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Happyfisherman
Barman at a bar. Yeah. I get tips though, which pays WoW and other gaming related stuff.
Post by
itascagasman
I work for a small propane company in Texas. Pretty much do it all, make deliveries in the big trucks, install tanks, plumb houses. Been doing it for 6 years now. Money sucks in the summer cuz i don't get overtime but in the winter, oh boy
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142728
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xaratherus
I work for a small propane company in Texas. Pretty much do it all, make deliveries in the big trucks, install tanks, plumb houses. Been doing it for 6 years now. Money sucks in the summer cuz i don't get overtime but in the winter, oh boy
Hank, is that you?
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ExDementia
I work for a small propane company in Texas. Pretty much do it all, make deliveries in the big trucks, install tanks, plumb houses. Been doing it for 6 years now. Money sucks in the summer cuz i don't get overtime but in the winter, oh boy
Hank, is that you?
@#$% you beat me to it!
Post by
Tauge
I'm an Electrical Engineer at a small, compared to our customers, engineering firm. We do verification for aircraft hardware and software. In layman's terms, we make sure that the electrical systems of aircraft don't suck, so that the planes don't crash. We're slowly branching out into new areas, but that's what we were founded on.
Because we're small and usually understaffed, we're constantly working on different things. Last week I was writing and debugging code for FPGAs for our new test equipment. This week, I'm reviewing software requirements for a contract that we just won. Next week will likely be back to design work. I'll probably be doing verification next month.
It's nice though, not many companies would let someone less than a year out of college design a chip from the ground up with light oversight. It's nice.
Post by
variable303
I'm an Electrical Engineer at a small, compared to our customers, engineering firm. We do verification for aircraft hardware and software. In layman's terms, we make sure that the electrical systems of aircraft don't suck, so that the planes don't crash. We're slowly branching out into new areas, but that's what we were founded on.
Because we're small and usually understaffed, we're constantly working on different things. Last week I was writing and debugging code for FPGAs for our new test equipment. This week, I'm reviewing software requirements for a contract that we just won. Next week will likely be back to design work. I'll probably be doing verification next month.
It's nice though, not many companies would let someone less than a year out of college design a chip from the ground up with light oversight. It's nice.
Were you an avionics tech in the military before?
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613797
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donnymurph
As of January this year, I work for Bartercard. My official job title is "Accounts Manager", although generally my position is referred to as "Trade Co-ordinator", which is a more accurate reflection of what I actually do.
What is Bartercard?
Bartercard is the world's largest business-to-business trade exchange. Members of Bartercard can trade with other members of Bartercard using their Bartercard trade dollars (trade pounds in the UK, trade baht in Thailand etc). The effect of this is twofold: it reduces cash expenses for the business, while simultaneously increasing the business' marketability (as Bartercard members are more likely to want to purchase from that business than purchase in the cash economy). This makes it a very unique business tool as most business tools can either increase sales or reduce costs, but rarely can one tool do both at once.
The actual Bartercard organisation acts very much like a bank, by providing the members with an interest free line of credit in order to stimulate trading within the system, as well as keepiing records of all transactions made.
What do I do?
I am currently at the grassroots level of the organisation. I haven't even completed my foundation training yet. I have around 110 members on my client base, and my job is to act as a direct business consultant to them, and assist them in spending and selling within the Bartercard network. I do this by sourcing products within the network that they tell me they need, and also by promoting their business to not only my own members, but to all 3000 members in Brisbane, 22000 in Australia or even all 70000 members worldwide (depending on their product, obviously).
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238331
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Post by
iiidioteque
I work as a cocktail waitress in a lounge in a casino. haha. Not in Vegas though! It's good money, but super stressful.
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Lombax
Pappa betalar.
Post by
gamerunknown
The government was funding my lavish lifestyle until quite recently.
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Sparkbolt
I'm mostly a cook at pizza hut but do side jobs for people as a repair man mostly fixing a/c units and refrigerators.
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166779
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Post by
Rankkor
wow this is a long one.
I work as an accountant in a federal bank, and for a while this is what paid my wow bills. However, an anti-videogame law was passed in my country (Venezuela) that forbids the sell of war-related videogames.
As it is due to the Bolivar-dollar exchange rate (Bolivar being our currency) paying for my subscription was a bit expensive (120.000 bolivares, when my monthly income was slightly above 1.600.000, and no, this isn't a lot of money, minimum wage is 1.200.000) So almost 10% of my salary. But I figured, what the hell, its not THAT expensive. And so for my first year I paid wow like that. Then the nightmare began.
Due to the anti-videogame law, only way to pay wow was to buy pre-paid gamecards in the black market which were sold at truly outrageous prices (I'm talking 400.000 bolivares) so I contemplated retiring from wow. Then a guildie gave me an idea. Buy gamecards with in-game currency.
And so I did, for nearly 9 months I paid wow with ingame gold, to be more specific 10.000 gold for 30-day gamecards. And while this made it possible to sustain my account, it also left me in-game broke all the time, I had no enchants, no gems, most of the time not even repairs, most of my ingame time was spent farming just to be able to cough up 10k gold before the month was up.
And that's when the guildmaster intervened. Out of the kindness of her heart chose to sponsor my account, so, for the past 7 months she has paid my subscription by sending me the gamecodes of pre-paid gamecards that she buys when she can.
Of course, since she has her own bills to pay, she can't buy me a gamecard ALL the time, but that's ok. I can be patient, and they ARE free, it beats having to spend nearly 40% of my salary to play, or having to play the game without a single cent to sustain the subscription.
BTW; this is also the same method I've been using to buy the expansions. I bought cataclysm for 25.000 gold. And the winged guardian for 12k :P
Post by
donnymurph
You should look into more efficient farming methods. I knew a lot of high-end raiders who could make 5k/hour in 3.3. Surely that would be closer to 10k/hour now.
Still, that's very kind of your GM. What a top sheila.
Post by
Ashelia
My day job is here at Wowhead obviously, but I guess I'll detail what I do in case people were curious what site directors/community folk do =x
Basically everything from the day to day planning of Wowhead's life to bigger things at ZAM falls under my umbrella. Planning future websites we create, brainstorming site improvements, marking items as out of date, working on giveaways, preparing for MoP, communicating with other websites we run, working out details like attending Blizzard events, news post, moderating, managing other Wowhead employees and volunteers, and more are things I've done this past week alone!
Before that I worked for an indie video game company and I managed our community, talked with Steam/Direct2Drive/other platforms to get our game distributed digitally, set up weekly scrimmages of our games, did marketing research, did a monthly newsletter, and QA tested our game regularly. I also wrote our game's manual, wrote a lot of our lore/mythos, and so on.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Ashelia##DELIM##
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