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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Richard_From_CHI on November 13, 2006, 09:15:18 AM
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Just curious what the FOT do as day jobs:
I am a public interest attorney helping people who are being sued or evicted in municipal court in Chicago, like Law M*A*S*H*.
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Freelance copy editor.
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Bookkeeper
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
Wow! How's that working out for you?
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Video editor for canadian entertainment television show.
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Nothing.
Wow! How's that working out for you?
It all depends on how you look at it.
Pros-
I have a lot of leisure time, no work related stress, no commuting.
Cons-
No money.
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I am a Colourist that works out of a post house in Toronto.
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Struggling writer and commercial proofreader on-call. Last week, I spent one day proofing fertilizer bags.
~EmD
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Wow lotsa video/film post people here.
I'm yet another one...I do commercial editing, visual effects and motiongraphics at a post-house in Honolulu.
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I'm close to Jason's status. I quit a temp gig at the end of last month and have no plans of going back to it. Right now, I'm working on a part-time basis doing hospitality setups for bands at a rock club in Cambridge. Also trying to revive my freelance writing efforts for a RI-based arts/entertainment publication. And I'm in the middle of finishing a quickie software contract for Wellesley College's communications department (still waiting for those checks, of course). The rock club feeds me, at least.
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I work over at ConSolidated Cardboard in NewBridge.
But really... I'm not sure what my job is... we make audio and video cables and attach them to patchbays and stuff like that we make that go in trucks for TV shows? I've only been woking a little over a week. So I've mostly been doing n00b stuff, working my way up.
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I am a Project Manager for a commercial construction company. Easily the most boring job here.
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I make sure people get their WFMU stuff.
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When I'm not at school, I part time at a traffic survey firm.
Either I sit in a car and count cars with a Gameboy like device for three hours (BORING part),
or I lay rubber hoses, which are hooked up to a machine that counts vehicles, across busy highways (exciting part: trying to avoid getting struck by a car)
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I'm the Studio and Gallery Manager at a California Art School. There's like 160-something art studios and/or cubicles that I'm supposed to "manage" as well as 5 galleries. Managing the studios means telling people to throw out their fire-hazard furniture and to stash their contraband somewhere where I can't find it.
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My Job Title Is Associate Asset Management Analyst - I analyse the management of assets associatively.
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I'm an attorney- though right now I'm a stay at home dad providing care to my severely autistic daughter. My wife- an occasional listener- is a classical musician in a symphony orchestra.
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Hey Kevin,
Where are you and Attorney?
R
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I own a medium-sized pharmaceutical consulting company. We help the pharmas to market and sell their products, which probably makes me at least close to being one of the Bad Guys.
But, hey, I have a good time.
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Actually I'm not that far away from you, Richard. I'm in Indianapolis.
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I'm on the radio in Minneapolis.
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I’m a cash manager for a large grocer. I often get to use the word ‘hemorrhage.’
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Ah poor poor Kevin, pity the lawyers
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A geographic information systems specialist
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Artist, Illustrator, Photographer, Writer and Entrepreneur. Me and my friends are starting a small production /homemade amps and effects pedals company. Our name, right now, is NeidoKein Global Solutions North America (http://www.neidokein.com). We're planning on starting this summer with a short film already in the works and a couple prototype amps.
Next year, I will be living off campus with three other like minded individuals, and we will be trying to do some design work, mainly silkscreening. I already do shirt designs for various people.
Although I make some money every now and then on illustrations (really just every then, I've only had two jobs so far), I'm a full time student at the moment. My only steady job is working in a small storehouse delivering packages.
I have a couple of things I'm going to be talking to a friend of the family about, trying to get them copy-writed. One is a board game I recently designed, and a second is a type of key-lock that should be able to counter a very easy and popular lock-picking technique. I would also like to work on an idea for a self popping bag of pop corn, useful for sneaking into movies, but the price might be too steep to ever actually market. Every once in a while I wonder if I should've gone the "Chemical and robotics engineering" route insteadd of art. But hell, I'm always gonna do both.
I also do minor forgeries, and have been employed at a local party house a couple times as a bouncer, where said skills made it easy to spot fakes and kick people out.
I would like to work on Sea Shepherd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd) for a season someday, so I'm thinking I might take a nightschool course in welding after I graduate (they always need welders). Then I can use my photos and illustrations to write a book about the experience. I'd like to do that a lot, take a risky job for a while and document it, or use it in some of my fictional writing/comicing.
I hadn't slept more than 3 hours in two days until just a bit ago, and now I woke up at 3 in the morning and I'm wired. Time to go study physics books and Film Noir posters. Maybe work on an illustration of a guy fighting a werewolf using Kung-Fu in colonial america. People are very specific about what they want in their books.
