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What does Music Banter do for work? Where has Music Banter worked? Where does Music Banter want to work?
This thread is for bull****ting about work or bull****ting about how hard it is to find good work.

After 3 years of trying to push my way into the tech industry I finally got my first serious full time job as a cellular systems lab technician back in June. Now I spend 8 hours a day configuring, testing, and building technology that extends cellular coverage into hard to reach areas like skyscrapers, shopping malls, underground parking garages, and tunnels. It's a comfortably challenging mixture of electronics & IT. Basically the engineers score a contract with a big name mobile carrier to design a large cellular system for a particular project, they design the system, they pitch the system to the carrier, the carrier buys it, the hardware is shipped to me, and then I set up and test the entire system before it ships to the carrier for use in their project. On slow days I'm either repairing devices, assembling electronics, laser engraving, or troubleshooting systems over the phone. Sometimes I get to work on wire-tapping systems for the government / penitentiaries, sometimes I'm working on coverage systems for airports, sometimes I'm working on radio networks for oil rigs in Northern Canada, and I never have to leave the lab. It's a pretty killer first job and I plan on sticking around as long as I can.

2 years ago I was a cashier in a dollar store.
Before that I was roofing / working construction.

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I'm a student and part-time produce employee for ACME.

What are you studenting about?

I'm working on getting into the MA/Doc program for Physical Therapy, and still haven't decide if I'm going for my Ba in Bio or Environmental Sci.

What did you get your degree in to land that gig? Networking or something? Looks like fun.

2 year technology diploma in wireless communications. About 75% radio electronics / 25% data & networking I'd say.

I'm a truck unloader for a thrift store. It's not as glorious as it sounds, but I love it.

Don't worry, doesn't sound too glorious.

I'm on the hunt for a job, I have an interview on Monday for a Blackboard (site students use to upload assignments, register for classes, etc.) technician. Hopefully that goes well.

I've worked at my parents hydroponic garden center (basically a retail store for specialty garden supplies) for as long as I can remember, worked as a deli dude slicing meat and frying chicken, bagger/cashier/self scan supervisor for a large grocery store, became an entrepreneur for awhile and became the middle man for an Amish group that produced organic, natural jams and jellies (basically sold them at farmers markets and such), volunteered in Nicaragua as an intern of sorts and worked with children mostly, freelanced as an elementary school tutor, volunteered again at a church and world mostly with youth in bad situations (talking them through their issues and making sure they didn't hurt themselves or others and such) and now I'm about to start a job as a teachers assistant at a private school, for 2 to 6 year olds. Most of these jobs have overlapped in one way or another. There has rarely been a time in my life that I've only had one method of income.

I study mechanical engineering. Two semesters left.

Your job seems great. Glad you found something you like, it's so rare.

Don't want to worry you, but I think someone wants to talk to your customer complaints dept!
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As for me, I left school at 17 (yeah back in the stone age, that's right...) and went straight into my first job, a shipping/freight forwarding company, with whom I remained for almost 30 years (29) before taking voluntary redundancy in 2009 to look after my sister. I'm now her fulltime carer for the last five years.

It's not as glamorous as it sounds... :shycouch:

I co-manage and operate a cafe... I'm underpaid, under appreciated, under utilized, and often times over-burdened since my boss prefers to keep a short staff and doesn't usually wanna come in. But, I get to make good food and have more creative freedoms than I would if I started a new gig elsewhere. Covers the bills and I still have pocket money to catch a show or party once in a while so I can't complain.

I am a store manger at a party store.Im a forensics student by day.

Currently unemployed and a full time high school student, hoping to one day go to college for music production and engineering. Or make it on my own which is much much harder, but may be more rewarding to myself in the long run.

I teach English at a Japanese university, write erotic romance novels with a Canadian publisher, and dress up as a fake priest and perform fake "Christian" weddings on the weekends in Tokyo.

I get paid handsomely for all three jobs.

What's the story behind travelling to Japan to teach English? I've heard of a lot of people doing that, was it just jumping at an opportunity for adventure or was it something you had planned on doing for a while?

Interesting. My school uses blackboard.

Currently im in the last year of for my supply chain management degree. Probably going to try and find a job doing bids and contracts, as I used to work in that field and enjoyed it quite a bit. Would also be interested in doing some sort of business analyst or statistics based job, but I really have no background in either haha. Either way itll be a boring desk job just how I like it.

