NationStates Jolt Archive


The job thread.

Greater Valia
13-09-2007, 05:46
A thread for the working stiffs of NSG. What do you do, how long have you worked at this particular job, etc.

I'm currently semi-unemployed. I quit my last job because they wanted to cut my hours. Since then I've been doing random odd jobs to cover minor expenses while I look for something full time. Hopefully I'll have enough money saved up within a year so I can move back to Atlanta or Chattanooga.
Posi
13-09-2007, 06:27
I work at fantastic grocery store chain. I will have worked there two years in October, if you exclude my four month hiatus in Alberta.
Gun Manufacturers
13-09-2007, 06:30
I work for the USPS, delivering mail. I've been there since July of last year, and I can understand why some USPS employees went crazy and shot up the post office (not that I condone it).
Barringtonia
13-09-2007, 06:41
I work for the USPS, delivering mail. I've been there since July of last year, and I can understand why some USPS employees went crazy and shot up the post office (not that I condone it).

Newman!
The Brevious
13-09-2007, 07:34
I've been working for a niche company doing warehouse management for a few months now, and i'm in the happy position of simultaneously being relatively indispensible and simultaneously insignificant in every other respect.
:)
Money ain't bad. Not a lot of sex though.
Too much work. Too many people talk.
People seem to miss the basic concepts of shipping too often, and when they do, it always means i have to shift my priorities around again (since it's a constant juggle anyways).
I V Stalin
13-09-2007, 07:39
One dull admin job for a large recruitment company and an infinitely more interesting (yet still actually quite dull) job at a college library (not a university library - it's a further education college. Just so as not to confuse you Americans).

Been doing the first for four months and the other for 8 days.
Rizzoinabox336
13-09-2007, 07:41
I'm a USMC Infantrymen.

I've been for a little over 9 months. So far things are pretty good. We are in the middle of a work up to goto Karma, Iraq. Things there should be pretty insane being that the Marines in the area are getting hit 11-14 times a day.
I'm stationed in Hawaii, so I can't bitch too much. :)
The Brevious
13-09-2007, 07:47
I'm a USMC Infantrymen.

I've been for a little over 9 months. So far things are pretty good. We are in the middle of a work up to goto Karma, Iraq. Things there should be pretty insane being that the Marines in the area are getting hit 11-14 times a day.
I'm stationed in Hawaii, so I can't bitch too much. :)

Good luck to you.
Think of what you'll do when your tour is over.
Rizzoinabox336
13-09-2007, 07:59
Good luck to you.
Think of what you'll do when your tour is over.

Thanks!
I plan on finishing school up and being a history teacher. I'm about half way there.
Cannot think of a name
13-09-2007, 08:06
I'm a freelance set crew worker for film and television, most often as a lowly PA (production assistant-that shlop who gets coffee for people and delivers messages that no one pays attention to and keeps people from walking into shots) but sometimes as a grip/electric (builds lights and reflectors etc), sometimes transpo(rtation) (driving a van back and forth from base camp to set...fucking shoot me...though sometimes picture cars (cars specific to the movie), which is awesome), sometimes boom operator (that guy with the mic on a stick).

The stuff I've worked on that any of you might have heard of are all really sad reality shows. And a hand full of commercials.

I've been doing it for about two years and I'm still predominantly a PA, which means I'm dragging. There are people who just PA'd once and moved up...must do better.
Alavamaa
13-09-2007, 08:11
I work (when needed ) as an av-producer which is just a fancy name for a videoeditor (+graphics+sound). I've done that for 2 years now. I like my job but I'm trying to find a new one because
a) not enough hours (every month)
b) it's too far away

add: I also do all those things CTOAN listed. In a small firm everyone does everything (except I'm the only one who edits)
Jeruselem
13-09-2007, 08:32
3.5 years as an IT Admin (started as the programmer, but the IT Admin posiition became part time and well I have cover the other half of the that job)

Previous to that, 6 months as a Lotus Notes Admin and programmer at a uni
Extreme Ironing
13-09-2007, 08:37
I'm a student. I'm studying music, but other interests are in IT and accountancy.
ColaDrinkers
13-09-2007, 08:43
Another postal worker here. I don't know how you have it elsewhere, but here in Sweden, twice a week every household gets a fold with advertisements in their mailbox. I work with putting those together. It's dull, but it's a job.
The Brevious
13-09-2007, 08:49
accountancy.

