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Today I was thinking about how I like my job, and I was wondering if this is unusual.

I'm a neuroscience grad student, for those who don't know, and my job consists of working on my doctoral thesis. I won't bore you with details unless somebody is foolish enough to ask for them. For now, suffice it to say that I like the work I do, and I am satisfied with the pay I receive.

How about you? Do you like your job?

(If you are still too young to work, what kind of job do you think you would like? Or, alternatively, if your "job" is going to school, do you like that?)

I love my job. I get £22k a year for a 36 hour week, simply ringing a bell and saying "tickets please". Its great!

Meh. I loke the people I work with....well most of them but I can't wait to leave in August. So it's a mixed feeling.

meh, i study medicine, and it is ok i guess. i just had exams though, and i'm kind of sick of school now.

My job is OK. It's so easy I spend most of my time at work on NS and I still get everything done.

I do like my job. It's my first "real" 9-5 office job, and it's pretty good. It's a small office, the boss is really flexible on hours, and I can surf the internet, unless I'm being billed hourly. The only thing I can do without is dealing with the cranky old people who decide to winter here from the midwest.

I do wish I got paid more, but I get by.

The pays not good but I get to drill and solder and crap.. plus my work mates are pretty cool..

I love most of my jobs. I am seriously considering being more judicious with which clients I take since they are most of the headache in two of my jobs. I did get to argue with an IRS auditor today and that is the part of my job I love.

(yes, I am that weird)

my other jobs involve teaching things (which is awesome) and learning things (which is uber-awesome) and reading (which is infinite awesome) and taking care of my family (which is semi-cool, until one of the kids looks up at me with their big blue eyes and says "you are the best mom in the world" then it's like :eek: :D)

I love my job. sure it involves people complaining to me, but the satisfaction of helping them with their IS needs makes it all worth while.

I like my job well enough, I don't wake up of a morning and bemoan having to go to work. So that's something. It's not a bad job, though occasionally some of the whiners here get on my nerves.

I love my job. sure it involves people complaining to me, but the satisfaction of helping them with their IS needs makes it all worth while.

The day I stop having that attitude is when I know I need to quit IT....and I don't think thats going to happen for many many years to come.

At the moment I'm quite happy with my job. Sometimes I hate it though.

Objectively, the pay's rubbish (but it's more than I spend, so nevermind, and they'll never find anyone to replace me for the same cash), the hours are fine, the conditions are great (it being work from home), it's rarely onerous. Sometimes it's a bit hectic, sometimes it's interesting, sometimes it's dull. My boss is quite reasonable and puts up with me fairly well.

If I have a complaint it's that I sometimes feel wasted doing it. I could be doing much more; most of the things I have to do require more effort to work up the enthusiasm to start them than they actually require to do, and they don't often require a lot of thought. I've definitely got more stupider since I left university all those years (ie. three and a bit) ago.

There are times like now, when I drive down to fucking Sacramento for three days of work which makes the trip barely worth it only to find out that they cut me for the first day so it's really almost just break even-and I had to pass on a 10 day job because I had already agreed to do this one...

That sucks.

But-over all it's pretty cool. I meet new people all the time, occasionally do some interesting things, and when I work documentaries it's actually pretty interesting. Weird shit happens like meeting the guy who coined the term 'software' and the one who coined 'blog.'

I don't want to work at the level I am (absolute bottom, well, I'm above the interns...barely...) much longer, but I like it for the most part.

Today I was thinking about how I like my job, and I was wondering if this is unusual.

I'm a neuroscience grad student, for those who don't know, and my job consists of working on my doctoral thesis. I won't bore you with details unless somebody is foolish enough to ask for them. For now, suffice it to say that I like the work I do, and I am satisfied with the pay I receive.

How about you? Do you like your job?

(If you are still too young to work, what kind of job do you think you would like? Or, alternatively, if your "job" is going to school, do you like that?)

Very much so--I like teaching a subject I love. I could certainly do a little less of it, which, should I publish a book or two and land in a tenure track job, would happen, but even so, I love what I do. I have plenty of time to write and diddle around online and still do a good job.

I'm a neuroscience grad student, for those who don't know, and my job consists of working on my doctoral thesis. )

...

:eek:

Holy shit, Bottle...I had no idea you were working on a doctorate...my respect for you just doubled, and it's already pretty damned high!

As for me, I've been jobless since late December, and quite frankly right now I like it that way.

I'm at college (the UK type) and, for the most part, really enjoy it :)
I really do like learning in general (yay geekyness! :P), and now that there is a better style of teaching and I can choose subjects I'm interested in, it's wonderful! Studying psychology (area which I'd love to get a career in), history (which I've developed a passion for), english literature (yay reading!) and maths (worst of the four :P but the challenge can be really quite fun). All fascinating, and I wish I could somehow find the time to fit in more! Don't think I'll ever stop reading and learning. Sometimes it gets a bit hectic and stressful, but I do really love it overall :)

I do dislike the idea of jobs, but they won't go away, so ... I love my work, it's my job I hate. :p Most of the time it isn't bad, but every now and then, like today when I came back from a nice long four-day weekend and found the place gone to hell in a hand-basket. I can't go away for a couple of days without ... *wanders off muttering*

I won't bore you with details unless somebody is foolish enough to ask for them.
Ooh!Oooh! *waves hand frantically*


How about you? Do you like your job?

