Past: US Army Infantry, Correctional officer for Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, CDL driver/vendor for Anheuser-Busch.
Present: Industrial Radiographer. I employ different types of non-destructive testing on oil fields, pipe lines, and refineries such as magnetic particle, dye penetrate, ultra sonic, and eddy current. However, 95% of my job consists of radiographic testing; I work with a radioactive "camera" and I x-ray pipe welds.
I f*cking love my job so much.
Originally posted by Digi
Past: EducationPresent: Communications & Marketing; also freelance writing
So, like, franchising? Or burger flipping? Either way, IT management sounds a lot better. 😉
I did fast food when I was 16-17. Everybody has to start somewhere and no one should feel above that kind of work.
Here are the fast food places I worked:
Braums
McDonald's.
Oh shit! I forgot, I was laid off from Metlife Dental so I worked as a sign holder for Quiznos for 2 weeks to hold me over until my insurance agent stuff started/cleared for a big name in insurance (I won't name them). I should note that I made more money with PacifCare than any other place I've worked, so far: even my current job.
Why did I quit? Because some of my clients LITERALLY died because the policy denied coverage. I could not live with myself. It was one of the easiest decisions of my life. The last month I was there, I advised all of my clients all of the insurance policy loopholes to get them the highest payouts and the easiest methods of getting payouts. Wanna know why I strongly strongly want a universal healthcare solution? I worked directly for one of the most evil insurance companies in the world and they are one of the better ones. 😐
Dude....f*ck American insurance companies.
Originally posted by Mindship
- Present: psychologist for NYC public high schools.
- Future: scifi author**Note to self: don't quit current job.
Don't be so hard on yourself. You shared some of your stuff a long time ago, with me. One thing that I think you do better than 99.9% of mainstream authors out there is write (seems odd, but I'll explain what I mean). You have what I would call "delicious prose." Your writing style is the type that, even if you're not interested in the story or lose interest, the prose can sometimes catch the reader's attention.
For me, 50% of a good novel is the prose, alone. I don't care what people say about the Twilight series, but some of the stories regarding the characters are really really good. But the dialogue and prose from Stephenie Meyer sucks massive turds. It pretty much ruins her series. I can deal with angsty teens because they are teens. I can deal with sappy romance novels because the novels from her are supposed to be sappy romance novels. Those things do not bother me. But her f*cking prose, man...I swear, it is written by an 11-year-old, at times.
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Damn lies! I know you worked at a donut shop!!🙂
I wish! I should have worked at Daylight Donuts. Not only do they have the best plain glazed donuts in America (for a big chain...there are probably dozens of mom and pop donut shops that make better ones), their company initials are double Ds! Who doesn't like double Ds?
Past: None.
Current: English Composition instructor at Florida International University.
Future: Full time professor/novelist
Originally posted by dadudemon
Don't be so hard on yourself. You shared some of your stuff a long time ago, with me. One thing that I think you do better than 99.9% of mainstream authors out there is write (seems odd, but I'll explain what I mean). You have what I would call "delicious prose." Your writing style is the type that, even if you're not interested in the story or lose interest, the prose can sometimes catch the reader's attention.For me, 50% of a good novel is the prose, alone. I don't care what people say about the Twilight series, but some of the stories regarding the characters are really really good. But the dialogue and prose from Stephenie Meyer sucks massive turds. It pretty much ruins her series. I can deal with angsty teens because they are teens. I can deal with sappy romance novels because the novels from her are supposed to be sappy romance novels. Those things do not bother me. But her f*cking prose, man...I swear, it is written by an 11-year-old, at times.