Considering lion taming, eh?
Pure Metal
13-09-2007, 10:23
i've worked for my parents for years. they started their own company after leaving London back in the 80's, and i've been involved since i was about 13 or 14. i started out as a graphic designer, moved onto web design, and for the last year or two, after leaving university, i've been developing some projects/products (some old, some new of my own). my "title" is Creative & Research manager.

its quite a good job - i get to choose my hours somewhat (i do from 11 to 7 rather than 9 to 5), but i don't get any special treatment for being the son. its also pretty lonely cos its a small business. but the experience is great.
Wassercraft
13-09-2007, 10:26
I work as corporate financial analyst in investment bank for three years now. It's okay, better than other jobs i hear my friends are working in: here I learn a lot of interesting stuff.
NERVUN
13-09-2007, 10:37
I'm an English as a Foreign Language teacher at a very large elementary school in the middle of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. I started there about three weeks ago (Before that, I taught at a junior high school for three years as part of the JET Programme). So far, I'm loving it, though I wish I could have as much energy as my students do.
Ifreann
13-09-2007, 10:40
A lazy student is me!
New Hebitia
13-09-2007, 10:40
I'm a 'monkey in a suit'. I do all the jobs that nobody else can be bothered to do at the office. Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother turning up, especially since we moved to another city and my commuting costs have gone through the roof.
Creepy Lurker
13-09-2007, 10:47
Software engineer for a great company. Very small and cosy.

I get to do new stuff daily and am always having to learn new things. Perfect for me :D
Levee en masse
13-09-2007, 10:55
I'm a librarian working in a health library for the NHS.


So far I'm loving it, I'd work for free if I could afford to! (In fact I did until I began to be paid). Though it can be busy it is intellectually stimulating. And the hours zip by :)


Plus I get an athens login that gives me access to cool journals such as The Economist and The Skeptic, as well as some random ones, such as RĂ©animation (which to my dismay had nothing to do with Frankenstein) and International Dairy Journal. I don't focus on the latter type so much.

I love my job :)
Peepelonia
13-09-2007, 11:11
I work (when needed ) as an av-producer which is just a fancy name for a videoeditor (+graphics+sound). I've done that for 2 years now. I like my job but I'm trying to find a new one because
a) not enough hours (every month)
b) it's too far away

add: I also do all those things CTOAN listed. In a small firm everyone does everything (except I'm the only one who edits)

Ohh summit in common with you an CNTOAN, then I work in the IT Dept for a TV production company, I'll not name it but we make wifeswap, scrapheap challange, etc....
Levee en masse
13-09-2007, 11:15
I'll not name it but we make wifeswap, scrapheap challange, etc....

Are we supposed to trust that...




:p
Neu Leonstein
13-09-2007, 11:16
I work as corporate financial analyst in investment bank for three years now. It's okay, better than other jobs i hear my friends are working in: here I learn a lot of interesting stuff.
Oooh, that's where I'm heading (hopefully).

At the moment I just deliver pizzas though.
Peepelonia
13-09-2007, 11:16
Are we supposed to trust that...




:p

Huh wot you mean?
Levee en masse
13-09-2007, 11:19
Huh wot you mean?

Maybe I'm thinking of a different company, but didn't the company that made the aforementioned programmes kick off the whole "the public don't trust TV" thing a few months back with the botched edit of the queen storming off from a photographer?
THE LOST PLANET
13-09-2007, 11:27
I'm a mechanical/electrical engineer for a 350 bed hospital. Been here for 9 years... still stuck workin' the graveyard shift.
Peepelonia
13-09-2007, 11:28
Maybe I'm thinking of a different company, but didn't the company that made the aforementioned programmes kick off the whole "the public don't trust TV" thing a few months back with the botched edit of the queen storming off from a photographer?

