What does everyone do for a living?

Ayanefan · Post by **Ayanefan** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:15 pm

Color analyst for Xerox. Do mostly phone support for customers that have Majentas printing Yellow

. Anyway, mostly Network and application based with a lot of color calibration and custom curves (in other words, scan this chart in and your printer will be as good as new.)

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:00 pm

I'm currently getting my BA in Anthropology and English, and once I graduate I plan on beginning a career in archaeology, though I'm not sure what culture I want to study at this point. I may work in the Southwest with Native American ruins for a bit while I get a feel for where I want to go, or I may end up in Greece. I'll probably at least get an MD at some point, if not a PhD. I'd like to do some fiction writing as well.

YouTube · Post by **Ileia** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:49 pm

aesling wrote:I'm currently getting my BA in Anthropology and English, and once I graduate I plan on beginning a career in archaeology, though I'm not sure what culture I want to study at this point. I may work in the Southwest with Native American ruins for a bit while I get a feel for where I want to go, or I may end up in Greece. I'll probably at least get an MD at some point, if not a PhD. I'd like to do some fiction writing as well.

If you end up in Greece, bring me with. I can get you in real cheap. I know a guy.

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:09 pm

I'm a student, majoring in English with a writing concentration.

A currently work part-time at the Mile High Comics warehouse, which is apparently the largest dealer of comics in the world or something like that.

Gox777 · Post by **Gox777** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:31 am

I'm surprised at how few of you are going for video related careers.
I'm a students right now. One of my ideas is to start a freelance videography business while going to college. My goal right now is to go for a career in that field, though I'm open to other possibilities as well.

I do great in school and I know I have the potential to do just about anything I want. If getting a good job in the video industry becomes too much based on luck, I might reconsider.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:44 am

I think part of the reason most of us don't do video-related careers is because this is a hobby to us. This is recreational, artistic, expressive. Throw professionalism into it, and you lose that over time. When it comes to creativity, if you sell yourself, it becomes a task. And tasks inhibit creativity. And in this hobby, if you inhibit yourself, the process is agonizing.

If I'm going to be paid for something, I want no attachments. I want to do it methodically, mathematically, effectively, and efficiently.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:52 am

I'm a professional editor for Troublemaker Studios. I'm doing various work for them, including but not limited too a feature length documentary, teaser/promo music videos for their independent projects, and various other things. The pay is good so far and the work environment is much to my liking. I keep a basic schedule, but it doesn't matter WHAT time I come in because they know it will get done at the end of the month. No one is breathing done my neck, I don't punch a card, and I get paid a flat monthly rate, regardless of sick days, or naps taken, or extended lunches. As long as it gets done, I'm good.

Its a total dream career, and I get to edit for money. So far I haven't completed anything that I'm proud enough to talk about, but the documentary is going to be awesome. You'll see it in theaters hopefully

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:02 am

I get paid to babysit my sister's kid. I got a 4yr degree in writing to be a babysitter.

Year before last I was a full time secretary and errand girl to a lumber yard. Before that I worked at a theme park for a few years, at an accounting office, as an actual stacker in the lumber yard (secretary was a step up, but the pay sucked in comparison), at a diaper factory (best pay for the hours worked), wrote a weekly column for the local newspaper (pay sucked), as a live-in caretaker for the elderly (they die), and a few other odd things that I never get around to putting on an actual resume. I like factory work best because you work regular hours and don't have to think.

I'll probably end up being a teacher to keep my mom quiet, and writing in my freetime. I don't really care where I work if I can pay the bills and still have my freetime. ^^

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:12 am

Teachers don't have freetime.

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:42 am

They don't have an easy time paying the bills either sadly.