There's perks, like free furniture, $100 tips and the like, lotsa travel.
My coworkers are a little unusual though, and i'm doing my best to stave off that barely-subsurface instinct to exploit them with every minute on the clock for my personal amusement and such.

I'm at college (the UK type) and, for the most part, really enjoy it :)
I really do like learning in general (yay geekyness! :P), and now that there is a better style of teaching and I can choose subjects I'm interested in, it's wonderful! Studying psychology (area which I'd love to get a career in), history (which I've developed a passion for), english literature (yay reading!) and maths (worst of the four :P but the challenge can be really quite fun). All fascinating, and I wish I could somehow find the time to fit in more! Don't think I'll ever stop reading and learning. Sometimes it gets a bit hectic and stressful, but I do really love it overall :)

i really wish i could choose random courses like that. here we just choose one main direction. (medicine, history, economics, ...) and we are trained to become 'experts' in that.
so the last couple of months i've been constantly studying about cells. wich is interesting the first few weeks but after a few months it gets annoying (and then you have to make exams about it for 6 weeks :rolleyes: ).
luckily we're getting psychology and sociology atm.

so yeah, history/medicine/philosofy/politics would pwn so much, and would probably be a lot more interesting than medicine alone.

I'm at college (the UK type) and, for the most part, really enjoy it :)
I really do like learning in general (yay geekyness! :P), and now that there is a better style of teaching and I can choose subjects I'm interested in, it's wonderful! Studying psychology (area which I'd love to get a career in), history (which I've developed a passion for), english literature (yay reading!) and maths (worst of the four :P but the challenge can be really quite fun). All fascinating, and I wish I could somehow find the time to fit in more! Don't think I'll ever stop reading and learning. Sometimes it gets a bit hectic and stressful, but I do really love it overall :)

Oh, darlin' Glitziness, I hope Huw's got a tranquilizer gun handy or access to serious anti-depressants, because when you graduate and enter the Real World, I foresee a terrible awakening. Meanwhile, have fun!

yeah, i like my job(s)...
i'm in my early 20s and not ready to settle or finish off my university degree, so i work in different areas of Canada doing seasonal employment. from april to late august i live in a tent in the Rocky Mountains planting trees in British Columbia. its labour intensive work, but good planters make about $250+ daily, so needless to say, it pays the rent! for the winter i have been working doing construction in Alberta Canada.. making foundations for houses. i like working outdoors so both of these are a good fit for me, and in both cases there is quite a bit of money to be made. i'm content!

*shrugs* Beats dole.

I get minimum wage and 40 hours a week but the boss is decent and it keeps me in better shape than doing nothing did.

It has its downsides though. I'm expected to pretty much keep the whole shopfloor working and organised with no actual backup. It's not the hardest job in the world I know but it's unrewarding. I put a hell of a lot of effort in and most of what I get is bullshit and bullying in return.

I can;t even leave either, not unless I want to be WORSE off than I was before (Would YOU employ someone who dumped his first real job after 2 months?)

I'm currently looking for a job.

I'm a youth soccer referee for my college job and it is the best job I have ever had.

I love my job and the people I work with though the pay does suck.
My flexible hours are great, part time jobs tend to be good for that.
But Macdonalds sucks when you have to work with customers. oh god the complaints..........so many*sobs for 5minutes* but luckily I mostly cook. so I'm happy

Its not bad. Don't have to think much.

i really wish i could choose random courses like that. here we just choose one main direction. (medicine, history, economics, ...) and we are trained to become 'experts' in that.
so the last couple of months i've been constantly studying about cells. wich is interesting the first few weeks but after a few months it gets annoying (and then you have to make exams about it for 6 weeks :rolleyes: ).
luckily we're getting psychology and sociology atm.

so yeah, history/medicine/philosofy/politics would pwn so much, and would probably be a lot more interesting than medicine alone.
Well, it's only between 16-18 that we choose (about 4) varied courses. Beforehand, we had very minimal choice, and when I go to uni I'll choose one course to take and focus purely on that area like you're doing now.

Good luck with the medicine :)

Oh, darlin' Glitziness, I hope Huw's got a tranquilizer gun handy or access to serious anti-depressants, because when you graduate and enter the Real World, I foresee a terrible awakening. Meanwhile, have fun!
I'm not blind to the real world; especially the fact that being a psychologist would be incredibly emotionally hard (assuming I go into clinical/counselling and not something like educational), and that it's not all "helping people" and involves a lot more than that, including less inspiring things such as a tonne of paperwork, I'm sure :p And that continuous studying of various areas will be hard to fit in... but none of that means I can't be sickeningly cheerful and optimistic and have at least some youthful naivety ;) :D

My job's like yours, Bottle - working on my doctorate - although mine will be in Bioengineering, rather than Neuroscience (not that Neuroscience isn't hella cool).