Ahhhh yeah I got ya. That was indeed us, and I'll not bore you with an excuse, but the independant report is due out at then end of the month and I'm sure that everything will be proved to be fine.
Levee en masse
13-09-2007, 11:34
Ahhhh yeah I got ya. That was indeed us, and I'll not bore you with an excuse, but the independant report is due out at then end of the month and I'm sure that everything will be proved to be fine.

tbh I never really bothered me.

Though I was interested at the reaction of the public:)



(My god, dentists are so loud. I can barely hear myself think)
The blessed Chris
13-09-2007, 11:35
I'm currently a history student, but looking to get into either sports journalism (I've got work experiance set up next summer to travel to Euro 2008 with a family friend who does the same job), teaching, or the civil service.

I currently work for Somerfield:( Far better than my previous job, dishwashing, though still mundane, overly concerned with protocol, law and policy.
Call to power
13-09-2007, 11:40
I've been moved to crappy TA with college so I can get psychiatric qualificational skillz (like Professor X!)

the incompetence it burns!
Wassercraft
13-09-2007, 11:41
Oooh, that's where I'm heading (hopefully).

At the moment I just deliver pizzas though.

Well, it is really worth it. Maybe part of the interestingness of the work comes that I work in quite small company in Eastern Europe, but still in its essence the work is rewarding in a way that it is always changing: for few month I analyze company producing dairy products and gain insight what are the real costs, how the prices on the shop shelf of the products are constructed and how actually these products are technologically made. After two months I turn to construction company. Gained a lot of understanding of how markets work, how companies and different industries operate.
The routine is quite minimal and I love it :)
Pure Metal
13-09-2007, 12:02
Ohh summit in common with you an CNTOAN, then I work in the IT Dept for a TV production company, I'll not name it but we make wifeswap, scrapheap challange, etc....

:eek: i love scrapheap challenge!

send me DVDs and i'll love you for life ;)
cos you can't seem to buy it anywhere :(
The blessed Chris
13-09-2007, 12:09
:eek: i love scrapheap challenge!

send me DVDs and i'll love you for life ;)
cos you can't seem to buy it anywhere :(

Join the club. It still plays on UKtv gold intermittently, but beyond that, it seems to have vanished....
Edwinasia
13-09-2007, 12:16
I'm working as a Usability consultant since 12 years for a small company (well we have 1000 people) in Antwerp, Belgium.

I will go independent at the end of the year
Greater Valia
13-09-2007, 12:21
Ohh summit in common with you an CNTOAN, then I work in the IT Dept for a TV production company, I'll not name it but we make wifeswap, scrapheap challange, etc....

Is that like junkyard wars?
Peepelonia
13-09-2007, 12:29
Join the club. It still plays on UKtv gold intermittently, but beyond that, it seems to have vanished....

Man it is always on UK TV.
Peepelonia
13-09-2007, 12:31
Is that like junkyard wars?

It's the same thing, but it's called Junkyard Wars in the States.
Peepelonia
13-09-2007, 12:32
:eek: i love scrapheap challenge!

send me DVDs and i'll love you for life ;)
cos you can't seem to buy it anywhere :(

Umm I'm not sure what the wife would say about that!
Myrmidonisia
13-09-2007, 12:47
A thread for the working stiffs of NSG. What do you do, how long have you worked at this particular job, etc.

I'm currently semi-unemployed. I quit my last job because they wanted to cut my hours. Since then I've been doing random odd jobs to cover minor expenses while I look for something full time. Hopefully I'll have enough money saved up within a year so I can move back to Atlanta or Chattanooga.
Isn't that kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face? Why would you do that? With fewer hours at work, you would have had time to look for another job, while still having a regular, though reduced, source of income.
New Granada
13-09-2007, 12:47
I teach English at a university in Guangdong China.

