Day Jobs

[Vice]

Traffic coordinator in the Supply Chain business...living the Corporate Nightmare but on a lower scale.

[Auditor]

Quote Originally Posted by Frater_Tsalal

I've been working at a Barnes & Noble bookstore since February 2004, originally as a full-time employee but now part-time for around the last 6 years or so. I HATE it (though the 30% employee discount isn't bad). One of the stories in my last collection kind of spoofed what it's like to work there, though I changed the name of the store.

I feel your pain. I was a bookseller at our local Borders until it went down in flames. It was incredibly disheartening to see how the CEO's decided to take any and all character out of the place and make the employees act like robots.

When I started, half the employees had tattoos and guages in their ears. By the time I was ready to quit (the store shut down before I had the pleasure), there was a ban on visible tattoos and all but the most conservative piercings and hairstyles.

[njhorror]

I do superhuman stuff on the hush hush mush mush, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fight a never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!





Or else I dreamed it.



Actually, after a totally misspent youth of aimless "partying" and discipline avoidance I found myself in the grip of anxiety, depression, "alcohol" dependence, and a complete inability to cope. This led to years of menial labor, confusion, and more of the previous UNTIL one day I denied my soul, and decided that whatever the cost I was no longer going to be a complete ####-up. I forced myself to change a few things, went back to school, got a degree, and now work at a state university in a scientific technical capacity, and where I realize that for some of us, not being a ####-up is just the beginning.

[cannibal cop]

I feed birds.

[njhorror]

Quote Originally Posted by cannibal cop

I feed birds.

NICE!

[symbolique]

nil

[cannibal cop]

That's nothing. It's the regurgitating ten pounds of heavily chewed-up raw liver a day that really wears me down.

[ToALonelyPeace]

I used to work as a scanner in an office, but now I'm studying to work on dissecting cadavers for the rest of my life in peace.

[MadsPLP]

After my twenties filled with aimless partying and studying, I graduated in comparative literature in 2011. After that, I worked some time in Academic Publishing as an editor, but ended up a high school teacher in Danish (much like most English majors in UK and the States, I guess) in adult education where I have been working since. In my spare time I proofread and edit academic books (currently it's a book of 415 pages on hemorrhoids) as a freelancer and run a small press publishing Central European fiction translated into Danish.

[Kalvall]

Misspent youth, now approaching 30 poor and miserable doing IT in a small business.

Ironically I got sober and got into this line of work to find that the various small businesses I worked for were laundering money for or otherwise connected to the world of addiction. It really is the motor of the economy!

Not ending up homeless is priority number one, which is a tall order these days. Now that I am employed relatives are ceaselessly hectoring me to stop being single rather than jobless. Would much rather be dead.