Most of the time, I really love it, although it can get frustrating. Late last year, we decided that the direction my research was going in simply wasn't proving to be fruitful enough and started in a new direction. It's a bit frustrating starting something new that far into your doctorate, but it's also very exciting and I think we're going to get some really interesting results from it. I also no longer have to sit down and explain to people that yes, I'm working with stem cells, but not those stem cells, since I really do get to work with embryonic stem cells in my new project. Now, if I didn't have to wait for cells to be ready before I could do the experiments..... hehe

((I would like more pay if I could get it, though. My fiance pays most of the bills now.))

... I'm not blind to the real world; especially the fact that being a psychologist would be incredibly emotionally hard (assuming I go into clinical/counselling and not something like educational), and that it's not all "helping people" and involves a lot more than that, including less inspiring things such as a tonne of paperwork, I'm sure :p And that continuous studying of various areas will be hard to fit in... but none of that means I can't be sickeningly cheerful and optimistic and have at least some youthful naivety ;) :D

Oh, do be sickeningly optimistic and cheerful! I didn't mean you shouldn't. Nor did I really think you'd go bonkers in the workaday world, I was just giving you the business (which you did deserve). Honestly, I think sometime I ought to be shot with a dart and hauled off somewhere peaceful.

Don't worry, it'd take a lot to change my cheery nature - depression didn't, you won't :p Especially when it happens to be the day before my one year anniversary with Huw, and a few days before we fly off to Amsterdam :) (just to reassure you I'm still sickeningly sweet and happy ;))

Don't worry, it'd take a lot to change my cheery nature - depression didn't, you won't :p Especially when it happens to be the day before my one year anniversary with Huw, and a few days before we fly off to Amsterdam :) (just to reassure you I'm still sickeningly sweet and happy ;))

I never thought it would, love.

That's right, it's Amsterdam tour coming up. We'll expect a full report and such photos as can be deemed appropriate for public viewing. :p

My job is ok...the hours aren't great, but I'm the one who picked 'em, and it helps me that we're dead this time of year...gives me more time for school work.

No, I like my paycheck.

I love my job. I get £22k a year for a 36 hour week, simply ringing a bell and saying "tickets please". Its great!

I want your job.

Edit: Almost 43K US dollars. I really want your job.

Here is a regular day for me:

9am: Wake up, stretch my bum hip. Get the kids out of bed and do the diapers and other cleanliness jive. Make breakfast.

10am - 12: I smoke pot and dick around on the internet while the brats eat and lounge around.

12 - 2pm: If the weather and my hip agrees we go outside and run amok with the dogs. Weather disagreeing, we read stories or do something productive. ;)

2-4pm: Nap time. Kids go down, daddy smokes a little more herb and possibly has a nap of his own. Maybe a boiling hot bath to loosen up the hip and get a chunk of proper reading done.

4-7pm: Watch the tube and possibly do a few household chores.

7-9pm: Dinner, then the wind-down, baths and bed-time shortly after 9.

9:30 - 1am: A little more pot and FINALLY some booze. Daily Show and Colbert. My wife gets off work at midnight and after a snuggle and tickle, sweet, sweet sleep.

I LOVE my job.

I am morally opposed to working.

i kinda like my job. as jobs go its a good one, but its not really what i want to do and its also difficult emotionally working in a family business.

Here is a regular day for me:

9am: Wake up, stretch my bum hip. Get the kids out of bed and do the diapers and other cleanliness jive. Make breakfast.

10am - 12: I smoke pot and dick around on the internet while the brats eat and lounge around.

12 - 2pm: If the weather and my hip agrees we go outside and run amok with the dogs. Weather disagreeing, we read stories or do something productive. ;)

2-4pm: Nap time. Kids go down, daddy smokes a little more herb and possibly has a nap of his own. Maybe a boiling hot bath to loosen up the hip and get a chunk of proper reading done.

4-7pm: Watch the tube and possibly do a few household chores.

7-9pm: Dinner, then the wind-down, baths and bed-time shortly after 9.

9:30 - 1am: A little more pot and FINALLY some booze. Daily Show and Colbert. My wife gets off work at midnight and after a snuggle and tickle, sweet, sweet sleep.

I LOVE my job.

how old are your kids?

how old are your kids?

Brooke is 2 years and 6 months on the 19th of this month, Brennan will be a year in July.

I say 'kids' but it's mostly just my daughter. Brennan has always been a terrific baby and rarely requires anything more than a diaper change and a bottle. Brooke is old enough now that she requires entertaining.

I love my job, as even though the basic description is boring, there's lot's of upsides.

First, I work with my friends. Not just friends I made at the job, friends I had before I had this job. More than that, I work with interesting people who do interesting things.

I am given a level of autonomy, and when assigned tasks they are either necessary or fascinating.

The work environment is extremely positive.

It's not the best job in the world, but it's a great job for someone in my current (undergrad) situation.

Brooke is 2 years and 6 months on the 19th of this month, Brennan will be a year in July.

