ITT: we post our jobs/careers and judge each other and bust each other's balls, discuss it ya know the drill.
1) What is your profession?
2) How much do you make?
3) What is it exactly that you do?
4) What are some of the perks of the job?
5) What are the down sides?
I'll start:
1) I am a utility arborist/work planner.
2) I make $21.17 an hour.
3) I plan vegetation and tree cutting work on electric and gas line right of ways. Let land owners know. Get all the work lined up and tell tree crews where to go. Etc
4) company truck, fuel card and company credit card. I get to make my own schedule and can break my 40 hours up anyway I want week to week. I typically work 4 10 hour days. Towards the end of the fiscal year tons of overtime to spend money so we get the same budget every year.
5) working with the public and telling people twice your age (I'm 27) what to do can be difficult because they think they know what's best. Long useless meeting ya know upper management stuff.
Facebook mod 18.5 plus overtime A variety of things, mainly deleting people's shitty political arguments and relationship drama. On a more extreme day I'll monitor and bait pedophiles, or talk a live streamer down from suicide >Perks The benefits are honestly pretty good, there's a large number of people I work with who've had long standing medical and are only now getting proper treatment because of this job >Downsides Honestly ,people meme about it but the shit we see can wear you down, especially for those with more normie tendencies. Fortunately I'm a long time oldfaf and a general myopic with sociopathic tendencies, bit even I get weak in the knees from having to read some fags 10 page political diatribe on why Obama kept him getting a girlfriend or watch some autist microwave a baby rabbit
1. professional shitposter 2. 200K/year 3. im paid to share my shitty opinions online and influence others 4. its fun because its destroying discourse and making poor stupid people vote against their interest. 5. there are no down sides.
Jackson Wood
>What is your profession? Pepsi Merchandiser >2) How much do you make? $16.75 >3) What is it exactly that you do? Merchandise >4) What are some of the perks of the job? OT, downtime, you work Alone >5) What are the down sides?
Brandon Torres
Tips on how to get into this? Eat shit capitolist whore
I work in a chemical plant lab doing quality assurance testing on the products we make. They can range from cooling tower products to friction reducers used in fracking to polymers they put in cosmetic products like shampoo.
>4) What are some of the perks of the job?
The pay isn't bad and you get a lot of downtime. These polymer reactions can take anywhere from 5 hours to 12 hours before you get to initial testing. In between, I lurk on here, read books, etc ...
>5) What are the down sides?
We work 12s only so it can get boring and hard to do things at home when you get off work. Covering vacation can be gay, too. It pays the mortgage, though.
you have to take a DNA test to prove you're a real Jew, then you can come work for the IDF in the Ministry of Public Relations, which is basically our propaganda machine.
Tyler Rogers
1) What is your profession? Graphic Designer
2) How much do you make? Contracted per job but average is £40-£60 an hour if I can get the hours... >yes britfag
3) What is it exactly that you do? Doodle images to make logos / graphics Sometimes make motion graphics but that's rare and painful
4) What are some of the perks of the job? >Work from home / when I want to >Can do other shit whilst adding elements >Pretty fun >GF is studying art so she gives creative ideas
5) What are the down sides? >Can get boring >People have no fucking clue what they want >People wanting shit changed months later
Chase Ward
How did you get into this? Chemistry is my main hobby but due to me working offshore its almost impossible to go to school
Owen Phillips
Merchant mariner/ tanker man 300 a day/ 73000 a year before taxes I pump barges going to new orleans to Chicago It's good money to work maybe 2to 4 hours In a 12 hour day. Besides the obvious living on a boat for three weeks at a time, coast guard regulations suck and captains are assholes
Jacob Harris
What qualifications or training do you need to apply. I'm tired of being a warehouse slave
Get a twic card. You'll start as a deckhand and won't make shit but after a year you can move up and get your license. Hopefully you live in the south
Jason Foster
1) Student 2) -45,000.00 per annum (in-state tuition FTW!) 3) I spend my time primarily with experiential learning as well as doing mandatory educational activities, reading medical textbooks, and taking standardized tests 4) If I graduate I am on a well-respected and lucrative professional track, and I get free food sometimes. 5) It is very time consuming, and stressful because people's lives are at stake. And my self-esteem suffers because I am constantly feeling inadequate.
