What's Your Occupation?

[Yuji]

I work in a HR that takes care of other HRs. The difference is that I work as a Supervisor of Rights and Duties. Among other activities, I edit administrative acts that will be signed by the governor or his state secretaries. I provide legal advice to other supervisors/superintendents of other government agencies' HR as well.

A lot has changed since then! I no longer work in HR supervision. Now, I’m a compliance officer and a teacher in government, focusing on integrity and ethics. After a few years away from legal practice, I’ve also returned to working as a lawyer.

Weird question, but were you Hugo Boss in DB-PT long, long ago?

[Hugo Boss]

I work in a HR that takes care of other HRs. The difference is that I work as a Supervisor of Rights and Duties. Among other activities, I edit administrative acts that will be signed by the governor or his state secretaries. I provide legal advice to other supervisors/superintendents of other government agencies' HR as well.

A lot has changed since then! I no longer work in HR supervision. Now, I’m a compliance officer and a teacher in government, focusing on integrity and ethics. After a few years away from legal practice, I’ve also returned to working as a lawyer.

Weird question, but were you Hugo Boss in DB-PT long, long ago?

Yeah, that was me! Hard to believe it’s been about 15 years since then. Didn’t expect anyone to remember!

[GokuHater]

Yo.

I am a Quality Assurance Engineer which is a fancy name for testing various softwares be it web pages, applications or cloud solutions.
A few years ago I also tested games on PC/Consoles/Mobile.

So my job is basically to ensure that the software is working as intended and is as bug-free as possible

[Saiya6Cit]

Update: As of end of last year I am in Quality Assurance again. Monitoring, testing and also training new employees. And a free-lancer biotech researcher. If anyone is interested in sharing cientific knowledge I am currently working with bees and open to peer review, vets and biochemists mostly but anyone with knowledge in the fields of biology could join me.

[Michelle91]

Chances are that I may not get my job until I'm in my 40s. I didn't do that great last year with my classes and I'm trying becoming a English professor. As I need a job that will help pay for the bills while I do something that I enjoy. I want to teach collage because it's way easier to teach adults than minors.

[MCDaveG]

I was kinda bummed with the local economy, finding it hard to do jobs as Art Director for sensible money, so I switched back to just graphic design/UI, but it didn't made sense... took offer as an Art Lead with a team in Brand and advertisement during summer.
So going back to old habits I guess.

[Michelle91]

Chances are that I may not get my job until I'm in my 40s. I didn't do that great last year with my classes and I'm trying becoming a English professor. As I need a job that will help pay for the bills while I do something that I enjoy. I want to teach collage because it's way easier to teach adults than minors.

Also you get more freedom which is I forgot to teach. Grade schools tell you on what to teach like borning overrated books like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.

[JulieYBM]

My current occupation is: dying a slow and painful death

[Michelle91]

Writing for games, movies, tv shows, etc is still a job that I want to achive. I also want to write and create my own comics, but I still suck as an artist even having 10+ years of going to art classes at community collages. I would get my stuff published by Image as you own everything that you make. Unlike Marvel or DC, where you don't own jack shit. They have a history of stabbing people in the back and ruining their artistic vision.

Since they own your IP, they can milk it into the ground. Which is why I hate what DC did with Watchmen with all of those pointless sequels, and spin off comics that we didn't need. And having dumbshit like Doomsday Clock which feels like fan fiction to me. But, I'm going too off topic now.

[JulieYBM]

Take it for what you will, but I just wouldn't make commercial, traditional publisher art. Make art for yourself and if you let other people read it, you'll get people who connect with it if it's good or not.

Always focus on making yourself happy first when it comes to your art. Jobs and careers are not something to aspire to, they're compromises meant to trap you in a system. Get as far away from those things as possible and use them onlynto extract whatever financial and social benefits that you can.