I have been here for two weeks.
Krahe
13-09-2007, 13:24
I'm a program analyst/auditor with NASA. Been with NASA for 2 years, before that I spent 5 years at the DOD Inspector General's office.

Currently applying for an audit position with the Air Force - easy to bounce around in the federal government. Trying to get in with the Air Force so I can get a transfer to Germany. If I end up there, I won't be coming back...
L-rouge
13-09-2007, 13:47
I'm a PCD (Professional Complementary to Dentistry) and have been for just over 2 years. Am doing another uni course at the mo because the Government has introduced new training restrictions on the people who are allowed to work in practice.
Might move on to either Hygiene Therapy or Radiography.
Egg and chips
13-09-2007, 14:07
I'm a bioinformatics student.

But I have a part time job in a bar, which is great fun.
Beddgelert
13-09-2007, 14:18
I picked the orange you're eating.

Uh, congratulations, you've now contracted commie.
Smunkeeville
13-09-2007, 14:19
Right now I only have 4 jobs.

I substitute teach high school (but not often)

I teach creative writing to high school students one day a week

I do tax/financial planning (about 2 days a week)

I am a clown/balloon artist(about 3 days a month)

I also volunteer about 10 places but don't get paid for it, so it doesn't count as a job.
Greater Valia
13-09-2007, 14:57
Isn't that kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face? Why would you do that? With fewer hours at work, you would have had time to look for another job, while still having a regular, though reduced, source of income.

I was originally hired to work from 6 pm to 12 am monday through friday at $12.50 an hour, which isn't bad, but I wanted something full time. Couple weeks after that they told me they only wanted me from 6 pm to 8 pm monday, wednesday, and friday, which is a joke. So I quit and decided to do odd jobs while I try to find something else. This way I have more freedom to look for a real job, and I'm making enough money to cover my basic expenses (food, gas, cigarettes, and then my share of the rent and utility bills) but nothing else. Normally this would be fine but since I'm trying to move away from this town I need something where I'll be making enough money to have something left over to save.
Smunkeeville
13-09-2007, 15:01
I was originally hired to work from 6 pm to 12 am monday through friday at $12.50 an hour, which isn't bad, but I wanted something full time. Couple weeks after that they told me they only wanted me from 6 pm to 8 pm monday, wednesday, and friday, which is a joke. So I quit and decided to do odd jobs while I try to find something else. This way I have more freedom to look for a real job, and I'm making enough money to cover my basic expenses (food, gas, cigarettes, and then my share of the rent and utility bills) but nothing else. Normally this would be fine but since I'm trying to move away from this town I need something where I'll be making enough money to have something left over to save.

couldn't you have just kept that job and looked for another? $12.50 an hour isn't mega bucks, but it's pretty damn good, I find it hard to believe you would make more than that doing "odd jobs".
Greater Valia
13-09-2007, 15:03
couldn't you have just kept that job and looked for another? $12.50 an hour isn't mega bucks, but it's pretty damn good, I find it hard to believe you would make more than that doing "odd jobs".

I would have gone from roughly $375 a week to $75. Now if I feel like it I can make $75 in a day (sometimes I deliver papers, hand out fliers, mow grass, trash removal, etc.). I'm not making what I originally was at my old hours, but I'm doing hell of alot better than $75 a week.
Smunkeeville
13-09-2007, 15:29
I would have gone from roughly $375 a week to $75. Now if I feel like it I can make $75 in a day (sometimes I deliver papers, hand out fliers, mow grass, trash removal, etc.). I'm not making what I originally was at my old hours, but I'm doing hell of alot better than $75 a week.

fair enough, my math is broke today.
Risottia
13-09-2007, 15:30
I've recently upgraded my contract and now I'm a technical/scientifical consultant of my party's group at the Council of Regione Lombardia.
In the spare time, I also work for a journalists' association as web-editor.
Dundee-Fienn
13-09-2007, 15:33
Bartender and PR (basically just handing out flyers and trying to talk people into the club) for a local nightclub. It's pretty good hours since I work from 22:00 - 02:30 so it doesn't interfere with university. My sleep cycle is usually messed up anyway so it makes sense to put that wasted time to good use
Khadgar
13-09-2007, 16:04
Work dispatch for a mid sized trucking company. Well dispatch/IT/safety, I have in past also handled contract bids. Fun fun fun.
Jello Biafra
13-09-2007, 17:51
I work part time (on average 40 hours a week. Yes, that's part time) at night in a grocery store. I'm also attending classes part time during the day.

