JOB GENERAL

MAGiC · Post by **MAGiC** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:08 pm #49108

You guys are employed or unemployed?

Christmas is approaching and I'm looking to work somewhere busy (in christmas) to earn some cash. I'm applying everywhere but it's like my first time so I don't know if I'm doing it right or anything

JOB GENERAL, COME OVER AND TALK ABOUT JOB, GIVE ADVICE ABOUT JOB, OR WHINE ABOUT JOB

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:20 pm #49114

VIDEO GAMES

People like to talk about it like it's a horrible career akin to slavery but I'm having a fucking blast and I love it. We're spoiled, if anything.

MAGiC · Post by **MAGiC** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:29 pm #49117

Ikarrus wrote:VIDEO GAMES

People like to talk about it like it's a horrible career akin to slavery but I'm having a fucking blast and I love it. We're spoiled, if anything.

In what are you working specifically, video-game wise?

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:31 pm #49118

I am a professional 3D artist. Modelling and texturing, lighting and layout design.

MAGiC · Post by **MAGiC** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:32 pm #49119

Ikarrus wrote:I am a professional 3D artist. Modelling and texturing, lighting and layout design.

that's cool

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:43 pm #49121

Just worked 12 hours today.
Going to have to work 14 hours every day @ Christmas week atleast it's double pay.
fucking warehouse work in christmas sales is literally death.
i'm legit pretty much a QM irl
i should work, come home and then play quartermaster 24/7 for those german feels.

Hornygranny · Post by **Hornygranny** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:44 pm #49130

IT
i do it at great expense so i can afford to do it for free

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:47 pm #49132

>he does it for free

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:26 pm #49172

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:34 pm #49175

wait for the old people to die and steal their jobs

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:13 pm #49181

Software engineer at a Fortune 500 tech firm. I've done test, support and development for data storage virtualisation solutions, mostly involved in the latter two these days.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:38 pm #49185

Trying to get my MSc in CompSci so all I do are part time jobs, usually assisting at a course at my college (stuff like grading assignments and answering questions at programming practicals).

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:13 am #49192

right now i 'm still in univ but as part of my major, i work/co-op part time as a copy editor/proofreader/whatever at a city newspaper. o

the shittier city newspaper. you know the kind.

Incomptinence · Tue Dec 09, 2014 4:27 am

Currently unemployed. Got a degree that should have got be into research laboratory work but glorious aus government decided to cut research funding right after I finished my degree. Not that I wanted to work for them but they dumped a ton of experienced researchers on the job market also Aus economy rotting because we expected raw resources to solve all our problems like a cargo cult.

Snake2512 · Post by **Snake2512** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 4:26 pm #55905

>All these cunts that went to Uni

Wheres me dropping out at year 11 and workin' for the family lads at?

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:25 pm #55931

family business isnt a thing anymore jake

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:30 pm #55933

australians are backwards
they started with massive conglomerates and evolved into family and home businesses.

Loonikus · Post by **Loonikus** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:26 pm #55957

I'm what the call a lineman at the international airport. I do general labor around the maintenance bays like refueling, cargo transfer, moving aircraft around, stuff the actual mechanics can't be assed to do. I also perform actual maintenance when mechanics need a hand, but legally I can't work on aircraft without their direct supervision.

I'm also in school to get my aeronautical maintenance technician certification.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:48 pm #55964

Was working for a game company (very tg related) but got out because their marketing budget literally didn't exist. So that's 5-6 months down the tubes for nothing. Looking for work now that's closer to family and closer to a city over the size of 10k.

WeeYakk · Post by **WeeYakk** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:54 am #56080

HVAC apprentice. It's like I'm a real life atmos tech in that I sometimes get to lay pipes and control air quality but more so in that I have very little to do but people think I'm a wizard.

>Travel along with one of the older dudes going to inspect an oil tank
>Get out of the van
>"Is it wet on the top?"
>"No."
>"Are there any leaks?"
>"No."
>"Is it an oil tank?"
>"Yeah."
>"Okay, look busy for 9 more minutes and I'll go charge these people $300."

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:01 am #56104

That's like IT for people who can't use computers weeyakk

Also mortician master race, basically free money if you're male because the business is still rather archaic

I'm with you on that one snake, working for family is awesome.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:23 am #56120

paprika wrote:That's like IT for people who can't use computers weeyakk

Also mortician master race, basically free money if you're male because the business is still rather archaic

I'm with you on that one snake, working for family is awesome.

You work with dead people? How often do you hook up with a client?

Snake2512 · Post by **Snake2512** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:43 pm #56180

i heard its not very lively

WeeYakk · Post by **WeeYakk** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:07 pm #56211

Seems like a dead end job to me.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:00 pm #56302

working for a mortuary is a grave mistake if you value your social life

Post by **Vekter** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:40 pm #56315

I sell computers and computer accessories.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:07 am #56347

miggles wrote:working for a mortuary is a grave mistake if you value your social life

most of it is pretty underground

Big Faggot · Post by **Big Faggot** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:25 am #56410

i turn tricks behind 7/11 24/7

rook · Post by **rook** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:38 am #56691

I WORK AT A SKI RESORT ON THE WEEKENDS IT'S WHATEVER BUT I GET FREE LIFT TICKETS.

