Post Your Job!!

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-22-2008 07:44 PM

Hey guys, I thought it would be cool to post what you do for work/school/twatever. Doesn't matter what: may it be a horse-trainer, a teacher, a vet, or a computer chip cleaner, post a pic of it!

I'm a pastry chef at Whole Foods, here's some of my stuff:

I'm most proud of my rose cupcakes

**Abra** · 03-22-2008 10:43 PM

Drat. This website frowns upon pornographic images! I guess that counts me out... [/joke]

**StephenT** · 03-22-2008 10:48 PM

I don't have one right now, but over the summer I'm going to be a lifeguard at a waterpark.

**Mitzie** · 03-23-2008 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I'm most proud of my rose cupcakes

I am in love with those rose cupcakes. I really want to eat one, but I think if I had it in my hand I wouldn't want to because they are so pretty! I keep coming back in here to look at them so I figured I would post a reply!

What kind of frosting did you use on them? Is all the baking stuff you use there organic?

**NeAvO** · 03-23-2008 01:36 AM

Cool cakes Ophie!

I'm a waiter and I can't really take a picture of myself at work unless I quickly take a picture of my self with a random family with out them knowing.

**AmazeO XD** · 03-23-2008 03:28 AM

Student.

lol

**Burns** · 03-23-2008 04:02 AM

Those pastries look sooo yummy, OB!

Here's some older pics of me at work. Monitoring a cat under anesthesia and scrubbing into surgery. I'm a licensed veterinary technician.

**ninja9578** · 03-23-2008 04:34 AM

Programmer

**The Tao** · 03-23-2008 04:35 AM

I do some web-programming stuff, mostly php/mysql stuff.

**StephenT** · 03-23-2008 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by Burns

What is that orange stuff? I think it's disinfectant or something.

It disgusts me. After my last ankle scope, I had to be in a cast for a week before I could wash my foot, and the orange stuff wouldn't come off for another couple weeks. I'd scrub as gently, but thorough as I could with my foot and ankle, but it is so gross.

The smell and look just disgusts me. Especially when there was a wave of it every time I took a sock off.

You guys need to find a better, non-smelly, non-orange, easily removable thing.

**wa'el** · 03-23-2008 06:45 AM

i'm a grad. student ....
here are some plots of what i've been working on lately... (these are FEA results) ...

**Jrels** · 03-23-2008 09:29 AM

My title is Turdsman.

**Xaqaria** · 03-23-2008 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Jrels

My title is Turdsman.

Are you a poopsmith?

**kaeraz** · 03-23-2008 10:24 AM

I'm a graphic artist at a screen printing company. I design t-shirts for moronic frats and sororities. It's pretty sweet.

**Man of Steel** · 03-23-2008 11:06 AM

I'm a superhero. I mostly save cats from terrifying and deadly heights. Also the occasional supervillain. Well, I don't save the supervillains from terrifying and deadly heights. Or cats from supervillains. I defeat the supervillains, typically by outwitting them at the very last minute, right before they're about to blow half the state of California off the map, or conquer the world. Or eat all the donuts. Supervillains never really caught on to the whole diet craze. They also tend to be either obsessively meticulous or disgustingly slobbish; there's no middle ground. Even the meticulous ones leave such a mess, too. You wouldn't believe the stuff I have to clean up.

The pay's not that great, but I get by. I've been thinking about taking up something related to knives—you know, to fit the whole "Man of Steel" theme—but I've just been so busy lately with these darned cats. Also, I'm thinking about doing some photography on the side. I mean, I can fly. Imagine the pictures I could get! I might establish a new fashion statement for superheroes and never go anywhere without my camera bag slung over my shoulder. Let Spiderman try that with his web-slinging. I guess I'll have to get one custom made in my colors, though. Black wouldn't really look right against my blue and red costume.

