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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    just wondering. i'm unemployed right now, but my girl's dad is looking at leasing garages. hopefully i will be in my own bay fixing cars soon.
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    trade school student, doing machining
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    Studying to be a veterinary assistant, starting my internship this month. Been trying to get a part-time job but no one seems to want to hire me. Plus I volunteer at the library once a week.
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    Currently unemployed (although I should note that taking care of a 3 year old is a full time job). I am hoping to be a student again soon though.
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    Hustler(illegal stuff). Jk

    It really depends on the month, sometimes I'm working full time getting overtime everyday, the next month I'm barely getting 4 hours a day.
    Lately I've been wondering if I should get a medical marijuana card and grow weed for dispensaries, good money on the side and I'm just putting seeds in the ground and taking care of them really. Kind of bourgie though...
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    working part time
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    Im unemployed lol
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    Librarian seeking full time work (currently in academic library for the past 5 semesters)
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    Looks like the precariat is winning hands down so far.
    That's all very well in practice, but how will it work in theory?

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    Looks like the precariat is winning hands down so far.
    i would be surprised if it weren't
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    Hustler(illegal stuff). Jk

    It really depends on the month, sometimes I'm working full time getting overtime everyday, the next month I'm barely getting 4 hours a day.
    Lately I've been wondering if I should get a medical marijuana card and grow weed for dispensaries, good money on the side and I'm just putting seeds in the ground and taking care of them really. Kind of bourgie though...
    It takes a lot of money to start a decent grow-op, and you really have to know your shit in order to compete with the professionals of the industry.
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    It takes a lot of money to start a decent grow-op, and you really have to know your shit in order to compete with the professionals of the industry.
    Oh yeah I know, my friends parents make a lot of money doing that and they have the best weed I've ever smoked in my life, I'd be getting tips from them and clones. Not really thinking of competing or anything, just side money to pay for things I can't afford now like my cell phone bill. I have enough money now to pay for gas for work tonight and that's it and I don't get paid until next Friday. This is how hustlers are made I guess, I'm none too good at it though.
    We claim to live and die equal, the way we were born: we want this real equality or death; that’s what we need.
    And we’ll have this real equality, at whatever price. Unhappy will be those who stand between it and us! Unhappy will be those who resist a wish so firmly expressed.
    The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
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    Oh yeah I know, my friends parents make a lot of money doing that and they have the best weed I've ever smoked in my life, I'd be getting tips from them and clones. Not really thinking of competing or anything, just side money to pay for things I can't afford now like my cell phone bill. I have enough money now to pay for gas for work tonight and that's it and I don't get paid until next Friday. This is how hustlers are made I guess, I'm none too good at it though.
    i feel like an airhead, i didn't know what "grow op" meant... i feel you, i work on cars whenever possible... it's ridiculous how many people cannot or will not pay for car repair. i've had people turn down free labor. i figured if i did some free, word would get out... still broke
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    Full time, for the same company since 13 years. I'm currently working as a receptionist, started as a storage worker and have also done shop cashier.

    A quite safe job situation due to local employment laws, which are still powerful compared to most other countries, but I'm starting to get increasingly fed up with what I'm doing.
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    i am a worthless drain on society due to my inability to sustain any long-term employment and i periodically harass the state to fund my luxurious mental excursions into the dusty annals of classical philology

    sometimes if i'm real lucky rich people will let me clean their houses, at least until they misplace something and decide i stole it
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    Last "permanent" job was working at the front desk of a subsidised building for the recently homeless downtown. Alas I butted heads with the executive director. I was dismissed just as the slump started. The lesson for you kids out there is avoid working for Catholic non-profits. They are as a rule self-insured, they have every reason to screw you out of worker compensation and unemployment benefits.

    After a couple of tough years I am now drawing Social Security disability. I have joined the indigent aristocracy.
    That's all very well in practice, but how will it work in theory?

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    I'm a filthy student and self-employed.
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    i work part time as an bouncer, i study 1 day a week as an artisan carpenter and i started my own small carpentry company where i hope to be able to live from at a certain point, and i make theater...
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    A quite safe job situation due to local employment laws, which are still powerful compared to most other countries, but I'm starting to get increasingly fed up with what I'm doing.
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