Right now I only have 4 jobs.

I substitute teach high school (but not often)

I teach creative writing to high school students one day a week

I do tax/financial planning (about 2 days a week)

I am a clown/balloon artist(about 3 days a month)

I also volunteer about 10 places but don't get paid for it, so it doesn't count as a job.How do you manage to do all that without scheduling conflicts?
Edwinasia
13-09-2007, 18:01
I work part time (on average 40 hours a week. Yes, that's part time) at night in a grocery store. I'm also attending classes part time during the day.

How do you manage to do all that without scheduling conflicts?

Having a dissociative identity disorder could help, no?
Rubiconic Crossings
13-09-2007, 18:51
I'm a manager. Now get back to work you lazy barstewards! :D
Smunkeeville
13-09-2007, 19:58
How do you manage to do all that without scheduling conflicts?
I don't schedule conflicts. Thursdays I meet financial clients, I don't do anything else Thursdays, Fridays I teach I don't do anything else Fridays, I only sub on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, I only clown/balloon artist on weekends except when the fair is in town (like this week).
Soviestan
13-09-2007, 21:43
currently, I do night security. however I'm thinking of going to back to China and teaching and/or get a graduate degree.
Soviestan
13-09-2007, 21:45
I teach English at a university in Guangdong China.

I have been here for two weeks.

You'll get a TG soon.
Oultrejordain
14-09-2007, 00:07
currently a uni student studying history, but this hols i thought it about time i ventured into the job market... so a month ago i applied at the toys r us (2 mins from my house by bike), and got it!

i work 'pick-up', getting the items which are too big to be stored on the shop floor from the warehouse and handing them out to customers.
pretty cool as i dont have to deal in depth with customers, and it keeps me fit

so far it's been good experience
Sirmomo1
14-09-2007, 00:23
I write for television and films. Pray for my soul.
Rasselas
14-09-2007, 00:27
I work in a theatre, just doing front of house stuff (bar work, ushering, etc). And sometimes I do sound engineering for my mates theatre school.
New Limacon
14-09-2007, 00:28
I work for the USPS, delivering mail. I've been there since July of last year, and I can understand why some USPS employees went crazy and shot up the post office (not that I condone it).

Someone who calls themselves "Gun Manufacturers" works in a post office. Is anyone else bothered by this?
Saige Dragon
14-09-2007, 03:56
The short: Truck Driver.

The long: Vacuum/Steam Truck Operator. That still doesn't explain it enough for most. Essentially of it needs sucking/cleaning up in the Alberta oil patch, I'm the man to do it. It can vary from tanks, to spills on the ground, to buildings and everything in between.
UpwardThrust
14-09-2007, 04:01
I just quit two jobs in favor of one higher paying one this last week

1) Security job 10 PM to 6 AM I worked there for approaching 9 years
2) Network admin at a university
Total of about 50-70 hours a week depending on the week.

I now am working One job and teaching one class
1) Server administrator and network admin

I am now in the private sector and making about 2 times as much with a 40 hour work week

Teaching firewall theory this semester undergrad and graduate level
Silliopolous
14-09-2007, 04:03
I teach English at a university in Guangdong China.

I have been here for two weeks.

Been compared to Dashan yet?

