What does everyone do for a living?

[Fez Wizardo]

I'll get the ball rolling...

I'm a bum :D

(Normally Comp/Network engineer as well as Coder/ Web Developer :))

[Yoda]

Partially a student, and partially a freelance web developer. I also help produce a morning drive-time radio show, which entails requesting review copies, scheduling interviews, managing the schedule, etc. It's working out pretty well. I'll probably snag a job at the video store or movie theater within the next few months, though, in addition to this stuff.

[spudracer]

I work for an elementary school in the Internet Lab (we have two labs here and the other one is Keyboarding) helping kids with math two days out of the week and the rest of the week we do internet stuff.

I help out with the Sound board at my church, I also run the laptop which displays songs up on the screen as well as announcements for other things going on in the church.

Up until recently I was running a small DVD site, but closed it down on account that I didn't have the kind of time to work with it.

I help my dad work on lawnmowers, cars, and anything else that has an engine from time to time. But please, don't call me a "Grease Monkey", I don't care for that term, I've never seen a monkey change the exhaust system on a car.

Here, very soon, I will be (hopefully) joining the ranks of the U.S. Navy and get into the computer field where I will be stationed in one of the many ports here in America. :D

I am also back in control of the DVD section here on Movie Forums to which I have proposed many new features to Chris and we are in the process of bringing some of these to life. :)

[Mary Loquacious]

I'm a graduate (gradual) student in creative writing, and I teach two classes a semester at the university (composition, literature, advanced writing, you name it--basically, whatever they want to give me). I love teaching, in many ways, and it's what I'm planning to do for the rest of my life... or until I write a best-seller. :D

But I elected not to teach this summer. I'm severely burned out, as it's been going non-stop for two years... and as much as I love my students, they drive me freakin' insane--oh, the writing horror stories I could tell you. So this summer I'll be working odd jobs where I hopefully won't have to do much of anything. I've got a line on a laundromat job, which will be sweet--lots o' reading, reading, reading.

And lotsa writing this summer, as it's thesis time. Got about sixty pages... only two hundred to go...

But please, don't call me a "Grease Monkey"

GREASE MONKEY! GREASE MONKEY, I SAY!!

:laugh: You know, Spud, I never woulda said it if you hadn't forbidden it...

[sadesdrk]

I work for a catering company.
"Shrimp cocktail, sir?"

AND I book bands for my catering boss' bar. He's mafia. :yup:

~Spud, don't even talk about past jobs. ;D

[spudracer]

I mainly said that all because of the Seinfeld episode in which Putty lands a job as a car salesman and is no longer a "grease monkey".

It's also the episode in which we see a candy line-up, and we find out what the rust-proofing really is.

[spudracer]

Originally posted by sadesdrk
~Spud, don't even talk about past jobs. ;D

Oh you mean like working for certain "GARBAGE" company. Though nothing that I've seen lately is anywhere close to being garbage. :D

[Mary Loquacious]

Originally posted by sadesdrk
I work for a catering company.
"Shrimp cocktail, sir?"


So I guess we won't have to CATER to you anymore...

Yeah, bad pun... not funny... shame... cripes...

I have no defense, except that I couldn't resist.

I'll stop now.

[sadesdrk]

originally posted by Kent*Something about garbage...Blah. Blah.Garbage. Yes. Lots and lots of "garbage". :laugh:

I had to go back and quote you, Kent. Mary Lo posted to soon after me. :p

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious


So I guess we won't have to CATER to you anymore...

I love it! :laugh:

[Mary Loquacious]

Yeah, garbage! :laugh:



I don't get it.

[spudracer]

But let's just say that those who know you have learned not to bring it up around you.

But, if you know what I'm talking about, that last sentence sounds really dirty. :rotfl:

[Fez Wizardo]

omg i've never met someone who wanted to be a teacher :eek: :eek: :eek:

as long as you're not teaching hormone driven teenagers in a BO ridden room i guess it'd be alright :D

[Mary Loquacious]

omg i've never met someone who wanted to be a teacher

I understand your reaction, but seriously, if you just have fun with it, it can be great. I just try to make sure my students don't fall asleep.

My favorite story:

We were discussing about Maus in my literature class. We're about fifteen minutes into the class, nobody is talking, not even my regulars (you know, the kids you can always count on to speak, whether they say something intelligent or not). So I give up and jump up on my desk, shouting, "JESUS, PEOPLE! THIS BOOK KICKS A*S--HOW CAN YOU NOT WANT TO TALK!" And then I jump down and start pacing around the front of the room, waving the book in the air and channeling Jesse Jackson: "The Reverend McG will preach to you the gospel of Maus--can I get an amen!"
They're all laughing by now--from shock, mostly--but no one says anything (I know they're all thinking, "The woman has lost it")--so I say it again: "Can I get an AMEN?" Then a couple of people say: "A-amen?"

