I work at a used bookstore and write record and film reviews for a small community newspaper.

charliedon'tsurf wrote:Cartographer. I wear big funny glasses that allow me depth perception while looking at aerial photography on computer screens. Then I trace shit to create spatial data (high tech digital maps) to client specifications. It was a cool job for the first year or two, but then the tedium really sets in. The only saving graces is no one fucks with me, I get to listen to music and talk radio all day on headphones and flexibility of my hours. It is still time to quit and go back to geography school in 2008.

I am currently doing update mapping of a Chicago ‘burb called Winnetka. We never get to map the most “colorful” areas of Chicago as they do not have the tax base to pay us.

Shit, that sounds exactly like my job. Everyone I work with is either a dick or too retarded to be employed elsewhere. I have a refurbished monitor which is many times dimmer than the flat-panels the programmers (dicks) use. I do get to dick around on the internet and whatnot but it's time to move on.

UW-Madison is one of the grad schools I plan on applying to. Maybe we'll be classmates.

Hah reorg news is in, my job has changed again, 5th time in 2 years.

at least it didnt evaporate

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

Yes, if the NW burbs suit your needs. Perl all the way, baby.

zom-zom wrote:Wow, lots of nerd-work. What a surprise.

Have fun with your fancy-shmancy Electrical Audio forums without us!

Tuolumne wrote:I collect map data for a digital map company (Tele Atlas) that supplies map data to google, mapquest, yahoo, etc, as well as car and wireless companies. Basically I drive around in a company car with a laptop and a GPS antenna, make sure all the streets are correct, and add new streets that aren't in the system yet. I work in the Pacific Northwest so I get to travel to exotic locales like Yakima, Washington and Billings, Montana. The best part about the job is my home office.

I guess I'm the guy to blame if you've gotten shitty directions online. I'm working on that, I promise.

That sounds awesome.

Does your company have any openings?

AdamN wrote:

charliedon'tsurf wrote:Cartographer. I wear big funny glasses that allow me depth perception while looking at aerial photography on computer screens. Then I trace shit to create spatial data (high tech digital maps) to client specifications. It was a cool job for the first year or two, but then the tedium really sets in. The only saving graces is no one fucks with me, I get to listen to music and talk radio all day on headphones and flexibility of my hours. It is still time to quit and go back to geography school in 2008.

I am currently doing update mapping of a Chicago ‘burb called Winnetka. We never get to map the most “colorful” areas of Chicago as they do not have the tax base to pay us.

Shit, that sounds exactly like my job. Everyone I work with is either a dick or too retarded to be employed elsewhere. I have a refurbished monitor which is many times dimmer than the flat-panels the programmers (dicks) use. I do get to dick around on the internet and whatnot but it's time to move on.

UW-Madison is one of the grad schools I plan on applying to. Maybe we'll be classmates.

Wow I did not expect three geographers in a few pages. I am however really jealous of the other dude who does that mapping in a van and from a home office.

Andy wrote:

zom-zom wrote:Wow, lots of nerd-work. What a surprise.

Have fun with your fancy-shmancy Electrical Audio forums without us!

Eh, I've been a web designer, database editor. I know of nerdery.

honeyisfunny wrote:You have exactly the same job as Phil, who you witnessed wailing vocally in Lords!

But does he look as good as I do in a western shirt?

sack of smashed assholes wrote:I work in a kitchen. I expo food, fry it, grill it, run it, and deal with people on a daily basis. it's draining, soul sucking, I'm underpaid.

I had a similar gig for Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH. It was kinda odd - I'm 21 and I'm a student at Cuyahoga Community College. My tuition is below 5 grand a semester. These fellow college students I served are paying pretty close to 30k a year to go to BW. They also are the biggest wasters of food I've ever seen. I know this because I also worked in the dish room. Sometimes, the food I'd have to throw away was never even touched. We'd also be told by our superiors to throw out plenty of still edible food in the actual kitchen section.

The other sad part was that other than students who were there as work-study employees, I was one of three under 30. The people above 30 have been there for a good length of time for the most part. The person there the longest was a 79-year-old named Helen who went from managing the whole place to working the dish room. She couldn't retire because of her shitty pension and other crap caused by our mostly-shitty economy.

There was also burning yourself when cleaning the deep fryers. I've burned myself twice and the second time was a major factor towards me quitting my job.