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#### What do you do for a living?

Just out of curiosity, what do all y'all do for a living?
I'm a user experience architect, which means I help make things (usually, but not always, on the internet) easier and more fun to use.

Posted 13 months ago by Knitomaton | Permalink

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- I co-manage a holiday complex.
  So I get to do anything from cleaning cottages and making beds, to dealing with guests and taking bookings to doing the accounts and website maintenance to light property maintenance. It's varied :)
  I pretty much do anything that needs to be done on site apart from garden maintenance (I hate gardening with a passion).
  Sometimes I get more free time than I know what to do with, other times... not so much.
  At the moment, we're just going through a quiet patch, which is quite welcome :) November and February are our quiet months usually.
  Posted 13 months ago by Ebiler | Permalink
- student/retail, studying to become an archivist
  Posted 13 months ago by Jeff Buckley | Permalink
- (Relatively) nubby web developer. User experience architect sounds wayyy awesome :). Didn't know you could get a job just doing that. Mind you, my country is probably too small.
  Posted 13 months ago by Lara | Permalink
- I'm a stay-at-home dad, caring for a 10 yr-old and a 1 yr-old. :)
  Posted 13 months ago by Whym | Permalink
- Props to you Whym!
  Posted 13 months ago by Jeff Buckley | Permalink
- College student. Majoring in anxiety with a minor in slacking.
  Posted 13 months ago by Kestin | Permalink
- I'm the opposite Kestin. Major in slacking right here :D
  Posted 13 months ago by Jeff Buckley | Permalink
- Management Consultant. I spend a lot of lonely nights in hotel rooms, so Glitch is a nice way to burn time. :)
  Posted 13 months ago by Hunter Gathers | Permalink
- Video editor in television news. Working on doing voiceover as a sideline/new career.
  Have also been a planetarium lecturer, museum docent, and online gamemaster in my spare time.
  Posted 13 months ago by TK-855 | Permalink
- What Kestin said, except that I'm taking a year off at the moment for health reasons.
  (My actual declared major is printmaking, though I make a lot of different types of art and will most likely end up doing something entirely unrelated for the bulk of my meager income.)
  Posted 13 months ago by Spaghetti Thompson | Permalink
- @Elyd: There are days where video editing is my profession, but it isn't my passion - which the other jobs (all part-time) have been closer to: creating/educating.
  As an old instructor once said, "You can be money happy or job happy, but it's rare that you'll be both."
  Posted 13 months ago by TK-855 | Permalink
- Program coordinator for an Adult Literacy program -- which helps illiterate adults learn to read.
  The stat for low level literacy in Canada is 42%...not including ESL people
  Posted 13 months ago by ◘ ▪ Leï.Leï ▪ ◘ | Permalink
- Web developer. My money comes from banal projects like business websites, but I keep myself entertained with game-related projects.
  Posted 13 months ago by Reihox | Permalink
- Stay at home mommy to a lovely 18 month old and there's another onthe way. I'm working part-time at amazon.com at the moment, though. Next semester I'm going to culinary school,!
  Posted 13 months ago by EzBreezy | Permalink
- Seeing as Whym gets props, so does Ralis! ;)
  Just now I'm not working because I'm ill. I really picked a great time to be too ill to work in the UK, especially as it's not a visible condition and doesn't impair my ability to, say, walk across a room. Most of the time. So I'm trying to find a low-stress part-time job in a city where they're looking at me strangely because I obviously dye my hair. It's not going too well.
  Posted 13 months ago by Hallirackit | Permalink
- Well now, let's see... I pet piggies, pick cherries, bubble and beans, and I mine a bit and make earthshakers....doh! you meant irl.
  RoR based web design and system administration, with a bit of graphic-design and advertising thrown in.
  Posted 13 months ago by Woochi | Permalink
- I am a retail monkey. I sell a lot of lawn equipment. I also run a small online bookshop w my mom
  Posted 13 months ago by dr kelly | Permalink
- I bake bagels when sane people are still sleeping. I'm returning to school to be an occupational therapist assistant. I'm also an artist and musician :)
  Posted 13 months ago by Teres Minor | Permalink
- Lots of stuff. Animation workshops are a big one right now, otherwise I work as a coordinator on animated film sets (that means I'm the person who knows what the hell is going on), make short animations, illustrate books, make websites, translate scripts and things...
  With all of this, you'd think I would be able to make a decent living! :P But it's either a drought or a flood. Right now we're in a drought >:(.
  Posted 13 months ago by Cefeida | Permalink
- I'm a social media manager and acting national sales manager. Totally unqualified to be the national sales manager, but love being the social media manager. Plus, not one person at my office has a technological bone in their body, so they have no idea what I do all day. Sometimes what I do all day is play Glitch.
  Posted 13 months ago by FaerieInGrey | Permalink
- Software developer, internet marketer, Linux security. As geeky as it can get, I guess.
  Posted 12 months ago by Heatseeker | Permalink
- Software developer for a major corporation. Basically Alice from Dilbert, with straight hair.
  Posted 12 months ago by rebma | Permalink
- I'm a science teacher. Right now, it's middle school and I love it, but I've taught just about every grade level from K up to college. I'd be an ecology or botany teacher if I had my way, but I keep getting stuck with physics or anatomy classes. Hurk.
  I'm in the middle of a move to Germany, so who knows what I'll be teaching over there when I land a job. I'm certified to teach any science 5th-12th grade, which makes principals gleeful. Cross your fingers someone over there will hire me right away! :)
  Posted 12 months ago by Feylin | Permalink
- I used to mine a lot to earn the dough, but recently I've learned Animal Kinship so I've cut back on the mining to focus on my animals. These days I wander around Groddle harvesting everything I see.
  Posted 12 months ago by Frandroid | Permalink
- I sell books. National accounts for a major publisher. I'm hoping that books made out of paper will prosper long enough for me to get another 20 years out of my industry. I adore my job. Even the part involving hotel rooms cuz it gives me More Glitch and less Step Away From the Computer guff.
  Posted 12 months ago by Booknerd | Permalink
- Sculptor and Installation artist.
  Posted 12 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- I'm a sculptor and an improv actor. I mostly get paid for the former, but occasionally the latter.
  Posted 12 months ago by ArtOfHands RoboGirl | Permalink
- Ohhh, lovely! A couple of artistic folk in the mix :)
  @Booknerd, love the name :D
  Posted 12 months ago by Jeff Buckley | Permalink
- High school student...how exciting :p
  Posted 12 months ago by Karissa | Permalink
- I own and run a yarn shop (brick & mortar, not online).
  Posted 12 months ago by Bunuela | Permalink
- social media marketing, freelance writing, some web design
  Posted 12 months ago by Red Sauce | Permalink
- I'm a librarian and I love it :)
  Posted 12 months ago by eviljen | Permalink