What is your occupation?

[AV Elec]

In my spare time I maintain a DIY web site for plastering.
Now I enjoy sharing that knowledge with others.

Great site, well done

[Phil Spencer]

Occupation is BORING I would rather be doing woodwork

[Matt88s]

Getting a bit bored at work, so it is time for a post.
Tell us
1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

If you are no longer working then tell us what you used to do before you got lucky.


Ok I will start as usual, I am computer programmer. 80% of the time I enjoy my job because I get to use my Mathematics and logic a lot. The other 30% is dead boring.

Cheers

I am a Circulation Assistant for a system of county wide libraries.

I love it.

For one because I grew up using this library system, for two I work at my home branch where I read away a great deal of my youth. I started volunteering in my teens, as a "Teen Teamer" which is what we call our group of youthful volunteers that assist us during our summer reading program, which signs up about 40-50,000 children every summer. After four years of that I hired on as a shelver and then worked my way up to my current position, and recently received my 5yr pin. I have known my current boss for over a decade and we have a great relationship and we also alway have the best people and we all work together as a team beautifully.

Our branch is one of the smaller branches and the city we are in, although the fastest growing in the state, has a lovely small town downtown area and feel too it, and a great deal of characters that keep things interesting.

My job is customer service oriented and the tasks are varied and new situations come up day to day. Since we are a smaller branch with a smaller staff than most branches, we are not as specialized in our positions and tend to do a wider array of tasks. I spend a lot of time helping patrons with computer issues, software, showing them how to use Word, Excel, how to search the catalog and order items from other branches, charging and discharging items, checking fire extinguishers, booking the meeting room, placing and pulling holds and hold items, helping patrons find specific items or subjects, etc, etc. The varity of requests that we get from our patrons is interesting as well, it helps if you have a little bit of interest in everything and about everything, you'll have questions on everything from, Hi, I'm looking for a tax for XXXX, oh, I need it from 2004, to people looking for information on building straw bale houses or how to lay in their own French drains or can you order me some quilting patterns or I need a picture of a penguin skeleton or Do you have any books on role playing, sure our acting section is right over here, Oh, you mean that kind of role playing...

It's very nice and will be very hard to leave. Pay is competitive too.

I'm currently in college and seeking a degree in physical therapy.

[Eli]

1. What you do for work

Motion Picture Studio Grip for the last 12 years, in LA. Not sure if I'll do it here (not legal yet), I'm enjoying home renovation and side gigs remodeling at the moment. The wife's working from home, we're both with the kids everyday, and there's no immediate financial pressure. The boys are real young, I can always go back on the road in a few years when they hate me.

2. Do you like it

I loved it, I hated it. It was mostly exciting, until about the thirtieth take of something at one in the morning, then you just wished you had a gun.

It was always different, I worked on a fair share of big movies. It's still kind of fun when somebody asks you about somebody famous and you can tell them a little story. Was one of those jobs I couldn't wait to get out of and miss terribly now. The only job I ever liked more (and I had a few all over the map, mostly trade related) was first mate on board the Lene Marie, a 106' gaff rigged ketch.

3. Why

Well, I quit didn't I. It wasn't a good job for family, and not seeing my young sons was driving me and everyone around me crazy. It was good money for really long hours, and I was surrounded by guys (and girls) with drug problems, broken marriages, and broken bodies. I saw the writing on the wall. It's just a good chapter of my life story now. I could still handle about three months of it a year I reckon. The rest of the time I'm gonna do something else. Not quite sure what that is, but I'm off and running. Have had a few steady job offers, and have enough work lined up for at least a year fixing things in people's houses and businesses.

I've really, really enjoyed being a member of this forum. Houses and construction have been part of my life since I was sixteen, and being able to go somewhere and figure out the right names for everything and figure out what all the building standards are has been really invaluable to me.

If I was rating every element of my life for the past eight months in terms of it's importance to my integration into Australian life, the forum would be 60-70% overall, and that's more than my in-laws, even though they brought me to the footy at MCG every weekend.

Thanks everybody.

:aussie3:

[Honorary Bloke]

If I was rating every element of my life for the past eight months in terms of it's importance to my integration into Australian life, the forum would be 60-70% overall, and that's more than my in-laws, even though they brought me to the footy at MCG every weekend.

Thanks everybody.

:aussie3:

Really, Eli. Get a grip (pun intended). Nothing worse than a Seppo fawning over his new masters.

[Eli]

Not many new masters here, far as I can tell. Just old ones.

[RETIRED]

Not many new masters here, far as I can tell. Just old ones.

Behave yourself you young whipper snapper.

[Eli]

Behave yourself you young whipper snapper.

Not until I'm cold in the box, if everything goes right.

[wayfarer]

Well, spose being new here I better introduce what I do for a quid.

I am a qualified Industrial Designer managing a small studio and project team for a company which designs and installs exhibition stands, point of sale displays, retail fit-outs, showrooms, mobile displays etc.

We use CAD and 3D modelling to communicate our ideas and specifications including such programmes as VectorWroks, Cinema 4D, CorelDraw suite.

here's some samples of the work I've done:

This one won the highest industry design award: (brag



This one never got off the ground: they changed the brief so we did something different which I can't show just yet.



A typical low cost exhibition stand.



a POS item. acrylic.



Two form studies for an outdoor kiosk...

[Dirty Doogie]

Hi Wayfarer - Seriously cool work.

What happens to those exhibition stands when the company is finished with them? I have often gone and investigated similiar stands at various exhibitions - tried to work out how it was made etc - much to the chagrin of the persons working the stand. I love the bullet shaped outdoor kiosk.

Cheers

[Ivan in Oz]

G'Day Wayfarer,
Welcome aboard.

Like the Kiosks, for me the Orange one;
though I do like the Propeller NoseCone

What is "a POS item. acrylic."

POS....Hmmmm???? All I can think of is Piece of ****
or
Plastic outfor Service

[Eli]

Point of sale

[Ivan in Oz]

Point of sale

POS ArrHHH!!!!

Perhasp my Brain is a POS ATM
and I do not mean Point of Sale

[Geoff Dean]

??? Automatic Teller Machine???

[Ivan in Oz]

At the Moment