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What The Fuck Do You People DO All Day?
« on: April 20, 2009, 09:54:36 AM »

Anybody who has read the YOUR JOB thread already knows how I waste my sorry life. What the hell do you guys do all day? What takes up your time?
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2009, 10:03:08 AM »

I pay money to pretend to learn things.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2009, 10:06:51 AM »

I am a programmer at a university that works with data manipulation, report generation, and ASP.NET front-end interfaces for data.

Everything I do is the exact opposite of video game progrmaming.

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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2009, 10:08:11 AM »

I pay money to pretend to learn things.

Ooh Ooh

What do you pretend to learn?
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 10:20:44 AM »

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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 10:26:23 AM »

I am basically Jim Halpert and you all are my Dwight Schruttes.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2009, 10:29:30 AM »

I pay money to actually learn things.  Even if I have to pretend I'm learning slightly more than I actually am.
Things I am Paying to learn:
  • Computer Science stuff
  • Japanese
  • A few other BS things that I don't really care about but apparently are required to prove that I have learned the first two.

Things I've learned on accident from paying to learn things:
  • I don't really have any friends and I not sure if I ever really did*
  • I should've completed that application to the University of Michigan, to which I probably would have been accepted, and would have been surrounded by a much brighter lot than I am currently.
  • Apparently one can't make new friends if one doesn't drink, or partake in illegal drugs

*I get along well with others, but I never see anyone outside of classes and it feels awkward to do so.

But that still leaves me with a whole fuckton of freetime which I spend the same way the rest of you guys do.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2009, 10:30:25 AM »

I've probably blabbed about this at length, but freelance web development.

In case you kids ever consider not working for the man, here's a quick pro/con rundown:

PROS:
* Set your own hours, except when clients require you to be present at a specific time.
* Nobody watching you work.
* No travel time to office or other workplace, unless of course you have an office somewhere that isn't your house (which is actually better).
* Can use computer at work to waste time on message boards and browse for porn.
* Your pay really is more or less dependent on how well you do, so if you play your cards right you can give yourself a pretty big "raise" fairly often.  I've actually had to bump my rates up about $10/hr or so just this month in order to manage my workload.
* Technically you cannot be laid off.
* Working for several different people means you never end up in a tedious rut of doing the same damn thing every day.  Or even two days in a row.  Honestly on any given day I'm doing like three completely different sorts of programming work.

CONS
* There's no guarantee when or even if your clients will actually pay you.  This, as you may imagine, is somewhat stressful.
* There's no guarantee that you'll even have clients.
* Working from home means there's no separation between your personal and professional life.  This makes things a bit more stressful on both ends.
* Significantly higher taxes.  Did you know your employer actually pays half of your social security/medicare/stuff our generation will never see obligations?  Self-employed people get to pick up the slack.
* By the same token, tax returns become something of a mathematical gordian knot.  At least three times during the process the form told me "now change line 1 and throw out everything you've done so far."
* No benefits, unless you buy them your own damn self.
* A lot of the work involves marketing and promoting yourself, which is something that most people here are probably especially terrible at.  I myself mostly manage to stay afloat through some amazingly good connections, a thankfully solid reputation, and honestly, lots and lots of dumb-ass luck.
* You have to estimate time and costs for shit all the time, which I'm terrible at.  I honestly just take whatever's reasonable and then double it.  Fortunately most people tend to just say "yes" to whatever crazy-shit number you give them, which then just makes it hard to resist the urge to start ripping them the hell off.
* As much as you probably hate your coworkers, they're a valuable social outlet.  Working in total solitude all day is probably having an unfortunate Jack Torrance effect on me.  Well, that and the alcohol.  And the undead bartender serving me alcohol.  And the blood on the walls.  REDRUM.  REDRUM.  Heeeeeeeere's JOHNNY!!!
* If you're naturally lazy and nobody's watching you to make sure you're working then you will by nature slack off a lot and probably lose a buttload of income.