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i am a student, work part-time at a church and spend the rest of the time being a house-husband.
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I produce a really bad radio show
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I teach little kids English, and some adults, but mostly little kids.
It's super fun, kinda like that old Bill Cosby show but the kids are trying to speak in a foreign language.
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Sleepytako, do you mean "picture page, it's picture page, it's time to play with picture page'?
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I'm the utility player for a small Art Gallery & Frame Shop in Warwick, Rhode Island. It's the kind of place that will frame your kid's HS diploma or provide interior decorators with stuff for their client's homes. My duties include, but are not limited to:
-designing/ maintaining the gallery's website www.complementsartgallery.com (http://www.complementsartgallery.com)
-Implementing a PHP/ MySQL database to keep track of moulding inventory and job tickets
-Driving a van between the frame shop and the gallery and loading it up
-Cutting moulding with a chop saw and underpinning to create frames
-Unpacking gigantic crates
-jumping up and down in a dumpster to fit more garbage into it
-Cleaning the computers of viruses/ malware left by coworkers who insist on surfing for porn at work
-answering the phone/ taking messages
-teaching my boss how to use powerpoint
-Selling old inventory through an Ebay store
-Trying in vain to get a 57 yo coworker laid by gifting him a 6-month match.com account (He did actually meet a woman! In the flesh!)
-Teaching another coworker fundamental computer repair
On the side, I'll do computer repair/ tutoring for a few extra bucks. I just did a photo commission for someone as well. I think I got roped into designing my uncle's website for his law firm. Didn't want to take the gig, due to my dislike for said uncle, but it's some much needed cash in my pocket.
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XHTML & CSS guru for a large media concern. Infrequent vector illustrator for Presstime Magazine (Trade Pub of the National Association of Newspapers).
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Trying in vain to get a 57 yo coworker laid by gifting him a 6-month match.com account (He did actually meet a woman! In the flesh!)
Hey, you can put "pimp" on your resume! (Apologies for the absence of accents; entity tags aren't working today for some reason.)
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I would totally hire someone with pimp listed on their resume.
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I'm a freelance videographer and video editor, recently fired for flagrant mediocrity.
I'm getting better at it though, and it brings me occasional satisfaction, so...
My goal is to work with more comedians/bands and fewer journalists/actors.
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I work for a graphic design firm in Philadelphia. It's my first job ever--I graduated from college last May--and I'm hoping that next September I'll be an English teacher in San Francisco instead. If I never saw a Macintosh computer again, I'd be thrilled.
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I'm close to Jason's status. I quit a temp gig at the end of last month and have no plans of going back to it. Right now, I'm working on a part-time basis doing hospitality setups for bands at a rock club in Cambridge. Also trying to revive my freelance writing efforts for a RI-based arts/entertainment publication. And I'm in the middle of finishing a quickie software contract for Wellesley College's communications department (still waiting for those checks, of course). The rock club feeds me, at least.
Ah, how some things change after a couple of months. The whole software contract thing, which had promise of turning into a regular gig with the above-mentioned school, turned out to be a bust. Since then, I've done a bit more freelance writing, but that's probably going by the wayside if it hasn't already. A few doors slammed shut, but a few others opened. Still doing the rock club stuff, and getting other tasks at the same outfit (like working as a doorman for an affiliated restaurant/club for their awesome Saturday night soul deejay dance thing, and working as a security goon at the other club's gigs... if I ever needed to secure one of those Gorch T-shirts, this would be the time). In January, I was hired to manage one of my favorite local bands, which seems to be snowballing into some positive new territory. Negotiations with others are imminent. It took me too many years to realize it, but I am beginning to see more and more that there is something to be said for following your heart first and foremost. Hopefully I'll end up clearing more than $15 K this year...
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Web stuff:
I did marketing and project management for a web-based medical education company for 7 years. It gave me premature gray hair and put me on prilosec.
Now I'm a web/email manager for a "natural health" marketing/publishing company. I love my job. I just found out today we're having a company outing which involves floating on an inner tube down a river for 3 hours. Life is good.
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I'm a production assistant for a book publishing company. I work on cheesy erotic-vampire books and "paranormal chick lit." It is silly.
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Web stuff:
I did marketing and project management for a web-based medical education company for 7 years. It gave me premature gray hair and put me on prilosec.
Now I'm a web/email manager for a "natural health" marketing/publishing company. I love my job. I just found out today we're having a company outing which involves floating on an inner tube down a river for 3 hours. Life is good.
