I have the wonderful pleasure of being a big rig detailer at the Volvo dealership in my area. While there have been some perks like when unclaimed items have been held for 90 days we get to keep them (quick glance at my ds). It also isn’t pretty. Some drivers are messy. This could all change soon though since my wife and I are going to be starting a private investigator class soon.
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I manage a business that distributes decorative capsules for wine bottles!
Think of the tin-foil thingy that you need to cut through to get to the cork: that’s what I sell to the Australian and New Zealand wine industry.
It’s a bit like a cocktail umbrella…someone, somewhere has to make and sell these things and the company (based in Spain) I represent has been doing this one thing for 120 years. They have their niche!
gaf
Most GWCers know I teach humanities and English (writing, literature) at a community college, and that I’m a grad student in humanities. (high five Casilda!)
But did you know I ennumerate and process hydrated gerkins at a pickling plant in my spare time? Hey, gotta pay the bills. 
I’m a Technical Writer for a company that makes enterprise-class wireless networking equipment. I studied English in college but wasn’t sure I wanted to teach and wasn’t ready to go for a master’s.
For those who don’t know (sometimes people don’t), technical writers create the documentation that comes the stuff you buy. I specifically write hardware installation guides, patch release notes, and some software config guides for my company’s products.
Plant biologist and ecologist.
You know Darth, I’d almost think we work for competing companies.
I am a pharmacist. I’m generally do locum work. Things are a quiet at the moment, but hopefully things will pick up soon.
Man it is interesting to see what everyone does for a living. I certainly do not have the discipline a lot of you seem to have. I’ve been all over the place in terms of career paths.
I started college working on my CS degree before I dropped out and started my own business in the baking industry. I spent 5 years apprenticing under a Dutch Master Baker during that time since I found myself absolutely in love with the romanticism of scratch baking.
Then I sold off my shares in the company and moved into a position in Sales and Service with an industrial lubrication manufacturer (Fuchs Lubricants, best name ever) and then started all over again when I moved to the south.
Currently I am an Account Manager for Hostess Cake in the Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin area. Not exactly where I saw myself 12 years ago, but I’ll take it!
Sidenote: I wonder if I should make some baked goods for the meetup…???
Well if some Twinkies should happen to “fall off the back of a truck” near the hotel us GWCers would be happy to give them a new home.
A home? I’m hearing “Get in mah belly!” in that Fat Bastard voice. 
I worked in Data Processing / Information Technology / Computer Services from Aug 1977 to Feb 2010. Going from data entry, computer operations, computer ops supervisor & PC hardware/software support, to system administrator. Most experience is on IBM Mid-range computers (System/38 & AS/400).
Now I work part-time at Target in the Logistics Department on the Flow Team…basically I help stock the store early mornings. It’s a frakkin job and with the job market here…I’m damn lucky to have landed it. Still looking for something better/different. Just not computer stuff…done with that!
And I spend a lot of time banning spammers here.
Well, I started out as an Econ major fresh out of college…
…and 10 years later, after a not too straight career/academic path, I currently paint* for a living.
ETA: *paintings, not walls. Though I’d love to paint a wall.
Beats working in a meat processing plant! Mom did that when she was young and dad HATED it because of the lingering odors in her clothes and hair after her shift!
So…can you score me some free pickles?
Yeah, nice to see another Nurse here! It’s a great profession- tons of different jobs you can have, and you’ll never be out of work.
Especially if you’re a male. My sister just recently got her RN and she was saying that her school was heavily recruiting men for their nursing program. Probably so as not to be seen as un-P.C.
My degree is in Biology, but thanks to the Rust Belt job market, that didn’t mean diddley squat.
So thanks to a circuitous route, by night (full time), I am a manager at an alarm monitoring central station. My company contracts with the guys who install alarm systems. We monitor all types of installations, from home burglary alarms to commercial fire systems to industrial furnaces and refrigeration systems. We’re based in Cleveland, but we monitor accounts all over the US (40 states and DC).
By day (part time), I do lead generation for insurance brokerage houses. It sucks dead donkey balls.
So I misread that as “thanks to a circus route” and was like, “cooooool!” which made the rest of your post suck
dead donkey balls
I’ve always wondered what you do at night to be able to talk to me on Twitter so much. So between the two jobs, how many hours do you do a week?
What does it take to be able to work in science with a biology degree in the USA?
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Usually I work about 55 hrs a week. My 2nd job is just Mon-Wed, though, 5 hrs a day, so the first half of the week I get little sleep.
In bigger metropolitan areas, a biology degree would be sufficient, but where I grew up, the job market was mostly industrial. Most available science jobs would be in biomedical labs, and I would have had to get a Medical or Laboratory Technician certification to be able to get a job, and that would have meant another 2 yrs of school. Or I could have gotten a teaching certification, again 2 more yrs of school, but I don’t really want to teach. I don’t have much patience with other people’s kids
I run an advertising department for a university auxiliary company. We’ve got a gym and a bowling alley and a pool and a concert venue on campus, and it’s pretty fun. The big deal right now is that we’re building a new, three-story building. Advertising to thousands of angry students (“Budgets are tight but you’re spending $60mil on a new building?!”) is suuuuper fun. Almost as fun as having your department’s work go through an endless mill of meetings and committees.
Never work for the state government.
Also, I’m a crazed, non-stop student. I’m going back to school in the fall for my fourth Bachelor’s degree. I’m thinking Astrophysics (currently just an AS) or Chemistry.
I’m curious, other than the Stargate podcasters and the Crue, does anybody else on here do a podcast? CptMonty and I do a weekly comic book podcast. I consider that a job (doing so helps me answer less morosely when people ask about my job satisfaction).
Since I have been listening to GWC:
I have been a commercial properties researcher, working mostly for railroads and SRP. Basically I went back through land records and figured out who owned what piece of land before it could be resold. If you’ve ever been to Phoenix and ridden the light rail, yeah I researched that.
Then I was unemployed.
Now I am a student success coach at a local university and I am persuing a BA in English.