Where do you work?

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  1. WOLF ANGEL

    WOLF ANGEL Senior Member - A Fool on the Hill Lifetime Supporter

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    I too, work for the man - For its far easier to Rebel from within :)
    < Peace + Love - Protest + Protect - Save the Planet >
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  2. Meliai

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    I find small ways to rebel every day :) Doing so takes profit away from my company but it helps out people who could really use the help, so I feel pretty good about it.
     
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    I work for people that have money, keeping their shit safe from people that dont. ironic isnt it....
     
  4. WOLF ANGEL

    WOLF ANGEL Senior Member - A Fool on the Hill Lifetime Supporter

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    When a Service becomes a Business - We 'have' to stand up and be counted for the people who deserve it!
    "When injustice becomes Law - Rebellion becomes duty"
    < Peace + Love - Protest + Protect - Save the Planet >
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  5. jimmyjoe1

    jimmyjoe1 toker Lifetime Supporter

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    I work in a hotel for a living, not great but its a job lol,
     
  6. Sitka

    Sitka viajera

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    I fall trees for the BCFS during the summers.

    I teach the rest of the year.
     
  7. FireflyInTheDark

    FireflyInTheDark Sell-out with a Heart of Gold

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    I'm a biomed student. Doesn't bring in any cash, but it sure as hell is a full time job. When I graduate, I will be getting a job as a full-time lab tech at a veterinary laboratory in Maine, benefits and all, knock on wood.

    I was a housekeeper in a motel all summer. I have decided I would rather hang myself than go back... but that was more due to the management than the work itself. The manager stuck me with this crazy bitch that was strung out on pills every day and just let her off with "warnings" all the time. She treated me like shit, and I reported her multiple times, but to no avail. Whenever anyone else got stuck with her, they would come back to me and ask me how I got through one day without punching her out, let alone half the summer, haha. I just don't roll like that, but man, did she make me consider it. :p
     
  8. rambleON

    rambleON Coup

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    Why are you not sharing ? Copyright the writings and post them.

    I'm working on writing for money too, but it is hard to make a living off it unless you go full throttle and hook up with a lyricist and or artists or write a book. I want to write a book but the elements of the book have not came to me yet.

    I have some stuff supposedly going to a Sony agent to at least be looked at and considered. I'm not banking on it though.

    RIght now I'm a Walgreen's service clerk and do not enjoy it much, working overnights. It depresses me a lot.

    I have not kept a job longer than 5 months since I separated from the Air Force in 04' and probably had more than 20. Jobs are hard for me. Unless you count my university years, which are 3 1/2

    Like a few other people here I flip stuff on ebay and craigs list. I hit up estate sales and garage sales for items to sell. I've been slacking on this though.

    I much rather not work in Babylon, I pray soon I won't have to.
     
  9. whimbrel

    whimbrel Wasteland Soldier

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    city morgue
     
  10. Meliai

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    what do you mean by making money by hooking up with a lyricist or artist?

    I posted a short story on here not too long ago but its a pain in the ass to read because of the way text is formatted here. I need to go back and put some paragraph breaks. I've edited it a lot since then too so I'll probably just post the new version soon. Its part of a serial I'm working on that one day I hope to turn into a cohesive novel. I'm going to try to get the stories published as short stories first and then try to get it published as a whole.

    You're a talented writer. I know I insulted you that one time lol but that was more because of your cocky attitude, I enjoy your writing. Best of luck to you!


    nice
     
  11. deviate

    deviate Senior Member

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    Another writer here trying to make money from it someday.

    I'm a master mechanic to pay the bills. Right now I'm at a point in my life where I need to decide whether to pursue something else or go buy some metal fabricating equipment and make a living building cars and bikes. The repair business is getting old and killing my body.

    I went to college but the degree seems useless in the workforce.
     
  12. rambleON

    rambleON Coup

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    I'm supposed to go to work in 30 minutes. I think I'm quiting. And I instantly feel happy and free.
     
  13. lynzxx

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    emmm the government gives me money to help me go to college :p

    but i have a job interview on tuesday. so hopefully i get that. fingers crossed :D
     
  14. Keenman

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    Good Luck Tuesday, lynzxx :)
     
  15. Moe420

    Moe420 Banned

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    where at?? you can come work for me, ill pay you to just stand around and be amusing. only thing is you gotta come to indiana :toilet:
     
  16. lynzxx

    lynzxx Senior Member

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    thanks :D

    in a tattoo shop, as a receptionist :D
    i'd love it!!

    thats far away :(
     
  17. AK Bones

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    I work all over the state of Alaska with a construction surveying outfit building roads, schools, hospitals/clinics, harbors, bridges, and doing a lot of airfield rehab in all the little villages that are the life lines to the bush communities here. It's a great way to get to see this amazing state.
     