I say 'kids' but it's mostly just my daughter. Brennan has always been a terrific baby and rarely requires anything more than a diaper change and a bottle. Brooke is old enough now that she requires entertaining.

Brennan needs a lot more than a diaper and a bottle and Brooke needs more than entertainment.

Don't you worry that while you are smoking pot and letting them 'lounge' you are ruining any chance they have in later life of success?

:(

Brennan needs a lot more than a diaper and a bottle and Brooke needs more than entertainment.

Don't you worry that while you are smoking pot and letting them 'lounge' you are ruining any chance they have in later life of success?

:(

Yeah, thanks for making a judgement on me over a joking reply in a light-hearted thread, but I'll avoid a proper reply in the hopes of avoiding the ruin of yet another thread with petulant, off-topic bullshit.

Welcome to NSG: The internet's anus.

Yeah, thanks for making a judgement on me over a joking reply in a light-hearted thread, but I'll avoid a proper reply in the hopes of avoiding the ruin of yet another thread with petulant, off-topic bullshit.

Welcome to NSG: The internet's anus.

I only know what I read.

btw your location being "Toke" tends to make me think you probably weren't kidding about the pot smoking.

I dislike the existence of jobs in the first place. Working is rubbish. That doesn't mean I think sloth and laziness are good, I just think that work diminishes the experience of what it is to be human. While westerners have much more leisure time than others (i.e. sweatshop workers) it is still sad that the time when we get to actually live as we want is defined by and subservient to the time we spend working.

I like my job. As a teacher, I'm never going to get rich, but I don't care. I enjoy it, it's interesting, and that's the main thing. I'm in the early years of my career teaching at university.

I'm also doing my doctoral thesis, which is also interesting.

I dislike the existence of jobs in the first place. Working is rubbish. That doesn't mean I think sloth and laziness are good, I just think that work diminishes the experience of what it is to be human. While westerners have much more leisure time than others (i.e. sweatshop workers) it is still sad that the time when we get to actually live as we want is defined by and subservient to the time we spend working.

Is that why we spend free time on NSG? :D

a few days before we fly off to Amsterdam :) (just to reassure you I'm still sickeningly sweet and happy ;))
Smokin' the blow!

Brennan needs a lot more than a diaper and a bottle and Brooke needs more than entertainment.

Don't you worry that while you are smoking pot and letting them 'lounge' you are ruining any chance they have in later life of success?

:(
I agree; while it is possible to force your children into doing too many activities (I'm told American parents are terrible for this), a parent should introduce them to some fields of human endeavour, such as art, music, or sports.

I only know what I read.

btw your location being "Toke" tends to make me think you probably weren't kidding about the pot smoking.

I freely admit that I smoke alot of pot. I've got a bum hip, Ankylosing Spondilytis, and 30$ worth of marijuana a week does a far better job of helping me control my pain than any of the legal and absurdly expensive scrips I get. Not to mention the fact that I'm quite capable of functioning at ANY task after a toke but if I eat a couple of my hydrocodone a day I see my world become a surreal blur.

Like you said, you only know what you read in a light-hearted thread that I snickered and replied to. The fact that I referred to my time with my wife as 'a snuggle and tickle' should have acted as a huge warning sign to not take my initial post at face value.

The tone of your post indicated to me that since I smoked a little pot and let my children watch the television that I'm derelict as a parent, which just isn't the case, and that my kids are doomed to failure because of it, which is just as absurd. We read and play games and do all of the fun stuff we're supposed to do and I'm completely confident in saying that my daughter is far, far ahead of the curve.

Being a giant semi-responsible six year old myself, my job of stay-at-home dad and teacher is one I love and hope to continue.

/previously discussed petulant off-topic bullshit

Yeah, thanks for making a judgement on me over a joking reply in a light-hearted thread, but I'll avoid a proper reply in the hopes of avoiding the ruin of yet another thread with petulant, off-topic bullshit.

Welcome to NSG: The internet's anus.

If you think this is the internets anus, then you obviously haven't been around the net very long.

I freely admit that I smoke alot of pot. I've got a bum hip, Ankylosing Spondilytis, and 30$ worth of marijuana a week does a far better job of helping me control my pain than any of the legal and absurdly expensive scrips I get. Not to mention the fact that I'm quite capable of functioning at ANY task after a toke but if I eat a couple of my hydrocodone a day I see my world become a surreal blur.
that is a very painful condition (I hear) and I am glad you find relief.

Like you said, you only know what you read in a light-hearted thread that I snickered and replied to. The fact that I referred to my time with my wife as 'a snuggle and tickle' should have acted as a huge warning sign to not take my initial post at face value.
and yet it did not, and your post after where you said

I say 'kids' but it's mostly just my daughter. Brennan has always been a terrific baby and rarely requires anything more than a diaper change and a bottle. Brooke is old enough now that she requires entertaining.

made me think I should take your original post at face value.