This sounds crazy, and it was, no doubt, but it totally worked. We had our best discussion that day. Sometimes you just have to shock them into giving a sh*t.

But the thing is, most of my students are freshmen or sophomores, so I've still got to deal with hormones. It's worse in college, though, 'cause the majority are on their own for the first time in their lives. :p They've had a taste of freedom, and then I have to try to rein them in again.

[sadesdrk]

I'm gonna teach English/Drama. For highscool. :yup:

[Fez Wizardo]

Hey where do those smilies come from on the top right of your post?

Sadie, I wish you luck. Go in with with a can of air freshner and give out free deodrant. It's the only way.

[spudracer]

Originally posted by Fez Wizardo
Hey where do those smilies come from on the top right of your post?

They are the Moods, you should be able to see a Drop-Down box at the top of the main Forums page. :D

[Yoda]

Fez: on the forum main page, there should be a dropdown menu allowing you to select your mood. You can also change it here:

User Moods (http://www.movieforums.net/moods.php)

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Fez Wizardo
Sadie, I wish you luck. Go in with with a can of air freshner and give out free deodrant. It's the only way. Wait...what the--??
:laugh:

I knew that inside joke would backfire someday!! I thought he was talkin' about the "Garbage Job" but he was referring to the highschool kids...aha. I get it. ;D

[Monkeypunch]

I'm not a bum, I'm a Jerk.
Actually, I work in an office for the Army National Guard, and as my civillian alter-ego, I'm a college student. I used to be a film and theater critic, a Janitor, a comic strip artist, a pharmacist's assistant, a retail supervisor, an intern at an AM radio station, a college radio DJ, a paperboy, and a house painter. Whew....and after all that, I'm still not rich. Dammit.

[firegod]

I am a day trader. I'm kind of a writer at heart, and want to write a novel someday.

[The Silver Bullet]

May God have mercy on your soul, baby. May God have mercy.


I'm a student/filmmaker/writer.

:)

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by firegod
I'm kind of a writer at heart, and want to write a novel someday. All the luck in the world to you. Best wishes.

*we all want to write, don't we? I know I do...screenplays.

[Mary Loquacious]

All the luck in the world to you. Best wishes.

Amen to that. Here's to the aspiring writers--we need all the luck we can get in this cruel world...

[Greg The Bunny]

Application Developer
You want it, I write it.

Database Designer
Got Data?

I once got a job doing what I loved. Made it feel too much like work.

-GTB

[Steve]

i'm a student at stonewall jackson high school - the best public high school in the country, according to our generous check to the AOL-Time Warner company. i also work at blockbuster video every sunday, from 9 to 5. umm. my favorite class at school is creative writing II/dance/football class. mr. ondrof is my teacher, he's the best teacher in the world. he let me hang up a poster of the lonely hearts club band, with pictures of the bee-gees and peter frampton, on the wall over the tv. what a great class.

[patti]

for the past few years i do whatever work i can do where my little whippersnapper can go along- kid-care room at my healthclub, and babysitting for some graduate student/parents.
.....before mommyhood clipped me on the chin (in a good way ofcourse), i was finishing up art education certification to teach art to middle thru highschool kids. but i have worked in a few commercial photo labs....darkroom, copyshooting, etc. and i've been a baker for many years.
once my girl is in school, i hope to teach art as planned.

on the side and deep into my soul, i'm a nature lovin' freak and artist.....and now mommy.

i still fantasize i'm a writer but i don't write. i will always fantasize that i could make a living with my art.

:cool:

[The Silver Bullet]

I know I do...screenplays.

Oh my God, we need to start e-mailing each other.

[Yoda]

You said it: everyone wants to be a writer. For me. it's biographies and philosophy. Perhaps one day. :)

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by The Silver Bullet


Oh my God, we need to start e-mailing each other. Yep. I got one in the works already...about a third of the way finished. We should pick each other's brains. (Quite a visual...brain-picking) :goof:

[Vetinari]

Right now, I'm a piss-poor student living in a 20m^2 appartment where I can almust turn around. In four years, when I've (hopefully) completed my studies, I will be working as a teacher in english and history.

[spudracer]

You'll then upgrade from that dinky little apartment to an apartment big enough for a VW Bug. :D

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Vetinari
Right now, I'm a piss-poor student living in a 20m^2 appartment where I can almust turn around. In four years, when I've (hopefully) completed my studies, I will be working as a teacher in english and history. Hooray! A fellow aspiring teacher...hope it works out for you. :)

**now wish me luck**:D

[thmilin]

OHO! I told you all you would want to follow in my foosteps! Secretly, you all crave to create the magic that is the written word!

