Aerospace - technical illustrator
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I’m a cook in a mexican restaurant…sorta.
Ugh, my sympathies. I did that for a summer in college. Worst job ever.
i manage an audio engineering college.
And now I’m an audio engineer. How 'bout that?
Aerospace - technical illustrator
1002
bitchin’
Late,
grmpysmrf
[reply]I’m a cook in a mexican restaurant…sorta.
Ugh, my sympathies. I did that for a summer in college. Worst job ever.
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Honestly. It’s not all that bad. Very dead end-ish, but it’s not the end of the world. I make decent checks, even after them making cutbacks on labor costs due to the shitty economy. More or less, it’s a very easy, and boring job. I try to move up, but i’m stuck tossing salad and playing with knives. Been trying to switch but I dunno… They want to give me a raise…again…sorta… It’s a pretty laid back atmosphere though.
Currently unemployed, though finishing up my associates in fine arts pretty soon. In other words, Peligro, I’m training to become a starving artist. [:)]
What I should be doing, though, is work on my certificate in electrical engineering. I’ve got three years of experience in electronics technology, and I basically qualify for a bitchin’ job in the Air Force right about now. But Goddamn it, I love to paint just a little bit more than I love circuit analysis. [cool]
IT project manager. I work for a law firm. I tell ya this place is something else.
IT project manager. I work for a law firm. I tell ya this place is something else.
I worked at a law firm for 5+ years. They really are their own little world.
[reply]IT project manager. I work for a law firm. I tell ya this place is something else.
I worked at a law firm for 5+ years. They really are their own little world.[/reply]
Are they all like Boston Legal?
I’m a production assistant at a small post production company in NYC that just branched off from another company. They are training me to become and audio/video editor.
I am commuting from CT right now since graduating from Syracuse University. I want to move into the city and do this as my day job while pursuing music and putting together a new incarnation of my band Nursing Home.
but i’m stuck tossing salad…
[shocked]
I do storyboards and animation/motion graphics stuff. For years I was doing much more of the starving artist routine in LA but lately things have picked up.
I think it’s really weird to contemplate that all of you have lives beyond the typing on my computer screen.
I teach elementary school in the morning, and high school in the afternoon. Both arts schools. I like keeping a mental list of the music that I’ve used for educational purposes (ie: last year the kindergarteners wrote stories while listening to Coil, and the third graders have gotten a healthy dose of Aphex Twin this year).
I work for free…basically.
My family sold off their business (textiles industry) a few years ago for a…well let’s just say a substantial amount of money. As one of the main company sharehoulders and managing directors, I got more than a fair share of the profits, so I kinda don’t need to work at the moment.
I’m comfortable with it. I don’t mind. ‘Friends’ less fortunate than myself I have had over the years have acted snide and hateful towards me over the years (especially the ‘starving artist’ crowd…man, they’re a gloomy, pessimistic breed) because of my situation but I just brush it off. Won’t let them score points off me. Anyway, the ‘true’ friends always stick by you no matter what!
I’m not lazy or selfish. I work for free at a local radio station, where I manage their accounts and have my own radio program on Saturday afternoons. During the week I work a few days for a charity, packing food parcels for the underpriviledged. It’s ok.
I could sit around all day in my underpants, playing videogames, snorting coke and hiring hookers if I really wanted to. Now that would equate to the ‘spoilt little rich boy’ tag that I occasionally get lumped with.
But I choose not to.
I’m comfortable with it. I don’t mind. ‘Friends’ less fortunate than myself I have had over the years have acted snide and hateful towards me over the years (especially the ‘starving artist’ crowd…man, they’re a gloomy, pessimistic breed) because of my situation but I just brush it off. Won’t let them score points off me. Anyway, the ‘true’ friends always stick by you no matter what!
I’m not lazy or selfish. I work for free at a local radio station, where I manage their accounts and have my own radio program on Saturday afternoons. During the week I work a few days for a charity, packing food parcels for the underpriviledged. It’s ok.
They would have treated you the same if you had obtained it by winning the lotto.