[Quantum-Kakarrotto]

I currently work at Universal Studios as an Attractions Attendant. I left my previous job a month ago as an assistant property manager for an apartment complex because of a very toxic corporate office. I'm also studying acting and currently creating my resume to submit to agencies.

[TKA]

I'm a laboratory supervisor.

[Kunzait_83]

My current occupation is: dying a slow and painful death

Ha. I used to have that same gig myself for many years.

These days though, I work for a local Tenants Rights organization in my hometown. I do community outreach, canvasing, organizing, that sort of thing.

[JulieYBM]

My current occupation is: dying a slow and painful death

Ha. I used to have that same gig myself for many years.

These days though, I work for a local Tenants Rights organization in my hometown. I do community outreach, canvasing, organizing, that sort of thing.

Yeah, hopefully I can get back into the community outreach game at some point. What I was doing didn't pay, but I loved getting out and about in the community. It was better than what I had been doing full-time before that lol.

Right now, I'm just a little busy dying a slow and painful death right—when I'm not writing bi romance novels for fun that is lol

[Kunzait_83]

Yeah, hopefully I can get back into the community outreach game at some point. What I was doing didn't pay, but I loved getting out and about in the community. It was better than what I had been doing full-time before that lol.

Protip: not sure what your feelings are about DSA (for full disclosure, I'm a dues paying member myself, but I know that they're a somewhat divisive org among certain types of lefties, especially online), but if you play your cards right and speak to the right people in your nearest local chapter, you could potentially get a job as a labor union "salter", which can pay reasonably decent (depending on where you are location-wise anyway). Its good, valuable work either way and a good way to earn some cash while you're doing actual legit work for unionization.

[JulieYBM]

Yeah, hopefully I can get back into the community outreach game at some point. What I was doing didn't pay, but I loved getting out and about in the community. It was better than what I had been doing full-time before that lol.

Protip: not sure what your feelings are about DSA (for full disclosure, I'm a dues paying member myself, but I know that they're a somewhat divisive org among certain types of lefties, especially online), but if you play your cards right and speak to the right people in your nearest local chapter, you could potentially get a job as a labor union "salter", which can pay reasonably decent (depending on where you are location-wise anyway). Its good, valuable work either way and a good way to earn some cash while you're doing actual legit work for unionization.

Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind. I've been meaning to check out my local chapter to get a feel for them.

[Michelle91]

Take it for what you will, but I just wouldn't make commercial, traditional publisher art. Make art for yourself and if you let other people read it, you'll get people who connect with it if it's good or not.

Always focus on making yourself happy first when it comes to your art. Jobs and careers are not something to aspire to, they're compromises meant to trap you in a system. Get as far away from those things as possible and use them onlynto extract whatever financial and social benefits that you can.

That's what I do with my art and writing. I like drawing and writing for fun, hoping that other people will enjoy my stuff too. I'm still trying to learn Japanese, but learning it with AuDHD always have been hard. I would love to be a creative writer and translator for some of my favorite companies, but I hear Japan doesn't like to hire foreigners very often.

My job resume is bad too due to my short job history. My last job I had was retail and I left 4 years ago after they were ableist to me. My job coach try to get some work for a tenants rights organization in MD, but they told me that I don't have enough experience to work for them. I hope I can get a teaching job at least after university. I still hate that I may not even reach my career as an artist and writer given the state of AI being used. Not just with writing and art, but with therapy, teaching, etc too.

[Shaddy]

I'm a factory drone at...a place that makes computer chips. Not gonna specify where, I'm on the clock as I type this. The nice thing is that it goes slow enough I can dick around on the internet when I'm supposed to be putting hunks of plastic with metal bits inside into giant machines that do something I'm not fully aware of.

It doesn't make me any money (I'm not even considering doing something like a Patreon before I have 1000 subscribers), but I do Youtube stuff too. That's probably part of why I don't post here as much as I used to, though that's also because I have other sites and apps I can use if I want to go annoy Julie