What do you do for a living?

I know some may not want to disclose, but just curious what everyone does in their day-to-day to make a living, i.e. job, self-employed, run a card shop etc.?

I work in the retirement sector mostly dealing with 403b and 401k plans for not-for-profit sector such as churches, schools, hospitals, and charities.

I list on Ebay too, but it’s mostly just extra cards I get graded that I don’t want to keep and it basically funds itself as opposed to being a source of income.

What do you do?

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Just passed my board exam to get licsensed physical therapist assitiant

Can’t wait to finally start working so I can start collecting more cards

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I work as a draftsman for a fire alarm company.
I sit at a computer all day, so the general workflow is, draw 1 line, buy 1 pokemon card, draw 1 line and so on.

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I work for the DoD.

I also have a 3D printing side business (funds the Pokemon habit haha).

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I do stuff relating to genetics and computer programming.

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Full time student using that sweet sweetGI bill.

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I’m a programmer (.NET/C#/Objective C), I run my own consulting company now and work from home which is pretty cool.

I used to specialise in touch screen applications & technology but now I do mostly web stuff. Eg. For the past few years I’ve been building and maintaining an investment property management system for a national property and financial advisor company.

I used to primarily contract for the Microsoft product teams in Redmond, but I’ve done stuff for Telstra Australia and for the aussies here I built the Coles app for Windows Phone. Probably the ‘coolest’ thing I did was for Scion, I developed the application at their booth during the 2011/2012 US auto show circuit. They made a showreel for it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijq8DoOaWj8

In the video I built the application running on those touch devices, the interaction with the cards I thought was pretty cool & fun to do.

Oh … I also buy and sell MTG card for fun :blush:

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I’m a farmer and work in the oil patch. I also sell firewood.

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Sales for AT&T. For anyone looking for a job until they graduate college, I highly recommend working within the cellular industry. Part time (28 hours weekly) I was making $35,000 a year, given you need to be at a corporate location to do that. I recently went full time and I haven’t been full time long enough to know what I’ll make.

I feel like sales is a great field to explore even if only temporarily. I see friends of mine very settled into their job and once they get comfortable the effort slowly drops. In a commission based field you want to go harder everyday because your check ultimately depends on it.

My goal is to get into franchising stores once I get my business degree. I see myself owning a couple of authorized retail stores for a cellular company along with owning a couple mall kiosk with cellular accessories.

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Congrats man!

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Time to feel inadequate…

Finance Manager for a social media & ad agency. Also powerlifting coach on the side.

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I farm 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans and raise 50,000 pigs a year.

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Carpenter/builder- Been building alot of the natureplay playgrounds recently, around Perth seems schools are just going crazy to spend money… Then the cashies on the weekends to fund the cardboard collecting :blush:

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I’ll graduate in 6 months in Applied Informatics. I have a final internship starting in 3 months. I have submitted my top preferences, if I get my number 1 preference I’ll be programming custom Cortana & Siri commands for a big company with a high chance of getting to stay there.

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Hello, this is my first post on this forum and I thought this would be a good place to start.

I am a driver dispatcher (operations manager) for a large logistics company. I make sure freight is where its supposed to be and above all on time.

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Welcome to E4! I think we need your services here in Australia :wink:

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You all have jobs which sound like they make absolute $$ haha. Unfortunately I’m currently the manager of William Hill bettting shop. I’m not even gonna disclose what I earn but it’s pittance compared to some of you. I posted this just so people wouldn’t be scared to share if their numbers aren’t as big as someone else’s, don’t be ashamed that you earn a living for yourself no matter what you earn it’s better than being some welfare system cheating scumbag!

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I used to be a public office worker, working for my city’s organization basically. In the last 2 years I’ve had 3 different work periods there but my newest contract ended literally yesterday so now I’m unemployed unfortunately.

I have a degree on IT so I should be working on places like Help Desk etc but it’s rather difficult to find that kind of jobs around here.

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I am an aircraft maintenance engineer in the Lisbon area… I also sell cards to buy more cards :blush:

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I am a courier driver for Federal Express. This job is pure freedom, there is no other job like it. I start my day whenever I feel like, I eat whenever I please, people already know who I am so I am familiar with every customer, great benefits & my manager/supervisors are absolute goofs so no need to wanna strangle your boss. The smiles on people’s faces when they receive their packages is nice, but what I really enjoy is telling people to piss off when I park “illegally” and they feel like they’re suddenly traffic cops.:grin:

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