Jose King
Project Manager
80 k a year plus 10 k in benefits
Mostly boss around my Super, some paperwork, conduct meetings.
Honestly I only actually work 15 hours a week. The rest of the time I just look busy. 401k, cheap healthcare plan, and bonuses.
Having to deal with stupid subcontractors that fuck up my jobs.
Brandon Price
Sage Sage Sage Sage Sage
Isaiah Rogers
Cute
Adam Jackson
(1): Technical service for a pharma company (2)68200 /yr (3)I mostly look over peoples shoulders and tell them if they're fucking up. I also connect bosses of different departments if something majorly fucks up (4) Mostly sit at a desk, read my books, take long breaks, and pretty much the boss of most people on the floor. Month of PTO, and weird schedule gives me loads of time off for 2 days vacation. (5): 12s so just a pain in the ass here. I work 2 on 2 off 3 on 3 off. Nice long break in the middle of the week. Get 15% compensation for this shift.
Josiah Thompson
Also 4% bonus every fiscal quarter
Hudson Watson
1)Car Salesman (currently Chrysler jeep dodge ram, I've done honda, subaru, used cars in the past)
2) I make commission but usually about 4-5k a month
3) I convince people they need warranties and that the alarm we add onto all of our vehicles they have to purchase because it's already installed (its not)
4) Perks; Easy money, dont need a degree, I can be lazy at work if I'm not feeling it that day.
5) Downsides; its stressful when you're not making money, need to save alot of money incase you have a bad month. Your coworkers are toxic chads.
Mason Walker
1. Government contractor 2. 40k a year + benefits 3. Basically prepare federal employees to go to training centers 4. Damn near impossible to get fired. Extremely secure job. 5. Because it’s so hard to get fired I work with a lot of retards.
Juan Lewis
Nice, I live in Texas, I have no issue moving around. My main goal in life is just save enough money to a decent house and car so I never have to worry about work again.
Kevin Powell
don't we all
Evan Cooper
>1) What is your profession? Software developer >2) How much do you make? $12.00 hr >3) What is it exactly that you do? Primarily web systems for a college, and other enterprise application for various clients >4) What are some of the perks of the job? Work with a good group of people with a good pool of experience to draw from, for the most part easy work, employers will pay for me to get more qualifications during downtime >5) What are the down sides? Can be exhausting, especially when a system only I know how to fix is not working and I have to work overtime for long periods. Used to enjoy programming as a hobby, but doing it professionally detracted from that
Elijah Lopez
Damn dude, only $12 an hour? Is that normal or are you in some kind of internship?
Bentley Edwards
Low wage area, cost of living is low around here. Also performance based bonuses, will be $3K after September paycheck. Oh also did an apprenticeship, so technically only 1yr experience, although been working in software for 3yrs.
Anthony Young
Position - Software Engineer (Product Engineering) Salary - 73k before taxes Description - I work on the perception pipeline for a company trying to automate its vehicles. In particular, I make point clouds from pairs of stereo cameras and train models to segment the scene based on semantic content. Benefits - Juicy 401k, cheap healthcare, flexible hours, time spent outside the office testing Downsides - A lot of time in front of a computer, pretty weird coworkers (eh, but who am I to judge?)
My advice is to use this job as a way to put experience on your resume. Put this job on your resume and then apply to better paying jobs. No business getting that kind of wage as a software developer. Unless you live in The Gambia.