If you didn’t receive the Saturday afternoon air time would you still manage their accounts?
[They would have treated you the same if you had obtained it by winning the lotto.
They’re just jealous is all. Yet, if it happened to them the whole world would hear about it.
They’re the ‘corporate money is the root of all evil’ brigade. Arty types with big egos and small bank accounts. Yet if they sold a painting or sculpture or got a film deal they’d hardly pass it up. I really doubt they’d say: Oh, I can’t accept your cheque of two million dollars as I’m only doing art for the love of it. I’m not a corporate greed whore - take your money away this minute, elitist pig!!!
If you didn’t receive the Saturday afternoon air time would you still manage their accounts?
Yes. I was doing the accounts for two years before I finally got my own program.
I think it’s really weird to contemplate that all of you have lives beyond the typing on my computer screen.
I teach elementary school in the morning, and high school in the afternoon. Both arts schools. I like keeping a mental list of the music that I’ve used for educational purposes (ie: last year the kindergarteners wrote stories while listening to Coil, and the third graders have gotten a healthy dose of Aphex Twin this year).
If only other teachers could be as cool as that. What Aphex Twin do you play for them? I would presume the ambient pieces.
I work for free…basically.
My family sold off their business (textiles industry) a few years ago for a…well let’s just say a substantial amount of money. As one of the main company sharehoulders and managing directors, I got more than a fair share of the profits, so I kinda don’t need to work at the moment.
I’m comfortable with it. I don’t mind. ‘Friends’ less fortunate than myself I have had over the years have acted snide and hateful towards me over the years (especially the ‘starving artist’ crowd…man, they’re a gloomy, pessimistic breed) because of my situation but I just brush it off. Won’t let them score points off me. Anyway, the ‘true’ friends always stick by you no matter what!
I’m not lazy or selfish. I work for free at a local radio station, where I manage their accounts and have my own radio program on Saturday afternoons. During the week I work a few days for a charity, packing food parcels for the underpriviledged. It’s ok.
I could sit around all day in my underpants, playing videogames, snorting coke and hiring hookers if I really wanted to. Now that would equate to the ‘spoilt little rich boy’ tag that I occasionally get lumped with.
But I choose not to.
That’s a pretty cool situation to be in. Financially comfortable but with a bit of freedom. Keeping busy is important regardless of whether you’re getting paid for it. I would assume your mates giving you stick are envious moreso than having issues with how you made your money. I would have strict enough principles as to who or what I would work for (hence me being unemployed and broke at present) but it doesn’t sound like you’ve committed bad deeds so fuck the begrudgers.
And like you said if they had the opportunity to get big cheques they would take them. I find these people obnoxious as they can only dish out their judgements from the comfort of their poverty.
That’s a pretty cool situation to be in. Financially comfortable but with a bit of freedom. Keeping busy is important regardless of whether you’re getting paid for it. I would assume your mates giving you stick are envious moreso than having issues with how you made your money. I would have strict enough principles as to who or what I would work for (hence me being unemployed and broke at present) but it doesn’t sound like you’ve committed bad deeds so fuck the begrudgers.
And like you said if they had the opportunity to get big cheques they would take them. I find these people obnoxious as they can only dish out their judgements from the comfort of their poverty.
Job (in olsen’s case, volunteer) satisfaction is the key. Who wants to be stuck for 40 + years with a job they hate? IMO, no amount of money is worth being miserable for that long of time.
Some days I love my job and other days I hate it, but the good days far outnumber the bad days.
I really doubt they’d say: Oh, I can’t accept your cheque of two million dollars as I’m only doing art for the love of it. I’m not a corporate greed whore - take your money away this minute, elitist pig!!!
Probably not, but that does happen from time to time.
See the original drummer for the Velvet Underground.
If only other teachers could be as cool as that. What Aphex Twin do you play for them? I would presume the ambient pieces.
Yep, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II. They were studying spooky stories, so I wanted to give them some mood music. I tried to mix it up with Daniel Menche and the soundtrack for the Shining, but they kept requesting SAWII Disc 2 Track 11.