tell us about your job

[JaBlue]

Tell us about what you do for a living.

What do you do? Do you like it? What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? What kind of people do best in your work? What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? What is a typical day like? What kind of problems do you encounter? What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? How much do you make? How much can one expect to make in your position?

and so forth.

[milesdyson]

I am bored at my job, so I will tell you about it.

What do you do? Structural engineering (unlicensed still).

Do you like it? Not really.

What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? I am well-suited because I understand geometry well and am good at math. I am unsuited because I am very easily distracted and unwilling to apply myself very much when there is no dire consequence to being lazy.

What kind of people do best in your work? People like me, just without all the other crap running through their heads.

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? A degree in civil or structural engineering basically.

What is a typical day like? Coffee, 2+2, and working on structural plans. It varies between custom homes, apartments, condos, townhomes, and other miscellaneous wood-framed buildings. I am pretty much always doing the same thing when in the office, which is designing the horizontal and lateral force resisting systems in these buildings. I am out of the office when I do structural observations on projects under construction or go to consultant meetings.

What kind of problems do you encounter? Stupid people in the field and at other offices.

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? Frustration is usually caused by having to finish projects in short time periods. Elation is usually caused by drinking coffee in the morning, leaving for lunch, and leaving the office at night.

How much do you make? About $60k/yr when you count profit sharing.

How much can one expect to make in your position? Somewhere around $80-100k/yr with a good amount of experience and your professional engineering license.

[anduril]

What do you do? Head Athletic Trainer for 2nd biggest High School in Massachusetts. I love it. I get school vacations off, get paid cash for playoff games and neutral site games (we hold most of post season competitions for all sports), and get the summer off. I had last week off and may or may not work 8 hours this week. Again, getting paid cash for it.

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? You need a Bachelors degree in Athletic Training and pass the certification and licensure exam to be able to practice in Massachusetts.

What is a typical day like? I go in at 2:30PM and if there are no night games I leave at 5:30-6PM. Otherwise I'll be there until 9-9:30PM. Hardly any weekends.

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? Problems are that I have a bad back and can't stand for long periods of time, which effects me mostly during football games. Also, most of my kids don't have health insurance, so I consistently bring kids to an orthopedist I know who used to work for the Cleveland Browns. If I don't bring them to the doctor, usually that means they have no way to get there.

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? Meh, I'm pretty laid back. It's annoying when we hold wrestling tournaments and more than two wrestlers start bleeding at once. All the coaches obviously expect me to get to them first.

Elation? Thank you's from parents. I never had an Athletic Trainer, and if I did I may not have a bad back and could've continued playing college football. I'm glad the same thing won't happen to my kids.

How much do you make?$38k/year. That is in the upper upper category of Athletic Trainers, even if they have a Masters Degree. I'm pretty lucky and negotiated my original salary fairly well though. Elsewhere an Athletic Trainer starting at a High School can expect to make $26-$32k/year. I'm not sure how you can live in this state making that much money, but people do. Thank science I can play poker.

[firstyearclay]

I am bored at my job, so I will tell you about it.

What do you do? Consulting, Affiliating, for various Internet Marketing Ventures.

Do you like it? Yes.

What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? I am pretty good at what I do because I 100% believe in myself. If I work I make money, when I become complacent, my earnings go down. I have great accountability, drive, and have been behind a computer for the greater part of my life.

What kind of people do best in your work? Individuals that are flexible to put in 18-24 hours behind a computer and be happy doing it. You must have the drive to try new things, be incredibly organized, and understand the economics of a business.

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? A college degree. You don’t necessarily NEED a degree at all, I just think it helps teenagers into early twenties individuals get experience, maturity, and grasp organizational skills.

What is a typical day like? Up between 10 and 12. Walk dog. Check emails and follow up with phone calls if needed. Browse current projects for progress and research and plan for future projects until about 5pm. Walk dog. Eat dinner and discuss projects and or new ideas with partner via phone or online from about 6 until ????. Usually turn in about 3-4am. Most of the night time “work” or “computer time” is pleasure mixed with business.

What kind of problems do you encounter? Frustrated customers and the inability for people to meet deadlines. Its one thing to say you can do a job and have the skills to do it; and it’s a WHOLE OTHER ball game to get that job completed on time.

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? Frustration from jobs not being completed on time. Elation from making money day or night, sun or snow, around the clock.

How much do you make? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

How much can one expect to make in your position? Grab a canvas and start. You can make as much as you want to earn.

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[Dids]

What do you do? I supervise an adminstrative support department in a university.


Do you like it? It's low stress, I have a lot of freedom, with two large exceptoins, I like who works for me and who I work with. It beats a real job.

What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? I'm a good teacher, I relate well with people, I'm good at hiring.

What kind of people do best in your work? We don't ask a lot. If you can be organized, you're pretty much ok.


What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? Well, I'm 5 credits short of my degree...


What is a typical day like? Depends on if I'm trying. If not, a lot of 2p2. If I am, meetings, working on project and putting out fire/helping my staff as needed.