  18. nic22

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    I do vagina inspections behind the local Wallmart. Business is slow. I think I need to do more advertiseing.
     
  19. FireflyInTheDark

    FireflyInTheDark Sell-out with a Heart of Gold

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    I think I'm getting a job watching a lady's rescue animals next week. Dogs, cats, horses, and guinea pigs. I hope I get it. Sounds like fun. :D
     
  20. neodude1212

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    I'm the sole owner and chief executive operator of an international pharmaceutical company. I'm typing this sitting on my leather sofa in my skyline corner office in Manhattan, looking out over the horizon.

    It all started when my friend's grandmother passed away when we were 15 and left him $10,000 in cash. We had both always excelled at chemistry, and the both of us being possessed by the entrepreneurial spirit, used the money as an investment to set up an amateur extraction and research lab in his garage. Every night after school we'd spend all of our free time increasing our knowledge of the current trends in the field, following the practices of the industry, getting acquainted with the corresponding law, and of course, carrying out our chief concern, research, looking for that one original miracle drug that would be our ticket to hitting it big.

    We targeted medical ailments that afflicted a large amount of people. We figured that in the event we came up with something both marketable and applicable, we'd increase our chances of making it big. We experimented with a few big-name problems; cholesterol, fibromyalgia, asthma treatments, etc, etc. Nothing inspirational was developed though, we didn't really breakthrough to anything.

    One day I was listening to the news and they were running a story on the rising trend of abortion. It was reported with an obvious political slant, but to my intellectual's mind, I began formulating a way in which abortion could be made not only easy, but profitable, and then it hit me. The solution came not long afterward, in the form of a charming little white pill.

    It didn't take long to realize that we had pharmacological gold on our hands, and we quickly obtained a patent and then set to work on the marketing side of things. It took off much faster than we anticipated, and soon the demand was higher than what the two of us could provide and we were forced to expand. We moved from a garage to a rented space in an industrial complex and hired others to work for us, at the ripe old age of 17. The two of us walked across our high school graduation stage as self-made millionaires.

    Unfortunately, in the following years as the business continued to expand and we broadened our perspective to include both improved versions of our established remedies and newly created medicines for previously accepted side effects, I saw how splitting the power of ownership with my friend would be not only detrimental to myself, but to the business as a whole.

    An ant mound has only one Queen, a nation has only one supreme leader, the solar system has only one Sun, and so too, should a company be run. When power is split at the highest level of leadership, a friction is created that trickles down to all subsequent layers of a society or organization, and this reduces efficiency and eventually makes things impossible to run. Not only does it create inefficiency and friction, but such a structure is a very contradiction to the established nature of order and harmony under which can humanity only succeed.
    And as a pharmaceutical company who provides necessary treatments for millions of people, wasn't it my duty, my obligation, my destiny to provide for these people in the absolute best way that I could? Didn't I owe them that?
    In such a way, rather than exert so much energy on demanding a restructuring, and possibly losing a portion of my stake, one lonely and thoughtful night I decided to organize a professional hit on my former friend and co-owner. Despite the fact that the initial investment for the business came from his family and the fact that it was he who had made the most creative breakthroughs in our initial research, I felt that his time had passed and now only a leader was needed, not a scientist or a beneficiary.
    A true leader, a bold leader, and was not this decision bold?

    It went over smoothly, made to look at if he had accidentally had too much to drink and drowned in his pool while no one was home, no one suspected a thing.

    Well, besides his wife, but her and the child were soon out of the picture also.

    Ah but that was years and years ago.
    Now we provide a myriad of medications and services for our clients, in addition to continually conducting clinical research, marketing our products to doctors and medical practices, and of course, wining and dining politicians to keep them on board with our mission. In fact I have dinner scheduled tonight with a few Senators from the Midwest to try and smooth over a recent misstep in our regulatory policies, which led to some unfortunate deaths. A tragedy, of course, of course, but only one of necessity. Fortune favors the bold! It's crazy how much we've grown over the years.

    Anyways, I'm out for a game of golf!
    Ciao!
     

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