(I went to high school with Mark, and all he gets from other caucasians in China is something to the effect of "Damn you!!!!" lol.)
New Limacon
14-09-2007, 04:05
Currently I'm a senator from North Dakota, but my real passion (and I hope my future job) is in music.
IL Ruffino
14-09-2007, 04:22
Freelance photographer. >.>
The Metal Horde
14-09-2007, 04:25
I'm a Pharmacy student. Previously, I was a lab technician at an optics lab.
Silliopolous
14-09-2007, 04:26
Overpaid, useless entity.

Or "consultant" if you prefer.


Currently, I'm leading one of the design teams for a major 7-year project to replace several vintage mainframe systems for the government of Canada.
Layarteb
14-09-2007, 05:27
Well my main job is working data entry at Glacéau but I still work part-time at Home Depot and have worked there for more than 3.5 years. I was a sales specialist in flooring/window treatments and then an expediter for the same department.
The Brevious
14-09-2007, 05:53
fair enough, my math is broke today.
+

I do tax/financial planning (about 2 days a week)

... o.0
:eek:
The Brevious
14-09-2007, 05:55
The short: Truck Driver.


I'm drivin' a truck
Drivin' a big ol' truck
Pedal to the metal, hope I don't run out of luck
Rollin' down the highway until the break of dawn
Drivin' a truck with my high heels on

My diesel rig is northward bound
It's time to put that hammer down
Just watchin' as the miles go flyin' by
I'm ridin' twenty tons of steel
But it's sure hard to hold the wheel
While I'm waiting for my nails to dry

Oh, I always gotta check my lipstick in that rear view mirror
And my pink angora sweater fits so tight
I'm jammin' gears and haulin' freight
Well, I sure hope my seams are straight
Lord, don't let my mascara run tonight

Because I'm drivin' a truck
Drivin' a big ol' truck
Smokey's on my tail and my accelerator's stuck
Got these eighteen wheels-a-rollin' until the break of dawn
Drivin' a truck with my high heels on

Oh, I don't mind when my crotchless panties creep right up on me
And my nipple rings don't bother me too much
But when I hit those big speed bumps
My darling little rhinestone pumps
Keep slippin' off the mother-lovin' clutch

But still I'm drivin' a truck
Drivin' a big ol' truck
Headin' down the interstate, just tryin' to make a buck
Wearin' feather boas with sequins and chiffon
While I'm drivin' a truck with my high heels on

I'm drivin' a truck
Drivin' a truck
Got a load to carry and some eyebrows left to pluck
And I'm late for my appointment down at my hair salon
So I'll be drivin' a truck with my high heels on
;)
The Brevious
14-09-2007, 05:58
Currently I'm a senator from North Dakota, but my real passion (and I hope my future job) is in music.

Currently, I'm a senator from Idaho, but my real passion (and I hope several future jobs) is in men's room attendance.
:p

j/k of course, absolutely couldn't resist
Layarteb
14-09-2007, 06:01
Currently, I'm a senator from Idaho, but my real passion (and I hope several future jobs) is in men's room attendance.
:p

j/k of course, absolutely couldn't resist

5 points awarded to thee.
The Brevious
14-09-2007, 06:05
5 points awarded to thee.

Yay, political capital!

I'll burn it sparsely, i promise.
Kanabia
14-09-2007, 06:52
Been working at the same supermarket for three years. >_<
Posi
14-09-2007, 07:17
The short: Truck Driver.

The long: Vacuum/Steam Truck Operator. That still doesn't explain it enough for most. Essentially of it needs sucking/cleaning up in the Alberta oil patch, I'm the man to do it. It can vary from tanks, to spills on the ground, to buildings and everything in between.You operate a hydro-vac?
The Brevious
14-09-2007, 07:20
You operate a hydro-vac?

You abide by the Good Book? ;)
Posi
14-09-2007, 07:21
You abide by the Good Book? ;)Playboy?
IL Ruffino
14-09-2007, 07:23
Playboy?

New England Living.
Franklinburg
14-09-2007, 07:33
I currently work as a TA for a college professor at a mid-sized state university in Texas.