The tone of your post indicated to me that since I smoked a little pot and let my children watch the television that I'm derelict as a parent, which just isn't the case, and that my kids are doomed to failure because of it, which is just as absurd. We read and play games and do all of the fun stuff we're supposed to do and I'm completely confident in saying that my daughter is far, far ahead of the curve.
if all the stimulation you give your kids is feeding them and letting them watch TV I am worried about them, if it's not then I am glad that I was wrong.

Being a giant semi-responsible six year old myself, my job of stay-at-home dad and teacher is one I love and hope to continue.

/previously discussed petulant off-topic bullshit
I stay home with my kids too, when I don't want to run head long into the wall, it is a pretty sweet gig. :)

Nope - my job occupies the ninth circle of hell (call centre operator). I took the job while studying full time for a degree, and now I can't get out! :headbang:

If you think this is the internets anus, then you obviously haven't been around the net very long.

Perhaps they need to dig deeper! :D
*cough*

Ooh!Oooh! *waves hand frantically*

Hehe, now you've gone and done it!

I study the vestibular system. More specifically, I study second-order vestibular nuclei (which are located in the brainstem). The vestibular reflex pathways that move through these nuclei are important for controlling how you orient relative to gravity, and how your body "calibrates" your posture, balance, and eye-movements.

When there is acute damage to the vestibular ganglion or vestibular nerve, you can get some really serious symptoms. People can be totally unable to maintain balance and posture, and thus unable to move around on their own. There will be lots of nausea and dizziness and vertigo. Eye movements can get seriously messed up.

What is really cool, though, is that these symptoms will usually start to go away within a few days. There will be a gradual recovery to almost-normal levels...even though neither the ganglion nor the nerve recovers! So, the damaged portion isn't growing back or anything. What's going on is some kind of compensation in the brain. This process is, naturally, called "vestibular compensation."

Because the vestibular reflex pathways are fairly simple, this system makes a really awesome model for studying CNS plasticity and recovery after injury/disease.

I use chicken embryos for my research, and my main methods are immunocytochemistry and electrophysiology. I'm both an anatomist and a physiologist in terms of my approach. :D

I wash dishes for 8 hours straight every Sunday. Decent enough pay, and thus lets me arse about when out of school, but my god I fucking hate the work. Physical, boring, long and pointless.

Hmm, I was thinking about making a thread like this, but with the title: "how much do you hate your job?"

As you can tell I dont particularly like my job and cant really conceive of a job I would like that it would be feasible for me to get.

And I'm posting this from work, hope they dont have a keylogger or somesuch running.

edit: what a depressing 300th post.

Now, if I didn't have to wait for cells to be ready before I could do the experiments..... hehe
Oy, I hear that. And I don't even get to use cultured cells...I have put up with actual living animals. Bletch. They never cooperate with my schedule.


((I would like more pay if I could get it, though. My fiance pays most of the bills now.))
Yeah, I wouldn't mind more money, but I'm satisfied with what I've got. For now. :D

I'm a youth soccer referee for my college job and it is the best job I have ever had.

I did that, too! It was pretty cool.

Best job I ever had, though, was being a Ninja Turtle. (for kids birthday parties...I was also Batman, Big Bird, etc.) Not many jobs where people hug you when you show up...

My "job" has its ups and downs. I'm a student of French (in France, no less) which I rather like, but the pay is rather crap, in that I don't get paid. Quite the reverse, actually. Hopefully I'll have enough organs to sell to get all the way through school.

my job being to sit on my thumb, wipe my wife's ass (figuratively, not litteraly, she does pay the rent and pay for the groceries), and sleep, dream and play on this computer:

believe it or not, i would rather be living by myself out in the woods somewhere.

and it WOULD, i know, probably take a good deal more sweat just to keep myself fed, and i'm not sure how well i'd survive without grocery stores or some sort of shaired food economy. also shaired tecnology economy. but for land and shelter, i, and probably all of us, i feel, would be better left outside of either.

nor need either be monetary based. though both MAY require or be enhanced by, some degree of social organization. and of course incentives are granted, preferable to threats.

but is a monetary basis the only way social organization can be based on incentives rather then threats?

i believe it is the unexamened false presumption that it cannot that we are brainwashed into bending our knees to monetary economics by.

and yes i can immagine happy, free, and gratifying universal alternatives!

and no, none of the existing idiologies, nor ones known to be of past practice, are among them.

=^^=
.../\...

Well, it's only between 16-18 that we choose (about 4) varied courses. Beforehand, we had very minimal choice, and when I go to uni I'll choose one course to take and focus purely on that area like you're doing now.

Good luck with the medicine :)

we have very minimal choice here too. from my 12-15 i studied latin, but learning vocabulary got really annoying really fast. and from my 15-18 i studied sciences + mathematics, wich was ok i guess. it would have been cool if we had more choice because we had some really stupid classes.

thanks, good luck with psychology.

Haha. I bag groceries in a supermarket. Over the couple of years i've worked there, i've had things thrown at me, been threatened, sworn at, had insulting comments made about my appearance, been slapped, almost peed on by a small child once (and had to clean it up)...

