What do you do for a living?

Medically retired.
However, if you want a sample of jobs I've held over the last 40 years or so...

Farm/ranch hand
Laborer for a brick/block mason
Deck hand for a riverboat company
Security guard
Soldier
Sheriff's Deputy
Mechanical Draftsman/Designer

And those are just the more interesting, long-term ( More than a year ) ones.
I've also worked part time as a bouncer/door man on occasion.
Helped teach various weapons in a martial arts school.
Worked as a gas station attendant, back in the days of full-service stations.
Clerk in a grocery store and a department store. ( Anybody remember those? )
.... and a few others I only barely remember any more.
Oh, and a several of these I worked at the same time.

I work in the president's office of a university. It can be stressful but it's also a lot of fun!

I am a business manager... doing that lame nine to five

Im a Mystic.

Nothing really. I'm a bit pointless in that regard

Harlequin said:

Nothing really. I'm a bit pointless in that regard

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Same here!

*high five*

Breathe.

I manage a manufacturing facility where we make medical-grade resin and suture. I work 2nd shift, so usually I get a little writing time at work...until I don't.

Technical equipment sales. Doesn't that sound boring. It isn't really because what I really do is find working solutions to problems for a wide ranging type of people in very diverse situations.

I used to be a Clinical Laboratory Scientist - what this amounts to is analyzing blood, poop, pee and any other body fluids in hospitals.

Unfortunately mental illness has had its way with me. I've been disabled for 9 years. I'm hoping to find part time work in the near future.

I am a Court Clerk in Ontario, Canada. I wear a fashionable polyester robe with a dickie (yes, I just said that) and enact the law. Basically, I do all the paperwork and say "Order, all rise".

Myrealana said:

Corporate Financial Analyst - now.

I've been a mortgage loan processor, computer tech support, database analyst, underwriter, and a few other things over the years.

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Been a while. I actually left that role in 2016.

Spent two years as Manager of Customer Insights and Strategy at an Internet company until I bailed. (Bad boss. Long story. Good decision.)

As of May 2018, I'm working in Business Intelligence at a large finance company. This is intended to be my "rest of my career" job.

I have too much anxeity to get a job so right now I live with my parents and argue about going back to uni. I'd rather skip uni and get a warehouse job, or something in shipping/packaging, so hopefully my anxeity clears up soon

I'm a lawyer who used to work on Capitol Hill but became disillusioned with just about everything so now I work for a law firm helping corporations clean up their act. I travel a lot and usually write on the airplane.

I currently am working as the manager of a recreation facility while I'm finishing the last year of my degree. It's a lot of work but I hope to move on soon.

My day job is also in the arts, which is possibly not the best strategy ever. I'm a stage manager in professional theatre.

I am actually a news editor, but currently focused on a niche subject which is investor visa programs. I write things like that https://getgoldenvisa.com/articles/

I edit novels, where I daily battle tendencies to Unnecessarily Capitalize As Many Words As Possible and try to eliminate unintentional repeats and try to eliminate unintentional repeats.

Thank goodness for errors and the writers who make them.

My day job is as an administrative law judge for the state of New York. I decide whether people were improperly denied Medicaid coverage.

I am a legal code editor (4.5 years). Pretty good at it. It is not riveting material but I have learned alot about editing, readability, deadlines and how to take proofreader comments in an unemotional manner.
I am educated in completely unrelated areas and professionally and personally experienced in even further unrelated areas.

I'm a mature student. I'm pursuing further education in an attempt to find a good career or, failing that, make myself more employable.

Procurement and Reporting Specialist

Supplier Manager, specialising in corporate datacentre outsourcing.

Professional Aspirer with an obscurity complex.