Drinking some B'ohs, talking about dem O's... on an inner tube, hon. Oh, and maybe reminiscing about the old Ottobar.
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I recently completed my second completist/obsessive rewatching of all the episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, and I watched Tin Men last year, so I am an expert on Bawlmer/Ballmer/Ballimer.
Baltimore: I once walked 25 blocks from an O's game back to my hotel. We passed a total of seven people on the way - EVERY SINGLE ONE was talking to him/herself, a record which stands up even to Cal Jr's.
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Surely, you should add The Corner and The Wire to your menu of Bulmer-related fare?
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Baltimore: I once walked 25 blocks from an O's game back to my hotel. We passed a total of seven people on the way - EVERY SINGLE ONE was talking to him/herself, a record which stands up even to Cal Jr's.
yeah... that's a horrible idea. the way baltimore is set up, you probably don't want to walk more than 5 or 6 blocks without getting to a bad area of town. at least at night.
growing up going to o's games, i got pretty used to panhandlers and the unfortunate drug addicts that litter the streets.
taking a cab is always a good idea around here. i work in mt vernon which isn't too bad, but even late at night it's better to stick to the main streets. i don't even walk down alleys during the day because of the occasional mugging.
wow. I just made my home town sound really appealing... haha. (i promise it really is a nice place to live!)
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wow. I just made my home town sound really appealing... haha. (i promise it really is a nice place to live!)
Suuuuuuuuuuure it is.
Miami's "Downtown" area has some pretty aggressive panhandlers. They get pissy if you don't have small bills or change on you to give them, and then they'll bitch and moan about today's youth and debit cards or something like that.
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I played a show at this club in Druid Hill one time. Eww boy, was that scary.
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I played a show at this club in Druid Hill one time. Eww boy, was that scary.
unless you're going to the zoo and you're driving THROUGH druid hill, you don't want to go there.
here's where i work/hang: http://www.mvcd.org/
just remember... dc is way more frightening than baltimore :D
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Baltimore: I once walked 25 blocks from an O's game back to my hotel. We passed a total of seven people on the way - EVERY SINGLE ONE was talking to him/herself, a record which stands up even to Cal Jr's.
yeah... that's a horrible idea. the way baltimore is set up, you probably don't want to walk more than 5 or 6 blocks without getting to a bad area of town. at least at night.
growing up going to o's games, i got pretty used to panhandlers and the unfortunate drug addicts that litter the streets.
taking a cab is always a good idea around here. i work in mt vernon which isn't too bad, but even late at night it's better to stick to the main streets. i don't even walk down alleys during the day because of the occasional mugging.
wow. I just made my home town sound really appealing... haha. (i promise it really is a nice place to live!)
Yeah, it was like a future ghost town from a Twilight Zone episode. The Inner Harbor was nice - of course, I haven't spent any time in Ballmer since the mid 90s.
Sarah - those shows are on my list. I have discovered to my chagrin that the number of hours in a day are limited, alas!
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Maybe it's just because of proximity, but I feel way safer in DC. Except down in Anacostia.
I have seen a few nice shows at Old St. Pauls, it's true. An old schoolmate of mine, Jason, would sometimes promote shows there.
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[I have discovered to my chagrin that the number of hours in a day are limited, alas!
Clearly, your priorities are askew. Quit that job and forgo sleep--that should free up enough time.
I think I've said before that, when I was watching The Corner, I offended many by saying how much it reminded me of Lubec, the important difference being that our local junkies can dig clams or pick wrinkles (periwinkles, to you flatlanders) to earn their drug money, rather than resorting to petty thievery (this town is so safe that I never lock my doors, despite my many unsavory acquaintances).* One addict who was a good friend of mine (he's dead now) understood what I meant, relating especially to the words spoken by the character played by Steve Earle (something like, "Being a junkie is the hardest job you'll ever have").
I never thought that one side-effect of moving to the end of the world would be to gain a more complete understanding of the addict's plight than I ever expected to possess.
*There's also a total absence of panhandlers, by the way: instead of begging from strangers on the street, people here just knock on their friends' and neighbors' doors and ask to "borrow" some money.
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just remember... dc is way more frightening than baltimore :D
Hey!
Now that's just... probably true, statistically. :-\
I still like it here, though.
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Old Ottobar! Yeah, that place was way cool. It was slightly less cool as The Talking Head, but the Talking Head was still cooler than the New Ottobar. What did The Talking Head turn into? There was that other venue in Fell's Point that I saw Blonde Redhead and Helium at a long time ago, but the name escapes me right now. I think I saw Yo La Tengo there too. Also saw JSBX at (ulp) Bohager's.