I spend every shift (up to 10 hours, but usually less) on my feet...low pay, no challenge or rewards...and in spite of that I have to smile and act like I love my life.

Take a guess. ;)

i haven't turned up for work in 3 weeks. i'm going to run out of money in a minute.

dude you should watch this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wal-Mart-High-Cost-Prices/dp/B000FTJ74G/sr=1-1/qid=1171463704/ref=pd_bowtega_1/203-7459496-9207943?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

My workplace allows unions at least. ;)

Haha. I bag groceries in a supermarket. Over the couple of years i've worked there, i've had things thrown at me, been threatened, sworn at, had insulting comments made about my appearance, been slapped, almost peed on by a small child once (and had to clean it up)...

I spend every shift (up to 10 hours, but usually less) on my feet...low pay, no challenge or rewards...and in spite of that I have to smile and act like I love my life.

Take a guess. ;)

dude you should watch this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wal-Mart-High-Cost-Prices/dp/B000FTJ74G/sr=1-1/qid=1171463704/ref=pd_bowtega_1/203-7459496-9207943?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

I love my job.

If I wasn't able to do it for money I'd probably do it for free. Live sound just gets in your blood after a while. Yeah, the pay ain't great, but its enough to keep the wolf from the door, and the hours are somewhat anti-social, but it isn't as if I'm stuck off on my own away from all human contact when I am working.

Every day is an adventure.

I am currently between school and university (which is finally starting next week, I've been on holidays since November!), so yes... I enjoy my current job as a full time slacker/generalite.

Who wouldn't enjoy writing processes for people that will never follow them:rolleyes:

At least it pays well enough and I get the interweb

I work in a shop (in a less than nice area)....and although it can be horribly boring most of the time, I get to work with people who absolutely crack me up (like the girl who didn't know what a llama was, or the one who came out with "my friend said I'm fickle, is that good?"). However much they entertain me, I can't wait til May when I finish uni and have the time to get a real job :p

On the side I do some sound engineering, and I absolutely love it :)

I do usually like my job. And I usually like drinking before doing my job. It's not quite as convenient as when I was a pub dj in university~~then I could drink WHILE doing my job.

On the side I do some sound engineering, and I absolutely love it :)

Like I said, it gets in your blood. If I have a day off whenever it rolls round to about nine o'clock at nine my fingers start drumming on the table and I feel I should be sitting in front of a PA someplace.

My "job" has its ups and downs. I'm a student of French (in France, no less) which I rather like, but the pay is rather crap, in that I don't get paid. Quite the reverse, actually. Hopefully I'll have enough organs to sell to get all the way through school.
You are back in France! I thought you might be. Are you enjoying it so far?

I love my job.

If I wasn't able to do it for money I'd probably do it for free. Live sound just gets in your blood after a while. Yeah, the pay ain't great, but its enough to keep the wolf from the door, and the hours are somewhat anti-social, but it isn't as if I'm stuck off on my own away from all human contact when I am working.

Every day is an adventure.

I'd say you have some pretty nice perks. Do gigs ever start to feel like work for you, though?

Damn sure. It's interesting, you deal with both people and machines, you can see the results of your work, and it pays well, too.

I'd say you have some pretty nice perks. Do gigs ever start to feel like work for you, though?

Oh yeah, but even then I can console myself with the thought that I'll be dealing with a different band or a different promoter the next day. I still really don't have a particularly good understanding of contemporary metal (aside from where it bleeds into hardcore), and so sometimes the metal nights can seem a bit long, but if the worst comes to worst I can knock up a reasonable mix and throw in the earplugs. I guess the funny thing is that contrary to what you might initially expect, the harder gigs are actually the ones with the beginning musicians, rather than the more established or even famous ones. Despite what you might think it isn't really intimidating to do sound for a professional band or a 'name' band, as they know what they're doing on stage, for the most part. Whereas when you're trying to pull together a good sound for a bunch of seventeen year olds playing their first ever gig with out of tune instruments, backline cranked too high and ego problems on stage, it it then that you really have to work hard.

It always feels like work in that you're only ever as good as your last mix though, as they say, and so there is perpetually the feeling that you should be delivering your very best and there is no time for slacking off or giving less than 100% of what you can give. Big deal if you have an off day in a call centre or serving in a shop, but when you have a day at the mixing desk where things run away from you and are then haunted by someone posting up about 'sound problems' on the net the day after a gig it can be a pain. But hey, I'm not dealing with recordings for the most part, and so these things are quickly lost in the aether, just so long as you don't make any horrendous fuck-ups, and so are quickly over. On a duff night I can always tell myself that tomorrow will be better.

If nowt else the stinker days are good learning opportunities.

Oh yeah, but even then I can console myself with the thought that I'll be dealing with a different band or a different promoter the next day. I still really don't have a particularly good understanding of contemporary metal (aside from where it bleeds into hardcore), and so sometimes the metal nights can seem a bit long, but if the worst comes to worst I can knock up a reasonable mix and throw in the earplugs. I guess the funny thing is that contrary to what you might initially expect, the harder gigs are actually the ones with the beginning musicians, rather than the more established or even famous ones. Despite what you might think it isn't really intimidating to do sound for a professional band or a 'name' band, as they know what they're doing on stage, for the most part. Whereas when you're trying to pull together a good sound for a bunch of seventeen year olds playing their first ever gig with out of tune instruments, backline cranked too high and ego problems on stage, it it then that you really have to work hard.

