View Poll Results: what do you do for a living?

Voters 78. This poll is closed
  • work fulltime

    17 21.79%
  • work partime

    10 12.82%
  • student/unemployed

    16 20.51%
  • student/employed

    8 10.26%
  • self employed

    2 2.56%
  • unemployed

    15 19.23%
  • volunteer

    0 0%
  • student/self employed

    3 3.85%
  • student/volunteer

    4 5.13%
  • hustler(not illegal stuff, anything to make a LEGAL buck)

    3 3.85%

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  1. #41
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    Neither Bild nor Welt are unreasonable :-)
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    Well I do a lot of things but none of them makes me any money. (unemployed)
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    Retired, on a pension, with Social Security, after 32.5 years with the same university. When I think about it, I realize how lucky I am. The best of luck to everyone who is still punching a clock! If the IWW had a branch down here, I would join it, to do what I could to improve the situation of those who toil. That would probably be more effective than kibitzing on revleft
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  4. #44
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    I just got a job in a restaurant.
  5. #45
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    I'm an undercover cop. Either that or I'm unemployed.
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  6. #46
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    I suspect I'm going to really need the extra money over the next year so I've started looking at jobs again which isn't soul-crushing at all no sir.

    Upside is that the council usually start posting loads of jobs in september and october so at least there's a vague prospect of a less-than-averagely shitty job
  7. #47
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    I work four days a week as a systems admin in HR.
  8. #48
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    Work full time doing the same monotonous thing over and over.
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    "snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.

  9. #49
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    Retired, on a pension, with Social Security, after 32.5 years with the same university.
    Were you a professor?
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    Originally Posted by sixdollarchampagne Retired, on a pension, with Social Security, after 32.5 years with the same university.
    =MarxSchmarx;2656210]Were you a professor?
    Nah, I wish. I was an "admin assistant," essentially a secretary, which was not that bad. I got decent pay for spending all day helping people.
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  11. #51
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    Nah, I wish. I was an "admin assistant," essentially a secretary, which was not that bad. I got decent pay for spending all day helping people.
    If I'm guessing correctly where you worked, do you not remember what idiots some of those profs can be? I'm not looking forward to fielding specific profs questions/requests/demands starting Wednesday
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    Am I the only person who works in a factory?
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    if you count distribution as being part of factory work then no, you are surely not the only one.



    though it is on the bottom rung of 'skilled'
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    Default Comparing universities

    If I'm guessing correctly where you worked, do you not remember what idiots some of those profs can be? I'm not looking forward to fielding specific profs questions/requests/demands starting Wednesday
    Oh, after getting out of the Navy, I moved to southern New England, so I didn't work at the university you are thinking of, but I did a stint there, earlier, as a grad student in a foreign languages department. I never quite knew what to make of that university. Some of my profs were impressive, but at night, they went home to the suburbs, while the university where they taught was in a depressed urban environment. The university where I later worked as an admin assistant for over three decades, sits on the Charles River, a beautiful location.
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    The ballot box is the coffin of class consciousness. – Alan Dawley
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  15. #55
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    I never quite knew what to make of that university.
    I *still* don't know what to make of it. I was a student years ago. Now an employee. Both sides are lost about it.
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    Work full time doing the same monotonous thing over and over.
    Yeah me too.

    Work full time doing the same monotonous thing over and over.
    Yeah me too.
  17. #57
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    I work in an Amazon Fulfillment Center while also studying for my degree in Social Work. Every time someone returns an item, I have to inspect it to see if it can be re-sold, or if they've used it too much for it to be considered reusable.
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    I'm a business owner. We do make decorative concrete pads, flat work, concrete repair, concrete removal, concrete counter tops, pretty much everything and anything that can be done with concrete. Then we do odd jobs in the winter. I fucking hate being a business owner....
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    You can atone for being a business owner by hiring an unemployed comrade or two.

    I'm a business owner. We do make decorative concrete pads, flat work, concrete repair, concrete removal, concrete counter tops, pretty much everything and anything that can be done with concrete. Then we do odd jobs in the winter. I fucking hate being a business owner....
    That's all very well in practice, but how will it work in theory?

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    You can atone for being a business owner by hiring an unemployed comrade or two.
    I've been hoping to do that :-D

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