I graduated university with a Bachelor's in English Lit, which meant I could do precisely dick with it. The girl I'd just married, though American, had grown up in Japan. She had connections and spoke the language, and hey, it was a chance to get out of the hellhole small town of cornfields I lived in (I'm sure many can relate to this!), so I took off with her for Tokyo. Been here 17 years. Damn.

:banghead: It's a senior community we have enough complaints thank you. You're all so picky, and don't know how to read signs.

I'm an interactive developer for the marketing department of a large corporation.

Undergraduate trying to get into a social psychology PhD program.

Why social psychology?

It's one of the few things I find intrinsically enjoyable, and I do not tolerate boredom well. I'm particularly interested in researching the formations of stereotypes and intergroup interactions. Plus that particular field has some flexibility; I'll be able to do both research and counseling work if I choose to do so.

If you are into "psychology" finding this site must be like hitting the mother lode.

Currently an intern at a large communications multi-national as part of my masters degree in software engineering. I do a lot of Java programming and shell scripting and I'm expected to have good knowledge of Unix operating systems such as Solaris. I work on a product which is used to manage mobile networks so I'm expected to learn all about cellular networks. I finish my masters at Christmas and I expect to be given the job permanently.

I've also worked in a smaller IT company before that where I was doing a mixture of coding and electronics, such as working with microcontrollers, and also some app development. I was coding using a mixture of Java, C and Objective-C.

I've also worked in my uncle's hardware store for years since I was 15 and that had it's good times and it's bad times. I never really liked the job that much, but it paid my way through college and put money in my wallet for going out and getting wasted.

Hey, very cool. That sort of stuff fascinates me. What side of the field would you rather take on, the research or the counseling?

My business card says: Director of Engineering and Product Development

I work for a small company that designs, develops, and then manufactures via Chinese partners, consumer electronics for some of the bigger names in the CE industry.

I study a joint degree of English Lit and Film Studies. I also work in a supermarket on the tills and stacking shelves. I hope to go into the film industry in some respect once I graduate.

I save lives everyday. I design/build fire training systems.

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Have you seen the movie Cashback?

I stay at home with our six daughters, am about to give birth to our seventh child (a son!!!), and I homeschool all five old enough for school.

Oh, and I am an editor for a publishing house in Canada. (Talk about telecommuting!)

Occasionally, I write novels, too. I have seven published.

Sometimes, I even get to listen to music. No one pays me for that, though. :p:

I roll (sorting clothing and shoes by size and store location) several thousands of items to the salesfloor of the thrift store I work in, 40-50 hours/week.

My team also makes sure that there's a place for everything - and everything is in its place.

I maneuver around thousands of oblivious manatees that have no idea what "excuse me, ma'am/sir" means.

I used to be the regular fitting room attendant.

Before I started working for the company I'm at right now, I worked in two different copy/print centers (I did everything from minor black and white print jobs to major coil-bound book jobs). Before then I worked in a couple clothing stores; I've also been a customer service manager for a Wal-Mart store (absolute hell), a gas station attendant, and when I entered the workforce 11 years ago, I worked in a restaurant.

I've been dealing with assholery of the human race for 11 long years.

I'm currently finishing a diploma in software and development. I am about to do a 100 hour project so I can get an internship with a IT company that has big clients like Microsoft.

I have a BSc, a post graduate certificate and have worked the following jobs in the pas 11 years: video store and gift store clerk, librarian, note taker and formatter for the University disability department, secondary and tertiary statistics tutor (levels 100-200), digital specialist (built websites for smb clients), secretary/database administrator/IT recruitment administrator.

Sr. Manager at a biotech company. Big money but soul sucking.

How did you end up in biotech? Did you get there through business or science? Or a combination of both? It was a field I was considering pursuing a couple of years ago but ended up chasing some other corners of science / tech instead.

Got a degree in Biochemistry in 1990 and it seemed like the route to go. Still a pretty good field. Have had 3 headhunters call me just this week.

i just keep on cooking you know, i just keep on swagging.

Student, bound to study and work with astrophysics in a few years

I'm currently still in high school, but I'm planning on getting my pilot's license once I learn how to drive.