What do you do?

[trent]

Interesting. I haven't checked out masters schools yet. Maybe I will look into it.

[Mot]

Currently a student Pilot at Hillsboro Aviation... Currently jobless, bout to become the only 13 second e30 pizza delivery service... :D

[permit]

I'm a junior at Arizona State University enrolled in the Professional Golf Management program at their Polytechnic campus. I took this last semester off to do an internship with Titleist/Cobra Golf doing inside sales on the Cobra half, so I'll probably end up graduating Winter 08.

[JPL]

Work at target. job sucks. I have no idea what i want to do. right now i would like to burn my place of work down but i need the money. going to school in january. major=business/who knows

[Z3Jonathan]

Dude, move to owego and get a job at lockheed. they're on a hiring spree with ME positions starting 50k minimum salary.

Definetly. Aerospace is doing quite well right now. Good time to get in, and all the baby boomers will be retiring soon.

I Co-Oped for an aerospace systems supplier all through college, then did a summer internship with Boeing. Let me just say this: aerospace job benefits are un-matched.

[thejimlab]

I took this last semester off to do an internship with Titleist/Cobra Golf doing inside sales on the Cobra half, so I'll probably end up graduating Winter 08.

Were you out here in Massachusetts for that? I know a bunch of people that work at Titleist. As for me, I'm a commercial mortgage broker. I'm an independent contractor, so I work from home, for me. I just got offered a job as a rep for Pepsi. So, I may be switching jobs soon.
-Jim

[erik325i]

I fix cars. Mostly BMW and Lotus, but also some Volvo and Porsche.

I'm also a full time student studying Business Management.

-Erik

[permit]

Fairhaven? Nah, I work at the Cali offices. I'm sure someday if I decided to continue working for them that I'd be applying for some jobs out there though.

Rep for Pepsi? That's probably one of the easier jobs out there except for all the traveling you'd do.

[Dave]

Apparently I sell drugs.


Mariano

So that makes two of us . . .

[bwanac]

Dude, move to owego and get a job at lockheed. they're on a hiring spree with ME positions starting 50k minimum salary.

I totally would if I didnt have 3 semesters until I graduate.

Internship maybe.

[BDSax]

Im a Certified State Electrical Journeyman. In 2 year i can take my State Exam and then ill be done. Im VP for my dads company. and i love doing what i do. Electricity is a lot of fun! and i love seeing peoples stupid electrical job, some people scare me...........

[Rigmaster]

I guess I'm one of the old guys around here.

I worked for an express delivery company for 15 years. Took a part time job with them about 6 months after graduating from college, and just stayed with them until about 3 years ago when they laid off all their hourly employees due to a merger with another company. They decided it was cheaper to keep the other company's hourly employees since most of them were independent contractors. It came as a complete surprise, but I have never looked back and wished I was still there.

So, in the past 3 years I have not had 1 full time job. I work for a Commercial Cleaning products company- servicing their customer's commercial floor scrubber machines and pretty much any other equipment or machinery they want me to work on. I also do some other work for them on an occasional basis. The company is supposed to open a new office about 15 minutes drive from my house sometime in 2007, and they say they want me to come to work for them full time as a regular employee- but I'm not making that jump unless they make me a really good offer.

I also work on a part-time basis for a local shop that specializes in Vintage race cars as well as Italian car and BMW maintenance and service. I have worked about 5 "weekends" for them this year travelling to Vintage races and providing race support for their customer's race cars. This usually involves driving to the track on Weds (or Tues/Weds if it's really far away), getting the hauler set up and cars unloaded and ready to run by weds afternoon. Then we keep the cars running Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun and load up Sun afternoon and drive back home. We usually have to get to the track around 7am each day and we stay until at least 6-7pm, then we go somewhere to eat dinner and hang out for a while, then back to the hotel- maybe a little TV or web surfing, and in bed early- usually by 10pm. Long days, the pay is just OK, especially when you figure out the hourly rate..., but it's alot of fun and I never get tired of seeing some of the incredible cars that show up at vintage races. I also help out in the shop a couple of days a week, doing everything from restoring a '67 Alfa Duetto to R&R'ing the cyl head and oil pan on an E36 M3, then helping the boss reinstall the transmission in a vintage Ferrari 330GT (~'65?).

I also part out cars on the side. Mostly E30's and E34's, since that's what I drive on a daily basis, and my track car is an E30 325is- but I've branched out to E36's recently. I also have several 2002's, including a couple of tii's. The used BMW parts business will not exactly make you rich, but I usually buy cars to be parted out that have some part or parts that I need/want for my own car, or a "project" car that I am working on, and then part out and sell the rest. I mostly just use the parts cars to finance my own car mods and repairs.

We live on my wife's family farm, so we are also technically farmers. We raise beef cattle, though right now we have less than 20 cows, we had more than 100 a couple of years ago. It is alot of work, and we are usually happy if the income from the cows covers the property taxes and expenses (fuel, fertilizer, etc) on the farm every year.


Anyway, I can't say that I'm an expert in much of anything, but I can tell you this- do something that you enjoy doing and your life will be much happier. I don't understand how people are always chasing the $$$, trying to find the job where they can make a shitload of money, then working 100 hours a week, never spending any time with their family and suffering health problems due to stress and all the BS that goes with high-stress jobs. Don't get me wrong, I like money as much as the next guy, but we (me, my wife and son) live very happy lives with what most people would consider borderline poverty level of income.



Bret

[Ray Smoodiver]

Bar Manager / Professional Beer Tester

[benDASHDASH]

Im a Certified State Electrical Journeyman. In 2 year i can take my State Exam and then ill be done. Im VP for my dads company. and i love doing what i do. Electricity is a lot of fun! and i love seeing peoples stupid electrical job, some people scare me...........

as of late, thats what ive been strongly considering

[BDSax]

its great, i love doing it. Side jobs are even better. i made $100 for going to a place and resetting a GFCI