What kind of problems do you encounter? Unreasonable requests from faculty, idiots on all fronts.



What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? I have two employees who are mostly braindead and useless. I can't fire them. Communicating them at all is a pain.

How much do you make? 40K a year.

How much can one expect to make in your position? 40K

[mmbt0ne]

What do you do? "Operations Analyst" aka GM/OM-lite at a 3rd party logistics company (we manage warehouses)

Do you like it? So far it's pretty good.

What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? I'm really smart when it comes to the kind of analysis that's new to the industry.

What kind of people do best in your work? The best are the people who are able to manage people as well as compile, understand, and react to data. Lots of people in the business can do one really well. Very few people can do both. Those people are highly sought after.

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? You can be an operations manager with a high school degree. You can be a GM with any kind of community college degree (and probably without if you're really old school).

What is a typical day like? Right now: in at 8:30, walk around the warehouse for 30 minutes, talk to the shipping clerk, walk around the warehouse, back to my office, read CNN, get the GM and OM together to finally talk about my project (helping w/ RF system implementation and getting the warehouse 5S compliant), work for a bit, go to lunch, come back, maybe a conference call for about an hour if it's Wednesday or Thursday, finish my work for the day, talk to boss at regional, try to find some more work, go walk the warehouse instead for another 30 minutes, leave at 3:30.

What kind of problems do you encounter? Figuring out how we're going to get all of this done in < 3 months.

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? For me, it's trying to explain new concepts to people who are very set in their ways.

How much do you make? Just above $50k per year after bonus (because if I don't get maxed out I'm leaving) plus all the free batteries and razors I'll ever need.

How much can one expect to make in your position? This is a brand new position, so that's unknown. I know that plenty of OMs make over $60k with up to 20% bonus, and GMs usually make 100-120 with up to 25% bonus. The guys in Regional are making a good deal more it seems.

[XXXNoahXXX]

What do you do? 1L, Law Student.

Do you like it? I love it so far. I'd still quit in a second if I won the lottery or something.

What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? I am smart and good at taking tests and knowing what professors are looking for on exams. I have natural intelligence, so despite probably being in the bottom 5% in terms of hours put in, I get better than average grades.

What kind of people do best in your work? People that can view law school as a job, and put the hours in. Also, know how to study for exams and how greatly that differs from standing out during class. Definitely have to be good at both analytical and creative thinking. Hitting all the points on a law school exam will get you a B+/A-, but to get the A, you have to get a little creative.

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? Undergraduate degree, LSAT. If I had to do it again, maybe some work experience would have been helpful. If unsure, major in a hard science since it opens up a lot of doors for patent work, etc.

What is a typical day like? See A Day in the Life Thread

What kind of problems do you encounter? Stress of being called on when you haven't read the cases. Time crunch when memos are due and during finals.

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? Grades are based off of one exam for the most part. This is great for me, but still stressful. Looking at my grades from first semester, there was 0 correlation between my relative strength in the class and my exam grade.

How much do you make? Thanks to scholarships, I make about -$30K. (125k+ for private practice after graduation)

How much can one expect to make in your position? Law School has almost no need based aid, so unless you get scholarships, expect to pay $50k per year. Jobs after graduation range from 30k for public interest to 140k for big law.

[guids]

What do you do?
Self employed poker player, with vested interests in the outcome of sporting events, I also do a little food and beverage consulting among other income generating fields/

Do you like it?
Ya, its alright.



What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work?
Im well-suited for it because I learned at a young age, the only way to get rich is to work for yourself, and to rely on as little from others as possible.

What kind of people do best in your work?
Hustlers, haters, pimps, dealers, and scallywags

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you?
A creative way to see ways to generate income and street smarts.

What is a typical day like?
depends on the time of year, mostly wakeup at 7am, do some jogging, stop at the diner for some eggs and espresso, get home, shower, piddle around for a few hours, read the news, think of my next scam, I mean endeavor. Maybe hit the casinos, or meet up with friends to see if we have any jobs to do that night, if not, hit the gym, shower than to bed, or a night out on the town.

What kind of problems do you encounter?
not many, if you cant budget your money, the highs and lows can be rough.


What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation?
Too many of each to name

How much do you make?
This year, the taxed equivalency to about 125k I guess.


How much can one expect to make in your position?

Skies the limit imo.

[quadzilla]

What do you do? Headhunter

Do you like it? Yes

What makes you in particular well-suited or poorly-suited for your work? Rejection doesn't bother me.

What kind of people do best in your work? Money motivated, willingness to cold call and good communication skills.

What qualifications are necessary for people considering work in the same field as you? Nothing other than the items listed above.

What is a typical day like? 150 - 200 calls per day.

What kind of problems do you encounter? I could write a book

What are the biggest (most common) sources of frustration and elation? Frustration - applicants/clients not doing what they say they will do. Elation - Closing deals/ Collecting money.

How much do you make? $250-400K depending on year.

How much can one expect to make in your position? Even someone who is new can make $100K+ if they work hard and have some talent. Some people make 7 figs+.