Mary Lo - dahling, too bad you're in IL, I could use your skills! All we writers ever do is use one another. Read my story, read my story! Is it bad, is it good? Be honest! No, don't be honest! Wait! Be KIND OF honest!

People keep asking me if I want to be a teacher. Well, they used to more often when I was still in school. Cuz of the good ol' English Major. And my answer is no. I have no patience for other people's children. It will take me way too much energy to find any for my own, one day.

I can't believe you kids have Creative Writing actually offered as a class in high school now. that is some bullsh|t. where was MY creative writing when *I* was growing up? Huh? HUH?! well, just appreciate it. d@mned whippersnappers.

Anyhoo, jobs I've had - um, not many. Parent was strict and over protective. That means I lived off the mercy of a $5/week allowance. But in college summer jobs I had: I was an Office Assistant for the Finance Dept of MCIWorldCom in Napa, CA. Another time I was the shipping receiver for Michael's Arts & Crafts. And during school I was the 4 years smoothie queen (smoothie bar heroine)/cashier/student manager at my dining hall. I still make a mean smoothie. We rivalled Jamba Juice and stole their customers.

Then, volunteer webwork for nonprofit type things, just trying to get writing exposure. Including this site (movie reviews) and various webzines. I earn no mula, but you know, gotta get the name out there somehow (poetry, short stories).

So yeah, the plan is to be a writer. I have hundreds of pages for various incomplete novels collecting dust on the good ol' hard drive. I finally decided my major focus is to write erotica (see my profile and link). And to revive love poetry in America. Or the world. The universe! The Age of Romance is dead and I think there's something horrible in that. I'm part of the Renaissance.

And for the day job, internet related stuff, since I live in Silicon Valley. I was sort of a tech writer/instructional writer at my last job. Now i'm in customer service/advertising which has nothing to do with that but I do get to write moving emails to incensed customers! The company i'm with is good tho, so there's potential to move up and have more fulfilling work.

all i wanna do is write, man. have my own little island in the caribbean with a hot cabana boy, my own private beach, crystal blue water, feet up, shades on, keyboard keys click clacking away ...

someday. i'll be dead eventually and the whole world won't be able to stop talking about me and remaking my life story. like shakespeare. woohoo!!

[Kahiri]

I am a full time college student. Officially, I'm majoring in psychology, but I take a lot of biology classes as well because they're fun. I have yet to decide what I actually want to do for a career. Right now I have several odd jobs. I do animal care for the biology department at my school, I do some lifeguarding, I work at a battered women's shelter, and I'm going to start doing some guiding for a whitewater rafting company. None of these jobs are especially lucrative, but I make enough money to pay $200 a month to live in a walk in closet in some friends' apartment and to pay for school and, of course, to fund my movie addiction (somewhat). =)

[patti]

Originally posted by thmilin

all i wanna do is write, man. have my own little island in the caribbean with a hot cabana boy, my own private beach, crystal blue water, feet up, shades on, keyboard keys click clacking away ...

i'll send my messenger dove on over with messages from time to time........from my island down the way. :yup:




i'll be dead eventually and the whole world won't be able to stop talking about me.......

only after they're done talking about me.

:nope: nah, you rate thmilin! ;)

[Mary Loquacious]

Mary Lo - dahling, too bad you're in IL, I could use your skills! All we writers ever do is use one another. Read my story, read my story! Is it bad, is it good? Be honest! No, don't be honest! Wait! Be KIND OF honest!

:laugh: Reminds me a little of workshop--they'll always start with, "I just want to say I really like this story," and then they rip you a new a*shole. But that's graduate fiction workshop for you--a pool of sharks, I tell you. :D It's actually a pretty good environment.

Thmillin, there's always e-mail... Sades has already been subjected to my deathless prose (and gave some very helpful feedback, I might add) and she's supposed to be sending me something of her own. Where is it, huh??? Step up to the plate, woman!

We could all set up an e-mail ring for stories, screenplays, poetry, and whathaveyou. I'm for it--who's comin' with me...

[Yoda]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious
We could all set up an e-mail ring for stories, screenplays, poetry, and whathaveyou. I'm for it--who's comin' with me...
Oooooo...I really like that idea. I'd wanna join in, but I'd probably only have boring non-fiction stuff to offer. :)

[XetoxIc]

I work as a Network Admin for a large cement company....pretty boring :) but pay is good!

