What do you do for living?

Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet.

Work a job, I would imagine.

‘Cept for people that don’t.

I am a teacher for a living ;)

Was my dream job, but I am starting to have The Great Doubt. But I think I’ll snap out of it. Just gets dispiriting having to make yourself marketable by teaching a subject to undergrads which very few of the little dears give a shit about, because the society I live in barely gives a shit about it. But the good students make up for it! I am not sure what else I would do this side of legality. Gotta make use of one’s strengths… and I am a bookish fluthermucker. I am probably in the right field already.

What about you, @snapdragon24?

@ragingloli: Baldar… is that you?!

I’m a graphic designer and a college instructor. Currently, I’m serving as the chair of the design department.

Killer for hire. I don’t work very often, but when I do, it is very lucrative.

In fact, I am working on a project right now that – when complete – will let me live for at least 4 years without the need to work again.

No one knows me; I have lots of time for Fluther, I read a lot of books, and I travel around the world.

That’s all I can say. I don’t want to reveal any secrets. But you have seen some of my work before.

@cookieman
No, it is Thor.

Breathe?

@ragingloli: Ooh, can I touch your hammer.

I wear about a hundred hats, along with everyone else in the small business from which I draw a paycheck.

@bookish1… Im teaching too! For kids ages 5–8, and I am applying for teacher training programs in London…the application process is slightly intimidating! Meanwhile I hope to get a job as an event organizer for a project called Global Issues Network! We’ll see how that goes. I can imagine how tiring and how discouraging it can be to teach sometimes…but like you said, there are always a few good kids in the middle that make our day!

I work for the Phone Company, installing and maintaining fiber driven telecommunications equipment. Sounds great, but most of it feels like I work for Merry Maids.

I am a writer and editor.

I work construction. Most of the time it feels like a babysitting job. Why can’t subs be there when they say they will? Why do they say they will when they know full well they can’t be? Why can’t they read the specs and plans and then follow them? Why do I have to follow up after them and clean up the mess? Why is there never time to do it right but always time to do it over?
Been doing this too long. Just jaded and burning out.

Retired now but I had three wonderful careers, one in the physical sciences, one in the humanities and one in the social sciences, plus a retirement one in the arts.

Astronomical researcher
French teacher
Director of College Placement (and steerer of twelve graders to higher ed.)
Quilter

Wow tres bien @gailcalled! Ca l’air interessant tout ca. Francais c’est une de mes langues preferer! D’ailleur j’ai passé mon weekend a Paris :)

Now, as far as what I do for a living, i’m a locksmith.

I tell people where to get data and how to analyze it. I organize trainings and consult with people one on one. I do this for mostly faculty and grad students, but also for undergrads and even the odd outsider.

Ooopposs A living haha my bad

I am semi retired. Invested younger in apartments and actually get mail box money. When I was 20 I never in a million years thought I would have been here. (I’m 51)

@rojo, I have the same problems in my business.

I’m an academic.

I approve or deny claims for an insurance company. The magic 8 ball is a big help.

I married a workaholic who lets me stay home and play on the computer, and with my grandkids.

I worked at various accounting jobs for the first 5 years we were married, then retired to raise our son. I am now collecting Social Security (I worked off and on for 15 years before I met my current husband).

I bend things.

@Tachys I knew that was how you guys did it!

College student and bank teller…although, I don’t “make a living” that way. I’d starve and be sleeping in a box under the bridge if my husband didn’t work. He’s a power tool assembler and I’m a kept woman, for now.

I fix websites (mostly wordpress) and fix peoples computers.

It isn’t bad and I only work about 15 hours a week which allows me to work on more fulfilling projects.

I am a university academic specialising in Work Integrated Learning. I love my job.

I worked in nursing, and had hoped to go further in that, but I’ve had two psychiatrists recommend strongly against pursuing that career ever again. It was kind of a blow, since I didn’t/don’t really know what else to do with myself.
Right now, I’m a housekeeper, which pays relatively well, and is work that I actually enjoy. Low stress, keeps me busy, keeps me moving. It’s not necessarily what I was striving to do with my life, and I don’t know how long it will last, but I like it for now. Its exactly what I need at this point in my life.

I waitress at a 50s diner. I lurve it, except for all the drama and also those couple piece of shit college students who don’t care about their job and whose slack I am constantly picking up. Like with any job, pretty much. You always have the bad seeds.

I manage this place, and recently started doing some freelance editing. I love both my jobs!

I’m a registered nurse. I work in acute care. Currently I am the acting Chief Nursing Officer at my work. I am really enjoying it and hope to make it a permanent position some day.

@Seaofclouds Wow, I finished watching an anime today, (shiki if you were wondering), and was just listening to the intro song again. One of the secondary characters was a nurse too lol, wierd.