It always feels like work in that you're only ever as good as your last mix though, as they say, and so there is perpetually the feeling that you should be delivering your very best and there is no time for slacking off or giving less than 100% of what you can give. Big deal if you have an off day in a call centre or serving in a shop, but when you have a day at the mixing desk where things run away from you and are then haunted by someone posting up about 'sound problems' on the net the day after a gig it can be a pain. But hey, I'm not dealing with recordings for the most part, and so these things are quickly lost in the aether, just so long as you don't make any horrendous fuck-ups, and so are quickly over. On a duff night I can always tell myself that tomorrow will be better.

If nowt else the stinker days are good learning opportunities.

Sounds really interesting though. Did you get involved with it as the logical progression of a hobby or did you actually do some sort of course relating to it?

I would have figured that beginning musicians would be harder as well, having played with some semi-professional musicians before (not famous ones at all, but ones that have been gigging for several years and know what they're doing at least), I definitely know which are the easier ones to play music with...albeit with the occasional ego getting in the way, but that extends over to a lot of amateurish musicians too. I can only imagine that carries on over to what they're like to work with in that sort of situation. :P

Although...yes, i'm one of those twits that post about sound problems every now and then, but I maintain in those few incidents, they deserved it. ;) (And as for not understanding contemporary metal...you did get me into the Slomatics, no?)

Today I was thinking about how I like my job, and I was wondering if this is unusual.

I'm a neuroscience grad student, for those who don't know, and my job consists of working on my doctoral thesis. I won't bore you with details unless somebody is foolish enough to ask for them. For now, suffice it to say that I like the work I do, and I am satisfied with the pay I receive.

How about you? Do you like your job?

(If you are still too young to work, what kind of job do you think you would like? Or, alternatively, if your "job" is going to school, do you like that?)

Considering your nation's name here...I'm highly surprised to see that the two are related... It's either a deliberate attempt to "normalize" yourself, or...

You're already well on your way to becoming a drunkard. ;)

Considering your nation's name here...I'm highly surprised to see that the two are related... It's either a deliberate attempt to "normalize" yourself, or...

You're already well on your way to becoming a drunkard. ;)
As a matter of fact, in my entire time here on NS there was only one person who correctly identified the source of my nation's name. Hint: Aldous Huxley.

Sounds really interesting though. Did you get involved with it as the logical progression of a hobby or did you actually do some sort of course relating to it?

Played in a couple of bands off-and-on in my younger days, but was never particularly good at that end of things, and just kind of drifted into looking after the desk, with which I'd always had a vague fascination. After a year or so of somehow getting away with doing really bad sound I noticed that I was actually learning to listen and ended up a better engineer than a musician.

In my time I've done two very minor courses, neither of which actually taught me anything I didn't already know, so I consider myself pretty much self-taught. Currently there are a couple of more serious courses running in my neck of the woods teaching music technology, and so there is a reasonably steady flow of people coming out of them with at least a theoretical understanding of the basics, but that is really a very different set of skills from actually listening.

Hey, at the end of the day I just make shit louder, and continue to be amazed that people trust me as a filter between them and the audience.


EDIT: oh yeah, and as far as the Slomatics go, I got to mix them again about two weeks back, and still get shivers up the spin everytime they play Celeste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6d2AWNNhJM). At the risk of sounding smug, I consider my method for mixing them to be a trade secret.

As a matter of fact, in my entire time here on NS there was only one person who correctly identified the source of my nation's name. Hint: Aldous Huxley.

Ha! Guess what I just started reading?

Ha! Guess what I just started reading?
Be sure to read some of his "lesser" works, too. Good stuff. :D

i Like my job... I work at Kids Ventures inside a cassino..and what we do is we watch ppls kids while they go gamble or whatever..and i get paid to sit on my ass and play with some kids:rolleyes:

Played in a couple of bands off-and-on in my younger days, but was never particularly good at that end of things, and just kind of drifted into looking after the desk, with which I'd always had a vague fascination. After a year or so of somehow getting away with doing really bad sound I noticed that I was actually learning to listen and ended up a better engineer than a musician.

In my time I've done two very minor courses, neither of which actually taught me anything I didn't know, so I consider myself pretty much self-taught. Currently there are a couple of more serious courses running in my neck of the woods teaching music technology, and so there is a reasonably steady flow of people coming out of them with at least a theoretical understanding of the basics, but that is really a very different set of skills from actually listening.

Hey, at the end of the day I just make shit louder, and continue to be amazed that people trust me as a filter between them and the audience.

Well, that's actually good news, since i'm actually starting to look into mixing and the like...and have absolutely no clue what i'm doing, but i'd like to think I can tell what sounds good when I play with things a little. I was contemplating taking a music technology type course since i'll probably have a lot of free time over the coming year, but the overwhelming opinion (from my theory teacher and others) seems to be that I don't really need to.

