing home theater systems, so I do his books and help him on evenings and weekends.

[aoscar]

I did a search on diy stands and somehow, this thread came up so lets do it again.
I build houses (frame, trim, and roofing )

[Siren]

I sleep all day. Now that I don't have a job, I've reverted to my old college schedule....get up about 2-4pm, go to bed about 5-6am....I swear I'm nocturnal...

[necigrad]

Ever wonder who decides if your plane weighs too much? That's me. I've been at an airline (same one too) for 8 1/2 years. I started as a bag smasher, but have been doing weight and balance for the last 7 years. I also was a cook in a former life, complete with a degree in Culinary Arts.

Find me a waiter job that makes me more than 70 grand a year and I'll sign up.

So when you moving to Vegas? That's normal for the high end restaurants.

[DBray6]

School Bus Driver here. Yeah it's fun!

My fish tank helps me relax after a long day of driving your children around.