Baltimore: I got mugged with three other guys there once and then one of those same guys I got mugged with got pistol wipped outside of a bar like 4 months later. My friends had an art opening at the old H. Lewis Gallery in Bolton Hill which went on past 9 o'clock and a bunch of guys who had just held up the local Superfresh with sawed off shotguns saw the little arty party and decided to hold up the entire gallery and steal everyone's wallets and jewelry--like 20 people. So many other stories, too fucked up to mention. Still, I actually love that city.
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I'm a part-time librarian.
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Baltimore: I got mugged with three other guys there once and then one of those same guys I got mugged with got pistol wipped outside of a bar like 4 months later. My friends had an art opening at the old H. Lewis Gallery in Bolton Hill which went on past 9 o'clock and a bunch of guys who had just held up the local Superfresh with sawed off shotguns saw the little arty party and decided to hold up the entire gallery and steal everyone's wallets and jewelry--like 20 people. So many other stories, too fucked up to mention. Still, I actually love that city.
I'm a part-time Baltimorean. I live outside of Seattle, but my wife and three kids reside in the Pigtown area. I'm flying back in June to slash-and-burn a bunch of accumulated garbage prior to us (a) selling the house and (b) moving everybody out here.
Baltimore is an awesome city if you don't have children. Or if you have children and are insanely rich. Some impressions after living there for two years:
* The most beautiful areas of the city (architecturally speaking) have been run over by crackheads. Step out of your car in Druid Hill or Mount Vernon to check out a pretty mansion and you might as well announce your presence with a blowhorn.
* Sitting with my kids in the minivan having just rented a handful of videos from MovieTime and having to explain to them why 14 wasted fratboys were punching each other out in the middle of the intersection (even as the lone policeman arrived and was running toward them).
* Going to the Walters Museum for the free-Sunday child art activities. Lots of fun.
* Being able to turn off my television set and FEEL the roar of the crowd at Orioles Stadium.
* Sitting on the stoop on July 4th evening with the kids watching shirtless teenagers popping wheelies on motorcross-style bikes (not scooters, actual motorcycles) down on street. And then later, transforming the intersection into an Apocalypse Now pyrotechnics display of M80s tossed into boxes of burning newspaper. No cops to be seen.
* Walking by the Babe Ruth Museum on my way to work.
* Getting to know the old men who patrol the blocks I pass through.
* Going out for some grease at lunchtime and seeing Bruce Willis, Nicole Kidman, et.al. filming movies in film-friendly Baltimore. Although that Hairspray thing was kind of weird.
Oh yes, almost forgot the last straw. A couple of weeks ago the owner of the house next to us (he had just bought it and was renovating it for his two daughters to live in), came home at 10:30 and was greeted by two young thugs on his stoop. They shot him* three times at close range: grazed the skull, hit the leg and hit the stomach. My wife had just come home about a half an hour earlier with our three kids, one of whom I'm sure was asleep at that hour, transferred them from their car to their beds and hit the hay herself, falling right to sleep (which is unusual for her). I get a little anxious thinking what might have happened had she been awake and opened the door to hear what the ruckus was about.
*He's alive, thank goodness.
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Old Ottobar! Yeah, that place was way cool. It was slightly less cool as The Talking Head, but the Talking Head was still cooler than the New Ottobar. What did The Talking Head turn into? There was that other venue in Fell's Point that I saw Blonde Redhead and Helium at a long time ago, but the name escapes me right now. I think I saw Yo La Tengo there too. Also saw JSBX at (ulp) Bohager's.
Was it Fletcher's? The Eight by Ten? The Brass Monkey?
I like going to the Sidebar when in Balmer.
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Old Ottobar! Yeah, that place was way cool. It was slightly less cool as The Talking Head, but the Talking Head was still cooler than the New Ottobar. What did The Talking Head turn into? There was that other venue in Fell's Point that I saw Blonde Redhead and Helium at a long time ago, but the name escapes me right now. I think I saw Yo La Tengo there too. Also saw JSBX at (ulp) Bohager's.
Was it Fletcher's? The Eight by Ten? The Brass Monkey?
I like going to the Sidebar when in Balmer.
I just went to the sidebar for the first time a few months ago. not bad!
Fletchers has always been fletchers, and I'm pretty sure the talking head is still the talking head. unless they turned it into sonar.
I like midtown yacht club, brewers art (downstairs), fraziers and the waterfront. i go to too many happy hours! (before i got this job i'd never been to an actual happy hour because i was never done with work on time. i started the last job when i was 20 so i missed out on all the 5PM discount drinkin.)