I work at a bank, M&I Bank, I hate myself everyday for working for them. As a Muslim told me recently, "Interest is a sign of the end of times," I think of this and I can't help but feel it is true. I used to work for the Sierra Club, helping to preserve the environment felt good, this doesn't.

My official title is Document Control Specialist, I think, it is on my e-mail signature. Basically I am a paper pusher, I got to the file room, get a file, place a loan lien on it, and put it back. The End.

Oddly it is highly stressful due to workload. I come home and immediately crack a beer. I hate that a job can do this to me, but it pays well and I have a family to feed. I miss the better days.

I used to manage a coffeeshop. I drank gourmet coffee all day. I took smoke break when it was slow. I listened to whatever music I wanted to all day whilst making $1200 a month. Life was good, now not so much.

I miss doing something I love.

I am a barista at a cafe.

johnnyemphysema wrote:I used to manage a coffeeshop. I drank gourmet coffee all day. I took smoke break when it was slow. I listened to whatever music I wanted to all day whilst making $1200 a month. Life was good, now not so much.

I miss doing something I love.

Out of curiosity, does that $1200 figure include tips?

I am English Discipline Coordinator at a community college in western Kentucky. I am also the director of a reading series and the faculty advisor (and designer) of the student-edited literary magazine. I hold the rank of Associate Professor, but I'm up for full Professor this year.

Brinkman wrote:I am a barista at a cafe.

johnnyemphysema wrote:I used to manage a coffeeshop. I drank gourmet coffee all day. I took smoke break when it was slow. I listened to whatever music I wanted to all day whilst making $1200 a month. Life was good, now not so much.

I miss doing something I love.

Out of curiosity, does that $1200 figure include tips?

yes. I used to average $45.00 a day in tips

busbus wrote:Anyone know of a job doing this sort of crap in Chicago? Madison is getting too small.

http://careers3.accenture.com/careers/g ... Type=Flash

They'll probably place you pretty quickly.

barndog wrote:

caix wrote:Everything we do here is hand-coded. Much more work that way

FYP

Not really, because we know our shit inside and out. Everything is so much easier to scale and code is written without all the cruft.

With Rails and Django frameworks not so much. We're starting to implement those, but we do write our own applications. Again, innovative technology team.

garble wrote:

that damned fly wrote:...and "cocaine blues."

who's version?

johnny cash version done bluegrass style and reggae style.

fuck these fucking bands.

sometimes it's hard not to heckle.

Colonel Panic wrote:I do Web design and rich Web application development for the Bank of America. I'm the only UI guy on my entire floor.

Nice to meet you. We've worked with y'all before. Not sure about currently. yay interface nerds! give the user a gold star.

cashier at a hardware store.

It's not bad being that its all hardware and most of the time its a bit more complex and less mind numbing than simply scanning the item.

People there are nice, its like living in a small town.

But its part time and i make 9$ an hour so, its a decent starter job.

im sure everyone is superbly interested now!

Right now I am a service engineer with Solid State Logic New York.

I do a lot of traveling to music and broadcast studios mostly east of the Mississippi, including Canada and Mexico. Installing consoles, training users, fixing consoles, field updating, doing demos. When I'm not traveling, I'm in the New York office handling support over phone and email, trying to resolve issues without a visit. I service our entire line of analog and digital consoles.

Most of my work consists of identifying the problematic part through troubleshooting signal flow and replacing that part entirely. Sometimes I get into soldering on component level/surface mount stuff, but most of it is replacing boards. I frequently rely on block diagrams, and only sometimes have a need to get down to the schematic level--not too much of that on digital consoles though.

I'll be at it one year in December, and am having a great time. The company is a good place to be with Peter G. at the helm, everyone's cool, new cities are fun, and I get to meet a lot of my audio idols. Sometimes I meet famous people.

Before all this I worked in Miami Beach for the New World Symphony, before that in Orlando as Bob Katz's assistant, and before that as a recording engineer at the Aspen Music Festival.