Before that I worked for 5 years in a butcher shop / resturant doing cuts of meat, custom smoking, and lifting the heavy stuff the girls couldn't get.
Cascadia Free State
14-09-2007, 12:40
Right now, I'm a grad student TA who is focusing my research on issues in structural biology. Ideally, I would like to land a job as a professor in a research university, because I enjoy teaching and research and would like to do both. Fortunately my emphasis is on the theoretical aspects of biology, so I could in principle do new research without access to a lab at a teaching university, but that solution would be less than ideal.
Peepelonia
14-09-2007, 13:02
I write for television and films. Pray for my soul.

Ohh where? and anything we may have heard of?
Peepelonia
14-09-2007, 13:06
New England Living.

New Scientist?
St Samuel
14-09-2007, 13:17
Im a Police officer in the Metropolitan police service (london) and love it!!
Peepelonia
14-09-2007, 13:19
Im a Police officer in the Metropolitan police service (london) and love it!!

Ummmppphhh! Do you actualy arest people if they call you cuntstuble?;)

On a serious note, what is your stance on canabis?
Rambhutan
14-09-2007, 13:21
Someone who calls themselves "Gun Manufacturers" works in a post office. Is anyone else bothered by this?

Thank you, best laugh I have had in a while.
Smunkeeville
14-09-2007, 13:23
... o.0
:eek:
I don't do math, I do taxes and financial planning, I remember rules and shift money around and tell people how to spend it. Also, I don't do it on days when my math is broke.
St Samuel
14-09-2007, 13:27
Ummmppphhh! Do you actualy arest people if they call you cuntstuble?;)

On a serious note, what is your stance on canabis?


It's not the worst crime in the world to have cannabis on your person if it's for personal use, but personally I don't agree with it. A drugs a drug and it still turns people into idiots. I got a couple of mates who smoke and I couldnt really care, there the ones wasteing money and getting red eye.
Peepelonia
14-09-2007, 13:44
It's not the worst crime in the world to have cannabis on your person if it's for personal use, but personally I don't agree with it. A drugs a drug and it still turns people into idiots. I got a couple of mates who smoke and I couldnt really care, there the ones wasteing money and getting red eye.


Ahhh I was really thinking about it from a Police Officers POV, y'know paper work involved, is it worth it, could there be more important things for you to be doing, etc... Still you can't read my mind so I guess I should have explained that huh!
St Samuel
14-09-2007, 13:48
Ahhh I was really thinking about it from a Police Officers POV, y'know paper work involved, is it worth it, could there be more important things for you to be doing, etc... Still you can't read my mind so I guess I should have explained that huh!

Well in London for a little bit of cannabis we just seize it, write out a little ticket and warn then person and then file a report, which all in all takes about an hour. So no I don't mind. In this day and age everything figures and taget based. With regards to more important things to be doing, well if there was a guy with a spliff standing next to Osama Bin Landen, I would arrest the terrorist and then write out a ticket for the dude with the spliff!!!
Peepelonia
14-09-2007, 13:56
Well in London for a little bit of cannabis we just seize it, write out a little ticket and warn then person and then file a report, which all in all takes about an hour. So no I don't mind. In this day and age everything figures and taget based. With regards to more important things to be doing, well if there was a guy with a spliff standing next to Osama Bin Landen, I would arrest the terrorist and then write out a ticket for the dude with the spliff!!!

Heheh holly shit you are a copper!

I have befreinded more than one copper in my life, and although I know of only one of them that smoked, the others have told me that they see it as a bit of a nonsense, and that the job could do without it.
St Samuel
14-09-2007, 14:00
Heheh holly shit you are a copper!

I have befreinded more than one copper in my life, and although I know of only one of them that smoked, the others have told me that they see it as a bit of a nonsense, and that the job could do without it.