I don't like my current job. I love it.

HOWEVER, the pay was absolutely shit. I'm getting ready to leave for a job where I'll be making much more money, though with less responsibility.

But I have a feeling I'll look back on my current gig with a lot of fond memories. I don't think I've ever been happier at a job in my life.

Well, that's actually good news, since i'm actually starting to look into mixing and the like...and have absolutely no clue what i'm doing, but i'd like to think I can tell what sounds good when I play with things a little. I was contemplating taking a music technology type course since i'll probably have a lot of free time over the coming year, but the overwhelming opinion (from my theory teacher and others) seems to be that I don't really need to.

I got the basics down from looking over a helpful soundperson's shoulder and lifting and shifting gear for them.

Check the edit to my previous post for a Slomatics related video goodie.

Be sure to read some of his "lesser" works, too. Good stuff. :D

Oh, I shall. I've been meaning to read his work for ages now, unfortunately most of my enquiries at local stores were met with a "who?" Bah. Kids these days. ;) Up 'till now, i'd been either too lazy or occupied with other reading to order it off the internet or travel to a decent store (I did the latter).

Hehe, now you've gone and done it!
Yay, i did something! *ganders around NS*


I study the vestibular system. More specifically, I study second-order vestibular nuclei (which are located in the brainstem). The vestibular reflex pathways that move through these nuclei are important for controlling how you orient relative to gravity, and how your body "calibrates" your posture, balance, and eye-movements.

When there is acute damage to the vestibular ganglion or vestibular nerve, you can get some really serious symptoms. People can be totally unable to maintain balance and posture, and thus unable to move around on their own. There will be lots of nausea and dizziness and vertigo. Eye movements can get seriously messed up.

What is really cool, though, is that these symptoms will usually start to go away within a few days. There will be a gradual recovery to almost-normal levels...even though neither the ganglion nor the nerve recovers! So, the damaged portion isn't growing back or anything. What's going on is some kind of compensation in the brain. This process is, naturally, called "vestibular compensation."

Because the vestibular reflex pathways are fairly simple, this system makes a really awesome model for studying CNS plasticity and recovery after injury/disease.

I use chicken embryos for my research, and my main methods are immunocytochemistry and electrophysiology. I'm both an anatomist and a physiologist in terms of my approach. :D
You've always rocked, now i know more of why. :)

I think, then, you'd be the PERFECT person to ask - What kind of problems am i looking at if, for the better part of the remainder of the day, after i disembark an elevator, i have phantom recurrence of the stopping/starting surge of movement from it? Why does that part of me keep deealing with it? I'm not partial to any particular drug, so i can't blame that .... :)

Ha! Guess what I just started reading?

Playboy, but for the interviews?

I think, then, you'd be the PERFECT person to ask - What kind of problems am i looking at if, for the better part of the remainder of the day, after i disembark an elevator, i have phantom recurrence of the stopping/starting surge of movement from it? Why does that part of me keep deealing with it? I'm not partial to any particular drug, so i can't blame that .... :)
Wow, cool phenomenon. Though probably annoying.

That kind of "vestibular echo" can be caused by a lot of different things. You probably would have noticed if some kind of acute damage to your vestibular system occurred, because the symptoms would have suddenly appeared. If this has been more of a gradual development or a very persistent issue, then one possibility is that you could have some type of viral or bacterial infection that is impacting your vestibular system. Or, funny as it may sound, this kind of problem can actually be caused after taking high doses of some antibiotics!

I'm not a medical doctor, so please don't regard me as a clinical expert, but you certainly might want to bring this up at a physical. There are many simple and non-invasive tests that clinicians can perform to check your vestibular function.

I know there is a syndrome wherein a person experiences "sea sickness" whenever they are NOT on a ship. It sounds weird, but it has to do with their system having incorrectly adjusted itself to a moving situation, and then the system fails to return to the correct baseline when the person is no longer on a moving ship or whatever. It may be that your system gets mess up some how (check that jargon!) and keeps trying to "compensate" for the motion of an elevator even long after you've gotten off the elevator.

I got the basics down from looking over a helpful soundperson's shoulder and lifting and shifting gear for them.

Yeah, that's more or less what has been recommended. I'm leaning more to the recording side of things at the moment (I got myself an SM57, finally), although live sound engineering still interests me a lot.

Check the edit to my previous post for a Slomatics related video goodie.

Oh, cool stuff. I'm hoping those guys manage to build a bit of popularity and tour over here...doubtful, but one can hope.

Did I tell you about the band Pelican? You probably know of them now, since they're picking up in popularity really quickly, but if not...they have that same heavy-yet-slow vibe going for them, and purely instrumental as well.

(And in other news - i'm seeing SunnO))) and Boris when they tour here in May, and i'm rather strangely looking forward to having my internal organs beaten around a bit by the wall of bass.)


(and apologies to Bottle for one hell of an off-topic post :p)