So, what do you DO?

Flash · Post by **Flash** » 2006-01-07 03:42pm

Up until last week, I was a pawnbroker.

Danny Bhoy · Post by **Danny Bhoy** » 2006-01-07 03:45pm

J wrote:I'm a go-fer for the Consular Affairs department of Canada's Foreign Services. I do a lot of odd jobs, pull up research, type up reports, liaise with foreign officials, and help maintain Canada's image as the big friendly country everyone loves while secretly plotting world domination.

Is this your first HQ tour or have you been posted out before?

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2006-01-07 04:31pm

I'm a Transportation Security Officer (read: passenger screener) at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Obviously, I work for TSA.

J · Post by J » 2006-01-07 07:39pm

Danny Bhoy wrote:Is this your first HQ tour or have you been posted out before?

It's my first tour, I'm attached to the Ottawa office but do almost all of my work in Toronto. Every once in a while I'm sent out as an assitant to one of the more senior officers on their foreign trips and then I get to return home after a week or two. I haven't had any extended foreign assignments yet and I haven't decided if I want to go that route.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-01-07 07:42pm

Student

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2006-01-07 07:48pm

Vohu Manah wrote:I'm a Transportation Security Officer (read: passenger screener) at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Obviously, I work for TSA.

A fellow airport goon! Do you get to strip search people and "accidentally" lose their luggage? And do you ever daydream about taking the metal detector wand and shoving up some passenger's ass when he gives you too much trouble?

Post by **Zaia** » 2006-01-07 08:16pm

I teach, work in a coffeeshop and occasionally play percussion gigs, both live and recorded (I've been asked to play on another CD!).

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-01-07 09:33pm

Hotel Receptionist for Intercontinental Hotels. Next time you plan on taking the missus to the holiday inn for a dirty weekend see me first and i can get you your stay for half price. Only joking I hate you all and wouldn't use my staff discount on any of you fuckers

Adept · Post by **Adept** » 2006-01-07 10:00pm

Currently in high school, tenth grade. I hope to pursue a career in criminal justice and become a crown attorney for the Toronto area.

And I'm a cashier at a grocery store.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2006-01-07 10:16pm

I study economics and something in science, but its indeterminate. I'm just a first-year, give me a break.

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-01-07 10:17pm

Just say you're a student.

Translation: You do sweet fuck all. That's what I used to say.

Then I became a lawyer.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-07 10:18pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Hotel Receptionist for Intercontinental Hotels. Next time you plan on taking the missus to the holiday inn for a dirty weekend see me first and i can get you your stay for half price. Only joking I hate you all and wouldn't use my staff discount on any of you fuckers

Sure you're not a contracts lawyer? You're good at Fine Print.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-01-07 10:19pm

I'm unemployed, so a lot of what I do involves a PC, net connection and the words "Counter-Strike" and "porn". When not doing those things, I'm looking for work. Clinical microbiologist is my newest title to have my CV thrown at it now the NHS is recruiting more graduates this year and I've yet to hear about my supposed interview for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

So, either a scientist or a civil servant. Currently a leech off the state.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2006-01-07 10:20pm

Vympel wrote:Just say you're a student.

Translation: You do sweet fuck all. That's what I used to say.

Then I became a lawyer.

No one told you to sell your life to arguing minutae and semantics and pushing papers to cover other people's asses.

Jack Bauer · Post by **Jack Bauer** » 2006-01-08 04:06am

Second year pre-law student at UC Santa Barbara. Oh and I'm also in Air Force ROTC.

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2006-01-08 07:12am

Drilling Operations Supervisor and Field Geologist (Night Shift) in the Oil Field. Primarily working in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas (as far east as Houston and as far north as Dallas, all of Louisianna, and most of Mississippi).

As Xalev loves to put it in chat, I fuck Mother Earth with 90' sections of steel pipes and drillbits. And if she cums, watch out, cause she's a squirter.

Seriously, mostly my job consist of sitting infront of a computer, monitoring the drilling rates, amount of gas levels coming out of the hole, and evaluating the cuttings coming from said hole for geological makeup (amounts of sand, shale, lime, lignite, granite, salt, etc in the sections we drilled through).

That and I get to play online except for the times I'm analyzing the mud coming out of the ground.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2006-01-08 08:14am

I sit at home and leech off my parents, though I live in a proper bedroom rather than their basement. Much of the time I wonder if perhaps I'm just lazy, but all it takes is forgetting to take my antidepressant meds (happens about once a month) to remember why I'm not an engineering student anymore. Supposedly I'm going to get a job or take some classes eventually, but I'm not very effective at getting things done in a timely manner.

Apparently I'm largely flawless otherwise, given the kind of woman I've aquired as a girlfriend. At least, that's the only explanation I've been able to come up with.

For your reference, I'll turn 20 on Feb 8, 2006.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2006-01-08 09:29am

aerius wrote:A fellow airport goon! Do you get to strip search people and "accidentally" lose their luggage? And do you ever daydream about taking the metal detector wand and shoving up some passenger's ass when he gives you too much trouble?

Sadly, I deal only with passengers and their carry-ons (can't really "accidentally" lose something when the passenger is in front of you while you go through their bag). As for the second question, the metal detectors we use at our airport seemed to be designed for that use.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2006-01-08 01:44pm

I'm a Technician at a Civil Engineering consultancy.

I get to sit on my arse all day and draw lines on maps. And design the odd roundabout.
It's hardly my vocation, but meh. It pays.

spongyblue · Post by **spongyblue** » 2006-01-08 08:55pm

Aerospace Ground Equipment Journeyman

I maintain and deliver various support equipment which allows aircraft to stay in tiptop shape and blow up people. I fix thing like power generators for ground power, air conditioners for cooling avionics, air compressors for pnuematic uses, maintenance stands(big, jackable ladders) and a whole slew of others stuff. We gotta know just a little bit of everything that has to do with mechanics.

I get dirty( try changing the exhuast on a 6 cylinder deisel engine the size of the front end of a Kia in the space of a closet. Not fun) I get cut up and generaly cranky everyday. But hey, its where I met my wife, so I guess thats the good part.

Xess · Post by **Xess** » 2006-01-08 09:09pm

I do sweet fuck all as Vympel put it. I'm a part-time first year physics major at the University of Winnipeg.

Sweet jesus I need a job. The boredom is killing me.

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2006-01-08 10:18pm

Port Authority / Homeland Security in Tidewater area of Virginia

OrneryRooster · Post by **OrneryRooster** » 2006-01-08 10:47pm

Service coordinator for an air conditioning company in Phoenix, Arizona. I hate my job in the summer.

A-Wing_Slash · Post by **A-Wing_Slash** » 2006-01-08 10:50pm

I am a high school sophmore.

I too do sweet fuck all.

atg · Post by **atg** » 2006-01-08 11:12pm

Computer Technician/Network Admin for a small IT support company.