I could go on all day, but I'm sure you don't really care about the worries of an unappreciated superhero. Everybody would rather call Spiderman—I know his real name, by the way, Batman's too—to handle anything in between cats in trees and giant robots tearing apart skyscrapers. They think I'm overpowered, like it's not a fair fight for me to go up against the muggers and bank robbers. Sure, it's not a fair fight. That's the fun part! I mean, I like cats, don't get me wrong. But sometimes I just want to see the look on a would-be cat burglar's face when his crowbar just bounces off my head and his pathetic little switchblade snaps in two as he tries to stick me in the gut. Or actually get into a situation where a bullet could mushroom against my eyeball. They made that look so cool in the movie they made about me. That actor almost looked kinda like me, too. Sure, they got some facts wrong, but hey, it's Hollywood. For the record, I'm not and never was romantically involved with Lois Lane. I mean, come on, her name's Lois Lane. It just wouldn't work out.

I'm sorry, I'm rambling. I'll try and get a picture next time I save a cat from a tree or, if I'm really lucky, a burning building. (Look, I can do satire.)

pj · 03-23-2008 12:32 PM

I do a lot of things for a living. My wife and I own a tiny machine shop where we make components for robotics, military and aerospace applications - very limited quantity stuff, done using equipment that most would consider obsolete. I'm an "old-style" toolmaker and mechanical engineer.

For a "day job," I perform a wild array of services for a small stamping shop that caters to the tooling industries. This company is also a customer of mine before I took this position with them, and they remain a good customer. It is an odd association, but it works. Our business kind of dovetail in a lot of ways. My involvement with them ranges from sales and marketing to engineering to management to system administration. I have a lot of freedom with this position, which allows me to deal with the demands of our businesses comfortably.

I work a lot, but it isn't like punching a clock and being under the gun with somebody leaning over me worrying about a return on an hourly wage. I do the sorts of things for the day job that bear continuing returns, and my responsibility in our businesses is directly to our customers. Being as small as we are, we enjoy the rare luxury of being able to pick and choose who we do business with, which means we have a customer base who appreciates and benefits from what we can do and who are very comfortable to work with.

My avocation is music. It is what I would do full time if I had my "druthers."

**Burns** · 03-23-2008 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Stephent91

What is that orange stuff? I think it's disinfectant or something.

It disgusts me. After my last ankle scope, I had to be in a cast for a week before I could wash my foot, and the orange stuff wouldn't come off for another couple weeks. I'd scrub as gently, but thorough as I could with my foot and ankle, but it is so gross.

The smell and look just disgusts me. Especially when there was a wave of it every time I took a sock off.

You guys need to find a better, non-smelly, non-orange, easily removable thing.

It's betadine scrub. It's the most commonly used scrub for disinfecting before surgery. It does stain so you have to be careful about getting it on clothes, and it does sorta stain my nails when I'm scrubbing in for surgery. I've also been on the receiving end and had it on myself for ankle surgery so I know what you mean. But I'd rather use something staining and smelly than to have a post-surgical infection occur because the surgical scrub wasn't effective.

**Abra** · 03-23-2008 04:04 PM

Man of Steel wins this thread.

**thisismylogin** · 03-23-2008 04:09 PM

I'm a data entry specalist... this is what i do

**Lomebririon** · 03-23-2008 04:51 PM

Well, I recently finished a Bachelor of IT degree and am currently looking for a job in that field. But for the job I have now, I work as Nightfill at a discount store called The Warehouse.

Oh, and those cakes look fucking delicious Ophie.

**StephenT** · 03-23-2008 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by Burns

It's betadine scrub. It's the most commonly used scrub for disinfecting before surgery. It does stain so you have to be careful about getting it on clothes, and it does sorta stain my nails when I'm scrubbing in for surgery. I've also been on the receiving end and had it on myself for ankle surgery so I know what you mean. But I'd rather use something staining and smelly than to have a post-surgical infection occur because the surgical scrub wasn't effective.

That's true. It is pretty annoying, though.

Once you put that stuff on, do you have to walk around with your hands in the air saying, "I'm sterile!"

**Burns** · 03-23-2008 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Stephent91

Once you put that stuff on, do you have to walk around with your hands in the air saying, "I'm sterile!"

Yeah I do! You have to be careful how people move around you and putting on the gown and gloves so you don't get contaminated, or you have to scrub all over again. And scrubbing with that hard bristley brush HURTS!