What's your occupation?

[CodeZTM]

I am currently a intern/staff accountant at a local CPA Accounting firm. My duties include: office bitchery*, individual 1040/1040EZ [without 1120 or anything overly complex] tax returns, data entry**, e-filing and payroll tax processing***. I am also a full time junior accounting student taking 16 hours. I graduate in EXACTLY one year.

I also am a freelance web designer that does a lot of local website design.

I HAVE NO LIFE. ;__;

*AKA: Scanning, copying, filing, mailing, e-mailing,delivery.
** Hand entering W-2 and 1099/1098 or things of that nature.
*** I have about 20 clients that I am responsible for.

[Otohiko]

I'm working on my PhD in English (Rhetoric and Communication Design, NOT Literature), and make my money from a mix of teaching, research and scholarships. I've been teaching a variety of classes for 5 years now, from being a TA in linguistics and media studies, to running business/academic writing and public speaking classes on my own lately. For research, I work for a research group that's slowly spinning off an upstart company. We work in automated text tailoring generally, medical communication specifically. A lot of what I've actually done has been interviewing doctors and other medical professionals, and designing/helping them design text models and templates for various patient education materials and programs - from brochures to text messages. I've also done a bit of video editing for this job, mostly for little software demos. Neither of these jobs is full-time, but added together they make things bearable money-wise, and mostly-bearable as far as workload on top of my academic obligations.

Otherwise if you count an academic year as 2 full-time semesters, then this is my 11th year in university. I already have a bachelors in Linguistics and a masters in Applied Language Studies, and about half a doctorate in this English thing. So I guess I'm kind of a lifer

[Castor Troy]

I'm working on my PhD in English (Rhetoric and Communication Design, NOT Literature), and make my money from a mix of teaching, research and scholarships. I've been teaching a variety of classes for 5 years now, from being a TA in linguistics and media studies, to running business/academic writing and public speaking classes on my own lately. For research, I work for a research group that's slowly spinning off an upstart company. We work in automated text tailoring generally, medical communication specifically. A lot of what I've actually done has been interviewing doctors and other medical professionals, and designing/helping them design text models and templates for various patient education materials and programs - from brochures to text messages. I've also done a bit of video editing for this job, mostly for little software demos. Neither of these jobs is full-time, but added together they make things bearable money-wise, and mostly-bearable as far as workload on top of my academic obligations.

Otherwise if you count an academic year as 2 full-time semesters, then this is my 11th year in university. I already have a bachelors in Linguistics and a masters in Applied Language Studies, and about half a doctorate in this English thing. So I guess I'm kind of a lifer

I wonder if you'll get your phd before dwchang does.

Who will we call "Dr." first?

[dreamawake]

Full time slacker.

I accel at my job.

[ReggieSmalls]

I'm a janitor at Pizza Hut

[Kosmit]

IT helpdesk at a container terminal in Gdansk.
I also occasionally write reviews and other articles (think I still have an article about AMV Hell translated into english on my HDD somewhere if anyone's interested ) for a small polish m&a magazine, though that's more of a hobby than an actual job.

[Castor Troy]

Patriot Missile Operator/Maintainer, "If it flies, it dies!"

You're the jerk who shot down my baloon!

[CodeZTM]

Patriot Missile Operator/Maintainer, "If it flies, it dies!"

How'd I miss this post?

Hey, there is this REALLY annoying plane that flies over my house when I'm trying to sleep. Not that I'm asking for favors or anything, but I do happen to have a really nice stack of anime and video games that I'm willing to part with.

[kenisama]

Hey, there is this REALLY annoying plane that flies over my house when I'm trying to sleep. Not that I'm asking for favors or anything, but I do happen to have a really nice stack of anime and video games that I'm willing to part with.

I would if I could, but there's too much military/government red tape to go through for me to do so, sorry...

You're the jerk who shot down my baloon!

You're balloon was in a NO FLY ZONE and you know it!

[Jadecavy]

I'm in my final year of high school. I've applied for university for translation, though I'm considering switching to religious studies for self-enlightenment.

I'm also a wilderness instructor, which means I take over educated, spoiled, rich adults and kids out in the bush for weeks at a time where I get to watch them snap from the bugs, isolation and physical strain, which is satisfying in a way I can't explain and hate. I'm also a 12 volt car accessory technician, meaning I install everything from remote starters to car stereos to amps to subs to speakers etc. Yeah, I've spent five years on wilderness instruction training and since I was very little being trained by my father for car accessories. Fun stuff. (Not sarcasm, I actually enjoy it very much.)