[patti]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious

We could all set up an e-mail ring for stories, screenplays, poetry, and whathaveyou. I'm for it--who's comin' with me...

well, i'll have to check with my cabana boy to see what's on the schedule........my cabana boy is having a "thing" with thmilin's cabana boy. but shhhhhhhh don't tell her. she'd be crushed.....or, rather, she'd crush him and bring in another.


but seriously, that's a great idea.....for those of you who write.....i just fantasize about writing.

;)

nice avatar Xetoxic

[Mary Loquacious]

Oooooo...I really like that idea. I'd wanna join in, but I'd probably only have boring non-fiction stuff to offer.

Hey, non-fiction, too--there's all kinds of markets for essays and stuff like that. I've been thinking about trying to write more non-fic stuff...

And just 'cause it's non-fiction doesn't mean it's boring. Don't be so hard on yourself, Master Jedi! :D

And you, too, Patti! Don't just fantasize--make it reality! ;)

[XetoxIc]

Originally posted by patti


well, i'll have to check with my cabana boy to see what's on the schedule........my cabana boy is having a "thing" with thmilin's cabana boy. but shhhhhhhh don't tell her. she'd be crushed.....or, rather, she'd crush him in bring in another.


but seriously, that's a great idea.....for those of you who write.....i just fantasize about writing.

;)

nice avatar Xetoxic


THanks :)

[The Silver Bullet]

So my darling ladies (and Chris, who is not a darling lady...) how are we going to go about this? This story ring?

I think it should be seperate to MoFo.
Someone start it. I would, but I've got school all the time and a heap of commitments there. But whoever does, just ask for help and I'll pitch in.

I'm excited.

[Mary Loquacious]

I think it should be seperate to MoFo.

Me, too--but I'm not sure how to go about setting something like that up... I know d*ck about computers and the Internet. Could it be as simple as just getting all the addresses and then sending out your stuff to everybody at the same time? Could we do it entirely through e-mail?

Hmm. Somebody help me out here... I feel like Donnie, and Donnie's out of his element.

"You're outta your element, Donnie!"

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious



Thmillin, there's always e-mail... Sades has already been subjected to my deathless prose (and gave some very helpful feedback, I might add) and she's supposed to be sending me something of her own. Where is it, huh??? Step up to the plate, woman!

We could all set up an e-mail ring for stories, screenplays, poetry, and whathaveyou. I'm for it--who's comin' with me... Hey, hey! I will send you something, you just gotta wait till I find something I already don't know is good. (kidding of course, dang...put the knives away! :eek: )

I'm game for the whole "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" thing. Let's do it. :yup: We could just start with one person's work...and that person emails to one person...then we can just keep forwarding it to each other, whoever is on the list. I dunno, I'd like to see everyone else's comments. Chris, you should figure this out for us.

[Yoda]

I could prolly setup some basic email script to manage these affairs...iffin ya'll are serious.

[Mary Loquacious]

We are serious... and don't call me Shirley.

Thanks, Chris!

[sadesdrk]

I'm serious. :yup:

[Yoda]

Ya' know why that's funny? Because I didn't even use the word "surely." :D Okay, I'll look into setting up something basic. Should be do-able. I'll have a lot of free time this weekend, so I think I ought to be able to throw something together.

Ah, the benefits of geekdom.

[Mary Loquacious]

Originally posted by sadesdrk
I'm serious. :yup:

No, you're not. You're Sadie.

:nope:

Kids today... forgettin' their names...

Jeez, that was lame. It's too early in the morning to be witty, I suppose. ;)

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious


No, you're not. You're Sadie.

D'oh. *cringe* bad jokes make me angry! Lynch Mary Lo!!!
*picks up her torch and pitch-fork*

[Mary Loquacious]

Mary Lo submits to the lynching, but dies with her head held high, defiant to the end.

ROLL CREDITS

[sadesdrk]

awww...*sniff*...Mary Lo. :(
:bawling:
WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!!

[Mary Loquacious]

WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!!

Mary Lo takes Sadie's hand. She whispers, "I... forgive... you...," sounding like the wheelchair kid on Malcolm and the Middle. Sadie shakes her head, but with her dying breath, Mary Lo says, "There... is... another..."

As Sadie weeps, Mary Lo's hand goes slack. Her head falls to the side, even if she hadn't had it raised up before.

END CREDITS

The test audiences hated the original ending.

:D

[sadesdrk]

--ENTER APPLAUSE SMILIE(that we should have had a loooong time ago (hint hint)--

Bravo, Mary Lo. Bra-Vo. :D

[Mary Loquacious]

Thank you very much--be here all week.