To be honest i'd rather be dealing with someone who has a bit of weed than dealing with a motorist who forgot to indicate or was doing 31 mph!
Smunkeeville
14-09-2007, 14:05
To be honest i'd rather be dealing with someone who has a bit of weed than dealing with a motorist who forgot to indicate or was doing 31 mph!

do you guys do something to the people who fail to indicate over there? I mean you at least yell at them or something right? I hate that, I really hate it, I have like a road rage hate of it........and the police officers here just ignore it, they don't even follow basic road rules, twice yesterday I saw a cop turn into the wrong lane. :mad:
St Samuel
14-09-2007, 14:14
do you guys do something to the people who fail to indicate over there? I mean you at least yell at them or something right? I hate that, I really hate it, I have like a road rage hate of it........and the police officers here just ignore it, they don't even follow basic road rules, twice yesterday I saw a cop turn into the wrong lane. :mad:

We have traffic police who love persecuting innocent old lady drivers and anyone else for traffic related incidents, but personally i'd rather than being dealing with robberies and people in possesion of cannabis :) If someone does something stupid in the car in front of me (which is pretty much every 2 minutes and i will glare angrily trying to hold back profanitys.
Rubiconic Crossings
14-09-2007, 19:39
It's not the worst crime in the world to have cannabis on your person if it's for personal use, but personally I don't agree with it. A drugs a drug and it still turns people into idiots. I got a couple of mates who smoke and I couldnt really care, there the ones wasteing money and getting red eye.

Really? Turns them into idiots?

Hmmmm.

So by that I should not able to be working as a technical support manager running a team of multi lingual/multi nationalities providing solutions to issues that have severe business impacts on customers ranging from household name brands to government and scientific organisations.

I should be in marketing. (sarcastic irony there btw...)

Drug is a drug...sooooooooo.....no fags n booze either then 'eh? You ok with that as well?
Rasselas
14-09-2007, 20:32
I write for television and films. Pray for my soul.
Which ones?

Been working at the same supermarket for three years. >_<
Hah, I worked at Matalan (http://www.matalan.co.uk) for five years.

It was really bizarre to go from working in a crap shop and being expected to do 20 things at once, to working front of house at a theatre
"hey..umm..I've sold the programmes, anything I should be doing?"
"well....you could go to sainsburys if you're hungry?"
"no...I mean work"
"Oh! No. Just have a sit down."
Jenrak
14-09-2007, 20:38
Dubbed Anime Audio Synchronizer. At least, that's what I call it, since it sounds so high tech. Generally I'm one of the suckers who take voice actor audio and sync it up with anime imported from Japan.

Please do not complain to me if you have a problem with the dubs.
Sirmomo1
16-09-2007, 01:37
Ohh where? and anything we may have heard of?

In Britain I did a few things, the most famous being 'Coronation Street', which is like any American soap just much uglier.

After a couple of screenplays that got stuck in development hell I moved to LA (an odd mix of sunny and scary) where I've done a couple of film re-writes but have yet to get anything of mine actually properly made.

So no stories about what it's like to work with Jonny Depp I'm afraid :(
JuNii
16-09-2007, 01:47
Currently... Tech Support for a Hospital. for as long as I can remember...

However, my job experience includes
Sales Clerk - Department store, Book Store
Boy Scout Camp Staff (where I met many of my military friends)
State Library Assistant
Tech Support for various other businesses... including one that worked with Video Game Systems.
State Fair Finance (where I met most of my HPD friends)
Production Assistant/Assistant Director for a local/Japanese Video Company
Campaign Staff
Video/Music/Game Reviewer for a small magazine
DJ
Data Controller
JuNii
16-09-2007, 01:50
Dubbed Anime Audio Synchronizer. At least, that's what I call it, since it sounds so high tech. Generally I'm one of the suckers who take voice actor audio and sync it up with anime imported from Japan.

Please do not complain to me if you have a problem with the dubs.

Did that as a hobby. also did some voice acting. but since it was a hobby... :cool:
Jenrak
16-09-2007, 03:37
Did that as a hobby. also did some voice acting. but since it was a hobby... :cool:

I get paid to do it, so I'm content.
JuNii
17-09-2007, 00:19
I get paid to do it, so I'm content.

and since I wasn't... that's why it wasn't listed as a job.

what did you dub anyway?