Describe your occupation abstractly

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capitalism sucks, but we all have to pay the bills. most of us work for wages, so let’s see what folks on the forum do. i’ll start, and provide a few examples.

  • i used to play records at an alarming volume for people who were hoping to have more fun than they were having before they walked in the room.

  • i also used to sell vinyl records to people who were hoping to enjoy (or at least collect) specific pieces of other people’s art. (i still do this, on occasion)

  • for a few years, i gave advice on how to operate and maintain a specific professional audio manufacturer’s product lines, for those who were trying to optimize those products for a paying audience.

  • now, i facilitate digital musical delivery packages for a multi-national distributor to another multi-national retailer so customers can stream music on their electronic devices.

how about you? what kind of stuff do you do?

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I almost started a similar topic, I’m in a really weird situation with my job, it doesn’t make me happy and its like 6+ I want to quit, but same, we got to pay the bills…

  • Moved to London after studying electric stuff

  • For a year I cleaned stuff and I was happy, and went to loads of parties, poor but happy

  • Then I started pouring mixed substances in vessel for the rich, famous, royals and spongers, for a stupid amount of bucks, in exchange to get some extra cash at the end of the month, but in exchange of an insane amount of hours

  • I tried to fulfil my dream to get into the music industry so I went back to study sounds and twirling knobs while working an insane amount of hours for the rich, famous, royals and spongers

  • Didn’t get any job in the music industry so I kept on working for the usual gals

  • Covid Break

  • I end up in Saudi Arabia, I make sure Rich people stomach gets full while other Rich people pockets get full. I’m seeing some weird s*it here

I’m tempted to leave all this shabanga, move to Barcelona or Ibiza with my best friend and live on DJing ,work in a cheap local bar and sunsets

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I spend my days deep in the Powerpoint mines, finding things that people need to hear, and sometimes want to hear

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I bring light into peoples lives.

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I make sure artisan crap doesn’t get mixed up with the popping candy in a family run warehouse.

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I mostly work remotely

I manage people who manage people who train people to do their jobs better

I often have to pretend I understand the principles of project management

Working with local politicians means that I have no illusions about this Country being in any way a meritocracy

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So much I could say about my work but walls have ears etc. My advice to any 17 year olds lurking on the forum. Don’t go into media/pr. Make yourself useful to the world instead.

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After spending a long time chopping and shaping wood into things for people to use I now assemble what are effectively big meccano kits that make very loud noises for people to dance and hopefully fall in love to.

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I travel the world making sure people do what I tell them to do with the tools I create to varying degrees of success.

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I chat with ancient humans and do everything that I can to make their last days as good as all the ones that came before.

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I (attempt to) aestheticise the minds of the young with the freedoms of creativity and self expression that have been sorely lacking in their pedagogical experience to date.

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I advise institutional investors and multinational companies how to mitigate their liability on the huge portfolios of empty buildings they now have.

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oof. good luck with that.

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I colour in, careful not to go outside of the lines.

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I sell electronic components to engineers building the hardware architecture of the Metaverse.

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i am the walrus

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I work in Telecoms, which means I am forever at the mercy and wrong end of BT’s utterly archaic and never ending preposterous systems and policies

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I work in engineering without doing any engineering. Almost certainly a bullshit job

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I help companies hire great people to fix big problems for them.

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Shit shifting then making it all nice again.

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