What do you do for a living?

I work in TV/Film post production as an assistant editor, though mainly TV these days. Currently working on Fear Factor (yes, it's back).

Currently I'm finishing my master degree in electrical engineering but in the meantime I do hostess jobs (which are well paid thank God).
Since I am a woman there's a chance that I won't be that well paid but well, let's hope I am wrong!

I run a small and successful-enough-for-me IT consulting firm in the middle of the bible belt.

Since it's grown to be a large enough portion of my income to mention, I'm also a self-publisher of Erotica, primarily on Amazon.

I'm an editor, which means I learn about a lot of random stuff while checking copy. I know about paprika made from peppers in Extremadura, Spain; how to get a shopper loyalty program off the ground; the best place to order spare parts for the machine that sorts breakfast cereals so all the pieces are the same size; and places in Cincinnati where you can get a cat neutered for free.

Baker, property developer, sports management, retired for 12 years (travelled on a boat till the cash ran out), now woodworker and property renovator. Eclectic but fiscally imprudent!

Living nicely enough on my hard earned pension

I'm a customer care specialist at a print company that recently caught flak for botching an order and where I print my own promotional materials For a call centre, I'm having a great time there.

Currently: Technical Trainer for a telecommunications company

Formerly:
IT Project Manager
SaaS Project Manager
Media Trainer
Database Administrator
Network Administrator
Helpdesk Technician
Financial Analyst
Adjunct Instructor
Graduate student/Teaching Assistant

I'm a military spouse and a stay at home mom to two little humans. Every year (or two if I'm lucky) I have the glorious unpaid job as the cross country household moving coordinator! Pre kids I was a substitute teacher, a pharmacy technician and a high school English teacher.

I’m an elementary teacher and have been a school librarian. I’ve been in the education system for 33 years.

I answered this question a while back, but I think my circumstances have changed enough to warrant another answer:

Technical writer/editor/trainer/consultant/translation coordinator.

I think that covers the part-time job.

Full-time, I'm a professional nuisance.

Retired Purchasing Manager; now I'm a full-time caregiver for my wife - last year she had problems w/ a-fib and a stroke, (4 times in the hospital last year)now afflicted by diarrhea in conjunction with her Chrone's disease. Then there's restless leg, diabetes among other things. How I've found time to write I don't know. Sometimes it's the middle of the night. I wake up, get out of bed and keep going.

porlock said:

Retired Purchasing Manager; now I'm a full-time caregiver for my wife - last year she had problems w/ a-fib and a stroke, (4 times in the hospital last year)now afflicted by diarrhea in conjunction with her Chrone's disease. Then there's restless leg, diabetes among other things. How I've found time to write I don't know. Sometimes it's the middle of the night. I wake up, get out of bed and keep going.

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You've posted in Office Party - this certainly aint no party - my sympathies to you both, awful.
BUT, your writing probably gives you time away from your troubles, at least in your mind. Keep going and good luck.

boatman said:

You've posted in Office Party - this certainly aint no party - my sympathies to you both, awful.
BUT, your writing probably gives you time away from your troubles, at least in your mind. Keep going and good luck.

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I was going to say the same thing! You've certainly put my bad day in perspective.

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I have a small business where I make girls' clothing from vintage fabrics.

I'm a full-time writer, to the extent that I'm a full-time anything. I nap a lot.

I’m semi-retired. I have been: a typesetter, starting when type was printed from bright pink punch tape up until the mac made everyone a typesetter; a bead shop owner until we adopted two children from Korea and I realized that they needed Mom more than the world needed my bead shop; a lampwork glass bead and jewelry maker; a homeopath and energy healer which happened because my kids and I needed healing and I couldn’t find it from mainstream medicine. Now still do a little homeopathy and energy healing and am trying my hand at fiction.

I'm a translator (French, Flemish, English, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Ukrainian) and help negotiating the sales or acquisitions of things like that https://tranio.com/greece/detached/ .
It's sometimes irregular (due to the nature of wares, you don't sell two dozens each day) but I travel a lot so it's great.

I lead the English Immersion, Special English, and Progressive English programs for a private international school in Japan.

I worked in restaurants for years, but it burned me out the higher I got. Moving in with my partner gave me the financial freedom to find a more "relaxing" job and focus on my writing, so I'm working at a used bookstore. The difference in pace is wild - I've never known work to be anything but hustle hustle hustle. Sometimes it gets a little boring - like, 90% of my job is peeling stickers off of books lol. But I'm learning a lot about what sells and what doesn't. The exposure to all these authors I'd never even heard of before is eye-opening.

I'm currently a tarot card reader, but I've had several other unique jobs before that.

I'm a beekeeper. I also sell some old books now and then.

I work for Halliburton Energy Services, love my job. I mean it has it's good days and bad days but it's a great company to work for.

I'm a web developer, which I enjoy very much about 75% of the time, which is a pretty high percentage for a career. I don't know if I'd be able to beat 75% even as a writer, and I know I would still recreationally code if I were one. I suppose I'm quite lucky.

Fencer_24 said:

I'm a translator (French, Flemish, English, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Ukrainian) and help negotiating the sales or acquisitions of things like that https://tranio.com/greece/detached/ .
It's sometimes irregular (due to the nature of wares, you don't sell two dozens each day) but I travel a lot so it's great.

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I'm absolutely fascinated. I would love to be able to translate, and I speak Spanish and Italian well, but when it comes time to actually use it, I lose confidence and freeze.