And remember, the 11:00 show is completely different from the 9:00 show.

:)

[Yoda]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious
And remember, the 11:00 show is completely different from the 9:00 show.
I hope so, for your sake. :D

Wow, this thread is WAY off-topic.

[Mary Loquacious]

Wow, this thread is WAY off-topic.

I dunno--melodrama's my bread and butter. Well, my imaginary bread and my make-believe butter.

So. Yeah, off-topic.

If you want to know what I really do for a living, check out my Profile. That whole "graduate student/teacher" thing's just a smokescreen...

[patti]

hey, i'll come for the eleven o'clock show!........and Mary-Lo.......it is grand having you join MoFo.....a perfect addition i must say.:yup:
......now we need thmilin to visit more (i know, i know, ya' can't play at work, but i miss ya' thmilin!),....... and lest we never, NEVER lose miss sadie!!.....ahh the delights of mofo banter. i love it. ;)

:kiss:

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by patti
......and Mary-Lo.......it is grand having you join MoFo.....a perfect addition i must say.:yup:
:kiss: I must say it too~ and now, a song:

"Isn't she lovely?"
~Stevie

Patti, I miss ya. :( Email me. :D

[Mary Loquacious]

hey, i'll come for the eleven o'clock show!........and Mary-Lo.......it is grand having you join MoFo.....a perfect addition i must say.

Now you made me blush, see: :blush:

Thanks, doll--and you, too, Sades!

:)

[The Silver Bullet]

Freaky.
I just wrote the same thing in the Highlight forum.

*raises glass*
To Mary!!

[Mary Loquacious]

I'll drink to that... but then, I'll drink to anything.

;D

You guys rock, you really do. Here's to the coolest MoFo's on the block (and you all know who you are). :cool:

[The Silver Bullet]

My ears are burning.


No, really, I wanted to see inside so I lit a q-tip.

[Mary Loquacious]

The same thing happened to me, only it involved my nose and some extra-super-hot sauce...

[Vetinari]

Hooray! A fellow aspiring teacher...hope it works out for you.

Thanks. Hope it works out for you as well.

It's a great thing there are so many teachers here. When I go back to my home town and meet my old friends and tell them that I'm studying to become a teacher, they all look at me like I'm a leper or something. I'm one of them now in their eyes:D

Lots of writers here too. I'm not one of them however...I would like to have written though;)

[thmilin]

whew. yes yes, i know, it's been a while ... chris, you still doing the email thing? though if we get up to having large files on Word or something, that may prove a problem for everybody to share. there are yahoo and MSN communities that let you upload files to folders everyone can share, and basically it's a little community that you can have daily, weekly, or web-based email digests.

when i was young and aspiring, i actually signed up for a few. but those things can really flood your inbox, and you find that you have little time to actually READ everything everyone writes ... with a small group, you feel sort of obligated. when the group is 20+, you feel less obligated, but then when 20 people write back and forth ... Death By Email.

;)

[The Silver Bullet]

If we had a group of like four or five it'd be perfecto.

I'm a member of Zoetrope.com and I love the place.
Reviews coming in from every little which way.

[Naisy]

well most people know im just a bum, im a full time student with no full time job. I know it isnt much but i havent posted anything for a while and i didnt want to appear invisable

[Yoda]

Think nothing of it. Jobs are a nuisance, anyway. They cut into MoFo time...and that's bad. :D

[Naisy]

:rotfl: thats true no wiser words were spoken, lose your job, lose your house just dont lose your connection to Mofo

[XetoxIc]

I have not been around the forums for long but mofo is one of the kewlest I have seen in awhile!

[Mary Loquacious]

Originally posted by The Silver Bullet
If we had a group of like four or five it'd be perfecto.

I agree--so, how do we get the ball rollin' on this thingy? I need motivation, being cursed with the lack of same.

[Raziel1]

i am a full-time (and then some) flooring installer. not the greatest job, but the pay is descent. plan on going back to school. went for a semester already on a secondary education degree. just wasn't for me

[mightymose]

I work with my family at our paint/powder shop. I am actually 4th generation, which is pretty neat b/c less than .5% of family businesses make it this far :)

We are a relatively small job shop and specialize in objects about the size of your hand... We do quite a bit of work for the appliance, automotive, and office furniture industries (can you tell we're in MI, LOL). Probably the most exciting part we've ever done are the 25th Anniversary Corvette flags, but we've gotten away from that work and moved towards more mass production over the years... Not the most exciting work in the world, but I love it. It's fulfulling to see a raw piece of ugly die-casting come into our shop and then leave as a Class A surface, ready to enter someones home :)