Honestly I've thought more than a couple times that I would much rather have a normal 9-to-5 grind and a regular paycheck and be done with this silliness, but lately I've been so damn successful at it that I can't justify the hit I'd probably take if I dropped it all to go work at a place that can actually hire people right now.  So it's kind of a high-risk/high-reward kind of deal, really.  I don't recommend it unless you've already fallen into this sort of thing.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2009, 10:35:16 AM »

I pretend to learn things I could get better at with practice, e.g. art.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 10:46:29 AM »

During the day I play videogames or pay bills or housework or something.  During the evening I work in a call center in which I ask a dozen questions about itemized monthly expenses.  On weekends I spend time with friends and family.  Fill in the cracks with books, internet, and time with Julie.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 10:50:04 AM »

I am basically Jim Halpert and you all are my Dwight Schruttes.

Uninformative, yet quietly narcisisstic. How cute.

I pretend to learn things I could get better at with practice, e.g. art.

Why would anyone pay for an arts degree?

Goddammit! Have you people learned nothing from me my corpse!?

:MENDOZAAAAA:
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2009, 11:05:58 AM »

student debt overwhelms this as an immediate option and as such I spend most of my day in a state of soul-crushing existential angst.

So, what you're saying is that this job is your LAST RESORT!!! ?
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2009, 11:10:24 AM »

No, just that they've met my (modest) price.

Actually, it's not really that bad.  I get paid enough to do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it and still have enough left over to overpay student debt, and any manchild with even the most basic ability to time manage could do the work.

The existential dilemma mostly comes from whether I should have expected anything more.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2009, 11:14:04 AM »

<-- nothing
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2009, 11:16:25 AM »


Uninformative, yet quietly narcisisstic. How cute.


ok.

I have a well-paying but unchallenging job, and although I would not prefer to stay in this line of work forever because I would lose my mind, student debt overwhelms this as an immediate option and as such I spend most of my day in a state of soul-crushing existential angst.

I partially relieve this by poking you.

Well, being well familiar with the world of the BORING BUT EASY JORB, I can assure you that one of two things will happen:

1 - You have a plan for an exit and follow it through. Good luck with that.

Hopefully that debt was not wasted on a useless degree - that's not a snide comment, I really do hope your degree can be used. If it galls to be in debt, it's even more galling if "IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING!".

2 - You stay where you are. This may involve getting hopelessly stuck at your current job (out of sloth, or out of necessity), or continually hopping from job to job (either because you quit, or get fired, possibly out of boredom, possibly for external factors).

I am not being facetious when i say that I hope you have a plan.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2009, 11:17:25 AM »

<-- nothing BECOME MOAR FATTERER

CORRECTION.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2009, 11:28:19 AM »

i'm about to start summer classes for an undertermined major and eventually get a masters in library science. feel free to be incredulous that anyone would want to do that, or that you have to get a masters, because nobody ever knows anything about it. otherwise i play old video games. nor wants to start a thread here where the two of us are snarky about psx era games, and maybe that's ruining the surprise, but this seems like as good a place to judge if that'd be interesting as any.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2009, 11:31:39 AM »

i'm about to start summer classes for an undertermined major and eventually get a masters in library science. feel free to be incredulous that anyone would want to do that, or that you have to get a masters, because nobody ever knows anything about it. otherwise i play old video games. nor wants to start a thread here where the two of us are snarky about psx era games, and maybe that's ruining the surprise, but this seems like as good a place to judge if that'd be interesting as any.

I am a librarian.  If you want an easy job, well-paying job, you've hit fucking jackpot.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2009, 11:38:19 AM »

Sit around and play videogames while typically socializing on the internets.

I made the mistake of moving to the meth capital of the country and given my feelings on narcotics and their habitual users, the only time I typically leave the house is for grocery shopping and work.

I'm fairly content with the scenario.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2009, 11:39:30 AM »

I SOLVE MYSTERIES check five million different items and monsters so people can have tons of fun experience a vast fantasy world complain about BIS plate itemization being slightly suboptimal get killed for 3 hours hide in corners of cities with other elves and type illicit things to each other.
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