Andrew King
I've got a pay negotation coming up in a month and a bit, I'll see how it goes from there. It's a great place to work so I've been reluctant so far, but recruiters do approach me with positions paying over double fairly often
Tyler Parker
Look, I am just some stranger from the internet, so DO NOT TRUST ME, but run this by older people you trust in real life:
Business is basically about taking advantage of other people to make money. If you are actually developing software, then you are the one being taken advantage of at 12.00 per hour. I understand taking less income for a job with less stress and with less bullshit because the corporation takes care of that for you, but that still just ain't enough for your degree and skillset (assuming you are actually a software developer).
Chase Rodriguez
>It's a great place to work so I've been reluctant so far
You've done a great job at simply laying out the dominant dynamic in modern labor relations.
In today's workplace, your boss will often try to appear to you more as a friend or a peer rather than a superior in the normative sense. They might sit in a cubicle rather than a desk. Maybe they let you wear jeans to work. Who knows, they might have even put a ping pong table in the break room.
This is camouflage to conceal the underlying power relation. These people have learned from the mistakes of previous generations and know that if they appear (emphasis on appear) as your equal then you will be much less likely to fight against them.
Remember you are only ever being employed because they believe they can make a profit off of you, a profit that exists in the gap between the wage you are payed and the value of your labor in the market. Our goal as members of the working class is to fight for this gap to be as small as possible, don't let rose tinted glasses stop you from seeing this.
Cameron Butler
Guessing your job is professional retard?
Tyler Cruz
) What is it exactly that you do? >Merchandise
*rim-shot* Years of working in malls made me into something of an autist when it comes to organizing closets, cupboards and such. If it's not deliberately in just enough disarray, it looks and feels too much like I'm at work.
Andrew Hughes
Thanks for the advice, there are few other factors though. I left my last job after arguing with management so had to take one of the first offers I got, this was less than a year ago. Also have no reference from that job, which means my first two years working as a full stack are basically useless, all the applications are behind paywalls so can't even use for portfolio pieces.
Also never got a degree, I went the apprenticeship route so got a vocational qualification which is a few levels bellow degree, and a couple of Microsoft certs. Most employers don't seem to care as long as you have proven experience, but a lot of them also reject no-degrees without an interview.
This is all true but there's also a trade off in job security, if we loose a major contract I'm working on the company takes the hit and not me. I can avoid a lot of extracting specifications from customers which was the worse bit of my last job, and in comparison to self employment I don't have to deal with accounting, legal or sales.
Also in software the only real difference between workplaces is the quality of the offices and the people you work with, aside from actual income there's not much else to compare. I recognise the employers need to act as friends in the modern workplace, but in this instance I'm sure they are legitimately good people.
Aiden Morales
I am not suggesting you take the self employed route. Ideally you could work for a cooperatively owned company, but we don't like in an ideal world.
>Also in software the only real difference between workplaces is the quality of the offices and the people you work with, aside from actual income there's not much else to compare
Well then let's compare income. I write software for a living and have 1 year of work experience and I am making more than 3x your salary. Your boss is screwing you.
Christopher Williams
This also depends on area though, where I currently live average house price is 4x my salary. If I was making what I would expect to in my old hometown, I would be making about 7k a year more, but average house price would be about 6x salary
Parker Wood
Also, what stack specifically out of interest?
Xavier Thompson
Project manager for subcontractor 67k 3k snail car allowance 1k snail bonus Ok insurance 401k 15 days pto
Brayden Taylor
doing absolutely nothing all day nothing curse the gods for creating the aberration of nature known as consciousness sitting around all day sitting around all day
1) What is your profession? auto mechanic 2) How much do you make? 14/hr +OT 3) What is it exactly that you do? I do everything from replacing engines down to oil changes. diagnosing issues. 4) What are some of the perks of the job? customers sometimes buy us lunch or bring a box of donuts. pretty fair job security aslong as im not being retarded. hourly pay. so if its slow I still have a steady check. decent insurance 5) What are the down sides? hourly can get stressful when theres multiple complex/high dollars jobs. shitty corporate overhead bullshit