SHARE THE GNAR BRO :rockon:

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:23 am #56728

i maintain and run this page on facebook for monetary gain.

i cannot disclose who i am receiving payment from

srifenbyxp · Post by **srifenbyxp** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:35 am #56753

I am a red shirt in real life, both armed and unarmed. I'm in school for vidya and got a paid intership lined up. Going for Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, and Level Design in that order. Once my skill and autism is maxed out I plan on doing a short series of Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode. I already have a storyboard made for the first episode.

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:43 am #56789

nsos wrote:i maintain and run this page on facebook for monetary gain.

You're p weird

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:11 pm #56812

i make six figures from dank memes dude

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:04 pm #56837

I work at McShittles and am in school. I hate the shit out of my job but the hours are good.

Reyouka · Post by **Reyouka** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:11 pm #57202

Retail at Family Dollar. Not the worst job ever, but not something I plan on making a career of.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:07 pm #57868

I'm an IT Technician, I help people that bitch and moan because they're too dumb to work out how to turn on a computer.

A laptop started smoking the other day, that was fun.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:38 pm #57882

Malkevin wrote:I'm an IT Technician, I help people that bitch and moan because they're too dumb to work out how to turn on a computer.

A laptop started smoking the other day, that was fun.

cigarettes or tobacco pipe?

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:50 pm #57884

A Li-Ion battery.

kosmos · Post by **kosmos** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:52 pm #57885

I'm a civil engineer. Currently designing roads and surroundings to a bus terminal and shopping mall, making sure the old people can cross roads safely while the other traffic goes smoothly.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:00 pm #57886

Malkevin wrote:A Li-Ion battery.

lithium is really bad for your lungs, tell it to switch to nicotine plasters

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:48 pm #58334

How about this, which station job is your real life job (or what you are studying in school) most like?

QuartzCrystal · Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:51 pm

I'm currently underemployed, graduated philosophy major from uni. Mostly have work doing writing/journalism stuff and non-profit/political organizing. Working currently for very little pay in the prelude to the Canadian federal election this year which should be leading to an actual paying job during the election, probably until then to pay the bills I'll be doing non-profit fundraising for a local group I've worked for a lot in the past few years.

If what I'm actually good at and ideally like doing was a job on the station it'd be most like HoP or rev-head, lolz.

alterpanda · Post by **alterpanda** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:16 pm #58357

I work at a Car Dealership, technically i'm part of the Body Shop, but im a gofer/IT, i know nothing about IT but someone has to set up the computers for the sales guys, most of my day is spent listening to Impacts and paintguns, every now and then i have to move/order/prep parts for the shop,

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:28 pm #58359

I am in my 4th year of my bacherlors degree in biotech, so probably xenobiology or genetics for me

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:21 pm #58369

>not mustard race biochem
youll never make it brother.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:04 pm #58393

Did a few years of biochem, it was all biochemical pathway memorization. I was okay at it but didnt like it much. Organic chemistry on the other hand is the funnest shit. If i had coder skillz i would try a chem revamp with cool glassware and chemical synthesis beyond just mixing shit

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:41 am #58472

I'm guessing roboticist or scientist or something if I were to work at SS13? To be honest, "are you insane enough to travel to a metal death trap in deep space for what little we will pay you" is a more important question during Nanotrasen's job interviews than "can you actually do this job".

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:09 am #58631

Wyzack wrote:How about this, which station job is your real life job (or what you are studying in school) most like?

Probably robotics since /tg/ doesn't have any computer engineering role really.

AI is a pretty fascinating subject but I kind of put myself off after studying it and finding AI has had a pretty underwhelming history. Which in retrospect was a mistake, I think it's starting to take off again with things like big data and analytics. I work in data so I could use it as a stepping stone for AI work.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:29 am #58634

Artificial intelligence is basically a huge myth, no shit it has an underwhelming history. It's a science fiction boogyman almost exclusively. In smaller forms, sure, it might be advanced to the point where it can replace most minimum-wage jobs, but artificial intelligence to the point of having personality is basically impossible. Even the AIs and cyborgs in ss13 aren't true AIs, they're fueled by a human brain, showing just how complex our grey matter is.

As soon as the DoD gives you funding to rip out people's brains and put them in killer machines though, lemme know.

I would be a janitor. A riveting job on a space station, ignored by most threats in space, but able to defend yourself with mops and bear traps.

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:09 am #58637

paprika wrote:Artificial intelligence is basically a huge myth, no shit it has an underwhelming history. It's a science fiction boogyman almost exclusively.

Our expectations have definitely been misaligned to our capabilities due to science fiction, but I don't think the idea of "true" AI is completely out of the realms of possibility. It's certainly clear we need to change expectations and how we approach the problem, it's never going to be done by a Turing machine. And this is without entertaining the idea of dualism or the idea that human personality and thought is affected by organs other than the brain.

Ripping out and canning brains would be p cool though. Transhumanist immortality ahoy!